The Cellar: a friendly neighborhood coffee shop, with no coffee and no shop. Established 1990.
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Today I Learned....
Today I learned that Johns Hopkins (of the University) was the actual name of one person. (well two people actually, but not in the way that I had assumed) Poor sod. I wonder how long before he just gave up correcting people?
I had assumed the university was named after two people named Johns and Hopkins. But no! Poor guy was named "Johns Hopkins" after his grandfather, who was given his mother's maiden name as a first name.
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Heh... In that same vein, I recently learned that that Jeremiah Dummer contributed way more to the founding of Yale University than the eponymous Yale, but they didn't want to name themselves "Dummer University."
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I had a room-mate whose given name is almost always only a surname and his surname is almost always a given name. It was very entertaining listening to him try to give his particulars to people on the phone. He had a standard set he'd do.
Hey! That's me up there!
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TIL flint is the official gemstone of Ohio. And is a type of quartz.
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Yes it is.
We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark.
Larger than life and twice as ugly.
I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them,
I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period.
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Hey CG! I'm glad you found your way over here.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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Today I Learned the origin of the word shoddy
I had had a book on request from the library forever because it was highly rated and finally my turn came, but I didn't have time to read it and it was due back on Friday (not renewable because the waiting list is still long). So I skimmed it before I returned it and found out that current recycling includes the production of shoddy in India using the old machines from when it was first produced in the North of England. Old woolen fabrics are shredded by machines, mixed with some new fiber, and woven to produce a course, inferior fabric called shoddy. One original use for this was army uniforms and blankets. And the inferiority led to the use of the word shoddy as an adjective.
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The book was by Adam Minter --- Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
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griff wrote:
Hey CG! I'm glad you found your way over here.
Yeah, I noticed that I posted all of 3 times in the past 2 years.
Twice in my birthday thread.
We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark.
Larger than life and twice as ugly.
I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them,
I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period.
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Yeah, that's treading pretty lightly. New Cellar isn't branded yet so you can push it in any direction.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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I discovered food trucks are not a new phenomenon, these are in front of one of the Philadelphia high schools in 1934... 
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Philadelphia seems to be trending this morning. I hope it will come through and then this post can go.
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Don't worry about Philly she's tough as hell...
Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
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Strange days...
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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TIL
That there's a kind of welding hood called a pancake hood AND a kind called a sugar scoop.
Informative.
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Not exactly today but a week ago or so..
I found out holding your finger on the spacebar on an iPhone or iPad allows you to skin the cursor along your typing to add/subtract letters. I felt mugged when I found this nugget... 🤪
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Nice trick! Now I just have to remember to use it...
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this unfortunately...
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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this unfortunately...
your embedded link game needs work.
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Today I learned the origins of the terms starboard and port.
I was surprised and pleased.
Maybe you already know, but if you don't:
ETA: tried and failed to link to the start of the explanation. sorry. The beginning of the explanation is at the 2:00 mark.
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that I'm a ceraunophile and I live in Den of Dendrophiles
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About crypsis, or hiding in plain sight.
Seriously, no, I mean it this time.
So. Much. Learning.
and entertainment., don't tell them I told you about the entertainment. It's there, but come for the learning, stay for the osmotarium. Or the monkey slug.
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I learned things.
I Love my country, I fear the government.
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I laughed. More than once
"He's dead"
"Nature is a whore with a vacuum"
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Frogs and Toads both fornicate in the water and produce tadpoles.
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