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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...

UK vs. US spelling, I presume!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...)

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...

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)

Another simple version that works for the common uses of both words is Affect = Action, Effect = Endpoint :)

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...

With the "classic" muppets (i.e. 1969-1990s Sesame Street) there were a whole passle of human muppets that also could be any color. I don't think those specific muppets were intended to have specific race/ethnicity, and most of these were just random background characters. ("Anything Muppets"...

Unintended consequences of the amnesia kiss? (Also, yikes - this is from 9+ years ago? I am officially old...)

Do you mean QR codes? Things that look like this? You typically need an app to open them, but I presume most smartphones have one as a pre-installed/background app these days. Open the camera on your phone, hold it over the code, and if an app is pre-installed, it should tell you what the code...

Tell that to Hotblack Desiato #HoopyFrood

Even worse, midazolam is just a sedative drug, and is pretty cheap, and not discontinued (one specific supply format is in shorter supply but was slated to come off backorder last month), so even that ostensible (loathsome) reason for its use is invalid. I've had no issues getting it for my...

I also recall watching Buffy during late high school/early college and having a few discussions with friends about the difference between "girl power" vs. what, to me, often seemed like an excuse to gleefully showcase a slight-of-build young woman get the everloving snot beaten out of her on the...