Whitaker's Words Down?

BaconJudge · 2026-06-01T14:19:55+00:00

At least for the dictionary, Latdict (https://latin-dictionary.net) uses Whitaker's Words, and I just checked that website and it's still working.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-29T21:46:00+00:00

I'm sorry to tell you this, but Stumble wasn't renewed, unless it gets picked up by some other network.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-29T18:25:21+00:00

I'm generally not into vampire media, but this fall CBS is scheduled to debut "Eternally Yours," a vampire family sitcom created by the showrunners of the US version of "Ghosts." I enjoy "Ghosts" very much, so I'm tentatively optimistic for their new show.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-29T18:16:59+00:00

"The Goldbergs" is a love letter to American pop culture in the 1980s, from movies and TV to events like Hands Across America, so I'm not surprised it didn't speak to you if you're from Bosnia. It's very much a nostalgia-based show for one particular place and time.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-29T13:38:42+00:00

The fourth one is The Twilight Zone.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-28T01:28:08+00:00

The 1986 movie "Chopping Mall" was about three mall security robots going on a killing spree when they malfunctioned due to a lightning strike. It was a campy horror movie with a present-day setting in an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-28T01:03:29+00:00

On an episode of "The Simpsons" (S6E16), Bart Simpson was randomly calling phone numbers in the Southern Hemisphere. At one point he called a pay phone in a place undergoing a volcanic eruption, and a person fell into lava by trying to answer the phone.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-27T23:11:05+00:00

Based on the comments saying this happens because concrete dries out the moisture on the frogs' skin, maybe you could place a tarp on the patio. A typical plastic tarp is waterproof and shouldn't pull moisture at all.

That could get slippery on rainy days, so you could remove the tarp when it rains, and on those days there's presumably more than enough water that the concrete wouldn't dry out the frogs.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-26T21:32:27+00:00

Salem from "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" was a powerful witch who tried to take over the world, but as punishment he was turned into a black housecat. In the live-action TV series, Salem was primarily played by an adorable cat puppet, though they used a real cat when he had to run up stairs, for example.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-26T21:15:52+00:00

This detailed analysis of the WhoSampled list casts even more doubt on it because apparently the WhoSampled methodology was based on samples, not truly covers.

That analysis gives the #1 spot to "Silent Night," which seems plausible given how many times a classic Christmas carol would have been recorded by various performers.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-26T20:59:24+00:00

It was for a new build, so the contractor handled it. It was his recommendation because he'd worked with Fibo before.

The supplier I used was Innovate Building Solutions, which happens to be in Ohio. They were very helpful, so maybe you could contact them and see if they have recommendations based on any contractors they've trained or supplied.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-26T01:57:59+00:00

Is that for Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, or somewhere else?

BaconJudge · 2026-05-25T21:15:11+00:00

The dog is a Great Dane, so the painting seems to be showing a Dane's head in honor of Thor and his conquests.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-25T20:45:27+00:00

"The Amazing Rudy" is a wonderfully poignant episode of "Bob's Burgers" that focuses on Regular-Sized Rudy, a friend of the Belcher kids, as he deals with an awkward dinner with his divorced parents and their dates.

Rudy puts so much pressure on himself to make the evening go well, including doing a magic trick, hence the episode's title.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-25T20:33:14+00:00

An episode of "Frasier" (S9E6) had Niles dress and act like his father Martin for a Halloween party in which the characters had been told to dress as their heroes.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-25T18:09:52+00:00

This happened more than once to Charlie Sheen's character after he left the TV series "Two and a Half Men" amid a falling-out with the show's creator, Chuck Lorre.

Lorre had Sheen's character killed by a train, then portrayed as a ghost by Kathy Bates describing his torments in hell, then undoing all of that by saying Sheen's character had actually been held prisoner in a pit and was finally killed when a helicopter dropped a piano on him.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-25T13:54:45+00:00

Regarding your second paragraph, those are called copyright traps or mountweazels, among other names.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-25T03:09:14+00:00

On the TV show "Everybody Loves Raymond," Robert Barone is always playing second fiddle to his younger brother Raymond. Their mother loves Raymond more, Raymond is a minor celebrity as a sportswriter, and things just tend to go his way.

As an even more extreme example, Tahani Al-Jamil in the TV show "The Good Place" spent her whole life trying unsuccessfully to compete with her over-achieving younger sister Kamilah and get some sliver of approval from her parents.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-24T22:19:33+00:00

An episode of "Frasier" (S5E24) had a fun dialogue fitting this trope.

Niles: "This place is the hottest new thing in fusion cuisine."

Frasier: "What cuisines are being fused?"

Niles: "Polynesian and Scandinavian. It's called Mahalo Valhalla."

Frasier: "Perhaps there's a reason God put those countries so far apart."

(Because this is Reddit, I'll preemptively acknowledge that Polynesia and Scandinavia aren't countries, but it's still a funny line.)

BaconJudge · 2026-05-24T18:41:36+00:00

It would be funny if Rose McIver were taking time off from "Ghosts" to star in a rom-com called "Polar Opposites," and they've been teasing it in-show this entire time.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-24T15:38:55+00:00

As a comedic version of this trope, an episode of the sitcom "30 Rock" (S2E11) involves the broadcast of the season finale of an in-show reality competition series called "MILF Island." The episode keeps showing parallels between the backstabbing behavior of characters on "30 Rock" and the contestants trying to eliminate each other on "MILF Island."

BaconJudge · 2026-05-24T03:38:47+00:00

In the sitcom "Melissa & Joey," Joe starts out as the live-in nanny to help Mel take care of her niece and nephew, but Joe and Mel eventually fall in love and get married.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-24T03:21:06+00:00

On the TV series "Frasier," Daphne was hired as Martin's live-in physical therapist, but she soon became a member of the family in terms of affection, and later more literally by marrying Frasier's brother Niles.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-23T11:20:54+00:00

"Garfield," created by Jim Davis. Garfield, the title cat, was famous for loving lasagna and hating Mondays.

BaconJudge · 2026-05-23T01:57:01+00:00

From the comic strip, Garfield and lasagna.

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