In the pilot episode, the ever-vigilant mother sternly demands that Lane tell her if any of the girls in Stars Hollow High have gotten pregnant, and then orders her to drink tea with no dairy or sugar added. In lieu of sugary cookies or carb-filled brownies, a meager portion of healthy muffins is made available to Lane by her mother, who has used wheat so fiber rich that the hardened clumps of baked goods (or, rather “bads”) need to be dampened first to make them chewably soft.

Contrarily, he may be saying, “Look what your computerized, commodified society has made of me—a clockwork orange, for all appearances organic but mechanical."

The system isn’t broken. It’s fixed.¶ Another species of anti-proverb, this one plays on the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” which seems to have emerged in the 1960s.

Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral.