An interesting thing I didn't know until today

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The Welsh word for cottage is bwthyn, which is very similar to the word bothy.

The irish word for cottage is Bothán to complete the triangle.

[ursus arctos]

Very familiar with the "hamburger button" concept, but had never before heard the name

[WOM]

It is a start, but I was hoping for someone younger...

So....anyone.

[WOM]

Anyway, we had a client who had a hamburger nav on their site. I don't remember who...so I knew this for about 6 months and then never knew it again. It's not common parlance.

[caja-dglh]

Very familiar with the "hamburger button" concept, but had never before heard the name

Right - I was more appalled by the name. It just looked like it indicated the contents, which is what it is.

It was in IT's instructions for the new way they have made 2-factor authentication even more annoying. Apparently my face isn't adequate security to log in to my bloody email.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Yeah it doesn't look anything whatsoever like a burger.

[WOM]

It's just force of habit with you now, isn't it?

[Janik]

Oh man, this could be fun. We could get into the entire art movement dealing with signs, symbols and the taken-as-read assumptions that go into lots of visual representations... and how arbitrary and dissociated from what they allude to they sometimes are. Think Jasper John’s Flag, the “green man” on a pelican crossing (green yes, looks nothing like any man I’ve ever met) or my personal favourite, Magritte’s The Treachery of Images:

[WOM]

I learned tonight at dinner that kids of a certain age thought Mick Jagger's name was McJagger. One of them apparently said 'what's McJagger's first name?' and they googled it. You can practically hear the "ooooohhhh!" going around the room.

[caja-dglh]

I learned tonight at dinner that kids of a certain age thought Mick Jagger's name was McJagger. One of them apparently said 'what's McJagger's first name?' and they googled it. You can practically hear the "ooooohhhh!" going around the room.

That will be a Superfly effect, won't it.

[Sits]

I think that previously (18th-19th century ish) the pineapple was a sign of wealth.

As for the other meaning, Mrs. S made a pineapple needlepoint cushion cover which sometimes sits on the chair in the front porch. I'll have to impress on her how important it is to display it in the correct manner.

[Hot Pepsi]

The irish word for cottage is Bothán to complete the triangle.

Many Bothans died to bring us this information,

[ad hoc]

Yeah it doesn't look anything whatsoever like a burger.

It's just meat eaters trying to impose their hateful ideology on everything.

[Felicity, I guess so]

It's just force of habit with you now, isn't it?

I thought he was talking about caja-dglh's face...

[Sam]

That will be a Superfly effect, won't it.

Do you mean Superbad (as in McLovin)?

[Sam]

On attempting to google why dglh thinks the kids of today might be familiar with Super Fly, I have just learnt there's a remake of it entitled Superfly from 2018. The Wikipedia doesn't mention anyone called Jagger or McJagger, though.

[Stumpy Pepys]

I've spent my whole life assuming the theme from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Journey of the Sorcerer) was an original composition. I found out yesterday it's an instrumental by [the] Eagles.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Oh man, this could be fun. We could get into the entire art movement dealing with signs, symbols and the taken-as-read assumptions that go into lots of visual representations... and how arbitrary and dissociated from what they allude to they sometimes are. Think Jasper John’s Flag, the “green man” on a pelican crossing (green yes, looks nothing like any man I’ve ever met) or my personal favourite, Magritte’s The Treachery of Images:

Now that would be proper interesting.

I love Magritte, me. And all his word stuff is great.

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[Evariste Euler Gauss]

I’m equally mystified as to what Super Fly might have to do with the “McJagger” error.

[Sits]

Linda Rondstadt’s paternal grandfather was a wagon builder who produced six horse-drawn streetcars for the city of Tucson in 1903-4, but more significant was her maternal grandfather, a prolific inventor and holder of nearly 700 patents. These included an early form of the electric toaster, many refrigerator devices, the grease gun, the first electric stove, and an early form of the microwave oven. His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties.

All in her Wiki along with a sadder fact I also didn’t know; she’s been unable to sing since 2011.

[Snake Plissken]

Alright OTF - I can't be the only one to have learned of a burger icon today / recently / never before?

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[Nefertiti2]

When anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce dined with some Black people he had screens erected so he didn't have to look at them

[Nefertiti2]

Now that would be proper interesting.

I love Magritte, me. And all his word stuff is great.

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Heartily recommend The Magritte Museum in Brussels for those that haven't been

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

When anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce dined with some Black people he had screens erected so he didn't have to look at them

Crikey. Where did you learn that, Nef?

[Etienne]

It was in a review of Nigel Biggar's new book, as I saw it too, but I can't remember where I saw it. I thought it was Kenan Malik's review in the Guardian, but I've just skimmed through that again and not seen it.