Ok so it turns out there was a 100+ year old legend about the cave where those bones were found where a unicorn saved a woman fleeing from an evil, black-clothed murder monk, and afterwards she became a witch. This earned the cave the name “Unicorn Cave.”
So anytime people found fossilized animal bones around that cave, they assumed “unicorn” and in that day, ground up unicorn bones were a useful remedy for all sorts of ailments. This trade in unicorn dust caught the attention of a naturalist who explored the area and found a buncha bones in 1663.
The reconstruction there was completed over a decade later (not sure if by the naturalist who dug them up or someone else using the first guy’s sketches as a guide). Presumably they knew they didn’t have all the bones but did what we all do when we can’t find all the pieces of a Lego set.
It was another 210 years before the site was found to contain the bones of all sorts of creatures, from mammoths to cave bears
"Hiccoughs, ey? Here's a prescription for enough heroin to put you into a coma, that'll show those ornery hiccoughs!"
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
modern RX cough medicine still uses opiates
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
edited August 2022
it sure does
edit: it sucks that I have made a Batman no killing vow with regards to opiates because man, back in the day, winter'd hit and I'd get that scratchy throat and fairly launch myself at my family doctor from a catapult.
well I'm like 99.999% the dude is just joking considering the thread he's quoting, so at least in this case you can probably rest easy
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
edited August 2022
In WW1, Allied soldiers could send away to pharmacies for envelopes filled with stamp like paper treated with various drugs like laudanum and you could tear one off and suck on it when needed.
Someone mentioned that factoid so I wanted to hunt down where the quote originated.
Well to be fair, and to give us all reason to dunk accordingly on James Corden, "one hundred and eighty two" would be written as 100.82, since any use of "and" in verbalizing a number results in numbers in the mantissa.
Someone mentioned that factoid so I wanted to hunt down where the quote originated.
Well to be fair, and to give us all reason to dunk accordingly on James Corden, "one hundred and eighty two" would be written as 100.82, since any use of "and" in verbalizing a number results in numbers in the mantissa.
to be less snarky, I'd never actually heard the idea that "and" with a set of numbers implies a decimal, and I've definitely never heard the word mantissa before today!
the more you knoooow
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I was taught the same thing, specifically in the context of writing checks. I don't remember how it was couched, but I absorbed it as a dire warning, like if I ever wrote a check for one hundred and eighty-two dollars it would ruin my credit rating for life.
Yeah, but when writing checks it's all X dollars and Y cents, in which case the second number is the decimal place because that's just how you add cents to dollars.
I learned about the void(s) in the great pyramid that were discovered in 2016 and they are very interesting! Thousands of years later and we have discovered something big that we didn't know about. They were going to do more scans in 2020 but covid halted it. I need more info and I need it asap.
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So anytime people found fossilized animal bones around that cave, they assumed “unicorn” and in that day, ground up unicorn bones were a useful remedy for all sorts of ailments. This trade in unicorn dust caught the attention of a naturalist who explored the area and found a buncha bones in 1663.
The reconstruction there was completed over a decade later (not sure if by the naturalist who dug them up or someone else using the first guy’s sketches as a guide). Presumably they knew they didn’t have all the bones but did what we all do when we can’t find all the pieces of a Lego set.
It was another 210 years before the site was found to contain the bones of all sorts of creatures, from mammoths to cave bears
You absolutely should consider it, yes. Because I want to see it.
Problem solved.
edit: it sucks that I have made a Batman no killing vow with regards to opiates because man, back in the day, winter'd hit and I'd get that scratchy throat and fairly launch myself at my family doctor from a catapult.
My entire life is a lie.
Pretty handy.
Everything is fine.
"what are you always so upset about?" asks my therapist.
It would have been a Disney Mort movie though so we might have dodged a large bullet.
Neil Gaiman once said that he didn't believe a movie was really going to be made until he was sitting in the theater with a bucket of popcorn.
Terry Pratchett replied that it would take a lot more than that to convince him.
Well to be fair, and to give us all reason to dunk accordingly on James Corden, "one hundred and eighty two" would be written as 100.82, since any use of "and" in verbalizing a number results in numbers in the mantissa.
so four score and seven years is 80.7 years?
math checks out
I didn't say they were wrong for giving me shit, just that it wasn't going to work.
the more you knoooow
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