Desdemona, I have a problem. I need to get a wisdom tooth removed, but I have a terrible fear of dentists.
No problem, Othello. I have a friend who's a Buddhist monk. He can remove the offending tooth without any pain or dental instruments, or even touching you.
My wife referred me to you. I need a molar extracted.
What is the sound of one tooth chewing? Make yourself one with everything, except your tooth.
I don't know how he did it, honey. He just recited some paradoxes ... and it was gone!
That's easy to explain. It's tooth-out Zen, Othie!
Some would save Kennedy. Some would meet Jesus. Some would invest in IBM. What would you do if you invented time travel?
Bingo! 3 AM, the 1970s.
The truth is, Phillip used it to break into the house of a child star in the dead of night, and replace a harmless confection with nitroglycerin-coated sand.
Mom, can I have some Pop-Rocks?
Just one package, son. It will soon be dinnertime.
Corrupted by the power of the Ring, Frodo Baggins killed everybody else and started a society with clones of himself, each doing a specific job and producing large families.
I am the librarian frodo. I have 16 children.
I am the insurance salesman frodo. I have 18 children.
There were librarian frods (as thy called themselves), insurance frods, computer frods, and astronaut frods.
I am the computer software frod. I have 0x19 children.
I am the astronaut frod. I have 23 children.
There were even athlete frods and tax collector frods.
I am the basketball frod. At 3'11" I tower over the rest. I have sired 65 children.
I am the tax frod. I'd have had a bunch of kids, but some nut in a mask cut off my scrotum.
We've begun getting complaints that this site has far too much anal sex in it.
It's true that the number of references are disproportunate to its actual frequency of occurrence, but that is not atypical for such a high-level taboo.
Nonetheless, as a show of good faith, several forim users are going to self-impose a semi-moratorium on anal sex references.
Instead of mentioning it, we will euphemize it with something innocuous ... like flowers.
Welcome to Skydiving 101. The first and most important thing I will teach you is the proper position to assume while in free fall. Could the TA come up here and demonstrate?
It's called the spread-eagle, and it creates wind resistance, slowing the rate of fall.
... and he has none other than Jesus Christ as a TA.
I like your fraternity a lot, but one key to which house I pledge is that my brothers and I share common academic interests. So tell me, what's your major?
Beer.
Oh wow! I have a friend at Princeton who's majoring in beer, and it sounds like a great curriculum: History of Grain, Fermentation Chemistry, ...
Marketing of Beverages, Sociology of Alcohol, Homebrewing, Beer in Literature... What's your favorite course?
Yes, Mr. Franklin, I did receive the manuscript, and I like what I see. This idea of a collection of words to live by is just what we need in this day and age.
Great! So you'll be publishing Poor Richard's Almanac immediately.
Well, not exactly. This volume you sent me weighs in at 350 pages; frankly I don't think the average American has the attention span for more than half this material.
But everything there is essential. There's not a word you can remove without doing irreparable harm to it.
Is that so? Then explain how "Feet in his ears, Asian girl fears" is vital in modern society.
Andy, I need to get in touch with the Mad Rappist. All the wooden badgers on my farm have gone into pon farr at once, and I need someone to service them. fuck's my only hope.
I'm afraid he can't help you. He only molests living creatures, not those made of wood. You'd need a fuck made of wood to take care of your badgers.
A fuck made of wood? What if we were to build a large wooden statue of fuck and set it loose on my badgers?
It's worth a try. How many wooden badgers are we talking about?
Oh, two, three thousand at the most. Do you think it's feasible?
I don't know, but we might as well build it. If nothing else, we'll learn the answer to the age-old question: How much wood could a wood fuck fuck if a wood fuck could fuck wood?
With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they'd snort:
We'll have nothing to do
with the plain-headed sort.
And whenever they met some, when they were out walking, they'd hike right on past them without even talking.
When the Nail-headed children played with dogonball, could the Plain-heads join in their game? Not at all! You could only play ball if your head had a nail,
And the Plain-headed children had none upon thail.
When the Nail-headed Stickmen had frankfurter roasts, or picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts, they never invited the Plain-headed Stickmen.
Left them out cold in the dark of the thick fen. Kept them away; never let them come near, and that's how they treated them year after year.
Then one day, it seems, while the Plain-headed Stickmen ... Were moping, just moping alone in the thick fen, sitting there, wishing their foreheads had nails, up zipped a stranger
Then quickly, Sylvester McMonkey McFuck put together a very peculiar space truck.
Then he said:
You wanna be naled like a Nale-hedded Stick? My friends, I will nale you . . . . for five dollah a pick.
"Just hand me your money and climb on aboard." They clambered inside and the strange fellow hoared. He bonked. He clonked. He jerked. He berked. He bopped them around, but the thing really worked.
When the Plain-headed Stickmen popped out, they were nailed. They actually were, McFuck hadn't failed.
Then they yelled at the ones who had nails from the start,
We're exactly like you; you can't tell us apart. We're all just the same now, you snooty old smarties. Now we can come to your frankfurter parties!
Good Grief!
... groaned the one who had nails from the first. "We're still the best Stickmen, and they are the worst. But how in the world will we know," they all frowned,
Then up stepped McFuck with a very sly wink, and he said,
Things are not quite as bad as you think. You don't know who's who, that is perfectly true. But come with me, friends, do you know what I'll do?
I'll make you again the best Stickmen on the fen, and all it will cost is ten dollar fifty cen'.
Forehead nales are no longer in style," said McFuck,
What you need is a trip through my nales-off construct. This wondrous contraption will take off your nales, so you won't look like Stickmen who have them on thails."
That handy machine, working very precisely, removed all the nails from their foreheads quite nicely. Then, with snoots in the air, they paraded about. They opened their beaks and proceeded to shout,
We now know who's who, and there isn't a doubt,
The best kind of Stickmen are Stickmen without.
Then, of course those with nails all got frightfully mad. To have a nail in your head now was frightfully bad.
Then, of course old Sylvester McMonkey McFuck invited them into his nails-off construct. Then, of course from then on, you can probably guess, things really got into a horrible mess.
All the rest of the day on the wild screaming thick fen the Fix-it-up-Chappie was fixing up Stickmen. Off again, on again, in again, out again, through the machine and back round about again,
Still paying money, still running through, changing their nails every minute or two, ...
Until neither the Plain- nor the Nail-headers knew whether this one was that one or that one was this one or which one was what one or what one was who!
Then, when every last cent of their money was spent, the Fix-It-Up-Chappie packed up and he went. And he laughed as he drove in his car up the beach:
Wehn a man loves a froehead, he nales the fuckin bitch!
But McFuck didn't know, I'm quite happy to say, the Stickmen got quite a bit smarter that day. That day, they decided that Stickmen are Stickmen, and no kind of forehead's the BEST on the thick fen.
That day, all the Stickmen forgot about nails, They made silly comics.
We have found weaponings of massive instruction over in Iraq, so we must go to warfareness with Sodomy Whosits.
My tax cut will subliminate the economicity and bring the deficiction to physical balancing ... I am the legalitimately electioned precedent of the US.
Very bad, Mistress. Slave peed in the sink, called in six anchovy pizzas next door, watched "Joe Millionaire," and sold military secrets to the Russians.
Slave has been very bad. No beating for slave tonight.
Number 2, what are the prospects of black holes enabling interstellar travel? ______________ We clearly need a fuller understanding of gravitational and quantum effects, but it is plausible.
Number 3, Theory suggests that there should exist as much antimatter as there is matter. Where is it all? _______________ In one of Saddam Hussein's "Presidential Palaces".
That's all the time we have, and the panel has voted ... Will the real Stephen Hawking please stand up?