singularineet

One advantage of compulsory service is it means everyone has some skin in the game. Makes for fewer chicken hawks when their own relatives might get killed in a war of choice.

I love the control panel on Alien during the self-destruct sequence, with the Fly Agaric button and all that. Amazingly hilarious! But the only images I've been able to find are low-resolution and don't show the whole thing, probably just stills from the film. Could you tell us a bit about the story of that panel? And, is there a high-quality photo of it available somewhere?

I had a hard time getting my then-three-year-old to stop repeatedly explaining to all the other preschoolers that Santa is just pretend.

That's what I did. (List of things that are not real: vampires, ghosts, witches, monsters, Santa, fairies, being able to fly if you believe strongly enough that you can, unicorns, dragons, ...) Biggest problem was convincing a toddler not to blurt out "Santa's just pretend" whenever it came up in preschool.