Mental Floss have had a go at identifying the funniest movie of each year since 1950. Recognising the subjectivity of that classification, they’ve used a combination of Rotten Tomatoes scores and IMDb viewer ratings, along with award nominations and maybe a few personal biases as well. Many of the years also contain mentions of other …
My word processor changes the form of dashes to something longer sometimes – becomes —. I change it back sometimes. I’m obsessed by punctuation. I bought and read a book on the semi-colon, and love using Oxford commas. This article on Mental Floss outlines the dash or hyphen, the en-dash, and the em-dash (both named …
This Mental Floss article on thirteen archaic terms for burn-out caught my attention. For some reason. If I have to pick a favourite it’d be “Overcark” an “obsolete term from the 14th century means “overwork.” According to the OED, it was created by combining the word over with the word cark, meaning “that which burdens …
Another food history video from Mental Floss; this time featuring Phở . I love Phở as pure comfort food, though probably preferring Laksa as a meal. It depends on mood. (These are completely appropriate thoughts to be posting on Australia Day, though I have already had a BBQ lunch with friends)
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