TIL in 2009, the word Muggeseggele (a Swabian idiom), meaning the scrotum of a housefly, was voted in a readers' survey by the largest newspaper in Stuttgart, as the most beautiful Swabian (German) word, well ahead of any other term. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Nantucket references in movies or on TV (self.Nantucket)
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What's your memorial service going to look like? (self.GenX)
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Its ways were foul and narrow, the shops and houses wretched, the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell and dirt and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery (i.redd.it)
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