That's when the reply gets more updoots than the OP it replied to.
GrabtharsHammer
I found it a bit of a stretch that a cranky technophobe English professor could, or even would bother to, create an algorithm the whole world of math and computer nerds overlooked. But I don't let preposterous characters get in the way of my big-ideas SF when I can help it.
This sounded like clownish villainy in Rainbows End. I swear these guys are compulsively drawn to the worst parts of SciFi.
Is that albino pineapple?
I tried to understand it, but I'm at a loss.
They mudbugs.
I'd vote for Utzp twice.
The US is constitutionally saddled with first past the post voting, which makes more than two parties difficult to represent at the national level. For some reason the two existing parties are unwilling to change that.
Something's fucky.
It's not a sword, it's a question mark. This is a very normal human analogy.
You better see a different doctor.