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• Jerome [tasting meat made in lab]: It tastes familiar.
• Ted: Beef?
• Jerome: No.
• Linda: Chicken? We'll take chicken.
• Ted: What does it taste like?
• Jerome: Despair.
• Ted: Is it possible it just needs salt?

I assume it is nothing like technically correct

Best Futurama quote ever:

http://www.tvfanatic.com/quote...

well, that's related to this story and linked to in this post, there's a lot of other good ones as well. This one may not be the best or even in the top 10 but it's still good.

I believe this was the prototype :-)

http://www.tvfanatic.com/galle...

Henchman 24 of course!

I don't understand why so much of the population believes in counter intuitive stories clearly designed to keep some people in power,

Because people can't live apart from society, and a society is is its myths. Or, as Baelish put it: "Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over until we forget that it's a lie." Myths are the reality people live in, "objective reality" is just the scenery.

And it's not "so much" of the population, it's every single human being who has ever existed. The current financial crisis is no more tangible, objective reality than Zeus was. The European Union is a system of interlocking myths, just like United States is. Democracy is a mythic system, monarchy was one, and priest-kings ruled by it. Everything in you that isn't harwired instinct is a myth, either instilled from outside or invented by you, constantly interpreting reality for you and making you see things which aren't really there - family, nation, corporation, law, etc. Remove those, and all that's left is "Chaos, a gaping pit, waiting to swallow us all."

So the relevant questions are not whether a particular myth is "real" (consistent with the metaphysical structure of physical reality, which is generally impossible to know at this time), but whether it is whether it's "true" (let's you accurately predict the consequences of various social actions) and "useful" (is likely to inspire people to productivity rather than murder, altough this obviously depends on your viewpoint and goals). That's why everyone should study various religions, specifically the structure of their mythology and its practical results. Mythology is the social equivalent of fundamental physics, it makes up our reality, and we either master it or it continues to master us.

Wait. Didn't I already see this on an episode of The Big Bang Theory?

This

Baloney Detection Kit.

Considered, continual use has led me to the belief that Republicans, or at least the current crew who run their party apparatus and the nutwing talk radio shows, are full of Pure, Weapons-Grade Bolognium.

I, for one, would NEVER pay Best Buy $30 to update my firmware.

However, I'd most definitely part with $30 to get it done by the Nerd Herd over at the Buy More.

    I happen to like that show. :) Now for an "as seen on..." item, that won't exactly have me and my money parting.

The Gothowitz Deviation

Wolowitz: They're called tattoo sleeves. I bought them online. Raj got a set too. Put them on, have sex with some freaky girl with her business pierced and I can take them off and still be buried in a Jewish cemetery

    As for sex with a freaky pierced girl, gotta love that. :)

Not a boycott, just me refusing to buy a product which isn't likely to deliver to the expectations I have of it. I'm not advocating everyone boycott the series or what ever.

A personal choice based on your own wants and needs? And you're not pushing others to follow you? Please stop being reasonable, this is Slashdot and we don't take kindly to your types around here.

Quite off-topic, I know.. Why is it that the old guy from the videos is a spitting image of Bob Kelso?

I forgot who but some one recently made camera with motion sensing that couldn't detect black people in less than perfect lighting.

You may be confusing reality with Better Off Ted.