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@Sophie I mean that term was named after Chang and Eng and they were literally Siamese-Americans bc Thailand was called Siam then
Fact: Sojourner Truth actually spoke Dutch and delivered her speech in Dutch and the speech is translated. The famous version was translated by a white woman who chose to translate it to sound like someone from the South (even though Sojourner was from New York) and also added some.... interesting parts. <a href="https://thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches" target="_blank">https://thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches</a> An alternate translation published in 1851 translated it as "I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal; I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it." Not sure what the real title should be but it feels like calling it "Ain't I A Woman" just doesn't work anymore
@Michael Gaobest Yeah I didn't find the theme that useful or fun, the pig latin phrases didn't have anything to do with the clue so you couldn't guess them easily
Relatively easy for a Thursday (though lucky I wasn't on the app) but hadn't heard of the phrase Rack and Ruin before
Was pretty stumped by the Marvel god reference for Ares. I guess he technically exists as all the pagan gods do but he's not very important
Interesting theme though some of the phrases were pretty out there. SO WHERE DO WE STAND just sounds random to me, I'm not sure I've really heard anyone use that phrase much. Also I was thinking Ikea but IKEA STORE just sounds wrong to me. I guess because we usually just call it Ikea around here. Maybe if they'd said "building". Though my most fly-specked one was because I thought Tia sounded right for aunt in Italian and then I was stumped on ZOROASTER because of that
Got hung up by ANNEAL (first time with that one) but interesting
Interesting puzzle- I had the hardest time with TENON, I hadn't heard of that before
I actually didn't even notice ALOP but had trouble with ODIUMS. Also I put PLUTO for GOOFY which messed me up for a while
I got a lot of the puns but was very unfamiliar with the term DOPESHEET. *That* kind of bookmaker...
The animation at the end was so cute!
MASTER took me super long I thought of every other meaning before that
Got the theme by myself here and most of the clues, though was unfamiliar with I CHING COINS despite reading The Man in the High Castle where that book was pretty important. Also I don't think I've seen RIGATONI in the pasta aisle recently
@Whatever "rent" can also be related to the word "rend" like "spend/spent". Moon is a word for daydreaming, used a lot to talk about a crush
@richelle Lol that would have been funny
@MRG I mean he's actually saying "luh" so neither is completely right. He's not pronouncing the "oh" sounds in the syllable if you listen to the album's version. Sometimes "lo" can sound like "luh" if it's a word like love but in Lo-la it sounds like "lo" (man I wish I could type IPA here)
Had a relatively easy time on this one, just wasn't aware of a "nene" goose and thought there was some pun involved. I also had "hoodoo" instead of Voodoo for a bit
@LFL Yeah Tiles is boring compared to Vertex. Or even Sudoku, there's a million sudoku programs out there but only one vertex. I always loved seeing what the pun was about and the pictures were pretty
Definitely a tricky clue. Though the hardest one for me was AMMAN- since I google it and Ammon was a thing
@ad absurdum Yeah I really have never heard that, just "open-ended"
@Josh Yes, I just couldn't think of "ate into" and Eos and Helios are fairly hard to look up because there's a lot of brands named after them
@Tristan See my problem was I didn't know Imodium. I don't think I've seen that on the shelf near Pepto Bismol
@Darcy V Yeah I was bummed by that it's a nice break type activity I had only wished there was more of an archive to play through when I'm bored :(
@Jess I was stuck on that bc I swear it's spelled Yenta sometimes and I never know the "direction from one place to the other" ones.
@Anthony A schwa is 'uh'. You'd only have that in father if you said it as "fathuh" or "futher". It's an "ah"
@john ezra It's an act so it still exists but basically isn't going to be enforceable anymore bc of what he's done at the federal level
@Asher Yeah my first thought was 'fortress' as it's biggest feature is that it's very secure, not so much that it's luxurious. I am not sure if it has all the features you'd typically define a palace as having
Had a lot of difficulty with "caret" as I'd never heard the term and not every editing guide calls them that
Viand and GMT totally stumped me for a while bc I'd never heard "viand" and when I tried to search GMT or GMT time to check if the definition matched Google said it was something just in England which didn't seem right
Once I got the wormhole thing this wasn't too bad, except I'm not really sure what an INAPP would be?
@Dave Munger It's more recent slang, like "sis ate and left no crumbs". It's one of those terms with origins in the LGBT community like 'slay'
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