The OED goes very in-depth into etymology in the way other English dictionaries do not. It’s the size of an encyclopedia. This is the print version of the second edition, which has been supplemented several times since:
Mostly just the sick ones and the babies. Lions generally don’t go after prey that large. They generally avoid giraffes too. They have to be pretty desperate to go after an elephant because they can’t kill it like most of their prey by either suffocation or breaking their neck.
There was a show in the 80s called Captain Power and you would use the tie-in toys to shoot at the screen and if your character’s vehicle got shot in the show, the toy would eject them.
My parents wouldn’t get me the toys so I have no idea how well it worked.
Have you ever had a non-fresh fried egg? They taste like misery and egg whites. This is a whole pile of them. It’s horrific. Why would anyone do this to the world?
What I would love to find, and haven’t been able to, is a large collection of BBC radio dramas. They do at least one every day, but then they go down the memory hole, sometimes forever. Back in the AudioGalaxy days, I was able to get so many, but I’ve lost them all since. I don’t know who, if anyone, is collecting them now or how to get them.
I live in Terre Haute, where Indiana State University is. He played here in college. There’s a huge ugly statue of him that looks like he’s constipated outside the basketball arena and, no shit, they’re building a Larry Bird Museum at the convention center.
They got more conservative as they got older. All those hippie kids who protested Vietnam and experimented with drugs and sex ended up voting for Reagan.
Again, my father was a socialist. He wrote a his dissertation on Shaw and the socialist aspects of one of his plays. He was British and said he was never more proud of his homeland then when he helped it usher in the National Health Service with his vote. When I moved here to Terre Haute, Indiana, he made sure to get me to take him to the Eugene V. Debs museum because of how much he admired debs. How does that make him an 80s liberal? Do please explain.
I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet. (lemmy.world)
fun facts (lemmy.world)
Do i need to install a driver? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Starting in the middle ages, they used to catch ducks and other waterfowl with a special building that was a big trap. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Now he thinks of it (lemmy.world)
YOOOOOOOOOOOO (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
Face the consequences - Work Chronicles (workchronicles.com)
Original: workchronicles.com/face-the-consequences/
Anachronism (lemmy.world)
We at the Westville Marriott want you to know that we hate you and hope you die. (lemmy.world)
Where can I find audiobooks?
Looking for a way to get audiobooks to listen to. Preferably in a format compatible with Apple Books app.
Larry Bird really knew how to get under your skin (lemmy.world)
And Ron Artest was known for his short temper. I’d have loved to see Larry mess with him.
We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days. (lemmy.world)
incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php
Picard Maneuver (i.imgur.com)
The future is now (lemmy.today)
It's the holidays, time to impress the family. (startrek.website)
One way to live long and prosper (startrek.website)