Huh, I’ll look into it.
(I’m in SooperDooperQuaranteenie, and maybe discobot knew that…)
@digs and @solost and maybe @Treppenwitz –
You may be interested in this ancient zombie thread that was just re-animated, and the post that I just added there:
Language: If whales had it, how would we know? Post #21
Also, @digs : See Profile → Preferences → Notifications → Messages (at the bottom of the page).
Thanks @Senegoid! That was a very cool dolphin story, and I look forward to reading through your other links.
Indeed! And thanks, I turned on PMs.
I was clicking on Profile -> Preferences -> Notifications but not the right Notifications button.
In a certain high school workroom back in the mid 80s, I believe we coined the term “edubabble.” Psychobabble was in use then and it was the inspiration, I suppose.
Can anyone deny it?
The odds are that I had heard it at some point but didn’t recall it. I just remember trying to find a word for it and coming up with “day after tomorrow” and being quite proud of myself.
I may have been younger than 8, That’s how old I was when we moved to Ohio. I just know for sure that it was while we lived in Hawaii which was ages 4 1/2 until 8. I was generally a pretty smart kid but I did obviously have moments of epic fail.
A while back, I saw a kid riding one of those stunt bikes with the 20" wheels while wearing inline skates. I was sure I was witnessing the birth of a new X-Games sport, but nothing ever came of it.
Oh, that reminds me. We thought we invented skateboards.
As midwest young’uns in the early 60s, we took the old metal skates that clipped over street shoes, took a tinsnips to the heel part, flattened that in two pieces, and screwed it into a short board.
Slowest skateboards ever…
Yes, this fits this thread, because we had no idea what to call them, so we tried Sidewalk Surfers. Turns out a number of skate companies in California were already thinking the same way we were.
I came up with “Netflucked” one day, but apparently others did too.
I think just because someone came up with a phrase first, that doesn’t mean you can’t independently invent it like Calculus was by Newton and Leibniz. It’s not like there are patents for them.