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For anyone who’s curious, this is what Paul Tanner actually looked like.
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
For anyone who’s curious, this is what Paul Tanner actually looked like.
Ĥaĥa! Mdr (=multe da ridoj), even :)
June 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Ĥaĥa! Mdr (=multe da ridoj), even :)
That's sad to hear. Alexander's Ragtime Band does manage to avoid racial stereotypes better than you'd expect for a song of that topic and era. And Berlin did write Supper Time, years before Strange Fruit. Though he also wrote plenty of c*** songs (including the original Puttin' on the Ritz).
June 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
That's sad to hear. Alexander's Ragtime Band does manage to avoid racial stereotypes better than you'd expect for a song of that topic and era. And Berlin did write Supper Time, years before Strange Fruit. Though he also wrote plenty of c*** songs (including the original Puttin' on the Ritz).
The JRB one is hilarious! What about Falsettos (namechecked in Act 2 but not covered AFAICT)? As an aside, here are my Top 100, but I'm not saying which is top: flic.kr/p/2qMXEHr
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June 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The JRB one is hilarious! What about Falsettos (namechecked in Act 2 but not covered AFAICT)? As an aside, here are my Top 100, but I'm not saying which is top: flic.kr/p/2qMXEHr
PS Ooh! Just discovered that it also has the Canadian provinces: not just 🏴 but also 🏴 and the rest!
May 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
PS Ooh! Just discovered that it also has the Canadian provinces: not just 🏴 but also 🏴 and the rest!
(Interestingly, my Linux laptop also supports some other non-RGI flags like 🏴 and 🏴, but not the rather more useful 🏴 or 🏴. Though at least it renders those as a flag with a question mark, rather than just 🏴.)
May 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
(Interestingly, my Linux laptop also supports some other non-RGI flags like 🏴 and 🏴, but not the rather more useful 🏴 or 🏴. Though at least it renders those as a flag with a question mark, rather than just 🏴.)
As an aside, the 🏴 emoji for Texas isn't an RGI sequence, and so is unsupported on many platforms: including on iOS, where it displays as 🏴. Which is even more useless than most unsupported sequences like 🐱👓, which at least display meaningful sequence constituents.
May 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
As an aside, the 🏴 emoji for Texas isn't an RGI sequence, and so is unsupported on many platforms: including on iOS, where it displays as 🏴. Which is even more useless than most unsupported sequences like 🐱👓, which at least display meaningful sequence constituents.
Similarly zucca and zucchini in Italian (from the same Latin root). By analogy, maybe English should call courgettes gourdies?
August 2, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Similarly zucca and zucchini in Italian (from the same Latin root). By analogy, maybe English should call courgettes gourdies?
I think Hi-gens is more common in British English: eg see www.oed.com/dictionary/h... or www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/e...
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May 11, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I think Hi-gens is more common in British English: eg see www.oed.com/dictionary/h... or www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/e...
I expect the transition will be quicker this time too, given that the 1.0 phase is already dominated by big companies. It took almost 10 years to go from Napster/Kazaa to Spotify/Deezer.
January 13, 2024 at 2:01 PM
I expect the transition will be quicker this time too, given that the 1.0 phase is already dominated by big companies. It took almost 10 years to go from Napster/Kazaa to Spotify/Deezer.
Does this require a simple majority of the 15+2 judges?
January 11, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Does this require a simple majority of the 15+2 judges?
To be fair, pancake day is the most underwhelming carnival/mardi gras substitute I know of.
January 4, 2024 at 7:42 PM
To be fair, pancake day is the most underwhelming carnival/mardi gras substitute I know of.
So in some weird-ass calendar the UK tax year does still start on New Year's Day :)
December 29, 2023 at 9:53 PM
So in some weird-ass calendar the UK tax year does still start on New Year's Day :)
...have been a leap year under the old calendar and the Treasury didn't want to miss out on any revenue.
December 29, 2023 at 9:52 PM
...have been a leap year under the old calendar and the Treasury didn't want to miss out on any revenue.
It's actually a cool story why! It used to be March 25, which was also New Year's Day when the year number changed. When GB adopted the Gregorian calendar and moved NYD to Jan, it was moved to April 5 so that 1752 would still be a full tax year. And in 1800 it was moved to April 6 as that would...
December 29, 2023 at 9:51 PM
It's actually a cool story why! It used to be March 25, which was also New Year's Day when the year number changed. When GB adopted the Gregorian calendar and moved NYD to Jan, it was moved to April 5 so that 1752 would still be a full tax year. And in 1800 it was moved to April 6 as that would...
As an aside the 249 ISO 3166-1 "countries" is the reason why there are two US flag emoji: 🇺🇸 (US) and 🇺🇲 (US Outlying Islands).
December 22, 2023 at 5:33 PM
As an aside the 249 ISO 3166-1 "countries" is the reason why there are two US flag emoji: 🇺🇸 (US) and 🇺🇲 (US Outlying Islands).
To get to 150 you'd need to exclude countries like Estonia, Trinidad and Tobago and Cyprus (if by population) or Kuwait, Jamaica and Lebanon (if by area). It really doesn't work.
December 22, 2023 at 5:29 PM
To get to 150 you'd need to exclude countries like Estonia, Trinidad and Tobago and Cyprus (if by population) or Kuwait, Jamaica and Lebanon (if by area). It really doesn't work.
195 is UN full + observer members. 197 is that plus Taiwan and Kosovo. 249 is ISO 3166-1 codes, which includes dependent territories too. Struggling to think how you can get less to less than 193 though (UN full members).
December 22, 2023 at 5:19 PM
195 is UN full + observer members. 197 is that plus Taiwan and Kosovo. 249 is ISO 3166-1 codes, which includes dependent territories too. Struggling to think how you can get less to less than 193 though (UN full members).
That's right. Ancient Greek ὀκτώποδες > Byzantine Greek ὀκταπόδια > Modern Greek χταπόδια. The stress change accompanied the switch to a diminutive form (more obvious in the singulars).
December 15, 2023 at 9:03 AM
That's right. Ancient Greek ὀκτώποδες > Byzantine Greek ὀκταπόδια > Modern Greek χταπόδια. The stress change accompanied the switch to a diminutive form (more obvious in the singulars).
(Also if you want to go for the full boustrophedon experience, you could omit word spaces and allow line breaks in the middle of words)
September 22, 2023 at 6:08 AM
(Also if you want to go for the full boustrophedon experience, you could omit word spaces and allow line breaks in the middle of words)