I wonder how much of this misunderstanding is a calque from German, where hydrogen is "Wasserstoff" and oxygen is "Sauerstoff". The English versions of both are from Greek, which serves to disguise the mistaken meanings.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
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RE: Random thought of the day
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
How do you know they're not?
One may, if one wishes, interpose the words "correctly or not" after "them" in the above.
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Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Tsaukpaetra Quizno's? The guys responsible for this iconic ad?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
Easier. A colleague at that time told me how he enjoyed WiFi surfing. Park your car next to a building of a company, switch your notebook on, and just connect to WiFi...
That's a funny way to spell "wardriving".
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
@Arantor In which case "{indeciperable string of directional emojis}" is better for purpose than any particular indecipherable string of directional emojis would be.
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@PleegWat I'm pretty much emoji blind. All the facial expression ones look the same to me at the resolution they're usually presented, so if you're think you're trying to communicate something using them, be advised that you're failing miserably.
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
The Fun With Maps thread is {indecipherable string of directional emojis}
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@loopback0 All letters are silent in French. You only pronounce the accent marks.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
I remember reading an article written maybe 20 years ago proposing the theory that Bond was a Time Lord, to the point of finding obscure lines in the films and the series that 'because the Doctor said it and so did Bond... this is proof that Bond is actually a Time Lord'
Some years back I decided that the real Sherlock Holmes must have been a telepathic alien, and that his supposed "deductive reasoning" was just an excuse to explain to Dr Watson how he could know things that no normal earth human could know.
Okay, so "Time Lord" also could explain those as well as "telepathic alien". The original theory also concluded that Lennon and McCartney were aliens as well, and was full of conspiracy-like stuff about whether Ringoo knew and just kept quiet about it.
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@topspin Alternate panel 3 caption: "We've been trying to reach you about your starship's extended warranty".
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@HardwareGeek More like frijoles redigestos, if you ask me.
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Just up today on xkcd:
I don't see an uppercase Q like the ones they taught us back in elementary school. I do see something Q-shaped, but it doesn't look anything like our Qs.
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@xaade I know a few stingrays that would like a word with you....
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Turning 35 years old this year (i.e. begain in 1989);
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the world-wide web
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The Simpsons
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@loopback0 Those Welsh people are weird.
(How do you make vichysoisse? First, you take a leek.)
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@dangeRuss I wonder if @sockpuppet7 saw the movies dubbed.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
How old is this picture? Edith Head died in 1981.
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@Mason_Wheeler Until they cast Margot Robbie as Barbie, this was the best example of casting on record. If Christopher Lloyd had not existed, or had otherwise been unavailable, who would you have cast as Doc Brown?
(My choices would have been John Lithgow, or if he too was not available, Matt Frewer, which would have had the additional effect of both of the actors pictured above being Canadian.)
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
Why are all the first halves misspelled so badly in the last column?
Ablaut.
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I thought we had a "Fun with maps" thread where this could reasonably go, but I can't find it, so I'm putting it here. If it's out there some place, you're welcome to jeff it to that thread instead:
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RE: Random Question of the Day
@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
Or maybe I'm confusing with l'Ăcole des Robinsons (uh, English title is apparently Godfrey Morgan?!?),
A common misconception, that. "Godfrey Morgan" is actually the name of the doctor who creates the monster.
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@HardwareGeek Reminds me of the time about two years ago now when I pulled up to a Mexican place to find that one of the fountain nozzles had been repurposed to dispense pumpkin spice horchata.
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RE: In other news today...
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Who was playing with McDonald's servers last night?
White-hat hackers trying to make the world's food better. Or at least less bad.
Instead of screwing with stuff like that, how's about they work on fixing the ice cream machines?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
That tree is a ...
...happy to see you?
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RE: You won't agree with me. And that's normal.
@Benjamin-Hall said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
As it turns out, it's really really hard to get people to agree on even basic rules. This is something I've seen in lots of contexts.
D&D rules? Even the "clear" ones cause debate. Software requirements? No meeting of the minds. Forum rules? I'm in the right, he's over the line. Etc.
As we used to say when trying to code to a standard, "the S in ISO is silent".
(Literal case in point: The ISO 8583 standard for financial transactions specifies that amounts, in any currency, consist of 18 numeric digits. But it doesn't say whether tthat's ASCII, EBCDIC, or BCD with two digits per character. And of course, each team on a project of any size to support will interpret the "standard" in whatever format came to them in a dream one night.)
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RE: Fun with maps
@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
@kazitor said in Fun with maps:
@Watson
But Earth isnât a torus!Not even close. If one accepts Archbishop Ussher's calculations as accurate, it was created on October 23, 4004 BC, which makes it a Scorpio, not a Taurus.
But was that early in the morning, or at noon?
8:48 am. I don't believe the tiue zone was specified.
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RE: đť The Emergency Cute Things Thread
I call this piece "Obligate Carnivore, My Ass!"
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RE: Fun with maps
@kazitor said in Fun with maps:
@Watson
But Earth isnât a torus!Not even close. If one accepts Archbishop Ussher's calculations as accurate, it was created on October 23, 4004 BC, which makes it a Scorpio, not a Taurus.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
E_NOT_HI_HAT
Crash and ride cymbals are essentially the same with the only difference being thickness.
Still not sure if the punchline is funnier if it is "password cannot contain cymbals".
I used to post to usenet with the "Registration" header filled out with a long sequence of organ stops.
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While it's nice to see that not every human wants to shoot them all on sight, I still want to know if the Acme Corporation does any kind of product testing before releasing something as simple as a ladder to the market.
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@remi said in Nope, you eat it:
@DogsB said in Nope, you eat it:
Field geologist rules:
1. lick the rocks!
2. don't lick the rock that the professor just licked and handed to you...And in case you wonder, yes, that's for real.
And stay away from galena. It may be pretty and shiny, but that doesn't translate to edibility.
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@dkf said in Nope, you eat it:
@HardwareGeek said in Nope, you eat it:
(I've had octopus. Meh. It's not terrible, but the texture is very rubbery.)
Like squid and cuttlefish, you either have to cook octopus very quickly or very slowly for a long time. I've got a tremendous Greek octopus stew recipe somewhere. (I might have too many recipes...)
I've got a package of frozen takoyaki in the freezer just waiting for me to get in the mood for sommething with tentacles.
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Does the definition of "cryptid" extend to include lifeforms that are human in overall appearance?
What I'm trying to decide is, does Santa Claus qualify?
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@DogsB said in Nope, you eat it:
"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something." -- Mitch Hedberg
Shouldn't the singular be "rye", though? Like "one die, two dice". You'd say "hey, Randall, you've got a rye on the front of your shirt".
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Racial (well, sexual and age, but racial probably too) profiling! Where's the crowd now?
Where they've always been. Where's the "if you've got nothing to hide" crowd?
Hiding. As usual.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
And it's a carrot cake.
Some carrot cakes are pretty great.
True dat. My trivia team gets a cake for each member's birthday, and the birthday boy/girl can request the kind of cake; one guy specifically asks for carrot cake.
(I'd trigger you cake bigots by asking for fruitcake for my own birthday, but it's in April so not seasonally feasible.)
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Figured there would be at least one other Trek fan in hereâŚ
I'll allow it, provided he's depicted playing the trombone.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
Knowing
BritishEnglish place name pronunciations it's probably "Sheffield" or somethingQ: How do you pronounce "LlanfairÂpwllgwyngyllÂgogeryÂchwyrnÂdrobwllÂllanÂtysilioÂgogoÂgoch"?
A: Just like it's spelled.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
If you want to get , the word used refers to a somewhat undefined color, somewhere between black and white, possibly with yellowish or brownish tones. But .
Protanope here: all colors are undefined, whether on a cat or elsewhere.
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RE: Fun with maps
@HardwareGeek said in Fun with maps:
@da-Doctah said in Fun with maps:
Arizona, where someone periodically demands that all official signage be in English only
That's amusing, given that half of the official place names are Spanish.
And the other half are Native American. Tucson, for instance, is O'odham for "black foothill".
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@LaoC Here in Arizona, where someone periodically demands that all official signage be in English only, we have a town called Eloy. That's from the words of Jesus on the cross, and translates as OMG!
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@boomzilla "Pray we do not update it further."
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
@boomzilla There actually is a small gallery across the street from the Veteran's Hospital in Phoenix, called The Artery.
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RE: In other news today...
Finally, a useful suggestion from one of this red state's politicians: