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Quiet Feet posted:The first iteration of Batman was just a guy who just went around beating the poo poo out of people with a baseball bat. Babe Ruth killed his dad with a pop fly and his mom choked to death on a Cracker Jack out of shock. The series was canceled after 7 issues. OG Batman shot dudes with firearms.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:OG Batman shot dudes with firearms. They shouldn't have been carrying firearms then.
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Freudian posted:They shouldn't have been carrying firearms then. You cant expect Batman to shoot guys without guns. He's a vigilante not a cop.
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Aug 1, 2020 01:10
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purple death ray posted:Yeah, you know how Blackbeard used to put lit fuses in his beard to intimidate people? Lots of pirates would keep bats under their hats and let them fly out for dramatic effect. That's also the origin of the term "batter", which is what they called the clubs you'd use to get the bats out. It's also the origin of the term 'assault and battery' because the batter was wielded by pirates, who were colloquially known as 'Salty dogs' so you were battered by a salty hence 'a salty battery' became modernised later to Assault and Battery.
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lol Blackbeard wasn’t even real. The CIA made him up so they could justify a military invasion of Nassau
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Horses all have a birthday on the same day A horse that was born 3 days ago in South Africa is now one year old A horse born on December the 21st in England will be one year old, ten days later
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Cake "batter" is so named because it resembles the slurry that was traditionally used to placate angry bats.
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Aug 1, 2020 11:58
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Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach, was a committed educationalist as well as a sometime pirate/ privateer. He used to hold symposiums for many topics on board his ships, and prepared a lot of his men for a working life after sailing. In fact, a lot of his teachings were passed on by those same men after they retired from the sea and they, in turn, tried to make the lot of their fellow working men better, and were often invited to give short presentations on topics they were well versed in to whatever forum interested in. For a while, some of these learned men were called "Teachers" after the man himself, but this fell out of fashion after some of his unsavoury piratical activities became more well known. Now, of course, you can identify if your lecturer is an admirer of a scurvy ridden, drunken low life with no useful skills or knowledge when they thank you for coming to their 'Ted' talk.
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Aug 1, 2020 12:18
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Teacher's blended whisky is so called because it was designed as an affordable way to relax after being in a classroom all day.
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Aug 1, 2020 13:50
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gleebster posted:Teacher's blended whisky is so called because it was designed as an affordable way to relax while being in a classroom all day. Ftfy. (I had at least one teacher in my youth who would take nips from a whiskey bottle in her desk during class)
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Aug 1, 2020 14:54
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Failed Imagineer posted:Ftfy. In grade 2 (7-8 years old) i was in a small rural primary school with 19 kids. Grade prep to grade 6 was one room. The teacher would drink from 0900 when he started the day, and often pass out by lunchtime. The bell to go back inside after lunchtime never went off, so the grade 6 kids would just tell the rest of us when it was time to go and get the bus home. When my brother and I were pulled out of there to take a much longer bus ride to an actual school, the locals fought tooth and nail to not have the school closed, because at the time you needed at least 18 kids to have a school. They would have all been better off if they just hosed around at home all day instead of go to that school.
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Aug 1, 2020 14:59
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Memento posted:Horses all have a birthday on the same day This is actually almost true if you replace "horses" with "Koreans". At least South Koreans; I don't know if that's how North Koreans do it.
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Aug 1, 2020 15:21
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I replaced my horses with Koreans and my business has never been doing better. Try it now!
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Beachcomber posted:Cake "batter" is so named because it resembles the slurry that was traditionally used to placate angry bats.
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Aug 1, 2020 21:13
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Phlegmish posted:Yeah it's just a shirtless guy Sexual harassment is different than telling someone that they are fat or ugly.
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Deimos, son of Ares, one of the two moons of Mars, one of the settings of the original Doom - a game I've played continuously since it came out - is not pronounced dee-mos. Apparently it's dye-moss.
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Hyperlynx posted:Deimos, son of Ares, one of the two moons of Mars, one of the settings of the original Doom - a game I've played continuously since it came out - is not pronounced dee-mos. Apparently it's dye-moss. It's still pronounced dei mos.
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Hyperlynx posted:Deimos, son of Ares, one of the two moons of Mars, one of the settings of the original Doom - a game I've played continuously since it came out - is not pronounced dee-mos. Apparently it's dye-moss. lmao you rear end
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Aug 2, 2020 23:56
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it's obviously "Day Moes"
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FreudianSlippers posted:it's obviously "Day Moes" All these years I thought it was "drat 'oes"
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Def Mos
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Aug 3, 2020 08:07
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It stinks like rotten meat.
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Beachcomber posted:It stinks like rotten meat. ...but looks like the lost Dee-moss base! Exactly! 
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Aug 3, 2020 09:06
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The comic strip Garfield was originally called Jon
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Captain Hygiene posted:On average, bats are some of the largest members of the insect kingdom. 
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Aug 6, 2020 19:03
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Continuing my Ghost of Tsushima dumbness, I just now learned (after beating the game) that Tsushima is an actual island, and not the made-up location inspired by some real-world analogue I assumed the whole time. 
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Captain Hygiene posted:Continuing my Ghost of Tsushima dumbness, I just now learned (after beating the game) that Tsushima is an actual island, and not the made-up location inspired by some real-world analogue I assumed the whole time. And it was the real site of a Mongol invasion in 1274! Though this particular Khan is made up. The funny thing I learned recently about the game is that the haiku segments are about 400 years too soon. But the most thread relevant thing I learned is that samurai were a thing for like, 700 years. I always assumed they were part of a very specific period of time but the last ones were more recent than the American Civil War.
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Henchman of Santa posted:And it was the real site of a Mongol invasion in 1274! Though this particular Khan is made up. The katana is making an early appearance as well.
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Henchman of Santa posted:And it was the real site of a Mongol invasion in 1274! Though this particular Khan is made up. He just got owned so hard that history forgot him 
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Proteus Jones posted:The katana is making an early appearance as well. All the anachronisms kind of work since the game is about becoming an exaggerated folk hero.
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Aug 9, 2020 03:38
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Henchman of Santa posted:I always assumed they were part of a very specific period of time but the last ones were more recent than the American Civil War. Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars, which are the same movie, are set half a world away from eachother but only a few years apart: Yojimbo is 1860 and Dollars is shortly after The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, which is during the Civil War Blondie and Sanjuro missed out on an awesome teamup
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There was even a spaghetti western that ran with that idea
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I thought all otters were, like, the side of ferrets. Apparently not!
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Hyperlynx posted:I thought all otters were, like, the side of ferrets. I call them Lake dogs! I just wanna give the fella a scratch! And that Orca is PISSED
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Captain Hygiene posted:Continuing my Ghost of Tsushima dumbness, I just now learned (after beating the game) that Tsushima is an actual island, and not the made-up location inspired by some real-world analogue I assumed the whole time. I think the version in the game is almost entirely fictional apart from being an island that the Mongols invade.
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Hyperlynx posted:I thought all otters were, like, the side of ferrets. There are even bigger otters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quklHo6Myx8 Hard to get a sense of scale in that, but they can get over 5' long.
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Aug 10, 2020 14:22
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DrBouvenstein posted:There are even bigger otters: The biggest otters are Per and his sister Anu. 
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The Moon Monster posted:I think the version in the game is almost entirely fictional apart from being an island that the Mongols invade. The real island doesn't have a separate persistent climate zone for spring, fall, and winter?? Obviously kidding, I'd believe it was only loosely inspired, just having the actual island was one step closer than reality to what I expected.
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Henchman of Santa posted:And it was the real site of a Mongol invasion in 1274! Though this particular Khan is made up.
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Humphreys posted:I call them Lake dogs! I just wanna give the fella a scratch! They're like the best animals
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