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Postby dodint » Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:05 am

Doublewide trailers have two titles.

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Postby dodint » Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:49 pm

Bob Ross did three paintings each show. One before the show, a second during the TV shoot, and a third more detailed version that was scanned for a book.

The partners in his company kept them all and made no effort to preserve them. The Smithsonian asked if they could preserve a few and were granted access.

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Postby PFiDC » Thu Feb 18, 2021 2:54 am

Bob Ross did three paintings each show. One before the show, a second during the TV shoot, and a third more detailed version that was scanned for a book.

The partners in his company kept them all and made no effort to preserve them. The Smithsonian asked if they could preserve a few and were granted access.
I watch The Joy of Painting every night before bed. The man was a treasure.

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Postby dodint » Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:57 am

That's what sent me down that rabbit hole; my wife comes to bed, turns on Pluto, goes right to the Bob Ross channel.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:20 pm

Once a month we would gather at my uncle's house for a big family dinner. He would often fire up whatever episode of JOP was on, and paint along with him in real time while the family watched. It was actually quite fun, even though it was a literal exercise in watching paint dry.

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:21 pm



this fact genuinely upsets me. I hate it so much

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Postby dodint » Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:23 pm

I literally just tilted my head like a confused dog.

Saving grace there is it's "a" plural of beef, not 'the' plural of beef. So if someone goes full "acktuallllyyyyy" on you someday you can stop them in their tracks.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:46 pm

Blame the French, because that's where "beef" originally comes from. Centuries ago it would have been used to refer to both the animal and the meat; hence the need for a plural. Today, it's only used for the meat, which makes the plural form rather obsolete.

Most of our animal words have a split for referring to the meat versus the animal itself. The names for animals (cow, pig, sheep) mostly come from Anglo-Saxon/Old English/Middle English because that was the language of the peasants who raised them. The name for the meat (beef, pork, mutton) comes from the Norman French that was the language of the nobility who ate those animals. The Norman Conquest of 1066 made Norman French the language of the nobility, and that was the case for several centuries. Henry IV is considered the first king to have spoken English as his first language, and he ruled 300 years later.

This English/French duplication also explains some of the obsolete verbiage that appears in legal writing. Couplet phrases like "goods and chattels," "peace and quiet, and "will and testament" exist because lawyers wanted to ensure that all speakers would understand. In each couplet, the first word derives from Anglo-Saxon, and the second from Norman French. Both words mean the same thing.

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Postby dodint » Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:15 pm

I always took "will and testament' to be 'state of mind and the expression of same'.

Neat.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:46 am

Yup, couplet phrases is a great piece of trivia.

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Tue Mar 09, 2021 1:49 pm

Lola, the source of the parody Yoda by Weird Al, is a song by The Kinks. I always thought it was by the Rolling Stones

in my defense, I've heard Yoda about a quadrillion times and Lola only a handful

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Postby Nuge » Tue Mar 09, 2021 1:52 pm

Lola, the source of the parody Yoda by Weird Al, is a song by The Kinks. I always thought it was by the Rolling Stones

in my defense, I've heard Yoda about a quadrillion times and Lola only a handful
Using that context to reference that song makes me sad.

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Tue Mar 09, 2021 2:03 pm

lol as I said, I knew it as a Weird Al song before a Kinks song

others include, but are not limited to: Eat It (before Beat It), the Saga Begins (before American Pie), Jurassic Park (before MacArthur Park), Spam (before Stand), the White Stuff (before the Right Stuff) and Headline News (before Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm)

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:57 pm

I don't even know where to begin.

https://www.worlddata.info/average-age.php

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Postby mikey » Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:03 pm

The average age of a country can be 15 years old...Jesus H...

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Postby shmenguin » Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:54 pm

When you think the world has a plan, and that there is a great balance we’re all carried towards on eagle’s wings...the concept of Africa can really kill that boner.

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Postby mikey » Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:56 pm

"Cradle of mother****** civilization..."

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:05 pm

The average age of a country can be 15 years old...Jesus H...
cmon Katarina Wu, average != median

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Postby mikey » Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:08 pm

Eh, fine...the url and the table's main metric deceived me...

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:14 am

blackberry/raspberry hybrids exist and are called loganberry

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:26 pm

cacti are only naturally occurring in the Americas except for this guy, of which scientists think it was introduced by migratory birds from the Americas or by the Columbian trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhipsalis_baccifera

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Postby LITT » Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:28 pm

I literally just tilted my head like a confused dog.

Saving grace there is it's "a" plural of beef, not 'the' plural of beef. So if someone goes full "acktuallllyyyyy" on you someday you can stop them in their tracks.
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Postby PFiDC » Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:06 pm

lol as I said, I knew it as a Weird Al song before a Kinks song

others include, but are not limited to: Eat It (before Beat It), the Saga Begins (before American Pie), Jurassic Park (before MacArthur Park), Spam (before Stand), the White Stuff (before the Right Stuff) and Headline News (before Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm)
It's about a dude kissing a trans woman

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Postby AuthorTony » Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:00 pm


It's about a dude kissing a trans woman
I don't usually like "reaction" videos, but this one is pretty good.

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Postby AuthorTony » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:10 am

I don't know if this is true, but if so I found it interesting.
The Scottish Highlands and the Appalachians are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains. Remnants of this massive mountain range include the Appalachian Mountains of North America, the Little Atlas of Morocco, Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, and part of Greenland and Scandinavia.
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