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Harvey TWH posted:Stuff I can't believe people haven't figured out (aiming to be helpful in a useful-going-forward sense, not rude, but I know it's a fine line): "Straight-laced" (hyphenated or not) accounts for 66% of modern usage. It's swiftly becoming a lost battle, even though you're correct about its origin (which has to do with corsetry, and dates back to the early 1500s in its metaphorical sense; in its literal sense, it's first attested in 1430!). The "k" after in -ic words seems to be regional or personal preference. I haven't found out where it originated, but I didn't look very hard. Inzombiac posted:You sure about that? You'll be chagrined to learn that it's actually "strait and narrow" - yes, two words that mean the same thing - from Matthew 7: quote:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: But again, the battle is likely lost on this one.
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Dross posted:Wouldn’t it be one day into the future? Or 23 hours? Because of when they did it, they effectively skipped December 30, going straight from 11:59 PM December 29 to 12:00 AM December 31. (I think that's right; UTC-11 is exactly 24 hours behind UTC+13.)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:There are recordings of the last castrati singer singing. He sounds like poo poo lmao. In fairness, the recordings were made in 1902 and 1904. (And he doesn't actually sound bad at all, he's just not a female singer.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws
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rydiafan posted:My mistake. I didn't realize you were posting entirely in bad faith. I'll avoid conversing with you like a rational human in the future. 3D Megadoodoo is Jerry Cotton. He accidentally made a good post once and he's regretted it ever since.
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Rascar Capac posted:We should probably offer a prize to the first goon who finds a school map or globe with Eswatini on it. They'll likely be in the most up-to-date districts - the name changed back from "Kingdom of Swaziland" to "Kingdom of Eswatini" three years ago. 
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Rascar Capac posted:Yes, that's what I was saying. Ah, I thought you were implying that any maps with Eswatini would date back to the turn of the 20th century.
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Apr 21, 2021 21:02
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I just figured out the casting gag in "Groundhog Day". 
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May 3, 2021 23:19
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Silver Falcon posted:The what? Is this a thing I can't believe I just figured out? Thirteen years earlier, Bill Murray was bedeviled by a groundhog in "Caddyshack".
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May 4, 2021 00:14
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Weembles posted:The animal from Caddyshack was a gopher, not a groundhog. Well then I'm wrong. Oh well. 
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May 4, 2021 00:43
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Whybird posted:It's older even than that, milk toast was a breakfast food which the character got his name from which was considered mild and easy to digest. The character is named after the food, the adjective is named after the character. You're both right! 
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I just want to thank this thread for reminding me that I needed to contact the MH facility I was referred to so that I could get an appointment for an ADD evaluation. And to add to the chorus, a really big percentage of my depression and anxiety is related to "why can't I focus on anything long enough to get something done?".
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Carthag Tuek posted:
It is very similar in spelling! But weirdly, it genuinely does seem to be completely different; in English, the word originally meant "something that plugs a hole", and it was only in Appalachian English - which later spread to the rest of the US, and then the UK and further abroad - that it started to mean "something that plugs a hole and that you can use to control the flow". English "spigot" - which is often pronounced, and sometimes spelled, "spicket" - is actually quite closely related to "spike".
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