Being praise-impaired, I appreciated the help.

"... in the School of Higher Neantical Nillity expounded the General Theory of Dragons. Everyone knows that dragons don't exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisify the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exits. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no deed for us to discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistant, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way."

Stanislaw Lem, Cyberiad

Here's a fun item worthy of the Pandagon subs.

Hale Berry nailed Warner Brothers.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7748301&type=entertainmentNews

Berry was named worst actress of 2004 by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for her performance in "Catwoman" and she showed up to accept her "Razzie" carrying the Oscar she won in 2002 for "Monster's Ball."

"They can't take this away from me, it's got my name on it!" she quipped. A raucous crowd cheered her on as she gave a stirring recreation of her Academy Award acceptance speech, including tears.

She thanked everyone involved in "Catwoman," a film she said took her from the top of her profession to the bottom.

"I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit," she said as she dragged her agent on stage and warned him "next time read the script first."

It is rare for a Razzie winner to show up at the spoof awards held on the night before Oscars -- but Berry did, saying her mother taught her that to be "a good winner you had to be a good loser first." She received a standing ovation.

"Catwoman" tied with "Fahrenheit 9/11" by winning four "Razzies" -- worst picture, worst directing, worst screenplay and worst performance by an actress for Berry and her "berry bad" work.

Except that Pandagon's praise could seriously use a comma to close off the modifying phrase "previously considered theoretical" so it doesn't get entangled with the rest of the main clause.

Or no commas at all -- except that makes the sentence a real mess.

If you're going to write sentences like that, punctuation really helps.