Ockham's Spoon

The expression in the American south "sweet Jesus" implies the existence of umami Jesus, sour Jesus, bitter Jesus, spicy Jesus, salty Jesus.

I am trying to re-home a dog. It is a small terrier, and it tends to bark a lot. If you're interested, let me know and I will jump my neighbor's fence and get it for you.

The next time your wife gets angry, drape a towel over her shoulders like a cape and say "Now your SUPER ANGRY!" Maybe she'll laugh. Maybe you'll die.

This sounds like a convenient plot device to me; it basically allows the GM to give the players info that they would not have otherwise known. Since the GM has complete control over the info they actually receive, it isn't going to be game-changing or unbalanced, and as such it should not really cost many character points. I have had psychic characters in the past that have the ability to get flashes of psychic insight that just let the GM give the players info when they are stuck. The character buys the KS: Random Factoids for 3 points. When the character rolls for this skill, the GM arbitrarily assigns a bonus or penalty depending on whether they want it to work at that particular juncture. This works like the KS: Everything 30- except that it is cheaper and the GM controls when to hand out info. I should note that KS: Random Factoids was also a source of great entertainment. When the players tried to get info that the GM didn't want to divulge, they would come up with some completely unrelated trivia. Player: "I'll roll my KS: Random Factoids to see if I have an idea on how to defeat the Demon Panther." GM: "You realize that cats can't make Vitamin D in their skin like humans, but their sebaceous glands secret oil that creates Vitamin D when exposed to UV light, so the cat gets all the Vitamin D it needs when it is grooming itself. So if you can keep the Demon Panther out of the sunlight for long enough, it might die of rickets."

Some guy with road rage rolled down his window and yelled at me "I'm going to make your life a living hell!" I yelled back "Thanks, but I'm not looking for a relationship right now"

If you serve your kids frozen pizza or frozen chicken nuggets, you are a terrible parent. I don't care how busy you are, you can spare a few minutes to microwave that stuff.

A recent study found that people who take their coffee black are more likely to exhibit psychopathic traits. And people who order a quad shot, non-fat, vanilla soy, extra foam, light whip with caramel drizzle are more likely to be their victims.

I picked up a hitchhiker last night. He seemed surprised that I would pick up a stranger like that. "How do you know I'm not a serial killer?" he asked. I told him that the odds were astronomically small that there would be two serial killers in the same car.

Heroes can be funded by a patron, who might be a wealthy individual, a corporation, or some government organization (possibly covert). While initially the interests of the hero and the patron align, at some point there is going to be conflict, either over the direction things are going or the methods used. Or the patron might just be corrupt and it takes a while for the hero to realize that. Lots of role-playing potential.

Given the Shadow Queen's astonishingly high PRE vs. men, I am sure she could convince the guy running the orphanage of her choice let her take the kids with only preliminary paperwork and the promise that they will sort it all out later. She could easily deal with anyone who might try to stop her; it isn't like an orphanage is going to have security that could stop a supervillain. The kids are likely to go with her just to get out of the orphanage, or possibly because they get scared if she does have to 'deal' with someone that stood up to her. What happens next is the more interesting question. If you play her with good intentions but shallow, then she will have effectively kidnapped the orphans, moving them from a formal orphanage to an orphanage that she runs. It might be nicer, but the kids circumstances won't really be much different except that they may have a harder time getting away. Maybe she wants to be a good mother, but has little patience with the kids, especially ones who may very well already have emotional problems. She might have a few violent outbursts, and the kids are terrified of her. This is the easy scenario for the heroes, since the kids clearly need to be rescued. The real question is whether the Shadow Queen would use the children as hostages when the heroes arrive. That seems a bit dark for her, but who knows what she might do if cornered. Or perhaps she is a natural mother, and does take good care of the children and they love her. Sure she is a wanted criminal and kidnapped the children, but their circumstances are much better and they don't want to leave. How do the heroes handle that situation? Another wrinkle is her long-term plans for the kids. Is she planning to pay for private schooling and send them all to college so they can be productive members of society, or is she grooming them to work for her in the criminal underworld?

This one strikes me as particularly appropriate given what happened to Christopher Reeve

I know a lot of people hate Transform to represent a wide array of abilities, but another method would be that anything put in the Bag of Holding is transformed to the same object 1/10 the size. The reverse Transform condition is when you pull it back out. You wouldn't need a lot of Transform dice because most things that will fit in the Bag of Holding are going to be relatively small so they won't have lots of BODY.

In Old English, the word 'mann' just meant human being or person. A male was 'wer' (from which we get werewolf) and a female was wif (from which we get wife). So you could just call them Yeomann, with the extra letter n to designate it as gender neutral.

After my prostate exam, the doctor left and the nurse came in. She closed the door, and then said the three words no man wants to hear: "Who was that?"