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Beachcomber posted:A fact I knew but never clicked in the right way. There are nests with Cuckoos in them though 
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Beachcomber posted:A fact I knew but never clicked in the right way. Ok wise guy then tell me what the hell i just flew over
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christmas boots posted:Ok wise guy then tell me what the hell i just flew over ur mom 
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Beachcomber posted:A fact I knew but never clicked in the right way. Well why don't you explain what all these people are all singing about then, smart guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcSg9GxBueY
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I like that song. I like it too, but my wife doesn't, and I guess I can understand why. All the yelling does get a bit repetitive and grating. Probably better as an instrumental.
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Beachcomber posted:A fact I knew but never clicked in the right way. Only certain species of the cuckoo family are brood parasites. While the Common Cuckoo in Europe is one of them, most cuckoos, including the species in North America, raise their own young. (Roadrunners are also cuckoos. They can fly but they don't feel like it.) There are parasite birds in North America but those are Cowbirds.
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Beachcomber posted:A fact I knew but never clicked in the right way. A cuckoo's egg is real though and a great read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
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Laopooh posted:A cuckoo's egg is real though and a great read I will never not love Cliff Stoll, dude is living his best life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08RckIMQ984
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YggiDee posted:Only certain species of the cuckoo family are brood parasites. While the Common Cuckoo in Europe is one of them, most cuckoos, including the species in North America, raise their own young. (Roadrunners are also cuckoos. They can fly but they don't feel like it.) Interesting! Probably not something a lot of writers know, though.
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I discovered today that the company that makes printers and whatnot is called Brother, not Bother. I've been reading it in Winnie the Pooh's voice for two decades.
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Dec 18, 2021 13:16
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Now you can say it in a Buster Bluth voice
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The Samsung laser printer is named Annyong on our network, and the Brother all-in-one is Hermano.
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Hirayuki posted:The Samsung laser printer is named Annyong on our network, and the Brother all-in-one is Hermano. We're gonna find this "Hernano" fellow, mon frere
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Hirayuki posted:The Samsung laser printer is named Annyong on our network, and the Brother all-in-one is Hermano. It’s more amusing when you have a less-than-stellar grasp of Spanish (it’s not widely taught in the UK) and assume alongside the characters that ‘Hermano’ MUST BE a Latin cognate of ‘Herman’.
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Brawnfire posted:Now you can say it in a Buster Bluth voice Sister mother?
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Chicken drumsticks are called "jamoncitos" in Spanish because they look like tiny legs of ham.
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Captain Splendid posted:Chicken drumsticks are called "jamoncitos" in Spanish because they look like tiny legs of ham. hosed up, because they actually don't look like ham at all
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Failed Imagineer posted:hosed up, because they actually don't look like ham at all 
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Failed Imagineer posted:hosed up, because they actually don't look like ham at all Username checks out.
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Well now I'm just disappointed there aren't tiny little legs of ham that I can eat while pretending I'm a giant, like those little candy corn pumpkins
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Captain Hygiene posted:Well now I'm just disappointed there aren't tiny little legs of ham that I can eat while pretending I'm a giant, like those little candy corn pumpkins lets give growth hormone to piglet fetuses so they get big hams while still being tiny
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Carthag Tuek posted:lets give growth hormone to piglet fetuses so they get big hams while still being tiny 
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wellp i um
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Holy poo poo they made 3 of these?!
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I imagine getting a bunch of money to gently caress around and play action hero it’s hard to say no.
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TK-42-1 posted:I imagine getting a bunch of money to gently caress around and play action hero it’s hard to say no. theyre gonna do you like brendan fraser tho.. you dont get to gently caress around until you have like 10+ blockbusters under your belt
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Carthag Tuek posted:theyre gonna do you like brendan fraser tho.. you dont get to gently caress around until you have like 10+ blockbusters under your belt That is Stallone on those covers, right? And Batista is a Marvel Boy now, he'll be fine.
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Memento posted:That is Stallone on those covers, right? And Batista is a Marvel Boy now, he'll be fine. yeah those guys are probably fine. im saying if you wanna show up like TK-42-1, youre gonna do your own stunts until you cant too bad
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Carthag Tuek posted:yeah those guys are probably fine. im saying if you wanna show up like TK-42-1, youre gonna do your own stunts until you cant too bad Shoulda stayed at their post then
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Memento posted:Shoulda stayed at their post then thats all im saying
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TK-42-1 posted:it’s a living until you gently caress up your back or some exec gets handsy, now your career is over & it isnt a living just listen: get someone to look over your contract before you do the stunts ok?
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"The first Noel the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay" Because of the way the line is stressed, I always just assumed that "to certain" was a verb, and that it probably meant something like "to make certain" or "to reassure". But no, it's just the regular determiner as I'm used to it being used.
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Oh that reminds me of one. When I was a kid and just learning to read, I would read everything, as one does. The side of the milk bottles we got would say "keep refrigerated or below 4°C. Contents will then keep until use by date". I assumed "contents" was a funny word for parent or guardian, and that they would keep the milk but knew to get rid of it when it went off.
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Oh, I like those very much! I'm sure I've done something similar myself, but all that comes to mind is that, as a kid, I thought the full phrase was "Silence is golden, speech is silvern", until I used "silvern" in a novella writing competition and got gently teased that it's not a real word. Although... *google* *google* https://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/ahmad-y-majdoubeh/%E2%80%98speech-silvern%E2%80%99 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/silvern MotherFUCKER! I WAS RIGHT!
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I also just found out that "spendthrift" means the exact opposite of what I thought it meant. I don't think I've ever used it in a sentence, but still.
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Lady Disdain posted:"The first Noel the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay" I've had this same line of thought years before ty
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