teardownthewalls

Sounds like something you'd say before engaging in some good ol' fashioned extortion...

And the Darwin Award goes to...

Wrong place wrong time during a controlled demolition

I remember seeing this as well. I'm much more of a Brian Blessed than a Stephen Fry, unfortunately for my pain threshold...

This is a big part of why I love them so much. Hardly a week goes by that I don't think of the "boots theory of socio-economic unfairness" from Men at Arms!

Bill Phillips seems like a pretty cool guy, certainly fits the mad scientist archetype!

I actually haven't read Making Money but I will now :)

I learned this term from Terry Pratchett a few years ago as the disc in discworld rotates and the four cardinal directions are rimward, hubward, turnwise and widdershins. Instead of north south east west.

Edit: though I never knew it was a real word!