And, like WAF, it seems to be completely misunderstood by so-called “security professionals.”

About a year after 9/11, I accidentally left a pocket knife in my carry-on when I packed. TSA never even noticed.

Common practice at the time, though. Hijackers had never wanted to kill the pilots and take over the plane before 9/11, so the rules were: talk to them, give them what they want, and get the plane down as quickly as possible.

Terrorists in general, and al Qaeda in particular, went for big, bold, spectacular “statements.”

The “no seatbelt” one, I’d most often heard as “I won’t wear as seatbelt, because if my car goes underwater I’ll be trapped and drowned.”

Yes, this is statistically expected. People will occasionally die on cruises; the longer the cruise, the more likely it will happen.

How’s their flamethrower division doing?

Although not just MAGA bumper stickers. Really, anyone with a wall of bumper stickers on the back bumper and body paneling is likely to be insufferably, obsessively single-minded.  

Can never look at that without thinking of the comment I heard: “They should have put hair on it and called it the Ethel.”

You’re gonna need a bigger boat...

Frankly, with the amount you drive and the age and efficiency of your car, you probably have a smaller carbon footprint keeping your ICE car rather than buying an EV, after you factor in the footprint of manufacture and disposal.

The three best days in a boat owner’s life are: they day you buy the boat, the day you sell the boat, and the day you use the boat to push around an island.

Musk got the attention he wanted. An actual fight, at this point, would be anticlimactic.

What’s more, the quality of a pun is directly related to its awfulness.

The behemoth is named Perucetus colossus

I was interesting to a dentist once.

Every wife of a serial killer I’ve ever seen interviewed seems 1) extremely submissive, when not actually abused, and/or 2) in extreme denial. Which is not to blame the wives - more, I think, that that’s the sort of spouse sociopaths seek out.

I’d rather have one on Richard Feynman.

“Miami Shark Mayhem?”

Have a few friends in the industry, who don’t know him, but have been on set and associated with him, and seen him associate with others.