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DrBouvenstein posted:"Throwing Bones" does not refer to craps/dice. It's dominos. what's the source?
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:it's more of a cross-pollinated reference because dominoes, or rather semi-dominoes-like-things, were thrown for divination purposes. that makes more sense all the search results I'm getting for variations on "throw bones" are osteomancy OED has bones meaning dice as far back as 1386
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credburn posted:domino is sanded down into the shape of a heart or diamond 
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's tethered swimming for him. one of my favorite jokes in the series
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Didn't realize it myself, but a "duh, of course" moment: I felt like that when I learned that Kaopectate used to contain kaolin clay and pectin
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Nameless Pete posted:Maalox is magnesium and aluminum oxides. I have Learned a Fact
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:The bros and Dot. I believe I have just realized something (ty)
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Grillfiend posted:Tom Lehrer is still alive and turned 96 a few days ago he just made all of his songs public domain, too (or somehow unrestricted) I just found out about this when I was recommending "Hannukah in Santa Monica" for publicity for something in that place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslsgH3-UFU
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the uh the Rio Grande River
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sebmojo posted:Huh, noon is a corruption of the ninth hour (nona hora), and it used to be 3pm because monks got up at 6. TIL. oh, cool
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hawowanlawow posted:I have one of these and it owns you give that back to Grampa!
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Mescal posted:is it like breaking a horse? the scene in Pee-wee's Big Adventure but instead of a row of motorcycles he knocks over a row of horses
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YeahTubaMike posted:edit: one recent example is when she showed me the "We Are the World" video and I thought that Daryl Hall was Randy Travis an honest mistake
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