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Through idiomatic usage, dampener has taken the same meaning as damper, but as my dynamics professor was fond of saying, one of them terms means to slow motion, the other means to get something wet.

On DS9, they usually used the correct term inertial dampers. Whereas on TNG they couldn't keep the two terms straight.

That taint good.

Hmm, tastes like tauntaun.

Looks like a lothcat

Actually, it's a book-on-tape, he couldn't find a copy written in sharpie in all caps.

I doubt he's stable now

I think the official English version is actually United Mexican States.

Factoid: people who fix computers rarely call them a PC.

eMachines were obsolete two years before they were even built.

A penny-farthing looks like a unicycle with a training wheel.

Barq's is the way to go. It's the one with bite (aka caffeine).

Isn't double jeopardy being tried for the same crime twice? It says the charges were dropped two weeks before going to trial, so he hasn't been tried for it yet.

Just your typical restroom in Texas

I always thought it would be funny if someone were to get some individually packaged Gillette Mach 3 razors and put them in the buckets of kids who look old enough to shave.

To some people, I guess it's just a pain in the ass to deal with.

Improperly aligned waveguide.

Of course it's not allergic to cheese! Why would someone even think a starship could be allergic to it?

The TV is innocent, it was framed!

All that I can see when I look at those great lakes stickers people put on their cars is a dog pooping.