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The National Abortion Rights Action League changing its name to NARAL Pro-choice America was like Kentucky Fried Chicken changing its name to KFC so noone would know it serves fried food.
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Just once in a movie I'd like the token female scientist to be a middle-aged, non-hot woman. You know, someone who looks as if she might actually be old enough to have had time to earn all those degrees and do all the research the film claims she has.
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If you're whinging about it all the time, you're not really "leading a life of quiet desperation."
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Why do so many people refer to "two twins"? I'm not aware of any naturally occurring sets of three twins, so until the geneticists give us that much longed for item of engineered humanity, you might as well save a syllable.
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Getting bored watching the trailer is second only to their having changed directors twice on the list of bad signs about an upcoming movie.
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Word of warning to the young folk: Whoever said "Life is one long lesson in humility" was really, REALLY not kidding.
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Of all the questions that were answered in Deathly Hallows, one question was only made more, ah, questionable: What is the deal with Aberforth and goats?
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Better Pickwickian than Pecksniffian.
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I wonder if a human who had never heard wolf sounds would, when hearing them at night out in the wilderness, find them frightening. How much is real eeriness and how much is our conditioned expectation?
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Think about the line about there coming a time when people will no longer tolerate sound doctrine, preferring instead teachers who tickle their ears, the next time you hear someone saying they can't believe the Church still teaches all that old-fashioned stuff.
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Your neologism for the day: "dexternormative". Damn all those right-handed people acting as if it's normal to be right-handed!
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