Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Wasn't until a month or so ago that it dawned on me that the Lincoln Project was not an organization of gay GOP members.

That group, of course, are known as Log Cabin Republicans.

https://i.imgur.com/Y8Trqg6.jpg

^^ Image needed more drop shadow, imo.

Forsooth, sirrah, I also hath ye olde quaintie language in my mnemonic. Zounds!

Verily, I still sayeth unto ye, why not just look at yr damn phone?

Fie on thee, wretched soul, for thou reliest too kindly upon thine hell-rectangle.

Wait,

The index finger (also referred to as [...] first finger, [...]) is the second finger of a human hand.

If you seek the months that 30 days contain
September, April, June, and November would be the expected refrain
If you wish to know those with 31
That's too many questions
Jethro, get my gun

Good un

That it's one idea jibes with another, it doesn't jive. Though I think I sometimes say 'chimes with' anyway.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jive-jibe-gibe

Garbled sentence, sorry. That jibes with my general state of mind.

I feel like I've seen "jives with" used in real publications in recent years. Has it somehow become acceptable?

I probably first saw it 25 years ago and at least twice since but somehow it flew right by me that Glengarry Glenn Ross is set in Chicago

I should say that it was wins on the outbreak thread who made me think again about jibes with:

outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

About jives with, rather

Feel quite strongly that "jive" is currently more correct and "jibe" should be reserved for taunts but I have nothing - and I mean literally, in the actual, correct sense of that word - literally nothing to substantiate that prejudice.

Well that is because you are incorrect, so

jive = swingin, jazz, talkin - things working and moving together

jibe = taunting, friction, teasing - things rubbing at cross purposes

ugh, wait, the "correct" definition is from some sailing shit. I changed my mind, I'm on your side

i like the cut of your jive young sir

Sailing
Takes me away
To where ive always
Known u were RONG

Oh stewardess, I speak jibe

1) That Peaches & Herb's 'Reunited' is a sequel to their 1968 single '(We'll Be) United'.

2) That there were seven different Peaches-es throughout the years.

O.L., I'm a little shook.

https://i.imgur.com/y2Gwo7A.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1K4hqFM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/iQMJDjn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/90Zbg84.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/WXJX7vx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7FGvRZC.jpg

(Not a complete list.)

Millions of peaches!

it is Peaches tbf

In piano teaching, the thumb is "finger 1" and the index is "finger 2."

https://www.letsplaykidsmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/introducing-piano-fingering.jpg

https://tse1.explicit.bing.net/th?id=OIP.DcF9kTWJFuz-djw7-hBBWAAAAA&pid=Api

Peaches + Herb

ugh, wait, the "correct" definition is from some sailing shit. I changed my mind, I'm on your side

― Dan I., Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:00 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

That reminds me: twice lately I've heard a speaker (probably on a podcast) say "a different tact"--people who are normally very carefully spoken and accurate. Is this usage now somehow acceptable?

No, that's as bad as "duct tape"

Like in the sense of a form of "tactic" which is probably contributing to the confusion.

xp oh thank goodness.

also...lol?

I knew the sailing term and had vaguely understood that to be the buried metaphor in "jibes with."

But if someone in my professional orbit were to write "jives with," I would understand it and not get all prescriptive on their ass.

Just to mess with y'all, though, you will often see it spelled gybe or, just for funsies, gibe.

I wonder how many Daryl Dragons there really were.

Putting this here because 1) Nautical words and 2) I love it.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/b2/b7/fab2b7a9724d2f54dc766ba16b3d8290.png

Although having said that, my hometown has a jetty (built on fill/rocks/cement) that everyone refers to as "the pier."

recently encountered 'unchartered territory' and 'pouring over'

jives with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahoJReiCaPk

jibes with the correct uniforms being worn

I only just learned that the Phil Collins song that goes "You can run and you can hide" is called "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven".

never knew the title all these years.

I got a lot of "things you were shockingly old when you learned" mileage from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

my controversial opinion is that "duct tape" is the best name for the modern product, including the "Duck Tape" brand, but I'm biased by my experiences taping ducts

Tim the Toolman Taylor made fun of his wife on Home Improvement for calling it "duck tape" as if she was an idiot, what a dick!

During World War II, Revolite (then a division of Johnson & Johnson) developed an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing. ... "Duck tape" is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899;[2] "duct tape" (described conservatively as "perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape") since 1965.

WHAT

things I just learned ten minutes ago

Yeah it was originally duck from duck canvas. (Duck because waterproof, like a duck's back.)

Many have observed that it is not good for the taping of air ducts (because it is prone to drying out and falling off).

In reading about duct tape, I just learned that the same guy (Richard Gurley Drew) invented both masking tape and Scotch tape.

Also:

The first tape had adhesive along its edges but not in the middle. In its first trial run, it fell off the car and the frustrated auto painter growled at Drew, "take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!"[3] (By "Scotch," he meant "cheap".) The nickname stuck, both to Drew's improved masking tape, and to his 1930 invention, Scotch Brand cellulose tape.

i thought it was invented by Sir Alec Fennemore Scotch

Haha me and my girl were discussing peaches and herb yesterday (because she has this cornbread and honey candle and I said it sounds like an rnb Duo) and we discovered there were 7 peaches

There's a French word now, 'scotcher', which means to stick to something, and has also somehow come to mean 'to stun' or 'surprise', so you hear it ironically, when somebody says something obvious: 'je suis scotché' - i.e. 'oh really? you're blowin my mind over here'

when I used to be a sparkie a "scotcher" was a private rewire or install or whatever that was usually cash in hand and done outside of work hours, at the weekend usually.

https://i.imgur.com/7FGvRZC.jpg

i'm sorry, but shouldn't this be:

BY
HERB FAME
of PEACHES & HERB fame

?

ok i love the nautical word guide. if you showed me the four things, i would instinctively call "pier" and "jetty" correctly, without "knowing" why. but "quay" and "wharf," i had nuthin.

that the original trade term for duct tape was "duck tape" really is so amaze to me. i love it.