Thank God that car was there...

If it was only Chauvin, I agree, the problem would not be so profound. But it wasn't. It was eight other cops who looked away. We need to know that the watchmen will watch the watchmen. Patently, they don't. Until they do, the one rotten apple will make the barrel rot.

Or a towel:

"You got a towel with you?" said Ford Prefect suddenly to Arthur.
Arthur, struggling through his third pint, looked round at him.
"Why? What, no... should I have?" He had given up being surprised, there didn't seem to be any point any longer.
Ford clicked his tongue in irritation.

I live in Chicago and I moved to a part of the city abutting the suburbs. This is generally where police and firefighters live, as they have to live within the city limits. Within a week, I got a phone call from a telemarketer asking if I wanted to contribute to the Fraternal Order of Police. As I hate cold calling and I do give charitably to causes I think genuinely need the help, I told him I was not interested. What followed was 20 minutes of various forms of cajoling and abuse, as the marketer could not fathom why I, a white male in his late 20s, wouldn't want to donate to the FOP. Didn't I know I'd get a sticker for my rear window? "Why would I need that?" I asked. Dead silence on the other end. Why didn't I hang up? Because, honestly, I didn't get it. I was naive as hell, and I just didn't hear the dog whistle he was blowing in my ear.

And Douglas Adams pointed out that our inability to create time travel is, in part, due to the tenses it would create.

When I first heard about the Carr wildfire, it was on the radio, so the explanation seemed to be that a "car fire" started a devastating wildfire. Then when I got home, I saw that the location was Carr, and rolled my eyes at my dumbness. THEN we learned that it was started by something very much like this, someone driving on his rim. So, yeah, funny/not funny.

That's one ugly baby.

Everything you need to know about that word can be summed up thusly: https://youtu.be/skCFCecuIhs

"No."

Spot on analysis. Don't get me wrong--I loves me some Iron Giant, but the point of the book is that everything significant in the Oasis (and thus significant to the Gunters) were things from Halliday's childhood in the 1980s. I do not doubt that an older Halliday would react to The Iron Giant positively, but it's against his thesis that the 1980s were a wonderful time to be a child.

Dead

No one should be able to say, "Is it safe?" in a German accent for at least another thirty years.

I really don't remember this part of Winnie the Pooh...

Rather than No Man's Sky, I got the impression that it was a re-enactment of a Samorost-style game.