For the Internet to have a Philly accent, there would need to be Unicode representations for the Philadelphia alphabet (which of course would render here as gibberish): Fukin' A, Fukin' B, Fukin' C, ...

As a kid, my best source of consumer economics education was Mad Magazine. [big print] "SALE! 20% off!" [mouse type] "the prices we raised 25% last week".

Fuck everything, we're doing five blades

As a child I spotted this influential 1933 book on my RN grandmother's bookshelf and read it avidly: 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs

As a child, I had surgery in an Adventist hospital. Adventists encourage vegetarian diet. The hospital commissary was vegetarian, and served a Loma Linda Foods product called Vege-burger. This was a brand name canned product available at grocery stores in that region, with its significant Adventist presence. I liked Vege-burger. The name has been in use for 60+ years.

Tube steak

"Leadership and sacrifice: we lead, you sacrifice."

In this region, we get 3 bins and 3 trucks: trash, compostable, and recycle. Instead of 2 employed humans, there are now 3.

As a child in Texas on backcountry family drives, the main sights to see were roadrunners, tumbleweeds, smashed skunks, possums, and armadillos, road signs perforated to unreadability by bullets, and piles of beer cans and bottles at the side of the road.

"Brought to you by the lottery. It's a sort of tax on people who weren't too good at math." -- Prairie Home Companion

In the era with primitive macro assemblers and no viable compilers, we called this rhetorical desideratum the DWIM macro: Do What I Mean.

The Pasadena Freeway was originally built in 1940 then extended in 1953. Your description of the ramp is accurate to my memory.

Pasadena Freeway onramps.

Henry: "When pigs have wings!" Eleanor: "There'll be pork in the trees come morning." -- The Lion in Winter

Some of the cannabis devices are nearly as dramatic as some of the products in an old Kontes laboratory glassware catalog. They also use ST ground joints.