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Author Topic: What I learned today!  (Read 194822 times)

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2380 on: October 01, 2012, 11:11:21 AM »

This would explain why it got me feeling sick after the sixth juicebox.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2381 on: October 01, 2012, 12:08:16 PM »

That shit has 100% of your DV of vitamin C.
And 370% of your daily sugar intake.

YOUR daily sugar intake maybe.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2382 on: October 02, 2012, 06:56:58 AM »

I learned what happens when you google "do a barrel roll".
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2383 on: October 02, 2012, 08:39:19 AM »

Try "zerg rush" next.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2384 on: October 02, 2012, 08:06:37 PM »

That KKK meetings must've sounded like a D&D party gone horribly wrong

I always knew about stuff like "Grand Wizard" but most of what I'd heard made it sound like they were ripping off Masonic titles and styles. Which I suppose they were, but damned if that list doesn't sound like "I am Gulstaff! Sorcerer of Light!".
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2385 on: October 02, 2012, 09:55:42 PM »

Klexter the Klansman sounds like something that Jeff Dunham has stuck his hand in.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2386 on: October 03, 2012, 05:31:37 AM »

Today I learned that John Byrne named his first marvel character after a classmate he had a crush on in art school.

That character's name was [spoiler]Kitty Pryde[/spoiler].

[spoiler]The real Kitty later changed her name.[/spoiler]
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2387 on: October 03, 2012, 05:38:44 AM »

Oooooh.  :pop:  :mikey:
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2388 on: October 03, 2012, 07:36:29 AM »

Source?

Would make a good Comic Book Legends Revealed (assuming that's not already your source).
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2389 on: October 03, 2012, 08:34:59 AM »

Well, I saw it on a /co/ thread about Byrne last night (who, while he is a competent artist, like Frank Miller and Neal Adams, he is deranged in ways I'm not sure we have words for).

But I did some research, and it's true.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2390 on: October 03, 2012, 12:48:47 PM »

OH MAN. Look down that page.

THE AGE OF OWL?!
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2392 on: October 08, 2012, 08:18:03 PM »

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2393 on: October 08, 2012, 09:06:19 PM »

Like two years ago people were pouring vodka into their eyeballs because they thought it was a way to get drunk faster. People would do anything if you told them it got them drunk or high, like, maybe even smoke raisins.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2394 on: October 08, 2012, 09:16:58 PM »

...I looked for the next line of dialogue so I could post it but all I could find were a bunch of pages of people (apparently seriously) asking if they really could get high from smoking raisins.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2395 on: October 08, 2012, 09:35:16 PM »

I know, but this is almost PURPLE DRANK levels of stupid here.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2396 on: October 09, 2012, 06:26:22 AM »

I learned that not only were Pieces of Eight the progenitor of the modern peso, but they are also what was originally referred to with the term "two bits" (as in a quarter).
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2397 on: October 14, 2012, 03:38:13 PM »

That Quebec has language laws that amount to "Your business name must sound French"

If any of the Canadians on this board can explain this to me in a way that does not sound so....uh, stupid, I'm all ears. Maybe I am misinterpreting something.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2398 on: October 14, 2012, 04:05:42 PM »

The purpose of the language laws in Quebec pretty much boils down to "Don't let the French language die out in Quebec, plzkthx" which is arguably an irrational fear these days (it was a fair point for many years), but at least an understandable and reasonable goal.

But I'm reasonably sure that even Zed thinks the language laws in Quebec get pretty damned silly in actual practice.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2399 on: October 14, 2012, 05:35:05 PM »

Some of them are, yeah, including this one.

That said, if the fear is "arguably irrational" rather than "fair" these days, there's no doubt it's in part thanks to the saner portion of these laws. (And besides, even today Montréal's French demographic is losing ground in terms of proportions, so one might argue some aspects of the law could stand to be stronger.)
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