I found it a bit of a stretch that a cranky technophobe English professor could, or even would bother to, create an algorithm the whole world of math and computer nerds overlooked. But I don’t let preposterous characters get in the way of my big-ideas SF when I can help it.

This sounded like clownish villainy in Rainbows End. I swear these guys are compulsively drawn to the worst parts of SciFi.

I tried to understand it, but I’m at a loss.

Bath bomb… OF DEATH!!!

TWisted tEA? Maybe? I don’t know anymore and the young folk roll their eyes when I ask.

Ok, you’re right and the dictionary’s wrong. Good job!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table

See part 3 of 3.

Table salt

No, she’s just a regular human mom.

Industrial lathe?

I have bad news about IBM’s past as regards fascists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

This comment sounds like Carl Kasell.

What’s that old saying… A hit dog will holler?

When they announced Peter Jackson to direct LoTR I thought… the musical muppet director?

Oh man I had forgotten this one. It definitely fits the bill. Just so much fun to look at.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

It was an experiment with too many mice, too well cared for. The mice became withdrawn and… “Though physically able to reproduce, the mice had lost the social skills required to mate.”

AKA Volumes are unintuitive. Always get your martinis filled to the brim. https://youtu.be/Mkn3PzdaByY

AI slop image, for this gag?

I’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.

Now now now, they also think it means you hire women.