Reading this thread on Whatever and the comments are pretty interesting but part way down the thread someone starts tossing around the word MacGuffin and it wasn't actually until Scalzi called them on it that I realized that they were completely misusing the word. So there's yr internet tip for the night. If you plan to get all pedantic up in the grill of a bunch of writers, it'd help to understand the meaning of the words you're planning to toss around.

I'm just sayin'