Well this is interesting

That’s one helluva graze. Sounds like Máel Brigt filed his teeth!

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That would never have happened to John Wayne!

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And Sigurd Eysteinsson would never spend weeks downwind of the United States government’s Nevada National Security Site, where above-ground nuclear weapons tests occurred at the site as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole. Although arguably the dust settling in on Wayne’s skin took a lot longer to kill him than Máel Brigt’s teeth took to kill Sigurd.

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Yeah, well, that would never have happened to Chuck Norris!

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don’t forget they loaded up a bunch of the hot sand from the location, drove it to hollywood, and dumped it on the lot to film the studio takes. smh.

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‘Best Christmas present’: Lifelong best friends discover they’re actually brothers

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http://languagehat.com/asterix-explicatus

I don’t speak French, but Panoramix vs. Getafix and Assurancetourix vs. Cacafonix suggest that the French original has a different mood from the English translations.

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They do have different names, but they are puns along the same lines. Some of them (like Asterix) are the same across languages, at least Western European ones. The comics and cartoons are a favourite of French teachers across anglophone Canada, so I grew up reading them in both French and English. The humour is about the same in both, although the French tends to be the funniest IMHO since it’s the original.

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Just reading “All Your Yesterdays.” Just got to the retro Therizinosaurus.

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https://www.inquisitr.com/4709388/chinese-construction-workers-stumble-upon-30-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-eggs-from-cretaceous-period/
Cretaceous Park, here we come!

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Diogenes was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Coming up to him, Plato said, “My good Diogenes, if you knew how to pay court to Dionysius, you wouldn’t have to wash vegetables.” “And,” replied Diogenes, “If you knew how to wash vegetables, you wouldn’t have to pay court to Dionysius.”

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Because the deep is where they do their thinking!

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If true, also helps date zodiacal constellations.

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Fast food stands in Ancient Rome

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So um, I saw this in the Atlantic. And I can’t wrap my little cerebral cortex around it. Is it me, or the journalist, or the story?

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