Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
Kurt VonnegutTrout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.
Kurt VonnegutFreud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.
Kurt Vonnegut