I didn’t realize at the time that I had wandered into a cliche.

Sometimes I feel like an outsider.

My wife’s cancer took her in a similar fashion and speed as your g’pa. She was a good person.

Forget silica.

Age has nothing to do with it, other than after having seen idiots for years, your tolerance for the walking brain-dead is reduced.

Medicare is able to spend $.70 out of every $1 on the patient.

My bad, but it’s been a while since I’ve read him.

Every new viral outbreak is Captain Trips.

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’.