Calvin would love MST3K.

Exactly. And I’m not being a book snob here, I’ve read plenty of books that weren’t the height of intellectualism. But it’s so BAD… 😁

No worries, easily done. I meant to say before, I also really like the Crucible - something we studied at school, and yet I still liked it! 😁

Glad Liverpool won, but oooft… That’s a penalty for me. Very lucky with that decision, even if the result was still a fair one.

Of books I’ve completed, Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Read it at school, hated it (as well as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D’Urbervilles) - full of ridiculous coincidences. And also utterly miserable to boot.

I started reading The Da Vinci Code, but gave up after the very first page.

Possibly showing my ignorance here, but The Crucible is by Arthur Miller, and The Scarlet Letter is by Nathaniel Hawthorne - did either of them write a work with the other title as well? I can’t find anything to suggest they did, but I might be missing something.

Thanks! That was near Dundee about 9 or 10 years ago.

Thank you really glad you liked it - whatever time of day it is :-)

Just for you, here’s my favourite sunset pic I ever took:

Any chance we’ll be able to stop videos being classed as Shorts? It’s infuriating not to have the choice.

They turned 30 and kept selling records :-)

You maniac, you made up! God damn you all to hell!!

Oh really? That’s cool, thanks for the info. Language is so fascinating 👍

Yeah, I was thinking I might. I ly thing is, I haven’t got all the books, nor do I have a website on which to host such a list. However I might still have a go 👍

Meant to say in my Nero Wolfe comment - there’s a Lemmy community for interesting words at !wotd@lemmy.world - it’s not very busy, but still.

Yeah, I’d say so. Maybe something like “Take it easy” would fit better.

I’m currently reading through all of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries, and one fun feature is that he almost always includes one or more very obscure words. It’s a nice little thing to look out for.

In the one I’m currently reading it’s, “peculate,” meaning to embezzle or steal money. Others include:

• Plerophory - Fullness, especially of conviction or persuasion
• Apodictically - From apodictic: clearly established or beyond dispute
• Usufruct - The right to enjoy the use and advantages of another’s property short of the destruction or waste of its substance
• Acarpous - Not producing fruit; sterile; barren
• Yclept - By the name of
• Eruction - A belch or burp

I had a look to see if I could find a full list but sadly not. However most Wikipedia entries for the individual novels include a section called, “The unfamiliar word,” if you want to find more.

There used to be a Scottish football ⚽ player called Kevin Twaddle. Always amused me.

Would “Have a good one” maybe serve that purpose? It’s not exactly the same, but similar sentiment.

I suppose it could endanger them if it was coffee, or something worse. And there’s always the possibility of copycats. Idiotic thing for a fan to do.

Maybe it’s just me, but I read that quote as if Ronaldinho had died and Arteta was paying tribute to him! Just checked, and thankfully he’s alive :-)