71 here. (username checks out)

Rock, Putin, Scissors.

Standing in line in the basement of the CS building at UofM to get access to a card punch machine and type up my Fortran 4 program.

Took me a few seasons to figure out that every season was the same. "I think we've found a place to settle down, but there might be a problem...".

The idea that rocks sometimes fall from the sky.

Meteors. I stole that from "and the earth will shake" (Robert Anton Wilson). There was a description of The Royal College of Astronomy, or somesuch, harrumphing about such a ridiculous, and ignorant superstition.

We don't need no stinking badges!

(Just in case: not hate, just a possibly obscure reference)

It's not so much a line as transition zone.

There is a novel, and damned if I can remember the title, where a rabi proposes that god commanding Abraham to kill his son was a test, which he (Abraham) failed.

Wonderful series, but as much as I love King's work, the man just does not know how to end a story.

The players are actually in hell.

MTG is smart*, amoral, and self interested. Of course she'd be one of the first rats off the ship.

• To quote Bob "Act like a dumb shit, and they'll treat you as an equal."

Self descriptive.

My goto is "Every day is better than the next."

There is always more down

That was an episode of Sliders.

I would say once they hit the ground they are meteorites. But while they are falling they are meteors. Based solely on my own assumptions. Not a hill I care to defend.

I would say the neolithic, if that falls under the umbrella. That was when we first got serious about this Human stuff.

Blatantly stolen from There's something about Mary.

My understanding of the story (in the novel, which I still can't remember the name) was that in knuckling under to the command to murder his own child, Abraham failed the test.