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I'm not looking for the right answer here, but I'd like to know what everyone's first instinct is when you hear this phrase.

"To my knowledge, it snowed twice last winter."

A: The speaker knows for certain that it snowed exactly two times.

B: As far as the speaker knows, it snowed twice (that is, there are two occasions that she knows about when it ( Read more... )

Google hits for "x inside a turkey":

x=chicken: 11,200
x=duck: 12,200
x=lobster: 0

Inspired by a recent maxpost, these are the top Google auto-complete suggestions (not the search results), in order, for the phrase "there are":

"there are 4 lights"
Okay, there's your Internet for you.  All you need to do is start positing the existence of something, the Internet's first assumption is that you must be making a reference to Star Trek ( Read more... )

Googling the phrase "N steps to weight loss" (writing out the numbers)

N=Hits:001221933273043665271064740749989931020811+0

I was thinking about one of the coolest memories from college: that time when we bought three hundred-foot extension cords, ran them out my dorm room window, duct taped a VCR to a TV and hoisted them both up a tree, then sat in the branches and watched French existentialist films from the 60s until the sky started getting light ( Read more... )

"On a flat-screen television, images of the firebombing of villages during the Korean War were displayed, followed by footage of dancing bears and then of the modern bathtubs of today's apartments.... At the gift shop, gift sets of stamps were on offer, as well as a small model of a guitar-strumming frog chorus, handmade from shells ( Read more... )

Today I made a picnic lunch and brought it to Copenhagen's nice public beach, Amager Strand. It's just a few metro stops away from downtown. There was a kind of beautiful gray miserableness to the cold, clean, dry, desolate and bright seascape and sandscape scoured by the chilly wind, the shoreline of grassy dunes and concrete bunkers and paths. I ( Read more... )

Places I've worked full-time, starting with my first real job, listed chronologically, with notes about lunch culture ( Read more... )

Of course, it's not really a "new" decade if you're counting one decade after another starting from 1 CE. On the other hand, a decade is just a span of ten years; the time from June 23 1986 to June 22 1996 is a decade ( Read more... )