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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Aglet. Thanks Phineas and Ferb!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Don't forget it

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm too old to know what Phineas and Ferb is, but when I was young I used to love knowing obscure words like:

  • The indent between your upper lip and your nose is called the philtrum (more commonly known now because of piercings

  • The recess on the bottom of a wine bottle is called a punt.

  • The infinity symbol (like a sideways 8) is a lemniscate

  • The cap on the pointy end of an umbrella, or any other tubular thing (including a pencil) is called a ferrule

  • The space between your eyebrows is your glabella

Etc. Anyway, aglet was one of those. I was always so happy when I had an opportunity to use one ("Oh, man, my aglet broke!").

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And the infinity symbol is likely related to the analemma, the shape the sun traces out over the course of a year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

These are awesome! Thanks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The cardboard ring around a coffee cup is called a Zarf

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But are you old enough to remember Tom Cruise discussing them in the film Cocktail? (in the cinema on the original release‽ )

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well, it came out when I was 26, but I don't think I saw it.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aglets, and it’s 100% due to Phineas and Ferb

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Don't forget it!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Telomeres for your shoestrings

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Aglet. Not Phineas & Ferb. Terraria.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I personally don't know what they're called but to my cat that's called food.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Aglets. Terraria my beloved.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aglet. Thanks phineas and ferb!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Aglet. Another shout-out to Phineas and Ferb.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Aglet - phineas and ferb

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Aglet. Archie comics did a bit on them, that's where I learned

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Aglet - Jimmy Neutron

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Easy. The 80s and older crowd will know this from some inherent eldritch knowledge or have no idea. But everyone else will know this from Jimmy Neutron.
scrolling through the comments, seeing Phineas and Ferb everywhere

I'm only in my mid twenties. Y'all need to stop making me feel old.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I know it from an Archie comic I read in the 90's

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Shoes.

Shoes, with the Aglets of the laces resting upon them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aglets.

And their true purpose is sinister.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

🎶 A, G, L, E, T, Aglets! Don't forget it 🎶

^^^One word at a time^^^

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP, they’re obviously called aglets.

Didn’t Phineas and Ferb teach you anything?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly the point I'm trying to prove 😉

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Aglets. Learned that from Phineas and Ferb.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What, the shoes?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A picture of a shoe, with laces, which have plastic aglets on the ends.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You wanna maybe use a red circle mate?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I knew a kid once who said when he grew up that he wanted to be the guy that puts the aglets on shoelaces.

I don't know what ever happened to him, but I like to think he found his calling in shoe plastics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They're aglets. I believe Phineas and Ferb is a cartoon, but I've never seen it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shoes? Maybe Reeboks?

Edit: I am appalled by how many people know the term aglet.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I believe there was a book in the 80s called Sniglets that made up words for things and this was one of them. I didn't remember what it was called. Any or all of this memory could be wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aglets, if you’re talking about the ends on the laces, and please update why you’re asking lol

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Aglets.

Laces.

Sneakers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I only know they are aglets thanks to "Repossessed!" Fantastic spoof of The Exorcist with Leslie Neilson and Linda Blair (from the original). Blair played Nancy Aglet and fought possession again. They made a joke about her name that got the word weirdly stuck in my brain. "We've tried everything the devil hates. Sex, drugs, rock and roll..."

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

These are Aglets. I didn't look it up, i watched Phineas & Ferb as a child.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I misremembered it as eglet, and I probably learned it from uncle John's bathroom reader because I am old.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Whoa, hold on now... I'm not old, and I shit through atleast 4 edition's of Uncle John's bathroom readers in my pre and early teens

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lace tips??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Aglets. Can't remember where I learned the word.

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