I think you're not making an important connection about Facebook apps/quizzes. Yes, you do have to confirm that it will pull info from your profile and from your friends. Your account DOESN'T have to be the one allowing the information ripping. Because applications can see everything on your friends' profiles. So if you and I are friends on FB, and I ok an app, that app can see YOUR profile with whatever level of permission that you've given me.

I remember one episode of SG1 where Hammond was passing through the gate for the first time, and the leader of the SG team he was going with told him that his first instinct would be to strongly inhale. So maybe the gate actually does push the air out of people's lungs. You get reassembled air free, and your body's first priority is getting air in.

I'm thinking this happened a couple of times now. I remember a 1/2 of book 1 freebie being offered when book five was released in hardback, as well. And I think I remember something about the series needing nine books at that point.

Usury originally didn't refer to excessive interest, but to all interest. Well into the middle ages, charging interest was seriously looked down upon. The idea was roughly along the lines of 'interest is money paid for time, not for work. And only God can charge for time'. Charging interest on loans is a fairly recent phenomenon.

I saw it in a movie once. I can't remember which. He used a cup of black coffee in a white mug. He pointed at it and said "fervens". What does "fervens" mean? cup? coffee? liquid? water? fluid? black (for the color of the coffee)? white (for the color of the cup)? Does the speaker intend the listener to drink it? Share it? Give it? Don't touch it. Extra brownie points to whoever translates it. It's a real word in another language. :)

I don't remember it in any movie, but there was an episode of Star Trek:TNG. "The Big Goodbye" I think was the title. The (first) one where the holodeck runs amok, and traps Picard and company in an old noir-style detective story. Picard and Troy had the coffee cup conversation about it being a miracle that any two alien species can communicate at all.

One thing that comes to mind is from MacBeth. One of the witches' prophecies state that Banquo will found a line of kings. It's the only prophecy of the play that doesn't come true, and it always made me wonder what the point of including it was. While Banquo is likely a fictional character, it was popularly believed that King James I was one of his descendents.

I don't think that the plays themselves are incomprehensible without the then-current context, but there are some subtleties in them that enrich the story if they're known.