Mostly Ignored
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Dead Politicians Club
“Please leave the room if this will offend you.” ~ Budd Dywer on a .357 Magnum revolver Often said not to exist, or worse, dismissed as a cheap imitation of the more well-known Dead Rock Stars Club, the Dead Politicians Club was in fact the forerunner to many modern celebrity death clubs. Founding The club…
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William Shatner on William Shatner
“A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.” ~ William Shatner (excerpt from TekRepublik p. 487) William Shatner is the de facto philosopher king of the Utopian nation of Canada. His wit and wisdom became intrinsically…
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Pittsburgh Pirates
The name Pittsburgh Pirates refers to both the athletic club and the alumni of Pirate University (Pittsburgh)—a major league academic institution dedicated to the furtherance of piracy arts and sciences, and the preservation of pirate heritage into the 21st century. A second campus, Pirate University Tampa Bay, opened in 1976—on the 100th Anniversary of the…
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OCD
OCD or Omniscient Concept of Design is a paranormal ability whereby an individual possesses total knowledge of the intrinsic principles, processes, and design of the order of the known universe. Fear and misunderstanding of this special power has led to it being mislabeled in public society as obsessive-compulsive disorder. Origin Because it has been largely…
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R. L. Stine
R. L. Stine is another pseudonym of author Stephen King. Pseudonyms Considered by many as an adequate peddler of pedestrian prose, King’s main criticism by readers and publishers alike has not been his writing (though that does warrant strong objection), but his woefully slow novel output. In fact, King has published less than 70 books…
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803–January 18, 1873) was a dark and stormy English playwright, novelist, poet, and author of most-high renown, widely honoured and much acclaimed by contemporaries of his age, but also by the adoration of the common man—not simply in celebration of the rare and exceptional nature of…
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How To Speak Tamarian
Too stupid to learn Klingon? Relax! Have you been rejected by the Über-nerds at Star Trek Conventions? Rejoice! Tamarian is the language spoken by the Children of Tamar, first heard in the episode “Darmok” from the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Unlike traditional earth speech, it relies on metaphor and allegory to…
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Richard M. Stallman
Richard Malodorous Stallman (also known as “rms” or “GNU/Stallman“) is the author and most prominent proponent of the Grand Unified Theory of Free & Accessible Technology (GUTFAT), and the founder of the GNU. GNU is a clever and descriptive but decidedly non-recursive acronym standing for Generally Not Used. Essentially, rms’s theory states that it is…
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‘Grandpa Munster’ Al Lewis undead at 95
I thought that cheesy Dracula outfit was just camp. ~ Lon Chaney NEW YORK (UNN) — Al Lewis, washed-up ex-television star of the 1964-66 program “The Munsters” died on Friday, for approximately 3 minutes. He was 95. Lewis, a frequent diner and the proprietor of the Greenwich Village restaurant, Grandpa’s, was attacked by an irrate diner…