You kids have it easy. When I was your age my pappy would smear the noodles right in my hair and slather a mashed potato beard onto my face and, dagnabit, we liked it that way!

Flux, I believe the tax/etc. you pay for other peoples' kids (funding schools, etc.) is called the cost of living in a society.

If I'm mistaken, and you're espousing a future without children, some sort of intentional extinction model for society, then I apologize.

The thief in Superman scaled a building with suction cups.

That's a discovery? There is a spider in California that does the same thing. From one side, the 'doppleganger' resembles a miniature skull.

It's a Dalek bump.

I once had two cats (siblings) who would sit on my shoulders and chew my hair like it was catnip. Anyone's hair -- didn't matter. If you fell asleep on the couch, you woke up with wet hair. It made them so happy.

More trivia: Roger Ebert didn't review Excellent Adventure and regretted it upon reviewing the sequel Bogus Journey.

"I missed the enormously popular movie that introduced these characters, 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure,' and felt myself blessed at the time. But now I'm not so sure. Their 'Bogus Journey' is a riot of visual invention and weird humor that works on its chosen sub-moronic level, and on several others as well, including some fairly sophisticated ones. It's the kind of movie where you start out snickering in spite of yourself, and end up actually admiring the originality that went into creating this hallucinatory slapstick."

It's a riding stick for the Electromagnet Trolley, a transportation system tested briefly in early San Francisco.

When the trolley flew by, you raised the metal end of your stick in the air to get picked up off your feet. It was fast and safe travel if your trip was short enough not to dislocate your shoulder or your destination was close enough to the top of a hill that you didn't fall to your death.

It's a parking space with someone's junk illegally dumped on it.

I didn't know you could buy high fructose corn syrup in cube form.

Netbooks are canaries in the coal mine. My wife uses one as her desktop machine (hooked to a monitor, keyboard and mouse from a long-dead PC). It does everything she needs and there's only a slight delay when loading programs. Good enough.

This is the prior art I need to finally break the design patent Nestle holds on (ice cream) Push Up Pops.

Children of the world rejoice! Inexpensive mess-free ice cream awaits you this summer!

Ha ha, just kidding. I'll piddle my life's savings away in court for another decade and die penniless clutching a naked Barbie doll in an alley in Levittown, New York.

Mants! starring Bruce Campbell.

The M is for Man-eating.

Upcycling seems to be a hipster way of saying "reusing."

I swore off Cadbury when it began shrinking the egg size in 2007.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gL83wBRIl8

I'm a Peeps man now.