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- When Did English Conflate Kids (Baby Goats) and Kids (Human Children . . .
From the OED, there are also several unrelated words spelled and pronounced the same: (1) a bundle of twigs for burning or embedding in a bank to give firmness to loose soil (unknown origin, first appeared c 1350); (2) a seed-pod of a leguminous plant (unknown origin, first appeared c 1722); (3) a small wooden tub for domestic use (unknown origin; first appeared 1769); (4) nonsense, often in
- Name the movie from this half remembered bit-- again?
Keeping in mind that I do, in fact, conflate old memories, I looked around a bit I think I may be confusing some actor in the 1972 movie The Getaway with Jerry Stiller Did some bad guy suck on Sally Struther’s blembas in this movie? Yes, he did The cuckolded husband was played by Jack Dodson (“Howard Sprague” on Andy Griffith)
- Wow, Kelsey Grammer is a Trump supporter? I thought he was intelligent . . .
Mr brown told me about the article discussing it, and here’s a link Without having thought about it beforehand, I would have guessed the actor was a liberal Democrat I shouldn’t conflate the guy with his Frasier character, I guess
- The Bad Seed, Different Ending? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope
I know that this has been discussed before on the Dope, but it’s been a while Yesterday, I finally watched my recording of TCM’s Halloween presentation of the movie, The Bad Seed I’ve watched it many times before I know the infamous ending was a bow to the Hays Code which would not allow criminals to get away with their crimes The result was the most blatant Deus ex Machina in film
- Strength of balsa wood vs. strength of steel - Straight Dope
Not addressed directly by any poster above is that the term “strength” has a lot of different meanings There’s tensile strength, shear strength, compressive strength, torsional strength just to start And then there’s the various flavors of hardness, which a lot of non-technical folks conflate with “strength”
- What would *actually* happen if you hooked someone up to a coffee IV . . .
I suspect it might depend on how sweet you like your coffee If you take it black, the solution would (possibly?) have less dissolved solute than your blood plasma, and some of the newly hypotonic solution would be drawn into your red blood cells by osmosis, eventually expanding them beyond what the cell membrane can contain and rupturing them: hemolysis
- Lost in Space backstory: Who was Dr. Smith working for?
There’s a great interview with Harris in ehich he talks about “The Great Vegetable Rebellion” (the one with the 6’ carrot man) The show’s writer, Peter Packer (great name, byw) had gone to Harris’ dressing room with a draft of the script He didn’t want to show it to Harris at first Harris asked him why Packer said that he had just plain run out of ideas Harris read the
- Is AI overhyped? - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board
Misunderstanding of AI Capabilities: People often conflate narrow AI (which performs specific tasks) with general AI (which could perform any intellectual task a human can) This confusion can lead to overestimation of AI’s current abilities
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