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12 December 2018
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I learned that sometimes when songs are rereleased, they are sort of remixed with parts of other songs. 
The more you know, right?
Reporter: Beethoven figures in one of your songs. What do you think of Beethoven?
Ringo Starr: He’s great. Especially his poetry.
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15 November 2018
Offline silverhammerYT said
I learned that sometimes when songs are rereleased, they are sort of remixed with parts of other songs.The more you know, right?
I wonder how you know that… 
I learned that if you type “deviled eggs” into Google Translate and translate it into French, you get “des oeufs diabolique” which directly translates to “fiendish eggs.” The real word for deviled eggs is actually “oeufs farcis” which means “stuffed eggs” and makes a lot more sense.
Don’t ask me how I know these things 
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Offline ^ Never Google Translate never, never. For French I find Collins is the best btw.
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15 November 2018
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
^ Never Google Translate never, never. For French I find Collins is the best btw.
Thank you!!! Google Translate is both my lifeline and the bane of my existence 
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Offline 50yearslate said
Thank you!!! Google Translate is both my lifeline and the bane of my existence
Fun little fact for you, I used to have a great time going around Dublin Airport when they had put Irish “translations” underneath the English signs, example “luggage collection” blah blah blah.
Now when you went to the luggage carousel to collect your stuff after your flight you were greeted with a sign saying “Bígí othar le bhur dtoil”- ‘Be patient please’….unfortunately…..someone had used Google Translate to translate it…and what it actually said was “Be a medical patient please”.
Every time I would collect my luggage I’d laugh at the idiots who put the sign up, it took YEARS for them to finally change it to ‘foighneach’- the correct adjective ‘patient’.
Morons.
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Cait Si are cat fairies.
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Cait Si are cat fairies.
^ There’s one I never heard of, we’ve got tons of mythical creatures and demons roaming around the place but I’ve never heard of the cat sí.
Pretty cool.
My favourite ones will always be the fairies though- my friend has a fairy fort next to her house (basically a load of trees that grow in a circle), and her family will never cut it down for fear of the bad luck it might rise (we’re a superstitious bunch).
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Offline 50yearslate said
Apparently AHDN is classified as an “indie movie.”
I’m not sure what to make of this information.
Make pudding.
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50yearslate said
Apparently AHDN is classified as an “indie movie.”
I’m not sure what to make of this information.
Make pudding.
I was thinking lemonade (to sip as I slip into the shade) but that works too. I’ll be serving it in the BB house shortly.
And I was going to post something that i learned today to stay on topic but I can’t think of anything. Forgive me. I took two finals today and my brain is tired. 
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That ‘names’ matter especially with brands.
Names can engage or repel…..(what works best for you here…. A gravitationally completely collapsed object, or a black hole?). Names can invoke sentiment, lead us to make assumptions…..Such as calling a possible 2nd referendum in the UK a ‘People’s Vote’…..as if the last one was a vote for aardvarks! That names can be used to suppress debate as with, ‘islamophobia’
But what I learned ……. Have you heard of the company ‘Cadabra’?….Nope I thought not. Because ‘Cadabra’ was often misheard as ‘cadaver’ a corpse, the company changed its name to Amazon…..That seems to have worked out well.
PS I’m still waiting for my White Album deluxe….Ordered November 3rd….To their credit they’ve sent out another…..(Currently it’s at their facility in Anchorage), fingers crossed for Friday.
Failing that, if thoughts can kill there might be a few new ‘cadavers’ at Amazon….
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12 December 2018
Offline Today I learned that catfish make a quacking sound when they exhale. Who knew?
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Ringo Starr: He’s great. Especially his poetry.
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17 October 2013
Offline silverhammerYT said
Today I learned that catfish make a quacking sound when they exhale.
The ducks that said: “I’m NEVER falling for that again!”
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15 November 2018
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Offline I realized this, not learned, but close enough.
It’s called a candy cane because it’s shaped like a… Wait for it… Cane!!
I didn’t know this until now… 
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Offline TheWalrusWasBrian said
I realized this, not learned, but close enough.It’s called a candy cane because it’s shaped like a… Wait for it… Cane!!
I didn’t know this until now…
That sounds like something I would do. I didn’t understand that Nothing Bundt Cakes was a play on words until I was thirteen.
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I realized this, not learned, but close enough.It’s called a candy cane because it’s shaped like a… Wait for it… Cane!!
I didn’t know this until now…
Candy cane banned in some US schools this ‘festive season’ (can’t say Christmas)…..because it’s also the shape of a ‘J’……’J’ for Jesus.. Get it? Well Gee-Wizz! What the Dickens!
I get that Engel v. Vitale established prayer was unconstitutional in public schools but banning ‘candy cane’ seems OTT……Still might offend non-Christians and that would be awful!!
notes: ‘Geewizz’ came into being as an alternative to using ‘Jesus’ as an exclamation…….’What the Dickens’ ‘Run like the Dickens’, ‘Fight like the Dickens’ etc similarly exchanged the word Devil for Dickens……
Reminders of a time when religious cusses were far worse breaches of etiquette that F***, S*** and a certain feminine term……a four letter word ending in, *unt…..
………..Though I can’t see anything wrong with the word ‘aunt’ myself!!!
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As for the c word, people started using it in an offensive manner, so they decided it was offensive, just like the word retarded, which in only 50 years turned from the preferred term to refer to someone with an IQ below 75 to a term that’s often placed on the same level as other offensive terms like the n word and the other f word.
As for something i learned today, you can actually get in trouble if you choose to work during a strike.
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How did I only just realize that the pictures on the cover of the Anthology book are the same as the covers of the Anthology albums???
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