Fascinating series of words I’ve never heard before
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days agothank you i spaghetti walling and none of my backronyms were fitting
kandoh@reddthat.com 3 days ago
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Spaghetti walling - I think this means “throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks”, my guess from the old wives tale that you can test the doneness of spaghetti by seeing if it sticks when thrown at a wall.
Backronym - an acronym that was made by first deciding what the finished acronym should be, then working backwards to decide what it should stand for. Usually used by NASA nerds to make cool sounding projects or by politicians to make evil shit sound friendly and benign.
superkret@feddit.org 3 days ago
Hey, my wife isn’t that old!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
One of my favorite authors is PG Wodehouse and if I ever inadvertently phrase something like him I consider it a good day. He has 9 gazillion novels, 2 plots, and all of them are worth reading because of the way he can turn a phrase.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 22 hours ago
Cannelloni-Vermicelli Exploration program? You know, to find out what happens if you mix both on the same plate? Will the Italians assassinate you before you can take the first bite? Will the pasta annihilate as soon as they touch? Will it be delicious? Who knows, and now we will never know.