That’s not a duck.

Is Yakety Sax the Tennessee state song?

I am very sorry for the poor little puppy in the Russian satellite… https://youtu.be/PSZOLAoOskk?is=elGuRRwGdIPCs1gV

Unexpected Laundry Files

Muppet Treasure Island, but only if he played it straight like he was actually Kermit

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco” - definitely Mark Twain

Leg of lamb is a dish where one serves a leg that comes from a lamb. The name does not claim that the entire body of the lamb is served.

Slowly I turned…

You better see a different doctor.

I found it a bit of a stretch that a cranky technophobe English professor could, or even would bother to, create an algorithm the whole world of math and computer nerds overlooked. But I don’t let preposterous characters get in the way of my big-ideas SF when I can help it.

This sounded like clownish villainy in Rainbows End. I swear these guys are compulsively drawn to the worst parts of SciFi.

They mudbugs.

The US is constitutionally saddled with first past the post voting, which makes more than two parties difficult to represent at the national level. For some reason the two existing parties are unwilling to change that.

Something’s fucky.

It’s not a sword, it’s a question mark. This is a very normal human analogy.

The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.

Menus in Mexico use the $ as an abbreviation for peso, which would make that about a 2 dollar burrito.

And they say he ran awaaaaay… BRANDED!

At the height of derangement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubrick_stare

Comfortably Numb by Scissor Sisters

Ring of Fire by Wall of Voodoo

Rusty Cage by Johnny Cash

I Feel Love by Dengue Fever

All I Want/Heroes by Lightouts