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submitted 2 weeks ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk

From, origin of "the hat trick":
https://www.etymonline.com/word/hat%20trick

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[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Dudes used to buy books full of bits to do with their friends instead of stealing them from podcasts and tv

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 2 weeks ago

Books were the podcasts of the time.

[-] DakRalter 5 points 2 weeks ago

Dudes? Excuse me, girls collected FunFax too!

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 10 points 2 weeks ago

Harry Anderson did this trick in the early '80s on Cheers. Obviously not the origin but it's where I first saw it.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

What's the general consensus on whether people still know this trick? I've known the phrase for ages, but I never heard of the trick.

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

If they don't lift the hat, then it's Schrodinger's Booze.

[-] mr_account@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Slide the hat to knock over the glass, spilling it under the hat. They never said they would "empty the glass," but rather to "drink every drop of the liquor."

[-] tired_fedora@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

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