Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke.

Subsequent generations of Leftists have tried to explain away the awkward nomenclature of the National Socialist German Workers' Party as either a cynical PR stunt or an embarrassing coincidence. In fact, the name meant what it said.

Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.

Yes, he called Voyager “V’ger,” in reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But he’s not a Trekkie. Because “Trekkies are weird.

Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.

It’s almost comical. Nobody knew anything, but everybody took that as proof of the hypothesis.

When you see the name 'River Phoenix' everywhere; you gotta, like, joke about it.

In the beginning was the word and the word was bullshit.

Everyone thinks you are crazy until you do it; then you are just called a visionary.

Louis suggested that the ship be called 'Lying Bastard'. For their own reasons, Teela and Speaker agreed. For his own reason, Nessus did not object.

I found the reaction shocking. And then I suppose I came to the conclusion - gradually - that I must have got it wrong. [...]
I thought for a long time that in the context of The Spectator it was fine and that people who read The Spectator would know it was a joke and that there was a point behind the joke as well.

Which was more likely: what appeared to be the case, or this all being a lie, a set-up, a vast and incomprehensible joke? Discuss.

The term "Wobbly", said to have been fastened on the I. W. W. members in derision by a Los Angeles editor, had been adopted by them with enthusiasm.

He was a dark-haired, fresh-faced boy of twenty-one or twenty-two, who adopted the pose that everything was a joke and nothing really mattered.