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Drunk Nerds: Jan 25, 2011; Just close your eyes; Fun Shoe

trickybiscuits posted:

Martin van Buren was both the only US president who did not have English as his first language (he grew up in an old New York Dutch family) and the only one who was not in some way related to the English royal family.

Obama is related to the English royal family?

Fact: Redheaded atomic bombshell Rita Hayworth was born dark-haired and spanish. Fox studios gave her an extreme ethnic makeover with skin bleaching, hair dying and facial hair electrolysis

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Drunk Nerds: Jan 25, 2011; Just close your eyes; Fun Shoe

FreudianSlippers posted:

Fun fact:
Saying something cool is "off the chain" originates with the Byzantines who would say things that were grand in scale or extravagant were "Της αλυσίδας" ([as if] of the chain" and first entered English in 1877 when Reginald st.John Menzies Cholmondeley, earl of Scunthorpe, used the phrase to describe his trip to Siam.

Questionable etymology itt

Off the chain simply refers to a frenetic dog that has been let loose. It is used in reference to something crazy and/or exciting

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Helith posted:

This is the equivalent of someone wearing a bowler hat, blue woad, a kilt and a pair of wellies while Morris dancing around a maypole drinking porter.

Ohhh, it was hyperbole. I missed that with my mad rush to try to be right on the Internet.

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