I'm in a Music League where the current round is "obscure artists". I didn't submit Bic (had already submitted her for a previous round) but an artist I got into around the same time as that gig, and got to thinking about gigs I saw in Leeds!

Oh my god are you IN MY HOUSE? I was JUST talking about this, right down to "It's just like kindy"!!!

Herpes, hepatitis C and covid really are the last things they need right now. (Were the researchers trying to be efficient by giving them all three? Or are there three separate groups of infected monkeys? Either way, I don't blame them for being highly aggressive towards humans; I would be too)

At first I was hoping they wouldn't travel too far, but looks like it's a different Heidelberg. Looking forward to seeing which superhero we get out of this though!

Anyway I went to better dictionaries and yes, "to hove" is a verb meaning "to float or hover".

I mean if nothing else Blackadder taught us that writing a dictionary is harder than it looks, so no excuse. youtu.be/gmk4PfuiPVY?...

For a moment I thought, well, one can't expect them to manually go through examples for every word, but actually? one can?? One may argue that is the entire point of the dictionary???

To me it looks more like some kind of text recognition or image to text thing gone wrong, based on the specific letters that are wrong (c's to e's, letters missing descenders like goodbve, etc). Countiest might be countless? Maybe someone wrote it out first and they scanned it in? No idea.

I assumed this was amusing hyperbole until I started seeing oblique references in other posts :(

I wonder if this story was published because the anthology, Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, didn't get enough submissions to be picky over them. To that, all I can really say is that fifty six is a perfectly respectable number.

I dunno, let's just put that in the same box as the fact that Adila doesn't know what fear is but understands the concept of private property enough to explain to the reader that it doesn't exist in her world.

An Earth-based, Arabic name whose meaning should be totally irrelevant to the crimeless-except-for-that-one-murder SP, which Adila's parents nonetheless decided to name her.