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[Is it cold in here?]

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

~ Emo Phillips

[JoeCovenant]

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

~ Emo Phillips

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.
~ Emo Phillips

[LeeC]

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
~Arthur C. Clarke

[cesium133]

I’m not a member of an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.
~ Will Rogers

[Morituri]

Just imagining the world a hundred years hence - in some soft-sci-fi future where we get contacted by Aliens.....

"You know, it would probably be easier to build healthy diplomatic relations with the Reticulans if Reticulan pirates, crooks, and smugglers hadn't been using Earth as a hideout for decades before we were officially discovered.  And as if that's not bad enough, some of them developed a sex tourism side business abducting people, drugging them, and pimping them out to be raped by weird little butt-sex freaks with anal probes.

Anyway, that's all in the back of people's heads, right?  Our first impression of them was made by some of their most vile crooks.  So when these English farmers bring their relatively minor class action suit for crop damage, it's going to be a bit hard to find a venue capable of giving them a fair trial...."

[LeeC]

I would absolutely love an AHS style Lovecratian show where its set in 1920s and each season is a different Lovecraft tale. Like one season could be Herbert West: Reanimator, then the next season would be Shadow Over Innsmouth (I would rip the plot straight from the Call of Cthulhu Xbox game though with the detective story), then maybe an episodic season "Tales of Miskatonic U" where we can cover Dunwich Horror, Whisperer In Darkness, Call of Cthulhu,  Mountains of Madness, any anything else that has Miskatonic University characters. Different actors every season with different tales. Then again Whispers in Darkness could probably be its own season.

[LeeC]

In the Warhammer Fantasy Battles universe*, Elves come in 3 flavors: Vanilla, Chocolate, and Mint. I think about this a lot.







*And many other fantasy settings

[Castlerook]

Meanwhile Orks in 40k operate entirely on a "Clap your hands if you believe" scale. And don't realise it.

[Is it cold in here?]

This must have been asked many times before I came up with it.

Was the author of "The Never Ending Story" paid by the word?

[Welu]

There's a post on Twitter where people are telling their Bad Teacher Stories. I've got a bunch but it reminded me of good? surreal? experience from when I was nine in primary school.

There was a substitute teacher and I don't know how but they realised I had read ahead on the book the class was reading and I was instantly apologetic and upset because I had got in trouble for this before for some reason. The sub was like, "No it's okay. It's good you like to read. Has anyone else read ahead?" and while we had that teacher he kept us in groups depending on what chapter we'd read to. Including people who were "behind" without judgement.

I think the book was Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator.

[Castlerook]

Very similar to me. We had a teacher when I was in 4th class (about 9-10) who would shout and roar at everyone, until one say he saw me with my head down. He thought I was messing or something, stormed over and demanded to know what I was doing. As it turned out, I was reading ahead in one of our English books. When he saw that, he apologised and then took every opportunity to encourage me to read. It even got the point where during a Parent-Teacher meeting, he told my parents that he loved how much I'd read, even comics if I had them.

[Dngrsone]

I read my entire biology textbook by week three... same with history, now that I think about it.

I might have been a wee bit bored in class.