Fun with Etymology

GENE: You know, I just realized that Steampunk is just an extention of what Jules Verne started.
JOSH: And Jules Verne is an extention of Da Vinci.
ANDREW: Da Vinci is the original Steampunk!
GENE: Back before they used steam.
JOSH: And a punk was a lady who wore pants.
ANDREW: Actually, wouldn't a lady, by definition, not wear pants?
JOSH: Huh?
ANDREW: If she's wearing pants, she's not a lady.
JOSH: Bah, you and your semantics!
GENE: Actually, it's not just semantics. Lady is the feminine of lord. That's been forgotten these days.
JOSH: Mistress is the feminine of master. And dominatrix is the feminine of dominus.
GENE: No, it's the feminine of dominator; one who dominates.
ANDREW: Is that french?
GENE: No, it's latin. Dominatrix, dominator, domination...
ANDREW: ...And that's, what, a whole country who..?
GENE: No. That's the gerund.

Outrunning Fiction

Scene: ANDREW and JOSH ride home from [convenience store], listening to "Honour" by VNV Nation.

ANDREW: You know, I'd really like to write a story about an idealistic revolution which turns into a bloody coup and finally ends in an equally fasc- no, an even more fascist government.
JOSH: You want to write about the French Revolution?
ANDREW: (nods vigorously, grinning) Yeah, but you know, modernized. With lasers!