When Did English Conflate Kids (Baby Goats) and Kids (Human Children . . . I’m going to guess, based on no evidence or research whatsoever, that English-speakers were calling youthful goats “kids” centuries before we applied the same term (colloquially) to the young of H sapiens I’m also going to guess that the colloquialism for (human) children started c 1750, again, based on no evidence or research
1970s BankAmericard Christmas commercial - Straight Dope In the '70s there was a BankAmericard commercial that used Jingle Bells as the theme music I don’t remember the lyrics, so I’ll make some up: Shoes and socks Radio clocks BankAmericard! I always conflate this one with the Norelco commercial with Santa Claus riding a Norelco shaver Does anyone remember the BankAmericard commercial?
What happened to the alternate ending to Big? - Straight Dope There was a fascinating article in the June 30, 2008 issue of The New Yorker: People believe what they see, but they really shouldn’t The brain has an amazing ability to integrate memory into reality, conflate two memories together and see things that are not there
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Your geographical misconceptions - Page 17 - Straight Dope My parents moved down to Cary, outside Raleigh, NC, from northern NJ (where east and west are easy to discern - either toward or away from those giant buildings you see on the horizon) My dad kept trying to explain directions to me: eg take the inner beltway or the outer beltway In my head I imagined two ring roads around Raleigh, like concentric circles maybe 3 miles and 7 miles from the
Whats the origin of *riding shotgun*? - Straight Dope That could easily conflate (is that the word) in the brain to actual booleggers’ use? I guess we need someone to volunteer to watch through some of the great gangster flicks like WHITE HEAT and PUBLIC ENEMY and so forth to see
Does Hawking Radiation require an event horizon? - Straight Dope Students, at all levels, tend to conflate a description of something with the thing itself Science doesn’t actually care what a thing is; scientists care about having a useful description of what is happening
Anyone else remember the alternate ending to Big? Look, I’m sorry, bowspearer, but people conflate two movies (or TV shows or whatever) in their mind quite often It’s not just confined to the movies Big and 14 Going on 30 I know you sincerely think that you’re remembering correctly, but until we can be shown this alternate ending you think you saw, we have to be suspicious You want to claim that you have eyewitness testimony to such