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I don't think I've said this before (here), but one of the weirdest things I've always found to be true about this election is this: Bill Clinton was born in August 1946. George W. Bush was born in July 1946. Donald Trump was born in June 1946. They're all almost exactly the same age. (And of course...

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Did anybody else think Skrillex was a Pokémon?

No?

Me neither then...

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So, we have a non-English/non-Japanese character being used, so that native English speakers know how to pronounce an abbreviation that's gone from English-to-Japanese-to-English. And most people still say it wrong, even with the "help", since it should be poe-keh-mawn, not POE-key-mawn. ...

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So now I guess the guy in the house is constantly racking up Pokeballs?

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wouldn't "simple division" indicate it would take 6.3 x 10³¹ fireflies?
3.8E31 / 0.0006 = ?

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I wonder if there are any languages where instead of just singular and plural, there's a third form for two of something. It seems like a common trope for three or more to be treated as significant, so it's logical that that might carry over into language. Yes, Arabic has this. (Possibly all Semiti...

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Jumble wrote:The UK's new Foreign Secretary, ladies and gentlemen....

You guys should make him the Prime Minister. I always liked how David Cameron has royal ancestry, and this Johnson fellow is descended from George II.

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Thank you Deva, helpful as always!

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Hey Y'all. When I was a kid (in the 80's), we had a swing like this on our swingset in our back yard: http://i.imgur.com/VnpZ4sC.png (FYI, we called it a teeter-totter, but to many people that term means a see-saw, i.e. a wooden board that pivots vertically in the middle. My sister and I were always...

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room bloom

location carnation

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Yes. (They are at least perfect rhymes to me, although apparently they have different IPA spellings. So.)

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Yay.

king's sword

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liar fryer?

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seemly unseamly

...

(okay, that's not a word, but I wanted to use it anyway.)

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SirGabriel wrote:figure out what kind of junk I'm talking about

hauls balls?

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SirGabriel wrote:truck junk

lugs drugs?

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BTW, HELL to the NO on putting Wilson on any currency (Wilson was actually on a very high denomination bill used in the Treasury system, I believe). Wilson was a fan of "Birth of a Nation", signed off on the income tax and Federal Reserve system, got us into WWI after campaigning on NOT g...

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The only non-President currently on a bill is Alexander Hamilton (on the $10 bill), but he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and the founder of the nation's financial system, as others have pointed out, so he deserves to stay. The other non-President currently on currency is the Native Americ...

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well, was there a walnut in the ball?

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Oops, you're right. Yeah, the key on Supergirl could have just been regular gold (or something cheaper like lead) and it would be too heavy for a normal human to lift. No need for it to have been made of dwarf star material...

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On the other hand, Andrew Jackson was a stone cold badass. The man won a duel against a superior marksman by devising the "let him shoot first and miss so I can take my time aiming strategy." Naturally, no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but Jackson still won by employing the ...

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Superman's Key is huge, in some versions bigger in size than Superman, so your numbers would be off. Actually, in both the episode of Supergirl and in the animated movie of All-Star Superman, the key looks like a normal-sized house key. Apparently he used to have a giant golden key* that also posed...

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OK, so I presume* that this is the right forum for this question. But I don't really read comic books, and I have never had a Superman comic. I'm catching up on the Supergirl TV show, and just started the episode (the aptly named "Solitude") wherein Supergirl and Jimmy Olsen go to the Fort...

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PsiCubed wrote:Academia macadamia?

Yup. Your move.

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SirGabriel wrote:scholastic lunatic?

nope

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scholarly nut

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flicky1991 wrote:sandwich association

both could be "club"...
I'll guess sub club though.

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flicky1991 wrote:Prince hints?

Wow, that was a while ago. So... sure? Probably what I was thinking of? Your turn.

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cyanyoshi wrote:Hope you all like salty alien water!

Why on earth would it be salty?

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Is anyone else disappointed that the item about which the linked review was written is apparently no longer available, or at least no longer explicitly mentioned? I would buy it... for science, yeah, that's it!

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OK, so there are non-metric units in this article, like mph and (thank heavens) degrees (of arc). And G as a unit of force. Only one of those three examples is non-metric. Degrees are "non-metric but accepted for use with metric units". g (note the lower case) is not a metric unit either....

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MPH I presume you mean? But degrees are what I think in, instead of metric radians. It's Babylonian base-60, not metric base-10. And G is its own artificial unit, like astronomical units. (You can say what 1 G is in Newtons, or in feet per second per second)

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It's completely insane that this lifecycle of cow -> snail -> ant -> cow -> etc. managed to evolve at all, complete with the weird intermediate zombie-ant-mind-control stage... I was tempted to think "How marvelous is God's creation!" but I think that one might be one of the devil's.

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Here's Somerville, Mass. 's, which is apparently one of the places The Artist has lived: Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Population density contradictions 3 Hill Links 4 Somerville Museum note 5 More about the seven hills 6 Too much emphasis on crime? 7 George Dilboy 8 Map request 9 NPOV - Demographics ...

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I was going to ask When did he start switching to using only metric in these? because having to do calculations in my head so often hurts my dumb American brain. But I guess, always? Looking back at old What-Ifs, it looks like... always. I just thought I remembered people from other places complaini...

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So, to those who believe this to be the 5th (?) canonical Star Wars movie, it's a prequel (rather than an interquel), yes?

Are any of the new characters from Ep. 7 (like the cantina owner) in it?

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Actually, only three out of fifty have borders made entirely out of straight edges. Actually, no states have straight edges. The straightest edges are still great circles. OK, so here's my trivia question for the day: What state has the shortest border length? Going with the above-alluded-to, so-ca...

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I don't see any reason to doubt Trump's sincerity, and there are a lot of Americans who agree with him. But I don't... any time I hear such strong anti-Muslim rhetoric, I think about this poem . It would be a horrible precedent to set if we could exclude people based on religion. Which is not to say...

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OK, so... I really disagree with a couple of the "killbot hellscape" scenarios. As I see it, scenario #3 is basically our current, real-life world. Robots and computers have to follow human orders above everything else, because they are not self-aware, and they have no self-preservation at...

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I trust Nate Silver more than any other commentator... He was right (and I was wrong) about Biden, I hope he's right again. However it is funny how the conversations I hear have gone from "Trump won't make it to the debates" to "Trump won't last" to "Trump will get murdered...

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