birth control #etymology #wordorigins #language

Favorite* movies for each decade of my life: 60s The Great Escape 70s The Godfather 80s Das Boot 90s The Big Lebowski 00s LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring 10s Gravity 20s Parasite *Not necessarily the best and likely to change with my mood at any given moment

black hole #etymology #wordorigins #language #astronomy

Your Daily Stella: modeling her cooling vest for those Texas Summer days (seems to work, although the water evaporates too quickly)

chips / crisps / Saratoga potatoes #etymology #wordorigins #language

Your Daily Stella: too hot to run today, but one can always chew on a ball

What do grasshoppers, Aristotle, Shakespeare, and US Civil War battles have in common? #etymology #wordorigins #language

The Von Trapp Family Singers have announced that they will be performing at the Freedom 250 Concert, but they will be sneaking out the back before their encore

deepfake #etymology #wordorigins #language

What's your favorite wholesome meme? Mine is definitely

Does "Great American State Fair" connote recognition that DC is a state?

Your Daily Stella: the results of too much fun at the park this morning

desi #etymology #wordorigins #language

I knew this would happen. As if it wasn't bad enough being asked about 'supermoons' (when the Full Moon occurs when it happens to be close to us in its orbit, making it slightly bigger in the sky but not big enough one would notice), we now have press enquiries about the weekend's 'micromoon'.

"Dog Bites Man" may not be newsworthy, but...

Your Daily Stella: rainbow schmainbow, I have a ball

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s why the Pope’s woke encyclical is a disgrace.

Your Daily Stella: there's nothing better than rolling in the dirt with a ball

3/4/5/6/x-dimensional chess

Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts

"You’ve read a million pearl-clutching op-eds about woke professors and cancel culture, but ... the real crisis ... is that colleges and universities are increasingly run by people who are hostile to students and professors, and who are frequently hostile to the idea of the university itself."

lavender #etymology #wordorigins #language

Your Daily Stella: Every morning, like clockwork, at precisely 8:25 Stella comes into my office to tell me that its time to go to the park; today she evidently had scheduled a playdate with Pecan for that time (this was followed by much rolling in the dirt, necessitating the dreaded bath afterward)

Two post-doc positions at Toronto's Dictionary of Old English are available for the fall

Walter Scott’s Waverly novels are totally off the hook #etymology #wordorigins #language

When I was in the US Army, they issued glasses styled like this for free, although the army-issued glasses weren't "smart" in any sense of the word. We called them "BCGs" (birth-control glasses) because you couldn't get laid if wearing them.

Etymologies are sometimes easy to guess; not this one #etymology #wordorigins #language

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched, where are you? I've been catching up on "For All Mankind"

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Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

stay in your lane #etymology #wordorigins #language

An argument for why academic freedom is the linchpin of an open society. Well worth the read.

Your Daily Stella: a box of tennis balls arrived yesterday

Etymological fallacy humor www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tide

Your Daily Stella: morning jog

antifa #etymology #wordorigins #language

Name a song with a girl in the title but replace with squirrel: Fat Bottomed Squirrel

Your Daily Stella: the morning crew at the park 30 seconds earlier they were all lined up in a row, unplanned but perfectly posed, but by the time I got my camera out...

“Don’t be a hodad kook, let a hotdogger show up those goofy foots and pearl divers, bring your tag-along and do some hotdogging yourself” www.wordorigins.org/big-list-ent...

I was bored last night and Netflix told me I should watch this.

Your Daily Stella: Her new friend Tater just cracked a joke

sophism / sophomore / sophomoric #etymology #wordorigins #language

religion #etymology #wordorigins #language

Kudos to The Guardian for this juxtaposition of photos