(n.) a variety of nerd found in japan, exhibiting most of the classical nerd characteristics including aversion to social situations not carried out through the comforting barrier of a computer screen and pop culture jargon

a situation in which ideas can compete and evolve to be most agreeable with people's biases

A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.
(also: death)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

to desire a situation that didn't happen due, usually due to making a decision that was more logical or convenient or more beneficial (at that point-in-time)
example: i regret not going to community college and then transferring to university because i would've saved thousands of dollars and still would've graduated within four years anyway!

The Encyclopedia Galactica used to be the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom in the universe.
Wildly considered rather old fashioned, and pedestrian.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has already replaced the great Encyclopedia.

(also: wikipedia)

(1858 – 1947) German theoretical physicist who developed a theory of Quantum physics and discovered energy quanta.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: max planck quotes)

the Merriam-Webster dictionary, https://www.merriam-webster.com/

A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) A concept used by the rich to tell the poor to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps", and "I earned this private island/gold plated yacht/one hundred bedroom mansion!" The dress code is top hat and monocle.

(also: Economy)
(also: Socialism)

ex wife of johnny depp

(n.) a reptilian animal that was at the back of the queue when evolution was handing out limbs

In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it — this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The French revolution is of incalculable value to the Socialist of to-day; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order.
(also: governing people)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) a means of supposedly directly messaging a deity
(also: spam)

A dead sinner revised and edited.
The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: "I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool."

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

presence of stupid people in a society

A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was known as "The Matter with Kansas."
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) european country; country you call when you need a replacement germany. famous for old classical musicians or something

(1632-1723) Dutch chemist – founder of microbiology.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: antony van leeuwenhoek quotes)

A mechanical marvel, that is powered by a mighty mainspring, which sends power through, typically, 4 gears and their pinions to a finely tuned balance. All that only to tell you the time of day.
Many watches also possess extra functions (or complications) such as:
-stopwatches (chronographs)
-showing the current date
-the ever beloved automatic winding of the mainspring

Though not as needed in the current times, they still are beautiful constructs, used to show status, or just to look nice.

(also: digital watches)
(also: time)

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
(also: chocolate)