Is that code for… she died?
I think it is a typo, a “ni” went missing. This gives the Knights Who Say “Ni!” an unexpected turn, suddenly it seems it is their fault. How did the Pythons know that in 1975? No idea. Geniuses, they were.
A compostni? A comnipost? A nicompost? Componist?
non compos mentos, which is latin for “not having sound breath mints”
I recognize it because when I was growing up in Cleveland that ad was on the radio every damn day, year in, year out. I don’t remember what it was for, though. Aluminum siding or something
Actually, I thought she was still alive, but just looked it up and she died in 2022.
But no, that’s code for my phone hates me.
Algo habrás hecho.
Code for: don’t act so innocent!
I was just reading a book that said that the King of Siam sent an embassy to France. “To”? Moving buildings would be been expensive even for somebody as rich as him.
Turns out that “embassy” as the building a foreign diplomat lives in to conduct business is fairly modern, from 1784. Previously, an embassy was “a deputation or mission sent by one ruler or state to another.” I can’t remember even seeing that usage before.
The third sister, Joanna, was also a singer, a mezzo-soprano opera star. Oddly, she died only one day after Lucy.
Another random fact. After her long-term husband died, Joanna was the companion of Walter Cronkite until his death. A femme fatale!
Try to avoid that expression when talking to Argentinians “algo habrán hecho” was the expression used to justify someone being dissapeared during the last dictatorship.
I should know by now that irony does not convey in the net, my apologies. The same meaning was implied in Spain (a different dictator, same shit), but in the meantime it is sometimes used to express that something is utter bullshit. I remember when talking about the custom of throwing a live goat from the belfry of a church in rural Zamora (Spain) (link in Spanish, link in English, with subtle differences between both), something that was finally forbidden in the year 2000 because it was cruel and unnecessary, a friend of mine deadpanned “algo habrá hecho” refering to the goat and we found it hilarious because it was obvious that this was not the case. I guess you had to be there. I believe from what I know about you that you would have found it funny too, but without that context it sounds callous.
Sorry again. But it is funny. Imagine what @fachverwirrt did to the phone, the composting revenge was surely merited.
Gotcha, we use it ironically too, but as you said irony is hard to convey in the net and I thought better to warn you before you used it unknowingly (plus it’s certainly an “interesting random fact”).
No need to apologize, if you are in on the joke it is, indeed, funny.
We don’t talk about the noodle incident.
Which is pretty clearly the reason Carly Simon didn’t attend her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
The logo on Fireball Cinnamon Whisky is a heraldic icon called the panther incensed, and the first time I ever noticed it I thought it reminded me of the B5 Solider of Darkness from “The Book of G’Quan.”
That if another K-T / Chixculub impactor were headed our way, thanks to modern equipment and mapping techniques, we’d see it about 50 years before it hit. What we could do about it is, as of right now, precisely jack, but we’d have five decades to come up with something.
Not sure about that. I’d say it depends on the albedo of the asteroid (the darker, the harder to see) and the direction it is coming from. If it happened to come from an orbit slanted 45°- 90° to the plane of the ecliptic we would not be looking that way.
Granted, most relevant objects we know of (!) are on that plane, but aren’t the things you don’t look for the ones that hit you by surprise?
One thing’s for sure, if stopping it required even the slightest sacrifice, we would all proclaim it was a hoax.
Preach.
Well, half of us.