Obvious things that recently Don Don'd you

[blurst of times]

we need a neutral don don umpire to make a ruling on this

[Sweet Gregory Pectin]

we may never truly know

[Mesh]

Miyazaki is also a prefecture of Japan.

[neck]

we need a neutral don don umpire to make a ruling on this

definitely trust sgp over some official simpsons site.

[creedence tapes]

being stoked is litrlly my favorite thing abotu life

You might even say that “sparked” plays off the whole fire/stoked connection too.

[odilon redon]

this is a really niche don but

Alien Nation=alienation

[Sweet Gregory Pectin]

thank you neck i needed that

shankly is right marge's full name is marjorie though i hope we don't lose focus on that

[shacky]

marjorie and margaret are the same name

this made me google more stuff and have the don don that most names were at one point just dumb nicknames that eventually became 'real names' there's probly only like seven original names

like stuff you wouldn't expect like, gretchen, peggy, rita, aurie -- all of those names are just diminutives of margaret

[furrowed brow]

Just realized that revanche means revenge in French and like how that relates to the idea of revanchist politics. Idk maybe not obvious given I don’t speak French but yeah

Also for movie cast ones that Gretchen from Donnie Darko is played by Jena Malone blew my mind

[shacky]

i was the opposite, i would constantly be like "oh look it's gretchen from donnie darko" while only being vaguely aware of the name jena malone and never associating the two. this continued until too old to die young.

[it's the suspense that gets me]

'the daily show' is a takeoff of all the rags that begin with 'the daily' in the name i.e. 'the daily mail'/'the daily herald'

[furrowed brow]

i was the opposite, i would constantly be like "oh look it's gretchen from donnie darko" while only being vaguely aware of the name jena malone and never associating the two. this continued until too old to die young.

I love her in love song and she’s not in it much but the other So yong Kim film before that For Ellen. Like yeah had I thought only neon demon or something she might not have stuck with me idk. Love her tho

[shacky]

words like philanthropy and philosophy have the same-meaning philos-affix as words like bibliophile and audiophile and maybe it's kinda weird we don't actually call philosophers sophiaphiles and philanthropists anthropophiles also the word hemophiliac is kinda a bad joke im sure they aren't enjoying bleeding to death and anyway why aren't they called hemophiles too

[shacky]

maybe it's weird we don't call them philobiblists idk also just realised bible pretty much literally just means book language is nuts huh

[hbb]

maybe it's weird we don't call them philobiblists

Well that already means people who give injections, so that wouldn’t do at all

[shin blood]

Duff Gardens is a parody of Busch Gardens. I had no idea the name comes from Anheuser-Busch.

[inmate]

hyman roth in the godfather pt 2 is played by lee strasberg the method acting guy

[shacky]

the comedian in goodfellas isn't an actor playing a henry youngman-esque character, it's an 85 year old henry youngman.

[jewels]

Just realized by my brain focusing on the “mare” part of nightmare that nightmare is a sexist word. And I’m Proven correct by the dictionary!

[Marza]

Just realized that revanche means revenge in French and like how that relates to the idea of revanchist politics. Idk maybe not obvious given I don’t speak French but yeah

Also for movie cast ones that Gretchen from Donnie Darko is played by Jena Malone blew my mind

I've said it before but learning french has been a goldmine pour les don dons.

I swear if I learned German there wouldn't be any english words left.

[furrowed brow]

Yeah I should maybe try it one of these days (although as a us citizen of course the responsible thing to do would be to learn Spanish).

Just realized that an incubus is the male version of a succubus

[Autarch]

Big Mouth Billy Bass is not a bass; it's a tenor.

[farmer]

privilege
privi-lege
private law

[Kenny]

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[quinine]

"red beans and rice" was a totally foreign concept to me outside of the line in Baby Got Back so I construed it to be a healthy dish that someone might eat while dieting and heard the line as "red beans and rice did miss her", ie she doesn't diet

[inmate]

i thought it was weird that the route options given in the phrase "my way or the highway" don't really sound better or worse than one another, until i realized the second part is actually suggesting you should hit the highway and get out of here

[badhat]

via 99% invisible i learned this week that the PEACE symbol is a stylization of the semafore flags for “N” (one arm at 12, one at 6) and “D” (arms at 4:30 and 7:30) and was initially a Nuclear Disarmament March symbol

[John Dark]

Mindhunter and Mindhorn are two different things.

Neither are particularly good.Toggle Spoiler

[quinine]

via 99% invisible i learned this week that the PEACE symbol is a stylization of the semafore flags for “N” (one arm at 12, one at 6) and “D” (arms at 4:30 and 7:30) and was initially a Nuclear Disarmament March symbol

woah


we should have more semaphore-inspired iconography

[badhat]

i got them backwards. the N is 4:30-7:30 and the D is 12 and 6.