And in the rare horrific crash, the seat will not remain attached to the floor anyway.

“Bully!”

Exactly. This is a 60s thing, not a 70s thing.

“You chose books, I chose looks.”

– Matilda’s mom

From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.

Sorry – it is a reference to Monty Python, where a father is trying to get his son to marry.

Edit: as one of your honorary fathers, I advise you to go watch the movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge … tracts of land!

And no singing!

That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.

Me too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.

Thanks. Other comments and replies have been alluding to this, but this is the only one that described the mechanism.

Google for “Intuit lobbying.”

It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.

… and chips (Frito-Lay).