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When there's an allusion to your favorite poem it's a good day.

"Look, son, can you reach in again and haul it out? Bring the box back here?"
"Beg pardon?"
"You made it go away; now make it come back."
"How can I do that? The box is NOT."

"Look, son, can you reach in again and haul it out? Bring the box back here?"
"Beg pardon?"
"You made it go away; now make it come back."
"How can I do that? The box is not."

"Hi, sister. What you got in the kiester?"
"A body," she snapped.
He shrugged. "Ask a jerky question, get a jerky answer. I should learn."

Oh Heinlein, I do love when you get paranoid about big government.

"I don't pay any attention to politics."
"You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat."
"I don't pay any attention to that, either."

Stranger in a Strange Land: "I Grok Spock" does not mean what you think it means.

...and lo! there was Doctor Syn holding the pulpit with a long brass-bound pistol in each hand. And there was also Mr. Mipps, the sexton, leaning over his desk and pointing a great blunderbuss at the captain's head.

Here's to the feet wot have walked the plank,
Yo ho! for the dead man's throttle.
And here's to the corpses floating round in the tank,
And the dead man's teeth in the bottle.

"I remarked earlier that the idea of the original position and the description of the parties may tempt us to think that as metaphysical doctrine of the person is presupposed."
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

It took me a minute to figure out that when St Thomas quotes Rabbi Moses he's talking about Moses Maimonedes.

Doctor Syn in this is terrifying!