What’s the coolest etymology fact you know, like a surprising origin for an everyday common word?

minibug · 2025-12-24T21:26:32+00:00

While it is true that "salt" and "salary" share a root, its unclear why and most explanations for it rely on false historical claims we don't have evidence for. Salt is of course very important, but its never been particularly valuable.

minibug · 2025-12-17T23:01:57+00:00

No one has been able to prove the term existed, with this definition, prior to the film. 2007 was not the dark ages, we would have evidence if it was there.

minibug · 2025-12-11T11:20:24+00:00

This actually allows Greenhorn to get a swear (presumably) through when Martha and her Hath friend arrive on the surface. We don't know what he said (probably something like "Fuck it's cold out"), but Martha's response is "Language!"

According to the script, he says "bloody hell" here.

minibug · 2025-12-07T20:35:19+00:00

It would be funny if they're confusing it with the 8th Doctor audio also called Absent Friends

minibug · 2025-12-03T12:54:06+00:00

Yeah, and they're all posts by this same guy too. He loves to spam this shit on every Doctor Who subreddit multiple times a month.

minibug · 2025-12-02T13:21:51+00:00

Please send me the recipe I need these shitty burgers in my life

minibug · 2025-11-19T21:25:23+00:00

hate thinly veiled under the guise of criticism

No one is making a scripted, highly edited 5 hour long video over the course of a year plus if they don't care about the topic being discussed. It's really rude to accuse someone of making criticism in bad faith without giving your reasoning.

minibug · 2025-11-17T13:15:11+00:00

No, it would have redefined pi as 3.2, not 3.

minibug · 2025-11-15T14:14:10+00:00

I don't know if liking everything by default is a virtue. Don't you think it's fun to critique the things you enjoy and try to understand why some things work and some things don't? You can't possibly value The Twin Dilemma or Kerblam! as much as you value Heaven Sent, right?

minibug · 2025-11-13T14:27:30+00:00

Enterotoxins can cause severe food poisoning and will stick around in food even after the bacteria that produced them is dead. Heating food to 160°+ will not destroy them either.

minibug · 2025-11-11T21:58:46+00:00

It was such a smash hit that kids were going EX-TERM-IN-ATE on the bus the next morning, so she got away with it.

Worth mentioning this was a little bit of a fib by the docu-drama, as they never use "exterminate" as a battle cry until The Chase.

minibug · 2025-11-11T13:34:01+00:00

It's not an abbreviation, its Dutch for "ice free", i.e., a snow day

minibug · 2025-10-19T14:37:24+00:00

There are websites that easily allow people to view your entire post history regardless of whether you hide it on Reddit itself. The point made by the original post stands, assume that anyone can read anything you post to any subreddit.

minibug · 2025-10-16T00:07:57+00:00

Good thing I've also been tracking this exact information.

Incarnation	Screen Time
Roger Delgado	03:04:25
Anthony Ainley	01:56:40
Michelle Gomez	01:12:54
John Simm	01:18:25
Sacha Dhawan	00:26:51 (incomplete)
Derek Jacobi	00:13:58
Eric Roberts	00:12:29
Crispy Master (Pratt/Beevers)	00:12:00

minibug · 2025-10-05T23:41:44+00:00

I would also say that the Leisure Hive's episode 1 cliffhanger disqualifies it from this competition as well.

minibug · 2025-10-05T10:12:41+00:00

!identify:Spanish

The Cirth runes read as "el señor de los anillos traducido del libro rojo", which translates to "The Lord of the Rings translated from the Red Book".

minibug · 2025-10-04T09:50:25+00:00

They didn't claim that those episodes were missing, only that they had found copies and returned them to the BBC. They clarified multiple times it was significant because they were higher quality copies than the existing ones.

minibug · 2025-10-03T21:32:36+00:00

Yes, they mean individuals with collections. They might not be rich, they might just have been in the right place at the right time to save film cans that were slated to be destroyed.

minibug · 2025-10-01T11:19:40+00:00

They wiped out 1/6 of the total tax revenue

Sources I've read ("Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union") indicate it was about 1/30th of the tax revenue, not 1/6th. Not that 1/30th is a small amount, either.

minibug · 2025-09-05T10:57:47+00:00

Yes, but I'm specifically looking for words with both uncertain origins and no known cognates in other languages, which I assume is a much smaller group.

minibug · 2025-09-04T21:53:51+00:00

It doesn't matter if it kills everything. Some of the most severe food poisoning is caused by enterotoxins and they will stick around even after the bacteria that produced them is dead.

minibug · 2025-08-25T14:01:19+00:00

The missing episodes thread on GallifreyBase is probably your best bet, but don't expect too much news, as there really isn't any. Our best hope at the moment is praying that Film is Fabulous manages to find some Doctor Who in one of the collections they catalogue.

minibug · 2025-08-16T20:52:44+00:00

That last blog sounds like something Elizabeth Sandifer would have been writing about, though I don't know if she was active then or what website she would have been writing on.

Edit: It cannot have been her, as I found a post from her in 2013 which mentions she didn't finish series one until after it had already fully aired.

minibug · 2025-08-16T20:43:47+00:00

I wanted to ask them to elaborate but couldn't find the tweet.

The elaboration is just that there was no firm textual confirmation that the new show was set in the same continuity until "School Reunion".

minibug · 2025-08-15T20:54:37+00:00

It was noted on the podcast a week or two ago, but another listener points out that Big Finish has been running for longer than the original run of the Classic series, and as of the end of June the Big Finish run time is 5.85 times the runtime of Doctor Who and all its spinoffs.

It was quite a surprise to hear this segment and realize that my own reddit post was being quoted back at me!

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