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(#5665416) Re: Black History Month
Posted by fatdaddy on 3 Feb 2025 at 7:23AM
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(#5665372) Black History Month
Posted by Jools on 3 Feb 2025 at 3:40AM
Possibly the last time we will see this Sad
Unless it's already been cancelled.
(#5661911) Re: Confusion day for French speakers
Posted by Jools on 20 Jan 2025 at 3:56AM
It's actually even more confusing

While in English, the term penguin is generally used for birds living in the northern and southern hemispheres, in French, we use the terms manchot (for penguins from the southern hemisphere) and pingouin (for penguins from the northern hemisphere, which are also known in English as auks)

Which is fine, except the only (English) penguin living in the northern hemisphere (just north of equator) is the Galápagos penguin.
Also all auks (apart from the extinct great auk) can fly.
So French oenguins can fly and English ones can't Puzzled
(#5661895) Confusion day for French speakers
Posted by rabbitoid on 20 Jan 2025 at 2:30AM
In official French, the English Penguin is called Manchot ("missing arm").

The confusion is because in French there is a word Pingouin, which for some mysterious reason refers to The bird called in English Razorbill.

Of course, in this era French is heavily contaminated by English so people tend to refer to the Antarctic birds as Pingouins which is always good for making your purists and teachers scream in fury.
(#5659227) Re: Earth rotation day
Posted by fatdaddy on 8 Jan 2025 at 6:14PM
I'm glad we still rotate on our axis as well as revolve around the Sun and that our Solar System still revolves around The Milky Way's black hole. I think we're heading towards M31 as well and will reach it when we're about twice as old as we are now.
(#5659026) Re: Earth rotation day
Posted by Jools on 8 Jan 2025 at 8:19AM
Indeed, I was thinking the same. However:

January 8 is Earth’s Rotation Day. The day commemorates when French Physicist, Leon Foucault, demonstrated the Earth rotates on its axis in 1851.

To prove his theory, Foucault suspended a lead-filled brass sphere, now called the Foucault Pendulum from the top of the Pantheon in Paris.

He showed that the plane of the swing of the pendulum rotated relative to the Earth’s rotation. You can now see the Foucault Pendulum demonstrating the rotation of the Earth in science museums around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum
(#5659006) Earth rotation day
Posted by rabbitoid on 8 Jan 2025 at 5:42AM
Because on all the other days the earth stands still.
Gort, klaatu barada nikto!
(#5635840) Re: Jeez. A year gone already?
Posted by Lil Red on 5 Oct 2024 at 5:42PM
I miss her
(#5635186) Re: Jeez. A year gone already?
Posted by Jools on 3 Oct 2024 at 1:06AM
Yeah, about 12 monthsSmiling
(#5634981) Jeez. A year gone already?
Posted by rabbitoid on 2 Oct 2024 at 4:30AM
It seems only some months ago that I've seen the nurse's jelly perfume bottle flash on the logo
(#5632323) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by Jools on 20 Sep 2024 at 8:27PM
Indeed, highlighting the link between pirates and Pastafarianism
(#5632319) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by fatdaddy on 20 Sep 2024 at 8:14PM
He appears to be a close relative to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
(#5632154) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by Jools on 20 Sep 2024 at 10:08AM
(#5632004) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by fatdaddy on 19 Sep 2024 at 7:46PM
Now she be hangin' by th' jib line! I'll be poxed in minutes! Yaaarrrrr! Here I come Davey Jones!
(#5632003) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by hoof hearted on 19 Sep 2024 at 7:39PM
Landlubber? go hang a jib
(#5632002) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by fatdaddy on 19 Sep 2024 at 7:34PM
Kerosene???!!! That's number one grade a whale whizz ye landlubber!
(#5631999) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by hoof hearted on 19 Sep 2024 at 7:17PM
<wipes chin> jolly roger that's good stuff! Somebody must've cut it with kerosene.
(#5631990) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by fatdaddy on 19 Sep 2024 at 7:08PM
Blimey! Splice the mainbrace! The winsome lass's on t' us, and a bucket o' chum! Give that comely wench some o' me share!
(#5631980) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by hoof hearted on 19 Sep 2024 at 6:54PM
That is hornswoggle, now pass the jug
(#5631975) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by fatdaddy on 19 Sep 2024 at 6:28PM
Alas Matey ye're too late. And swab the deck! We drank it all up.
(#5631965) Re: Shiver me timbers!
Posted by hoof hearted on 19 Sep 2024 at 5:41PM
Wheres the grog?
(#5631900) Shiver me timbers!
Posted by fatdaddy on 19 Sep 2024 at 12:42PM
Pirate
(#5631891) Arrr!
Posted by rabbitoid on 19 Sep 2024 at 11:52AM
(#5629686) Re: Teddy Bear
Posted by ladyvic on 9 Sep 2024 at 6:49AM
aw..thank you for sharing that story
(#5629639) Teddy Bear
Posted by fatdaddy on 9 Sep 2024 at 1:40AM
The Teddy Bear was named after President Theodore Roosevelt (he hated the nick name). While on a bear hunt someone had tied a bear to a tree for his benefit. The President refused to shoot the disabled bear sighting that this would be unsportsmanlike conduct. The bear was killed however as it had been exhausted by being chased by dogs and then clubbed by the one who tied it to the tree and the President wanted it put out of its misery.
Here's the President with what appears to be a superimposed bear -
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