“No, it’s a matter of logic! If you’re going to say things that have been proven wrong, like that the first man and woman lived in Missouri, and that Native Americans came from Jerusalem, then you’d better have something to back it up. All you’ve got are a bunch of stories about some asswipe who read plates nobody ever saw out of a hat, and then couldn’t do it again when the translations were hidden!”
– Stan Marsh
“When did ‘hope’ become a political dynamic? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance.”
– Rich Hall
Nelson: ‘I fear you’? This is what Valentine’s Day means to you?
Bart: This is what it means to everyone. How can you be forced to say ‘I love you’? People only give Valentines because they’re scared of what would happen if they didn’t.
– The Simpsons (2013) Season 25, Episode 11; “Specs and the City” [No. 541]
There is a community in Ontario, Canada, called Moose Factory. It is located on Moose Factory Island, near the mouth of the Moose River.
Between 1934 and 1968, the Catholic censorship guidelines that had led to the Motion Picture Production Code forbade Hollywood films to show innuendo, infidelity, nudity, sexual hygiene, prostitution, homosexuality, drugs, interracial relations, white slavery, and ridicule of the clergy.
An excerpt of Sir Roger Moore’s Twitter account description once read 007. Saint. UNICEF Ambassador.
Over 25,000 people died on the First Day of the Somme.
In The Simpsons (Season 5, Episode 5) “Treehouse of Horror IV”, Homer Simpson is put on trial by the Devil. The jury consists of Benedict Arnold, Lizzy Borden, Richard Nixon, John Wilkes Booth, Blackbeard the Pirate, John Herbert Dillinger, and the starting line-up of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers.
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.”
– Oscar Wilde
“A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.”
– Niels Bohr
Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate.[1]
Shakespeare touched upon this phenomenon in King Lear, when Lear reproaches the policeman who is whipping a prostitute because of his lust for her company:
Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
Why dost thou lash that whore?
Strip thine own back;
Thou hotly lust’st to use her in that kind
For which thou whipp’st her.
– King Lear (Act 4, Scene 6) Continue reading
Chopped eel in jelly and vinegar served cold is a traditional English dish.
Tennessee Williams was from Mississippi.
If a machine could converse with a human and make him believe it was not a machine, it would pass the Turing Test.
In The Godfather, every speaking character who handles an orange eventually dies.
Whenever Mr. Bean encounters the blue three-wheeled car, a Reliant Robin, he has to damage it. This behaviour could be an example of OCD.
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