Things and Stuff

Random Word Generation:

I'll supply the words. You do whatever it is, you normally do...

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Reality Shock

Gumption Traps

Premier Combat Unit

Insidious Paranoia

Omnipotent Forces

Anonymous Informants

Emotional Manipulation Machine

Standing Army

Mental Health Day

Mad Magazines

Sexaholic Nymph

Remorse Addict

Sympathy Junkie

Dominant Hegemony

Insurgent Militia

Migrant Species

Nomadic Ideologies

Economic Contagion

Ethnic Disharmony

Historic Struggles

Unending Clashes

Genocidal Conflict

Imperial Overlords

Stagnant Superpowers

Empirical Research

Unprovable Rumours

Shared Illusions

Mass Hallucination

Common Nonsense

Spiritual Denial

Inconsistent meaning

Class Divisions

Subconscious Battles

Impenetrable Logic

Intellectual Stalemate

Subliminal Hate

Consolidated Funds

Safety net

Original Sin

Death Panel

Sour Grapes

Weakest Link

Silent Majority

Support Group

Sexually Active

Lost and Found

Rescue Package

Culture of Denial

False Dichotomy

Awkward Silence

Motivational Fear

Mindless Backlash

Popularity Contest

Divide and Conquer

Austerity Measures

Immediate Superior

Supply and Demand

Intellectual Vacuum

Marketplace of Ideas

Survival of the Fittest

Delusions of Grandeur

Government Injection

Collective Memory Loss

Inefficient Bureaucracies

Apathetic Social Structures

Greed Envy Hate Lust Sloth Lies

Bingo

Stage Fight

Can particles travel faster than the speed of light?

Nobody alive can tell you for certain.

Isn't that reassuring?

At least we pretend we're not as superstitious as we once were

just use better modern excuses instead... touch wood..

Heavyweight concepts

tyranny of distance

Adrift on an ocean of time...

expedition

exhibition

exposition

find (y)our own meanings chump arse

Sad Cat Post

I don't usually use this space to mention my own personal events too much,

well I guess, I do in a vague roundabout fashion, omit names to protect identities, etc

but anyway here's some raw uncensored info...

I received sad news yesterday:

My Cat died.

He was born in 1989 and lived his whole life in the same house/garden

so in human (calendar) years he was about 21 and a half,

but in cat terms that is far far older, almost 100 I think?

he was very old though and had a mostly sedate, carefree life

besides the odd nocturnal fight in his younger years.

So RIP Speedy the cat I got when I was 7*

what a good bastard he was.

Speedy relaxing (Circa. 1999)

*If u know maths u can work out my age.

World Of Sarcasm

"The U.S Government totally cares about the fate of the Palestinian people!"

...in opposite land maybe? Where Pigs are frequent flyers, the cheque is in the mail, your farts smell like freshly baked cookies, your bosses are not retards, it's not you it's me, I really want to help you, we are doing this for your own safety/benefit or to enhance traffic flow, that aggression really suits you, the earth can still be fixed, you have nothing to worry about, nuclear arms are the best deterrent, global warming is scaremongering, other people aren't trying to use you, the Trojan horse was a thoughtful gift, I take full responsibility for my actions, I won't do that again, a full inquiry will ascertain all the details, I am not a crook, I'd like to hear your criticism, I am sorry for everything and will never put my own desires ahead of the common goals of humanity, internet message boards are full of constructive feedback, I believe whatever the authorities on television tell me, rumours are a good basis for opinion, legislation, policies and processes always make sense, pointing out the faults somehow solves them, if you're not part of the problem you're part of the solution, this post hasn't gone on too long, cynicism makes it all better for me, peace in our time, myths are true, there is not a whole bunch of crazy shit currently happening all over the world, and I forgot the punchline again...

Irresistible and Irrelevant

Life is tough

perception is reality

we could have had it all...

for as long as we've had a broadcast media

they've had us perpetually petrified

the camera never lies

a nation victimised by crime

harbingers of horrible truth

statistics were to blame

Insanity, creativity

mental illness, depression

bi-polar mood swings

fast, fresh, new, now what?

plain old-fashioned

dependable stable structure

morals, things we need to do

are tedious and dull

we love a good conflict

it's either chaos or boredom

lonely or frustrated

How do we project ourselves to the world?

Please inspire me...

(p.s some concepts in this post were 'borrowed' from...

"The unauthorised history of NZ" {TV series})

Lost Weekends

As opinion ignites discussion...

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Entirely pointless lists:

Quick Top 5s!...

Top 5

British Bands*:

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1.doves

2.radiohead

3.elbow

4.gomez

5.kasabian

--(-)-(--&--$--&--)-(-)--

Top 5

Birds Around the Place:

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1.Tui

2.Fantail

3.Chaffinch

4.Silvereye (waxeye)

5.Wood Pidgeon

--(-)-(--&--$--&--)-(-)--

Top 5

Days of the week:

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1.Saturday

2.Sunday

3.Friday

4.Thursday

5.Wednesday

most calming song ever: What a wonderful world = Louis Armstrong

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(*guitar-based rock derivative, but can explore many genres)

The Spirit of Ecstasy

Writing off the Wall

infinite loops...

play within a play

idea within an idea

game within a game

story within a story

world within a world

movie within a movie

dream within a dream

scenario within a scenario

equation within an equation

abstraction within an abstraction

Hold the Line (No Regrets)

(Social Instincts)

reputation, revenge

pride, shame

dignity, humiliation

anger, remorse

frustration, empathy

pain, delight

denial, responsibility

tension, resolution

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A direct translation

of the lyrics for the song

"Non, je ne regrette rien"

as performed by Édith Piaf is:

"I regret nothing

no, I have no regrets

I regret neither the good things that were done to me nor the bad things

They are all the same to me

The past is paid,

swept away, forgotten

I don't care of the past any more

I set my memories on fire

My agonies, and my pleasures

I don't need them any more

Swept away in the agonies of love

Swept away forever,

I'm restarting with nothing..."

What Ales You?

beer companies care about the social costs on the people that consume their products

rather than just making profits

- yeah right

Something About The Duality of Man Sir

Just to stir debate

controversy

argument

a bit of give

and take

I shall name my opinions of

"most influential..."

in these categories:

• Movie of the 90's: Pulp Fiction
• Album of the 90's: Nirvana - Nevermind
• TV show ever: The Simpsons
• Band: The Beatles

reminder: these are not my favourites

just my opinions, but they are the only

one's that matter, unless you wish to

insert yours below, by way of comment

otherwise I win and so does my shouting

Destroyed In Seconds

I don't condone the random destruction of people or their property...

But don't tell me there is no reasons or causes behind it,

no matter how misguided or opportunistic these acts are,

there must be something that has caused this situation

sort it out

best tweet I saw about this today:

JohnitoBlog John Ito

by Yossarian25

The UK riots are not revolutionary.In a revolution you bring down a corrupted elite,not your hardworking neighbours. #londonriots #UKriots

Features and Analysis (Only Joking)

humans thrive on conflict (don't we?)

what would Rome have been without Carthage

The state of the Union without the Confederacy

to spur things along, clash, compete, invent railways

atomic energy, radar, advances from warfare

competition motivates us to achieve

better ways to kill and fix the wounded

efficiency, economic growth, jobs, commerce

all that stuff that we can't live without

but unfortunately is slowly killing the planet

whoops-e-doodle, doodle do, don't

cash moves everything around me

money squawks and bullshit runs everything

capitalism is built on looting and plundering

colonisation diverts income to the core

slavery did happen and sweatshops exist

we've outsourced our manufacturing

to places without rights or labour laws

then wonder why nothing is made here

c#nts are still running the world (or well their money is)

tourists are (almost) (f*ck@n) EVERYWHERE!

especially when I go travelling...

all things move toward their end

you cannot kill what does not live

renegade master, power to the people

a life lived through sound bites

The Price of Milk

carbon

pollution

emissions

water quality

ozone protection

environmental purity

native forests/wetlands

gosh we're thirsty (for disaster)

I like bacon and non-sequiturs

what's you're carbon footprint?

Stop thinking! ...it will only get you thoughts...

No keep it up! ...it's not illegal yet!

find the white Pukeko

Gypsy Family Slugfest

settling scores

bare knuckle boxing

escalated Irish clan squabbles

feuds so old the origins are unknown

brothers and cousins fighting brothers and cousins

Tea and Crumpets

"The World's First Industrialised Ghetto" - shameless

I'm always (well usually) trying to find the balance...

between negative and positive.

Melancholy and Joy.

Success versus Anger.

Resentment against Contentment.

Happiness without Fear.

Anxiety tinged Euphoria.

Etc...

You can't completely have one without the other.

As life is a vivid mixture of the good and the shit.

Never completely wonderful if you look too far,

but not ever as depressing as brains can think.

Anything can be dealt with, it can just take time.

Nature kills without conscience, but that doesn't mean we should.

So what if we have done since the beginning of time...

I'm sure at least some of those were needed.

But we can change can't we?

Rationality away!

Choose 'Life'?

It might not be sunny, but I'm sure there's warmth somewhere...

They may not listen to you, but someone out there will...

sometimes just one more day is all it takes...

hold on for the next big adventure!

Next time I might try to be funny again or I might just try to be really deep and pretentious, so that I can alienate the mainstream. I seem to have writer's block, but it's only blocking the good stuff from coming out, so this is what you're left with. I love my life really, because I have made some good choices and been lucky. But I did make a few bad choices first that helped me learn and had to deal with some bad luck along the road. Blah blah blah, morals.

Hope you're well!

The Saturn Return

Curse of the 27 club...

" "Turning thirty is a big deal. Many experience the last years of their twenties as a transitional phase between youth and maturity. Thirty marks the real entry to adulthood—an age where most people have completed their university degrees, found their vocation, and are comfortably settled in a relationship—or not.

It takes the planet Saturn twenty-nine and a half years to return to the same position it occupied at the time we were born, a significant event as it marks the end of one cycle and the beginning of another.

Astrologers argue that Saturn Return is one of life’s most important thresholds as it intensifies one’s feelings of sadness, isolation, and purpose. In the words of Rob Hand, author of Planets In Transit, it’s “a time of endings and new beginnings,” a fitting characteristic for Saturnus, the Roman harvest god, the model for the grim reaper." "

http://www.the27club.net/saturn-return-27

Debt Crisis Sandwich

Things I thought or heard while watching the news one night...

Horrific crash, torrential deluge

Greek Tragedy, widespread panic

Record-breaking weather, anarchy

Bitter-sweet catastrophe, riots beaten

Negotiations deadlocked, scapegoat found

Space shuttles retire, adventure over

Ending the dreams of a generation

Barely visible in the dawn darkness

Milk prices sour, debris strewn

Just a few stories manipulating fear to get your attention. The "You just got infected with a virus and we'll give you the recipe for the antidote, plus a quick summary of the meaning of existence! AND the best way YOU can enjoy it! All coming up after some brief words (and imperative directions) from our generous corporate overlords, I mean sponsors..." scenario. Typical. All promises to be fulfilled, once credit card details verified.

By the way... (Security Warning:)

Have you noticed? (I'm guessing it's worldwide?) the increasing number of scams, (phishing or otherwise) going down everywhere? All the time I hear about fake emails (& phone calls, etc...) going out that can look/sound semi-legit and seem to sucker in the (possibly temporarily) gullible peeps to give their personal deets over,

bad news... funds transferred, game over. You lose.

Other bad news:

• that's not Microsoft ringing on the phone offering to fix a mystery "virus' on your computer for only $200.
• that Nigerian Prince won't pay you $3 million dollars if you send him a small amount of cash now.
• there is no expedition to find sunken treasure in the ocean that just needs your small investment to fund the expedition.
• you haven't suddenly got a tax refund for a business you don't actually have.
• giving credit card or personal details to anyone you don't trust or know is completely https-type trustworthy, can be really regretful
• the person you met online and wants you to bring a suitcase to another country, could be using you as a drug-mule.
• there is no such thing as a free lunch*
• official looking fake emails/websites/letterheads are easy to create.
• urban myths and rip-offs are common.

pretty much never trust an unsecured email or cold call, from a bank, Govt. dept or any other large institution, that ask you for details or promise you something, it could be a scam. Big business and Govt.. departments are usually careful enough to only contact you securely through online log-in or some verification mechanism, as they know how easy fraud is...

so don't get credit card or identity frauded people!!!

But the great irony (and conceit from me) is that if you reading this, than I guess your already smart enough to know all that stuff.

Better safe than sorry though, overkill rather than under kill isn't it?

Add your own safety warning/scam below as a comment if you wish!

*conditions apply.

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“What is a cynic?

A man who knows the price of everything

and the value of nothing.” -- Oscar Wilde

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World of the News

The Truth is Lies

Lies are Commercial

Everyone has an Angle

Some better than Others

More rhetorical questions:

(I think I know the answer to one of these, due to a sociology lecture...)

• Is it possible to be Objective?
• What's the opposite of Homesick?
• What's the difference between 'sex' and 'gender'?
• Can Stress Be Controlled? (without meditation or medication)

Just got back from a bit of a road trip down south and noticed...

Macrocarpa can be used for/as makeshift:

hedges, windbreaks, perimeter markers

fences, barriers, great green walls

trees with tunnels, forts

Exit Cellar door

Schadenfreude in Your Face

Random intangibles of recent time:

I wanted to write a short story but haven't got round to it yet, may do that soon as I have a (road/ferry) trip coming up. Watched 'Bad Boy Bubby' again tonight, a very interesting movie indeed. I had forgot some stuff in it...

So I did another pic with paint again, is it a montage or a collage?

juxtaposition or partial superimposition?

by the way... (other misc. thoughts, loosely in the form of questions)

• When did the role of media change from reporting the facts to scandalising them? Distorting the to add excitement and intrigue, for no good reason...
• What would the history channel show if it wasn't for world war II?
• What were the eighties thinking? I mean really, the hair, etc....
• Ever noticed that Rupert Murdoch looks like Mr burns with glasses?
• Where is the next big thing hiding right now?
• Whatcha' doing?

Disfluency

Arial

Roman

times new

cognition

education

recognition

reeducation

comic sans italicised

easier is better?

complex is more substantial

certain types of difficulty can actually be beneficial

disfluency could improve learning

from rnz:

making something harder to read helps you remember more information

making things harder to read makes you remember more of the information.

So giving someone a textbook to read in a subtly unusual font will help learning.

It sounds a bit wacky

but it's been trialled in schools

and is an idea

that's being taken seriously.

Foreign Accent Syndrome

Seriously...

A 67 year-old woman of Blenheim who has never left New Zealand, has developed a rare condition after suffering a stroke in 2008. She now speaks with either Irish, Scottish or American accents randomly all of the time, due to the affect on the left side of the brain, which controls language.

Odd.

(quote)

"The impression of an accent is conveyed by the cluster of speech characteristics a person exhibits, such as prolonged vowels and alterations to speech rhythm patterns."

(unquote)

Q: When does an accent/colloquial phrases become a dialect?

NB: Rhythm is quite a weird word if you look at it, only a 'y' for a vowel in the first syllable (which ain't too rare), but definitely nothing but consonants in the second.

Hybrid Cloud

Personally...

I would have to say this one is a bit too busy for me, but I'm allowed to say that...

as I ripped it kicking and screaming onto the virtual world of accessible visual space...

that we have in here in the land of spam, hype, diversion, propaganda, promotion, etc...

not really something that you could handle having on your desktop, but so what eh?

I was trying to download paint shop or something new free... it didn't work,

so instead I stupidly played around with paint, that's right paint... :(

and decided to put that up here to share the pain with all of you,

by virtue of you clicking something somewhere

that brought you here, either intentionally...

or otherwise by blind co-incidence,

ohhhh! the laughs we had...

and by 'we' I mean me.

Enjoy it! or don't

don't look

filler

and now! without further adieu (or more precisely rambling about blah blah and drawing this post out slightly longer tha intended...) a picture/mess/digital image/creation/cop-out

copyright infringement/nonsense/a piece of.../palava/sight gag...

Sorry, wanted to offend your eyes :)

No Free Bees

Make Something From Nothing

oBey...

-Be lively...

-Bet little...

-Beat liars...

-Beaut listeners...

-Beauty lecturers...

-Beautify life...

-Beautiful Losers

"The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups, or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically."

Thought Crime

Graveyard of Abandoned Fads

Eulogy to lost optimism

The desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge

Future measurements of current fortune

Addicted to targets and goals

Reduce the impact of negative stress

Knowledge dispels fear

Educate your self

Domination is strategy

A Leap Second

Doing...

planning, waiting

living, dreaming

hoping, voting

winning, leaving

giving, learning

sharing, being

tracing, mapping

looking, seeing

charting, graphing

minding, daring

using, asking

hiding, caring

Misplaced aggression

Death or Liberty or Convenience!!

lynch mob

band wagon

captive audience

target demographic

home detention

personality cult

gossip forum

rumour mill

social fabric

stalk fest

public outcry

fickle opinion

brand loyalty

freedom fighter

fan club

market forces

charity case

focus group

special interest

splinter cell

human resources

violent backlash

bloodless coup

criminal war

peace palace

judicial organ

legal minefield

execution summary

knuckle Sandwiches

pita perversions

fraudulent focaccia

fellatio fingers

carbo-carnage

bakery brewhaha

taco terrorists

bagette bangers

ciabatta cheats

sour-dough psychos

wholemeal hooligans

mixed-grain grifters

flatbread flick-knives

tortilla transgressions

wrap rumbles

naan nasties

roll rackets

rice revenge

pasta plunder

Nerdsack

personal ad for humanity (condition applies)

interests include:

seeking out new stuff, classifying all we see, chavanism

travel, study, breathing, complaining, manipulating, calculating

long walks on the beach, dinner, brunch, lego, birds, madness

reproduction, collecting, empire building, replication

sunsets, drinking, lunar eclipses, toys, distractions

fashion, fads, crazes, repetition, changing old stories

nostalgia, rewriting history to create a false past, myths

legends, oral traditions, poetry, rumours, tales, scadal, lies

apathy, mood-swings, revenge, remorse, redemption, relapse,

retirement, recovery, lethargy, cathassis, relocation

humour, aggression, leverage, politics, unrequited love

beverages, survival, competition, charity, greed, romance

lust, envy, speed, clarity, nonsense, flora and fauna

bragging, conciet, loathing, hoarding, flaunting, corruption

feathering our own nest at the expense of others at times,

shooting things, taking photos, sports, hate, ignorance, fear

order, debate, democracy, rules, restrictions, destruction

hope, predictions, gambling, destractions, theft, piracy

tools, cars, machinery, technology, speculation

rebellion, revolution, resistance, repetition,

and the rest

looking to meet similar

In My Happy Place

A series of cynical/simple haiku poems...

developed for the open-minded post-rational

non-conformist belligerent naive fools...

insecure yet non-selfish lovers...

surface-dwelling enablers.

Birth

beginning cycle

life coming into the world

thinking survival

Space

infinite expanse

where no one can hear you scream

the final frontier

Ocean

the source of life

amazing, vast and immense

blue place that we fish

Diversity

cosmopolitan

multilingual migration

globalisation

Nature

barbaric, wild

exotic and colourful

but lacks opinion

History

will never repeat

nor repent, beg, steal or lie

humans can do that

Health

under the weather

vitamins and supplements

faith in placebos

Patience

lacking in many

but needed to develop

I can't be bothered

Body

celebrity skin

DIY-work required

can't leave it alone

Time

flies, crawls, yearns, glides, stalks

steam-rolls, does not wait for us

however we feel

Knowledge

different from wisdom

accumulation of thoughts

I know more than you

Justice

massive expenses

adversarial system

deaf, dumb but not blind

Science

current hypothesis

experimenting with life

the path to doomsday

Co-operation

combined strength unit

alliance, syndicate, tribe

against all the rest

Mathematics

measured quantities

graphs, relationships, patterns

counting everything

Television

ubiquitous filth

mass media in the lounge

make the voices stop

These viscous attacks and undetermined narratives have not come cheap.

They devour their host from the inside, causing random outbursts and pessimistic thoughts, until his soul is crushed, then reborn as a cute wee kitten on an island of sherbet, with rainbows, etc.

This was my tribute to Wonder Showzen*

(the funniest, most darkly disturbing [in a nice way] and sickening non-children's humour show, I have ever had my funny bone giggled by...)

NEXT WEEK:

Limericks about existentialist toilet graffiti in the Middle-East...

Recycled Vatican gift shop homeless shelter, free holiday, give-away lies for the gullible.

Words won't end here.

You are elite!

Sorry for the fuss :)

*titles taken from their episode list, but Haiku made up by me on the couch at home.

Butterfly Kisses

Best quote I have heard about sex lately:

"It's a wonder that humankind

has constructed

any

kind of civilization

with this monumental distraction at hand."

From: Youth In Revolt (2009)

Enduring Nonsense

Permutations of human existence

affectionate combinations

live love life

life love live

love life live

life live love

love live life

live life love

3 x 2 = 6

Inspired by Knitting...

Knit-links:

• Knitta Plz (wiki) Homepage
• Knitted Landscapes
• Yarnbombing
• Knit Sea
• Micro-Fibre Militia

The Easy Answers

A B C D E F F S

Inappropriate two-word insult slogans for things/people you despise:

turkey galore

tool burger

wank station

monkey slut

cheese pie

bikini roulette

slut bucket

micro mini

sectarian slaughter

scorched earth

whale spew

super injunction

Cutetiful/National Trust

Stuff that is of extreme Importance/Does not matter: (click)

Things to look out for/take photos of...

when travelling by road through small NZ towns:

(if marginally bored or precocious)

• Four Square stores (see above)
• War memorials
• Fonterror signs
• Rural Graffitti
• Urban decay
• Old Train stations
• Welcome signs
• Kiwanis/Lions/Rotary Club logos* (pictured below)
• Quirky monuments e.g Giant Kiwifruit
• Misc. remnants of the past e.g old wharves.

Ideas I had for photo books that would no longer work:

• Churches of Christchurch
• Pictures of old MED (Municipal Electriciy Dept.) sub-station buildings.

*usually located on the welcome sign

Qunkadelic

"defiance, disobedience, dissent, heresy, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, nonconformity, revolution, rising, schism, uprising, rebellion

In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition."

Random Facts:

space stations are orbiting

bob dylan turned 70 today

jet planes look awesome

Obama is Irish

news is fake

Ectospasm

Throwing out thoughts; like they were ideas...

rock communication conflict primitive culture herbal news hunter tribal art consciousness pirate radio wave lunar psycho soup pie tampon bomb black market box burger lame stream media assassin twins ninja mess blade mixed vacation cannibalism spear lever market control consumer network mass excursion hoax backlash deception lies nouns remorse nonsense joy resolution achievement leisure contentment nostalgia hindsight regrets enlightenment truth peace justice space love

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is our stress inherited?

how do we find balance?

are our minds controllable?

FOMO MOFO

digital natives

Oh my,

isn't the world getting so modern

so quickly?

The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything...

wanted

dead or alive

If "well-read" means "not missing anything," then nobody has a chance. If "well-read" means "making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully," then yes, we can all be well-read. But what we've seen is always going to be a very small cup dipped out of a very big ocean, and turning your back on the ocean to stare into the cup can't change that.

Popular Misquotations

"Beam me up, Scotty" is similar to the phrase,

"Just the facts, ma'am",

attributed to Jack Webb's character of Joe Friday on Dragnet,

"It's elementary, my dear Watson",

attributed to Sherlock Holmes,

"Luke, I am your father",

attributed to Darth Vader, or

"Play it again, Sam",

attributed to Humphrey Bogart.

All four lines are the best known quotations from these works for many viewers,

but not one is an actual, direct quotation

An Ephemeral Nature

Conversation Topics for your next mind blank:

A.K.A: Oh god , not more bl00dy links to wiki articles I found slightly interesting or even enlightening....

Potsherd (Pottery shards)

Medeshamstede (Mede's house)

Benedictine (Ordo Sancti Benedicti)

Antiquarian (Past enthusiast's)

Angles (Early English)

Evel Knievel (Man of Legend)

Captain Morgan (Ambitious Privateer)

Port Royal (City That Sank)

Stonewall riots (Gay Uprising)

Franklin's Lost Expedition (Northwest Passengers)

Marshall McLuhan (Media Theorist)