Cintari

Reminds me of the second Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. They specifically engineered an animal capable of speech that could tell you directly that it wanted to be eaten.

I thought it was renamed to ESOL, or English for Speakers of Other Languages, in 2000 or so. I guess that wasn't a totally universal change.

This analysis of these names was very informative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/t1xx6g/why_bobson_and_why_dugnutt_a_deep_dive_into_why/

Superman almost never changed in a phone booth. He did it in two episodes of the old cartoon and the NES and Atari games, that's it.

Not according to an interview by the creator of Pikachu, Atsuko Nishida:

“Since it was an Electric-type Pokémon, I thought ‘pika‘ [the expression of light flashing in Japanese].

https://web.archive.org/web/20211108083831/https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/creator-profile-the-creators-of-pikachu/

Frankfurt takes their Frankfurters seriously.

Link for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump

RIP Julian LeFay, 59 is too young.

Change the channel, Melania!