Like a Lion

Let's be honest here.  Mother Nature cares nothing for your cutesy idioms.  If she wants to send you frost and tumbleweeds the whole month, then you're going to get them whether you like it or not.  Just accept it like an adult and move on. 

Do-Donut

I've never understood why dodos are the poster child for recently extinct animals.  I can think of at least half a dozen more interesting extinct animals off the top of my head, yet the most famous one remains an ugly flightless pigeon-thing that people seem to only care about because it's extinct.  Funnily enough, its closest living relative really is one of the more interesting species of pigeon. 

Virtually Vampiric

Who says that video games cause violence?

Stare Contest

One of the many Chuck Norris "facts" I've heard is that he beat Medusa in a staring contest. 
Not that hard, actually.