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VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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Paladinus posted:

Okay, this one's a little hard to read. What the hell is this thing? Why is it like this?



Clearly he switched from playing 2 Guitars, 2 Basses and a keyboard to 2 Guitars, 2 Keyboards and a Bass.
Must have looked very funny if he switches between songs during a live show.

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VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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A listing of lists of trees.

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists is a goldmine.
This is a list of lists of lists, an article that is a list of articles that are themselves lists of article lists. In other words, each of the articles linked here is an index to multiple lists on a topic. Some of the linked articles may contain lists of lists as well.

Some highlights:
Lists of Star Wars species
Lists of Canadian game shows
Lists of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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Categories:
Egg dishes of India
Curry dishes in India
Curry dishes with egg
Boiled eggs in India

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
Human sounds
Consuming food or drink
Bodily functions and involuntary sounds
Cries of distress
Interrupted speech
Expressions of positive emotions
Animal sounds
Bird sounds
Domestic birds
Wild birds
Mammal sounds
Cats and dogs
Equine sounds
Animals with cloven hoofs
Other mammals
Other animals
Collisions, bursts, and strikes
Balloon or bubble bursting
Cannon firing; gunshot; machine gun fire
Crash
Door or floor creaking
Engine back-firing while freewheeling
Knocking
Strikes
Dull strike
Falling strike
Sharp strike
Wet strike
Crunch, сracking (of sticks, bones etc.)
Jingling


I am wet strike:
In Afrikaans, plons, plas, spat
In Albanian, plluq, pëlltuq, pllaf
In Arabic, بلوف
In Bulgarian, plyok пльок
In Catalan, xap, xof, patatxap
In Croatian, šljap
In Czech, plesk
In Chinese, Mandarin, ba-ji 啪唧[citation needed]
In Danish, plask
In Dutch, plons
In English, splash, splish, splosh, splat
In Estonian lärts, plärts
In Finnish, loiskis, mäts
In French, plouf
In German, patsch, platsch, klatsch, schwapp
In Hungarian, platty, placcs
In Indonesian, crot, byur
In Italian, plop
In Japanese, bicha びちゃっ
In Korean, cheolpudeok 철푸덕, cheolpeok 철퍽
In Kyrgyz, чалп
In Malay, trushh, shushh, pishh
In Persian, čolop-čolop, pešenge
In Polish, plask
In Portuguese, tchibum[por 1]
In Romanian, pleosc, fleoșc, fleașc
In Russian, bultykh бултых, plyukh плюх
In Spanish, splash, plaf
In Swedish, plask
In Tagalog, plok
In Thai, โพล๊ะ (plo), แผละ (plae)
In Tamil, chatak
In Turkish, şap, şop
In Uropi, plac
In Vietnamese, bẹp, phọp

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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matti posted:



Bildinhalt: Spaghettieis Aufnahmeort: Eiscafé Capri in Baden-Baden, Deutschland

i think they just make this stuff up

as a joke

baden-baden is not a real place

It is funnier in German.

This is also a very good photo by the standards of wikipedia images of German food.

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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haveblue posted:

loess.jpg?

No, löss.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%B6ss_1.jpg

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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Photo of someone "palming".

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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Name origin

The name sounds similar to the obscenity "cocksucker". This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper in 1970, while first-year graduate students at Princeton University, for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.[3] As Cox explained in a memorial tribute to Zucker in Notices of the American Mathematical Society in 2021: "A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene."[3]

See also
Cox ring

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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quote:

So fressen die Wattwürmer der Nordsee einmal im Jahr den gesamten Sand des Wattes oberhalb von 20 cm Tiefe. Dazu trägt der Umstand bei, dass die Tiere in einer Dichte von durchschnittlich 40 Exemplaren pro Quadratmeter vorkommen.[1] Ein einzelner Wattwurm filtert dabei 25 kg Sand jährlich.

The north sea sandworm eats the whole sand in the Watt once per year to a depth of 20cm. Each single worm eats around 25kg per year.

Wormpoop, laying on a thick layer of wormpoop:

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_200_biology_images_that_should_use_vector_graphics

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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The surname Chebyshev has been transliterated in several different ways, like Tchebichef, Tchebychev, Tchebycheff, Tschebyschev, Tschebyschef, Tschebyscheff, Čebyčev, Čebyšev, Chebysheff, Chebychov, Chebyshov (according to native Russian speakers, this one provides the closest pronunciation in English to the correct pronunciation in old Russian), and Chebychev, a mixture between English and French transliterations considered erroneous. It is one of the most well known data-retrieval nightmares in mathematical literature. Currently, the English transliteration Chebyshev has gained widespread acceptance, except by the French, who prefer Tchebychev. The correct transliteration according to ISO 9 is Čebyšëv. The American Mathematical Society adopted the transcription Chebyshev in its Mathematical Reviews.[3]

His first name comes from the Greek Paphnutius (Παφνούτιος), which in turn takes its origin in the Coptic Paphnuty (Ⲡⲁⲫⲛⲟⲩϯ),


E: German Wikipedia has am extra 5 possible spellings that don't appear in the English.

VictualSquid fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Apr 11, 2024

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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The etymology of the subfamily name derives from the ancient greek words θαυματόεις (thaumatóeis, 'marvelous') and ποιέω (poiéō, 'to do') and literally means showing beautiful things.

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VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

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In the time zone database, there is a special area for this place, Europe/Büsingen, that had a different time compared to the rest of West Germany in 1980 when West Germany, but not Switzerland, observed daylight saving time.[38]

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