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Pookah posted:I'm in Ireland and am at the same latitude as Kamchatka, the Bering Straits and bits of Alaska. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWolvZIqZ2A --------- Dick Sargent's real surname was "Cox"
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"horse" isn't actually cognate with Latin "equus" or from PIE "*h₁éḱwos". It is, however, cognate with "car" 
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"The Beach That Makes You Old" is actually taken from a 2021 film. The film is about a beach that makes you old.
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credburn posted:... is this a thing people say ... ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etaA94eM2AE
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Jan 19, 2024 11:47
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Adoptive, but yes
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That explains why I didn't get any of the references at Splash Mountain
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Finding out all these songs are covers is leaving me feeling torn...
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"Don't wait up" doesn't necessarily mean "I'm stopping, you go on ahead"
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In a little over a year, the midpoint for the Simpsons will be the Simpsons Movie
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Most of the time when people have been talking about Blazing Saddles and Chariots of Fire, I've been thinking of Ben-Hur.
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I don't know why but it always brings me a little joy how that's everyone's go-to when bugs are mentioned.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Santiago being st james is something I learned within the last month. No I don't get it either. Nacho for ignacio makes sense at least It makes more sense if you see how they both come from "Sanctus Iacobus" English somehow getting "James" from "Jacob" is the weirder one of the two. I also just realised that "Diego" is not related to "Tiago"
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The -köping in the various -köpings (Linköping, Jönköping, Norrköping, etc. as well as Chipping, Chipping, Chipping Barnet, Chipping Sodbury et al.) just means shopping i.e. a market. I knew full well that the Swedish word for buy was köpa but I never made the connection. Edit: it's also related to cheap, as it turns out, and links up with Kauf in German Captain Splendid has a new favorite as of 14:48 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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Phlegmish posted:e: Captain Splendid edited his post to make me look foolish, but he correctly related the English thorp to the (High) German dorf Yeah, sorry, I was just worried I was going off on too much of a self-indulgent tangent.
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The fact that "αυ" makes an "af"/"av" sound in modern Greek also extends to pronouncing "τ" (tau) as "tavv" 
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Confusing shades of pink with grey is not normal and is a symptom of my deutan colour blindness.
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Captain Hygiene posted:That part's fine, we must continue our war against apes on every possible front No need, come winter they simply freeze to death.
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The tv series Shogun is not based on historical events. The reason why the setting is so similar to the circumstances before Tokugawa Ieyasu got into power is because one of the characters is not!Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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Hectares are bigger than acres
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"Man on the Moon" by REM, about Andy Kaufman, was not written for the film "Man on the Moon", about Andy Kaufman. The film was named after the song. "The Great Beyond", by REM, about Andy Kaufman, was written for the film "Man on the Moon", by Andy Kaufman.
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My Photos app on my phone has content recognition. I can search with the term "cat" and find any cat pictures I've taken.
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Hirayuki posted:The sun rises and sets in Spain at the same time as in England and Portugal, but the clocks say it's an hour later (two hours in summer). The shift happened in 1942, and no one's attempted to undo it. At least the Canaries are in line with Portugal/UK. Spain and the UK also both change their clocks on the same day, so the gap's only ever one hour.
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The person who shoots you at the start of Fallout: New Vegas is Matthew Perry
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It is hard to tell because the fact someone would hire Matthew Perry and give him literally zero funny lines is so incredible. "Could the game have been more rigged from the start?"
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Traditional depictions of angels are technically human/dinosaur hybrids.
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"escalate" and "escalation" both derive from "escalator"
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Amoeba102 posted:Can't decide if it fits more to a saffer or nz accent. Rays uh blitz
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Also Portugal
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rollick posted:The song Kiss Me wasn't written by The Sundays but instead by an American band trying to sound like The Sundays I've never heard of the Sundays but have heard of Sixpence None the Richer. While trying to remember them, I initially got them confused with Tin Tin Out, whose only song I can remember turns out to be a cover of The Sundays. Who I still had not heard of.
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