To reach The Village at Hiddenbrooke, A Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light™ Community, you must first cross the San Francisco Bay Bridge and drive 30 minutes northeast of the city.

In 1972, an ancient alien hypergate was discovered on the surface of the moon.

This subplot actually takes place during the Second Paintball War and the Werekitty Invasion. It involves erasing noted chipmunk nightclub singer Clarice (from Two Chips and a Miss) from the time stream, and then reinserting her. Essentially, it is a storytelling duel between RangerReady23 and Dutch Claricephile CD.

For example, “Call me Ishmael. Some years ago…” becomes “Call me islander. Some yeggs ago…”.

Most of Terrill’s utterances come across as bland and irresistible truisms.  (For which he seems to share a taste with some famous statesmen.  Remember de Gaulle: “China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese”; or Nixon’s comment on the Great Wall: “This is a great wall.”)

The Catholic order insists that the display is not meant to be macabre, but a silent reminder of the swift passage of life on Earth and our own mortality.

At one point he remarks that by a simple number-letter code “1812” = “Ahab,” as if that meant something.

One of the most comical witch-persecutions took place in 1474 against a diabolical rooster who had been so presumptuous as to lay an egg.

To the extent that it’s possible to have objective evaluations of whether a food is good, all four of those foods are, to put it mildly, not good.

During WWII, Spam was not only eaten but was also incorporated into many other aspects of the war (grease for guns, can for scrap metal, etc.); it was so prominent that Uncle Sam was nicknamed “Uncle Spam”.