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AlphaKretin posted:Croissant, being a French crescent of bread, is probably French for crescent. Technically true, but it's also an application of the word for growing because it originally referred to a waxing moon and, over time, people wrongly thought it referred to the shape rather than the stage of the lunar cycle.
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Opossums are significantly bigger than rats.
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Besesoth posted:I still maintain that "sleight" (as in "sleight of hand") should rhyme with "weight" and not "height". Until reading this very thread a few years back, I thought there there existed in English the verb "to misle" Apparently I had been misled.
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Asinine Tails posted:
Yeah, I went with "segg" as a pronunciation and thought everyone else was an idiot because I didn't realise that segue is Italian and not French.
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In Star Wars Episode III when Anakin is trying to shake off two missiles and starts spinning (a good trick), the missiles explode because he makes them hit each other. I don't know how many dozens of times I've seen the sequence in the past 13 years and never understood why they just seemed to spontaneously explode.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:It's not an F, you ſimpletons. The long S was hiſtorically uſed in the beginning or middle of words or as the firſt in a double S (e.g. congreſs). Queſtionable typography this time. And if you keep putting a long s before a short one you might as well just make it its own character. ß
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South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut is a dick joke
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Jerry Cotton posted:
Water, water, what hast thou donst?
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sh makes a /ʃ/ sound /ʒ/ is the voiced equivalent of /ʃ/ and z is the voiced equivalent of s, so it makes sense that you'd write it out as "zh"
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Krankenstyle posted:the letter(s) "_" make(s) a different phoneme /_/ depending what language you speak, so it makes sene that you'd write whatever the heck out as "zh" I was quite clearly talking about English. Conundrum solved.
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It's called an airlock because it's a lock. For air. Like a canal lock.
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My friend had some Penthouse magazines from the 70s in his apartment for some reason. First page I open and there's an interview with a 20-something Tom
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Hirayuki posted:
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De La Soul are only just in their 50s
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Buddy Holly lived to the ripe old age of 22
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Long time ago, but I had a similar experience with “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos for a long time. The piano section is so out of place and contrasting with the beginning of the song that when I was younger I’d just think they always played these two same songs back to back all the time. My dad would play Eric Clapton Unplugged in the car all the time when I was young and I had no idea that Layla and Layla were the same song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZV7akaSo0s
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His rant in its entirety is on his Wikipedia page and....yeah  You'd think someone who owed their whole career to black music would've maybe not been a massive racist but there we are.
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In the Oasis song "Morning Glory", being "chained to the mirror and the razor blade" probably isn't about shaving.
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Inzombiac posted:Nutria are the kings of bad teeth. Why I otter 
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"parge the lath" is correct terminology
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The sun sets near Flagstaff and is about the size of a quarter.
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gleebster posted:I just found out the Blur guy is called Damon Albarn. YggiDee posted:Isn't that the Gorillaz guy? Wait for it, guys...
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The Atlantic Ocean is named after Atlas
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Tad Naff posted:For decades I thought it was charming/weird that in UK cop shows they call their (female) boss "Mom". This was apparently an issue for American viewers of the Bodyguard TV series, where they thought the relationship was incestuous.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What did you think florist's shops sold? Florists 
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I want Beck to do guest vocals on an Eels track and see if I can tell
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Courtney Barnett hasn't actually been around for that long and has only released 2 solo albums despite me hearing her songs everywhere.
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Why do you think your brain forces you to close your eyes when you sneeze?
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Chicken drumsticks are called "jamoncitos" in Spanish because they look like tiny legs of ham.
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Failed Imagineer posted:hosed up, because they actually don't look like ham at all 
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An Argentinian housemate made me a milanesa once. I just realised it's the exact same thing as a schnitzel
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We're less than a year away from 8 billion people
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I had a friend years ago who would always tell the worst jokes. One of them was: "Why do you call it breakfast? Because it's when you break your fast!" 
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Samovar posted:I understand why you stopped being friends with them. Right about the time I replied with: "Why do you call it a toothbrush, dipshit?"
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The mnemonic: Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle is used to remember keys and how sharps and flats there are. You change one note when you go up or down a fifth. The mnemonic works to remember the circle of fifths
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Ctrl+Enter is a shortcut to post.
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John Green's ears are both slanted in the same direction.
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The Offspring have a ska song called "Don't Pick it Up" "Pick it up" is a stereotypical thing to say in a ska song
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Farmer Son of Potatoes (Not sure about the potatoes)
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