When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the lamest, wimpiest beer in the entire known world. All the other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer, and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.