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MindlessHavok posted:They're saying that 'mean' in the phrase means an average achievement, not that it's 'mean' in the emotional sense. So, 'no mean feat' would mean that it's not an average achievement, which is what he just figured out. So if I get a thirty on a math exam that is no mean feat. 
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HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:So if I get a thirty on a math exam that is no mean feat. Unless the whole class is really bad
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Frostwerks posted:And who cares what they think? They're anthropologists I majored in anthropology as an undergrad and yeah, it was pretty much always pronounced something like "nay-ander-tall." I never heard the Cro-Magnon one, but we never talked about those guys much anyway. I think the only one no one seemed to agree on was Australopithecus, because some would always insist it ended like "-pitheecus" while others didn't bother. It was the physical anthro professor, so maybe he was right, I don't know. And Frostwerks, you have a point. I really like most of my professors but they were pretty much all huge weirdos in some way. Huge drinkers, pot heads or just willing to follow a band of lemurs around in the Madagascar jungle for years.
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Kimmalah posted:And Frostwerks, you have a point. I really like most of my professors but they were pretty much all huge weirdos in some way. Huge drinkers, pot heads or just willing to follow a band of lemurs around in the Madagascar jungle for years. That sounds cool as hell, actually, especially if you could get the lemurs to smoke weed with you.
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The beginning of college I learned Francis Scott Key wasn't black.
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Synonamess Botch posted:That sounds cool as hell, actually, especially if you could get the lemurs to smoke weed with you. He was a pretty cool professor. He was about 7 feet tall (really) but he would get kind of misty-eyed and nostalgic if you asked him if he missed those lemurs. I think they have a band of them roaming around in this woodland habitat near Duke University, so I guess you could go there if you don't feel like going to Madagascar. My physical anthro professor used to go to Peru on archaeology digs every summer, but the way he talked they spent most of their time drinking/partying.
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All on Black posted:Julius Caesar was pronounced Yulius Kaisar And now you know why there were Kaisers in Germany, and Czars/Tsars/Csars/Tzars in Russia.
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orthodoxy ortho(true/right/correct) + doxy (belief/opinion) Led me to realize: orthodontics (correct tooth) orthopedics (correct child) and so on
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Sylvester Stallone - "The Italian Stallion" - has that nickname not only because he has stallion-like qualities, but Stallone is literally stallion in Italian.
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:orthodoxy ortho(true/right/correct) + doxy (belief/opinion) Bro, orthopaedic/orthopedic is "correct foot", not "correct child".
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Aggro posted:Bro, orthopaedic/orthopedic is "correct foot", not "correct child". "Encyclopedic knowledge" is thorough knowledge about feet? 
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Should have fact checked that. I'm an idiot. Despite being concerned primarily with adults, and often adults with foot problems, orthopedic does actually mean correct child. This is particularly embarrassing because I want to be an orthopedic surgeon in the next couple of years and never thought about how loving stupid the etymology is.
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Until yesterday I thought that Shakira was just Mariah Carey's stage name. Didn't realise they were 2 separate people 
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^ What the hell? Though their careers started around the same time(1990), Shakira didn't become worldwide famous until 2001. Mariah's album in 1990 went seven times platinum.
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Orunitier posted:^ What the hell? Though their careers started around the same time(1990), Shakira didn't become worldwide famous until 2001. Mariah's album in 1990 went seven times platinum. Well, she couldn't make both her Shakira and her Mariah persona famous at the same time, that would have been way too much work. So she waited until Mariah started to slip a bit, and then BOOM! Shakira!!
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Not to mention that they don't even remotely sound or look alike, other than they're both female with somewhat unusual names. 
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Kimmalah posted:Not to mention that they don't even remotely sound or look alike, other than they're both female with somewhat unusual names. It's almost like someone who confused Mariah and Shakira doesn't know much about them.
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Brother Jonathan posted:Similarly, I was surprised to learn that the expression is to "toe the line," much like runners at a starting mark, not to "tow the line," meaning pull a length of cable together. My understanding of it is that the first recorded usage of the phrase was from prizefighting in the British armed forces in the 19th century where the fighters would need to start with their foot touching a line in the middle of the ring and go from there. But it's a nearly 200 year old phrase and it probably has a hundred different supposed origins.
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Whoa, I always thought it was "tow the line" and it meant to lead or something...
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ThatPazuzu posted:It's almost like someone who confused Mariah and Shakira doesn't know much about them. Neither do I. I'm mostly just going off snippets of stuff I see on TV and the occasional song I overhear while I'm at a store or something. I'm far from being all that familiar with either of them.
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Mariah Carey can actually sing. Shakira can't hold the same note for more than a quarter second.
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Adderall has ADD in the name.
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I was stunned that the phrase was "make do," not "make due," as in "we'll have to make do with what we've got."
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count me in as another new to the definition of "Toe The Line". I thought it originated from tugboats pulling larger ships via rope. Therefore, for the tugboat to do the hard work it's supposed to, it needs to "Tow the Line".
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madlilnerd posted:Until yesterday I thought that Shakira was just Mariah Carey's stage name. Didn't realise they were 2 separate people Martin Sheen is not related to either Michael or Charlie Sheen. I once thought that they were one big family until I heard Martin Sheen speaking in an interview and thought, "Wait a minute…"
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Brother Jonathan posted:Martin Sheen is not related to either Michael or Charlie Sheen. I once thought that they were one big family until I heard Martin Sheen speaking in an interview and thought, "Wait a minute…" I thought Martin was Charlie and Emilio's father.
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He is. Martin Sheen is the father of Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez (their actual birth surname), and the brother to b-movie legend Joe Estevez.
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Brother Jonathan posted:Martin Sheen is not related to either Michael or Charlie Sheen. I once thought that they were one big family until I heard Martin Sheen speaking in an interview and thought, "Wait a minute…" uhh Martin Sheen: Birth name Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez Father of Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Renée Estevez and Ramon Estevez. Older brother of actor Joe Estevez. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000640/bio Michael i will give you though. EFB!
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Brother Jonathan posted:Martin Sheen is not related to . . . Charlie Sheen. I imagine that's what he likes to pretend sometimes.
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Whoops, I mistyped. That should have read " You see how confusing these stupid Sheens are? 
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I watched all of Zombieland and most of the making-of special features with cast interviews and stuff before I realized that the main character was not in fact Michael Cera. They kept referring to him as Jesse in the interviews, and I'm thinking "Who the gently caress is Jesse, everyone goes by the name of a city."
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Lil Wayne has a really deep speaking voice.
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Celery Face posted:Lil Wayne has a really deep speaking voice. Daniel Day Lewis got some complaints about the higher-pitched voice he gave to Lincoln. But my grandmother told me her grandfather was visited in the hospital by Lincoln and said he had a high pitched voice. I guess it was just nice to have a family story kind of validated.
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Georgia Peach posted:Daniel Day Lewis got some complaints about the higher-pitched voice he gave to Lincoln. But my grandmother told me her grandfather was visited in the hospital by Lincoln and said he had a high pitched voice. I guess it was just nice to have a family story kind of validated. I was always taught Lincoln had a very high pitched voice, especially for a man of his size.
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I just learned that Martin Sheen and Michael Douglas are not the same person. I have always thought Michael Douglas was Charlie/Emilio's dad, what the gently caress? According to Google, a lot of people think this for some reason... And that Martin Freeman's name is not Martin Sheen, nor Martin Short, who is also not named Martin Sheen. Edit: Holy gently caress, it's Martin Sheen in the West Wing too. Thankfully The Game is actually Michael Douglas 'cause I love that movie. lidnsya has a new favorite as of 05:17 on Mar 27, 2013 |
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Michael Keaton's birth name was Michael Douglas, but he had to change it because it was already taken.
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Brother Jonathan posted:Sheen family relations! I consider this mostly lucky for Michael. But, if it makes you feel any better, when I first encountered him, my brain went there too - if in an automatically "this can't be right" kind of way.
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AlbieQuirky posted:Michael Keaton's birth name was Michael Douglas, but he had to change it because it was already taken. That's just one part of a whole smorgasbord of stage-name changing. Cracked.com details it here
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HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:I was always taught Lincoln had a very high pitched voice, especially for a man of his size. Teddy Roosevelt had a really low key soft voice for his size and activities too.
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While we're on celebrity confusion, my world came crashing down last week when I discovered that Beck ('Loser') and Jeff Beck (General guitar god) are not one super awesome, chameleon-like musician.stubblyhead posted:I watched all of Zombieland and most of the making-of special features with cast interviews and stuff before I realized that the main character was not in fact Michael Cera. They kept referring to him as Jesse in the interviews, and I'm thinking "Who the gently caress is Jesse, everyone goes by the name of a city." Me Too.
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