Cancer

And Sojourner on Mars, that went with Pathfinder... hey, found a graphic:
 

Well done gang! Thanks for the support! 

Well done folks, thanks for the votes, our boy gone and won it...
 
http://bamfsies.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/2017-bamfsies-awards-announced.html

Title:
 
Lemme Show You My Junk
 
All the junk in the known Universe — and some anonymous unknown universes — passes through Sakaar.  A few organics do as well, but this is the junk world, and it’s where a lot of past-their-warranty robots end up as well.  They may be past their warranty, and they may have out-existed all the “organics” they knew shortly after they were fabricated, but these entities have got a lot of time left in them, and you have to spend eternity somehow.  Companionship is often one part of that.  No romance lasts forever, but as a robot, chances are you get more chances to get it right than the meatbags do.
 
Sakaar has a big underground economy for the post-discard robots, and they’ve set up their own society under the huge wreckage piles, places where the organics wouldn’t be allowed in even if they could get there.  Some of the robot discards have day jobs, working upstairs for the Grandmaster, bringing in meatbag credits that can be spent on generally unavailable “lubricants” that invariably get scavenged long before they are tossed into a wormhole leading to the Junk World.  Other robots have their own gigs in their underground economy, and spend their time in their own way.  
 
Our story happens there.

I envision a  Cro-Magnon wandering around wearing animal skins and one of those Green Bay wedge hats.

Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !

Well, you're irrational, so that stands to reason.

The subject matter of poorly attended lectures is prime material for exam questions.

Wife had to take one of the cats (Dove) to be put down this morning.  She's been in decline for a while.  I am only slightly surprised it happened today.  I was expecting it to spoil Valentine's Day instead.

If you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs, you must be the guillotine operator.

"You will be disappointed with this fortune."

It needs to be Hobbes rather than Calvin, but what came to mind is something like ...
 

Brilliant Girl Scout sets up in front of marijuana dispensary

Refer her to here with particular reference to Part 1 item 1 and Part 4 items 1, 2, 6, and especially 5.

Wouldn't that be marmotomancy?  

Oh, snickerdoodles.

After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down
After midnight
We gonna chugalug and shout
Gonna stimulate some action
We gonna get some satisfaction
We gonna find out what it is all about
After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down After midnight
We gonna shake your tambourine
After midnight
Soul gonna be peaches & cream
Gonna cause talk and suspicion
We gonna give an exhibition
We gonna find out what it is all about
After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down Yea yeah yea
After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down After midnight
We gonna shake your tambourine
After midnight
Soul gonna be peaches & cream
Gonna cause talk and suspicion
We gonna give an exhibition
We gonna find out what it is all about
After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down
After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down
After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down
After midnight
We gonna let it all hang down

I am trying to decide how offended I should be by that remark.
 

Pretty forking offended, I'd say.

Update on interstellar asteroid

Point

Give more tests then, with single questions on them.  Fear and surprise, etc.

I'm checking with a few writer's forums to see how legit this is.  I don't know Lawless' reputation or work.

Either that, or his professional experience as a public school teacher means he knows how to start fights without it looking like his fault.