He’s not making those names up. My 3 year old son knows all the dwarf planets by name and recites them frequently.

I thought “Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sand storm which lasted a whole year”. Not destroyed by an asteroid.

Yes, plus as most people charge their phones daily, they’d reduce the battery capacity to save weight and cost before they give us week-long battery life.

Crucifixion’s a doddle

Is this a “Field Guide”, or a “Nield Guide”?

They were kind off annoying because of their penchant for disappearing underground and pop up somewhere else. But not nearly as annoying as the Archespores that did effectively the same thing.

It’s only a bad as feeling a little bit bad for a tapeworm. It started as a simple creature trying to find somewhere where it could hide from predators, be warm, and have an endless supply of food.

“A hollow experience” should be Disney Corp’s tagline.

What could possibly go wrong?

Meatballs exist across the world. As you would have seen in Italy they don’t have the same place in the collective conscious that they do here, and traditionally are never served with spaghetti.

Agreed. But then I wouldn’t say, “With the inevitability of seeing Italian family members at Thanksgiving...”

That’s why I said, “really”. They do exist in Italian cuisine, but they are different and not very common.

Yes, but meatballs aren’t really Italian. Some restaurants in tourist spots have started serving spaghetti and meatballs because American tourists keep asking for it, but outside of that, it doesn’t exist there.

How can more people have their second dose than have their first? I thought you were upside down there. I didn’t know you are traveling backwards in time too!

Death rates is counties that has >60% support for Trump are 3x higher than in counties that voted for Biden. The death toll ratio for Republicans vs Democrats is likely greater than 3x because each of those counties includes people who didn’t go with the majority vote.

27. New Zealand - 69.22%

According to Google:

It’s more Nor-ferk.

That one’s a mystery. In general UK pronunciations retain more of the word’s heritage (which may be Old English, or French, etc.) than American-English pronunciations where there has been a trend towards making the language more regular. Webster tried to take this to really crazy levels with his first dictionary.

Warwick is a town in the UK midlands, and is one of those place names Americans get wrong (like Leicester and Norfolk). Amusingly, it’s also not a first name, but it is a last name, so there’s extra humo(u)r in him giving Dempsey a hard time.