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The Famous Five

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (surnamed Cunctator) ;)

The cat sat on the mat ... oh wait, that's been done. ;) How about: Felines ... Nothing more than felines ... And apropos of nothing, another idea. Suppose you're working on a story set down on the farm(TM), and something spooks the cows, and they stampede. So two panicking cowhands go off to...

The circus! The CIRCUS is coming to town!! MA!!! MA!!!! THE CIRCUS IS COMING!!!!! (And we're drowning in exclamation marks!) ;)

Aye. From wikipedia: Gerrymandering. A portmanteau of a salamander and Elbridge Gerry, a US VP until his death who -- as governor of Massachusetts in 1812 -- signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a salamander. The term has negative...

I'll see your baseball and raise you one more: cricket. It is, without a doubt, the most boring game in existence. Not only is it watching guys in uniforms chase a ball around a field, it lasts not just one day but FIVE. And it can STILL end in a draw. Many people think that chess is boring...

Shishlik (I've no idea what "shesteam" is. It's not a standard Hebrew word. 🤔 Can you please elaborate, Catriona?)

But the insurance refused my claim!

"I won millions on roulette." "Cheater!"

Yiddish (Kaput isn't a Yiddish word originally - the root comes from the German kaputt and ultimately the French capot - but the association with Yiddish is very strong)

My queenly puss is brilliant, let none doubt her puissance; She never wears her gown, yet none accuse her of indecence.

"Ice to see you." "MCBAIN!" *rat-at-tat-tat-tat, etc.*

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Where's an assassin when he's needed?

He's right, you know. The more you learn, the more questions you want to ask, and the more you realise how much you don't know. :) People don't know much are confident about the little that they do know. Not sure who said it either, but absolutely. A scientific theory provides a framework to...