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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 14, 2022 at 10:46 am
Quote: To avoid saying what you mean, usually because it is uncomfortable. Most languages used the concept of "round" to illustrate the concept of beating around the bush. In medieval times hunters would hire men to assist them during a hunt. Their job was to help flush out animals that were hiding in the bushes. They would accomplish this by beating, or whacking the brush with a wooden stick, perhaps while adding in some loud shouting.
All the rustling and noise would scare out any birds and other animals from the cover of the brush, making them easy targets for the hunters. In Scandinavian languages, the phrase "walking the cat around the porridge" is used. In French, the phrase used is "turning around the flower pot".
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 14, 2022 at 11:32 am
(October 14, 2022 at 10:46 am)Angrboda Wrote: Quote: To avoid saying what you mean, usually because it is uncomfortable. Most languages used the concept of "round" to illustrate the concept of beating around the bush. In medieval times hunters would hire men to assist them during a hunt. Their job was to help flush out animals that were hiding in the bushes. They would accomplish this by beating, or whacking the brush with a wooden stick, perhaps while adding in some loud shouting.
All the rustling and noise would scare out any birds and other animals from the cover of the brush, making them easy targets for the hunters. In Scandinavian languages, the phrase "walking the cat around the porridge" is used. In French, the phrase used is "turning around the flower pot".
I grew up with the phrase ‘going all ‘round the houses’.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 14, 2022 at 1:31 pm
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(October 14, 2022 at 10:46 am)Angrboda Wrote: Quote: To avoid saying what you mean, usually because it is uncomfortable. Most languages used the concept of "round" to illustrate the concept of beating around the bush. In medieval times hunters would hire men to assist them during a hunt. Their job was to help flush out animals that were hiding in the bushes. They would accomplish this by beating, or whacking the brush with a wooden stick, perhaps while adding in some loud shouting.
All the rustling and noise would scare out any birds and other animals from the cover of the brush, making them easy targets for the hunters. In Scandinavian languages, the phrase "walking the cat around the porridge" is used. In French, the phrase used is "turning around the flower pot".
except the idiom “beating around the bush” seems to refer to intent opposite to that of the hunter who hire men to whack shrubbery. “Tip toeing around the bush” would seem more appropriate to the intended meaning.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 14, 2022 at 4:32 pm
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October 14, 2022 at 10:30 pm
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 15, 2022 at 2:11 pm
The faux covered bridge in Long Grove, Illinois has been hit 41 times in the past two years.
Also, apparently truck drivers are just that fucking stupid, since, according to the story after this, they're ignoring barricades in Florida after a bridge near Fort Meade got washed out.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 17, 2022 at 4:20 am
The four spikes on the tails of stegosaurid dinosaurs are called 'a thagomizer'. The term comes from this Gary Larson cartoon:
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While an informal term, it is used by the Smithsonian Institution and has appeared in technical papers on stegosaurs and their close kin.
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October 17, 2022 at 8:24 pm
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 17, 2022 at 8:36 pm
(October 17, 2022 at 8:24 pm)Tomato Wrote: Truth Social is the number one social app in the Google Play Store even at only 100k downloads.
What? It doesn't come pre-installed on the phone?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
October 17, 2022 at 8:48 pm
(October 17, 2022 at 4:20 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The four spikes on the tails of stegosaurid dinosaurs are called 'a thagomizer'. The term comes from this Gary Larson cartoon:
While an informal term, it is used by the Smithsonian Institution and has appeared in technical papers on stegosaurs and their close kin.
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