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EmmyOk posted:We din't have a tv channel that played hey Arnold when I was a kid but sometimes if you climbed the tree outback you could see it through the neighbour's window. I think this was the plot of an episode of Hey Arnold.
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Diagon Alley. Diagonally. *head explodes*
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Jul 9, 2019 00:35
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Same but Dave Matthews and Bruce Springsteen.
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Sep 8, 2019 12:42
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I don't even know, I don't listen to the music of either of them but they play occasionally on the radio. One day one of their songs played and I was just thought "wait a minute, Bruce Springsteen and Dave Matthews are different people, who play different music, and are in different bands.
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Phlegmish posted:Yeah I also know nothing about Beck for some reason. I just know he's a musician and there's probably a guitar involved somewhere I was at the same level of Beck knowledge but then one day I was in the car with my wife and the beefcake pantyhose song came on the radio and I said "Oh hey it's the beefcake pantyhose song by the beefcake pantyhose band." and she said "You mean Loser by Beck?" and I was like "Woah." Oh and also he was in a crappy Futurama episode.
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Sep 15, 2019 11:44
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HairyManling posted:Yes, it actually was. Sorry your taste is garbage. I rewatched some classic Futurama recently and Just Figured Out that bender actually sucks real bad. (also 60s/hippy parodies)
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Sep 17, 2019 00:40
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Jajajaja is pronounced like hahahaha (at least in non-meme form) because J is pronounced like H in Spanish.
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May 16, 2020 00:59
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3D Megadoodoo posted:How is "strong flavour" not 100% the same thing as "tasty"? If they meant strong bad flavour they would've said so. Carrots were originally raised for their greens (they're still good, try them!), so I'd assume the root didn't taste any good if people weren't eating it.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Playing through Ghost of Tsushima today, I learned from the resource collection menu that a "bowyer" is an actual thing: someone who crafts shooting bows. It still works as a pun on Bowser!
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Jul 28, 2020 00:09
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Captain Hygiene posted:Continuing my Ghost of Tsushima dumbness, I just now learned (after beating the game) that Tsushima is an actual island, and not the made-up location inspired by some real-world analogue I assumed the whole time. I think the version in the game is almost entirely fictional apart from being an island that the Mongols invade.
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For the longest time I thought "carrot and stick" referred to a carrot on a stick. I thought "well I guess the stick prevents you from getting the carrot but this metaphor still doesn't really make sense to me". I think I was confused because in visual depictions of the metaphor the carrot often IS on a stick, and the stick referenced in the name of the metaphor (that you beat your horse with) is often omitted entirely. Here's one that shows both. (as a bonus it will make you think big thoughts about society) 
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Jun 15, 2022 10:49
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:But like they are so wrong tho? And they have never heard about Teddy Roosevelt saying " "Walk slowly and dangle a big carrot from a stick, while carrying a separate big stick in your other hand" iirc.
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Jun 15, 2022 21:22
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When non-goons mention Johnny 5 they're not talking about Johnny Five Aces 
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credburn posted:I understand that "monkey cheese" is shorthand for that kind of random comedy that was really popular in the 00s. Didn't realize until now it's a reference to an actual cartoon, created by James Rolfe. Makes perfect sense. Ugh, I hope that guy didn't turn out to be a huge poo poo; I haven't paid any attention to him in quite a while but I recall reading that he was a really decent guy. I think "monkey cheese" humor came from kids watching media characters like Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy, who used a lot of non-sequitur humor and were big in the late 90s-early 00s, and trying to copy them without really understanding what makes them funny. Since their audience was also a bunch of kids it often worked even if the material kind of sucked. I got some big laughs with monkey cheese humor around, I want to say, 1999. Then when their tastes got a bit more refined (say 8th graders vs. 6th graders) they'd look back and say "wait this material is actually pretty bad". Kids have some intuition for comedy so when selecting "random" words they choose things like monkey and cheese that have associations with fun and zaniness rather than, say, bottle or deer.  I don't think there was a singular progenitor of monkey cheese humor, I'd assume the term was coined by an observer to describe it.
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credburn posted:I remember "purple monkey dishwasher" being a funny thing, but can't remember where it came from. Simpsons? I remember not monkey cheese but the phrase "cheese monkeys" getting a lot of play when I was in 6th grade. Sounds similar to "cheese eating surrender monkeys", which was also from the Simpsons. Looks like someone did eventually write a book called The Cheese Monkeys.
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Sep 19, 2022 12:09
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I always thought El Greco was a weird name/epiphet for a Spanish painter but never really considered why he might be named that. Turns out he was born in Crete. Thanks, crossword puzzles.
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Dec 5, 2022 02:30
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"Renumerate" isn't a word.
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Some people actually do get stomach pain when eating spicy food. Sometimes it even stings their buttholes when coming out the other end. I've never had either experience with spicy food so I guess I just assumed people were exaggerating to drive home how gnarly they think spicy food is, or perhaps playing on the whole stupid Mexican food = stomach problems trope. In my defense I never thought about it very hard until the other day when the waitress at a hot pot restaurant gave me the "white guy ordering the Szechuan broth" spiel and I conferred with my fellow diners. on a related note maybe there really are people who get diarrhea every time they eat Taco Bell. hosed up if true.
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run on sentience posted:I get this all the time and as annoying as it is, I get why they feel the need to do so. I'm sure there are a ton of white Karens of every gender ordering way beyond their spicy comfort level then complaining or leaving bad reviews. Yeah, it's annoying but I can't blame them since I'm sure they've had guys who look like me order something they can't handle and start shouting at them or demanding a refund or whatever. it wasn't even that hot
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Jun 5, 2023 11:56
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3D Megadoodoo posted:People who think "spicy" means "hot as in scovilles" are useless. Sometimes words have multiple common meanings, this is a weird thing to have trenchant opinion about.
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Jun 5, 2023 14:07
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FreudianSlippers posted:Everyone knows bats are the spirits of children who died without being baptised cursed to roam the night and torment the living until the apocalypse when they will be judged and finally receive some rest. Judged on how well they tormented the living? Do they get into super heaven if they give a toddler rabies?
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Jul 2, 2023 23:09
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I was staying at a hotel recently and, given the opportunity to watch some actual TV with commericals instead of just streaming stuff, realized why Elemental flopped so hard. Its target audience all saw this McDonald's commercial which makes the main characters seem unspeakably lame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EakvPIAeCcs
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Did Pixar really have to give the fire woman a dump-truck rear end? It's from all the milk and apple slices.
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Jul 15, 2023 21:11
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The phrase "double down" was created by Kentucky Fried Chicken 2010, and by 2021 uttering that phrase had officially replaced baseball as the national pass time. If you think it was originally a blackjack term that's just the Mandela effect.
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Aug 14, 2023 21:19
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Captain Splendid posted:eiπ=-1 This is proof that Euler just made math up, everything before him is just fake math history. Pythagoras was just a weird cult leader who thought triangles look neat.
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Aug 22, 2023 14:54
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Purple trillium posted:The UK and US have opposite rules for a quotation that ends a sentence. US puts a full stop within the quotation marks and UK puts it after. I feel like everyone in the US does it the UK way anyway because it looks neater. I stopped correcting it when proofreading stuff ages ago.
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Aug 31, 2023 01:20
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You know that Family Guy joke where Peter is Scrooge and Cratchit says "but sir, what of Tiny Tim?" and Peter says "bah, he and his ukulele will go wanting." It's not a monkey cheese random joke. He's referencing the musician Tiny Tim of Tiptoe Through the Tulips fame. I have no idea why I had a sudden moment of clarity re: this throwaway joke from a show I haven't watched in years, but there you go.
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Animal-Mother posted:Tiny Tim got proto-canceled in the mid 80's for singing "This year, Santa Claus has... The AIDS!" My mom had him as a passenger when she was flight attendant and said he really creeped her out. I've never asked for details.
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Gnoman posted:There's a lot of bad information out there. Peasants didn't just sit around and play on their "holidays" (which is mostly a list if the veneration days of the various saints, most of which were observed only in areas where that saint in particular were venerated), they had crops and animals to tend. Tending said crops and animals was not a trivial task, generally being sunup to sundown work, and if you didn't do it every day you'd start losing them. I love this fat-cat peasant meme that has been making the rounds in recent years. It's like people saw media like Monty Python's Holy Grail where peasants were constantly covered in poo poo and died of old age at 26 and ran it way too far back in the other direction. Just imagine how much work the women of a household had to put into making all of the family's clothing using spindles and primitive looms. I wonder what amount of their waking hours that occupied.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I can only imagine his life was an endless hellscape of weekly "Mondays, amirite??" You don't actually need to be named Garfield for this.
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This ISN'T "Handsome Squidward". This  is "Handsome Squidward" (with torn clothes) The first is some even handsomer form. I don't know if it has an official name but I propose "Adonis Squidward" or "Handsome Squidward God Handsome Squidward". I think about Handsome Squidward a lot but it had probably been a decade or two since I actually watched the episode.
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Dec 30, 2023 20:57
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The low five predates the high five by fifty years Now that you mention it I have a hazy memory of a probably racist Looney Toon where a black guy says "give me some skin, brother" before doing a low five.
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CJacobs posted:Wait, grognard isn't the name of like a funny little ugly goblin creature or something from the game??? Holy poo poo You must have slept through your class's grognard unit.
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Jan 1, 2024 15:05
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Phy posted:Thing I just realized: those are wrinkles to the sides of Squidward's eyes, they're not Chuck Jones-style eyelashes. Actually Squidward is an octopus and octopuses don't have eyelashes.
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Jan 4, 2024 22:41
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Guy Fieri was born Guy Ferry This makes that annoying little hiccup TV personalities do when pronouncing his name even more annoying 
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Speaking of Smashmouth, All Star isn't the chicadee china the chinese chicken song.
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You know those weird looking ubiquitous mail trucks that are driven by the USPS and no one else ever? They're manufactured (or were, don't think they're still making them) by Northrop Grumman.
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I just realized I didn't know what the Chinese and Japanese words for "emperor" were, which strikes me as a bit odd considering they come up pretty frequently in history discussion. Anyway Chinese: Huangdi Japanese: Tenno I had actually heard Huangdi before, but I thought it was just the name of the mythical first emperor, I didn't realize the real ones also called themselves that. If you said "Tenno" to me I'd have thought you were talking about Warframe.
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Empty Sandwich posted:one of my favorite jokes in the series I think it took me like 20 years after seeing that joke to learn that "TS" is actually a thing people allegedly say and "tethered swimming" wasn't just some totally arbitrary weird and bad thing they came up with.
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Recently realized it's "I wish that I had Jessie's girl" not "I wish that I was Jessie's girl". I kinda just never actually listened to the song when it was on the radio.
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