Hypocrites, all around and from top to bottom.

For those folks, a Satanic pregnancy is any pregnancy between married Catholics.

Huxley used ‘pneumatic’ as a stand-in for ‘shapely’ in BNW.

In ‘The Omen’, a dog gave birth to Damien, so keep an eye on your pets, too.

God gave Man dominion over plants and animals, according to the Operator’s Manual.

Surely this is rhetorical?

A correct attribution, then.

Many drivers in these parts act like they can’t see out of the windshield, anyway. (And sometimes they can’t - I often see some jamoke who doesn’t even clear all the snow from the windshield...just a ‘hole’ about the size of an LP disc in front of the driver.) 

Or have intermittent wipers as standard equipment.

Tussaud’s pretty much invented the ‘uncanny valley’. Close but creepy when they do it right.

Read an anthology once and one of the chapters dealing with ‘space opera’ was entitled: ‘Horses in the Starship Hold’.

I figured it was the guests.

“....it does bug me a little that we can see all the pot and stuff on the counters at Thanksgiving,...”

I hadn’t heard ‘rumpus room’ since I used to hang at my buddy’s house in the 60s. Is it an older East Coast thing? Though we lived in L.A., my buddy’s mom was Boston-Irish. I’m now in NH, and no-one says that (though we have mudrooms, not foyers).

Any party I’ve attended, from college keggers to adult dinner parties ALWAYS end up in the kitchen, anyway, no matter the size of either the party or the kitchen.

What? No Bag Balm? It’s not just a ‘rural’ thing...I learned of it in L.A. 

What? No Bag Balm? It’s not just a ‘rural’ thing...I learned of it in L.A. 

Yeah, at least we knew what we were getting.

Once upon a time there was an engineer, who drove his locomotive both far and near, accompanied by a monkey who would sit on a stool, watching everything the engineer would do. One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat and left the monkey sitting in the driver’s seat. The monkey hit the throttle, locomotive jumped the…

The true ‘monkey’s paw’ curse would have your diet restricted to fruit-only, and only those tiny-seeded fruits that would aggravate your Crohn’s.