thehomeworkogre
The Homework Ogre
thehomeworkogre

Borg? de Jong ("de yong")? I don't get it.

Ask and you shall receive! (High-er res, anyway.)

Concentrated Solar Power:

I've never really understood how any corporation ends up with a patent on a communications standard, basically obtaining a 17-year monopoly on any technology that makes use of it.

Possibly!

It's hardly the first time.

Town of Condom?

It also becomes "four provinces, one of whom shares an enormous border, a territorial dispute, and a long-standing grudge over natural resources with QC, all of which become suddenly more relevant when you're talking about separation."

How many Newfoundlanders (and/or Labradorians) do you know?

As far as I know, NL has never self-identified as a Maritime province; the designation has to do with the shared geography and history of the other three.

Four Atlantic provinces.

I have been told that people do such things to take revenge on stores for wronging them in some way, shape or form.

The frequency with which this happens in retail is astounding.

"Toilet paper in the bowl? Elitist. Nobody minds if I just spread it all around the floor. Finding out if it's used or not is like finding a surprise in a Cracker Jacks box!"

The things people don't do in public restrooms positively blows my mind, every single day.

Short answer: Yes.

Only if they get Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean(!) back.

So I can turn to Etsy for all my sympathetic magic supplies? Done.

You done got Kinja'd!