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ShimaTetsuo posted:Quebec has a history of adapting american TV shows for our local audience and then having them be cancelled very quickly because no one watches them e.g. "La Job" (The Office) or SNL Quebec (this skit might look familiar) only lasted ~10 episodes each. Most people don't want to watch the knock-off version of anything if they know the original exists. The adaptation of Brooklyn 99 has not begun airing yet but who knows how long it will actually last. don't be so down on yourself you've also provided us with Quebecois Boomhauer
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I discovered today that "Life Is a Highway" is not by Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, or any other hard-rock group. It's by Tom Cochrane, essentially a one-hit wonder (though other songs of his charted in his native Canada, because of course they did).
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Hirayuki posted:I discovered today that "Life Is a Highway" is not by Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, or any other hard-rock group. It's by Tom Cochrane, essentially a one-hit wonder (though other songs of his charted in his native Canada, because of course they did). It's by Rascal Flatts now.
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Beachcomber posted:It's by Rascal Flatts now. Welp, just figured out it’s not by them. And wasn’t part of the marketing push for Cars
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Hirayuki posted:I discovered today that "Life Is a Highway" is not by Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, or any other hard-rock group. It's by Tom Cochrane, essentially a one-hit wonder (though other songs of his charted in his native Canada, because of course they did). Tom Cochrane was also the lead singer for a different one hit wonder act, Red Rider, who sang "lunatic fringe" another song that's constantly misattributed to random other rock bands.
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Huh, I had no idea. Our high school sports program played Lunatic Fringe weekly for football pregames, because we our team was called the Red Riders.
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Aug 27, 2020 13:43
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Probably reealy dorky, but I saw that nice 'frolicking' tweet and only then made the v. obvious connection between 'frolic' and 'fröhlich'.
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Aug 27, 2020 18:52
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Pookah posted:Probably reealy dorky, but I saw that nice 'frolicking' tweet and only then made the v. obvious connection between 'frolic' and 'fröhlich'. I hadn't made the connection until just now. Apparently it made its way into English via Dutch.
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Aug 27, 2020 18:57
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Phlegmish posted:I hadn't made the connection until just now. Apparently it made its way into English via Dutch. When you say it out loud, it's 95% the same drat word but obviously you don't really ever say it in the same context.
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Aug 27, 2020 18:59
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The pronunciation of the 'ch' part in German is pretty strongly different from the English ending, though. Frolic is more similar to the Dutch 'vrolijk' in that regard.
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Aug 27, 2020 19:02
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poo poo, I'm Dutch, studied English at uni with a healthy dose of linguistics and never made that connection, lol.
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Aug 27, 2020 19:06
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rodbeard posted:Tom Cochrane was also the lead singer for a different one hit wonder act, Red Rider, who sang "lunatic fringe" another song that's constantly misattributed to random other rock bands. If you want to momentarily confuse yourself, give "White Hot" by Red Rider a listen and see how he pronounces "Somalia" Bryan Adams, Tom Cochrane, Kim Mitchell and Colin James are all sort of on the same continuum for me of "extraordinarily white Canadian rocker of the 80s and early 90s"
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Aug 27, 2020 19:06
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Phlegmish posted:The pronunciation of the 'ch' part in German is pretty strongly different from the English ending, though. Frolic is more similar to the Dutch 'vrolijk' in that regard. The ch to c change is extremely common in german english cognates though, so once you notice the one you start to notice them all. I'm assuming that ch to k is similar for german-dutch
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Aug 27, 2020 19:09
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Elizabeth Olsen is not one of the Olsen twins her name not being marykate or ashley should probably have tipped me off in hindsight
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Aug 27, 2020 21:53
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On the subject of language: Old English, surprisingly understandable, or still gibberish? ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEaRBAT0TLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Dagt3SWoo
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Mackers posted:Elizabeth Olsen is not one of the Olsen twins The disposition of the third Olsen is probably something QAnon should look into.
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Sweevo posted:On the subject of language: Old English, surprisingly understandable, or still gibberish? Yes.
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Aug 27, 2020 22:19
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Harald Hardrada should've won in 1066 so english could've been in a proper cognates club instead of being germanic with romance characteristics and monolingual anglos struggling with both.
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Aug 27, 2020 22:24
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Mackers posted:Elizabeth Olsen is not one of the Olsen twins Also their given names were Mary and Kate. People kept misinterpreting the credits so they changed their names.
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Aug 27, 2020 22:51
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Also their given names were Mary and Kate. People kept misinterpreting the credits so they changed their names. Ah yes, that makes se - Wait a minute, it's Jerry 'JC' Cotton!!!
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Aug 27, 2020 22:55
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A little late to the Vasquez/John Connor's Foster mom/Titanic person debate but maybe, just maybe, that actress was cast in all those roles had something to do with the Director?
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Aug 27, 2020 23:30
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I think early on they actually were credited as "Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen" for some reason.
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Aug 28, 2020 00:11
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Aphrodite posted:I think early on they actually were credited as "Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen" for some reason. Their names were Mary Ashley-Olsen and Kate Ashley-Olsen.
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Aug 28, 2020 00:17
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Mary-Kate, And-Ashley Olsen
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Aug 28, 2020 00:18
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Their actual legal names are in fact Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. Mary-Kate was even married to Olivier Sarkozy, brother of the former french president Nicolas. She filed for divorce recently but covid happened so they're still technically married.
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Aug 28, 2020 00:58
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Their actual legal names are in fact Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. Mary-Kate was even married to Olivier Sarkozy, brother of the former french president Nicolas. She filed for divorce recently but covid happened so they're still technically married. Yeah, NOW.
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Aug 28, 2020 01:07
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Tequila and root beer make a good mix.
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Aug 28, 2020 01:15
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MariusLecter posted:Tequila and root beer make a good mix.
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Aug 28, 2020 01:17
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MariusLecter posted:Tequila and root beer make a good mix.
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Aug 28, 2020 01:22
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I was wondering if there were any cocktails with root beer in them
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Aug 28, 2020 01:43
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I've never seen a cocktail on a bar menu that used root beer, but it goes just fine with plenty of poo poo. Most things you would put with a coke are just fine in root beer. Rum, whisky, rye, sure what the gently caress ever. It would be weird if you used top shelf stuff for this, but cheap/middling brands taste just as fine in a root beer as they do in a coke. Those weird flavored vodkas like whipped cream or vanilla bean? Dump it in some root beer. I personally like but have never had anyone else agree that ginger brandy with root beer is good. It's a lot of strong flavors thrown together but I think they complement each other. I'm trying really hard to imagine a highbrow cocktail that would use root beer. Citrus slices and bitters all seem like a bad idea. I can't think of any strongly flavored liqueurs that would work with root beer either. Maybe anise liquors?????
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Aug 28, 2020 05:15
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Letting a tequila and fruit punch monster sit for too long it turns into watered down cherry cough syrup like substance.
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Aug 28, 2020 08:27
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just put root beer labels on actual beer then sharpie quotation marks around the word root
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Aug 28, 2020 10:34
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Most red wines and coke are good, especially if the wine is Manischewitz.
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Aug 28, 2020 13:58
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Rum and whisky are both better with root beer than with cola.
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Aug 28, 2020 14:09
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Spiced rum and diet coke somehow tastes like root beer or cream soda depending on the rum.
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Aug 28, 2020 14:14
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Do I out myself as a secret sorority girl if I say that fireball and root beer taste good?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Most red wines and coke are good, especially if the wine is Manischewitz. 
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Aug 28, 2020 14:55
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Tastes fine even if it's not kosher
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rydiafan posted:Do I out myself as a secret sorority girl if I say that fireball and root beer taste good? this makes my teeth hurt
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