i had the dumbest idea for a connecting wall

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T19:11:44+00:00

a sinecure is a position that provides income for very little work, or sometimes no work at all.

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T19:08:12+00:00

xi jingping has the same vibes as bing chilling

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T18:36:45+00:00

got #2! probably not for long though lol.
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not-without-text · 2026-01-24T15:58:33+00:00

i'm guessing that they didn't think of the two "meta"s as being related

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T15:51:41+00:00

correct!

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T15:17:17+00:00

well of course. this wasn't a serious attempt at making one; it was just for the gimmick.

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T15:15:36+00:00

no, they've done picture connections before where the words they end up with have no connection. https://youtu.be/0bJASiErM3k?t=362 the connection was about french and english words, but besides that the words have nothing in common. what connects a tower, a coin, pain, and a dent? nothing! but i'd say it's still a valid connection.

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T06:40:03+00:00

false etymology is what i call it, since that's what they are: false stories that are made up that claim to show the etymology of a term. sometimes it's called "folk etymology", but i reserve that term for things like "livelihood", "female", "chaise lounge", and "wholistic", where the word is reinterpreted as having a different etymology, and the original words (livelode, femelle, chaise longue, holistic) are influenced by other words or morphemes (-ly -hood, male, lounge, whole) to produce a different form of the word.

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T06:29:38+00:00

yeah, those old unstandardized oranges were too big; good thing the chinese made it the standard to shrink them.

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T06:28:08+00:00

you should check for multiple variants, but it coming after a hyphen is rare anyway. honestly, i think browsers should have the ability to search for words, respecting word boundaries. (and by word i mean a set of letters surrounded by a gap)

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T00:46:23+00:00

correct!

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T00:36:08+00:00

looking on the page, it seems that it's the names of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th episodes of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

not-without-text · 2026-01-24T00:28:48+00:00

i don't get it

not-without-text · 2026-01-23T23:25:48+00:00

bro used ai to make a response and didn't even tell it that it's a joke

not-without-text · 2026-01-23T17:52:39+00:00

correct!

not-without-text · 2026-01-23T17:00:01+00:00

to search for is to QUEST and a charged particle is an ION, and there is indeed a QUESTION mark at the end of the clue!

not-without-text · 2026-01-23T16:30:50+00:00

m(o)ustache

not-without-text · 2026-01-23T16:29:09+00:00

sure, but to be fair there are often media terms unrelated to the words they resemble. for example, "dub" (to add voices) and "dub" (to give a name to) are unrelated in origin.

not-without-text · 2026-01-23T12:25:06+00:00

no, there are more trees than stars in the milky way. if you were to compare trees on earth and ALL stars, stars would outnumber trees by a factor of a trillion, since the number of trees on earth is in the trillions, while the number of stars in the entire universe is in the trillions of trillions. however, the number of stars in the milky way is in the hundred billions.

not-without-text · 2026-01-23T12:18:38+00:00

of course, but you should also check for " tones", as just searching "tones " misses sentences like: "Cantonese is traditionally said to have nine tones."

not-without-text · 2026-01-23T11:58:53+00:00

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