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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4425 on: 01 August, 2020, 03:31:37 pm »
That there is such a brand as Zinsser paint  ;D
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4426 on: 01 August, 2020, 03:56:59 pm »
I'm obviously being thick, or uncool, as I have no idea what's funny about this.  Zinsser is the leading maker of paints for difficult situations, such as stain blocking, or unstable surfaces.  I've just used 2.5 litres of 1-2-3+ to stop the stain in some tacky sapele veneered doors leaching into the paint I'm applying.

To me, your comment is a bit like "Hey, did you know there is a car maker called Honda".  Other opinions are of course available...
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4427 on: 01 August, 2020, 04:06:25 pm »
See the post above mine...
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4428 on: 02 August, 2020, 09:48:18 am »
That the word 'Dord', with the definition 'Density', was printed in Merriam's New International Dictionary from 1934 for 7 years. A lexicographer had sent a slip reading 'D or d, cont./density' indicating that 'Density' should be added to the list of words that could be abbreviated by upper or lower case 'D'. 

A ghost word rather than a mountweazel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4429 on: 02 August, 2020, 09:56:24 am »
The word 'mountweazel'

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4430 on: 02 August, 2020, 11:19:54 am »
That the word 'Dord', with the definition 'Density', was printed in Merriam's New International Dictionary from 1934 for 7 years. A lexicographer had sent a slip reading 'D or d, cont./density' indicating that 'Density' should be added to the list of words that could be abbreviated by upper or lower case 'D'. 

A ghost word rather than a mountweazel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry


The French word for event is évènement, but for centuries the received spelling was événement, because the printer of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française ran out of è blocks and used an é instead.  Only in the 20th century did the correct spelling appear, but either spelling is still acceptable.

And in a similar vein, the "number of the Beast", 666, was 616 in the original (Greek?) text but was mistranscribed.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4431 on: 02 August, 2020, 01:03:01 pm »
See the post above mine...

Ah! Sod's law, it was on the previous page...  I've just finished a 2.5 litre tin of Zinsser 1-2-3+ paint which cost £46...  They make the only paint which covers smoke damage on buildings, very handy for my previous career in local authority building maintenance, when tenants keep managing to set fire to tower blocks...
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4432 on: 03 August, 2020, 10:46:56 am »
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly was a prequel.  So what did Clint do with the money?
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4433 on: 04 August, 2020, 11:57:39 am »
The term "fladdering", a type of deburring, originally using a "Fladder" machine.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4434 on: 05 August, 2020, 09:45:23 pm »
That there is an electronics measurement equipment company called "Wayne Kerr Electronics".
It's not even someone's name so there is no excuse. It named after the founders favourite film stars Naunton Wayne and Deborah Kerr.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4435 on: 06 August, 2020, 09:29:18 am »
It's not even someone's name so there is no excuse.

I can't believe that's an accident.

I used to think Sandy Balls (as in the New Forest holiday resort) was a comedy made-up name but apparently it's genuine and dates back hundreds of years.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4436 on: 06 August, 2020, 10:18:16 am »
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly was a prequel.  So what did Clint do with the money?

Put Lee van Cleef in cryo so that he could be resurrected for For A Few Dollars More.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4437 on: 06 August, 2020, 11:24:13 am »
It's not even someone's name so there is no excuse.

I can't believe that's an accident.

I used to think Sandy Balls (as in the New Forest holiday resort) was a comedy made-up name but apparently it's genuine and dates back hundreds of years.

And then of course Ed Balls the former politician always used to joke about his sister, Ophelia.


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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4438 on: 06 August, 2020, 04:03:28 pm »
That "avocado" derives from the Aztec word for "testicle" and that "guacamole" means "testicle sauce"".
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4439 on: 06 August, 2020, 04:30:59 pm »
That "avocado" derives from the Aztec word for "testicle" and that "guacamole" means "testicle sauce"".

Hey, I knew that one!  :smug:
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4440 on: 06 August, 2020, 06:16:27 pm »
That "avocado" derives from the Aztec word for "testicle" and that "guacamole" means "testicle sauce"".

Bollocks!

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4441 on: 07 August, 2020, 03:17:29 pm »
I don't think the avocado one is quite right. It would seem that the word comes from the the Nahuatl word for 'Avacado', and the Nahuatls also used that word as a slang term for 'testicle'. That's what my part of the internet said anyway - I've mislaid my Nahuatl-English/English-Nahuatl dictionary.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4442 on: 07 August, 2020, 03:30:31 pm »
That in the Juchitán Zapotec language, the word nahuati means 'foolish' or 'idiot'.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4443 on: 08 August, 2020, 08:32:33 am »
Painting eyes on a cow's bum scares off lions.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4444 on: 10 August, 2020, 10:31:47 pm »
Professor Yaffle off of that Bagpuss was based on Bertrand Russell.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4445 on: 11 August, 2020, 06:27:00 pm »
That dental dams are used by dentists.  (No, not for that.  Nobody uses them for that.)

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4446 on: 12 August, 2020, 09:36:15 am »
That when you ride too soon and revive whiplash it can take two days to show. :(
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4447 on: 13 August, 2020, 06:22:43 pm »
That Irish people still use "quid" as a slang term for their currency even now it's the euro. I wonder if similar nation-specific terms (I don't know what they would be) are still used elsewhere in euroland?
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4448 on: 13 August, 2020, 06:31:07 pm »
That Irish people still use "quid" as a slang term for their currency even now it's the euro. I wonder if similar nation-specific terms (I don't know what they would be) are still used elsewhere in euroland?

Germans use “pfund” to refer to 500g.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #4449 on: 13 August, 2020, 06:38:20 pm »
That Irish people still use "quid" as a slang term for their currency even now it's the euro. I wonder if similar nation-specific terms (I don't know what they would be) are still used elsewhere in euroland?

Germans use “pfund” to refer to 500g.
AIUI the Serapu French have un livre for the same purpose.
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