I got sharpshot (sharpshooted?) on my presentation today. Although kryptonite wasn't in the lesson plan, I fielded a question from an overzealous classmate asking about Superman's weaknesses. This was followed up by a question from the class smart-ass of "What does Blue Kryptonite do?" Upon reflection, I hazarded the guess that it kills vegetation. His retort was that it provided a benefit. Some fact-checking shows that we were both wrong. Blue Kryptonite is the result of using the ...

(inspired by a conversation with greywar) Link blogiston theory , hypothesis regarding blogging. The theory, advanced by J. R. pseudosoldier late in the 7 o'clock hour this morning and extended and popularized by M. R. greywar, postulates that in all bloggable materials there is present blogiston, a substance without color, odor, taste, or weight that is absorbed in blogging. “Blogisticated” substances are those that contain blogiston and, on being blogged about, are “deblogisticate...