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* The [[Good Time Chinese Restaurant]] is a location from [[Daria Morgendorffer|''Daria'']]. Notably, it housed a “dimensional wormhole” in the back. | * The [[Good Time Chinese Restaurant]] is a location from [[Daria Morgendorffer|''Daria'']]. Notably, it housed a “dimensional wormhole” in the back. | ||
* The issue of ''[[Pravda]]'' whose front page nonsensically reads “''Gorbachev sings tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!''" originated in the comic strip ''{{w|Bloom County|Bloom County}}''. In one of its most famous jokes, precocious computer whiz {{w|Oliver Wendell Jones|Oliver Wendell Jones}} attempted to remotely bring an end to the Cold War by introducing onto the front page of ''{{w|Pravda|Pravda}}'' the headline, “{{w|Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev}} Urges Disarmament: Total! Unilateral!”, only for faulty machine translation to cause the headline to read, “''Gorbachev Sings Tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!''”. | * The issue of ''[[Pravda]]'' whose front page nonsensically reads “''Gorbachev sings tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!''" originated in the comic strip ''{{w|Bloom County|Bloom County}}''. In one of its most famous jokes, precocious computer whiz {{w|Oliver Wendell Jones|Oliver Wendell Jones}} attempted to remotely bring an end to the Cold War by introducing onto the front page of ''{{w|Pravda|Pravda}}'' the headline, “{{w|Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev}} Urges Disarmament: Total! Unilateral!”, only for faulty machine translation to cause the headline to read, “''Gorbachev Sings Tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!''”. | ||
* {{w|Thiotimoline|Resublimated Thiotimoline}} was a fictional chemical invented by {{w|Isaac Asimov|Isaac Asimov}} in a 1948 spoof academic paper entitled ''The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline'', and used in several follow-ups. Thiotimoline has gone on to be referenced by many other science-fiction writers. | |||
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