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EmmyOk posted:Frank mentions it in an episode of Always Sunny when he's conning a bunch of tourists telling them it's where all the bodies in Philly winds up. He pronounces it kind of like skull-kill so I always thought it was a made up name. I'm not American but am dumb tbf. The gang nailed the pronunciation of Poconos by Philadelphians though
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I grew up in the Philly burbs and there's no way anyone from outside the area could get that one on their own. Conshohocken is another one that comes to mind. Con-cha-hawk-in
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I've known for a long time that the old timey bike with a giant front wheel is called a penny-farthing but I've only just put together that they're called that because the wheels resemble the old British coins, a penny and a farthing, placed side by side.
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Hardcordion posted:I've known for a long time that the old timey bike with a giant front wheel is called a penny-farthing but I've only just put together that they're called that because the wheels resemble the old British coins, a penny and a farthing, placed side by side. No it's because it used to cost a penny (40,000£ in current currency) and it didn't have pedals so you got around by farthing a lot.
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Aug 10, 2017 19:38
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Getting gasoline into an open cut burns like hell.
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Leavemywife posted:Getting gasoline into an open cut burns like hell. I remember my first day
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This isn't me, but was actually a co-worker a while ago. He'd just come back from a trip to London and was talking about all the Sherlock Holmes stuff he'd seen while there (221B Baker Street, etc.). He thought Sherlock Holmes was at one point, a real guy, as did his girlfriend who was on the trip with him. This apparently isn't unusual, in that a poll in 2014 found that close to 20% of people surveyed thought he was a real historic figure: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373505/One-Brits-think-Sherlock-Holmes-Miss-Marple-Blackadder-historical-figures.html He was so weirded out when I told him. We had to go to Wiki and everything.
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Scaramouche posted:This isn't me, but was actually a co-worker a while ago. He'd just come back from a trip to London and was talking about all the Sherlock Holmes stuff he'd seen while there (221B Baker Street, etc.). He thought Sherlock Holmes was at one point, a real guy, as did his girlfriend who was on the trip with him. This apparently isn't unusual, in that a poll in 2014 found that close to 20% of people surveyed thought he was a real historic figure: Yeah it's really common for people to believe that fictional things are real: Robin Hood, King Arthur, the Titanic, Robinson Crusoe, narwhals, etc etc
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It is really monstrous how many unicorns are killed every year, just so their horns can be chopped off and sold as narwhal horns.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah it's really common for people to believe that fictional things are real: Robin Hood, King Arthur, the Titanic, Robinson Crusoe, narwhals, etc etc Haha we once convinced a dude the invisible hand of the market was real hahaha.
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Cacafuego posted:I grew up outside of Philly and always pronounced it as skook-ll, as everyone else in the Philly area did. I bought a fishing rod from a guy up that way and he was nice enough to tell me the names of some good fishing spots. An hour later I am looking at a map and like nothing makes any sense.
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bongwizzard posted:I bought a fishing rod from a guy up that way and he was nice enough to tell me the names of some good fishing spots. An hour later I am looking at a map and like nothing makes any sense. Yeah smoking weed will do that to ya.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah it's really common for people to believe that fictional things are real: Robin Hood, King Arthur, the Titanic, Robinson Crusoe, narwhals, etc etc Ask me about breaking Japanese tourists' hearts by telling them they can't visit Anne of Green Gables' grave 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah it's really common for people to believe that fictional things are real: Robin Hood, King Arthur, the Titanic, Robinson Crusoe, narwhals, etc etc i'm proud of u for not making a holocaust joke here we truly are growing up
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Charlie and the Waitress are married in real life. woah
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Charlie and the Waitress are married in real life. woah So are Mac and Dee.
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Henchman of Santa posted:So are Mac and Dee. Dennis and the pharmacist he DENNIS'd are a couple, too.
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i thought monty python was a real person until i was twenty.
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Pink Floyd was the singer, right?
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i thought monty python was a real person until i was twenty. According to the lore they were stuck with the name 'Flying Circus' when the BBC said they'd already printed that name on their schedule and weren't prepared to change it and the cast decided to call the show "______'s Flying Circus" and went through a bunch of different names before choosing Monty Python. Apparently Michael Pail wanted to call the show 'Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus' after a woman he'd read about in the paper because he thought it'd be hilarious if this woman picked up a TV guide one day and discovered there was a TV show named after her.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Pink Floyd was the singer, right? No, that's Jethro Tull
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Pink Floyd was the singer, right? btw, which ones pink
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Holland Oates. 
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KoRMaK posted:btw, which ones pink
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Jerry Cotton posted:Haha we once convinced a dude the invisible hand of the market was real hahaha. 
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Henchman of Santa posted:No, that's Jethro Tull I thought it was Blondie? Edit: no joke, until I was about 12 I thought Blondie and Debbie Harry were two women who performed together. Mostly because of this compilation. 
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Henchman of Santa posted:No, that's Jethro Tull I believe his name is Jeff Rotull.
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KoRMaK posted:btw, which ones pink Apparently Bob Geldoff
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Choco1980 posted:Apparently Bob Geldoff
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Mountain goats aren't goats.
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Memento posted:Mountain goats aren't goats. Get the gently caress out of town. Wait "Despite its vernacular name, it is not a member of Capra, the genus that includes all other goats, such as the wild goat, Capra aegagrus, from which the domestic goat is derived."
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Baronjutter posted:Get the gently caress out of town. If you think that's crazy: https://youtu.be/uhwcEvMJz1Y
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rydiafan posted:If you think that's crazy: https://youtu.be/uhwcEvMJz1Y On the goat thing, a sentence or two before or after the quoted section basically says they are extremely close to goats. quote:Within this subfamily Caprinae, a prominent tribe Caprini includes sheep, goat, and ibex. It’s not like they’re rabbits or something. Like how hyenas are “cats” not dogs, except mountain goats share a subfamily while hyenas are “cats” at the suborder. Mountain goats are basically goats and it’s splitting hairs to say they’re “also kind of ibex”.
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"The terminology of "fish" tells nothing about its biology. Biologically speaking, a salmon is more related to a camel than a hagfish. Just because they are sea-dwelling creatures, doesn't mean they are more or less related to each other. Salmon and camels are both Gnathostomata while hagfish are Myxini. All three are Chordata which includes mammals, amphibians, reptiles and fish but excludes all insects and arthropods. In other words, when someone says 'fish', from a phylogenetic and cladistic standpoint they have to include frogs and chickens as well." Salmon and hagfish are no more the same thing because they swim than a hawk and a bat are the same thing because they fly.
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Wait, so you're saying we can eat chicken for lent right?
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what do you mean, there's no such thing as a fish?
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Me dear mum was a fish
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rydiafan posted:In other words, when someone says 'fish', from a phylogenetic and cladistic standpoint they have to include frogs and chickens as well. However, the phylogenetic and cladistic standpoint is completely irrelevant about 100% of the time people say "fish".
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Jerry Cotton posted:However, the phylogenetic and cladistic standpoint is completely irrelevant about 100% of the time people say "fish". Which they observe in the video as well - the only time people actually give a poo poo about the definition of the word "fish" is when they're looking at a menu.
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The culinary definition is much more important to non-biologists, anyway. Who cares if a tomato is technically a berry? What does it matter that a peanut is really a legume? Does it have scales, fins and gills? Does it swim in the sea? Sounds like a fish to me, partner.
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