The classic story goes that Alfred Nobel, after inventing dynamite and then blowing up one of his brothers with it, realized the error of his ways and so decided to reward peaceful scientific and diplomatic endeavors, eventually leading to the Nobel Prizes. There are others who posit he did it to impress a girl...

- Count Dolby von Luckner

Catching up With Gilbert:
Bureaucratic Upbraiding
How Do Statues Always Know The Right Thing to Say?

Dudes (and sometimes, ladies) are always flinging doors open and/or marching in offstage yelling "Forbear" or a variant thereof during weddings, executions, or really any old thing in the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas.

--Geoff