Come, jump off the cliff! Everybody's doing it!

Stolen from fikgirl, who stole it from estirose:

Choose 10 of your fandoms and summarize them in one sentence each. Then put them up and see if your friends can guess them.  Variant:  I'm using quotes from the various fandoms.

1.   "No pearly gates for you.  No choirs of angels neither."
2.   "There can be only one."  (This is a gimme)
3.   "Fantastic!"
4.   "There are many copies."
5.   "Zeus.  Apollo.  Come."
6.   "My spider-sense is tingling."  "Spider-sense?" <--Not Spider-Man.  Extra points for obscurity.
7.   "I don't have a gun.  I don't know karate.  I could put on a costume and rescue cats from trees."
8.   "I need your sense of self-worth to hinge on your job!  Otherwise you're no good to me."
9.   "Do you know how hard it is to think straight with a piece of rebar through your torso?"  "Actually, I do. Benefits of a Sunnydale education."
10.   "And I thought you lived in a school."

Update to edit: Clearly I made this too easy. The first two comments have nailed them all. Tsk.

Good work, Fikgirl and Laurel. The Geek Force is strong in you both!

Advice Sought

So I read recently (on Robert Cringely's website) that Microsoft and Novell are getting together to cooperate on some stuff. Novell, for those who don't know, owns SuSE Linux.* Given Microsoft's piratical ethics (make agreement, stab partner in the back, destroy or absorb whatever value the partner's corpse retains, lather, rinse, repeat), this does not make me happy. Especially since I'm running SuSE 10.1 on my PC.

It's possible that this won't cause problems. But I wouldn't bet on it. So I'm thinking it's time to explore other distributions of Linux. I've never used any others. I've downloaded and burned to CD an install image for Ubuntu. I'm going to load it on a spare computer and play around with it.

Anyone out there got any recommendations for alternative distros they'd like to share? Anything I should try out--or stay away from? (I'm definitely not going to try, uh...whichever one is noted as being for hardcore command line users.)