Intent: Satire/Sarcasm/Snark. Writer/Co-host on Bunny Trails: A Word History Podcast @bunnytrailspod. He/Him. Ally. Word Nerd. Boardgame Geek. Greyshirt. DFTBA.
When did we start saying "sell like hotcakes"? Hint, one of the first attestations is in an early spam message!
Plus: Why do the Brits eat pancakes on Mardi Gras? It's all here in this week's #BunnyTrails
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The Second Vatican Council - a conference of senior Catholics that transformed the way Mass is given in Churches around the world - began #onthisday 1962.
And so we have called this episode Vatican II: This Time It’s Personal. And we regret nothing.
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It wasn’t long after the death of Pope John Paul I #onthisday in 1978 that the conspiracies started to circulate - and the fact we get 60% of the way into today’s episode before doing the same shows remarkable restraint. For us.
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Good morning all 12 of you who follow me on Twitter. I am taking a break for a bit. I have two-weeks vacation planned and I've decided to get into vacation mode a week early!
See you at the end of June. Or later. And happy pride month!
Just heard the news that Twitter plans to sell to Elon Musk. Wish I could spend more time thinking about it, but I have a busy day of doing absolutely anything else ahead of me.
Carry on.
@JeremyBiltz Yup. Good thread. Masks are helpful, but airplanes are a lower risk than, say, buses. As we look towards a new normal, companies have to balance risk with social acceptance. Not an easy task and no perfect answers.
@JeremyBiltz In a recent AMA on Reddit, Nicholas Cage said PIG was one of his top 3 proudest movies, along with Bringing Out The Dead and Leaving Las Vegas.