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* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: The Secret World Government, the Freemasons.
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] ("They Never Said It!")
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]] - Maybe he was, but Sally Hemmings, Nick Nolte, and Larry the neighbor from ''[[Three's Company]]'' were mole-men, among many others. WERE YOU AWARE OF IT?
* [[Beneath the Earth]] - The Mole-Men
* [[Big Eater]] - [[William Howard Taft]], complete with [[Jabba Table Manners]]
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* [[Escalating War]] - the increasingly bizarre weather reports coming out of Richmond and Milwaukee.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
* [[Explosive Decompression]]: Occurred to Napoleon's lunar cavalry. In a rare tactical misstep by Emperor Bonaparte, he neglected to get protective suits for the horses.
* [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks]] - The brain sharks
* [[Freud Was Right]] - "Several Sexually Suggestive Christmas Songs", including "It [[Double Entendre|Came]] Upon a Midnight Clear", "The [[Groin Attack|Nutcracker]] Suite", and "Deck The Halls (With Boughs of Penis)".
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** ''[[The Lottery]]'' - See the nested Page-A-Day calender entry for June 27.
** ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]''- A baby born with the eyes of a tiger will grow up to be a famous boxer. Or the antichrist.
*** "Eye of the Tiger" was actually Edgar Allen Poe's literary theme song before being appropriated by Sylvester Stallone.
** ''[[Rain Man]]''- Casinos generally provide patrons with an autistic man to help you count cards.
* [[Horse of a Different Colour]] - The hideous steeds of the mole-men. There is also a reference to the hideous steeds of the presidents.
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* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]
* [[It's Been Done]] - The long-awaited sequel to ''[[The Catcher in The Rye]]'' turns out to have the same plot as ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''
* [[Kill It with Fire]] - If your house in infested with rats, tides, or Scottie dogs. With [[Artifical Human|Replicants]], you're just going to have to call in a [[Blade Runner]].
* [[Long List]] - 700 Mole-man names, and an entire chapter entitled "Some Lists I Confess to Compiling". Also subverted in that Hodgman refuses to list all 230 mole-man words for darkness, listing only 12.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: ''Extremely'' different. Quite a few had [[Hook Hand|hooks for hands]] (though George W. Bush traded his for [[Chainsaw Good|a chainsaw]] to appeal to the average voter). Very few presidents were black or women.
* [[Overly Long Name]] - No less than 152 words including the footnote; more if you count the hyphenated words as two separate words and/or expand "RZA" and "AKA" into the words they stand for.
* [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]] - The Shitty Aphorisms.
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* [[Owl Be Damned]] - Not to worry, you can cook them. But first you need to dominate them with your stare and remove their clockwork innards.
* [[Product Placement]] - Parodied when Hodgman described his purchase of an iPod cable at great length. And in the section on buying a computer, he insists on avoiding the term "PC".
* [[Raised by Wolves]] - [[Jonathan Coulton]], most prominently, but others include Rudy Giuliani and Werner Herzog.
* [[Running Gag]] - Literally<ref>Not literally.</ref> everywhere, including subjects such as [[A Date with Rosie Palms|Masturbation]] (still), eels, turkeys, Benjamin Franklin, shitty aphorisms, Yale University's controversial Feline Studies, unusual precipitation, Emo Phillips, [[Hair Tropes|ponytails]], Percocet (a powerful narcotic), and falconry.
* [[Secret Legacy]] - Esperantans vs. the Bush dynasty
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* [[Unstuck in Time]] - Hodgman reveals that one presidential candidate would become (unstuck in time during the (at the time) upcoming 2008 election cycle.
** The paperback reveals that this was John Mccain, who transported back to [[Prehistoria]].
* [[Wonderful Life]] - Prince Albert, disliked by England for [[Evil Foreigner|being too German]], is seriously contemplating suicide, but then a second-class druid who has yet to earn his golden sickle shows Albert the true meaning of the pagan Yuletide festival. Albert successfully gets [[Rescued
* [[Xanatos Roulette]] - "How I Did It." Involved are [[Cloning Blues|clones with no genitals]].
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