Images 14: Holidays and other strangeness

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[robkelk]

If you're wondering "where on Earth is that?", stop wondering - it isn't on Earth. It's one of those New Horizons.

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[nemonowan]

Pretty much the same as when, in 1955, Marty told Doc Brown that the 1985 president was Ronald Reagan...

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[hazard]

1) Either way, you both get some exercise.
2) Can be either, depends on the poison. May also not have changed in potency.
3) Might even be neither, 'sent' and 'cent' are noticeably different from eachother and from 'scent'. May be accent dependent though, and require a good ear and paying attention.
4) They might. They might not. Might even be that both of them were unplanned.
5) Because both the 'v' and the 'w' descend from the letter 'u'. Alphabets aren't static.
6) It is actually, oxidative stress is a thing.
7) But at least you move the dirt to somewhere it's not a problem.
8) Only with certain fonts. Certainly not with the font used in this book. Similar, yes, but not the same.
9) And requires just as much luck and people skills.
10) Unless you have neither, or both.
11) This is highly unlikely, and highly dependent on how memories work in the first place.
12) They probably died quite a few years before he did, yes.
13) Only when the question isn't open ended. Then you need something more to fill the gaps.
14) It's known the eyesight of many domestic animals degrades as they age, very much like humans. Most animals in the wild simply don't survive such disability.
15) But it's no more whole.

[Bob Schroeck]

5) Because both the 'v' and the 'w' descend from the letter 'u'. Alphabets aren't static.

In fact, in French, it actually is "double-v".

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[Black Aeronaut]

And thus, we have the reason why the isekai subgenre is so outrageously popular. 

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[DHBirr]

Wrong Country, Darjeeling-chan.... (For those unwilling to click, the lovely commander of St. Gloriana's British-themed sensha-dō team is cosplaying the USA's Statue of Liberty.)

The note on the cover of her tablet was alleged by one site to translate as "Aphorisms."  It doesn't match the kanji for that word in my Japanese-English dictionary, though.

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"Oh, my people had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world." — Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, H. Beam Piper