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Sentient Data posted:You can buy a huge block of isbns for relatively cheap as a one-time fee (and can turn the isbns into scannable barcodes), but if you need upcs you have to pay a pricy recurring license basically forever Ah that makes sense in this case as the bar code is just the ISBN. The manufacturer is also an old publisher (number 23 for this country) so they probably had a few to spare.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:That's called a UPC, for selling it at a retail location You were sort of close though, it's both ISBN-13 and EAN-13  at the same time  but not UPC.quote:Barcode format compatibility is maintained, because (aside from the group breaks) the ISBN-13 barcode format is identical to the EAN barcode format of existing 10-digit ISBNs.
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Ddraig posted:Speaking as a former Librarian the municipal libraries are a bit behind the times and should probably adopt the UDC system since its sort of the industry standard, or at the very least should be. So that's one trouser leg, does the other have complete and utter anarchy in the library system?
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Sep 22, 2016 16:04
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Jerry Cotton posted:No you idiot poo poo fuckhead it's got an ISBN it's pretty loving easy to tell because it says "ISBN" in front of it. Nice meltdown.
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Alternative pants posted:So that's one trouser leg, does the other have complete and utter anarchy in the library system? Lets just say the stacks don't quite stack and leave it at that. The horror is too immense.
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I have a low end hi-fi system in my home, I like it. Im sitting here, right now, thirty three years on this earth and I cup my hands around my ears, like they were big ol koala ears, while I listen to some music on this poo poo. I already knew that cupping your hands like that will amplify the volume, I did not know that moving your fingers up, our your thumb down, would act as an equaliser Whoa man
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Everything required to build a fully functional chicken is in a chicken egg. It's so obvious but I just realized it while cooking eggs. 🐣
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Birds come from eggs? Amazing. I recently learner that the expression "dead as a door nail" is derived from the fact that the nail in a door hinge (usually) doesn't move when the hinge swings open or shut. Similarly (having never been any kind of musician) "play it by ear" means to play something by sounds alone, without the sheet music. Both if these may be false as I can't be bothered to google them.
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Sep 29, 2016 02:12
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JoelJoel posted:Similarly (having never been any kind of musician) "play it by ear" means to play something by sounds alone, without the sheet music.
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JoelJoel posted:I recently learner that the expression "dead as a door nail" is derived from the fact that the nail in a door hinge (usually) doesn't move when the hinge swings open or shut. This makes no sense even without binging (  at googling in 2016 just  ) because those would be hingenails not doornails.Have some doornails: 
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HairyManling posted:That's pretty much what it means, yes. But I'm genuinely curious what you thought it meant before figuring this out. Just figured it meant to "wing it", which is, incidentally, another expression I can't make heads or tails of. Oh, there's another one. Idioms, man. I tried to bing em, but all I got was very specific porn.
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Pikachu is called that because he likes to watch (peek(pik)) people sneezing (you say achoo (achu) when you sneeze)
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JoelJoel posted:Just figured it meant to "wing it", which is, incidentally, another expression I can't make heads or tails of. Oh, there's another one. Idioms, man. "This expression comes from the theater, where it alludes to an actor studying his part in the wings (the areas to either side of the stage) because he has been suddenly called on to replace another. First recorded in 1885, it eventually was extended to other kinds of improvisation based on unpreparedness."
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Baron Corbyn posted:Pikachu is called that because he likes to watch (peek(pik)) people sneezing (you say achoo (achu) when you sneeze) I was expecting you to work (((Pikachu))) into this post somehow.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I was expecting you to work (((Pikachu))) into this post somehow. Jeremy isn't anti-semitic despite what the Labour right would have you believe.
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Baron Corbyn posted:Pikachu is called that because he likes to watch (peek(pik)) people sneezing (you say achoo (achu) when you sneeze) Related: Celery Face posted:I was trying to fool around with someone in a car at a secluded spot but we kept getting interrupted by people playing Pokemon Go. Roro posted:Holy poo poo, this is gold. Did they get any rare Pokemon? Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Or did they just get a pikachu?
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pikachu secret origin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjeesteTEg
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JoelJoel posted:Just figured it meant to "wing it" This is how my grandparents and parents use it, so I guess it's at least semi common. Example: "What do you guys want for dinner?" - "Let's drive into town and we'll play it by ear."
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Troons are trans goons. I thought it was something to do with cartoons. People mentioned something about shmorky and troons and I always thougth it was just like really goony cartoonists or something.
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JoelJoel posted:Just figured it meant to "wing it", which is, incidentally, another expression I can't make heads or tails of. Oh, there's another one. Idioms, man. Cant make heads or tails is referring to coin tosses. Playing it by ear is sort of like the old punchline "Do you know (person's name)?" "No but if you can hum a few bars I'll fake it!" Means to try to play a song you don't know based off of how it sounds. Gets used in a lot of other aspects of life when someone doesn't really know what they're doing but they're giving it their best shot.
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This is for the auto mechanics and DIYer goons: I've been working on cars since I was ten years old, and I've been using aerosol solvents for just as long. The little red straw they come with for precision spraying is taped to the side of the can, and after use, I would gently and carefully put the straw back into the tape if it didn't get damaged or torn. Otherwise, I would just leave the straw someplace visible in my workshop where it would eventually disappear. I've still got quite a few straws, but it loving sucks when they're not handily and readily with the can. Today I was doing brakes on my truck, and I had a new can of brake cleaner on hand. I pulled the cap off the can and got looking at it. Almost all caps have an impression in them that look like this:  it's where you put the straw when it's not in use, like so:  I was like  ,  , and  at the same time. All those years of missing and lost straws and cursing the tape from whence they came. I'm never taking the caps for granted and tossing them ever again.
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You Are A Elf posted:This is for the auto mechanics and DIYer goons: This is what happens with autodidacts 
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Summer of 69 does not begin with "Got my first real sex dream".
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Simply Simon posted:Summer of 69 does not begin with "Got my first real sex dream". How would you buy that at the 5 and dime?
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nexus6 posted:How would you buy that at the 5 and dime? Dreams are right next to the Office and School Supplies at mine. Sex dreams are on the upper shelves out of the reach of children.
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nexus6 posted:How would you buy that at the 5 and dime? "My first real sex dream" always sounded perfectly clear to me and also made sense because when I hear 1969, I think sexual revolution, and the verse ends with "best days of my life", perfectly sensible, right? I have no idea what the song is about. I also hate it. It is played 50% of the time on German radion stations.
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And then he plays until his fingers bleed, sounds about right.
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Simply Simon posted:I'm not the kind of person who really listens to lyrics with songs unless they're really easy to understand, so the first line always jumped out at me and the rest was lost in the same "rhyming sounds" salad most songs for me are comprised of. I'm not a native speaker to boot, so I mishear/don't understand a LOT of lyrics, because they tend to use uncommon words to fit the music, be slurred to fit the rhythm, shouted to fit the emotional content etc. For the longest time I tried to make out what Die Toten Hosen were singing in this one bit. Then I got a version of the song by another band and turns out it was "lalala" 
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Simply Simon posted:Summer of 69 does not begin with "Got my first real sex dream". I recently learner that mondegreen is a really cool word. It's also one of the few words in English that is what it describes. I'm sure there's a word for it.
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JoelJoel posted:I recently learner that mondegreen is a really cool word. Homology.
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Or "autological."
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The Danish words sammensætte (v.) or sammensætning (n.) are autological – sammen = together, sætte = to put, sætning = that which is put... It means words (and other things) that are put together!  I suppose synthesis (literally the same stems, but in Greek) and composition (do., Latin) could be said to be autological as well, but I'm not sure if they really apply to words.
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JoelJoel posted:It's also one of the few words in English that is what it describes. Pentasyllabic is another one I've always liked. Memento has a new favorite as of 01:57 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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Simply Simon posted:I'm not the kind of person who really listens to lyrics with songs unless they're really easy to understand, so the first line always jumped out at me and the rest was lost in the same "rhyming sounds" salad most songs for me are comprised of. I'm not a native speaker to boot, so I mishear/don't understand a LOT of lyrics, because they tend to use uncommon words to fit the music, be slurred to fit the rhythm, shouted to fit the emotional content etc. this will blow your mind : the 69 does not refer to the year 1969
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Microsoft Excel could be, in part, a pun on the word "cell", as in what its tables are made up of.
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AlphaKretin posted:Microsoft Excel could be, in part, a pun on the word "cell", as in what its tables are made up of. I used excel for my entire undergrad degree and I never once thought this you mother fucker.
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Grillfiend posted:this will blow your mind : the 69 does not refer to the year 1969
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Neil Innes is not Neil Hannon. They're both musicians from the UK, but they're not the same person at all.
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Grillfiend posted:this will blow your mind : the 69 does not refer to the year 1969 Bryan Adams is old but I don't think he was around in 69 AD.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Bryan Adams is old but I don't think he was around in 69 AD. And he was nine years old in the summer of 1969.
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