Learned Lag
Summary: We play Learned League, the greatest trivia competition in all the land. Each day, we run through the questions and how we arrived at the answers (or at least, how we arrived at our answers).
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Other things new people are told to get: grid squares, chem-light batteries, left-handed wrenches.
So many hand gestures in this one.
Limpets were also developed during WWII, but by America.
Some day when there's a Sopranos question, George will probably talk about how it's all tangled up with his first marriage. So hope for no more Sopranos questions ever.
If you have Peacock, you should watch We Are Lady Parts. That doesn't have anything to do with LL or the podcast. It's just really good.
Does anyone else sleep badly during the seasons?
The other word George was thinking of was "solicitud", which means "request".
...except for when we have to get the cat to shut up.
Pirsig collected 121 rejections before an editor basically took pity on him.
Good to see you back. Hope you got to rest up over the weekend. Let's do this.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
For those of you not in the Midwest, Amanda differentiating "Big Ten" from "B1G" refers to the rebranding of the Big Ten Conference after it expanded to 14 teams.
The second living person to have an element named for them was Yuri Oganessian; oganesson is the heaviest confirmed element and the only synthetic noble gas (but may be a solid at room temperature).
While editing this, we turned on Peacock to watch The Amber Ruffin Show, and it wanted us to choose an avatar for our account. One of the choice was ET, so I guess that's where that's streaming nowadays.
No one's really certain what Merrick had, but he might have had some form of elephantiasis arising from his condition.
