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File:T-Rex and Triceratops - The Answer Is No.jpg|link=The Answer is No: T-Rex and Triceratops|Publicity still for "[[The Answer is No: T-Rex and Triceratops]]".
File:The Postum Man.jpg|link=The Postum Man|'''''[[The Postum Man]]''''' is a post-coffee dystopia science fiction novel about a man wandering the desolate Oregon countryside who finds a coffee maker, which he puts to using brewing coffee substitutes. His brewing service and claims about the return of coffeehouses give hope to the people, who are threatened by a murderous, decaffeinated latte militia.


File:T-Rex and Triceratops poster.jpg|link=T-Rex and Triceratops|''[[T-Rex and Triceratops]]'' is a short dramatic film about unlikely copulation by disparate species employing postures of dubious grace and efficacy.
File:The P-Value Man.jpg|link=The P-Value Man|'''''[[The P-Value Man]]''''' is a 1997 statistical mathematics drama film starring Tom Petty and David Brin.


File:A_Field_Guide_to_Edible_Theropods.jpg|link=A Field Guide to Edible Theropods|''[[A Field Guide to Edible Theropods]]'' is a book about preparing, cooking, serving, and eating various theropods.
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File:Frondo_Ediacar_and_his_Mighty_Mighty_Rangeomorphs.jpg|link=Frondo Ediacar|[[Frondo Ediacar]] is the stage name of paleontologist and musician [REDACTED]. Ediacar is known for his elaborate stage productions, including hermetically sealed performance spaces which replicate environmental conditions of the pre-Cambrian era.
 
File:All Your Pepsi Are Belong To Us.png|link=All your Pepsi are belong to us|[[All your Pepsi are belong to us]].
 
File:The Gift of Pepsi.jpg|link=The Gift of Pepsi|"[[The Gift of Pepsi]]" is a get-well card published by the Gnomon Chronicles Institute for Extradimensional Pepsi Activities.
 
File:Better_Than_the_Book_-_2001_A_Space_Odyssey.jpg|link=Better Than the Book|The movie is better than the book: ''2001 A Space Odyssey''.
 
File:Juke_Hal_-_some_very_poor_playlists.jpg|link=HAL 9000 (nonfiction)|"I know I've made some very poor playlists recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal." — "Jukebox" [[HAL 9000 (nonfiction)|HAL 9000]]
 
2001_A_Species_Odyssey_infographic.jpg|link=2001: A Species Odyssey|''[[2001: A Species Odyssey]]''  is a short documentary film about the ethical dilemma faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when they discover an alien-human hybrid child stowed away on their spaceship.
 
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|[[Diagramaceous soil]] yields new variety of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|Bingo algorithm]], useful as clarifying agent in wager-based scrying engines.
 
File:Straight Outta Pleistocene.jpg|link=Straight Outta Pleistocene (song)|"[[Straight Outta Pleistocene (song)|Straight Outta Pleistocene]]" is a song by American hip hop plant bioscience group Phytologists With Attitude.
 
File:Bourbaki_virages_dangereux_fruiting_body.jpg|link=Outsider mathematics|Fruiting body of ''Bourbaki virages dangereux'', the unofficial symbol of [[Outsider mathematics|outsider mathematicians]].


File:Homeopathic Sociopathy advertisement.jpg|link=Homeopathic Sociopath|[[Homeopathic Sociopath]] is a [[transdimensional corporation]] which manifests itself as sociopathy-related soft drinks and other consumer oral vectors.
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File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|[[Asclepius Myrmidon]] converts Fabergé egg into field surgery robot.
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File:San Pietro scrying engine.png|link=San Pietro scrying engine|July 12, 2017: The [[San Pietro scrying engine]], among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process [[Spirograph (nonfiction)|Spirograph]] data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.
 
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1607: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and counteract [[geometry solvent]].
 
File:Unexpected Moscow Visitor.jpg|link=Unexpected Moscow Visitor|''[[Unexpected Moscow Visitor]]'' unexpectedly visits Moscow.
 
File:Carnevale Tenebre vise 600x800.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|[[Carnevale Tenebre]] uses vise to clamp souls.
File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]''.
 
File:The Visitor Prince.jpg|link=The Visitor Prince|''The Visitor Prince'' voted Children's Book of the Year by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
 
File:David Hedison releasing neurotransmitters.jpg|link=Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) (nonfiction)|"Neurotransmitters released" says David Hedison.
 
File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
 
File:Alderaan Croutons.jpg|link=Alderaan Croutons|[[Alderaan Croutons]].
 
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1946: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive meets goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|original event]].
 
File:Mandalorian Dog - Teasing Baby Yoda.jpg|link=The Mandalorian Dog|'''''[[The Mandalorian Dog]]''''' is a 1929/2020 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short [[scrylmn]] by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and celebrity polymath Werner Herzog. Show here: the infamous "Teasing Baby Yoda" scene.
 
File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]''.
 
File:Angry_Feller.jpg|link=Angry Feller (nonfiction)|Steganographic analysis of ''[[Angry Feller (nonfiction)|Angry Feller]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte of plaintext data, mostly unsent letters to the editor in the 'You kids get off my lawn' category."
 
File:I Am the Two Bears.jpg|link=I Am the Two Bears|Steganographic analysis of "[[I Am the Two Bears]]" using techniques from [[high-energy literature]] unexpectedly generates first-order theological satire.
 
File:Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado.jpg|link=Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?|"[[Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?]]"
 
 
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