Back to the Future

Do you ever think that it would have been funny if siblings were added as well as taken away from the picture of the future that Marty brought back with him to the 1950s?

Call 1-800-ITS-EASY

Ever notice how the stuff you can order on TV exists only because it makes everyday tasks look impossibly hard or painful, and offers a solution?

DAMMIT!

Do you ever think if Jack Bauer were real that he would be really ashamed of Kiefer Sutherland?

The bane of basic science/you should do something useful

Cellular Biology: Cancer

Neuroscience: Alzheimer's disease

Number Theory: Cryptography

In your field, what is the thing you have to mention in every grant proposal in order to feel like you can get funding?

Disclaimer

"The events and persons portrayed in this film are intended to be fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or events, dead or alive, is purely coincidental."

Why is this at the end of so many science fiction films?

Think about it.

Have you ever actually known someone to be a unicyclist that is....normal?

Pop Royalty is so Passe

If I were to marry Lady GaGa, would I be knighted, and if so, by whom?

I'm sure Mr. Ballard would agree with me

When are mothers everywhere going to realize that having their kids make their beds is a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?

In honor of the 40th Annaversary

Do you ever wonder if Neil Armstrong got really sick of a certain Frank Sinatra song?

Thanksgiving in the Neurosurgery Ward

I wonder if split-brain patients can break the wishbone by themselves?  

Ridiculous Fields

Due to my research job, I could call myself a "Computational Neuorichthyologist."  What is your ridiculous title?

Psychology Experiment Idea # 2343

I have a tendency to resume interrupted conversations up to fifteen minutes after they were cut off.  I wonder what the time limit on resuming is before the other people get really confused?

Clearly, they don't have their 10,000 hours in

Does it drive you nuts that you can get a great haircut, and then the hairdresser clearly has NO idea how to properly put gel in it afterwards?

"I'm sorry teacher, but Billy has a bad case of Nostalgia"

Am I the only one that thinks the word "Nostalgia" sounds more like the name for some kind of nasal/sinus infection?

Ok, so lets ignore those Andrea Bocceli arias that are in English...

Since all Opera is in Italian or German,* is the comic effect of singing Opera for parody lost on native speakers of those languages?

*traditionally speaking, I know there are exceptions

Lies.

Isn't it strange that extraordinary things always seem to happen to people that we mistrust?

But you wouldn't take money out of their garter

I wonder if more conservative local governments would prefer if strippers came on stage naked and were paid to take their time putting their clothes back on?

And to think he'd be rated PG

Does it ever depress you to think that if Chris Farley were still alive he would probably be making bad family feel good movies with Ice Cube and Tim Allen?

Two steps ahead, and then a slide tackle

Don't you think its a little ironic that the top level Women's football league in the UK is sponsored by a supermarket chain?

The Greastest Question of all time?

I often find my mind wandering and asking many complex questions with difficult answers, like "Why the hell was the first Matrix rated R?"

The scary thing is that it will be ten years old this March. That makes me feel pretty old.