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George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.

Captain Hygiene posted:

He had a number of feats he would perform, such as:
  • He would hold his arm out, with fingers outstretched, and challenge people to attempt to bend his little finger.
  • He would stand on a greased iron disk and challenge people to push him off of it.
  • He would hold a pomegranate in one hand, and challenge others to take it from him. Nobody ever could, and despite him holding the fruit very tightly, it was never damaged.
  • He would train in the off years by carrying a newborn calf on his back every day until the Olympics took place. By the time the events were to take place, he was carrying a four-year-old cow on his back. He carried the full-grown cow the length of the stadium, then proceeded to kill, roast, and eat it.

dudes rock

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laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

Poor cow. She probably got attached to him :(

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012
Buglord

laserghost posted:

Poor cow. She probably got attached to him :(

maybe she didn't want to be carried

matti
Mar 31, 2019

Captain Hygiene posted:

He had a number of feats he would perform, such as:
  • He would hold his arm out, with fingers outstretched, and challenge people to attempt to bend his little finger.
  • He would stand on a greased iron disk and challenge people to push him off of it.
  • He would hold a pomegranate in one hand, and challenge others to take it from him. Nobody ever could, and despite him holding the fruit very tightly, it was never damaged.
  • He would train in the off years by carrying a newborn calf on his back every day until the Olympics took place. By the time the events were to take place, he was carrying a four-year-old cow on his back. He carried the full-grown cow the length of the stadium, then proceeded to kill, roast, and eat it.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Today's millennials could learn a thing or two about the dangers of getting your rear end eaten

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Captain Hygiene posted:

He had a number of feats he would perform, such as:
  • He would hold his arm out, with fingers outstretched, and challenge people to attempt to bend his little finger.
  • He would stand on a greased iron disk and challenge people to push him off of it.
  • He would hold a pomegranate in one hand, and challenge others to take it from him. Nobody ever could, and despite him holding the fruit very tightly, it was never damaged.
  • He would train in the off years by carrying a newborn calf on his back every day until the Olympics took place. By the time the events were to take place, he was carrying a four-year-old cow on his back. He carried the full-grown cow the length of the stadium, then proceeded to kill, roast, and eat it.

i just watched the tasting history video that mentioned this guy

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



polyester concept posted:

i just watched the tasting history video that mentioned this guy

:hfive:
Love a video that randomly sends me to multiple wiki pages about historical bullshit

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

A chain named Cheeseburger Restaurants based in Portola, California had one of their restaurants located in oceanfront Lahaina, Hawaii, also named "Cheeseburger in Paradise". This chain, which began in 1989, has no relation to Jimmy Buffett's business. Buffett sued the owners in 1997. After a four-year legal battle, a settlement was reached that allowed Laren Gartner and Edna Bayliff to keep the name at their existing restaurants in Lahaina and Waikiki but prevented them from using it at any additional locations.[14] The Lahaina location burned down due to a wildfire in August 2023.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
Hummus and friends

Hummus: they love it in Israel, so shouldn't it be in Category:Israeli cuisine? Or is it a purely Arab food that the Zionists have illegally occupied?[5] After a related skirmish on Za'atar, the ingredients were listed in alphabetical order, but was this all part of a shrewd Zionist plot? Don't be silly, came the response: and anybody who removes the Hebrew name from the first sentence is a racist vandal.[6] Meanwhile, back at Hummus, an attempt is made to replace a mention that the Oxford English Dictionary says that the word entered English via Turkish with a reference to the Greek name for the dish. Finally, Tabbouleh saw action, this time mercifully free of Arab-Israeli connotations; instead, the question was: can we call this dish a part of Levantine cuisine, or is the very term "Levantine" a European colonial plot to divide the great Arab nation?[7]

In the meantime, another attempt is made to expunge the Turks from description of the traditional Greek (or maybe Arab) dish of pita (or is it pitta?), while controversy bubbles as to whether a photo of an Israeli falafel house constitutes "Zionism".

Conclusion: Tasty snacks in the Middle East are hilariously politicized. As of September 2022, the talk page for Hummus states: "The article Hummus, along with other articles relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict, is currently subject to active arbitration remedies."

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
The Laws of War are also seen by the proponents as inadequate. These laws allow the capture of enemy fighters, and also allow holding them for the duration of hostilities without trial. However, these laws grew out of the need to regulate combat between professional armies accountable to a sovereign state, who were engaged in combat of possibly lengthy, but finite duration. Attempting to apply these laws to terrorists who are intermingled with a civilian population and accountable to no-one opens the possibility of indefinite detention without trial, combined with a substantial likelihood of error.[4]

Opponents of administrative detention challenge the above assumptions.

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Case

This is a pretty good featured article. A collection of old-timey erotica compiled by the British library for more than a century, then released for public viewing in 1964. The librarians were probably keeping it all to themselves all that time for "personal use".

Also has this choice excerpt:

"There is dispute on whether the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana also holds an extensive pornography or erotica collection.[84] Although the figures of 25,000 volumes and 100,000 prints and drawings have been put forward,[85][86][87] Legman describes this as a "legend"[88] and the historian H. Paul Jeffers calls it "a persistent and false belief".[84]"

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

There was definitely one in the USSR, and high party members did visit it privately for "academic" purposes

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Jabberlock posted:

"There is dispute on whether the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana also holds an extensive pornography or erotica collection.[84] Although the figures of 25,000 volumes and 100,000 prints and drawings have been put forward,[85][86][87] Legman describes this as a "legend"[88] and the historian H. Paul Jeffers calls it "a persistent and false belief".[84]"

Get Ethan Hunt on the line, we need a team to get in there

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

quote:

"Pisanus Fraxi" is described by Ashbee's biographer David Chambers as "a scatological anagram of the Latin words for ash and bee, fraxinus apis".[33]

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Lutha Mahtin posted:

A chain named Cheeseburger Restaurants based in Portola, California had one of their restaurants located in oceanfront Lahaina, Hawaii, also named "Cheeseburger in Paradise". This chain, which began in 1989, has no relation to Jimmy Buffett's business. Buffett sued the owners in 1997. After a four-year legal battle, a settlement was reached that allowed Laren Gartner and Edna Bayliff to keep the name at their existing restaurants in Lahaina and Waikiki but prevented them from using it at any additional locations.[14] The Lahaina location burned down due to a wildfire in August 2023.

wow can't believe jimmy buffett was a fraud

also can't believe he didn't just go with "jimmy buffet", it was right there

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

The codename "Raiden" was [...] initially planned to be written in katakana as "ライデン", but was changed to the kanji form "雷電" because of a resemblance to Bin Laden's "Laden" in katakana, "ラーディン".[3]

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

It is meant as an illusion as a person cannot easily observe the status of their nose.[1]

See also
"The Nose", 1836 short story by Nikolai Gogol about a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Jabberlock posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Case

This is a pretty good featured article. A collection of old-timey erotica compiled by the British library for more than a century, then released for public viewing in 1964. The librarians were probably keeping it all to themselves all that time for "personal use".

Also has this choice excerpt:

"There is dispute on whether the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana also holds an extensive pornography or erotica collection.[84] Although the figures of 25,000 volumes and 100,000 prints and drawings have been put forward,[85][86][87] Legman describes this as a "legend"[88] and the historian H. Paul Jeffers calls it "a persistent and false belief".[84]"

theres a collection of pornographic photographs 1880-1940 in the danish national archives, but it requires special permission to view :(

but also:

Carthag Tuek posted:

There's an 18th century manuscript in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen from a group calling themselves Det elphenbeenske Societet (The Ivory Society). It's a numbered list of about 400 unmarried women of the bourgeoisie, and lists such candid information as whether any dowry or inheritance could be counted upon, their looks & temper, &c.

The compiler of the register is one Hans Barhow, son of a Norwegian priest(!). To my knowledge, nothing else related to the society has been found, in particular it is unknown who were the members. Some historians conclude that Barhow simply created & used the register personally to aid his sexual conquests.

Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Oct 13, 2023

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
Another image of O'Rear's titled Full Moon over Red Dunes, known as Red moon desert in Windows XP, was also considered as the default wallpaper, but was changed due to testers comparing it to buttocks.[19]

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



FMguru posted:

Another image of O'Rear's titled Full Moon over Red Dunes, known as Red moon desert in Windows XP, was also considered as the default wallpaper, but was changed due to testers comparing it to buttocks.[19]

wasnt there a wallpaper during the early aqua era that was dunes but also looked like a butt or a midriff maybe?

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17–21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day, making it the most feared day and date in history.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Captain Hygiene posted:

According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17–21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day, making it the most feared day and date in history.

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



The first scene of the film is a documentary about scorpions. After that, the film is a series of vignettes, wherein a couple's attempts at consummating their romantic relationship are continually thwarted by the bourgeois values and sexual mores of family, church, and society.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
There is a body of films that feature Frankenstein's monster, first created by Mary Shelley in her 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
Holly is instantly recognizable as the artist: the record begins with a drawn-out "Well…" as stylized by Holly's distinctive hiccup ("A-weh-uh-heh-uh-ell…").

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

According to Bruno Barbatti, at that time[when?] this motive was the most important sign of apotropaic magic in the Islamic world, though many modern representations continue to show an obvious origin from sex symbolism. This relates to the belief that God exists in everything.[citation needed]

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

quote:

She says that he will go somewhere else.

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



quote:

"Spiders Georg" was first posted about in 2013 by Max Lavergne;[3] it is based on the misconception that humans swallow some number of spiders a year inadvertently. While not true,[4] the factoid has become an urban legend.[5] "Spiders Georg" satirizes the factoid by offering its own explanation for the statistic, creating a fictional character who skews the average by eating tens of thousands daily.[3][5] In statistics, an outlier is a data point that is very different from the other observations and therefore changes the average (mean) noticeably. The number of spiders eaten by Spiders Georg is an outlier in this sense.

Thanks wikipedia, I didn't get it

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



Chaser:

quote:

In August 2023, Business Insider referred to Donald Trump as the Spiders Georg of world leaders, as his indictments on 91 felony counts make the average president of the United States charged with two felonies. [7]

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
Despite the frequent, difficult-to-keep-track-of line-up changes The Dead Pop Stars remain a prolific touring act, continuing to be as antisocial as ever.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Jabberlock posted:

Thanks wikipedia, I didn't get it

I'd actually completely lost track of outlier Georg's origin. So, thanks for the actually useful Wikipedia thing

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



Captain Hygiene posted:

I'd actually completely lost track of outlier Georg's origin. So, thanks for the actually useful Wikipedia thing

I don't really visit reddit or twitter or other sites with jokes, so I don't always get what is a greater internet culture thing or something that's just popular among goons. So it always surprises me when specific internet things have a wikipedia page.

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125 miles per hour (200 km/h). It arrived on board uninjured, but in a disoriented state. When it recovered, it attacked the crew.[3]

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.
A U2Charist (also spelled eU2charist or U2 Eucharist) is a communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs in lieu of traditional hymns and sometimes as part or all of the service music. The music can be played from a CD or, in less common cases, performed by a live band.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
recorded music was a mistake

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Phanatic posted:

A U2Charist (also spelled eU2charist or U2 Eucharist) is a communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs in lieu of traditional hymns and sometimes as part or all of the service music. The music can be played from a CD or, in less common cases, performed by a live band.

it should be the act of taking the eucharist while flying at 70,000 feet in a U-2.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
A view from the interior of a fort constructed out of packaged toilet paper rolls, built inside a Walmart branch.

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

Other variations which are seen less frequently in modern sources include: Baʿal Shamin, Baʿal Samin, Baʿal-Shamem, Baʿal Shamim, Baʿal Shamem, Baʿalsamem, Baal Shamin, Baal-Samin, Beelsamen, Baʿalsamin, Baal-Samen, Baal-Shamen, Baalsamin, Baalsamen, Baal-shamim, Baʿalshamin, Baal-Samim, Baal-Samem, Baalsamem, Baalsamim, Baalshamem, Beelsamin, Beel-Samen, Beelshamen, Baal-Shamayim, Baʿalsamen, Beel-Samin, Baalshamim, Baalshamen.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Phanatic posted:

A U2Charist (also spelled eU2charist or U2 Eucharist) is a communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs in lieu of traditional hymns and sometimes as part or all of the service music. The music can be played from a CD or, in less common cases, performed by a live band.

I have an unwanted copy of songs of innocence on my iPod, let's do this.

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Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

quote:

Logician and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein used an example of a rhinoceros in the room either to show the impossibility of disproving negative existential statements, or possibly a more subtle philosophical point.[18]

quote:

Characteristics

Pulcinella embodies the Neapolitan plebians, the simplest man who occupies the bottom place on the social scale, the man who, although aware of his problems, always manages to come out of them with a smile. On that basis, many writers have come to refer to Pulcinella, in retrospect, as a model ENFP of sorts (based on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator 16 personality test).[citation needed]

Mescal fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Oct 16, 2023

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