In the Philippines, Tagalog-speaking people talk to their dogs in English.
When I was in St. Pierre et Miquelon in their Canada-like winter, there were no snow plows. All the drivers (maybe 500 of them) just chained up and packed down each new snowfall. Small island, no rural roads to speak of.
Wait what why? Also, cite?
Because dogs don’t speak Tagalog?
(runs away)
We now ask for cites for mindless pointless stuff??
I live there and most of my neighbors have dogs. My wife has lived there 50 years and agrees that people she knows tend to use English commands to their dogs. Philipinos who have been to school are all fairly fluent in English, so the reason may be that so much dog-related lore has been passed down through English media.
The last time I was in Maine, I was surprised to see dump trucks full of snow leaving Portland. It turns out that they’ve determined that the amount of river/harbor contamination from either dumping the snow or allowing it to melt and run off is a major problem, so they truck it elsewhere for disposal.
They used to do this thing in Santa Barbara, where it never snows, that they would truck a bunch of snow in from somewhere up North so kids could experience playing in the snow. They ended up stopping it because of stuff that was in it going into the creeks when the snow melted.
I had the Country Joe & The Fish album, and later when I started to get into jazz I got a Kid Ory album.
I’m disappointed to see that the Worm Museum, in south-east Australia, has closed (actually - some years ago). I remember visiting it - it’s in the shape of a worm.
Well there’s another thing I’ll never be able to cross off by bucket list.
You can still visit the pencil museum in Keswick (It’s the place 2b). Closed for the duration of course but next year?
On the subject of worms, I recently learned earthworms are an invasive species to North America, and are harming our forests.
https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/podcast/earthworms-are-invading-our-forests
Has anyone else recorded a song about worms (and the sound they make)? Tony Burrello - There's A New Sound (The Sound Of Worms) - 1953 - YouTube
Not about their sounds, but about worms in general:
There was an XKCD “What If” article some years ago that pointed out an interesting random fact.
In the US, we express automotive fuel economy as miles per gallon. Elsewhere, this metric is inverted and expressed as liters per kilometer. This is a unit of volume divided by a unit of length, which cancels down to a simple unit of area. You can use metric units or 'Murican units of measure, whichever suits your fancy.
Example, suppose your car achieves 30 miles per gallon on the highway. A gallon is 231 cubic inches, and 30 miles is 1,900,800 inches.
231 in^3 / 1,900,800 in = 0.000122 square inches.
If you took that gallon of gasoline and stretched it into a cylinder 30 miles long, that would be the cross-sectional area of the cylinder. The diameter of said cylinder would be 0.006 inches.
Songs about worms? Coming right up:
The confusing attribution is because The Boys sometimes appeared as The Yobs. Or was it that Yobs sometimes…?
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While not specifically about worms, there’s
The Hearse Song that has ‘the worms go in, etc.’ in the chorus.
I didn’t realize that was Johnny Mercer.
A glow-worm doesn’t seem to be a worm. Glowworm - Wikipedia
Those worms are damn arrogant!
