How to tell if someone has been dead for more than 12 minutes.

Waits was also awesome in the middling Mystery Men, as Doc Heller, specialist in non-lethal weapons. His explaining that he doesn't live at the nursing home, he just there "for the ladies" is wonderfully revolting...

Actually, offense isn't the issue in my mind. It's those blank, blank stares that let you know someone has literally no idea what you are talking about...

DO NOT use humor. I have worked with many Europeans and Asians over the years and often find that humor is very difficult to understand for those with a different cultural background (and for whom English may be a second, third or fourth language).

Yes! I myself await the return of the Sea of Agassiz and the restoration of Minnesota as a coastal state...

"Drowning"? Clearly, Pleated Jeans has never had lutefisk.

Wish it to the cornfield Andrew. For the love of god, wish it to the cornfield.

Needs bat-nipples!

Like frostbite: the recovery can be as dangerous as the onset.

Good thing he can still put together what he needs from the sporting goods aisle. Too bad they don't sell Spanx for men.

Since when is Augustus a villian? Sure Tiberius, Caligula, Nero at al. where supervillian material. But Augustus?

Good point. Certainly no one (important) is getting hurt now...

Whew! For a second I thought it was called "Onanic Ocelot". On the other hand, a build tailored to chronic masturbation might have some interesting features...

This was THE hot book when I worked at a Silicon Valley startup in the late 80s. Cannot wait to re-read this and see how Guy's work has stood up in the intervening (*sob*) two+ decades. My guess is that it's probably held up way better than thirtysomething.

Sugar has been known to suppress the immune system

They're right! While Igglypuff is an Oriental demon, Wigglypuff clearly represents a much more demonic form. Regardless of stage, all forms are obviously hungering for the still-beating hearts of innocents.

We are blinded by your awesomeness.

Knowing that it fluctuates should allow you to harness both modes to your advantage. Sedentary (reading, filing, writing) vs. Active (meeting&greeting, organizing, initiating, cleanup)?

But you also don't care to not fix it, so...

Not and alien. Just a member of the least-trusted humans on the planet, atheists.