> from Greek katholikos, from phrase kath' holou "on the whole, in general," from kata "about" + genitive of holos "whole" (from PIE root *sol- "whole, well-kept").
“Praise no day until evening, no wife until cremation, no sword until tested, no maiden until marriage, no ice until crossed, no ale until drunk.”
Viking proverb from 'The Hávamál' c.10th century
"Praise no maiden until marriage". How did they court their maidens at all? This is like playing the courtship game at the "Nightmare" level of difficulty. I'm tipping my hat to the vikings.
Deputy Head of the Committee of Defense of the Russian Duma called on deputy Fyodorov to stop his statements about attacking the USA with nuclear rockets.
Yesterday deputy Fyodorov made a new statement, this time calling for a nuclear strike targeting the Nevada desert in the USA. He said that the Pentagon should be warned in advance, allowing the USA to remove all people from the strike area and minimize damage.
@CowperKettle I see he subscribes to the philosophy of moronism
WTH would even be the point of asking the US to clear out a desert and then nuking it? It feels like he was in the middle of spouting stupid until he caught himself with "ah um, maybe also clear out the area"
One month before the US invaded Iraq, another Duma deputy went to Baghdad and announced that Russia can change the tilt of the Earth's axis, sparking an environmental disaster in the USA. This is in the same league.
"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War, and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to "Blighty" - a slang term for Britain.
== Composition ==
Fred Godfrey wrote the song with Bennett Scott and A.J. Mills after passing a music hall in Oxford where a show called Blighty was showing. He recounts: "One of us suddenly said “What an idea for a song!” Four hours later it was all finished, and the whole...
The Russian Post ran an experiment in which post office clerks were replaced with penguins. The penguins, however, used a whole minute longer to serve an average client, and the management decided to keep human clerks.
I am a speaker of Canadian English. Recently, I saw this video on Youtube about operant conditioning link to video where the speaker says “carpet” at about 1.03 into the video. But, isn’t that a rug? So my question is, why does she say carpet in that video? Or is she simply incorrect? I know when...