And that reminds me of this thing I read

Wherein slightly related one of the older students at The Child's ballet school has such a need to void the contents of her stomach before a performance that puke buckets are placed on each side of the stage


Slate asks Can You Be Scared Enough To Pee Your Pants? Simple answer is yes and Brian Palmer does provide a reason. However, for a more colorful explanation, let me direct you towards Neal Stephenson's Reamde:

No one could look at Peter, who had become a nearly unbearable sight on grounds of posture alone: shoulders drawn together, body trembling, back of neck brilliant red. Sokolov was favorably impressed by the fact that he had not yet shit his pants. Men always made crude jokes about people pissing their pants with fear, but in Sokolov's experience shitting the pants was more common if it was a straighforward matter of extreme emotional distress. Pants pissing was completely unproductive and suggested a total breakdown of elemental control. Pants shitting, on the other hand, voided the bowels and thereby made blood available to the brain and the large muscle groups that otherwise would have gone to the lower-priority activity of digestion. Sokolov could have forgiven Peter for shitting his pants, but if pissed his pants, then it really would have been necessary to get rid of him.

A neatly folder cardboard box is the last refuge of a recyclist

Wherein Snowclones

• Samuel Johnson: patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
• Isaac Asimov: Violence is the refuge of the incompetent
• Oscar Wilde: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
• Oscar Wilde: Ambition is the last refuge of the failure
• Oscar Wilde: Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do
• Oscar Wilde: I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
• Natalie Clifford Barney: Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual
• Tony Wilson: Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented
• Kim Stanley Robinson in Red Mars (1992): Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation
• Thomas Sowell: Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument
• Joe Klein: Issues are the last refuge of a scoundrel
• The Illustrated magazine of art, Volume 3: We have said that these convents are the the last refuge of Greek art
• New Scientist Dec18-25, 19975: Wetlands are the last refuge of that most persecuted creature, urban man
• Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy, Joseph Luzzi: Corinne responds that art is the last refuge of a nation despoiled by foreigners of its arms and government
• George Russell: the story of an American composer, Duncan Heining: In some ways, the avant-garde is the last refuge of the untalented

Under news

• The Crikey health blog: marathon running is the last refuge of the scoundrel
• Mile High Report: But a Hail Mary pass is the last refuge of the desperate for a reason
• Sebastian Shakespeare: Twitter is the last refuge of the green-ink brigade
• Andrew Scharf: Dr. Johnson once quipped, “Nationalism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”.
• DrRck, in the comments: Boxing, though, is not the last refuge of an MMA fighter, any more than MMA is the last refuge of a boxer.
• Bruce Jackson (?): "Uncertainty is the last refuge of economists who can’t explain what is going on."
• Joe Nocera quoting Paul Kasriel: (“Uncertainty,” Kasriel told me, “is the last refuge of economists who can’t explain what is going on.”)
• Lydia Miljan: "I know saying that is the last refuge of the meek."
• Adam Gartrell quoting Robert Jeremenko: Harmonisation is the last refuge of scoundrels
• Jim Carroll: [box sets and deluxe editions] are the last refuge of the record label scoundrels
• Paul Ryan: Fear and demagoguery are the last refuge of an intellectually bankrupt party
• Robert Bryce: "Green jobs" are the last refuge of the subsidy seekers.

Zombie target practice

Wherein found here

A scene from The Wire

Wherein I've never seen The Wire though I hear it's good