Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Why is the phrase "elderly Nazis" giving me a serious case of the giggles?
I can't figure it out. Or stop giggling.
ETA: I think it's because I am picturing them as, like, ponies with eye patches, which I understand makes no sense whatsoever, and no, I am not even currently on any cold medication.
I swear today is the first time I've heard the word "yips" and now I've heard it in two contexts.
It's a golfing term, but I think any athletic act that involves a timeout and thinking then acting is prone to it: penalty kick, free throw, place kick. Hitting in baseball too is prone to the yips.
Which is really just being self-conscious and not getting your mind out of the way of what you've trained your body to do.
Oh for goodness' sake. Some people have way too much time on their hands. [link]
Given that twins do run in families (the tendency for embryos to split OR tendency for some women to release multiple fertile eggs) all you need is a couple related families that have lived in a town for a couple generations and you'll see a statistical uptick. And since there may be unexplained environmental triggers for twinning....
No need for Mengele, thank goodness.
I'm not a twin, but my brothers are, so I've paid more than usual attention to this sort of thing. :-)
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Oh, that makes me sad. Lay off David Attenborough, crazies! Send that crap to PZ instead - he can take it AND he has a blog where we can publically mock you for it!
Huh. I have never heard "yips" in fencing, but we need the word. I shall appropriate!
I'd only heard it from HIMYM and possibly Seinfeld.
Heh -- last night Neil DeGrasse Tyson was telling Jon Stewart about receiving hate-mail from 3rd graders about Pluto being demoted from a full-fledged planet. So it starts early....
I'd only heard it from HIMYM and possibly Seinfeld.
It got a mention on House once, after Foreman killed a patient.
Send that crap to PZ instead - he can take it AND he has a blog where we can publically mock you for it!
Yeah, IIRC PZ has already mocked them for this.