Quicksand Ponderer Gifts

Not-Quite-Quick-Enough Sand

Schrodinger's Black Box

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

Idle parts

"The central digital platform is temporarily renamed Project Schrödinger’s Cat. Until it is accessed on the 24th February it both is and is not a working system."

Keystone XL

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

Planetary Science. What do we call the study of gas giants in space? Gastronomy.

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

Fracking Zone - Be prepared for anything.

Gardener digging and finding pipes.

'It's not worth worrying about. There's nothing you can do about it. No two quarks in a small region can occupy the same quantum-mechanical state.'

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars … Mercury … Um, Pluto? Charon? No, Pluto … or Eris? Ugh …

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

'Mind you, I'm not responsible for the entire pipeline ?' just the section that flows through my office.'

A man about to plug in a lamp looks at electric sockets on the wall that say 'Solar,' 'Hydro Electric' and 'Nuclear.'

"We should've stayed on land, and grown feet and kicked ass."

Jupid/Jupiter/Jupidest

Sitting down

"If man evolved from apes,does that mean we came from Sea Monkeys?"

How moons are born...

"As I said to Steve: if they don't ship oil in that proposed pipeline...it's going to make one heck of a water slide!"

Poor Walt - they don't make em like him anymore.

'How are we supposed to know when we've hit rock bottom.'

Schr?dinger's cat playing Scrabble.

If there are eclipses of the sun and eclipses of the moon, how come there are never any eclipses of the earth? Can we continue this tomorrow? It's getting dark.

Ernie, we're the first humans to set foot on Mars! This is so exciting! The whole world is watching! Whee! We need to do something for the history books. Woo hoo! Ernie, you're not appreciating the gravity of the situation. What gravity?!

'I'm still a bit hungry: I don't think I've had more than four tons of krill this morning...'

'I wonder how you flush this thing?'

'No! I don't know why they call it quicksand when it takes so long to kill you. Now shut up and help me think of a way to get out of here.'

"My biggest fear is being judged fairly by history."

Quark soup

School of Music. If you need perseverance to be a musician, what's all this I hear about unfinished symphonies?

'You don't have anything in a smaller size do you?'

Oil consumption.