Why are there so many mf snakes on this mf plane?

I'm bored, so I've decided to acquiesce to Sparks' request for people to make a list of great movie quotes. I however have decided that a good twist would be to imagine Samuel L. Jackson saying each line with his own unique inflection. This just goes to show that Mr. Jackson really could be in any movie, ever.
1. "We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!" - Serenity
2. "We represent the lollipop guilde." - Wizard of Oz
3. " I am your father." - Star Wars
4. "I am Sparticus!" - Sparticus
5. "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" - Pinky and the Brain
6. "I think so Brain, but where are we going to find a duck and a hose at this hour?" -Pinky and the Brain
7. "You shall not pass!" - The Lord of the Rings
8. "And the snozberries taste like snozberries" - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
9. "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." - Silence of the Lambs
10. "It belongs in a Museum!" - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Jeepers!

Some days, life gives you little treats. The figure at the left appeared in the most recent issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in an article on binocular vision in theropods.
I'm not going to say that this picture didn't belong in a scientific paper. Quite the contrary, I believe that more scientists should have a little sense of humor about their work. I'm sure that these guys and, no doubt, the journal's editors have a sense of humor because they would otherwise not have pictured the skull with it's jaws open; they would have just cropped it at the snout as in figure A.

example of the law

Mel Gibson's arresting officer, the one who wrote the report that included Gibson's alleged anti-semetic ranting, is himself jewish. Normal irony or maximum irony?

NO means Maybe

At work, I find a fair number of crummy fossils that I don't even bother to collect, or collect and later decide that it wasn't worth it and consiquentially discard. Withouth knowing this though, a few of the machine opperators have been asking for fossils for their kids or girlfriends and others. So far, I've made it clear that I can't give them anything that is scientifically significant (i.e. worth keeping) but that I can give them other pieces, which I have. One fellow though seems oddly persistant. He asks for stuff everyday, even badgers me for fossils, goads me into giving them to him; and if success is an indicator of skill, then he's good at it too. Frankly, his tactics are cheesey. "Oh man, ya know, I like getting these things from the person who finds them because I learn so much more, and I've seen you work harder and find more than all the other palea . . . paleontologixsts at any site, and you find the most . . ." It's not that stroking my ego is effective, it's just that I give him stuff to shut him up and make him go away. What iritates me most however is that he's taking my kindness for granted. Even recently, now that they're moving earth in an area that doesn't have as many fossils, the guy still asks for pieces of what I'm finding (currently re-sedimented petrified wood) and I have to politely tell him no, but I might end up giving him a small piece just to get rid of him for the time being.