TIL: Today I Learned
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Same here. I'm supposed to teach my children that potty humor is inappropriate. Yeah. My daughter, at about age 2, told us that Poopie was coming to her dance party. She, my son, and I still laugh about it like it just happened. I'm a paragon of maturity.
btw - Poopie was her "friend" and not her subtle way of saying she needed a diaper change.
TIL that the men's rights movement is an actual factual thing. Not some "Men are better than women dot com" satire type deal, but an actual thing.
Also before you google it, "Men are better than women dot com" is...eh. Its pretty much the same joke over and over again.
Also before you google it, "Men are better than women dot com" is...eh. Its pretty much the same joke over and over again.
Yup, offensive for the sake of being offensive shock humor. Though he clearly got a kick out of the people who don't know it was a joke. I use past tense as the site hasn't updated in 4 years. Probably got sick of the same joke as much as I did.
Apparently fictional forensics shows aren't entirely off their rocker after all. http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/en/projects/multipath/
On a total tangent, this season on Bones, they introduced this all new fancy holographic interface computer thing and everyone was all impressed. Did they forget about the even more sci-fi holographic computer they had in the beginning of the show and got rid of all of a sudden?
TIL that "strongerthanespresso.com" is not a site where you can order strong coffee. Its...something else entirely.
Like, NSFW -else entirely? I'm curious, but I'm not throwing that into my browser without a little more description.
No not like that, its a Christian non-profit organization for abused women. I get the title is a metaphor and all, but I still think they should've chosen a better name.
Also it turns out 2 girls one cup wasn't about recycling. Well. Okay it was, but not the way I thought.
And boy oh boy, I tell you I didn't see one lemon at that party... and don't even get me started on the lack of goats in that other picture.
I remember when I thought the White House's web site, like pretty much all web sites at the time, ended with .com.
I was in the library when another teacher brought her government class in and asked them to log into whitehouse dot com. I laughed before the first kid finished typing in the URL.
Baltimore has a local currency called Bnotes. Apparently so does the Berkshire region of Massachusetts (cleverly called "Berkshares").
I usually bring a thermos of tea and a smaller thermos of milk to work with me, and mix 'em there.
Know what's even better than milk in a cup of hot chai?
Leftover cans of whipped dessert topping from the ice cream social last weekend.
Mmmmm....(*sshhhprrrrrrrrrt*)
--Patrick
Know what's even better than milk in a cup of hot chai?
Leftover cans of whipped dessert topping from the ice cream social last weekend.
Mmmmm....(*sshhhprrrrrrrrrt*)
--Patrick
College Station (through Texas A&M) used to have "Aggie Bucks." They turned your A&M student ID into a debit card and it worked at a surprising number of restaurants, stores, and even vending machines. There was even a scandal once because it turns out the local airport's bar was accepting them. I don't know if you can really call it a separate currency, though, because its conversion rate was always 1-1 with USD.
Yeah, but most colleges have that. I went to A&m. Businesses took it but it was only available to students. My undergrad even had cougar bucks back in Sc in the early 90s. But these are city wide and available to the general public.
Interesting. I'm pretty sure that is illegal.
Also, what years did you attend A&M? We might have seen each other and never realized.
TIL: My dog is a chicken shit.
I had him doing retrieves off my back porch for his morning exercise. In the next yard I saw a fawn. I threw his retrieve toy out a few more times. Then Mama Doe chased him across the yard and up to the stairs of my porch. I told the doe to stop, it damn near collapsed when it finally realized it was just a few feet from a human. She then turned around and ran to the brush between my house and the other neighbor's house. As soon as it started running away, Ralph ran after her and gave two quiet woofs to show her who's boss.
I had him doing retrieves off my back porch for his morning exercise. In the next yard I saw a fawn. I threw his retrieve toy out a few more times. Then Mama Doe chased him across the yard and up to the stairs of my porch. I told the doe to stop, it damn near collapsed when it finally realized it was just a few feet from a human. She then turned around and ran to the brush between my house and the other neighbor's house. As soon as it started running away, Ralph ran after her and gave two quiet woofs to show her who's boss.
1998-2004 (masters and PhD). I was a grad student though. They never let us out of our holes.
Hah. So we were briefly on the same campus after I transferred over. But yeah, I never met any grad students other than my TAs, and I'm pretty sure you weren't one of them.
Today I learned in the demo for Bob's Burgers (which later aired as a real episode) Tina was a boy named Daniel. Same voice, face, and outfit (well with pants).
Also, the Belchers were originally supposed to be cannibals who made their meat from humans.
TIL putting asterisks around a youtube comment emboldens it. This is shocking to me, but also helpful.
TIL that W. Earl Brown, who played Dan Dority in Deadwood — also played Mary's brother Warren in There’s Something About Mary.
TIL that getting 2 fillings in my front teeth is less annoying/painful to me than the water pick my dentist uses in a regular cleaning.