GasBandit
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It's all in how you frame the data. Context is king.
TIL: Today I Learned
- Thread starter Gilgamesh
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Yep. I once told my wife that she's one of the top two hundred and thirty thousand people in Taiwan in terms of her English ability. She glared at me.
I then told her that that makes her one of the top one percent, ie she's better than ninety nine percent of the Taiwanese population. She stopped glaring at me.
"Babe, you're english is better then my coworkers, and they get payed to do english."
Pointing out just one error off that sentence looks pretty bad.
*to do the english[DOUBLEPOST=1498680935,1498680874][/DOUBLEPOST]
Some of them are cleverly subtle, so the glaring one stands out, hiding the rest.
GasBandit
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Today I didn't learn, so much as realize...
Everybody makes the joke about "Mario is on shrooms" but I realized ALL the power ups, through super mario 3, are drug references.
Mushrooms - Magic Mushrooms. Duh. Distort your perception of reality. "Did I just get bigger, or did the world just get smaller?"
Fire Flower - Poppy (Opium). For when Shrooms aren't enough, fire up your opium pipe.
Leaf - Mariujana. You smoke it, you feel like you're flying/floating.
Star - PCP. "Angel Dust." Makes you feel like you're invincible.
Frog - Licking psychoactive toads.
Tanooki - Mythological tanuki are often depicted carrying sake bottles. Alcohol can both make you fly AND think you are invincible.
Hammers - A "Hammer" is a kind of drug pipe with a short, slender stem and and oversized bowl.
P-block - Prescription drugs. There goes all your money. But sometimes you have to have to use it legitimately for a problem.
Goomba Shoe - I dunno man, it's laced with something...
Everybody makes the joke about "Mario is on shrooms" but I realized ALL the power ups, through super mario 3, are drug references.
Mushrooms - Magic Mushrooms. Duh. Distort your perception of reality. "Did I just get bigger, or did the world just get smaller?"
Fire Flower - Poppy (Opium). For when Shrooms aren't enough, fire up your opium pipe.
Leaf - Mariujana. You smoke it, you feel like you're flying/floating.
Star - PCP. "Angel Dust." Makes you feel like you're invincible.
Frog - Licking psychoactive toads.
Tanooki - Mythological tanuki are often depicted carrying sake bottles. Alcohol can both make you fly AND think you are invincible.
Hammers - A "Hammer" is a kind of drug pipe with a short, slender stem and and oversized bowl.
P-block - Prescription drugs. There goes all your money. But sometimes you have to have to use it legitimately for a problem.
Goomba Shoe - I dunno man, it's laced with something...
The missing apostrophe is my favorite.
Also, I was pleased enough with my mangling of English to feel compelled to repeat it.
And I've been tripping all day.Goomba Shoe - I dunno man, it's laced with something...
TIL-bears ALSO eat bees...fucking hardcore bears.
So they're bears with bees in their mouths? And when they growl they shoot bees at you?
TIL-Colin Quinn and Nick Dipaolo are still alive! Just...melted into the background of show-business it seems.
This guy is actually a friend, he had one of the most fun weddings I've ever done camera work on. His brother is a uber talented musician that just moved to Nashville to work as a session guitarist on several projects.
TIL-Arnold's name from Hey Arnold! is CANONICALLY Arnold Shortman...thought that was a joke.
GasBandit
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You know, I always kinda wondered about that...
TIL-the god damned Living room where I've set up my PC has the worst wifi in the house.
Time to buy some Pringles?
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A hotness-based caste system.TIL - OKCupid crams all the uggos together, until one gets too many clicks, then that person gets put in the pretty people pool.
You know, just like real life.
That's what I get for taking Charisma as my dump stat...
Nah, it's at least a 16.
Saw a weird song title on my playlist (and the music itself was good), so looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragonaise
He didn't say what his other stats were like. Some people got really lucky in their rolls.
Trust me, the rest ain't exactly that great. I'd put INT at about a 14, at best, and that'd be the highest.
I remember being at a convention where a filker was playing it because he'd heard so many other people singing it (after watching a Tiny Toons marathon). He remarked that it was an unusual song for everyone to be singing. I explained the TMBG version and the cartoon.
He'd never seen/heard either one.
--Patrick
He'd never seen/heard either one.
--Patrick
I knew it was a cover right away. I mom used to sing it before I heard TMBG.
I saw some movie with a glee club thing that was set in the 40's, I think. They were singing Istanbul. I checked the credits for the songs expecting to see TMBG. I was surprised for sure.