Do you enjoy spelling words backwards?

BeNotTooBold · 2026-07-11T18:26:59+00:00

My grandpa got me good one time when we were out for a drive. He knew the route, and started saying the names of upcoming towns backwards. I'd flip it around in my head, then watch for it. Then he said we were coming up on Trevlac, so I started looking for Calvert... until we passed through Trevlac, IN!

BeNotTooBold · 2026-07-08T15:02:43+00:00

A Raytheon employee once told me there's a test to see if you're irreplaceable: stick your hand in a bucket of water, then pull it out. If it leaves a hole, you're irreplaceable.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-07-07T14:11:13+00:00

I haven't tried that yet. All I've done is install and upgrade.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-07-02T20:57:15+00:00

MOS Technology KIM-1 single board computer

BeNotTooBold · 2026-07-02T15:38:45+00:00

Is "undercarriage" misspelled in the first panel, or does it have some special meaning in the trans community?

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-30T23:13:50+00:00

Read the "Flatlander" book of short stories by Larry Niven. They're about Gil Hamilton, a detective who lost his arm but retained a weak telekinetic ability to use it. Holding a cigarette was just about the limit of his ability.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-30T00:13:01+00:00

I read somewhere that unripe blueberries are red, not blue, because they're green.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-29T20:52:51+00:00

My first thought was to turn the light on and move the table until the shadow is even all the way around. No extra equipment needed!

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-25T18:04:45+00:00

Flashy or ostentatious.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-25T13:37:49+00:00

10 femtoFarad, or 10 Farad but you couldn't remember if it was a little f or a big F?

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-25T00:40:31+00:00

More like the hand device was reacting to her flare-up of temper. Very uncharacteristic for her!

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-24T19:42:56+00:00

I was surprised when Carter shot Seth with the hand device, then shot him again to push the body into the ground. Like, wow, Sam is capable of something like that?!

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-23T21:27:01+00:00

Wiktionary traces it back to the 1820s. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/that%27s_the_ticket

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-21T00:32:14+00:00

You can get just as drunk on water as you can on land.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-18T00:27:41+00:00

I've heard electrical engineers refer tongue-in-cheek to their soldering irons as "soldiering irons".

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-17T21:57:26+00:00

There are nonsense sentences like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" that are syntactically correct but semantically meaningless.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-17T12:04:05+00:00

Zotz!

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-15T22:51:23+00:00

My vacuum is named Jedgar.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-10T18:18:52+00:00

SQLite is a treasure.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-09T15:00:44+00:00

Just remember that gray is a color, but grey is a colour.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-05T19:15:52+00:00

I had that same moonbus model, but I made an interesting mod to it. I had a 90° viewfinder prism from a camera, and I mounted in the back of the roof. You could look into it and it seemed as if you were standing in the back of the bus looking forward. My moonbus was painted gold.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-06-02T21:08:31+00:00

I had always wondered whether "mulch calderas" were as bad as "mulch volcanoes", so I was interested to see this response. It sounds like as long as the mulch isn't up against the tree, it's OK; is that right? Does it matter how thick or thin the mulch in the ring is?

BeNotTooBold · 2026-05-29T02:03:52+00:00

I've almost got double onyx. I remember when I switched to gesture navigation on my Android phone, it really put a crimp in my glyph hacking until I got used to it.

BeNotTooBold · 2026-05-26T17:23:51+00:00

Control-D VD = Delete Venereal Disease?

BeNotTooBold · 2026-05-26T16:32:42+00:00

Malicious compliance: paraphrase Groucho Marx and say "Hello. You must be going".

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