what I have learned today.

[Wowbagger]

That what I thought were miniature jellyfish were, in fact, sea gooseberries.

[CAMRAMan]

That an inebriate friend I'd found difficult company 10 years ago is almost impossible company today.

[rafletcher]

That the plural of artefact is artifacts.

[Jaded]

That's because the Frenchs won't queue politely before the mill the way the Brits or Germans will do 

Ahem.

"The French initiated the line-of-people meaning in the 1790s, and the first uses noted by the OED either italicized it as a foreign word or used it in a Gallic context, as in this quote from Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution (1837): 'That talent … of spontaneously standing in queue, distinguishes … the French People.'"

See https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2022/09/20/the-queue/

Ov coarse everyone on facebooK kno that it spelled que

[Legs]

I have learnt not to select 'images' after Googling 'whitlow'. 

[Tim Hall]

All about the Abinger Magnetic Observatory

[rogerzilla]

Southern Railway tavern cars:

https://alongthesetracks.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-tavern-that-travelled-on-rails.html?m=1

You thought olde-worlde tackiness was invented in the 1970s for shopping centre pubs?  Nope.

[Efrogwr]

That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...

It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!

[robgul]

That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...

It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!

IIRC "C" is reserved for envelopes and pockets.    Trivia quiz: does anyone know the difference between an "envelope" and a "pocket" ? 

[Clare]

Pockets have the opening on a short edge.

[cygnet]

I would have guessed flaps / non existence thereof.

[Snakehips]

When Life Gives You Lemons use them to clean the rust off your handlebars.

[Peter]

That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...

It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!

IIRC "C" is reserved for envelopes and pockets.    Trivia quiz: does anyone know the difference between an "envelope" and a "pocket" ?

None for wages:  they arrive and depart via pockets.

[Wowbagger]

Sheer luxury.

[Auntie Helen]

That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...

It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!

And that Germans always use the word DIN when referring to the size. I would say “I need to buy some A4 paper” but they would always say “I need to buy some DIN A4 paper”. Local pride I guess!

Deutsches Institut für Normung

[robgul]

Pockets have the opening on a short edge.

Correct, but no prizes I'm afraid.

Perhaps we should have a quiz on the names/sizes of the old Imperial paper sizes (pre DIN)?

[T42]

That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...

It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!

And that Germans always use the word DIN when referring to the size. I would say “I need to buy some A4 paper” but they would always say “I need to buy some DIN A4 paper”. Local pride I guess!

Deutsches Institut für Normung

Yeah, they even have a DIN norm for English*.

* lie**

** possibly

[Kim]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-VsmF9m_Nt8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-VsmF9m_Nt8&rel=1</a>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

[Cudzoziemiec]

That's a lot more convincing than I was expecting. The rhythm of a language is one of the hardest aspects to get, but he does it pretty well. Mind you, it being a song and gibberish are both factors that make it easier.

The video, however, would have been impossible to make much later than 1972. Well maybe 1982. Okay, 2022. But very much of its time.

[ElyDave]

During his early career when nothing he did with Taupin was anything other than a hit, Elton John wrote a nonsense song, just to see if he could make even that a hit,  he couldn't

Solar Prestige A Gammon, on the Caribou album

[Peter]

Loosely translated as "The Sun Shines Out Of My Arse"?  Obviously didn't that time.

[Mr Larrington]

Today I are learning that Richard Nixon was a Quaker.  Or at least he started out as one.

[Tim Hall]

Today I are learning that Richard Nixon was a Quaker.  Or at least he started out as one.

Ooh, I knowed that. There was a series of plays on The Home Service yclept The Republicans, one which had the story of Tricky Dicky. <Fx:tappity tap> still available on BBC Sounds.

[T42]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-VsmF9m_Nt8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-VsmF9m_Nt8&rel=1</a>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

Like Armageddon Pierstaff in Lucky Jim.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Today I are learning that Richard Nixon was a Quaker.  Or at least he started out as one.

I did not know that but I did know that Herbert Hoover was.