Comment preview: Here's the relevant text, 4/5ths of the way down. They were POWs being shipped to Japan: "The sinking of one of these ships, the Arisan Maru, by an American submarine, engendered an amazing story of survival that Hollywood surely would have rejected as ju ....

Comment preview: I am far from the biggest Star Wars fan in the world, but I am compelled to let this out somewhere... I watched the "original" star wars movies over the last week, with what I assume was remastering done to coincide with the release of the new films. They ....

Comment preview: The scientists watched in anticipation, peering through the glass at the subject in the room. Ten pairs of eyes at the ready, scanning for the slightest details, waiting for any movement that would prove their theories and validate all their years of work. ....

Comment preview: I had something kind of like this happen to me one time. I had a dream about a dog. It was my father-in-law's cousin's dog. With such an obscure relationship, I'd only ever met this family like twice. It was about a year since I'd seen them last, and I had ....

Comment preview: In an irish bar one night, there were 2 guys sitting a bit apart from each other drinking away. One guy decided to go have a chat with the other one, he went up and said " so, where're ya from?". The other guy said "well, I'm from Dublin" "You're kidding! ....

Comment preview: Me and two friends decided to go to the local 24 hour grocery store. Friend A happened to have the Gorilla suit (used for fucking with other people in public) in his trunk. Friend B decides that we will buy our fucking pizzas dressed as a Gorilla. He dons ....

Comment preview: Why VdB, why would you drop Xavi and not drop Casillas, who was possibly the worst player on the pitch vs the Netherlands? Why not Alonso and Silva, who weren't particularly impressive either? (Both have had stinkers today, by the way) Why would anyone in ....

Comment preview: THANK YOU. this may seem to be an unbelievable coincidence, but I was friends with Clay the 9 year old at the time. As I was reading this I thought of how similar the story that happened to me was. I called him "Clee" I dont know if its just because I was ....

Comment preview: It takes time for these things to connect. [There was a midair crash I read about years back in South America where a new Embraer Legacy 600 was having radio trouble and a clerical/pilotage error led to them being in the wrong altitude block for their dire ....

Comment preview: This isn't actually that unbelievable (and my entire workplace experienced it) but it is a weird coincidence. At a place I worked a few years back, a colleague tripped on the front stairs and cut her shin open to the bone. Literally, we could see her bone. ....

Comment preview: The murder of Chris Benoit's wife: In June of 2007, professional wrestler Chris Benoit murdered his family and committed suicide. Benoit was a popular member of World Wrestling Entertainment, and the news of his death shocked people all over the world. Ove ....

Comment preview: > Alien DNA That was as far as I got. If you have to make stuff up why can't you use a bit more imagination if not science. Why would an alien life form have DNA? Why would it have a skull at all. Every time I see a proposed Alien or hear it described i ....

Comment preview: Okay, so a good friend of mine's birthday was coming around the corner and coincided with the release of Skyrim. Of course, hype was at an all time high and he was really itching to hit the game over the weekend. The issue was that his X-Box red-ringed on ....

Comment preview: The list of rules for textual convenience: 1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. 2. You gotta keep in mind what's interesting to you as an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different. 3. Trying for the ....

Comment preview: It was fine until you mentioned the prose. His prose is strongly well above average. The books feel fairly fast paced even though the action is extremely painfully slow. His prose generally moves it along and keeps the story alive. The reason the books sta ....

Comment preview: Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling: 1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes 2. You gotta keep in mind what s interesting to you as an audience, not what s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different 3. Trying for theme is imp ....

Comment preview: So you start with this huge spiral galaxy, right? It's like mega-huge. Like so unbelievably big that you really can't imagine how big it is. Picture that. Now take another galaxy, but just a small one. Doesn't really matter what kind. When I say small, I m ....

Comment preview: I have 4: 1. At long last, somebody invents the dream VCR. This machine allows you to tape an entire evenings worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device ....

Comment preview: I think its worth pointing out that not only does this show reddit and its beloved mods have caved to the easily outraged minority, but also that moderator MercurialMadnessMan actually lied **(new information seems to indicate that he was just mistaken, no ....

Comment preview: > if Harden wasn't putting on a one man tank job.... *If* you want to get into the if debate you just illustrated: The Heat would have threepeated *if* Lebron had played close to his averages in the 2011 finals - I think we can all agree that Dallas as ....

Comment preview: It wasn't a school shooting, but I went to school/lived in the same dorm building as the Boston Bomber(I'm too lazy to find the correct spelling of his name). After the events security was tight for about a month. No more walking in and pretending to not s ....

Comment preview: When I was 18 I went out with a guy that was 10 years older. He was still living with his parents, feeding off their estate, but ah well, I fell in love with his eyes; unfortunately got stuck with the whole package. He was unbelievably controlling, over-th ....

Comment preview: I think you've gotten a tiny glimpse of just how unbelievably enormous the Korean SC:BW scene has been and still is. * There are currently two TV channels dedicated to full-time SC:BW content - OnGameNet and MBCGame. ~~SC2 is currently only available onlin ....

Comment preview: "You're going to kill me, aren't you?" "No, of course not," the man in black replied, as he smiled warmly at me. It was a genuine, heartfelt smile. That was unexpected. I gestured vaguely around my head at the room we were in, "Oh come on, this whole gov ....

Comment preview: Hey, just for the sake of accuracy, this is not a neighbor, nor a witness. This is just a second-hand account from when the story first started spreading through the community. The more accurate version, as related by two eye-witnesses, is as follows: Toda ....