Thursday 8 March 2007

Going All Meta

It struck me that "Is there anything it can't do is?" is something of a snowclone. It's derived, for me, from a Simpsons quote about donuts (not beer as I first thought[1]) but a quick google shows that there are many things with seemingly endless qualities:

PowerShell
Serotonin
Duct Tape
SSH
The Internet
Global Warming
RSS
Spam
USB
Peanut butter
Tofu
Sticky tape
Marijuana
Ice Cream
CSS
Morphine
Coffee


[1] It seems Homer doesn't talk about beer as much as I imagined. This page has 19 quotes from the Simpsons on Beer of which only 7 are attributed to Homer and the most famous one, "Here's to alcohol, the cause of—and solution to—all life's problems", is about alcohol in general. Strange, especially as "Homer no function beer well without".

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