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* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]. The pun that nothing is more scary than someone jumping out, and that this technique is the scariest one. --[[Tropers/Morgulion|Morgulion]]

* I just realize something about [[Darth Wiki]], it fit to Vader/Anakin character. Darth Wiki is place part to have fun iin and Vader is one of the coolest character, but Darth Wiki is also place for whining and Anakin (horever I disagree about that) was full of wangst in eyes of many fans. -- [[Death Cloud]]

* When [[TV Tropes]] switched the default search device to Google I was annoyed considering how inaccurate Google can be. And there were all the reasons to consider (less wear on the server, spelling is less of a big deal, etc.) but none of them really sold me on it. Then I realized something: During [[The Great Crash]] what was [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup|the main type of backup]] we had? Google caches.

* I just recently got the [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]] title, for the longest time I was reading it as "If you're in purgatory then you're jesus." Then I got that it was making fun of people reading to far into things, ultimately leading to them saying, "Everyone is Jesus, also they're in Purgatory."

** [[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s short sci-fi story "[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Well_Lost:The World Well Lost|The World Well Lost]]" is based on exactly this. In it an alien couple land on Earth and request asylum. They never reveal exactly why they're on the run, but everyone they meet are so touched by their relationship that they agree to help them. Later on it's revealed that {{spoiler|although they look like a straight couple to humans, they are in fact both male -- their females look completely different. They were on the run because their people disapproved of homosexuality, and they were relatively safe on Earth because, to their culture, Earth is a planet of [[Depraved Homosexual|depraved homosexuals]]s and best avoided.}}

* [[Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story|Mining Accident On Troy]] is a [[Stealth Pun]] - combining [[Mole Miner]] (the trope of a character, like a mole, who mines) and [[The Mole]]'s (Villainous spy pretending to be an ally to the heroes) background - so naturally it would be a ''mining'' accident.

* Alice talks to Bob, and starts with [[With All Due Respect]] followed immediately by a string of swears or insults. The usual reasoning is that it creates [[Sophisticated As Hell|humorous contrast]], but I feel it's much simpler than that: Alice is giving Bob [[Exact Words|all the respect she feels he's due]]. --[[Tropers/Wackd|Wackd]]

* When you read the trope [[Dead Horse Music Genre]], you come to the realisation that: a.) practically anything and everything that ever got a lick of success anywhere in the world gets to be a DHG; b.) a lot of the styles mentioned as a DHG were competing against each other in the same pop culture space, and maybe were even ''concievedconceived'' as an antidote or antithesis to another popular style; c.) if they were popular once, [[Popularity Polynomial|they may well become popular again]] with at least ''somebody'', at least if given a new lease on life, and d.) becauebecause the styles did become [[Deader Than Disco|popular to the point of overkill]], [[Hype Backlash]] and a certain amount of [[Fan Dumb]] will always be a factor in the perception of those styles of music. The critics and tastemakers who declared them "dead" often ''were'' [[Ascended Fan|ascended fans]]s, after all, perhaps [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|overreacting to a style's overexposure]], [[Opinion Myopia|not neccessarilynecessarily fans of the style (or fans of a different style) to begin with]], and/or [[Sturgeon's Law|whining about the amount of below-average examples that inevitably rears its head as more and more people adopt that genre]].