Comment Re:nothing new under the sun (Score 1) 140
I hesitate to refer people to his work since he turned into a raving bigot, but there's a similar plot point in the short story Dogwalker by Orson Scott Card.
I hesitate to refer people to his work since he turned into a raving bigot, but there's a similar plot point in the short story Dogwalker by Orson Scott Card.
If you speed in km/hour, don't you have to pay the fine in pounds sterling?
Mach 4 is a razor blade.
Fuck everything, we're going to 4 machs.
Hamas has always sounded to me like a Spanish verb that needs conjugation: hamo, hamas, hama, hamamos, hamais, haman.
To me it's a tasty chickpea spread.
Mmm...terrorism.
If every part of anyone's body can be replaced, and even completely transfigured and upgraded for various other better parts, what is a human being?
A captain of the Ship of Theseus.
Advanced Placement. It's a program for American high school students to take college-level courses.
An armor piercing knowledge of statistics would be pretty cool though.
I have it on good authority that there's a little black spot on the sun today.
They had Gov. Schwarzenegger declare a state of emergency. What other "due process" should there be in order to destroy a house packed with explosives?
He has to urge people in the vicinity to escape in a rotor-driven aircraft.
No, what's funny in TFA is that the cops found molds of human feces. WTF?
The guy was thinking ahead. It's concrete evidence that he's not batshit crazy.
If you found a buried metal detector with a metal detector...would the universe implode?
Don't worry; for that you need a metal detector detector, AKA a meta-detector.
There ain't 50 such things.
Yeah, he should have said TK-421. The THX reference came in a different scene. From memory:
-Where are you taking this...thing?
-Prisoner transfer from cellblock 1138.
-I wasn't notified. I'll have to clear it.
seaweed != algae in my book.
There are several different types. You're probably thinking of green algae or Cyanobacteria. Many seaweeds are brown algae.
Some crimes require mens rae
Thinking like Mrs. Garrett from Diff'rent Strokes?
I think you mean mens rea, which is thinking like the dude from The Crying Game.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"