My only regret

Seems to me you're playing hard to get.
I played a cool kid once myself,
And it's my only regret.

- Help Stamp Out Loneliness, Record Shop

O'Shaughnessy's Cube

Based on careful observation of a large sample of the Purple Banshee clientele, O'Shaughnessy concluded that he could use three sets of two mutually exclusive attributes to create a universal classification system for the human content of any economic enterprise. 

Using the Herrick Exponential Rule of Sets, O'Shaughnessy found that for three sets of two mutually exclusive attributes the total number of combinations was 23. With this information he was able to construct the three- dimensional O'Shaughnessy Diagram of Economic Organization (O'Shaughnessy's Cube for short), as follows: 

Representing the total human content of the economic structure by a cube, O'Shaughnessy used his first pair of attributes to divide the structure into two parts - in front, NEAT; at the back, SLOPPY. 

The second pair of attributes divides the structure horizontally - the top LAZY; the lower BUSY. 

And the third pair divides vertically - BRIGHT to the right; STUPID to the left.

Serious psychonomics from David R. Boldt.

Mediator:  Could you describe his physique?
Grandfather:  Ordinary.
Grandfather:  I believe that he's fairly well-built,
Grandfather:  as all young men should be.
Grandfather:  Yes, in terms of legendary heroes, I would compare him to Hercules.
Grandfather:  In terms of gods, he's like Ares.
Grandfather:  Basically, he's built like your average person.
Mediator:  On what planet would that be considered average?
Grandfather:  Young men are meant to be buff.
Mediator:  (Grandpa must live in a world of bodybuilders.)

- Humanity Has Declined, Ep. 08

Mediator:  Oh, my watch is broken.
Grandfather:  You need a watch?
Grandfather:  (offers item) That should work.
Mediator:  Thank you very. . .
Mediator:  not much.
Mediator:  What is this?
Grandfather:  A wrist sundial.
Grandfather:  With a compass, you can accurately calculate the time.
Grandfather:  But it only works on sunny days.

- Humanity Has Declined, Ep. 07

Darkness: A Comic

Link.

St. Kilda

St. Kilda is an odd and isolated little island in the Outer Hebrides.  Thought I'd read somewhere that this might have been partial inspiration for Qwghlm.

Inhabited for a couple thousand years with very limited contact with the outside world, St. Kilda was evacuated in the 1930s.

Notable ancient stone structure referred to as the Amazon's House.

The Sign of the Broken Sword

"Sir Arthur St. Clare, as I have already said, was a man who read his Bible. That was what was the matter with him. When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?" . . . "Of course, he read the Old Testament rather than the New. Of course, he found in the Old Testament anything that he wanted—lust, tyranny, treason. Oh, I dare say he was honest, as you call it. But what is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?" 

"In each of the hot and secret countries to which the man went he kept a harem, he tortured witnesses, he amassed shameful gold; but certainly he would have said with steady eyes that he did it to the glory of the Lord. My own theology is sufficiently expressed by asking which Lord?"

- G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown