Because last season revolved around preventing New York City from being destroyed, and not one character thought to mention a parallel, including the politician running for office in New York. It's just not plausible to me that 9/11 could have happened in this universe and never come up as a topic among New Yorkers trying to prevent that disaster.
You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.
Giles ,'Touched'
Heroes 1: We Could Be Heroes
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Jessica - Oct 30, 2007 8:03:23 am PDT #2537 of 5028
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jon B. - Oct 30, 2007 8:23:34 am PDT #2538 of 5028
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Using county instead of parish was a stupid, stupid mistake that would not have been made had anyone spent 5 minutes learning anything about Louisiana.
I find it hard to get worked about about mistakes like this. For me, it's on the same level as when Emily Gilmore said she was taking "The 95" up to Boston.
Daisy Jane - Oct 30, 2007 8:26:23 am PDT #2539 of 5028
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Except that we're the only state in the union with parishes. It's something pretty much everybody knows about us, that and that our laws are based in Napoleonic code. It just makes the setting feel tacked on.
Jon B. - Oct 30, 2007 8:28:32 am PDT #2540 of 5028
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?
DXMachina - Oct 30, 2007 8:39:49 am PDT #2541 of 5028
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?
The Parkway, the Thruway, the Turnpike... :)
megan walker - Oct 30, 2007 9:01:43 am PDT #2542 of 5028
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?
You mean like "The 101"? Not that I can think of.
Trudy Booth - Oct 30, 2007 9:05:42 am PDT #2543 of 5028
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?
Does anyone outside of California have pink bakery boxes? I'll never forget the first time I was in LA and saw one. I said "look! just like they have on TV!"
beekaytee - Oct 30, 2007 9:07:21 am PDT #2544 of 5028
Compassionately intolerant
Except that we're the only state in the union with parishes.
And it would make sense to hip the rest of the country to that fact. But I wonder if, rather than a mistake, the word choice was as conscious as the language shifts from the British to the US Harry Potter books. Not a dumbing down so much as a homogenization. Though, I suppose if that were the goal, the entire story line would have been set in Des Moines. It's just that I can hear the writers in the room squeaking...Oh, don't say parish, people will think we are talking about churches.
Quite a bad argument...and useless to boot...but not beyond the realm of possibility.
Typo Boy - Oct 30, 2007 9:07:44 am PDT #2545 of 5028
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Does anyone outside of California have pink bakery boxes?
Washington State.
shrift - Oct 30, 2007 9:10:40 am PDT #2546 of 5028
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think the only time I'd refer to a highway with the definite article is if I were calling it by a name, not the numerical. "The Dan Ryan," for example.