Piano Ponderer Pillows

"I appreciate you have a real passion for music Mr Hibberd. . . but I can see you're going to struggle with the piano."

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"Exactly how undecided would you say you were at this precise moment?"

'The organizational structure is pretty simple: We do the work; they take the credit.'

'At least I don't have his life.'

"Of course you can't put your finger on it. It's a hypothetical particle."

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

Thinking and thinking backwards.

"What's with kids nowadays? Walking upright's not good enough for you?"

"Sure, but what have you invented lately?"

Time, Temp, Today's Neutrino Mass

'The hippiest dryads were often farouche.'

'It's a real conundrum. Not sure if I should open it, or beat it.'

Are you aware? The Higgs Boson was thought to exist even through no one had seen it!

"Is there a God?"

'As is the fashion these days, it's about nothing.'

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

Answers to last week's brain-teasers

"Big deal! My digital picture frame can hold a thousand pictures!"

"Well, for starters, Matt has been showing definite improvement in risk-taking."

'Though we must innovate, and though we must grow, we must never lose sight of our core mediocrities.'

He's very disciplined about his writing, three hours staring at a blank screen every morning and five in the afternoon.

'That's from the last year the data was available.'

Dorothy finds the Yellow brick road is now a 6-lane expressway.

Bizarre sights.

"He had help. There were architecture specialists, costume specialists, angel specialists..."

"You're right! It is much easier to explain it this way!"

"It's almost as if you can get lost in it, Timmy. Timmy?"

Dr. McPhee discovers the Embarrassment Particle.