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-->-- Creator/MichaelJNelson, ''Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters''

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-->-- Creator/MichaelJNelson, Creator/MikeNelson, ''Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters''
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-> ''"A walleye is a freshwater perch so named because its eyes resemble a wall, provided that wall is covered with detailed pictures of fish eyes. Otherwise there is no resemblance at all and the name simply confuses and annoys."''
-->-- Creator/MichaelJNelson, ''Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters''
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-->-- '''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150928181125/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge07.htm Hardcore Gaming 101]]''', on a (long since removed) [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg]] [[IOSGames iPhone app]] bearing the title of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''

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-->-- '''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150928181125/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge07.htm Hardcore Gaming 101]]''', on a (long since removed) [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg]] [[IOSGames [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iPhone app]] bearing the title of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''

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->''So you call ''[hamburgers]'' "steamed hams" despite the fact they are obviously grilled.''
-->-- '''Superintendent Gary Chalmers''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

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->''So ->'''Superintendent Chalmers:''' You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger.\\
'''Principal Skinner:''' Oh ho ho ho no! Patented Skinner Burgers! Old family recipe.\\
'''Chalmers:''' For "steamed hams"?\\
'''Skinner:''' Yes.\\
'''Chalmers:''' Yes, and
you call ''[hamburgers]'' them "steamed hams" despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.''
grilled.
-->-- '''Superintendent Gary Chalmers''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "22 Short Films About Springfield"
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-->-- '''Superintendant Gary Chalmers''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

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-->-- '''Superintendant '''Superintendent Gary Chalmers''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''



-->-- ''Sega Heroes''

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-->-- ''Sega Heroes''
''VideoGame/SegaHeroes''
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-->-- '''Voltaire'''

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-->-- '''Voltaire'''
'''Creator/{{Voltaire}}'''
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-->-- ''Anonymous letter to the editor of the New York Times, Nov 7, 1909''

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-->-- ''Anonymous letter to the editor of the New York Times, Nov Nov. 7, 1909''
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-->-- ''Anonymous letter to the editor of the New York Times, 9 Nov 1909''

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-->-- ''Anonymous letter to the editor of the New York Times, 9 Nov 7, 1909''
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->''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Football]] is certainly a misnomer, for the game is played not with the feet but with the hands, and the ball is not a ball but an egg. I propose that the game be played with the feet and with a ball, or else that it be called “hand-egg”.''
-->-- ''Anonymous letter to the editor of the New York Times, 9 Nov 1909''
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-->-- '''AdultSwim''''s official description of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''

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-->-- '''AdultSwim''''s '''Creator/AdultSwim''''s official description of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''
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-->''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged''

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-->''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged''
-->-- ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged''



-->''Sega Heroes''

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-->''Sega -->-- ''Sega Heroes''
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->'''[[VideoGame/GoldenAxe Ax Battler]]:''' I am Ax Battler.\\
'''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Amy Rose]]:''' Ax Battler? But you have a sword.
-->''Sega Heroes''
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'''Rin''': Well let's break this down. "Holy Grail War"... "Holy" doesn't work because the artifact is natively magic in origin; "Holy Grail" is BS. And you ''know'' it's BS.\\

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'''Rin''': Well let's break this down. "Holy Grail War"... "Holy" doesn't work because the artifact is natively magic in origin; origin. [[InNameOnly "Holy Grail" is BS.BS]]. And you ''know'' it's BS.\\



'''Rin''': '''Could''', sure... but it doesn't. The point is, I'll start calling it "Holy Grail War" when the name isn't just a cool stand-in.

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'''Rin''': '''Could''', ''Could'', sure... but it doesn't. The point is, I'll start calling it "Holy Grail War" when the name isn't just a cool stand-in.stand-in!
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->'''Rin''': You don't get the point of Murder-Death-Kill, Kirei!\\
'''Kirei''': And you need to stop calling it that.\\
'''Rin''': Well let's break this down. "Holy Grail War"... "Holy" doesn't work because the artifact is natively magic in origin; "Holy Grail" is BS. And you ''know'' it's BS.\\
'''Kirei''': It ''is'' BS.\\
'''Rin''': And "war" isn't true because it's seven people and their afterlife tag-a-long.\\
'''Kirei''': The definition of war is loose, Rin. It could mean "to represent the conflict between representatives of various cultures acting as surrogates for their nations."\\
'''Rin''': '''Could''', sure... but it doesn't. The point is, I'll start calling it "Holy Grail War" when the name isn't just a cool stand-in.
-->''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged''
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->''"Franchise/AloneInTheDark: Illumination is a co-operative [[ThirdPersonShooter shooter]] in which you use light to fight monsters. Meaning it's a game in which you're neither alone, nor in the dark. At its most basic foundation, the latest Alone in the Dark manages to completely [[InNameOnly balls up the series' premise]]."''

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->''"Franchise/AloneInTheDark: Illumination ->''"VideoGame/AloneInTheDarkIllumination is a co-operative [[ThirdPersonShooter shooter]] in which you use light to fight monsters. Meaning it's a game in which you're neither alone, nor in the dark. At its most basic foundation, the latest Alone in the Dark manages to completely [[InNameOnly balls up the series' premise]]."''
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->''"If there really is an interior designer named Gay Butler, somewhere there must be a gay butler named 'Interior Designer'."''
-->-- '''Bill Maher''', ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher''
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->''"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire is [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords neither Holy]], [[VestigialEmpire nor Roman]], [[TheFederation nor an Empire]]."''

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->''"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire is was [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords neither Holy]], [[VestigialEmpire nor Roman]], [[TheFederation nor an Empire]]."''
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->''"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire is [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords neither Holy]], [[VestigialEmpire nor Roman]], [[TheFederation nor an Empire]]"''

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->''"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire is [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords neither Holy]], [[VestigialEmpire nor Roman]], [[TheFederation nor an Empire]]"''Empire]]."''
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->''"The UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire is [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords neither Holy]], [[VestigialEmpire nor Roman]], [[TheFederation nor an Empire]]"''

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->''"The ->''"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire is [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords neither Holy]], [[VestigialEmpire nor Roman]], [[TheFederation nor an Empire]]"''
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-->'''Anyone hit by [[ChainsawGood Mystletainn Kick]]''', ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie''

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-->'''Anyone -->-- '''Anyone hit by [[ChainsawGood Mystletainn Kick]]''', ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie''
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->''[[PhraseCatcher That's not a kick!]]''
-->'''Anyone hit by [[ChainsawGood Mystletainn Kick]]''', ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie''
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->''And you call ''[hamburgers]'' "steamed hams" despite the fact they are obviously grilled.''

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->''And ->''So you call ''[hamburgers]'' "steamed hams" despite the fact they are obviously grilled.''
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->''And you call ''[hamburgers]'' "steamed hams" despite the fact they are obviously grilled.''
-->-- '''Superintendant Gary Chalmers''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' on ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies''

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-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' on ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies''
''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'' (upon seeing the protagonist, who is a plumber, wearing a tie)
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-->-- '''AdultSwim''''s official description of WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce

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-->-- '''AdultSwim''''s official description of WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce
''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''
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-->-- ''AdultSwim'''s official description of WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce

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-->-- ''AdultSwim'''s '''AdultSwim''''s official description of WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce
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->''First of all, they're not teens. Secondly, there's no water involved. The whole Hunger Force thing? That's probably misleading too.''
-->-- ''AdultSwim'''s official description of WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce
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->'''Yan:''' Here we are... Blind Man's Volcano! Named five hundred years ago by the famed blind seer, Hexus!\\
''{{beat}}''\\
'''Delphi:''' ...But there is no volcano.\\
'''Yan:''' Well, what did you expect? The poor man was blind.
-->-- ''VideoGame/GiantsCitizenKabuto''
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->'''Doug:''' Hey, Klaus. How come in your country, Hamburg and Frankfurt, they have nothing to do with hamburgers or hot dogs?\\
'''The Janitor:''' ''[as "[[IHaveManyNames Klaus]]"]'' Why is your Lake Titicaca not filled with boobs and poop?
-->-- ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
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->'''Doug:''' Hey, Klaus. How come in your country, Hamburg and Frankfurt, they have nothing to do with hamburgers or hot dogs?\\
'''The Janitor:''' ''[as "[[IHaveManyNames Klaus]]"]'' Why is your Lake Titicaca not filled with boobs and poop?
-->-- ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''

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