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Phyzzle posted:I just figured out that entomology is not the study of ants, but of insects in general. As opposed to macroscopy, which is looking at your mom.
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The letter "S" is probably deliberately shaped like a snake. It's the Latin alphabet, and the word for snake in Latin is "Serpens." It can't possibly be a coincidence.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 02:12 |
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Sucrose posted:The letter "S" is probably deliberately shaped like a snake. It's the Latin alphabet, and the word for snake in Latin is "Serpens." It can't possibly be a coincidence. Have you seen how jaggy the early forms of letters are? I don't know if it's because they had to be carved into stone or wax or what but there's nothing sinuous about early forms of "s" It could be trying to look snakelike but the ancient "s" looks more like a sideways "w"
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 02:26 |
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syscall girl posted:Have you seen how jaggy the early forms of letters are? Ah, you're right. The original letter was much more jagged, so that probably nixes my snake theory.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 02:55 |
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The Phoenician letter nun which looks like a mirrored capital N, and actually is the ancestor of latin N, was likely derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphic for snake.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 10:21 |
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sierra mist.... mountain dew. duh.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 15:01 |
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I'm gonna get dogpiled for this one but here goes: I had no idea this was a comedy forum, I just thought it was a really good forum with occasionally funny posts Feels like I just signed my own death warrant
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# ? Sep 26, 2015 20:28 |
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It's fine. You'd be kindof weird if you did think it was a comedy forum to be honest.
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# ? Sep 26, 2015 20:30 |
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Parrotine posted:I just thought it was a really good forum lol
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# ? Sep 26, 2015 21:11 |
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Snapchat A Titty posted:It's fine. You'd be kindof weird if you did think it was a comedy forum to be honest. It's comedy in the sense that we all hate ourselves so we make fun of everyone (including ourselves) to feel better. In other words, it's only funny to us and just sad to everyone else.
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# ? Sep 27, 2015 02:53 |
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Parrotine posted:
dont worry its not
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# ? Sep 27, 2015 07:44 |
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Telephony is not pronounced tele-phony but rather te-LEH-fuh-nee. It's also apparently a real word and not just a bad pun. I was misled by an episode (called "Telephonies") of, uh... something.
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# ? Sep 27, 2015 12:04 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnlyNUt_0o That isn't a George Michael song. Also, pangolins exist. I figured each of these out like two years ago.
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# ? Sep 27, 2015 15:05 |
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The hash part of a URL doesn't get sent to the server--it's entirely client-side. e: so in this URL: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3711921&pagenumber=7#lastpost the "lastpost" part is just an instruction for the browser (via client-side javascript) to scroll to the last post. The server never sees it because the server doesn't give a poo poo what post is in your viewport. e2: this is different from the "threadid", "pagenumber", and "perpage", which the server does need to know in order to retrieve the right posts. semicolon has a new favorite as of 16:26 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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andipossess posted:Telephony is not pronounced tele-phony but rather te-LEH-fuh-nee. It's also apparently a real word and not just a bad pun. I was misled by an episode (called "Telephonies") of, uh... something. People know how to use Google. We all know you watch The Powerpuff Girls. And now that you're embarrassed about it. Don't be. It's a good show.
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# ? Sep 27, 2015 16:51 |
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Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon aren't the same show or people.
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# ? Sep 27, 2015 20:55 |
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Today I learned that the Benelux Union in Europe is named by the first letters of each member state within it. Belgium - Netherlands - Luxembourg. Same principle as Nylon, but it's a bit wierd to do that for countries.
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 00:12 |
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Rasler posted:Today I learned that the Benelux Union in Europe is named by the first letters of each member state within it. Belgium - Netherlands - Luxembourg. Same principle as Nylon, but it's a bit wierd to do that for countries. I thought it was especially weird to do that with the English names for three countries whose official languages aren't English, but it looks like it works in most of the major languages of those countries, too. Except Netherlands in French is Pays-Bas so gently caress you southern Belgians!
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 01:43 |
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Rasler posted:Same principle as Nylon
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 10:51 |
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Flipperwaldt posted:Except that story is apocryphal. The story relates to the apocalypse?
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 19:38 |
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I loving hate what the History Channel has become. Aw poo poo page snipe sorry.
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 19:59 |
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Just Offscreen posted:I loving hate what the History Channel has become. Yes, it was SO much better back in the 90s when it was the Hitler channel.
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 20:01 |
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Infyrno posted:The story relates to the apocalypse?
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 20:18 |
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Wanamingo posted:Yes, it was SO much better back in the 90s when it was the Hitler channel. How It's Made begs to differ with you.
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 20:21 |
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Infyrno posted:The story relates to the apocalypse? Nice questionable etymology.
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 21:55 |
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Wanamingo posted:Yes, it was SO much better back in the 90s when it was the Hitler channel. At least Hitler was loving real.
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 22:46 |
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I just occurred to me that Beck does not literally have two turn tables and a microphone.
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 23:04 |
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Infyrno posted:The story relates to the apocalypse? You're thinking of episcopalian.
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# ? Sep 28, 2015 23:53 |
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:I just occurred to me that Beck does not literally have two turn tables and a microphone. He probably does. I would imagine he has even more than that actually.
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 00:40 |
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He eats his dinner off of turntables. Just lets the food lazy susan its way into his mouth. What a loser.
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 01:32 |
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He's singing about his cock and balls.
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 01:38 |
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:He's singing about his cock and balls. You kid but I actually thought this in the 90s.
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 03:04 |
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I was watching a clip of Nicholas Cage in Wicker Man and he pronounces quixotically "quee-zotically". You never hear it out loud, but I always read it "keehotically", like you say Don Quixote. The dictionary sides with Nicholas Cage.
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 03:17 |
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:I was watching a clip of Nicholas Cage in Wicker Man and he pronounces quixotically "quee-zotically". You never hear it out loud, but I always read it "keehotically", like you say Don Quixote. The dictionary sides with Nicholas Cage. Kind of. It's more like "Quik-sahtik-al-ly."
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 06:32 |
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:I always read it "keehotically", like you say Don Quixote. You say Quixote "Keehot"? Please stop immediately s:
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 07:38 |
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Phosphine posted:You say Quixote "Keehot"? Please stop immediately s: It's not pronounced like the cereal. There's a joke in the Simpsons where Homer is trying to remember Don Quixote and Marge says the title, but until I watched the episode with the subtitles I was super confused because I thought she was saying "Donkey Oatie".
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 08:13 |
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Phosphine posted:You say Quixote "Keehot"? Please stop immediately s: I mean that's actually the way it's pronounced in the original Spanish (sort of, it's actually "Keehotay"). In olde Spanish the letter x was pronounced like j is now (Hence the Spanish pronunciation of Mexico as "Meheeko" or Texas as "Tehas". Also why in modern copies of Don Quixote the name is spelt Don Quijote).
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 12:27 |
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Lady Naga posted:It's not pronounced like the cereal. I am not aware of any cereal it would be pronounced like.
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 12:55 |
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Lady Naga posted:There's a joke in the Simpsons where Homer is trying to remember Don Quixote and Marge says the title, but until I watched the episode with the subtitles I was super confused because I thought she was saying "Donkey Oatie".
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# ? Sep 29, 2015 16:38 |
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Phosphine posted:I am not aware of any cereal it would be pronounced like. Kix?
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