"What's he going to cite for more recent examples? Jurassic Park?"
Didn't that appear in the Journal of Irreproducible Results?
(There actually is/was such a thing).
I subscribed for a couple of years. I started reading it decades ago when it was the Worm Runner's Digest. Unfortunately the quality of writing seldom matches the level where actual humor kicks in. Not every can be Douglas Adams or Gary Larson.