"Worse!! I've got bad news! More than an hour ago three Lensmen sent out a joint distress call! They are fighting for their lives aboard the Pok supply ship. They are now in a hand-to-hand engagement barely a million miles from you!"
-- Dragon Lensman, David Kyle
If I still had to attend to the care and feeding of young software developers, I would use this meme as "why we don't use global variables".
@cerebrate @dashdsrdash I have a feeling that was the original title, but it's been reposted so may times. All those captions lost in time...like Picard, in flames...
"I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
"What exactly is a tad?"
"In space terms, that's about half a million miles."