Did you know that they no longer use guinea pigs as guinea pigs, which are not pigs and they don't come from Guinea.
...nor can you buy one for a guinea, anymore.
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I call bullshit - Alfred E Einstein
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Also they are a delicacy in Peru, which in Portuguese means Turkey, but a turkey in Turkish is hindi, which is a Language in India.
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The German equivalent for the figure of speech "guinea pig" for a test candidate is "Versuchskaninchen" (literally trial bunny). The German Kaninchen means bunny although in English canines are members of the dog family.
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Interesting, I assume it is derived from Latin cunniculus, which derived in such rabbity words as Old French conin or Middle English coney.
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Did Meghan just now call the Queen a liar?
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Everyone lies
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Since the sun says so, I'm not even sure she did.
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In plain text this is what she said in the interview teaser.
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Sent from my penis using wankertalk.
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from farts thread..it was supposed to go here
Tero wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:48 pm20-25% of wheel well stowaways survive!
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International disaster, send for the master
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International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)
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Rationalia Thread of Odd Facts and Numbers
Somewhere to put the factoid things that are the oddest and puzzling in your servings of the interweb
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Odd and puzzling interweb factoid: Crumple has had six different usernames on Rationalia.com. 
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"They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved." —Sebastian Gorka
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... a mergefication has been facilitated ...
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Details on how to do that can be found here.
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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
Frank Zappa
"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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All weird internet forums need a Crumple...
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Thats a fartoid.
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