List: Watercooler Snippets That Only Occur (Together) At Google

"A friend of mine had a pretty cogent argument for Heinlein being sexist in Stranger."
Passerby, in passing: "He's also racist."
"Well, okay, yes--"
Another passerby: "But that's not uncommon. Look at Arthur C. Clarke."
[This went on for several minutes. Nobody stayed for more than a couple sentences.]

"What's the chirality of your apartment?" [The complex has two mirror-imaged floorplans.]

"So on the right-hand rule, that means the current is passing down through your apartment?" [same]

"Geeks, gamers, polyamorists -- this overlap makes sense, but it doesn't explain the Jews." [...meaning the high percentage of Jewish geeks, not the existence of Jews.]

Yes, those are all tiny, nonsensical, out-of-context fragments of larger conversations. Mmm.