A Call For Humor!

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Also real: multiflation in some cases - 1. price higher, 2. weight lower, 3. recipe "leaner".

 

[Robin L]

 

[thewas]

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Ibofobi]

 

[xray]

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They should have used Merino sheep to build that ewe boat.

 

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Thus, they would have been promoted to Submeriners

 

[Bleib]

 

[Robin L]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[snakedctr]

 

[Bleib]

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This is in itself misinformation, CNN viewers are not the least informed in USA. And those who are the best informed are targeted by the current administration
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Now to some darker humor

 

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Polish: book moth (mól książkowy)

 

[Nutul]

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Italian: Topo di biblioteca - literally "Library mouse"

 

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Latin was more "merciful": Bibliophilus

 

[Nutul]

Latin was more "merciful": Bibliophilus

Although it is comparable to the other terms, this literally means a person that loves books, which takes the play with words away... ;-)
Also, in the whereabouts of ASR we might say "Bibliophile"...

 

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Maybe it was so serious, because a book was a serious matter in Roman times, not easily copied in thousands or millions...

 

[Nutul]

Maybe it was so serious, because a book was a serious matter in Roman times, not easily copied in thousands or millions...

Copying a book in Roman times was a hard job. Still, in the middle-ages, when there were the "amanuensis", from a-manu: by hand - doing-it-by-hand - mostly monks that (even without being able to read / write) just copy-cat books; with all those fancy first-letter-of-chapter. But this is a completely different story, of course.

 

[rationaltime]