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Author Topic: What I learned today!  (Read 194828 times)

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2400 on: October 14, 2012, 05:39:42 PM »

Well, that's why I said arguably. I know many francophone Quebecois (most of them actually from Montreal itself) who sit on either side of that fence.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2401 on: October 14, 2012, 05:41:20 PM »

Oh also, please don't read anything by a SUN newspaper in Canada - the Sun Media group is essentially our Fox news.

Up until about a decade ago, they were just a lowbrow blue-collar conservative news outfit that kind of pandered, but wasn't truly awful. But since about 2000 they've actually been deliberately trying to emulate the "success" of Fox news. They even recently started their own cable news channel, which most national carriers have come close to not carrying because it's just so crappily put together and laughable (but it's still there, and some people do watch it).
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2402 on: October 15, 2012, 02:28:55 PM »

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This was planned.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2403 on: October 16, 2012, 12:15:16 PM »

Today I learned that Sprint(as in, the wireless company) is actually an acronym.

It stands for Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2404 on: October 16, 2012, 01:30:42 PM »

Actually its "Southern Pacific Railroad Intercontinental Network of Telecommunications" but close enough.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2405 on: October 16, 2012, 07:05:28 PM »

That's not what NPR said. :nyoro~n:
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2406 on: October 16, 2012, 07:19:22 PM »

If NPR jumped off a bridge, would you?
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2407 on: October 17, 2012, 07:17:38 AM »

Yes.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2408 on: October 17, 2012, 07:37:43 AM »

Nah, I'd just give them 50 bucks to support their bridge jumping.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2409 on: October 17, 2012, 11:06:23 AM »

Man, NPR jumped my bridge last night, now he's in the hospital.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2410 on: October 17, 2012, 12:37:00 PM »

NPR will be buried in this stylish tote-bag made of recycled materials.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2412 on: October 20, 2012, 05:10:24 PM »

There's a river running through the center of town here, and just on the edge of downtown it has a small dam that was built sometime during the industrial revolution. On one side of the dam there's slow, deep water flowing in a wealthy and neighborhood; on the other side it's fast, shallow and noisy water running through the main commercial/entertainment district.

On the quiet side, flocks of gulls come to rest at night, several hundred birds sitting silently in the center of the river, almost in single file, slowly drifting towards the dam. At a precise point about 200 meters from the fall, when it starts getting noisy, the birds in front wake up, fly a couple hundred meters upstream, and go sit at the back of the line to rest again. The end result is a sort of bizarre conveyor belt formation with this large flock of birds quietly floating backwards, all facing in the same direction against the current, with their comrades continuously flying over their heads until it's their own turn to take to the air, over and over again.

It's really neat to look at but dang these suckers can't possibly get a good night's sleep like that. First one to figure out what's happening is gonna be frikkin' Gull Moses.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2413 on: October 23, 2012, 12:40:45 PM »

A Johnny Cash fan actually built the One Piece At A Time Cadillac:





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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2414 on: October 23, 2012, 01:11:17 PM »

:perfect:
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2415 on: October 25, 2012, 08:05:36 PM »

Today I learned that when Australia started running out of antivenom for the funnel web spider, one of the deadliest spiders on the fucking planet, they asked the general public to start catching the spiders so they could milk them.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2416 on: October 26, 2012, 09:30:25 AM »

You know Bat-Boy and Rubin?  It was a Mad parody, 1950's probably; it was adapted on TB&TB a couple years back.

The ending, where Bat-Boy reveals "I am no ordinary Bat-Boy...I am a VAMPIRE Bat-Boy!" always seemed really abrupt to me.  Just this one-panel closeup, where he delivers that last line, and that's the end.  Like it's a punchline.  Never got it.

Well, now I get it: it's a callback.  It's a reference to an issue of Tales from the Crypt by Jack Davis.

I just read the story in a free Halloween reprint.  First story, Bats in my Belfry!, is about a guy who slowly turns into a bat.  And in the climax of the story, he exclaims, "I'm not just an ORDINARY bat...I'm a VAMPIRE BAT!"

So now I finally get the joke.  It's the EC crew being self-referential.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2417 on: October 28, 2012, 11:50:48 AM »

I have a 38 year old half-brother I never had the slightest clue existed.

Huh.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2418 on: October 28, 2012, 12:00:15 PM »

I have that same thing. I learned about his existence a few years back. I have no idea if he's still alive or any way of meeting him.

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2419 on: October 28, 2012, 12:54:20 PM »

I smell a sitcom!
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