It's summer, and I really miss Jack Donaghy. Especially with all this running for Congress speculation and 30 Rock syndication news, he's just present on my mind grapes. Last night I was watching a re-run while running on a treadmill and I had to slow to like two miles an hour just so I wouldn't miss anything, and this was an episode I already have memorized. I miss the guy like he's a real person, and the summer is cruel. And since we won't have any new episodes until October, I thought I'd make an arbitrary list of my favorite Jack one-liners to get us through the wait. It's like an online support group, but with (probably) more elitism, mommy issues and hilarious racism! Let's get started, and as always, feel free to play along in the comments.

The Simpsons has always been a wellspring of cultural influence, contributing words and phrases to the lexicon ranging from surfer-pilfered Bart-isms like "Cowabunga" and "don't have a cow" to Homer's split-oath "D'Oh" and Nelson's sing-songy taunt "ha-ha." Most recently, the word "meh" was added to the Collins English dictionary, which cited The Simpsons as the term's originator. In ruminating on this latest linguistic development with my cow-orkers®, I had to agree with Zach that it was surprising to see the word affiliated specifically with The Simpsons. I can't remember when exactly I noticed people making use of the word, but I feel like I've been saying it since forever. "Meh" feels like such an instinctively onomatopoetic expression of ambivalence that it's sort of hard to imagine being able to trace it back to its roots. It seems like it's been around forever.

George Carlin would love this. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court spent time discussing the use of dirty words on TV. Carlin started out with seven, and it's unclear how many of them the Court discussed in the case of the FCC vs. Fox Television. What is known is that none of the Justices used any of them. I imagined them making BEEP noises whenever one of the words came up, but imDB says they used far less entertaining methods, like saying "the S-word and the F-word." In either case, I hope Clarence Thomas responded to his findings by using that famous line from Spaceballs: "We ain't found sh-- I mean, the S-word!"

I dunno, Dwight do I have a better way? Well, there's always using the knife you already have to do whatever Andy (or Angela?) stabbing you have planned instead of whittling a makeshift knife with it out of a craggly piece of wood. Ahh yes, Mindy, that is the joke! Either way, "You're makin' a knife with a knife?" is officially my new "Cooonfeyuss!" Watch it after the jump and leave your knife-making tips in the comments.