Questions about anything

[D'Snowth]

This is something that's been rattling around in my brain for quite sometime now...

Scientifically and medically speaking, a person's mind/brain isn't fully developed or matured until s/he is 25, which really makes me wonder, why isn't 25 the legal age of adulthood? When you kind of look at people as they grow, like 15-16, for example, seem to be rather reckless ages to learn how to drive, which certainly is a lot different from, say, learning to ride a 2-wheeler when you're a little kid. Furthermore, 18 is the legal age of adulthood (outside of Judaism, that is): now, I know a lot of people naturally start to feel and become more independent at that age, but at the same time, it still seems to be a somewhat immature and arguably childlike age... I certainly didn't feel like an adult when I turned 18 (and not quite sure I feel like one now at 24), and I know a lot of people don't seem to either. Interestingly enough though, the legal drinking age is 21, some three years after the legal age of adulthood.

Where, exactly, did the idea of 18 being the legal age of adulthood come from? And again, if the mind isn't full grown till 25, why isn't 25 the legal age of adulthood?

 

[minor muppetz]

Is there a thread listing all non-Henson TV shows, franchises, and properties that have their own threads in the General Discussions forum? It might be hard to find and compile all of them, but would be good to know what all already has its own thread (so that people don't accidentally start a second all-purpose thread). Sometimes it can be hard to find out by searching (there have been threads I've known existed that I had trouble finding using the search engine).

 

[D'Snowth]

Why is Kate Gosselin back in the spotlight again? Why?

 

[beatnikchick300]

Why is Kate Gosselin back in the spotlight again? Why?

Money, dear boy. Really, it's as simple as that. All I can say is I feel sorry for her children...

 

[minor muppetz]

When a character on a TV show stops appearing, usually one of three things happens:
1. They have a goodbye episode, showing why they will no longer be seen regularly (if they ever return at all).
2. They don't get a goodbye episode but their absence is explained or acknowledged (does it count as a "goodbye" episode if the character in question isn't in the episode but the episode is all about them no longer being there?).
3. They just never mention the character again (though I think there have been cases where a character had stopped appearing without a goodbye episode or mention of where they went right away but their disappearance was eventually mentioned later on).

But has there ever been a show where a character stopped appearing regularly but still had a presence as an unseen character? As in, the character no longer appears, but is still regularly mentioned as if the character is still around, we just don't see them hanging out with the main characters anymore? I guess the closest thing to this that I know of is Mr. Turner on Boy Meets World, he eventually stops appearing but in the graduation episode when Minkus "returns" (it turns out he's been at the school the whole time he was absent from the show) he addresses Mr. Turner who appears off-screen, as if he's still been there the whole time without being seen by the audience.

 

[minor muppetz]

I might not get an answer here, but it's been on my mind for years... What is the origin of the phrase "up your butt and around the corner"? When I was a kid we said it all the time (I first remember hearing the phrase in sixth grade), I still use that phrase constantly (and not just to ask people what the origin was), I occasionally hear people use that phrase or something similar (without them hearing it from me first), yesterday I found a facebook phrase for it, and I've seen a few videos on YouTube of people saying "up your butt and around the corner".

But did it originate in a movie, TV show, song, or some other work of fiction that got quoted by others (maybe a form of "pop culture osmosis") ? Or was it a phrase some kid used to be funny that caught on with school children, at least at my school? Though I've never heard that phrase on a TV show or movie.

I'd like to know who came up with that funny phrase, though I'm guessing it probably originated by a child or teenager instead of a professional comedy writer. In comedy it's best to put the funniest word at the end of the sentence, so by that logic it should be phrased "around the corner and up your butt", but then "up your butt and around the corner" sounds a lot better.

On a similar note, who came up with the perhaps more popular phrase "up yours"?

 

[D'Snowth]

I've never even heard that phrase before; must be a generation thing.

 

[beatnikchick300]

Yet another villain question! I don't really get the "Draco in Leather Pants" mentality that exists in fandom (wherein fans downplay a villain's...villainy because they find him or her attractive). If you find a villain attractive, that's fine, but why do some feel the need to try to go out of their way to excuse their evil behavior because of that? Yeah, I admit to finding Rourke from Atlantis attractive, but at least I'm honest about just liking him for his body (and that commanding voice)! Is it just that people feel shallow if they admit to just liking a character for his or her appearance? If so, they're not real, so I don't think that matters...

 

[Drtooth]

Money, dear boy. Really, it's as simple as that. All I can say is I feel sorry for her children...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

Forget whining about Fox News, the real evil cable channel that's warping the minds of everyone who watches is TLC. Nothing but freak shows and the worst of humanity. Where someone barely weighing 700 pounds is considered "Half Ton" and drug out for thin people with shocking metabolisms eating everything on the Taco Bell menu to laugh at. Places where people with waaaay too many kids (be it attention grabbing or some disturbing cult religious reasons) exploit their kids for 15 minutes of fame. And a place where disgusting women exploit their kids in pageants and don't realize how ghoulish they are on camera.

Whatever happened to the network being educational and having crappy puppet shows with less than nothing as a budget?

 

[D'Snowth]

Does that lady have weird elbows?