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Terminal Entropy posted:Teddy Roosevelt had a really low key soft voice for his size and activities too. I see what you're doing here. There are actually voice recordings of Teddy Roosevelt. Really early recordings, sure, but they exist: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/troosevelt_film/trfsnd.html e: And apparently wax cylinder recordings had already been around for a bunch of years by the point these recordings were made! So not even really early. Phy has a new favorite as of 16:23 on Mar 27, 2013 |
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Yeah, they're just called that, we're taking no responsibility for the nasty little shitfactories.
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Apr 4, 2013 17:57
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One Swell Foop posted:The ring shape is just a result of making a smaller 'donut-hole' type donut larger. They cook inwards from the outside, so you need a shape that minimizes the maximum distance from the 'skin' of the donut. Bagels and bundt cakes are hoop-shaped for similar reasons. Well, poo poo man, now you got me picturing little bagel holes, all cut in half with a dab of cream cheese and a morsel of smoked salmon.
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Apr 29, 2013 23:35
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In Cycle Asylum today I learned that the German term for "glove" is "hand shoe". I know about how German nouns are agglutinative, it's just... "hand shoe" is adorable! It's like Hans the Village Dope saw a glove for the first time, and what he called it ended up being the term that stuck.
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May 6, 2013 20:36
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"Nullarbor", as in Australia's Nullarbor Plain, isn't one of those wacky-sounding aboriginal words. It's just lovely latin for "ain't no fuckin' trees here mate".
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May 10, 2013 20:53
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Brother Jonathan posted:In the game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the expression "snake eater" comes from military slang. The Green Berets were called the "snake eaters" because of their wilderness survival training. Also for a bonus pun you could parse it as Snake, Eater: The game stars Naked Snake, and could be seen as being about eating just about every drat thing you can lay your hands on that doesn't speak, shoot or explode.
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May 19, 2013 04:37
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Mescal posted:It was a supergroup of days past. Jimmy Buffet joined Jefferson Time Machine and they toured but never released their album. People say they were better than you'd expect. Goddamn, how many vehicles did Jefferson have? I knew about the airplane and the starship but this is a new one on me.
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May 20, 2013 22:17
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Elim Garak posted:Stuff You Can't Believe You Just Figured Out III: Learning How to Pronounce Glam Rock Stage Names! "Gary Glitter" is actually pronounced "Rotten Paederast"!
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May 30, 2013 17:24
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Naw, that's Central America. Completely different.  E: phoque.
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Jun 8, 2013 02:20
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Is John Mayer the one that was a tank commander? There's some rear end in a top hat out there with a guitar making songs that get on top 40 radio that used to be a British tank commander
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Jun 30, 2013 17:15
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The Firm could only have been improved by having more Trash Can Man.
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Jul 21, 2013 02:24
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He mentioned the Vicarius, which is the root of "vicar".
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Jul 26, 2013 22:52
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Ockhams Crowbar posted:What about bad moons? I've heard they're often on the rise. No, no, those are bathrooms. They're on the right.
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Jul 27, 2013 16:59
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I was going to suggest you go to Google Mars and do that and it'd be like playing DOOM... but Google Mars doesn't have a street view.
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Aug 2, 2013 17:11
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Jedit posted:Of course, if you want a real multi-tasker you've got to go with Sir Christopher Lee. In addition to his 300-plus screen acting credits he can speak seven languages, served with Special Forces and British Intelligence during the Second World War, judged the 1995 Miss World competition and released a heavy metal album on his 91st birthday. When he was filming The Two Towers, he had to advise Peter Jackson on the sound a person makes when you stab them in the back of the neck. Because he actually knows what it sounds like.
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Aug 12, 2013 06:40
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And, crucially, doesn't taste much like when you buy a bunch of oranges and squeeze the juice out of them.
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Aug 29, 2013 01:59
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Henchman of Santa posted:I always thought it was a weird choice for a stage name because Mark Vincent is a great action star name on its own. Mark Vincent can't be anagrammed to "I end lives". 
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Sep 10, 2013 21:11
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leidend posted:At least in Vancouver it's grandfathered in. Montreal is removing all old ones by 2020. The senior citizen lobby is secretly controlled by velociraptors.
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Jan 1, 2014 02:44
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:I just learned today that there are people who wash meat before cooking it. They even wash ground meat. Bizarre. I'll wash a steak if I drop it on the floor before I can cook it. gently caress you, floor, you're not taking a steak from me.
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Jan 14, 2014 16:31
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Trent posted:Where I'm from we call 'em Holey Bowleys. How is England this time of year
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Jan 15, 2014 22:55
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ZenMaster posted:For this very reason, I point this out to my kids and they always go, "oh yeah!" But then move on cause they don't really care at that age. Watching Chuck has ruined Tangled. I've never seen Tangled, is Adam Baldwin Rapunzel?
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Jan 27, 2014 16:39
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RandomFerret posted:
I'd like to get more Fingerpori in my life but the newspaper comics thread in BSS moves so fuckin' fast
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Jan 31, 2014 18:27
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Ron MacLean: is being replaced as host of Hockey Night in Canada by George Stroumbolopoulos  Today I learned that Ron is only 53, and Strombo's 41. Which, I guess my shock is an artifact of when I grew up. Strombo was a VJ on Muchmusic when I was a teen, when Ron had already been on HNIC for like ever. I also learned that Greek names aren't spelled the way I think they ought to be.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:24
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fullroundaction posted:I went to IMDB to see if you were full of poo poo and a few seconds later I realized that I was an idiot because it's not like THE SHARK would have a headshot and its name on the list of actors. The hanging meat from Rocky had an action figure. 
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Apr 1, 2014 22:08
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A Moose posted:I just discovered that the company I work for invented the Three Wolf Moon shirt. In related dumb amazon memey news, apparently Tuscan Whole Milk isn't from Tuscany. Instead it's from Brooklyn.
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Apr 3, 2014 18:20
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FishBulb posted:I spent a year in Albuquerque with an out of state ID. Buying sudafed involved fingerprinting and a cavity search. How are they about drugs with phenylephrine instead of pseudoephedrine?
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May 27, 2014 18:55
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:She didn't specify movie theatre, did she? I always thought it was at a musical or a play or an opera or something. The opera beej is truly the classiest of the furtive beejes. All top hats and silk gloves.
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Jun 5, 2014 16:48
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Charles Manson is still alive. I thought he died in prison; maybe I was conflating him with Jeffrey Dahmer.
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Jun 27, 2014 22:24
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Istari posted:Blue jays are freaking huge. I always thought they were red-breasted robin-sized. European or American robin? Because American robins are in the thrush family, and they're about the same size as a blue jay.
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Jul 11, 2014 03:16
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Istari posted:I've known my whole life that a kitchen bench that is not attached to other benches is called a Kitchen Island. If you have two or more islands in your kitchen (and if you do, gently caress off you rich bastard), is it a Kitchen Archipelago?
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Aug 6, 2014 18:17
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John Hammond would never have put feathered raptors on the main island in Jurassic Park. No audience in 1993 is going to pay to see a six foot turkey. They were genetically engineered all to hell anyway, so he could have tweaked them until they reliably came out of the egg looking "right" - as naked and scaley as a monitor lizard - and put those on the main site. The duds with feathers got tucked away on the B site at Isla Sorna. (Of course the real reason is that the people making the movie didn't know better back then, or if they did, figured no paying audience would want to see a six foot turkey...)
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Aug 16, 2014 14:47
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Also, you drive on a parkway, and park in a driveway! Aaah? AAAAH? 
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Aug 21, 2014 19:12
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Tiggum posted:Sanrio's Shocking Reveal: Hello Kitty Is NOT A Cat. Mickey is a cartoon mouse, not the kind of mouse that lives in your walls and shits in your sugar bowl. Bugs Bunny is a cartoon rabbit, not the kind of rabbit that gets messily torn apart by combine harvesters. Why can't hello kitty be a cartoon cat and still not be the kind of cat that puts its rear end in a top hat in your face and pukes in your shoe. Why does this have to be difficult.
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There are fish that, if you eat them, you get hallucinations. Fish.
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