When somebody walks into a Denny's with a shotgun and starts blowing people away it's never a Lutheran.

Here you go. From the tree of knowledge, good luck.

Not a lot of opportunity for a jazz bassoonist.

It's easier for a swan to become a dog than it is for a dog to become a swan, and that's just how things are.

This is the story of the stone statue of the baker's daughter in the village square ( Read more... )

活屍 [huo shi] - zombie

"All right, gentlemen," I said, "I give up.  What are you two talking about?"

"Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education.  A Schoolof Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossible courses are given.  The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the
number of unnecessary subjects."

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樟腦球 [zhang nao qiu] - moth ball

Literally it means "camphor brain ball."

首尾 [shou wei] - head and tail

Not just head, not just tail, but head and tail. I think this must certainly be a euphemism for the whole thing, right?

角落 [jiao luo] - nook