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22 Jun 2015, 5:58 pm

Marky9 wrote:
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OP probably meant "you" as in "you all."


I just learned that my lifelong dismay that English uses the word "you" as both 2nd person singular and plural is well founded, hence the above ambiguity. (Dismounts soapbox) :D

ain't English grand? :mrgreen:



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22 Jun 2015, 5:59 pm

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I learned that "corn hole" is a bean bag game.


Oh, my. You've just saved me from potential future embarrassment.



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22 Jun 2015, 6:01 pm

I wonder if there is much cleaning up afterwards :mrgreen:



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22 Jun 2015, 6:03 pm

auntblabby wrote:
... crafted a cheese made from his nursing wife's breast milk.


One is left to wonder whether it was more or less expensive than moose cheese.



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22 Jun 2015, 6:12 pm

Marky9 wrote:
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... crafted a cheese made from his nursing wife's breast milk.


One is left to wonder whether it was more or less expensive than moose cheese.

it didn't say if it was profitable for him or not.



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22 Jun 2015, 6:23 pm

I learned that my girlfriend really likes me a lot and that I get my kids for a whole month next month!



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22 Jun 2015, 11:04 pm

Today I read on TV Tropes about the Four Temperaments - Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholy and Phlegmatic - what they mean, and which groups of characters fit each one.

For example, The Ninja Turtles : Leonardo: Melancholy, Donatello: Phlegmatic, Raphael: Choleric and Michelangelo: Sanguine.

TV Tropes said Tommy is melancholy and Chuckie is Sanguine from Rugrats. I think they got them mixed up. :?



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23 Jun 2015, 1:08 am

Greeks consume more cheese per capita, than any other nation.



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23 Jun 2015, 7:48 pm

I learned about the origin of the word "lukewarm."

From Middle English leuk "tepid" (c. 1200), of unknown origin; perhaps from Middle Dutch or Old Frisian leuk "tepid, weak," or from Old English hleowe (adv.)


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23 Jun 2015, 9:03 pm

Today, I read winds blow from west to east in the mid-latitudes, where the United States is located, but in the tropics, they blow east to west.


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23 Jun 2015, 9:10 pm

Brake cylinders can lock up, causing brake dust to go where it shouldn't, and the friction of the wheel's movements can cause the brake dust to catch fire. Unfortunately learned by experience.



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23 Jun 2015, 11:12 pm

A news feature on my internet provider's website informs me that Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.



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23 Jun 2015, 11:15 pm

^^^
when I see olives, I RUN in the opposite direction! 8O



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23 Jun 2015, 11:26 pm

^ ...though an olive is, of course, a fruit.

Fear of fruits should, according to the rules, be carpophobia, though this apparently means "fear of wrists"! !

http://www.trivials.com/weird-phobias/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... arpophobia

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23 Jun 2015, 11:33 pm

DeepHour wrote:
^ ...though an olive is, of course, a fruit. Fear of fruits should, according to the rules, be carpophobia, though this apparently means "fear of wrists"! !
http://www.trivials.com/weird-phobias/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... arpophobia
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IMHO, it has got to be the most foul tasting "fruit" this side of hell.
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28 Jun 2015, 4:06 am

I read some online articles/blogs about autistic inertia. I realize that's one of the major factors that have been making my life so difficult.