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ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The completed American Dream will span 3 million square feet and consist of 55 percent entertainment facilities and 45 percent retail locations.

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ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Sex magic (sometimes spelled sex magick)

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Created by spoonerism: transposing the first letters of bunch of wankers produces the phrase wunch of bankers.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
His three older brothers are Paul, who died as an infant; Rodney, a Eurosceptic economist who narrowly lost the UK Independence Party leadership election in 2000; and Rupert.[8][9]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The effect is produced by simply removing all of a car's internal components — "including the door panels and the headliner" and "any interior barrier to the trunk" — and then filling the enlarged space with as many clowns as possible.[2]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Swedish astronomer Erik Prosperin proposed the name Neptune, which was supported by other astronomers who liked the idea to commemorate the victories of the British Royal Naval fleet in the course of the American Revolutionary War by calling the new planet even Neptune George III or Neptune Great Britain.[34]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The latter nickname was given for his role as provider of breath mints to the President on the campaign trail.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
A shibboleth such as "lollapalooza" would be used by the sentry, who, if the first two syllables come back as rorra, would "open fire without waiting to hear the remainder".[27]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
I can’t get a pithy pull quote but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22 has a table with what amounts to a "rate of fucks" column

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
In that bikini, she was described as "wearing mankind's first bikini" and the fur bikini was described as a "definitive look of the 1960s".

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
A carpet beater or carpetbeater (also referred to as a rug beater or rugbeater, carpet whip, rug whip, clothes-beater, dust beater or dustbeater, carpet duster, wicker slapper, rug duster, or pillow fluffer, and formerly also as a carpet cleaner or rug cleaner)

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Before there was scifaiku on the Internet, there was science fiction haiku.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
"The Sacred Cod was wrapped in an American flag, placed on a bier, and‍—‌escorted by the Sergeant-at-Arms‍—‌borne by House messengers to the new House chamber, where the assembled Representatives rose in applause.[C]: 7"

- "Sacred Cod", Wikipedia

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011

Sagebrush posted:

this is the internet. there isn't a page budget or layout restriction here. there should be a collapsible layman's explanation for every overly-technical article (it could even start collapsed to avoid offending the sperglords) and the simple english version should be a toggle at the top of every wikipedia page.

I remember reading somewhere that the Simple English pages (particularly for math things) are not intended to explain things more, but are meant to use simpler words that are easier for someone learning English to understand

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Yale, Princeton

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
"This association accounts for the marginally accurate phrase, ..."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKCR-FM

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
"For example, ultrapowers can be used to construct new fields from given ones. The hyperreal numbers, an ultrapower of the real numbers, are a special case of this."

- Wikipedia, Ultraproduct

ColTim fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Dec 8, 2021

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Garden hermits or ornamental hermits were hermits encouraged to live in purpose-built hermitages, follies, grottoes, or rockeries on the estates of wealthy landowners, primarily during the 18th century. Such hermits would be encouraged to dress like druids and remain permanently on site, where they could be fed, cared for, and consulted for advice, or viewed for entertainment.[1]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
There are many different types of Elvis impersonators or Elvis Tribute Artist. Most fall under the following categories:

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
A breast-shaped hill is a hill in the shape of a breast.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
I like my pithy one liners but honestly all of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_folklore qualifies

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The inverse femtobarn (fb−1) is the unit typically used to measure the number of particle collision events per femtobarn of target cross-section, and is the conventional unit for time-integrated luminosity.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
This is a list of people and fictional characters who had severe injuries, or died from accidents related to horses.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
To allow INTERCAL to run on computers using ASCII, substitutions for two characters had to be made: $ substituted for ¢ as the mingle operator, "represent[ing] the increasing cost of software in relation to hardware", and ? was substituted for ⊻ as the unary exclusive-or operator to "correctly express the average person's reaction on first encountering exclusive-or".[6]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
In 1999, Bodacious was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, and in 2017 into the Bull Riding Hall of Fame. In 2019, the PBR inducted Bodacious into the Brand of Honor, which is part of the PBR’s Heroes and Legends Celebration, the PBR's unique way of honoring outstanding individuals and livestock in the sport of rodeo.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
This illusion, known as the moon illusion, is caused by an effect of the brain.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The Big Maple Leaf (BML) is a $1 million (CAD) gold coin weighing 100 kilograms (220 lb) (3,215 troy ounces).

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Fedspeak when used by Alan Greenspan is often called Greenspeak. An alternative definition of Greenspeak is "the coded and careful language employed by U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan."[6]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Another origin is linked to the fanciful belief among printers that a special devil (see the typographical personification Titivillus) haunted every print shop, performing mischief such as inverting type, misspelling words and removing entire lines of completed type.[citation needed]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Early on November 7, Trump tweeted the location of the press conference as "Four Seasons". Shortly afterwards he issued another tweet, clarifying that the venue was Four Seasons Total Landscaping.[b][10][11]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
English monarchs generally touched less frequently than their French counterparts.[2] Edward I touched up to 1,736 people annually, but did not touch during his frequent military campaigns abroad.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
In October 2000, Heinz introduced colored ketchup products called EZ Squirt, which eventually included green (2000), purple (2001), mystery (pink, orange, or teal, 2002), and blue (2003).[24] These products were made by adding food coloring to the traditional ketchup. As of January 2006 these products were discontinued.[25]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
It has been theorized by the FBI and FAA that the Jetpack man is actually a balloon.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The articles described animals on the Moon, including bison, goats, unicorns, bipedal tail-less beavers and bat-like winged humanoids ("Vespertilio-homo") who built temples. There were trees, oceans and beaches. These discoveries were supposedly made with "an immense telescope of an entirely new principle".

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The following is a list of centenarians known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
False Dmitry's reign was marked by his openness to Catholicism and allowing foreigners into Russia. This made him unpopular with the boyars, who staged a successful coup and killed him eleven months after he took the throne. His wife of 10 days, Marina, would later "accept" False Dmitry II as her fallen husband.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The pumping of water is a basic and practical technique, far more practical than scooping it up with one's hands or lifting it in a hand-held bucket.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
One of the first appearances of Bagdad was found on a map entitled "Map of the Country Adjacent to the Left Bank of the Rio Grande Below Matamoros, 1847."

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
As a result of the continued presence of the amusement park zoning lot at Bartow and Baychester Avenues, there were no restrictions on the heights of signs on that lot. In late 2017, the site's owner began erecting tall LED billboards on the lot, a move opposed by Co-op City residents since one of the billboards faced Co-op City, keeping residents awake at night.[35] The following year, residents proposed changing the lot's zoning to a standard commercial use.[36][17] A tall wind turbine was erected on the lot in December 2019.[37] The turbine toppled later that month, knocking down the billboard, but causing no injuries.[37][38]

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ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)).

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