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Neuralizer - the hand-held flashing
device that makes people forget things. |
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Normalcy - President Warren G. Harding |
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Obscene - by William Shakespeare |
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Orgasmatron - from Woody Allen's
SLEEPER. A sex machine |
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Oscillation Overthruster - Buckaroo
Bonzai's electronic device that makes it possible to travel
through matter |
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Nazi - Created as a shortened term
for the National Socialist German Workers Party and used
mostly by opponents. Party members referred to the ideology
as National Socialism. |
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Pandemonium - John Milton, in Paradise
Lost |
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Pompitous - "the
pompitous of love" lyric is often credited as coming
from Steve Miller's song, The Joker. Many people
don't know that it was first used by The Medallions' 1954
R&B almost-hit The Letter.
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Positronic Brain - |
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Pragmatism - C. S. Pierce(1875) |
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pwned - common typo for "owned",
meaning someone or something beat the person "pwnd" |
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Red Shirt (redshirt) - doomed person,
From Star Trek - the guy wearing the red shirt would be
killed. |
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Robby the Robot starred in films
such as Forbidden Plant and televion's The Addams Family |
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Robot B9 - the official name for
the robot on Lost In Space |
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Squish - Mark Twain To Squash
something down. |
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Stargate - |
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To Swift Boat - To be thrown out
of the public eye by another event like John Kerry was
by the Swift Boat incident during the 2004 presidential
election. |
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Tardis (T.A.R.D.I.S) - Time And
Relative Dimentions In Space: the time-machine and spacecraft
from the series Dr. Who. |
Three Laws of Robotics - written
by Isaac Asimov
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with the First
Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second
Law. |
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Transparent Aluminium - first mentioned
in the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). |
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Transporter - |
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Tricorder - |
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Tycho is the crater on the Moon,
named after 16th century Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe
where the monolith was found in 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
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Utopia - Sir Thomas More |
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Vandellas - The background singers
for Motown singer Martha Reeves. |
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Wendy - J.M. Barrie invented this
word for the heroine of his story, Peter Pan. |
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Xerox - Once the world's largest
"copier" company, they lost the rights to their
trademarked name, XEROX, and became generic. Google may
want to watch out. |
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Zany - by William Shakespeare |
