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    WORDLE

    I do love the Supernatural (show) references in there, though I finding it a bit irksome that despite the fact that
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    WORDLE

    I played https://squaredle.com 04/22: 26/26 words (+5 bonus words) Perfect accuracy I find it mildly irritating that was an official word, but was merely a bonus word, given the relative usage of each (never and occasional, respectively) in my daily life...
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    WORDLE

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    WORDLE

    UK vs. US spelling, I presume!
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    [Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

    Actually, this is likely not true (see end of wiki article and stack exchange dialogue) - though the "reversal" is more interesting/snazzy, perhaps to fit a modern shift away from blood family ties and towards the importance of friends/found family, the original (biological family) meaning has a...
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    Rant VIII: The Reckoning

    Whether or not it is technically illegal to increase hotel room prices (or prices of any other commodities) in response to an increased demand due to a state of emergency is a question that can be left to the Canadian legal scholars. However, most people are able to recognize the difference...
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    Funny videos

    So, funnily enough, there is indeed a perineal nerve (pronounced per-uh-NEE-al), for which I won't post a diagram, because it is indeed located in the famed vajoozlebiscuit region (in all configurations of gentlefolks, see wiki article for more info). However, the attending in the story was...
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    Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again

    I've seen that image circulating around a bunch lately, and not to totally kill the joke, but that's a 30 year-old paper they're trying to access. Many journals (particularly more "prestigious" journals such as Nature and Science) have switched over to fully or partially open-access formats...
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    The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

    Alternative: (Yes, the X Files episode came out ~10 years after Labyrinth, but I was an XF fan for years before I watched Labyrinth, somehow...)
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    Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again

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    Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again

    At the risk of continuing to inflame a wild tangent, the thing I found most interesting about the original premise of the joke is the part about *three steps* down to the freezer section. I'm a lifelong New Englander and I've occasionally been in stores (particularly in cities like Boston and...
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    Funny (political, religious) pictures

    There are indeed saw sharks which are distinct from sawfishes (though I agree that the creature in the drawing looks far more like the latter, with a more regular and uniform snoot than those of the saw sharks)
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    Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

    Another simple version that works for the common uses of both words is Affect = Action, Effect = Endpoint :)
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    Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

    Affect/effect is a bit of a PITA, because both words have noun and verb forms. I personally tend to mentally distinguish them by how they're pronounced (only marginally helpful, I admit, but it's how I sort it out in my brain). I've put nouns in blue and verbs in purple below, because I am a...
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