Yeah... starting sometime after the 1940's

Just wait until electric cars that require commercial charging stations become popular.

The drop in gasoline tax revenue will logically lead to "car electricity" taxes... coming soon to a charging station near you.

Become a sesquipedalian - use fancy fonts, Bold, ALL CAPS, whatever it takes to be plaintext free!

Spider-Silk garments - how tacky!

Democracy is tyranny... that is why we tried to have a Republic, for a while.

Ben Franklin - on the day the Republic was declared, opined that we had "A republic, if you can keep it."

umm... the color blue? Loose associations come easily to those who drink-n-post.

I've heard that Latin is a "dead" language, but people refer to it all the time, and even act smug if they know it!

With all those gutras, agals, keffiyah and turbins, as well as hijabs, burqas, niqabs, and chandors.

Toss in a variety of Ray Bans...

Well, you see the problem? (But not much of a face.)

In some cases, the "detection" of an object in Art (or meaning in literature) is in the eye of the beholder, unless the artist tells you that is what they meant.

The Wikipedia entry on Meat lists the commonly consumed mammals. Curiously, only dog meat has a nutrition label.

I am pretty sure your local butcher would NOT appreciate you printing up some of those labels and leaving them around his store...

free rain? (varies by jurisdiction if you actually own the rain that falls on your land).

depends on how transparent the breakdown is... I do recall some airfares that were pretty close to 50/50 fare/taxes+fees, and I certainly have long distance phone bills that clearly show pennies worth of calls and dollars worth of "fees" that are carefully described as "not taxes".

So, while everything isn't "taxes", they are larger than you think, but the "profit" part is generally pretty small. For example, the current "profit margin" for American Airlines is negative That can't be good...

These are not the trollsocks you want...

If you can build oil pipelines hundreds of miles long, why don't "they" build water pipelines to the desert of southern California? Maybe it is because oil is (statistically speaking) infinitely more valuable than oil)?

OTOH -- maybe driving away from a desert is more cost effective than living there...

That doesn't sound nearly as intimidating as Release the Kraken! (or even Release the hounds...)

Just sayin...