Maleficent-Drive4056
Maleficent-Drive4056 t1_ja3qfrg wrote
Reply to comment by KingRaffles in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Funny because obviously it’s nonsensical yet if someone gave that definition I would know it’s referring to a dog (even without having watched blackadder).
Maleficent-Drive4056 t1_jdmsk3s wrote
Reply to TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’ by gnomageddon7
“And we can always call in the tractor” - what a line