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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Quatermass » Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:06 am

It was the title that surprised me, not the fact that such a book existed.

Oh, and I sorta learned WTF 'check your privilege' meant after watching the fourth episode of Hellsing Ultimate Abridged and having it mentioned. Still not sure I get it, though. :|
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby raptornx01 » Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:31 pm

Just learned Blockbuster Video (and movie rental chain) will be closing all it's remain stores by january.

I know streaming is the thing now, and I haven't been in one in years, but it's still kinda sad as that place made up a good bit of my childhood. :(
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby raptornx01 » Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:00 pm

Oh hey, learned something else.

Apparently whatever dyes used in Captain Crunch Oops all berries aren't completely digested by the body. Especially the green dye.
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby KnightOfFewWords » Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:18 pm

Nice idea for a thread btw.

Today I learned that Albert Einstein was the world's most expensive garbage can, and he disintegrated on 2nd November.

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(Albert Einstein being an automated supply ship for the International Space Station. After docking and unloading of supplies it was filled with 1.6 tonnes of trash and jettisoned over the Pacific ocean.)

raptornx01 wrote:I dunno. I liked Battleship. the movie just screams, "the studio said we had to turn this dumb idea into a movie, lets have fun with it."


I guess I hate the idea more than the film itself, dumb action movies have their place.

Sister Jennifer wrote:That Hungry Hippo poster is the funniest thing I've seen this week. Thanks Knight, I just put that as my desktop pic, should be good for a few days worth of giggles.


Glad you liked it, lots of parody posters went up on the internet when news of the Battleship film was released.

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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Ghost » Fri Nov 08, 2013 7:07 pm

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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Quatermass » Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:43 am

Heard that one before.

I learnt the name of an anime series I had never heard of today...and promptly forgot it. I remember the words vaguely, but Wikipedia isn't enlightening, so I guess I misheard. :doh: :lol:
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Ghost » Mon Nov 11, 2013 2:52 pm

some of these I knew about too much time on my hands
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Quatermass » Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:41 am

I just learned yesterday about a TV play called Underground, done in 1958 as part of Armchair Theatre. An actor called Gareth Jones died of a heart attack, albeit off-camera! Ironically, his character was going to die of a heart attack partway through the play. :shock: :o :shock:

It was done live, so they had to improvise in a hurry. But still, that's screwed up!

BTW, I first read about this in a Doctor Who book, ironically enough.
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Quatermass » Thu Nov 28, 2013 10:38 pm

I've learned that a word I thought meant solely a Doctor Who monster is actually in the dictionary:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tractator
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Quatermass » Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:28 pm

I learnt, specifically, what 'stink-eye' meant...
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Catch-up » Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:29 pm

Quatermass wrote:I learnt, specifically, what 'stink-eye' meant...


:lol: Do we dare ask how that came about?
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Quatermass » Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:31 am

Catch-up wrote:
Quatermass wrote:I learnt, specifically, what 'stink-eye' meant...


:lol: Do we dare ask how that came about?


Oh, it's perfectly benign, I assure you. I was looking up a TV Tropes page that had the funniest moments from the recent Doctor Who spoof, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and they describe the bit in Peter Davison's dream...

Jenna-Louise Coleman warmly assures Peter Davison that he was her mum's favourite Doctor. One double-take stink-eye later, she amends it to her favourite Doctor.


I sort of guessed what it meant the first time I read it, but it was only this morning that I bothered to look up Wiktionary. It's basically another term for a dirty look.

BTW, watch it if you're a fan and have decent internet usage. You'll love it... :D
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Catch-up » Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:00 pm

Well, that's ok then. :D And, thanks! I'll look for that.
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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby TinatheConfused » Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:16 pm

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Re: You Learn Something New Every Day...

Postby Bouncy Castle » Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:55 pm

That's marvelous!
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