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• #752
Stratfield Turgis
I went to a party there once. It’s very nice. This is not a lie. That is all.
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• #753
Cats can whistle
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• #754
'Turgid in Turgis' was the name of an early unofficially released demo/bootleg by punk band The Members
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• #755
That was after they reversed out of releasing Sigrut ni Digrut
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• #756
'Turgid in Turgis' was the name of an early unofficially released demo/bootleg by punk band The Members
That was after they reversed out of releasing Sigrut ni Digrut
Which, if played in reverse, was actually a promotional puff piece from the local Tourism board
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• #757
Speaking of music played backwards, ‘Hey Hey Helen’ by ABBA (b-side to ‘fernando’) is a musical palindrome, in that you can play it backwards and it sounds exactly the same from start to finish.
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• #758
The hot chocolate mines of Madagascar (where 82% of the worlds hot chocolate comes from) are closing for 6 months.
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• #759
Demand for ovaltine is expected to remain largely unaffected
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• #760
Filling a steel bike frames tubes with 250psi of helium creates enough lift to make the whole bike virtually weightless. In the 1970’s experiments were carried out with even higher pressures to help cancel out the weight of the rider. When 753 tubing was introduced pressures could be increased to reduce the weight of the rider to that of a 5 year old child. Road tests were carried out on Hardnott Pass after which the whole concept was abandoned when it was realised that next to no traction was possible from the tyres. Rumour has it that midway through the tests several riders were taken by a strong westerly breeze and found shivering and wet on the shore of Wastwater having only been saved from drowning by using their bikes as life rafts.
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• #761
Adding more gas to a container makes it lighter.
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• #762
Toes are as long as fingers, just further away
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• #763
Donald J Trump died 30 years ago today and was replaced by a sentient fatberg composed of sewer dwelling alligator semen, used diapers and rat feces by members of the New York illuminati
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• #764
Read the thread title, dude!
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• #765
It's Wednesday here, I can't help if you live in the past
though it could be the lie you are referring to
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• #766
could be the lie you are referring to
I was trying to do a funny joke :-)
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• #767
Wednesday lies are no joking matter*
*citation needed
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• #768
An "un-toaster" has been developed to turn toast back into bread.
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• #769
Toasters have a handy adjustable dial that allows you to get perfectly toasted toast, every time.
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• #770
τοστ is the Greek god of toast and one of the lesser known children of Hephaestus in Greek mythology.
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• #771
It’s all Greek to me
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• #772
Ancient Greeks had a limited way of describing colour, for instance Homer never describes anything as blue eg he describes the sea as wine dark. They tended to use terms like kyaenos (which gave us cyan) or glaukos(glaucos) meaning light or dark or bright.
It’s unlikely that colour perception developed in recent times indeed it’s important in Hunter-Gathering to recognise ripe berries ( why you like dark wine gums even knowing they all taste the same).
This all leads to the question why did they have 27 words describing the shade of beige all relating to toast indicating both the final shade and how dark the bread was initially.
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• #773
27 Shades of Beige holds the record for the length of time a book has remained number 1 on the Greek best-seller list.
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• #774
This is an example of cultural inversion...... the polar change in national character overtime.
For example Scandinavians as Vikings were known for Rape,Pillage and Murder they now stay at home and practice Hugge.
Current Greek sexual expressions are beige a complete change for the country that gave us the names for such a wide range of sexuality and sexual practices. -
• #775
The etymology of "Toast" actually comes from the act of burning bread "To Ash"
"Hows the bread?"
"too long, it's been to ashed"
To ashed was portmanteau into toashed, and eventually just toast.
You know that horrible monster that lived under the bed when you were 7?
It’s still there.
And it always will be.