What did you learn today TIL

[Pornhubby]

Men’s testicles hang below their bodies because sperm dies at body temperature.  Why going commando in the summer is preferred. 

[Raceway]

I knew that Dick Dale's surf classic "Misirlou" was based on a tune popular in the Mediterranean and Middle East, but I didn't know why it was so called.

Today I learned that:

it's derived from the Greek transliteration of the Turkish word "Mısırlı," which means "Egyptian." The suffix "lı" is added to denote a feminine noun, so "Misirlou" translates to "Egyptian woman".

[Pornhubby]

TIL “Mind your Ps & Qs” isn’t a grammar rule – it’s a warning for sailors to be on their best behavior. Per U.S. Fleet Forces Command, it was a way of keeping bar bookkeepers – and their seafaring patrons – honest in waterfront taverns. In centuries past, sailors often had bar tabs on credit, with barkeepers making marks next to each patron’s name under “P” for pint and “Q” for quart. “Minding one’s Ps and Qs” meant both settling up your debts and staying somewhat sober to keep an accurate count on what one had consumed.

[Writers Bloque]

TIL “Mind your Ps & Qs” isn’t a grammar rule – it’s a warning for sailors to be on their best behavior. Per U.S. Fleet Forces Command, it was a way of keeping bar bookkeepers – and their seafaring patrons – honest in waterfront taverns. In centuries past, sailors often had bar tabs on credit, with barkeepers making marks next to each patron’s name under “P” for pint and “Q” for quart. “Minding one’s Ps and Qs” meant both settling up your debts and staying somewhat sober to keep an accurate count on what one had consumed.

Neat! woo for you!

Today I learned and am currently learning that The Buccs need to suspend this game to go deal with Tampa. More Saint's interceptions than I have ever seen. I suspect the Buccs QB has been bribed to fuck up this bad.

[Dudester]

TIL “Mind your Ps & Qs” isn’t a grammar rule – it’s a warning for sailors to be on their best behavior. Per U.S. Fleet Forces Command, it was a way of keeping bar bookkeepers – and their seafaring patrons – honest in waterfront taverns. In centuries past, sailors often had bar tabs on credit, with barkeepers making marks next to each patron’s name under “P” for pint and “Q” for quart. “Minding one’s Ps and Qs” meant both settling up your debts and staying somewhat sober to keep an accurate count on what one had consumed.

Neat! woo for you!

Today I learned and am currently learning that The Buccs need to suspend this game to go deal with Tampa. More Saint's interceptions than I have ever seen. I suspect the Buccs QB has been bribed to fuck up this bad.

Jake the Asshole has a youtube channel and he goes on and on and on about the NFL being fixed. I saw part of an interview and I don't know who the former player was, but he said "Games are not decided on the field, that's all I'm saying." When asked to clarify, he repeated his former statement.

[Pornhubby]

Jake the Asshole has a youtube channel and he goes on and on and on about the NFL being fixed. I saw part of an interview and I don't know who the former player was, but he said "Games are not decided on the field, that's all I'm saying." When asked to clarify, he repeated his former statement.

I would not doubt it. College ball also. And the horrible officiating taking points off the board, and games being decided with 21 points scored in the final two minutes.  The fix is in.

[watcher1]

France sent 800 women to Quebec. The "filles du Roi"  ( daughters of the King) were poor women who, in 1663, agreed to go to the New France colony that was predominately populated by men, to marry them. It worked. The population more than doubled in ten years and two-thirds of French Canadians today are their descendants.

[watcher1]

In the movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, the word f*ck was said 569 times, more than any non-pornographic film except a documentary about the word, f*ck.

[Pornhubby]

TIL Zelda Fitzgerald used to ridicule F. Scott Fitzgerald about his penis size so much that he made Ernest Hemingway take a look at it in a public bathroom. Hemingway told him his dick was normal.

[watcher1]

While on the topic of penis size,  a gorilla's erection is just over one inch long, and humans are the most endowed of all primates. 

[msslave]

Dang, I feel much better now 

[Writers Bloque]

Also about penises.....

The shape.

Scientists have been studying the functionality of the shape, and no surprise, just like almost all other mammals, our penis is shaped so that it can push out a rivals load to replace it with our own. Its akin to the theory as to why a cat can have multiple breeds in one litter, except with humans its the fastest swimmer wins.

So big or small, it has more purpose than just simple injection of the sperm.

Also, looking at the shape of the penis and then the interior of the vagina, up to the cervix, its built to fit, and was theorized at one point to lock in, to work almost as if we had knots to inflate, as evidenced by the further expansion during climax. The slight growth triggers the vaginal walls to grip harder and lock it in place, hence part of the "blackout" of thought effect mid to post coitus.

In other words

Men are meant to fuck, lock in and do the job to the end.

Funny.

[staci]

Simply amazing the things you can gleam from this forum. Pity the Sapphic ones that never will "lock"

[Pornhubby]

The slight growth triggers the vaginal walls to grip harder and lock it in place, hence part of the "blackout" of thought effect mid to post coitus.

La petite mort (French pronunciation: [la pətit mɔʁ]; lit. 'the little death') is an expression that refers to a brief loss or weakening of consciousness, and in modern usage refers specifically to a post-orgasm sensation as likened to death.

[watcher1]

Pepperoni is an American food. In Italy, "peperoni" refers to bell peppers, and there is no Italian salami by that name.

[Writers Bloque]

Pepperoni is an American food. In Italy, "peperoni" refers to bell peppers, and there is no Italian salami by that name.

Italian miners used to carry a version of a cured sausage into the mines to eat on the spot.

[Pornhubby]

Pepperoni is an Italian-American invention that originated in New York City in the early 1900s. Italian immigrants created pepperoni by combining their knowledge of sausage-making with American ingredients to recreate their favorite flavors.  They called it salame peperone, because there is lots of added paprika and other mild chilis which give it its very red hue. Peperone became Americanized as pepperoni.

[watcher1]

Having an orgasm at least three times a week cuts in half the likelihood of death from coronary heart disease.

[Raceway]

Today I rediscovered a name that I've been trying to remember for over half a century. I was reading Richard Thompson's Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding my Voice 1967-75 and enjoying his reminiscences of the promoters, producers, and venues that gave Fairport Convention their start. Tons of nostalgic names.

He mentions one member of his group acquiring a sitar, an instrument popularized by George Harrison and the Beatles. Richard and his friend would pay weekly visits to an Indian musicologist, who not only gave them free lessons, but also treated them to dinner and recitals by any Indian musicians who happened to be in town.

Aha! was my reaction when I saw the name of the musicologist (Nazir Jairazbhoy). I, too, had been treated to dinner and a sitar performance by Nazir. One advantage I had over Richard is that Nazir's office was down the road from my college, and he had an open-door policy. Students were always welcome to pop over, eat their sandwiches, and listen to his amazing collection of field recordings.

Wikipedia tells me that Nazir passed away in 2009. R.I.P.

[Pornhubby]

Today I learned that Benito Mussolini’s body was taken to Milan after his execution, and dumped on the Piazzale Loreto.  Later his body, and his mistress were hung from the canopy of an Esso gas station and subjected to serious abuse and disfigurement.



Today the location is a McDonald’s.



The same company a different would be dictator “worked for” yesterday.



Irony?