Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, January 24, 2011

SciAm Knows Its Readership

You can see that on full display in the "Anti Gravity" humor column this month. The columnist is writing about how modern medicine and technology would have changed the story line of the opera La Bohème; he mentions that one of the characters coughs in the show and explains the significance of that by saying it is equivalent to "wearing a red shirt in a Star Trek landing party."

(OK, maybe it's not that funny.)
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5 comments:

BadTux said...

It *is* that funny. Sorry, I'm a geek :).

- Badtux the Geeky Penguin

1/24/2011 1:53 PM
merlallen said...

I'm lost. What's the red shirt? the guy who gets killed?

1/25/2011 1:44 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

In the original series, when things went sideways on a landing party, the first guy to die almost invariably wore a red shirt.

1/25/2011 1:47 PM
BadTux said...

Here ya go. The phenomenon has its very own Wikipedia page! Who coulda known?

- Badtux the Easily Amused Penguin

1/25/2011 1:55 PM
merlallen said...

thanks

1/25/2011 2:28 PM

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