TIL: Today I Learned
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GasBandit
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Heh, that took a while to get going, but once it did, what a ride.
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TIL you can lease a pet you cannot afford.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-01/i-m-renting-a-dog
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-01/i-m-renting-a-dog
GasBandit
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The moral of the story is don't buy animals from pet stores. Puppy mills are a thing. Even breeders are iffy. Go to the shelter.
Also: Pay the fuck attention to what you sign.
I like to think this is good advice everywhere, not just inside a pet store.
--Patrick
Don't tell me you've become a Red Green fan recently? That's... I don't know what it is, but it's something!
Okay, I won't. Because it's not recently.
GasBandit
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It still chaps my hide to this day that I can't be sure we got the latin even anywhere close to being right.
VIDETUR QUOD NON SINT NULLUM HONESTUM
Still makes for a cool T-Shirt though.
Hold on there, pardner.
Wait one minute, sir.
Just a moment, mate.
Whoa, horsey!
There is never one right way to say something English. Why should we limit ourselves to one correct way to say something in Latin?
There's a certain formality which must be observed in official marketing materials.
And how much duct tape was involved.
--Patrick
Puppy. Monkey. Baby.
Wait, what do you want to know? I know someone who translates Latin professionally.It still chaps my hide to this day that I can't be sure we got the latin even anywhere close to being right.
VIDETUR QUOD NON SINT NULLUM HONESTUM
Still makes for a cool T-Shirt though.
GasBandit
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Psh, well you're a couple years late then
Back in 2015, we were struggling to translate "It seems they're up to no good" into Latin for the school motto on the Halforums Academy crest.
Closest we got was "Videtur quod non sint in nullum honestum." Which is something akin to "It seems they should not be regarded as honorable."
Back in 2015, we were struggling to translate, "I hear they're up to no good," you mean.Psh, well you're a couple years late then
Back in 2015, we were struggling to translate "It seems they're up to no good" into Latin for the school motto on the Halforums Academy crest.
(though I assume "it is said" would be an acceptable substitute for "I hear.")
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Yeah, but I think the actual line Gusto said in game was "seems."
TIL-Marvel is reprinting the original Muppet Baby comics in a hardcover edition...Slapstick sales THAT bad huh?
I'll pass it along to her and report back!Psh, well you're a couple years late then
Back in 2015, we were struggling to translate "It seems they're up to no good" into Latin for the school motto on the Halforums Academy crest.
Closest we got was "Videtur quod non sint in nullum honestum." Which is something akin to "It seems they should not be regarded as honorable."
Ha! I still have some of those. But I guess since they announced the cartoon was getting a revival, there might be an audience for the comic.
Yeah its just...hardcover? The last thing I thought to get a deluxe edition was Muppet Babies, all I'm saying.
figmentPez
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Recently I learned that the goop inside of a Stretch Armstrong toy is corn syrup.
TIL-it took until House of Mystery's one hundredth and seventy-fifth issue to introduce a spooky host in Cain...that's fucking insane.
Yep. Oh, and a deep pan is a fryer, and a fryer with two handles (one short, one long) is just a really big fryer.
--Patrick