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Animal-Mother posted:The only thing I remember from community college was that we had an English professor who wanted to do a whole unit on Hemingway, nine tenths of the students stopped coming to class, and then he got fired after telling us he wanted to re-enact his Vietnam War trauma upon us. Yeah that's basically community college, carry on
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Captain Splendid posted:Asterisk and Obelisk I have news for you about Panoramix and Abraracourix and Agecononix and you know what let's just say all the characters who aren't historical or roman
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Captain Splendid posted:Asterisk and Obelisk He's called asterix because he's the star of the comic
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sebmojo posted:He's called asterix because he's the star of the comic he's called that because his records are historical but marred by doping
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Grassy Knowles posted:he's called that because his records are historical but marred by doping Ahahahha
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Grassy Knowles posted:he's called that because his records are historical but marred by doping Actually it's because terms and conditions apply
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I don't remember if there was an Asterix character called Appendix, which seems like a missed opportunity.
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Philippe posted:I don't remember if there was an Asterix character called Appendix, which seems like a missed opportunity. Well you can always add an Appendix
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I have news for you about Panoramix and Abraracourix and Agecononix and you know what let's just say all the characters who aren't historical or roman Those don't swap any sounds around 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I have news for you about Panoramix and Abraracourix and Agecononix and you know what let's just say all the characters who aren't historical or roman 
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Grassy Knowles posted:Well you can always add an Appendix That is very bad medicine, Getafix. In reading Salman Rushdie of all things I learned that not only was Mariska (L&O: SVU) Hargitay's mom Jayne Mansfield, but that she was in the car accident that killed her mother at the tender age of 3. And yes I'm aware of my horrible sentence structure and the way it can be read as if her mother was then 3, or that possibly Mariska was driving so no need to point that out.   e: Oh, and also that this isn't the "thing you just figured out" PYF
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EVE Online: just found out that the Mittani is no longer the leader of the Imperium, which also is no longer associated with Something Awful?? What the hell happened since I stopped playing two years ago, we won World War Bee just for this
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Phlegmish posted:EVE Online: just found out that the Mittani is no longer the leader of the Imperium, which also is no longer associated with Something Awful?? The biggest tl;dr rather than directing you to legends/sagas cause this one is more gross than funny: Mittani was knowingly harboring and running cover for some of the worst types of people you could possibly share internet space with
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Well, drat. Shame he turned out to be an rear end in a top hat, dude was an excellent public speaker. Difficult to believe it ends like this. At least World War Bee was one hell of a way to cap off nearly two decades of goon mayhem. Delta Sqad forever
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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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Phlegmish posted:Well, drat. Shame he turned out to be an rear end in a top hat, dude was an excellent public speaker. Difficult to believe it ends like this. just gonna put a line under that for my own sake, cause i really hate when it happens, as opposed to if
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The Moon Monster posted:Tiny Tim of Tiptoe Through the Tulips fame. Tiny Tim got proto-canceled in the mid 80's for singing "This year, Santa Claus has... The AIDS!"
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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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Animal-Mother posted:Tiny Tim got proto-canceled in the mid 80's for singing "This year, Santa Claus has... The AIDS!" drat, he would have been a legend here
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The Moon Monster posted: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."
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I looked up how tall Tiny Tim was and it's 6'1''/1.85m. Kind of surprising to me - I'd think it's an above average height, but not enough to base a gimmick on. Maybe all the other entertainers were shorter back then.
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rollick posted:I looked up how tall Tiny Tim was and it's 6'1''/1.85m. It was an ironic nickname, started back when he was appearing on the same bill as a performer with dwarfism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(musician)#Life_and_career
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Tiny Tim was that certain special type of unhinged that felt it would make perfect sense to do a version of Silent Night where between the third & fourth verse there's a several-minute rant about religious hypocrisy including the phrase "fornicating with children" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPprRVvl2vQ
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It was an ironic nickname, started back when he was appearing on the same bill as a performer with dwarfism Yeah but the irony works better if he's actually super tall, so I just assumed he was bigger. Like how Little John from Robin Hood's gang is supposed to be 7 feet or so.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It was an ironic nickname, started back when he was appearing on the same bill as a performer with dwarfism I think the most bizarre thing here is that he played Isle of Wight at the same festival with Hendrix, his set was right in between Joni Mitchell's and Miles Davis'.
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That a raspberry, in the sense of a farty noise, is cockney rhyming slang: Raspberry tart = fart
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Tiny Tim was a seinfeld.
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yaffle posted:That a raspberry, in the sense of a farty noise, is cockney rhyming slang: Raspberry tart = fart That is much more satisfying than my "the bubbles it sometimes makes look a little bit like a raspberry? I guess?" reasoning
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Brawnfire posted:That is much more satisfying than my "the bubbles it sometimes makes look a little bit like a raspberry? I guess?" reasoning Geez how often are you looking at farts? e: Don't answer that.
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Brawnfire posted:The mouth one! 
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rollick posted:Yeah but the irony works better if he's actually super tall, so I just assumed he was bigger. Like how Little John from Robin Hood's gang is supposed to be 7 feet or so. To be fair Little John might have been like 6'1" but it was Robin Hood times.
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nah, medieval people were reasonably tall if they lived in the countryside, people didn't shrink until the early modern period when they started getting packed into cities and underfed on an industrial scale
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Tiny Tim’s first wife was 17, he 37, when they got married on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Divorced after having a kid a few years later, I always felt sorry for her. She was also featured in the first nudie mag I traded some toy cars for, so I guess she was hard up for money later too.
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