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3D Megadoodoo posted:Over three hours of Vangelis is just too much Vangelis. wud-wud-wud-wud-wud-wud MMMNNNYYYEEEEUUUUUWWW YYYUUUUUUWWW wud-wud-wud-wud-wud-wud HHHMEWWWWW
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Aries is a terrible constellation. Just a short bent line. Sagittarius is rad and totally looks like a teapot, and Capricorn has been called "the bikini bottom" which is at least more believable than "the water goat"
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Silver Falcon posted:Slightly off-topic, but I was recently on a trip to the southern hemisphere. And lemme tell you, you think those constellations are bad? Go to the southern hemisphere where they have such things as a bunch of lines (telescope), a diamond, a triangle, and a different diamond (cross). Back in the 1700s, astronomers decided to arrange this whole sky business properly once and for all, and fill in all the blanks between the famous constellations, even if there was absolutely nothing of note in the gaps. So you get terrible stuff like Telescopium and Triangulum Australis. Or Lynx, so named because you'd need the eyes of a lynx to spot it, apparently. The best shady old-school astronomer story, though, relates to alpha and beta delphini, named Suolacin and Rotanev. These names were diligently copied into star charts by astronomers for decades before it was realised they'd all been played for ABSOLUTE FOOLS. The italian astronomer Nicolo Cacciatore had translated his name into latin, written it backwards, and then snuck these names into his star charts next to some otherwise obscure little stars. And now the names are there forever.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh poo poo, I hope you didn't start singing along and embarrass yourself. You didn't. Everyone was sneering at you
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Blurred posted:Bette Midler and Barbara Streisand are different people. No, they're the sa- What- 
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yaffle posted:That a raspberry, in the sense of a farty noise, is cockney rhyming slang: Raspberry tart = fart
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It's called firmware because of, like, hardware and software?
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CJacobs posted:Speedy, my pet turtle,
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm going to go back in time to kill the guy who did it. Awesome! If you can pull that off, I'll give you a um hmm.
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Phy posted:Hey now it's pyf thing you just realized, doesn't say anywhere that it has to be useful Similarly, the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is what you yell while running away from one
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Ugh. The French language really needs to be organized properly. Someone should take responsibility for that mess.
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Amoeba102 posted:Yeah it's Brisbane that's halfway up the East coast Queensland is insanely huge. Another FUN thing about maps of Australia is that cartographers feel uncomfortable about empty spaces and will fill them up with absurdly small towns. Anyone want to guess the population of Ivanhoe, New South Wales, that's there on the map?
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Inceltown posted:Is it less than Diehard? *scoffs* Ivanhoe is nearly twice the size of Diehard!
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FreudianSlippers posted:Australia really has a village named after the historical novel Ivanhoe ? Yes. If it helps, a lot of these little towns started as family farms that didn't stop. Which is why my town shares its name with a book of notably bad poetry (and a genus of North Atlantic copepods, but that's coincidence)
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Captain Splendid posted:In a little over a year, the midpoint for the Simpsons will be the Simpsons Movie Your maths is way off. They only made about 9 series of the Simpsons.
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Harvey TWH posted:Oh, bee is grammatically feminine? I was going to joke that you're more likely to hear the male ones buzzing, but now I can't be sure of that from a linguistic or apicultural standpoint. All worker bees are female, aren't they? Same as ants? Bee genetics is one of those topics I remember enough about to know it is fascinating and important, but not enough to actually, y'know, talk about with anyone. Just sort of do some Pavlovian dribbling when I read the word "apiculture"
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Empty Sandwich posted:incredibly hosed- up to make glass out of gorillas, though Geez, you people whined and whined about the dolphin glass, and as soon as we find a replacement, you start complaining all over again!
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Today I just realised that one shouldn't adjust one's glasses while walking down stairs...
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Or the spotted pardalote! Pardalote just means spotted. So it's the spotted spotted. They are however quite hard to spot.
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Phy posted:My humor is squamous and rugose What are your opinions on, ah, the swarthier races? Such as e.g. the Welsh.
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Gabagool, look you.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Envisioning huge swarms of Chihuahuas roaming the wastes of their namesake desert devouring anything in their way until they're corralled by brave vaqueros who tame the savage beasts to market Taco Bell. No, no, I think this makes more sense than reality. 1 posted:Those vacuous eyes, that stupid grin on his face. Well, that triggered a dormant neuron!
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Captain Hygiene posted:- any goon ever, before posting parody song lyrics Oh hey wow this fits the Ninja Turtles tune really well !
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