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Post by rainbow » Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:57 pm

Did you know that they no longer use guinea pigs as guinea pigs, which are not pigs and they don't come from Guinea.
...nor can you buy one for a guinea, anymore.
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Post by rainbow » Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:03 pm

Also they are a delicacy in Peru, which in Portuguese means Turkey, but a turkey in Turkish is hindi, which is a Language in India.
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Post by NineBerry » Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:10 pm

The German equivalent for the figure of speech "guinea pig" for a test candidate is "Versuchskaninchen" (literally trial bunny). The German Kaninchen means bunny although in English canines are members of the dog family.

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Post by Svartalf » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:23 pm

Interesting, I assume it is derived from Latin cunniculus, which derived in such rabbity words as Old French conin or Middle English coney.
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Post by DRSB » Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:35 pm

Did Meghan just now call the Queen a liar?

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Everyone lies

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Post by Svartalf » Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:39 pm

DRSB wrote:
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Did Meghan just now call the Queen a liar?
Since the sun says so, I'm not even sure she did.
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Post by DRSB » Thu Mar 04, 2021 6:22 pm

In plain text this is what she said in the interview teaser.

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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:24 am

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Somewhere to put the factoid things that are the oddest and puzzling in your servings of the interweb
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Odd and puzzling interweb factoid: Crumple has had six different usernames on Rationalia.com. :crumple:
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Post by JimC » Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:04 am

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Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:13 am

Seabass wrote:
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Odd and puzzling interweb factoid: Crumple has had six different usernames on Rationalia.com. :crumple:
Thats a fartoid.
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