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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5175 on: 15 April, 2021, 10:35:56 am »
From Wiki (this is delightful).

The village is most famed for the stories of the "Wise Men of Gotham".[3] These depict the people of the village as being stupid. However, the reason for the behaviour is believed to be that the villagers wished to feign madness to avoid a Royal Highway being built through the village, as they would then be expected to build and maintain this route. Madness was believed at the time to be highly contagious, and when King John's knights saw the villagers behaving as if insane, the knights swiftly withdrew and the King's road was re-routed to avoid the village.

Reminded of the foolish ingenuity of Gotham's residents, Washington Irving gave the name "Gotham" to New York City in his Salmagundi Papers (1807). In turn, Bill Finger named Batman's pastiche New York Gotham City.

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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5176 on: 15 April, 2021, 12:04:22 pm »
That there is (at least one) real place called Gotham. It's part of Nottingham.

Every time I've been through it I've been overtaken by Alfred on his electric-assist Alfcycle.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5177 on: 16 April, 2021, 10:14:50 am »
The term ephebophilia (from an unlikely source, a Harlan Coben book) , and the associated term chronophilia (from Wikipedia).
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

andytheflyer

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5178 on: 21 April, 2021, 10:20:54 am »
But will no-one think of the clay minerals?

The Illites
The Chlorites
The Montmorillonites
And all the other-ites

These guys are seriously under-represented.
And not forgetting Pub-frontite, the generic geo-term for urban decorative cladding rocks (like Larvikite, e.g)

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5179 on: 21 April, 2021, 01:33:12 pm »
Courtesy of the BHPC racing thread https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=113381.125 there is such a thing as padded shorts/undershorts for goalkeepers - with padding on the outside of the hips and thighs.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5180 on: 24 April, 2021, 01:38:10 pm »
Update for Peppa Pig haters, who I understand are legion on this forum: "Peppa Pig World of Play" theme parks have reached Shanghai. Operated by a British company, of course.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5181 on: 27 April, 2021, 10:35:56 am »
The word taint, meaning perineum, I suppose from persons of confusion being told "'tain't that. No, 'tain't that either".
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robgul

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5182 on: 28 April, 2021, 07:46:15 am »
A bloke in the US (on a woodwork forum I follow) has built a storage unit for his "collection of telephone insulators"    [that's the glass or ceramic things that you see on the top of telegraph poles]

Not sure if there is a term for the group of collectors of such items?

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5183 on: 28 April, 2021, 07:47:37 am »
Junk?

PaulF

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5184 on: 28 April, 2021, 07:56:02 am »
Junk?

That probably better describes the collection rather than the collector...

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5185 on: 28 April, 2021, 10:05:10 am »
I think the glass ones are rather pretty. To have one at home would be a curiousity. To have more than one is getting obscure.
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5186 on: 28 April, 2021, 10:05:54 am »
OTOH, if you're going to have a collection of something, they're a sensible size and unlikely to go mouldy or explode or anything.

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5187 on: 28 April, 2021, 10:27:02 am »
I've got one somewhere.  Probably still at Fort Larrington.  But it's a rather prosaic clear glass one.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5188 on: 28 April, 2021, 12:11:20 pm »
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5189 on: 28 April, 2021, 12:13:20 pm »
I've got one somewhere.  Probably still at Fort Larrington.  But it's a rather prosaic clear glass one.

I found a big pile of them in a field once. I wasn't allowed to bring them all home. Not even one of them.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5190 on: 28 April, 2021, 01:53:41 pm »
On a related note, I learned on a FNRttC that the Wentlooge Levels are a mecca for pylon spotters, due to the large number of different types used there.
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rogerzilla

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5191 on: 28 April, 2021, 02:56:58 pm »
MARRS "Pump Up The Volume" was released on 4AD.

That's like Deutche Grammophon releasing Never Mind The Bollocks!
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5192 on: 28 April, 2021, 06:28:42 pm »
What a "lamb mac" is.

https://www.shearwell.co.uk/protective-slip-on-lamb-macs

I am disappointed to learn that it's not a new Hindu-friendly addition to the menu at The Scottish Restaurant.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5193 on: 28 April, 2021, 09:05:25 pm »
What a "lamb mac" is.

https://www.shearwell.co.uk/protective-slip-on-lamb-macs
Plastic macs are all very well but they just end up as litter.

In my day you skinned a dead one and wrapped the live ones in that.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5194 on: 29 April, 2021, 09:04:51 am »
What a "lamb mac" is.

https://www.shearwell.co.uk/protective-slip-on-lamb-macs
Plastic macs are all very well but they just end up as litter.

In my day you skinned a dead one and wrapped the live ones in that.

Farming: the brutal truths episode xxxii

I think in this case they are for thermal insulation overnight, rather than for adoption purposes. Be a bit counter-productive to skin half your lambs to give the rest a coat!  The "macs" are allegedly biodegradeable, FCVO biodegradeable I'm sure.
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Snakehips

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5195 on: 29 April, 2021, 09:31:52 am »
I have just discovered that the word oikology means the science of houses and homes, considered especially in respect of their sanitary conditions. What I wonder is the name for the study of oiks, there must be one.
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TheLurker

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5196 on: 29 April, 2021, 08:02:33 pm »
From οίκος.  Various shades of meaning, but home, house or even household or estate according to context.  So οικογένεια for family, i.e. of the house(hold) and also (eventually and after the usual drift of meaning) gives us economics to describe the management/study of the "οίκος" where the "household" is a nation or even a group of nations.

Study of oiks?  Ermmm, how about μαγκασολογία  (mangasology)?   From μάγκας,  various meanings but one is fairly close to (a wanna be) hard man.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5197 on: 29 April, 2021, 08:31:15 pm »
That the scale of Westminster Abbey (designed input by Henry III) is so that at coronations the main knights of the realm could attend the service mounted on horseback and then process on horseback under a platform where the king was being crowned.

I so want this resurrected for the coronation of Charles.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

JennyB

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5198 on: 29 April, 2021, 10:28:59 pm »
From οίκος.  Various shades of meaning, but home, house or even household or estate according to context.  So οικογένεια for family, i.e. of the house(hold) and also (eventually and after the usual drift of meaning) gives us economics to describe the management/study of the "οίκος" where the "household" is a nation or even a group of nations.


Also, believe it or not, the root of the word ecumenical
 
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Study of oiks?  Ermmm, how about μαγκασολογία  (mangasology)?   From μάγκας,  various meanings but one is fairly close to (a wanna be) hard man.


Surely that’s the study of Japanese graphic novels?
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Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #5199 on: 29 April, 2021, 11:04:57 pm »

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Study of oiks?  Ermmm, how about μαγκασολογία  (mangasology)?   From μάγκας,  various meanings but one is fairly close to (a wanna be) hard man.


Surely that’s the study of Japanese graphic novels?

Or the study of farts in human males.