@GratefulDisciple Rip van Winkle slept for 20 years.

@jlliagre I pretty much knew I was going to guess wrong with the Portuguese one. And the geographical spread is so wide for that ...

Early bookcase, when the book form (codex) was still relatively new.

@Cerberus Why the nimbus? Was that scribe some kind of saint?

Oh, probably!

I don't know the context.

That looks pretty hilarious.

@Mitch Update: the word of the year has been changed to "nuclear winter"

Democrats continue winning Gaza strategy known as "pretending to care and not doing anything"

@alphabet Word usage, in film, Gia (1998); Mike (the photographer, I think) to Gia, the model (Angelina Jolie), strung out on heroin. Mike Mansfield: Your look is not spring. Your look is nuclear-fucking-winter.

Always remembered that one.

@HippoSawrUs Is that intended to be parsed as "[nuclear fucking] winter" or as "nuclear [fucking winter]"?

Invisalign appointment today. At what point do you just say screw it, and yank your teeth out with a string tied to a doorknob?

@alphabet I used to know what that was called…expletive infixation. I guess that was it.

@HippoSawrUs Do it now, I dare you.

@HippoSawrUs Save America from the liberals: this winter, less nuclear fucking, more nuclear family.

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I have. We took turns one year. Just walking around like zombie first graders. Crazy.

@alphabet Our line has ended for all intents and purposes. No more new leaves on the tree.

But my line will go on, from my first marriage, and fuck up the universe or something from sheer stupidity, unwavering confidence, and a complete inability to fathom what a f*cked up combo that is, for everybody else.

That's what happens before you get your teeth straightened. You might as well marry a toad and wish for the best.

Time to fix them again, I guess. Good morning.

@Robusto the most distinguishing feature of saints is a halo of light around their head

Dipintos I snapped today in an elevator cabin in a new high-rise building. These are advertisements by workers who offer their apartment refurbishment services, with phone numbers.

They install new water equipment, and all sorts of furnuture, new triple-glazed windows etc.

@M.A.R. a/k/a nimbus

This user's answers are definitely from ChatGPT or a similar chatbot.

@Robusto Yes, I knew he slept way more than 3 years. For some reason the story was quite endearing to me (I read a simplified version as a child). I remember a scene where he is reconnecting with his now adult daughter.

I want to read it again now, especially to understand the political element. If I remember correctly, the social/political order changed a lot after he woke up. I wish I can sleep through Trump's presidency to avoid the anxiety of how his reckless disregard for oder and truth and decency can wreak havoc to this country. I just hope the justice system is strong enough to restrain him.

Found an edition with lots of illustrations, some color. It's shorter than I thought. Oh, so he missed the American Revolution, and he was a hen-pecked husband :-).

Can this be the word of the day: termagant as in the caption of the illustration on page 11: "A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed."

@GratefulDisciple 1) I'm not right about anything I'm just half digesting what I read somewhere else.

2) even so I will take someone else half baked half digested barely a sentiment and craft legal publication policy on it

Which means that on Jan 1 I will be announcing my official word of the year for 2025.

Hmm...maybe others will get the same idea...I should probably publicize it earlier.

@Mitch Great idea. I think the English.SE community should have a voting for English.SE word of the year announced on Jan 1 to mean a prediction (instead of after-the-fact) that the word will be popular in 2025. First phase would be nomination.

@GratefulDisciple That would certainly be fun thing to do right now... a meta question that's just a fun survey question about what you think the best word of the year 2024 is.

I think @MetaEd has a lot of good suggestions for such words.

@Mitch okay, what's the challenge exactly?

@MetaEd The challenge is for you to write up a meta question that is essentially a poll for word of the year. You can make up the rules however you like: entirely new words, words that were popular this year, words you realize just yesterday that you like a lot, or you can do like a Razzy award, the worst words of the year or the most or best nonwords. But it's your choice, we'll all play along whatever.

Oh...maybe start it in December? or at soonest right after Thanksgiving (US)?

@Mitch I would think start it Jan 1

@MetaEd Well that's a bit far off and the conversation only just started five minutes ago. I suggest a compromise, like maybe tomorrow?

I think some words should be proscribed, like winners of other WotY contests. also that excrescent made up genA slang. I'm sure some millenial middle-manager marketing maven made up skibidi and rizz and shifferbrains and slipped it into his (it was totally a dude) phishing convo in his teen's discprd channel and successfully trolled the world.

Looks like Diet R. Kelly won't be our AG after all: cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-transition-news-11-21-24

They're learning these word in every ESL class from the Congo to Okinawa.

Well played millenial marketing manager, well played.

How convenient that he got to leave Congress right before that report came out.

@alphabet Goddammit I clicked on that link.

I was wondering about what R Kelly is doing lately.

And why he's on a diet

and if the diet is working

They're learning this fake slang from Reykjavik to Cape Town.

From Lima to Novosibirsk.

Uh oh.

In prison. I'm not sure if he misses the crowds or the harem more.

I just triangulated Satan's door step.

Has Etna been active lately?

@alphabet Would having a phone in prison be a good thing or bad?

You'd be occupied, but tiktok shorts are like meth but worse and you don't even feel good while watching them.

We have an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Nice.

@Mitch Good if they give free WiFi internet.

@Vikas I wouldn't be surprised if that's offered in the Scandinavian prisons.

Backformation of the day, from an old Times article:

> The judge rejected the proposal, saying that he had concerns about Mr. Combs attempting to witness tamper, landing him in a special housing unit that often holds high-profile inmates.

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Wait, that smokedetector alert is about a protected question. How was the spammer able to create an answer with no rep?

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Same again. Is this because of the relatively recent changes that let people with low rep answer questions?

hmmm

@CowperKettle fair

@CowperKettle Why is it always nickels in this metaphor? So inconvenient. Can't it be "if I got Venmoed 5 cents..."

@alphabet sure, then you can be crushed by pennies. The reason that it is "If I had a nickel for" is that it is.

@MetaEd I wish it were a quarter. That's real money.

@Mitch Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields Forever

damnit instant earworm ! Thanks

There used to be a great bakery near there in the park

Triple berry shortcake

@Mitch Not worth a plug nickel

I wonder

I would pay $5 for a plug nickel

So are fresh black olives good or something?

Because my pasta salad tastes like a vinegar candle

I don't understand how somebody canned them and said, 'Yeah, that worked out.'

Bleh, bleh, bleh

I don't get it

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be

There's a shadow hanging over me

Oh, I believe in yesterday

Oops

Oh, yesterday came suddenly

That's all I got on suddenly

All of a sudden! It's funner, cooler. The only cross-references in both the Country Chick and City Chick online secret dictionaries. Wait, let me cross-check those references or…nvm. Yep, yep, yep. That's just some made-up BS, man!

Or whatever. Nobody knows.

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Well, if it's Thomas Wolf…

@HippoSawrUs if you let them age awhile in the bottle supposedly the flavor is intensified.

I know it's a bit late but you could give them out on Halloween to the kids you don't like.

You could just fill a wax bottle with vinegar and plug it with a black jellybean. WTH?

I like kids. Other people's kids, who come and go, and come back way later, for just a Twix or something, like I'm the nicest lady in the universe.

But your own kids expect 300,000 in small bills. It's wrapped in a paper bag, in the mailbox! (Whaat?). It's there! Keep looking!

Human researchers plan to try to understand raccoons' super intellects

@MetaEd I don't know what changes you're talking about. The question was protected after the answer: english.stackexchange.com/posts/242594/timeline