charonn0

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's also an English expression.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

drove a balrog out of its natural habitat

Akshully, they tried to keep it there. Imprisoned because of its religious beliefs! Killed while attempting escape!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

One is high fantasy, the other is satire. They may be technically very similar, but as far as tone and mood they are very different beasts. Like Star Wars and Spaceballs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kirk penetrates an alien organism in order to destroy its reproductive organs.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you'd say "in the consulship of Jones and Smith". 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of "Julius and Caesar".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The researchers say they derived the name of its genus, hotwheels, directly from the beloved toy due to the structure of the male spiders' reproductive organs. [...] "Because of the lack of nerves in the palpal bulb, the challenges faced by a male spider attempting to copulate can be likened to those of a person attempting to adjust a complex, delicate mechanism in the dark, using an elongate, elaborately formed fingernail"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, ...because they'll never come again. ...What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived. ...After all, Number One, we're only mortal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (9 children)

It doesn't have to be addition. It could be a hash function, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

All participants select their own random whole number and publish it to the group. All participants add all the numbers together. The result is either odd or even (heads/tails) and everyone arrives at the same result independently.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Annual commemorative pastry observance

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

The hair is all wrong.

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