oh, i travel—a sort of licenced troubleshooter: a lexicon of the Bond franchise in all its forms
riptide: an homage to the pre-code (previously) Hollywood actress Norma Shearer
dead pilots’ society: CBS Summer Playhouse and similar vehicles were venues for anthologies of failed television shows—see also
la vie รฉlectrique: Albert Robida’s 1893 vision of the future includes a remote courtship by means of a tรฉlephonoscopethe sensational she-hulk: Marvel comics hand-lettering from Reagan Ray—previously
buzz-saw: the ancient shark-like Helicoprion had spiral tooth-whorls
reinventing the wheel: engineers in Seoul develop transforming, load-bearing tyre using principles of origami—see previously
oh—the pint pot, half-a-pint, gill pot, half-a-gill-quarter-gill, nippikin and the brown bowl: conventional measurements of liquid (see also) anticipated the next in a binary fashion
shaguar: if Austin Powers were to be revived today, he would have been cryogenically frozen in 1991