- May 2025
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archive.org archive.org
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The Motive Puzzle: The tip which led to Bolton’s arrest had come from John Miller of Highland Park, now awaiting sentence with John Pantello for burglary. Miller told the police: “Bolton offered me and John Pantello fifteen grand to bump off Reuther.” Later, he added, Bolton hid two shotguns in Miller’s home. Several hours before the near-fatal shooting, Bolton came after the guns. “I want my two typewriters,” he said, according to Miller. “[’m going out and kill me a redheaded Communist,” Bolton was quoted as adding, with complete disregard of Reuther’s staunch anti-Communism.
p. 41 of Newsweek (US Edition) 1948-10-18: Vol 32 Iss 16
https://archive.org/details/sim_newsweek-us_1948-10-18_32_16/page/40/mode/2up?q=typewriter
Typewriters as a colloquialism for shotguns in a murder investigation in 1948 Michigan.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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i used a saw to just make the 6:46 one edge of that phillips head a little 6:48 bit deeper so that i could then use a 6:51 flat top screwdriver in there to remove 6:52 that screw the next time that way when i 6:55 put that screw back in there i could 6:56 remove it later just using a flat head 6:58 screwdriver instead of a phillips 7:00 now this was a little bit of a ratchet 7:02 job but it did the trick and with that i 7:04 had a working electric typewriter
Sarah Everett suggests using a saw to turn Phillips head screws into a flat head screw if they've been stripped.
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i 2:15 didn't know if it was broken because it 2:17 needed cleaned
curious, but common phrase "needed cleaned"...
Appalachian dialect?
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- Jul 2024
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www.urbandictionary.com www.urbandictionary.com
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pking
pking - player killing
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- Mar 2024
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In a “porcivorous” country, people spent their days foragingand fornicating; when upset, they could be heard yelling out, “Flesh aliveand tear it.” It was their “favorite exclamation,” Byrd said. This bizarrecolloquialism suggested cannibalism, or perhaps hyenas surrounding a freshkill and devouring it. How could these carnivorous swamp monsters bethought of as English?37
"flesh alive and tear it"
denigrating language towards lubbers (poor white trash)
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- Jan 2024
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genius.com genius.com
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take care of T-C-B
some may hear the mondegreen T-C-P which confusingly leaves R-E-S-E meaning nothing.
The initials T-C-B most likely mean "Take Care of Business", which fits in with some of the other variations of Franklin's version including:
"Ooh, your kisses, sweeter than honey<br /> And guess what? So is my money"
which equates kisses as being on par with her earnings, for which she expects "propers" (aka props, or proper respect).
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- Mar 2023
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The old saying "a bad penny always turns up" is a colloquial recognition of Gresham's Law.
The colloquialism "a bad penny always turns up" is recognition of Gresham's law because the bad (cheap) pennies will be in higher circulation compared with purer or more valuable copper pennies which will have been hoarded or left circulation.
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- Feb 2023
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’ by [[Taylor Lorenz]]
shifts in language and meaning of words and symbols as the result of algorithmic content moderation
instead of slow semantic shifts, content moderation is actively pushing shifts of words and their meanings
article suggested by this week's Dan Allosso Book club on Pirate Enlightenment
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- Sep 2022
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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The classic local greeting is “Fit like?”, the stereotypical answer being “Jist tyaavin awaa”, (“Just struggling along”).
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- May 2022
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_your_uncle
I've been hearing this phrase more lately. Today was the third or fourth time in about two weeks.
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- Mar 2022
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2022.pressedconf.org 2022.pressedconf.org
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Grades were the only thing keeping me inside the LMS. I went gradeless, and embraced the freedom of the www outside the LMS, using a WordPress site as the main platform, with student blogs and many other digital tools integrated into an online or “mask-to-mask” course.
My first time seeing "mask-to-mask" in lieu of face to face.
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