When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When all you have is an A-bomb, everything looks like something that needs to be nuked till it glows.

Kilrovius erat hic.

I wonder if my eye-writing will be any more legible than my hand-writing ...

Absolutely understood. And I'm certainly not suggesting that - purely for the sake of consistency - we ought to have titillating depictions of rape to match the titillating depictions of killing that are already a staple of our regular entertainment. Rape is a particularly hideous kind of violence, so there's nothing…

The penises aren't there with the vaginas' permission, but I'm guessing that the axes aren't there at the invitation of the skulls either.

Ex Africa semper aliquid antiqui.

"OK, OK, this British 'Blake's Seven' thing seems popular. Tell me about it."

And if that's not enough for you, there's always Pfiesteria piscicida. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfiesteria_piscicida

I'm seeing Count von Count from Sesame Street in the title role. It's gonna be huge. Have your people call mine.

I told you that crossing the streams was a bad idea.

Katy stood at the stern, enjoying the feeling of the sun on her back. The boat shifted lazily on the waves, the engine barely idling now. She looked over her shoulder towards the cabin, where Max was fumbling with his skinsuit. From the way he looked down suddenly, she guessed he'd been checking her out. She smiled…

It's going to shake up the Miss Universe contest more than a little, too.

From the Jerome Bixby story: '"There are no straight lines in nature," Randolph said, a little shortly.'

He obviously had it mixed up with Pluto ... or do I mean Goofy?

Galileo Galilei did take an interest in Saturn, although the optics on his telescope weren't sharp enough to resolve the rings properly, so he thought he was seeing moons.

"Galileo, Galileo!" (how appropriate ...)

House: "Everybody lies."

I think having my junk snipped off during mating would make me pretty belligerent too.

When I lived in Paris a few years back, I was visited by a friend who had built his own wearable computer, complete with heads-up display over one eye, camera and chording keyboard. The reaction that he had when he walked around was the opposite of Dr Mann's experience: people were not hostile, but intrigued and…

"I have a dream ... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their hue, saturation and lightness but by the content of their character ... I have a dream that one day little Pantone 324-6 C boys and Pantone 7522 C girls will be able to join hands with…