The Prince Charles of extremities

"I've experienced some bad weather in my time and London doesn't really cut it on the world scene. Which leads me to believe that people complain about the weather in London purely because they are in England. And in England, complaining about somethign rivals football and queueing as the national sport. What I will say about the weather here in London is that it's generally more bland than anything else. Not bitter enough to be harsh and never beautiful enough to be delightful - it's the vanilla ice cream of weather, the Prince Charles of extremities. Exceptional in the fact that it is so boring."
(Jan. 24, 2007, Lachlan Yates)

The Babe Ruth of body language experts

"Initially, we would like to say that we succeeded in doing so. One commenter at a time, we slowly built up this blog and even garnered some legitimate recognition across the web-o-sphere. We received a plug for the blog on air with Chris Russo. We got an exclusive interview with Neil Best when rumors of the break-up dominated talk. We had Mike and Chris breakdown Wilt's 100 point point game and last year's American Idol Finale. We had the Babe Ruth of body language experts analyze one of Mike and Chris' heated arguments over the bathrooms at the old Yankee Stadium. We turned to our good friend Colonel Nathan Jessep from time to time to make sense of the Mike and the Mad Dog landscape. There was the infamous and the Bucket List. We persevered through the end of the Mike and the Mad Dog era. We suffered with everyone through the start-up of the Mike'd Up era. We're still not sure what the new bells and whistles are, or whom the talent is. We tried our best to follow Doggie on a National level. As boring and bitter as Mike Francesa has been post break-up, Dog has been every bit as irrelevant, often trying too hard to cover too many events."
(Sept. 9, 2009, Mike and the Mad Blog)

The Curious George of dental blogs

"While I realize my intents for this blog have greatly evolved, I still do have that initial desire to help future students. With this in mind, I would like to point my more serious readers in the direction of DMDstudent.com. Created by Ben, a D1 at Temple, this site offers a plethora (did he just plethora?) of great information for pre-dents and dental students alike. Not only is the information great, but IT HAS PICTURES!!! If I learned anything in kindergarten, it is that pictures make reading so much better – especially pertaining to a lot of the pre-clinical stuff we all will be having fun with. Becuase of the great visuals, I deem it the curious george of dental blogs. Keep on shinning man with the yellow hat, keep on shinning."
(March 31, 2007, There and Back Again...)

The Smurfette of standardized testing

"raybobdotcom: tests are gay
raybobdotcom: the end
SmileyJess13: i was unaware thats tests possess sexuality
SmileyJess13: did i seriously just say that?
raybobdotcom: yup
raybobdotcom: and they're male
raybobdotcom: and they love other male tests
raybobdotcom: you did say that
raybobdotcom: i loved it
SmileyJess13: well if they are all male
raybobdotcom: i wanna marry it
SmileyJess13: theyd have to be gay
SmileyJess13: hrmmm its a mystery lol
SmileyJess13: ((and so's mankind))
raybobdotcom: no i've worked it all out
raybobdotcom: its like the smurfs
raybobdotcom: where they're all boys except for smurfette
raybobdotcom: we'll say that ... ctbs is the smurfette of standardized testing
raybobdotcom: just because no one cares about that one"
(Oct. 21, 2003, smileyjess)

The Michael Phelps of the sperm world

"I repeat, a tampon cannot become lost in your body. The vagina is a closed canal. It’s not a black hole into which your tampon vanishes. It’s also not like your clothes dryer where your socks disappear, never to be seen again. A vagina is like a dead-end street, once you hit the end of the street, there’s no where else to go. So when you’re cruising down Vagina Street and you hit the cervix, that’s it, that’s the end of the road. Nothing is getting past that cervix…well, nothing except for your husband’s/boyfriend’s/one night stand’s little swimmers but only if that little sperm is an elite swimmer, the Michael Phelps of the sperm world. But there is no way for a tampon to travel beyond the cervix. The idea that a tampon could leave the vagina and become lost within the human body is absurd. It’s ridiculous. It’s positively preposterous. A tampon cannot be lost."
(Oct. 30, 2009, Loripalooza)

The Odin of free software

"For me YOU are saving the world since you are so personally committed to free software. I know RS (yes the church of emacs) as well. He is the Odin of free software. Linus was pushed by Tanenbaum into his success story. Debian and all the authors willing to share their work do such a great job. They shall get all the credits for their work! But you bring all the best of free software to the common world which would not know that there are alternatives."
(April 30, 2008, Mark Shuttleworth)

The Dexter of idiots

"I’m sort of like the 'Dexter' of idiots, in that I criticize stupid people not because I’m better than them, but because I’m one myself. All I’ve got going for me is that I’ve come to learn over the years that if I want to do something, there’s a good chance it’s stupid, so I should probably think for awhile before I do it."
(July 30, 2008, Bike Snob NYC)