Soap and Urine
Soap OperaWhen the Muppets took Manhattan, Kermit the Frog created an advertising slogan for soap: Ocean Breeze Soap Will Get You Clean. What he didn't realize is that another slogan would have bee...
Project Mayhem
Tools of the Trade We could write a whole book about Project Mayhem, but it's already been done. Yeah, it's called Fight Club. From the beginning to the end, even when our narrator isn't talking ab...
Cancer
Cancer Shmancer In our friend, the dictionary, we find two main definitions of cancer: "a malignant and invasive growth or tumor" and "any evil condition or thing that spreads destructively" (sourc...
Lye Kiss
S.W.A.K.How's this one for a symbol within a symbol? The lye kiss that Tyler lays on our narrator—and eventually everyone who's inducted into Project Mayhem—is an external mark of an internal c...
Insomnia
Might As Well Be Sleepwalking on the Sun Our narrator is plagued with insomnia, and he has a pretty fascinating way of describing it:Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insom...