WORD OF THE DAY! 7/31/12!

"MY GLASSES! I CAN'T SEE WITHOUT MY GLASSES!"
exclamation
1. Scooby Doo, Where are You?. One of the catchphrases associated with Velma that often led to slapstick or incapacitation at the hands of the masked baddy of the week. Also an excuse for perverted animators to draw Velma on all fours. Bastards.

WORD OF THE DAY! 2/1/12

atavism [at-uh-viz-uhm]

noun

1. Biology. a. the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations.

                   b. an individual embodying such a reversion.

2.  A revision to an earlier type; a throwback.

3. A step, or several steps, backwards in evolution. 

EX. It appears that secondary mutations are not always useful in the X-Men universe. Sure, Angel gets metal skin and  Beast becomes a cat guy, but sometimes you get your total f***-ups. Shooting concussive laser beams out of your knuckles would seem to be a bit harder to control, but shooting claws out of your eyes would be just about useless, if not agonizingly painful.

In such situations, could an atavism come in handy to reverse the effects?