Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird potentially related to the big deal bigfooters always make about the stink of bigfoot. If bigfoot didn't stink anymore, they'd be extinct and thus a ghost.

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the really weird part, is that Potoos belong to a group of birds that contains several other nocturnal bird families - the nightjars, the frogmouths, the owlet-nightjars, and the oilbird ... and swifts and hummingbirds. As a bonus, the swifts and hummingbirds are most closely related to one of the nocturnal groups, the owlet-nightjars, and deeply nested among nocturnal birds.

@futurebird wasn't there a movie in which darth vader built a robot whose entire job was being polite?

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I had a professor who would routinely say "read the FINE manual" (note emphasis).

There was a rumor that he didn't know "fine" was not the customary f-word used in that acronym, but he was always careful to emphasize "fine".

@futurebird @sal
there's probably a rule against the alcohol stove in the park, and that's what makes it taste so good.

@futurebird your brother, an unsung hero.

@futurebird @australopithecus
people say there's no such thing as narcoleptic terrorism,
but you'd be surprised at how few sleeping electrons it takes to kill a person.
I've always said, let sleeping leptons lie.

@futurebird in tetrapods generally it seems rare to have a head that is broad at the front. Nigersaurus and Atopodentatus come to mind, but they're very much the exception. And neither seems to have had the nares especially far apart.

@DrHyde @c0dec0dec0de @futurebird and, at least historically, hiccough was pronounced /ˈhɪ.kʌp/ ... ugh.

@futurebird by far the most frequent targets of social media manipulation are politicians and journalists, so if you're within reach of law enforcement, you're at risk.

@c0dec0dec0de @futurebird wikipedia says Franklin created a phonetic alphabet of his own, with six letters removed, and six new letters he invented for sounds which didn't have them, and that seems like a more radical alteration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin%27s_phonetic_alphabet

in the past, I've read conflicting accounts of how much he advocated his new alphabet, and how serious he was about it.

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I remember when I had to hand mix the colors of a CRT by fiddling with knobs (often on its backside ... but sometimes hidden under a front panel)

@c0dec0dec0de @futurebird I thought it was Noah Webster who popularized most of the USA-specific spellings?

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gray: the color of a soft gray cat.

grey: the colour of a cloudy sky, overcast for months on end.

@futurebird I have never owned a car, and life is definitely too much for me.

@futurebird I think it has been covered in several episodes of "the war on cars". I also think I've encountered discussion on how cars isolate people in several books. I don't have links handy thought.

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since sawflies are paraphyletic (unless Apocrita is included), like gen X, I guess that tracks.

(although there are fossil sawflies from the late Triassic, and I don't think that's true of gen X)

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sooper dookie

sooper dog dookie

@futurebird marketing: an industry that believes they get to decide what you are looking for, and then, in an act of towering dishonesty and monumental hypocrisy, blames you for buying it.

@futurebird The Great Betrayal: How Google manipulated us into accepting judicious use of internet search as the leading way of knowing things, and then maliciously replaced navigable knowledge with error-ridden disaster-causing garbage.