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29 Feb 2020, 1:30 pm

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in japan, dogs don't bark, they instead are said to emit a "wahn-wahn" sound. likewise, cats don't meow, they instead are perceived as saying "nyahngoh."

In Korea they go "Mong, mong" or something like that.

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29 Feb 2020, 1:44 pm

Italians think that roosters call "kikeri kikeri kikeri", instead of "cockadoodle doo".

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01 Mar 2020, 12:13 am

the italians say "firenze" when talking about the town the rest of the world knows as florence. and japan says "nihon" when referring to themselves. the frenchies say "l'etat unis" to say "USA."

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01 Mar 2020, 6:40 pm

Firenze was one of the characters( a centaur) for JK Rowling's HP series

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01 Mar 2020, 11:59 pm

the various iterations of the old Chrysler New Yorker car were rear-wheel drive and front wheel drive, and powered with 4 cylinder, 6 cylinder and 8 cylinder engines.

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02 Mar 2020, 12:17 am

auntblabby wrote:

the various iterations of the old Chrysler New Yorker car were rear-wheel drive and front wheel drive, and powered with 4 cylinder, 6 cylinder and 8 cylinder engines.

When I got my license at 16 I was free to drive my Dad’s Chrysler Newport. Rear wheel drive, power everything, 383. I learned to drive using a Duster, three speed manual, non-powered steering, non-powered brakes. It was quite a change to switch to the Newport.

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02 Mar 2020, 12:19 am

AnneOleson wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

the various iterations of the old Chrysler New Yorker car were rear-wheel drive and front wheel drive, and powered with 4 cylinder, 6 cylinder and 8 cylinder engines.

compared to the Newport, how well did the Duster ride over bumpy pavement?

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03 Mar 2020, 11:37 am

In Korean, the word for cat is goyangyi. There is a children's book, Goyangyi Means Cat, about a family who adopts a little girl and a Siamese cat.

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03 Mar 2020, 12:07 pm

Fairfield County, CT has the highest income inequality of any county in the US.

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18 Mar 2020, 5:00 pm

auntblabby wrote:

the italians say "firenze" when talking about the town the rest of the world knows as florence. and japan says "nihon" when referring to themselves. the frenchies say "l'etat unis" to say "USA."

The Italians have a small city named...."small city". :lol:

"Urbino".

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18 Mar 2020, 9:33 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

the italians say "firenze" when talking about the town the rest of the world knows as florence. and japan says "nihon" when referring to themselves. the frenchies say "l'etat unis" to say "USA."

The Italians have a small city named...."small city". :lol:

"Urbino".

IIRC, there is an "Urbino" in the state of Illinois also.

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19 Mar 2020, 5:07 am

the nose pads cats has are like finger prints they are all unique.

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19 Mar 2020, 10:52 am

Suomi is the Finnish word for Finland

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19 Mar 2020, 10:55 am

Adam was unlikely to have had a belly button.

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19 Mar 2020, 11:34 am

There are some people who grew up with parents who were so bad at cooking that they had no clue that food could actually taste good until they grew up and learned how to cook for themselves or ate something made by someone else.

The stories I've heard make me appreciate my mom's cooking even more. :chef:

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19 Mar 2020, 12:07 pm

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Adam was unlikely to have had a belly button.

Yeas ago someone told me a riddle about the frozen bodies of Adam and Eve being discovered and how people knew they were *the* Adam and Eve, and I answered, "They didn't have navels".

Seemed like a pretty easy riddle to me, and yet even in this day and age I've asked the riddle about the surgeon saying "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son.", after the boy's father was killed in a car accident, and people still assume the surgeon was male and are therefor sexist pigs. :roll:

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