Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

• chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fascinating series of words I’ve never heard before

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • dalekcaan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey, my wife isn’t that old!

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    • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very cool

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      • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Very legal.

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