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File:Do_You_Carry_Your_Gun_Into_Church_(tweet).png|link=Do You Carry Your Gun Into Church?|"'''[[Do You Carry Your Gun Into Church?]]'''" ('''DYCYGIC?''') is a taboo-defying off-color theological problem that has been told by numerous stand-up apostates since the First Great Awakening era.
File:Replicant_Vice.jpg|link=Replicant Vice|'''''[[Replicant Vice]]''''' is a reality television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.


File:Military-dolphin_complex_(GC).jpg|link=Military-dolphin complex|The '''[[Military-dolphin complex]]''' is ('''MDC''') is an informal alliance between a nation's military and its dolphins, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.
File:Redheaded_VALIS.png|link=With Enough Redheads|The Gnomon Chronicles Society for the Advancement of VALIS (SAV) reminds you — '''[[With Enough Redheads|With enough redheads]]''', we can project a beam of pink VALIS light into space, so other worlds know that we have redheads too.


File:One Knife (draft tweet).png|link=One Knife|'''[[One Knife]]''' to rule them all<br> One Knife to cut them<br>One Knife to bring them all and<br> In the darkness gut them<br>In the Land of Metallurgy where the Sword-smiths ply
File:I've_seen_people_you_things_wouldn't_believe.jpg|link=I've seen people you things wouldn't believe|"'''[[I've seen people you things wouldn't believe]].'''" —Roy Batty


File:Weaponizing_the_Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis.png|link=Weaponizing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis|'''[[Weaponizing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis]]''' is a military strategy based on weapons and tactics which exploit the structure of a language and its determination of a speaker's perception and categorization of experience.
File:UBIK-VALIS.jpg|link=Society for the Advancement of VALIS|''UBIK-VALIS'', a rare mutant hybrid of ''UBIK'' and ''VALIS'' by Philip K. Dick.  (Courtesy '''[[Society for the Advancement of VALIS]]'''.)


File:Playskool's My First Nuclear Football (GC).png|link=Playskool's My First Nuclear Football|'''[[Playskool's My First Nuclear Football]]''' an Executive toy briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed playgrounds, such as the White House Cardboard Box Fortress.
File:Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep.jpg|link=Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep?|'''''[[Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep?]]''''' is a novel by mechanical engineer Chip "Pink Riddle" Kid about a post-petroleum economy where Earth's billionaires have been replaced by androids, leaving most millionaires endangered or extinct. The main plot follows [REDACTED], a Dot-Com Boom millionaire who is tasked with "retiring" (i.e. stealing and reverse-engineering) six escaped Nexus-6 model Jeep Electric Autonomous Vehicles, while a secondary plot follows [REDACTED], a man of sub-par wealth who aids the fugitive Jeep.


File:Torpedo_Ardor.jpg|link=Torpedo Ardor|"'''[[Torpedo Ardor|Elite Marina: Torpedo Ardor, Unfathomable Longing]]'''" is an anagram of "Blood atonement and the origin of plural marriage".
File:Urine_in_rain_monologue.jpg|link=Urine in rain monologue|The "'''Urine in rain'''" (also known as the "'''Sea Breezes Speech'''") is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed film Blade Runner.
 
File:The Man with the Golden Musket.jpg|link=The Man with the Golden Musket|'''''[[The Man with the Golden Musket]]''''' (1974): James Bond must recover the Storax Toga Lei, a breakthrough fashion solution to contemporary aesthetic shortages, before criminally deranged fashion designer Canna Fracas Orgasmicraises hemlines to the waist.


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