This might be one of those "framing" exercises: Science Creative Quarterly wants your science questions. The catch is that they'll be answered by Bill Hick the Science Prick (Ooo-eee, late-night Pharyngula is on an off-color roll, isn't it?). There's a prize, though! The humiliation and abuse might be worth it when you give the children's book you win for it to some little boy or girl.
Just don't tell them how you won it. You want them to look up to you, you know.
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Gold.
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I have a Masters Degree...in Science!
No sir, I don't like it.
And you know why? Because anyone who intentionally invokes the names of Bills both Hicks and Nye really ought to be a lot funnier, as well as more snarky and less outright abusive.
He missed a great answer to the first question in this set regarding why a neutered male dog would hump your leg: It is doggie's way of saying, "I PWN JOOOO!!!1!"
Explaining dominance behavior by means of the equivalence between leg-humping dogs and gamers. Best comment I ever saw on Slashdot.