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This is a cultural practice or idea that is passed on verbally or by repetition from one person to another. The term lends itself very well to the online world where links, emails, files etc. are so easily propagated.
A meme (from “mineme”)
The idiom “means “pretending to be dead”.
playing possum”
The phrase is used in recognition of the behavior of the Virginia Opossum that does just that, plays dead as a defense mechanism. We often use the term “possum” colloquially for the opossum species that live here in North America, but in fact, the true “possums” are marsupials native to Australia.
is used to describe a robot that resembles a human.
Droid” is short for “android” and
The Latin word “androides” was used in English in the 18th century to mean “like a man”. Science fiction writers introduced us to “android” in the early 1950s.
Reuben bread :
RYE
There are conflicting stories about the origin of the Reuben sandwich. One such story is that it was invented around 1914 by Arnold Reuben, an immigrant from Germany who owned Reuben’s Deli in New York.
Boston is the capital of the state of Massachusetts. The city was founded by these type of colonists from England in 1630.
Puritan
The city takes its name from Boston, England from where several of the early Puritan settlers hailed.
There seems to be some uncertainty about the origin of the symbol “Rx” that’s used for a medical prescription. One explanation is that it comes from the astrological sign for this, a symbol put on prescriptions in days of old to invoke its blessing to help a patient recover.
Jupiter
Young wallaby in a Nickelodeon animated series :
ROCKO
“Rocko’s Modern Life” is an animated sitcom about a wallaby named Rocko that immigrated to America from Australia.
The term comes from the Greek “” (narrow) and “” (writing).
A stenographer might be a court reporter, or a person provided captions accompanying a live television broadcast.
steno” (narrow) and “graphe” (writing).
Deep-fried Japanese dish :
TEMPURA
Tempura is a style of Japanese cuisine that features seafood, meat and vegetables that have been deep-fried in batter. The use of batter in fried foods was introduced into Japan by the Portuguese in the late 1500s.
The list of tarot cards includes
the Wheel of Fortune, the Hanged Man and the Lovers.
is the fourth-most populous city in Ireland,
Limerick
after Dublin, Belfast and Cork. It is located on the Shannon Estuary, in the west of the country.
Salad
Named after hotel
Waldorf : SALAD
As one might expect, the Waldorf salad was created at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City (now the Waldorf=Astoria), back in the 1890s. The classic version of the Waldorf salad is made from apples, celery and walnuts dressed in mayonnaise and served on a bed of lettuce. Anyone who is a fan of the BBC sitcom “Fawlty Towers” will remember how much trouble Basil Fawlty had coming up with a Waldorf salad for an American guest, as the kitchen was “out of Waldorfs” …
Mad about you actors
The comedian and actor Paul Reiser is best known for co-starring alongside Helen Hunt in the nineties sitcom “Mad About You”. Reiser also co-wrote the show’s theme song, “The Final Frontier”.
Reiser also stranger things
are the only franchise to have won NFL championships in three different cities,
The Los Angeles Rams
i.e. Cleveland (1945), Los Angeles (1951 & 2021) and St. Louis (1999). The Rams were based in Cleveland from 1936 to 1945, in Los Angeles from 1946 to 1994, in St. Louis from 1995 to 2015, and returned to Los Angeles in 2016.
SIM card
Subscriber Identity Module
When light passes through this, it splits up (disperses) into differing wavelengths. It then becomes clear that white light is actually a mixture of different colors, which show up as a beautiful spectrum.
prism
English derby town :
EPSOM
The Surrey town of Epsom in England is most famous for its racecourse (Epsom Downs), at which the Epsom Derby is run every year, one of the three races that make up the English Triple Crown. We also come across “Epsom salts” from time to time. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, originally prepared by boiling down mineral waters. Epsom was indeed a spa town at one time. The town is also home to Epsom College, an English “public school” (which actually means “private, and expensive”). One of Epsom’s “old boys” was the Hollywood actor Stewart Granger.
Actor was most associated with his portrayal of Superman in the late seventies and early eighties. He became paralyzed from the neck down when he fell from a horse in a jumping event in 1995. He published a best-selling autobiography 1999 called “Still Me”, and sadly passed away in 2004.
Christopher Reeve
have the ability to release a dark pigment into the water as a means of escape.
Octopodes and squid
The dark pigment is called cephalopod ink (the squid and octopus belong to the class cephalopoda) and is stored in an ink sac. The dark color is created by melanin, the same substance that acts as a pigment in human skin.
A French book about revenge parading a life of excess and love that does not end the way you think and has a Suprisingly casual
Mention of cross dressing
The count of Monte cristo Alexander duh mah
Lady dresses as a man doesn’t want to get married
Where is it spoken?
Yoruba
Yuh roob uh
Nigeria
Where is it spoken?
Tuh ghal ugh
Philippines
US navy rear admiral who created predecessor to cobalt and conceived of idea of language using English words
CS Pioneer
Rear admiral grace hopper
Previously had to know machine code
US navy rear admiral who created predecessor to cobalt and conceived of idea of language using English words
CS Pioneer
Rear admiral grace hopper
Previously had to know machine code
This pop computer language geared for web development was created by rasmiss ler dorf in 94
3 initials
Recursive initialism -where the first word is 3 initials
PHP
PHP hypertext preprocesser
Song by band Falco
Rock me ahm uh day is
German
80s sampled in tech 9 I’m a player
La bamba song
Richie valens
Islands in the stream song
Kenny Rodgers and Dolly Parton
These 2 soccer players have won 12 out of 13 annual award presented by France football magazine which honors male player with best performance each year
From 22
Messi and ruh nal dough
Buh lhan door golden ball
CFL Team ahl ew wets
Also what does it mean
Montreal
Lark in French
NFL team name derived from an ostrick word from SE Asia
Bengals - afc north
Romance comes from term to speak in Roman ; these are the 6 most commonly spoken Romance languages today
Spanish -489 M
Portuguese -233
French -77 M
Italian - 67
Romanian
Cat uh lan- 4
Row manche - spoken in Switzerland ; only about 60K native speakers
489- 4 M speakers
Prior to 17th century scientific papers written mostly in this language
Also dominant language from 17th to WW1
Latin
German till WW1
Dickens wrote this classic novel in just 6 weeks
A Christmas carol
Rushing to finish before holidays
1843
Johnny cash recorded his first 2 live albums at this venue
Prisons
Folsom county - hit 1
San Quentin
This organization has ordained over 20 M using thr internet
Universal life church
Kirby Hensley- kicked out of so many churches
Spin-off with more shoes then original
Law and order SVU
Other spin-offs include organized crime and criminal intent
Unlike blazers sports coats feature this
Patterned cloth
Makes a blazer a blazer
Mets buttons and one solid color
