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I know Usagi is a japanese word for rabbit, and I knew that a lot of Asian folklore interprets the patterns on the surface of the moon as a rabbit, but I never put the two together with Sailor Moon’s name.
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Dr Christmas posted:I know Usagi is a japanese word for rabbit, and I knew that a lot of Asian folklore interprets the patterns on the surface of the moon as a rabbit, but I never put the two together with Sailor Moon’s name. Boy wait until you hear about the others and how Japan names the planets/weekdays
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Fruition -> fruit. As in the bearing of. Results. Well, gently caress.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Fruition -> fruit. As in the bearing of. Results. So... tuition -> toot? Makes sense!
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Sep 30, 2019 01:00
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Tutelage, but close
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FreeMars posted:Tutelage, but close I stand behind my toot TYVM.
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Sep 30, 2019 01:47
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Jerry Cotton posted:I stand behind my toot TYVM. I usually walk a few steps away and try to blame someone else
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Fruition -> fruit. As in the bearing of. Results. Not actually, the term originally meant "act of enjoying" and it came from the Late Latin fruitionem "to enjoy", so the phrase "to come to fruition" used to mean "to finally be able to enjoy something". Apparently the modern meaning "to bear fruit" came about a few centuries later because it just felt like a better fit in hindsight. https://www.etymonline.com/word/fruition Edit: "fruit" and "fruition" both came from the same Latin stem frui "to use, enjoy", but they got there by different paths. https://www.etymonline.com/word/fruit
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I now know what a funko pop is. I am not sure my life has gotten better for this knowledge. I do feel a little nerdier...
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Jerry Cotton posted:I stand behind my toot TYVM. Getting high on your own supply, I dig it Jerry Cotton posted:I stand behind my toot TYVM.
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Kiwi birds are the size of chickens. I always thought they were like, the size of a coffee mug. I guess cartoons made me think they were tiny and I just never realized the scale when I saw a photo of one.
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"Kiwi birds" are all animatronic robots and no one has yet successfully convinced me otherwise. Oh, did you see one at the zoo? Peep into a dark habitat, maybe saw something move? Mmm-hmm. Sure, people pick them up--you can pick up robots, sheesh.  (This is a running thing in our house, one of the lies I tell my son just to gently caress with him. He doesn't believe it...but I kind of do.)
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Friend posted:Kiwi birds are the size of chickens. I always thought they were like, the size of a coffee mug. I had always thought that too, until I saw one IRL. Opposite was ringtail lemurs. They're quite a bit smaller than I always assumed.
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Hirayuki posted:"Kiwi birds" are all animatronic robots and no one has yet successfully convinced me otherwise. Oh, did you see one at the zoo? Peep into a dark habitat, maybe saw something move? Mmm-hmm. Sure, people pick them up--you can pick up robots, sheesh. It isn't just kiwis. Birds aren't real.
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Oct 2, 2019 19:19
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Tunicate posted:You're so close to the truth here... If You Love Bird You Have Nano Chip In Your Brain
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Oct 2, 2019 19:31
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Birdwatching goes both ways.
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I assume this is what the british version of r/redpill sounds like
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Friend posted:Kiwi birds are the size of chickens. I always thought they were like, the size of a coffee mug. I think I had always just assumed they were the size of kiwi fruit.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think I had always just assumed they were the size of kiwi fruit. Those are just the eggs
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christmas boots posted:Those are just the eggs I know you're making a joke - but Kiwi eggs are about half the size of the kiwi - so quite larger than the fruit.
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I used to think "gumshoe" was a term for a rookie or inept detective, because they were so unobservant they didn't realise they were always stepping in chewing gum. I found out recently it just means any detective, and comes from them wearing rubber-soled shoes.
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Yeah it’s a rough life I chose, a clothpants in a bad part of the city. The kind of place where everybody shuts up when an old clothpants walks through the door. The kind of place that is haunted by ghosts of many a clothpants before. We’re drawn to places like this as a worm is to the concrete in the rain. The patrons like to watch the monthlong plunge of the next clothpants as they mumblingly disapprove. You can’t see the sun in here and after twelve years as a clothpants it’s implausible that I would recognize it. I chose this life.
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Oct 3, 2019 03:43
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*ad for clown college on police academy notice board* Forget gumshoe, wear funshoe.
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SLOSifl posted:Yeah it’s a rough life I chose, a clothpants in a bad part of the city. The kind of place where everybody shuts up when an old clothpants walks through the door. The kind of place that is haunted by ghosts of many a clothpants before. We’re drawn to places like this as a worm is to the concrete in the rain. The patrons like to watch the monthlong plunge of the next clothpants as they mumblingly disapprove. You can’t see the sun in here and after twelve years as a clothpants it’s implausible that I would recognize it. I chose this life. leather soles were the norm when "gumshoe" became a word
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Hyperlynx posted:I used to think "gumshoe" was a term for a rookie or inept detective, because they were so unobservant they didn't realise they were always stepping in chewing gum. I found out recently it just means any detective, and comes from them wearing rubber-soled shoes. I guess I just learned something, cool.
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Nicki Minaj, like menage a trois loving duh, I am a dolt that had to be told this today
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Hugh Malone posted:Nicki Minaj, like menage a trois "Later, Fendi, CEO of Brooklyn label Dirty Money Entertainment, signed Minaj to his label in 2007 under a 180-day contract. Originally adopting the stage name Nicki Maraj, she eventually changed it to Nicki Minaj stating that "my real name is Maraj. Fendi flipped it when he met me because I had such a nasty flow!""
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Turtlicious posted:"Later, Fendi, CEO of Brooklyn label Dirty Money Entertainment, signed Minaj to his label in 2007 under a 180-day contract. Originally adopting the stage name Nicki Maraj, she eventually changed it to Nicki Minaj stating that "my real name is Maraj. Fendi flipped it when he met me because I had such a nasty flow!"" ?? ???
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Hugh Malone posted:Nicki Minaj, like menage a trois I thought Cardi B’s name was a play on Cartier (Cardi A turns to Cardi B because it’s fashionable to be a blood nowadays). Turns out it’s because she likes Bacardi or something like that.
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ruddiger posted:I thought Cardi B’s name was a play on Cartier (Cardi A turns to Cardi B because it’s fashionable to be a blood nowadays). Turns out it’s because she likes Bacardi or something like that. Literally her stripper name (Bacardi), rearranged, if I'm not mistaken.
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Jerry Cotton posted:*ad for clown college on police academy notice board* Forget gumshoe, wear funshoe. I appreciated this joke.
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Oct 4, 2019 12:33
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It obviously stands for Cardigan Backyardigan idiots
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Krankenstyle posted:?? ??? It's not Minaj like ménage à trois, it's just a flip on her real name, miraj.
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i was thinking a flipped maraj would be jaram lol
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The opposite of Weird Al is... NormAl. Sorry for the whitest possible addition to the current discussion.
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Not just white. Nerdy too.
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Weird Al is someone I enjoy even though by all rights I should find him unbelievably lame.
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He's a good and cool guy.
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