Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

It's guns all the way down.

Well, not always: Plural 'they' is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular 'they' is about a century later.

But, yeah, you'd think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial...

Never ask:

• A woman her age.

• A man his salary.

• Odo what he did during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor.

This works for all numbers ending in 9:

x*9+x+9=x(9+1)+9

=10x+9

Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.

The sound of scientific discovery is less often "Eureka!" than "Huh, that's funny..."

It's amazing how often things are similar to what they are.

Oh. I thought they were saying they're good a drawing curly brackets.

Which, those are some nice curly brackets.

Why did you build a death ray?

To take over the world.

No, I mean, what mad hypothesis are you testing? Are you just making mad observations?

Look, I'm just trying to take over the world. That's all.

You're at least going to leave some of the world as a mad control group, right?

Sad fact: most "mad scientists" are actually mad engineers.

(Borrowed from a Cowbirds in Love strip which at the time of this writing is inaccessible.)

Why not link the original?