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Does anyone today remember what a preppie is, and, more importantly, why we had contempt for them? youtu.be/vpppHJzk66w

We men have to be much tougher than men in the past. For instance, an AR-15 is about 6 1/2 pounds on average, whereas an arming sword was only 2 1/2 pounds. Those 13th century sissies!!!

So, apparently "skosh" is an English word. Who knew? (Not I.)

I wondered how English and Spanish both came to have a "to be going to" construction for future plans. It couldn't be universal to Indo-European langs!? ChatGPT set me straight. The short of it: French influence via Norman conquest and Kingdom of Navarre. chat.openai.com/share/5d6739d2…

My hunger is similar in quantity and degree to that of a motherfucker.

Hey, Ana Kasparian , did you see you made the Sunday Crossword at The Washington Post? Pretty cool: washingtonpost.com/crossword-puzz… Sunday, Aug. 6th, 86-across, "Journalist Kasparian." You're a word now!

Where do Vikings go to shop when they die? Walhallmart

"He who never risks his all must have a heart that is weak and small" --Eliduc, The Lays of Marie de France

What would MLK say today? Most likely the same things he said in his own day: "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

The origin of baseball: A: I bet you I can hit that ball with this stick. B: No way! ... Whoah, he did it! A: I bet you I can hit that ball with this stick. B: Nope! Flubbed it. A: I bet I can... B: Nope. A: I bet... B: You did it! A: Let's just do this all day.

You're all a bunch of Ivan Lie-on-the-stoves

Deep thinkers, from Socrates to Richard Feynman, have recognized that one thing much more profound than our knowledge is our ignorance, and I don't think that will ever change.

This is not facetious: In what ways is philosophy challenged by the realization that intelligence has only appeared in an animal species; i.e., the universe is only perceived by a creature that is naturally violent, that feels both pain and hunger?