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German parody “Dinner für Brot” featuring popular puppet characters: https://youtu.be/NkS4H5fLcq4
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Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass-production zone Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit more alone
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That feel when sardines not activated
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The copy I read in college had Nouns Capitalized (as they are in German to this day, though I didn’t know that at the time). A girl in my class said “it’s like reading the dictionary.”
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I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host. — Dorothy Parker
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“You know what Pasteur said: Chance favors the prepared mind. Take one of the chanciest things in the world, like war. Both Kitchener and Frederick the Great, when they were considering a general's qualifications, would always ask, &#x
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“Lord Coke gravely informs us that corporations cannot be excommunicated, because they have no souls, and they appear to be as destitute of every feeling as if they had also no bowels.... There is in truth but one point through which they a
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Interesting Vice documentary on the subject: https://youtu.be/DKAusMNTNnk
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Something I explained to my children today: don’t tweet about things you explained to your children today apropos of nothing, it makes you sounds like a jackass
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Spanish version: Tin marín dedó pinguë Cucara mácara títire fue Yo no fui, fue Teté Pégale pégale que ella fue
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The “sneering” podcast that found serious problems with his work? I admit that the hosts are both sarcastic sassballs, but in some cases their sneering is justified. That’s the point of their podcast after all, to snipe at these “truthy” id
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“Tall, wearing three earrings and a metal plate in his head, availing himself of profanity of a kind that would make an Algerian camel driver blush, Zack Zipperman, Ph.D. has for the past 26 years, in his windowless laboratory at MIT, been
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“I shall assume that you, the reader, are learning to translate into your language of habitual use, since that is the only way you can translate naturally, accurately and with maximum effectiveness. In fact, however, most translators do tra
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For great justice.
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This sounds a lot like “Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father” by Ian Frazier. Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/02/laws-co...
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This passage was from Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee , 1913. I’m no expert, I just remembered this quote.
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“But into the 1980s, Texas continued its notorious practice of tolerating small school districts, thus allowing affluent sections of a city to provide high quality schools for their children while poor whites, blacks, and Chicanos were obli
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“If you place in a bottle half a dozen bees and the same number of flies, and lay the bottle down horizontally, with its base to the window, you will find that the bees will persist, till they die of exhaustion or hunger, in their endeavor
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When I was teaching in China I went with a student to a paint-your-own pottery shop. She painted a little cat and finished it off by drawing two 卍 on the ears. I wonder if this is part of the Chinese inheritance from India? Chinese families
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Cole has a similar series about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(painting...
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In Chinese MSG is called 味精 (wèijīng) or “flavor essence” and it is used liberally in home cooking.
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Wine quality = 12.145 + 0.00117 winter rainfall + 0.0614 average growing season temperature - 0.00386 harvest rainfall This is the formula developed by Orley Ashenfelter to predict the quality of wine, as described in the book Super Crunche
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In the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” the author Gallwey suggests complementing your opponent on a certain technique if you want to see it immediately worsen. E.g. “wow your backhand is really coming along” if their backhand is killing you
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Your “physics envy” alarm went off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy
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This is exactly TheBrain’s use case: TheBrain.com
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Honorable mention to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_jokes
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“It is putting a very high price on one’s opinions to have someone burn at the stake on their account.” - Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
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In fact filmmaker Manchán Magan had to borrow the English word “no” to title his documentary “No Béarla” (No English) in which he roamed Ireland attempting to speak only Irish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Béarla
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Got to pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
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Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_jokes

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