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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
It's also why "leading" isn't pronounced "leeding"—it was literally strips of lead.
And "mind your ps and qs" doesn't mean "pints and quarts", that's ridiculous. Glyphs are upside down and backwards, so it's very easy to mix up the ps and qs. It means, "make sure you don't fuck up with basic mistakes," not "watch how much you're drinking."
"Cliché" originally referred to lead stamps for stock art. These would be very time-consuming to produce, so the same ones typically got used over and over again.
"Stereotype" is another one. It was a saved layout that could be reused as-is without recreating the layout every time.
"Out of sorts" referred to an unorganized galley and glyph case.
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https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus northropi is the largest known animal to have ever been able to fly. When it was first discovered, scientists estimated that the fossil came from a pterosaur with a wingspan of up to 45 feet (13.7 meters), choosing the middle between three extrapolations from the proportions of other pterosaurs that gave an estimate of 40, 50 and 70 feet respectively. in 1981, a further study showed that this estimate was too large, and lowered the estimated wingspan to 50 feet (15 meters). More recently, the wingspan estimated has been reduced yet again, this time to 36 feet (10.9 meters).
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From the Wikipedia article on Arturo Toscanini:
At the end of his final season with the Metropolitan Opera in May 1915, Toscanini was set to return to Europe aboard the doomed RMS Lusitania, but instead cut his concert schedule short and left a week early, aboard the Italian liner Duca degli Abruzzi.
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@mark said in Mildly interesting:
Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.
Or more appropriately Smaug but y'know whatever.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:
@mark said in Mildly interesting:
Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.
Or more appropriately Smaug but y'know whatever.
Yes! Of course!
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Mercury is so dense an iron anvil floats in it.Cool, and by the same token I assume it would float on Mr. Biden.
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@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.
Thanks for fulfilling my life.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.
Thanks for fulfilling my life.
It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.
Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.
As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.
*1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
