Possibility Does Not Inform Reality
Department:
If something is conceivably possible, must it therefore eventually occur?
Five Times as Cold
Department:
So, today we were talking about how there is no such thing as "twice as slow," or, "twice as cold." This idiom is a favorite pet peeve of mine, because it is so utterly meaningless, yet when someone says it, you somehow know exactly what they mean. They simply mean, "Dang!