I need to print up peel and stick labels for use any time someone who is not a salesman or talking to salesmen describes something using the same words marketers invented to sell it to them. Did you just say "horology"? Have a tasteful exclusive limited edition "Dork" sticker! And as a bonus, have a lifetime of…

Yay! Deserved suffering all around! Then we can break out the communion wafers!

I think it was the local radio announcer, "Big Lou" Mountbatten, who nicknamed the stadium "The Oven." Every starting pitcher on that '77 team could throw the fastball, you see, so "the heat was always on." Man, that brings back fond memories. I'm not sure I understand the rest of your references, though.

The pushmi-pullyu symbolizes the perfect marriage.

Your mum?

Our worst fears have been confirmed! Am I right, fellas?

Somehow the Little Prince was merciful for giving orders like that. "Yeah, eat that sandwich, fucker, or I'll kick your ass." That's not the kind of phrasing he used in the version I read, but I'll put that down to creative translation.

Now I want to print ellipsis on a white T-shirt, find a party and hang around being silent and horribly precious.

Well, you see, you use different moves when you're fighting half a dozen monsters than when you only have to be worried about one.

Margarine of the Province of "the dean said. To be, to the SEER" soft palate moghuls' Yonamorumon "

Upvoted not to criticize the article, but because the insult made me laugh. It has a punchline of sorts that I hadn't heard it before.

Why don't they make the face shield out of the same material the alien is made from? Ha!

Is that "bad" good or "bad" bad?

We've all been there! Except it was the brake pedal I was trying to push.

Maybe this is just a romantic delusion, but I like to imagine that there's a bunch of great papers secreted in steam chests in attics, awaiting the day their authors have escaped the reach of mortal judgment.

Do most science journals take the same "fruit of the poisoned tree" approach that courts do and reject good papers because of details that really should be considered water under the bridge?

Whether you're on business, returning from vacation, or on layover to someplace nicer, Dulles Airport serves all your air travel needs!

Just because you feel important scientific work should not by stymied by petty issues of life and death does not mean you lack ethics.

I sincerely appreciate that you chose such an inconsequential subject to be relentlessly uninformed about, and trust that you will be more willing to accept that things you don't already know might nonetheless be true where more important topics are concerned.

It's a Cyriak bit, in case you haven't lived enough lifetimes to get every reference here: