People often ask whether they should use Koenig’s made up words in real life.
He says yes, because all words are made up in the beginning.
He also quotes lexicographer Erin McKean: “Anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it—that makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an arbitrary distinction; it doesn’t make a word any more real than any other way. If you love a word, it becomes real.”
People often ask whether they should use Koenig’s made up words in real life.
He says yes, because all words are made up in the beginning.
He also quotes lexicographer Erin McKean: “Anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it—that makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an arbitrary distinction; it doesn’t make a word any more real than any other way. If you love a word, it becomes real.”
If you’re trying to tell the difference
between a fossil and a rock, give it a lick.
Because it’s so porous, bone becomes
slightly sticky when wet- so if your
tongue sticks to the specimen, there’s
a good chance it’s a fossil. SourceSource 2
Dm: alright. Your party has now established themselves as an adventuring company. What will you name yourselves?
[after 30 minutes of debate]
Bard: we can’t decide.
Fighter(me): Dungeonnering And Treasure Acquisition Service Society.
Dm:… you want your company name to be D.A.T.A.S.S.
Fighter: Yes.
Bard: I like it.
Rouge: Me too
Sorceress: God damn it
Monk: I’m fine with it.
Dinosaurs may have been just minutes
away from surviving extinction. Some
researchers believe it wasn’t the size or
scale of the asteroid that wiped them out,
but the location of where it hit Earth. If it
had landed just a few minutes earlier or
later, it would have hit the Atlantic Ocean
instead of the Yucatan Peninsula, and
the dinosaurs might have survived. SourceSource 2
Photo: BBC The asteroid unleashed mass devastation on the planet, including the largest Tsunami in earth’s history, scientists said.
This angel is made of knives that were
surrendered to police or were once kept
as forensic evidence. Some are engraved
with the victims’ names, and each blade
was cleaned of ‘biological material’ and
dulled by artist Alfie Radley, who created
the piece for the British Ironwork Centre
to help bring awareness to the knife
violence issue in the UK. SourceSource 2Source 3
Stranger Things is an amazing show. I can’t recommend it enough.
This comic isn’t very spoilery but it won’t make a lot of sense until you’ve watched the show. The entire first season is on Netflix. Go check it out!
okay but like THERE IS AN ACTUAL CONNECTION:
“When Millie auditioned, she had long brown hair down past her shoulders. But Eleven was written as having hair “buzzed almost to the scalp.” Millie and her parents were understandably hesitant to chop it all off. Would it look ugly? Would it cost her other roles? Fortunately, Mad Max: Fury Road was about to come out, so we pulled out a magazine photograph of Charlize Theron as Furiosa and showed it to Millie. “Charlize looks totally badass, right?” Millie agreed; Charlize looked badass. And that was it: She agreed to buzz it all off.
“When the day of the haircut finally arrived, Millie’s mom brought out a camcorder, while her dad ran away with tears in his eyes, unable to watch. It was a pretty dramatic scene. But also very quick. Within 10 minutes we had shaved it all off and slapped a fake “11” tattoo on Millie’s wrist. Millie looked at herself in the mirror, gave her best Furiosa scream — and Eleven was born.”
The mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, is
a pit bull named Brynneth Pawltro. In the
late 1990s, the town held a fundraiser
where citizens could vote for mayor as
many times as they wanted as long as
they paid $1 per vote. They elected a
dog, and Brynn is the 4th dog in a row
to be awarded the title. SourceSource 2
In the early 1900s, people loved
collecting their family’s and friends’
signatures in autograph books. This
evolved into collecting ghost signatures,
which were made by signing a piece of
paper with slow-drying ink and then
quickly folding the sheet over to create
a personalized inkblot. Source
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