The beginning of Superman: “Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” It makes absolutely no sense that someone would say “it’s a bird!” with that level of excitement if they really thought it was just a bird. If planes were exceedingly rare there might be an excuse for some enthusiasm there.
My brain in reading that,…
“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a frog!”
“A FROG?”
“Not plane, not bird, not even frog. It’s just little ol’ me, Underdog.”
If you watch a lot of Adam-12 reruns on the geezer channel, which I’m doing right now, you’ll notice that Malloy and Reed always sit down to write their reports in a small nook off the hallway in police headquarters. A closer look inside the nook shows that there’s a big roll of brown package wrapping paper affixed to the wall, and in addition, there’s a roll of white twine there, too. What do the guys do, wrap their reports in brown paper, tie them up, and mail them to the Sarge?
It makes a little sense if the excitement is because of how fast it is moving.
“Look! Up in the sky!”
You look up and see a red and blue blur streaking across the sky. What the hell is that?!
“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!”
Or if it was the kind you use to smooth wood.
You’d have to ask Lois Lane about that.
“It’s a bird!”
“It’s a plane!”
“It’s Super Skier!!”
…
“No, uh, it’s a bird.”
I’ve heard the expression “hang a Louie” meaning turn left. Dunno if there’s something like “hang a Ralph” for turning right.
But on a bridge, hanging a Louie would be the first step of making a (horribly unsafe, very illegal) U-turn.
Supposedly it’s “hang a Roscoe.”
I’ve always heard it as “Ralph,” but it could be a regional thing. I’m in the Ohio River valley.
Evidence paper
On America’s Test Kitchen, why do they never use oven mitts? Every time they take something out of the oven, they wrap a towel around it.
Towels are faster.
If you gave both plenty of time to plan who would win in a fight, Batman or MacGuyver?
Batarang to the skull while Mac is building an attack helicopter out of plastic forks
MacGuyver would have to improvise something. Batman is always prepared.
Advantage: MacGuyver. Batman relies on his gadgets too much, which makes him less flexible. To MacGuyver, OTOH, everything is a potential gadget. He’s much more observant of his surroundings and can always adapt to changing circumstances.
Yeah, Macguyver is prepared by virtue of everything being his preparation.