I think AI is using the wrong terms for things. Yesterday an article on egg theft in Pennsylvania called a trailer truck a lorry.
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Hard to say. I looked it up, and “skid steer” is a real term for them. Obscure, but real.
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We use the term skidsteer up here. We use Bobcat, too, and like Kleenex it isn’t always when the skidsteer is an actual Bobcat.
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Joining @OhHai, skidsteer is the industry generic term for these little workhorses. For a really long time, the only one available in the US was made by Bobcat, so easy to see how it became the name folks outside of the construction industry know it by. 
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Stories that trace the Latin word to some supposed swearing-in ceremony are groundless modern inventions.
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I would be pretty testy if someone wanted to check me like that
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Eep-- Big Brother and Jesus are one!
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I thought this was great, esp given the haunted doughnuts!
Bonus:
Granted, I’m an old Goth, but I couldn’t help thinking the cityscape looked a lot like a graveyard…
…esp once they added that top graphic!
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29 years after it was first due to be broadcast, this is the BBC Radio series premiere.
He’s 40 and lives at home with his parents. He has the perfect younger brother and his mother is a saint.
Life is not easy for Eamon…
Michael Redmond writes and stars in a six-part comedy series.
Scheduled to begin in October 1996, BBC Radio 4’s new controller James Boyle pulled the whole series shortly before broadcast.
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It is…
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The instructions used to be printed on the shirt cardboard that would be part of the packaging. (1950s/60s, at least.)
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God’s Kid Brother
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Maybe it’s just me, but it also seems weird that the testicle-checking port is shaped like a giant keyhole.
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