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Well, he got what he had coming, or at least a little bit of it.

If TSR had been a millipede, it would have gone out and bought a tommy gun.

We were somewhere around Sietch Tabr on the edge of the Funeral Plain when the spice began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should steer..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge...

It's too late for a PR person. He needs one of those disaster management firms like celebrities hire when they're caught doing coke off of naked hookers.

What should a psion be able to do? What shouldn't a psion be able to do!

Well, you can produce a glottal stop in that position, but a) only because of the nature of English's weird-ass /r/; it wouldn't work in most languages and b) I'd expect it to get sandhied [1] out after a millennium or so. [1] Is sandhi a verb? Is now, I guess.

"Candygram!"

Yeah, for a time TSR had a license to print money, and the MGT's fatal error was ass/u/ming that that would continue forever and no domain knowledge would be needed.

Yeah, American Gothic was "yeah, that's the original, pretty cool I guess". Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, on the other hand, was "holy bleep it's big... and look close, oh my bleep..."

Of course, there have been many others:

Referee just got deployment orders.

At least the guy running for the off switch hasn't been struck by lightning. Yet.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/05/chatgpt-user-delighted-to-combine-sloth-with-theft/

Hello, Dad, hello, Mom...

The Muppets in general are sly, sometimes shockingly so. I would certainly have choked if I'd been eating when I saw a nod to the Illuminatus! trilogy on The Muppet Show.

Meyer was the junk mail magnate who was very annoying, but who Roxanne married out of desperation when her money troubles got overwhelming. They wrote him out for a while but then gave him a big "I'm baaaack!" moment.