Though re-outfitting the QE2 oceanliner into a dirigible would be inordinately awesome.

It is to train wasps! He just hates mohawks. So the robot gets up there, pisses the wasps off, and over time the wasps develop a sting on sight mentality towards anyone with a mohawk.

23. Excessive use of "sparkling."

24. Implausible suggestion that a ginger kid could have two or more friends.

25. Glorifies the use of wind instruments outside their intended use.

I think this is the same thing that happened with the Medieval Warm Period and then Little Ice Age.

One of the problems with books like this is that they are either simple reference guides or just troves of fairly raw data and that this data is fairly blindly collected. It is like a printout of a verbose wikipedia entry without sources. So you might think you're getting useful data on mineral rights in China and how they relate to hamster sales in Turkey, when a third of the numbers are real, a third are false, and a third were randomly generated to make the book an extra 200 pages so they could charge $100 more.

Also, he is not an author, the machine is. Though I would love to see that comical author name like something out of Futurama, "AuthorBot 678" or "BookDrone 917."

Clowns should be abolished. They only serve to hurt and terrify.

As the saying goes; Clowns are people too; people who want to hurt you.

Is it $75,000 before or after taxes?

A heap comes to a point.
A mound is rounded on top.
A pile has an uneven surface.

Or maybe it is because now I can't even afford the mundane things. I have never considered myself to be one to enjoy luxuries, but I do prefer a salami sandwich with swiss cheese over half a package of instant ramen.

I was spanked and beaten a lot growing up, often to the point of serious injury, and I have to admit that I have a serious violent streak. But it is tempered with extreme fear of people, flinching, and inability to socialize. I think this means I will probably snap one day.

Also, "spare the rod" is not as much spanking as using a rod to beat a kid senseless. I think if you follow the bible and beat a kid near to death with a rod once, they probably never act up again.

You stab all three and take the fourth path.

What fourth path? The path you just came down to reach where they are.

The green man, to me, does not make me think "exit," but rather "run through doorways."

My mother said, "If they can't read it, they deserve to be burned alive."

Learning to write legibly is important in that it teaches motor skills, a lot of kids would have extreme issues with motor skills without it. It also helps kids integrate the information they are learning. Most importantly, there are many instances where typing is not convenient or speedy, such as making a grocery list or jotting down math – both of which should be legible so others can read it. Personally, I find writing by hand calming and keep a handwritten journal as well.

Though I do still agree that cursive is wholly unnecessary.

If a species is going due to human meddling – direct, we're killing these things when we shouldn't – then we must make amends by trying to save them.

If a species is going extinct naturally, then we should let it die out – as attempting to stave off extinction of such a thing is as damaging to the natural order of things as killing off a species that is not dying out naturally.

I can't believe Chris got married. In all my dealings with him he was kind of a prat, hehe. Maybe marriage will ground him a bit. Shibby cake though.