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ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
In November 2008, the band participated with other similarly named bands, including Holy gently caress, hosed Up and gently caress Buttons in the Festival of the gently caress Bands music festival in the village of loving, Austria.[6]

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ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
In 2021, Amazon changed its app logo following complaints that part of the design, meant to look like a piece of tape sealing a box, resembled a Hitler moustache.[43]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Bacon has been adapted into products including bacon bubble gum, bacon band-aids, sizzling-bacon-flavored rolling papers,[18] and bacon air freshener. A bacon alarm clock that wakes people up with the smell of cooking bacon has been announced.[19][20]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Early examples of discussion of the trope include a Reddit thread entitled "Trucks in Manga – RE: Marina" by user poloport from April 14, 2015.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Book Art is a field of art that involves the creation of works that use or refer to the structural and conceptual properties of books.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Among USAF personnel, it is common practice to refer to aircraft whose tail number contains two or more zeros as "Balls" and the last digit (or two digits) of its tail number.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as they rested under a palm tree when a food crate was dropped from a plane above, decapitating him.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The pineapple is around 14 metres (46 ft) high and constitutes a stunning example of the stonemason's craft, being a remarkably accurate depiction of a pineapple.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Big Things in Australia
Lists of Big Things around Australia vary regarding the number of objects in each state, and what is included, but a 2004 book on the subject listed 118 Big Things, or groups of Big Things, in Australia, with Queensland having the most at 41, followed by New South Wales with 32.[12] Of Queensland's Big Things, 23 were purely private commercial efforts - advertising shops, service stations, motels and caravan parks, restaurants, museums and the like - and six others were aimed at drawing people to a private tourist attraction. Eight places were structures that could be entered, including the Big Pineapple and the Big Macadamia at the Big Pineapple complex.[1]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
You play as Turnip Boy and commit tax evasion.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Švejk is the subject of films, plays, an opera, a musical, comic books, and statues, even the theme of restaurants in a number of European countries. The novel is also the subject of an unpublished operetta by Peter Gammond. Švejk has many statues and monuments, for example, at Humenné in Slovakia; Przemyśl and Sanok in Poland; St. Petersburg, Omsk, and Bugulma in Russia and Kyiv, Lviv, and Donetsk in Ukraine.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Doctors sometimes informally refer to them as "Prader's balls", "the medical worry beads", or the "endocrine rosary".[2]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
BRIC
(Redirected from Brick countries)

This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and international sanctioning of Russia, BRIC economies are declining/changing rapidly. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022)

Not to be confused with BRICS.
For other uses, see Bric (disambiguation).

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Alcohol is almost always in good supply at a hurricane party, but guests are advised to pace themselves since these parties are often multi-day events.[citation needed] Officials advise against drinking alcohol because people need to be alert during a disaster.[3] Party advocates encourage drinking as an anesthetic measure.[citation needed]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The fangblenny does no cleaning, but bites the host fish and leaves. Its opioid-containing venom helps it escape, as it gives a pain-free bite which also dulls the host's reactions.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
"C-beam" redirects here. For steel beams with a C-shaped cross-section, see structural channel.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011

Sham bam bamina! posted:

i made the mistake of looking this up a few years ago. the truth is very complicated and stupid. ekhinos is the greek word for both sea urchin and hedgehog and was maybe derived from ekhis which means snake (ekhidna does specifically mean viper) because the hedgehog's spikes were seen as reptilian? or it was thought to eat snakes? nobody knows what the actual connection is and sometimes it's traced back to proto-indo-european words with the same bewlidering relationship which still doesn't explain anything. the animal echidna might have been named by mistake through confusion with ekhinos or deliberately after the viper-woman echidna of greek mythology because it's a mammal that lays eggs, just like a woman with the body of a snake...? none of it makes any goddamn sense and we'll never know why all this junk is linguistically smashed together like this.

to add another layer, "ekhis" reversed kinda sounds like "snake"

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The nuts that were found in the ocean and on the beaches no longer had a husk, and resembled the dismembered lower part of a woman's body, including the buttocks. This association is reflected in one of the plant's archaic botanical names, Lodoicea callipyge Comm. ex J. St.-Hil., in which callipyge is from the Greek words meaning "beautiful rump". Historically these floating "beautiful rumps" were collected and sold for a fortune in Arabia and in Europe.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The term nosegay arose in fifteenth-century Middle English as a combination of nose and gay (the latter then meaning "ornament"). A nosegay is, thus, an ornament that appeals to the nose or nostril.[3][4]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Chocolate records about three inches in diameter, and small players made for them, were marketed as a novelty in Europe in 1903–1904. After a record or its amusement power wore out, it could be eaten.[36]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The Florida Supreme Court described his filings as "repetitive, frivolous and insult[ing to] the integrity of the court," particularly one in which Thompson, claiming concern about "the court's inability to comprehend his arguments," filed a motion which he called "A picture book for adults", including images of "swastikas, kangaroos in court, a reproduced dollar bill, cartoon squirrels, Paul Simon, Paul Newman, Ray Charles, a handprint with the word 'slap' written under it, Bar Governor Benedict P. Kuehne, Ed Bradley, Jack Nicholson, Justice Clarence Thomas, Julius Caesar, monkeys, [and] a house of cards." (see [142])

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Following the Los Angeles Police Department, Cop Rock features an ensemble cast of police officers and detectives as they solve crimes across the city, with the series mixing musical and choreography throughout storylines and to introduce new characters.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The link between xeno-pumice and evolved magmas was contested early on;[31]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Boston Market also agreed that it would not challenge Boston Pizza's use in Canada of any trademark that uses the words "Boston" or "Boston Pizza" (with certain exceptions).

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
With the proper-time cutoff shown by the black dotted lines, the immediately post-inflation portion of the left-hand universe dominates the measure, flooding the measure with five "Boltzmann babies" (red) that are freakishly young.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
This section is missing information about elevators use guide rails: oil-lubricated guide shoes, roller guide shoes in high speed elevators or maglev shoes are used to follow the rail, high speed elevator vibration dampers, internal air pressure control and aerodynamic elevator cab and counterweight exterior, kone maxispace counterweightless elevator, outdoor and scenic elevator cab, elevator door belt and direct drive mechanism, elevator cab fan, elevator service mode and controls on cab roof, elevator roping Ratios/types/system/method, elevator capacity from 1 to over 40 people like in tokyo skytree, overweight protection. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (December 2020)

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
There are four types of breath-holding spells.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Over the decades, many people have tried to consume an entire Downside Watson in one sitting, with the inevitable result that many people have stories about gastrointestinal distress caused by attempting to eat a Downside Watson.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_dogs

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
There are some cases of odd floor numbering systems in shopping malls in the Philippines, that the floor numbering in the elevator does not align with the floor numbering created by the management. However, in order to avoid confusion from mall visitors, the usage of the management's floor numbering in advertising is more prevalent than the one posted in the elevators.

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The protagonists are typically, but not always, of America’s growing middle-class urban population whom McCay subjects to fears of public humiliation, or loss of social esteem or respectability, or just the uncontrollably weird nature of being.[5]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The trouble with unusual names has not been lost on scientists when needing to explain genetic diseases to lay-people.[11] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell deficit, clefting and hypocalcaemia for chromosome 22q11.2 microdeletions". This name was abandoned due to the no-win connotations.[12]

In 1993 Alfonso Martinez Arias, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, was ordered to change the name of the gene he had discovered, VELCRO, because of copyright issues with Velcro.[13] The gene was renamed to puckered.[14] In 2005, Pokémon threatened to sue the discoverer of POKEMON because the name was attracting attention when its link to the development of cancer was published.[13]

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ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
It is commonly packed in a capsule with other ingredients or sold as herbal flakes or powder with the name "horny goat weed".[8]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Brindley is perhaps best known for an unusual scientific presentation at the 1983 Las Vegas meeting of the American Urological Association, where he removed his pants to show the audience his chemically induced erection and invited them to inspect it closely.[4][5]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Before becoming popular, the band invented a back-story for why they wear wolf masks, which involves them being created as the "Ultimate Life Form" by Jimi Hendrix, who is described by the band as being the doctor of the guitar and master wolf biologist.[11] They were then frozen in Antarctica for years. While they were frozen, they had been listening to all kinds of music from all around the world,[12] before later escaping and emerging onto the Japanese music scene.[13]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
In the 1950s, it gradually became public knowledge that Muzak was using music to manipulate behavior. There were accusations of brainwashing, and court challenges.[20][better source needed] However, its popularity remained high through the mid-1960s. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to pump Muzak into the West Wing, and Lyndon B. Johnson owned the Muzak franchise in Austin, Texas. NASA reportedly used Muzak in many of its space missions to soothe astronauts and occupy periods of inactivity.[21]

ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
The washing machines being developed by Samsung do contain a pesticide and have to be registered and tested for safety under the law, particularly the US Federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act.[97]

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ColTim
Oct 29, 2011
Another myth may have roots in the fiercely aggressive nature of lemmings during population booms, and the corresponding leftovers of predatory frenzies: lemmings do not explode.[12]

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