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Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Apparently there have occasionally been jaguar sightings in the southwestern United States. I had no idea they got that far north. I mean, I knew intellectually that there had to be some in Mexico, what with the Aztec and Mayan reverence for them, but I guess I just sort of mentally filed them as South American Mammals, Never To Get Further North Than Panama.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 01:01

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 07:13

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

fullroundaction posted:

Not me, but my coworker just found out (while talking about New Orleans and football) that the symbol the Saints use called a "fleur-de-lis", not a "Florida Leaf".

e: If you google image search "florida leaf" you get fleur-de-lis as the first result, so I guess he's not the only one.

The guy I saw in traffic yesterday with "SAINTS" and a fleur-de-lis on his rear window was probably a fan of the football team and not the video game street gang.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2017 21:18

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I heard the Mr. Mister song 'Kyrie' on the radio the other day. I hadn't heard it for a decade at least and I'd always vaguely assumed it was about a woman because Kyrie sounds a bit like Kirrily and the song seems to be addressed to someone ("Kyrie eleison, where I'm going will you follow?) and I never really listened to it that closely anyway.

It turns out that "Kyrie eleison" is Greek for "Lord, have mercy".

Ah yes the Carry A Laser song

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 06:11

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Weembles posted:

Like the way you can sing all Emily Dickinson poems to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas?

What do you mean, "can"? That's not intended?

# ¿ Oct 24, 2017 04:43

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Randaconda posted:

What would the Event Horizon experience be like?

(shut up, I like that movie)

Very dark sunglasses.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2017 18:58

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Jerry Cotton posted:

in IRL life.

WHYYYYYY

# ¿ Dec 19, 2017 21:51

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

I still hear about the time I pronounced "Constantinople" to rhyme with a popular but aggravating board game

# ¿ Mar 15, 2018 00:41

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Hyperlynx posted:

If it's yella, that's juice you got there, fella!
If it's brown, you're in cider town!

If it's black call Dr. Andretti 455-2123

# ¿ Mar 29, 2018 17:43

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Cheesburger's when you're laid on ice.

Rotting away again in Giants Stadium

# ¿ Apr 15, 2018 14:44

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

purple death ray posted:

A married couple is not 3-5 people though

Give it another 20-30 years.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 21:41

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I wanna see a poll of how many people think Caesar salad is related to ancient Rome

A proper Kaysarr salad should be dressed with garum

I just figured out that i would definitely rather fight a hundred duck-sized horses than one horse-sized duck. It goes back to the whole "poor Freckles, thought of ants and died" thing. A horse is fragile in both body and spirit. Take away their size and momentum, and what have they got? Tiny little horse bites.

Meanwhile we already have a word for "horse-sized duck", that word is "dinosaur" and I don't want to fight a friggin dinosaur.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2018 14:19

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

It's not "just figured out", cause I learned it on Thursday, but a graveyard is attached to a church (like, part of its grounds), and a cemetery is separate.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2018 21:29

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Those google captchas that ask you to identify cars, traffic lights, crosswalks and storefronts are probably training a neural network for use in self-driving cars.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2019 17:44

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

It was only a year or so ago I figured out that when Marvel editors refer to the Distinguished Competition, they're not just being gracious in their word choice.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 05:47

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Recently I learned that rheas are not, in fact, extinct, and South America does still have person-sized birds running around

I think I must have conflated terror birds (which are extinct, and from South America) with moas (which are also extinct, from New Zealand, and the word sounds a bit like rheas)

# ¿ Feb 16, 2019 05:44

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Aphrodite posted:

It's not like I'm having my knives personally forged.

Lol if you don't have Enrique powerfully hammer a new set of flatware for you on the house anvil for every meal

# ¿ Apr 1, 2019 17:31

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Shifty Nipples posted:

Wor-chester-shire

A la the guy in the Bugs Bunny cartoon, Worsheshtershishtersheshtershishtershire.

# ¿ May 18, 2019 20:39

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

beats for junkies posted:

Around the world around the world around the world around the world was everywhere in the late 90s. At least, that's how it seemed at the time. That and Republica's "Ready to Go."

I remember Muchmusic playing the video for Da Funk a whole bunch as well

# ¿ May 27, 2019 05:15

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Citizens of Commonwealth countries with a permanent address in the UK can vote in UK general elections.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2019 20:17

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

"Hard" drive as opposed to "floppy" drive is the way I learned it, back when the school's Apple IIE's and my family's 386 took 5-1/4 discs

I'll call an internal SSD a hard drive all day long because it lives in the chassis and does a hard drive's job

Which, I suspect, is also why 3.5 discs were "floppies" despite not being floppy at all

# ¿ Dec 28, 2019 03:26

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Things I learned yesterday: it's not pronounced "Butt-a-geeg"

# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 23:37

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

christmas boots posted:

IIRC “cherry” comes from English speakers thinking that “cherise”—the old north french word for cherry—was the plural form

This also happened to the pea, which started out in English as "pease", from the Latin Pisum. The original form of the word is still preserved in such as "pease porridge".

# ¿ Feb 11, 2020 03:52

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

cyberia posted:

The Elgin Marbles are not giant stone balls, they're marble sculptures

Also, the phrase "this one's for all the marbles" sadly does not refer to Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin, winning the aforesaid sculptures in a game of whist

# ¿ Feb 19, 2020 00:07

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

DrBouvenstein posted:

See also:

Darius Rucker is NOT Hootie.

There is no Hootie, "Hootie and the Blowfish" was just a nonsense name they chose, though honestly it's sort of his fault for not realizing that as the front-man, people WOULD think he was Hootie and the rest of the band was the Blowfish, a la Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers..

Which one's Pink

# ¿ Mar 9, 2020 19:50

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

This is how that Mandela Effect poo poo happens.

Except I don't understand why people thought Mandela himself died in prison, considering he was president of South Africa for years after the end of apartheid. Which raises the question, was there a famous anti-apartheid activist who did die in prison in the 80s?

# ¿ Mar 20, 2020 21:45

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

People look at me like I'm a weirdo when I eat raw bell peppers like I'm munching on an apple but they're the ones who are missing out

So what's Kitchen Stadium like?

# ¿ Mar 23, 2020 18:28

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

I'm rather in favour of having an entire-rear end other month in the middle of February, February sucks

# ¿ Mar 24, 2020 18:33

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Torquemada posted:

I don�t think extending February so it lasts 60 days is the way to go about getting through it quicker.

No, see, you break it up into smaller more manageable chunks. A whole month of February is rough going, even at two days shorter than a usual month. But three weeks of February, and then a month of Smarch, and then just seven more days of Feb? I think I could just about handle that.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2020 21:06

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

I used to picture Grace Slick rolling in her grave every time someone played "We Built This City On Rock and Roll". But this is not true. She wasn't dead in the 80s when it got recorded, she's still alive now, and she's the one singing the loving song. :gonk:

# ¿ Apr 3, 2020 01:10

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

christmas boots posted:

Chocolate and Manila Swirl

Pushing the envelope on flavor

# ¿ May 14, 2020 00:29

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

DrBouvenstein posted:

Don't get me started on the whole Brontosaurus thing.

I've been telling people that a recent study concluded that Brontosaurus was different enough from Apatosaurus to constitute its own genus after all, making Brontosaurus a thing again.

If you think I shouldn't be doing this, you can meet me by the bike racks.

# ¿ May 19, 2020 23:36

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Scientific names:
Genus, species
Generic name, specific name :monocle:

# ¿ Jun 20, 2020 18:14

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Henchman of Santa posted:

I always assumed they were part of a very specific period of time but the last ones were more recent than the American Civil War.

Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars, which are the same movie, are set half a world away from eachother but only a few years apart: Yojimbo is 1860 and Dollars is shortly after The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, which is during the Civil War

Blondie and Sanjuro missed out on an awesome teamup

# ¿ Aug 9, 2020 03:57

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Captain Hygiene posted:

I can't believe I just figured out somebody else had heard of Gentle Giant, providing me an excuse to post some album art that's as rad as it is unfitting of a lot of the actual music therein.

I for one am always happy to see Roger Dean album art

# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 19:08

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

ShimaTetsuo posted:

In return we have provided the world with Just for Laughs: Gags, a prank show without any talking parts (thus easy to export), and "Un gars, une fille", a comedy based on common stereotypes of the differences between men and women which has been adapted in like every country (although not successfully in the US, I think).

There's also the cop drama 19-2, both French and Anglo versions had an episode with a minutes-long continuous shot involving a school shooting, but only the Anglo one starred Wayne from Letterkenny

# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 22:51

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

rodbeard posted:

Tom Cochrane was also the lead singer for a different one hit wonder act, Red Rider, who sang "lunatic fringe" another song that's constantly misattributed to random other rock bands.

If you want to momentarily confuse yourself, give "White Hot" by Red Rider a listen and see how he pronounces "Somalia"

Bryan Adams, Tom Cochrane, Kim Mitchell and Colin James are all sort of on the same continuum for me of "extraordinarily white Canadian rocker of the 80s and early 90s"

# ¿ Aug 27, 2020 19:06

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Shifty Nipples posted:

Powdered toast man is "powdered" with sugar. The toast is not a powder. He's a piece of french toast. Or rather his head is.

e: I'm coming to the realization that "Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" can also apply to dumb as hell stuff that you shouldn't have cluttering up your brain

Phy has a new favorite as of 19:56 on Sep 9, 2020

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 19:53

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

AKA Pseudonym posted:

People talk the dark winters being hard to take in higher latitudes. But it's the sun being out all the time in the summer that really gets you. Like one long day broken up by occasional naps.

When I lived farther north than I do now, we'd put tinfoil on our windows in the summer to completely block out the sun. Gotta sleep somehow.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 06:00

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

fartknocker posted:

Where is it still dusk or any kind of light at 10pm aside from like Alaska or places similarly far north/south?

Well, where I live isn't so far north as to require tinfoil curtains any more, but it does stay bright out until 10ish (11ish with DST) for a few weeks in June. (Not coincidentally my favorite time of the year.) And London's at about the same latitude, so there, too? Weather notwithstanding of course.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 19:03

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 07:13

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

A thing I just learned: The musk-ox is more closely related to goats and sheep than it is to cattle and bison. Effectively it's a huge goat in a warm coat rather than a smallish buffalo.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2020 22:09

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