"The thing of it is, at that time of morning, everybody was probably kind of asleep," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the earthquake center.
"And waking people up, it was probably kind of frightening, even thought it was what we call a really minor earthquake".
Her children are 8 and 4. Her mother, Emma Miller, a 59-year-old widow, chimed in, "It's probably kind of addicting, isn't it?," referring to television, a medium she has caught only glimpses of at stores.
The Axis powers may not seem terribly funny (only Italy is probably kind of funny), but it would be hard to deny that they are operating on a sound humorous principle in giving the civilization what might be described as the total hotfoot, since the sufferings of the innocent, the helpless, and the smug, have always been considered fine material for comedy.
But then, when a movie is premised on the notion that millions of dead-but-not-dead, personality-deprived, flesh-eating morons who appear to be in anything but robust health are about to take over the world, it's probably kind of unreasonable to demand strict geopolitical accuracy.
Probably kind of hard, but I know you guys are up to it.
