TIL: Today I Learned
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Snerk
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Well, it seems like the Greek man has taken over the thread, given that the main topic of covnersation seems to be turkey.
What about state law?
Ah, yes, Kalogiannis, tourkoktonos… kind of a hyponym then.
Oh you're so young…
Back in the day we had interconnectivity with the Yahoo! messenger folks. Then the Fire Nation attacked and Microsoft decided to kill MSN Messenger and tried to force us all to use Skype.
IRC's not dead, man. Long live the fiftychat!And before all that there was mIRC.
Synobun
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Does this mean the president, each year, pardons someone on the no-fly list?
Sure.
Damned copycats.
My favorite episode of that entire show.
aimeeandbeatles
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Today I learned that somebody made deep-fried Coca-Cola. Doesn't sound unhealthy at all.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
How about some Kentucky Fried Bacon Grease?
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
Apparently you need a license to install home theaters. Don't know if this is the case outside of the land of the free.
There are a couple of aboriginal tribes arguing over which of them gets to rename Calgary. Each of them claims to have lived there "since time immemorial" and so it's only fair that Calgary should be renamed to reflect that.
I'm somewhat croggled that this is even being taken semi-seriously.
Apologies and compensation over residential schools? Absolutely should be done. Renaming sports teams (the Edmonton Eskimos are basically being ordered to change their name)? I can see the point of that.
Renaming a major city that did not take its name from any aboriginal source? That's Truth and Reconciliation gone haywire.
As for "circle the wagons," that's likely been a thing since there were wagons and opposing sets of people - those using the wagons and those attacking the wagons.
Definitely pre-"wild west".
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
TIL Valka has never heard of Ireland.
Huh?
Okay, you're going to have to explain what this has to do with anything I've said.
@Takhisis: I did not know there was an Ireland in Nova Scotia. Not sure why I should, since I don't live anywhere near Nova Scotia, and don't expect I will ever go there (not that there's anything bad about going there, just that the distance and cost would be prohibitive for me). Should the rest of Canada have heard of every small community in this part of the country?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Most towns of any size in Ireland have acquired an official Irish-language name since 1921- and in fact, due to the quirk of Irish language law, the Irish name is actually the more official of the two, even when it's hardly used. (For example, the administrative body of Ireland's capital city is officially Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath, and only after that, in firm second place, Dublin City Council- even if it is almost exclusively referred to by the latter, legally inferior name.) Many towns in the North have similarly acquired Irish language names since 1997, and a few have even acquired Ulster Scots name as well.
The point being, it is possible for Calgary to have more than one name, and for this to be reasonable and constructive and entirely within the bounds of precedent. Even if, like the Northern Irish, you end up with more "official" names than anyone is likely to use.
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Actually, I (as usual) went off on a tangent. ‘Scotti’ were the Gaelic-speaking inhabitants of Ireland at the time that the Romans ruled the lower two thirds of Britain. Eventually their name came to be used exclusively for the land they conquered i.e. Scotia/Scotland (whence the name comes).
And then they built a city called Ireland there.
And then they built a city called Ireland there.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
At any rate, "Calgary" is just an Anglicisation of "Cala Ghearraidh", and a misspelling is no sort of hill to die on.
Is it, now.
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