Niels Bohr: “sigh…” (unzips)

I’m just gonna put on this Robert Wyatt album… it’s one of his most accesible works…

Information can only travel at the speed of light.

I like the general term being used nowadays instead of “the speed of light” - the speed of causality; which is nice because it fits neatly into E=mc².

This guy expands!

John Wayne as Genghis Khan!

Everyone: “C’MON, SEED!”
Bugs Bunny: “NO”

I’m gonna go old school on you, remembering some of the pioneers from an age long past.

In 70s comedy, there was MASH (deftly balancing war and humor), Barney Miller (like a gritty urban Sydney Lumet movie, turned into a sitcom) and Taxi (Danny Devito, Christopher Lloyd and Andy Kauffman, WTF?!!).

In early-80s drama, there was Hill Street Blues (once again, like a gritty urban Sydney Lumet movie, turned into a brilliant ensemble cop drama) and St. Elsewhere (another ensemble, a Boston hospital drama with a good splash of magic realism, this is where Denzel Washington got his start!).

Later in the 80s and early 90s, there was yet another groundbreaking ensemble, Northern Exposure (a quirky and sophisticated half-serious drama, with LOTS of magic realism, about a small, remote Alaska town).

Finally, I can’t go without mentioning my favorite #1 all-time GOAT series, Mad Men. I’ve watched the entire thing at least four times, it’s like reading and re-reading the proverbial “Great American Novel”.

It’s a completely different scenario than on Earth. Also Europa has less gravity than our moon, even, and just 13% than Earth’s gravity. Much less pull from below, much more pull from above. That super thick ice shell just might stay in place like a church dome, even if the water level comes and goes.

Well… since most of the big ones are taken, I’ll throw in:
“Tu madre era una hamster, y tu padre olía a saúco.”

EDIT: Actually, now that I remember, the Spanish from Spain have some breathtaking insults, such as:
“Me cago en la leche de tu madre” - “I shit in your mother’s milk”.

Then the word alphabet comes from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek writing system.
If we had gotten the word directly from the Phoenicians, we might probably call it alephbeth instead.

Just a couple of nights ago it hit me that the word geometry comes from Geo: Earth and metron: measure.

Etymologies can suddenly snap into focus things that have been right there in front of our eyes all our lives, but never thought to notice.