Varyk

awesome, every now and then I'm completely perplexed by a far side cartoon.

this was one of them.

thanks

appreciate it, i enjoy these rabbit holes.

the phrase started out as "bury the lead", but newspaper journalists specifically changed only the spelling, though not the usage or definition, into "lede" because news printers were allegedly worried people would get confused since part of the printing of a newspaper contained the metal lead.

"The use of the alternate spelling of lead in the journalistic phrase “burying the lede” began in the 1970s. Newsrooms began to use the alternate spelling to refer to an article’s opening lines, distinguishing it from a part on the linotype machine made with lead."

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/bury-the-lede-explained#5IbZTCXa3QGtQgw0byJIDQ

either spelling can be used, Merriam Webster has a good article about "lede" too, with more examples and context, explaining that writers

"...attributes the fondness for the spelling to nostalgia, calling it "an invention of linotype romanticists, not something used in newsrooms of the linotype era."

Despite the acknowledgment of lede by Safire and others, and its subsequent use by journalists and non-journalists alike, phrases employing the traditional spelling of lead still find their way into print..."

and as Choire Sicha points out:

"You schmucks who use ridiculous journo-terms make me crazy! Finally, someone is willing to speak out against the use of “lede” in public. Because, ha ha, sucka, there’s no reason for it!"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versus-lead

tweet is good, your body argument is completely wrong

Buried lead:

"...Pickles tried to say that people might be sharing the content “out of outrage” or to “raise awareness,” both very strange answers.

“Accounts dedicated to distributing, accounts engaging in this, we want off Twitter, off X as fast as possible. But there are cases globally where people do share this content out of outrage. And in those cases, we do look at whether removing the content is the appropriate response,” Pickles said at the August 2023 hearing.

But Australian senators clearly weren’t having it.

“Well, I’m sorry, but if I’m outraged by some content, I’m not going to share that to make the point,” Australian Senator Helen Polley told Pickles during the hearing. “But what I would do is, if I am a consumer of that type of material, you’re now just saying, if I just share that in the pretense that I’m outraged, that’s okay.”

Polley pointed out that Australia had laws against allowing people to share child abuse images online, just as every other country does.

“Well, it’s actually a crime. It’s a crime, and it should be suspended permanently,” Polley continued. “There is no excuse whether you’re posting something through outrage, which to me is not logical, that your account should not be permanently suspended.”

will Wallace finding that Trump was "engaging in insurrection" be part of the prosecuting argument?

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/18/1213961050/colorado-judge-finds-trump-engaged-in-insurrection-but-keeps-him-on-ballot

I really enjoy never having watched a single Star Trek anything and getting little hints of the lore through all of the memes here and there.

og was for drains in general at the time it was invented in the late 1700s, we didn't even have flush toilets or anything more than cesspools, so there was no need to unclog blockages in household toilets.

The first one was wielded more like a hammer, so it really was just to knock shit loose from whatever hole it was in, apparently.

I definitely felt the same way about toilet plungers as you do until I used one.

until I... took the plunge?

If you clean a fish and toss a couple scales, bones and fish skin down the sink, it will clog.

in the states, where houses have garbage disposals, I don't think sink clogs are much of a problem anymore.

but most countries don't have garbage disposals, and the original plunger design was invented 250 years ago, before much of modern plumbing and pipe design and everything, so it was useful to have any kind of plunger around.

you can make those couple plungers work for the toilet in a lot of situations, but for the toilet specifically a toilet. plunger is going to make your job way easier without any mess and splashing

ha, thanks for the clip! thats great.

he does it in tombstone?

i must have completely forgotten about that.

haha he definitely must have told them that he could do it from practicing on set at Real Genius and they should let him do it in tombstone too, that's hilarious haha.

i can roll quarters down my fingers continuously because I saw Val kilmer do it in Real Genius and I wanted to be cool like him.