I've done time at McMurdo and suspect that the per capita comsumption in Antarctica is higher than shown on the map.

Tolkien had to battle his publisher's proofreaders, who wanted to change his adjective 'elvish' to 'elfin' whenever it occured in the ms.

If Kirk Douglas had known to leave two spaces, he would have gotten away with murdering Adrian Messenger.

Haven't these people read Lovecraft? They're going to summon up the Haunter of the Dark!

If only the car had been a VW Rabbit.

Has Comanns heard from Monsieur Hulot's lawyers yet?

Could have just as well been titled "Ink Drawn from 150 million-year-old Squid".

Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!

Definite knowledge of what happened is precluded by the Hindenburg Uncertainty Principle.

When told that the New York state legislature had named an official state fossil, then governor Mario Cuomo is said to have quipped, "Anyone I know?"

Dali's 'The Persistence of Pandas' (detail).

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
-Raymond Chandler

Rev. Dodgson, may I present Mr. Lovecraft?

The museum in the town where I live (Stony Brook, NY, source of the previous Neatorama item on the persistence of true love) has a dog treadmill that was used in the 1800's to power small farm machinery (eg a butter churn).

Check out 'Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life'.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106961/