This Batphone won’t actually work. Though there are such things available on the internet if your discretionary budget permits. For us more modest denizens of Gotham this will suffice. (Aficionados will recognize this is based on the Batmobile’s mobile Batphone, rather than the desktop version found in study, Batcave and Commissioner Gordon’s office.)

Another of life’s big questions: where did the practice of using the phrase “sic ‘em” to command dogs to attack come from? No mention of where the succinct Australian variation “skitch” come from though. The phrase seems based in older language usage, but how do these sorts of things find themselves in popular usage: “Sick,” …

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