The officers of the Harvard Lampoon are president, ibis, and narthax.
The Ivy League has the patent on preciosity.
The officers of the Harvard Lampoon are president, ibis, and narthax.
The Ivy League has the patent on preciosity.
The word “preciosity” itself is quite self-referential, now that you mention it.
The word “arena” has its origins in an ancient word for “sand,” because. . . well, they had sand in the areas for the gladiators fought.
Arena is still the Spanish word for sand, the only one we have for it.
The good thing about sand in places like the Colosseum, it seems, is that it absorbed the blood of the people who worked there so the floor did not get slippery for the next act.
Not like basketball, for instance, where they keep on moping up the floor when there is even a bit of sweat on it.
So is erudite, not to mention sesquipedalian.
Sounds depressing. Isn’t there some way to cheer them up?
The song Hello Ma Ragtime Girl was written in 1899 about the newish invention called the “telephone.” The Frog sings only the chorus. The other lyrics seem as though the operator is the “Ragtime Gal,” to me, anyway. According to the wiki, “Hello” at the time was pretty much used only for telephones and not a general salutation.
(Also seems to be written in, eh. . . ‘dialect.’)
Your post confused me, because I thought this was written by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese specifically for the cartoon One Froggy Evening
It turns out that what they wrote was “The Michigan Rag”, which is a different song used in the cartoon:
Apologies if if I’ve missed this, but today I learned that the late Pope died exactly 9 years to the day after the musical artist Prince, who once recorded a song named Pope.
…and when pope Leo was a cardinal, he was a Prince of the Church, so it comes full circle.
This is pretty common for college a capella groups (at least it was in the nineties). Usually shortened to “pitch”. I was pitch for my a capella group my senior year, after being assistant pitch for two years.
Whereas in an orchestra they are called Tár.
That took me longer than I care to admit…
I think you mean bottom-to-top, scrolling upwards?
Kiss Me Deadly scrolls down.
The reason this caught my eye is remembering THX 1138 scrolls down, but I figured George Lucas just wanted to indicate how different (dystopian?) the movie will be.
(Okay, I had to watch both movies to make sure we were all heading in the correct directions.)
I did look at a couple other movies. (like two, so not a complete survey.) Beginning credits tend to be flash card types; closing credits were scrolling. THX 1138 reversed that trend and had most of the credits in the beginning, and actor lists and thanks flashing at the end.
David Ogden Steers was in it! Also Johnny Weissmuller Jr (son of Tarzan) as one of the two Chrome Robots.
I’ve been interested in mineralogy and crystals since childhood, but until recently I never really thought through how it’s possible that some minerals like garnet are in the isometric (cubic) crystal system, but come in dodecahedral crystals, among other possible habits. I didn’t get how a cubiform crystal such as fluorite could be cleaved into an octahedron. None of the popular mineralogy books I had read explained or illustrated these phenomena adequately.
Then one day I was in a car (not driving myself) as we were driving past an orchard in which all the trees were positioned exactly equidistant from each other in all directions. Watching the orchard as we passed, I noticed that there were several angles from which I could see all the way through the orchard. Between two rows, obviously, i could see all the way theough. Similarly, looking through at a 45° angle works. But I also noticed several other ways I could see all the way through. It then hit me that the same principle must work with a crystal lattice in three dimensions. The possible faces of a crystal or cleavage fragment represent the ways that you could pass an imaginary plane through the lattice without it touching any of the atoms or molecules.
I call that the “Arlington effect”, because I first noticed it in Arlington National Cemetery.
Actually, my post (#2279) was wrong on most counts and should be ignored.
I fear I have disgraced this thread by posting non-facts. I am shamed and deeply, sincerely sorry. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have an appointment with the Agony Booth.
The GLP-1 weight loss/diabetes family of medicines was developed from a chemical in gila monster venom.
ACE inhibitors were developed from Brazilian pit viper venom.
And the key ingredient in PCR DNA-multiplication techniques was an enzyme from the organisms that live in the Yellowstone hotsprings, since it wouldn’t be degraded by the repeated cycles of near-boiling temperature.
Apparently, there’s an elephant buried under the Vatican. A pet of one of the previous Pope Leos in the 16th century.