“If you also include supercolossal, which, let’s face, it would still bring devastation to a number of states, you suddenly get three big eruptions in the past two million years, and can then argue that the caldera was quiescent between 6 and 2 million years ago and is now just waking up again,” he said.

Among many other sketches, Mr. Efron once explored the intricacies of olive grading, in which olives are variously labeled large, extra large, mammoth, giant, jumbo, colossal and supercolossal.

This is my childhood Thanksgiving right here: "There were the relish dishes to compose of hearts of celery and carrot sticks and supercolossal olives, both black and pimento-stuffed. The cranberry sauce was wriggled out of the can into one of my grandmother’s cut crystal bowls that was used only once a year, for this purpose."

There were the relish dishes to compose of hearts of celery and carrot sticks and supercolossal olives, both black and pimento-stuffed.

After my bomb avocation, I became the organizer of the supercolossal fruit roll.