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1860s Slang, A Single Millisecond, Impossible Problems, and a Sneezing Sun

Posted Sep 26, 2023

I got the cold that's been going around. I wish it had skipped me, but I'll live, just a little stuffy. If I ever swallowed a C-4 and it detonated, I think the experience would feel on-par with these big sneezes.

SNEEZE LURKER: Noun. A thief who throws snuff in a person's face and then robs him.

  1. Ever wondered what the slang of 1860s London might have sounded like? What it meant to be...frummagemmed? An old gooseberry? To be out on the pickaroon? The Public Domain Review shares John Camden Hotten's Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition).

  2. While my friend and I can't even coordinate for one day to go to the movies, two photographers somehow captured the same millisecond in time.

  3. Impossible problems suck, unless they actually are possible, then they're quite amusing. Read about a car allergic to vanilla ice cream, or an email server that refused to deliver to recipients more than 500 miles away.

  4. Is my orange the same as your orange? We'll never know. In the meantime, here are some pretty colors

  5. The Sun sneezed There was an explosion on the Sun's surface, and one of our probes flew right through it, filming the whole way.

  6. Turns out, wasps got the brains, and we need them, too!

Short one this week, see you the next one!

Achoo,

Willa.

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