Author Topic: What I Learned Today  (Read 1463811 times)

Dave the Necrobumper

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 12730
  • If I keep digging maybe I will get out of this hol
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14480 on: August 04, 2017, 05:25:28 PM »
There is a World Gold Panning competition (here), held in Scotland this year. People will make a competition from anything.

jdc

  • Godfather
  • *****
  • Posts: 7799
  • Accept the mystery
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14481 on: August 06, 2017, 12:48:13 PM »
That Josh should be banned to vote in this poll:

http://forum.filmspotting.net/index.php?topic=4006.0
"Beer. Now there's a temporary solution."  Homer S.
“The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations” - David Friedman

goodguy

  • Elite Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 2099
  • Colleen West was here.
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14482 on: August 15, 2017, 01:06:13 PM »
You and your big words.

"Right up until the end, the favored title was ''Anhedonia.'' But hardly anyone knew what the word meant, so it was jettisoned."
Old NY Times article about a little movie called Annie Hall.


Teproc

  • Elite Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 3529
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14483 on: August 15, 2017, 04:49:55 PM »
I didn't know the word but "hedonism" is pretty well-known so it's not too hard to figure out the general idea.
Legend: All-Time Favorite | Great  |  Very Good  |  Good  |  Poor  |  Bad

Letterbox'd

Dave the Necrobumper

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 12730
  • If I keep digging maybe I will get out of this hol
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14484 on: August 22, 2017, 04:05:22 AM »
"Genericide" Losing your trademark because it becomes a generic term. For example Thermos which was a brand name, then in 1963 the courts declared it a generic term for a vacuum flask. Escalator, previously a trademark of the Otis Elevator company.

Xerox has spent a lot of money trying to stop it becoming a generic term.

PS. Heroin used to be a trademark of Fredrick Bayer & Co

DarkeningHumour

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 10453
  • When not sure if sarcasm look at username.
    • Pretentiously Yours
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14485 on: August 22, 2017, 04:37:26 AM »
You and your big words.

"Right up until the end, the favored title was ''Anhedonia.'' But hardly anyone knew what the word meant, so it was jettisoned."
Old NY Times article about a little movie called Annie Hall.

Should have kept the title for the Anomalisa double feature.
« Society is dumb. Art is everything. » - Junior

https://pretensiouslyyours.wordpress.com/

pixote

  • Administrator
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 34237
  • Up with generosity!
    • yet more inanities!
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14486 on: September 06, 2017, 09:44:39 PM »
Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov are brothers.

pixote
Great  |  Near Great  |  Very Good  |  Good  |  Fair  |  Mixed  |  Middling  |  Bad

mañana

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 20862
  • Check your public library
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14487 on: October 31, 2017, 11:25:51 PM »
The dad from Webster met with a Russian professor at a London hotel.
There's no deceit in the cauliflower.

ses

  • Administrator
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 14979
    • Sarah's Kitchen Adventures
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14488 on: November 01, 2017, 02:00:21 PM »
The dad from Webster met with a Russian professor at a London hotel.

I thought the same thing.  :)

But if George was there, where was Ma'am?
"It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart"

http://sarahskitchenadventures.blogspot.com/

mañana

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 20862
  • Check your public library
Re: What I Learned Today
« Reply #14489 on: November 08, 2017, 10:48:56 AM »
 :)
There's no deceit in the cauliflower.

 

love