Electric Hootenanny - 3 November 2014

<p>Bathroom walls, missing graffiti, and social media. Where have all the cute quips on bathroom stalls gone?  We wonder about the apparent decline of restroom graffiti. Are people saving their witticisms for Twitter and Facebook?  And: If there were a universal law named in your honor, what would it be? Martha says in her case, "Barnette's Law" would be "The lane you just got out of is the one that ends up going faster."  Always.  Finally: Andre the Giant fancies a cocktail called "The American." The recipe? Fill a 40-ounce pitcher with various liquors, then stir. Eeeeuww! Plus, using Master vs. Mister in correspondence, how fixin' to became finna, the meaning of derp, and what happens when you take a forest bath in Japan.<br /><br />FULL DETAILS<br /><br />An eponymous law is a joking bit of wisdom named after someone, like Murphy's Law, which states Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. <br /><br />Amid the rise of social media oversharing, you'll notice at least one peculiar change: people don't seem to write on the walls of public restrooms anymore. But if you're in search of some good old fashioned bathroom stall graffiti, we recommend checking out Allen Walker Read's Classic American Graffiti.<br /><br />Cyril Northcote Parkinson's Law should be familiar to anyone who's ever been assigned a minor task and a long weekend to get it done—"work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." <br /><br />Finna, a slang variant of fixing to, meaning "to be about to do something," has been widely distributed through hip-hop lyrics. Its formation is similar to gonna, from going to.<br /><br />Speaking of eponymous laws, do you know what Cole's Law is? (Hint: You might order it as a side dish with your fish and fries.)<br /><br />Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski went through his day planner to combine activities with the abbreviations of days and months. For example, when it's a relief after a long week just to get in bed, you're talking about Satin.<br /><br />There's no definite rule for putting the a