Things you should know by now, but only just discovered

tboon - what is your custom forum icon? I'm having a hard time deciding if it's a garden hoe, some Klingon weapon or a metal detector with blades strapped to it.

I know, I'm dumb.

TigerBill wrote:
krev82 wrote:

It's so we can use the vast quantities of maple syrup we've hoarded in cold storage over the decades to slow you down at the border while the geese, beavers, and moose finish you off.

Thing I should have known; the plural of moose is moose.

Fun fact the plural of any animal with antlers is the same as the singular; elk, deer, moose, caribou, etc.

Inverting this, we can jump to the conclusion assume that sheep have antlers.

TigerBill wrote:
krev82 wrote:

It's so we can use the vast quantities of maple syrup we've hoarded in cold storage over the decades to slow you down at the border while the geese, beavers, and moose finish you off.

Thing I should have known; the plural of moose is moose.

Fun fact the plural of any animal with antlers is the same as the singular; elk, deer, moose, caribou, etc.

impalas isn't correct then?

Rallick wrote:

tboon - what is your custom forum icon? I'm having a hard time deciding if it's a garden hoe, some Klingon weapon or a metal detector with blades strapped to it.

I know, I'm dumb.

I'm fairly sure that is a golden flame thrower from tf2

Nosferatu wrote:
TigerBill wrote:
krev82 wrote:

It's so we can use the vast quantities of maple syrup we've hoarded in cold storage over the decades to slow you down at the border while the geese, beavers, and moose finish you off.

Thing I should have known; the plural of moose is moose.

Fun fact the plural of any animal with antlers is the same as the singular; elk, deer, moose, caribou, etc.

impalas isn't correct then?

What about gazelles?

Eldon_of_Azure wrote:
krev82 wrote:

It's so we can use the vast quantities of maple syrup we've hoarded in cold storage over the decades to slow you down at the border while the geese, beavers, and moose finish you off.

Thing I should have known; the plural of moose is moose.

Now my curiosity is piqued, what did you call the plural of moose previously?

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Rallick wrote:

tboon - what is your custom forum icon? I'm having a hard time deciding if it's a garden hoe, some Klingon weapon or a metal detector with blades strapped to it.

I know, I'm dumb.

Backburner from TF2 made of 100% pure gold (thanks to Elysia ).

Or a Klingon weapon of some kind, that would be kind of cool too.

TigerBill wrote:

Sheep and gazelle both have horns.

Difference Between Antlers and Horns via National parks Service

Color me corrected!

So, what is a tusk? A tooth maybe?

cheesycrouton wrote:

So, what is a tusk? A tooth maybe?

That's correct.

Thing I didn't know: The Narwhal's protrusion is a tusk; specifically a double tusk forming a helix(?!) into a singular straight unit. I had previously thought it was a horn of sorts.

krev82 wrote:
cheesycrouton wrote:

So, what is a tusk? A tooth maybe?

That's correct.

Thing I didn't know: The Narwhal's protrusion is a tusk; specifically a double tusk forming a helix(?!) into a singular straight unit. I had previously thought it was a horn of sorts.

Singular Straight Unit is a great band name.

Nosferatu wrote:
TigerBill wrote:
krev82 wrote:

It's so we can use the vast quantities of maple syrup we've hoarded in cold storage over the decades to slow you down at the border while the geese, beavers, and moose finish you off.

Thing I should have known; the plural of moose is moose.

Fun fact the plural of any animal with antlers is the same as the singular; elk, deer, moose, caribou, etc.

impalas isn't correct then?

Only at a lowrider show. This version has horns as well.

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There's a fourth season of The IT Crowd?

And it's on Netflix?

Like, now?

Jonman wrote:

There's a fourth season of The IT Crowd?

And it's on Netflix?

Like, now?

Crap. Forgot I was in the Things you should know thread instead of the random thing you love so should probably go to the loathe thread for the giant upswing and then equally giant dismay that I'd already seen it. A couple of times. So far.

That LibreOffice is a perfectly FREE alternative to paying for MicroSoft products.

/DOH!

Jonman wrote:

There's a fourth season of The IT Crowd?

And it's on Netflix?

Like, now?

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EvilShawnAndrich wrote:

That LibreOffice is a perfectly FREE alternative to paying for MicroSoft products.

/DOH!

I dig it. I have gotten a lot of compliments on the formatting and presentation I give with things made in Libre or Open Office.

Radical Ans wrote:
Jonman wrote:

There's a fourth season of The IT Crowd?

And it's on Netflix?

Like, now?

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Space is invisible mind dust, and stars are but wishes.

KingGorilla wrote:
EvilShawnAndrich wrote:

That LibreOffice is a perfectly FREE alternative to paying for MicroSoft products.

/DOH!

I dig it. I have gotten a lot of compliments on the formatting and presentation I give with things made in Libre or Open Office.

Transition from MS Office to OpenOffice has been the smoothest technological change ever in my company. We are a newspaper, so Word and Excel are our everyday job tools. Zero complaints, huge license fee savings.

PRG013 wrote:

I just learned that my Vega Tenor Banjo is from July 27, 1929.

*sigh* I just learned that it will cost about $1000.00 to fix and then be worth about $600.00.

It's a Vega Style N.

OO has also improved a lot. It used to be a very slow loader. And there was a bad period in 2007 when there was no Microsoft XML compatibility.

I am wondering, is there an enterprise license?

Baron Of Hell wrote:

I didn't know you had to refrigerate maple syrup until yesterday.

They say the same thing about ketchup, sounds nonsense either way.

Concave wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

I didn't know you had to refrigerate maple syrup until yesterday.

They say the same thing about ketchup, sounds nonsense either way.

Real maple syrup (not maple-flavoured syrup) has to be refrigerated otherwise it grows mold.

Concave wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

I didn't know you had to refrigerate maple syrup until yesterday.

They say the same thing about ketchup, sounds nonsense either way.

If you are guilty of the crime of not eating ketchup fast enough, it will get fuzzy on you.

Gravey wrote:
Concave wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

I didn't know you had to refrigerate maple syrup until yesterday.

They say the same thing about ketchup, sounds nonsense either way.

Real maple syrup (not maple-flavoured syrup) has to be refrigerated otherwise it grows mold.

Takes a LONG time, though. Like, multiple months at least.

Chumpy_McChump wrote:
Gravey wrote:
Concave wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

I didn't know you had to refrigerate maple syrup until yesterday.

They say the same thing about ketchup, sounds nonsense either way.

Real maple syrup (not maple-flavoured syrup) has to be refrigerated otherwise it grows mold.

Takes a LONG time, though. Like, multiple months at least.

I hope "How long does it take for ketchup to get fuzzy" is never on the list of things I should know.

Yes, but if you don't eat pancakes or waffles all the time then a few months can go by without realizing it. I had a recipe for baked beans that I wanted to try, and it called for maple syrup, and I thought that would be a good time to pull out the good stuff I had gotten. Unfortunate me, I hadn't realized that it should be refrigerated, and there was yellow mold growing in it. That was a sad day.

This is why I always buy the smallest bottle of syrup.