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Scooby Shakespeare
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Cyclamates probably aren't carcinogenic either.

www.cancer.gov/about-cancer...
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Or for those of us of a certain age...
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
October 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Well, they didn't have Netflix yet.

This site makes an attempt to give the history. (I knew the phrase, but hadn't thought to look into it before.)
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Granted, it would help if we didn't each carry and consult our own pocket palantir.
October 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Wally: "So that was lightning, Garth, and this..."
September 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Adding a pointer to how to specify the open access images in their collection search.

www.artic.edu/open-access/...
August 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
His powers worked about as well when he was batting for the other team. (Literally, in this case.)
August 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Or even check to see if the library offers a magazine app that includes The Atlantic. (Ours does!)
July 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Definitely. From a long letter summarizing the history of Middle-Earth (written when he was trying to jump publishers ahead of the publication of TLotR).
July 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In Disney's Carousel of Progress, Uncle Orville improves on this with the addition of an ice block. 🙂
July 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Trekkies: If you see this post your first experience with Star Trek.
July 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
"Don't you think you've had enough?"

"Leave the bottle!"
June 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
And Ty Cobb probably got a bum rap.

imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-c...
June 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This was a great long form piece about the effort.

magazine.atavist.com/american-hip...
June 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
June 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Thomas also had a few words to say re Civil War revisionism.
June 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That matches the bit in the denoument of The Hobbit, where on the return trip the narrative notes that "First" might be more appropriate in that direction.
May 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Zuck: The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Strauss and Howe really overestimated us in "Generations".
April 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Post the first video game you remember playing.

(Note: *not* Asteroid*s*. This came out six years earlier. And was a much worse game.)
March 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Possibly this one.
March 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This probably summed the phenomenon up best.
March 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There's a Jewish story to that effect, where the rabbi tells an abstemious rich man he has to eat and drink more luxuriously lest he think "well, if *I* can get by on only bread and salt, the poor can manage by eating stones."
March 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I've long felt Tolkien would have some fellow feeling with George R.R. Martin, whatever he thought of the worldbuilding.
March 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM