Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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

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(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.

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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.

I wasn't sure what the difference was between piles and fill, but I didn't want to post that out loud.

Very pleased to have brought the duct/duck thing back from the ilxor hall of fame. Will have to revive another thing/think coming soon.

I think this is where it started, 19 years ago:

Dialling your own number to locate your mobile phone: Classic oder Dud?

First Peaches, then duck tape. Mind blown twice over.

piles = vertical members driven down into the muck, historically wooden timbers and later concrete etc. your classic "dock" look.

fill = landfill. rocks, excavation, junk, maybe held together in a gabion-type construction (cages to hold rocks together), anyway creating artificial land - particularly common as a way of turning (precious, hard to replace) coastal wetlands into hardscape

BY
HERB FAME
of PEACHES & HERB fame

was going to say the same thing, infuriating

but also suggests the kind of humourless mind that might somehow alienate seven separate Peacheses over the decades

Herb Fame-ga, “Peaches No. 5”

I really love your peacheses

Wanna shake your trees

Herb even got him a white Peaches. Wonder if we can one day expect a Boy Peaches?

Phil Lynott was married to Leslie Crowther's daughter.

think one of my biggest pointless arguments in a relationship was whether it was duct tape/ Duck tape. probably over 20 years ago now. glad to see the controversy still rumbles on.

well listening to the words pronounced its difficult to hear where the t is located if its the end of one word which cognitively makes some sense even if the physical act is frowened upon by those who would use it, or the beginning of the next word or both. & why would it be duck if you weren't aware of why it would be. So trying to make sense of a phonetic experience you've encountered gives a mistaken impression

Scuse me while I kiss this guy etc etc