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bm7:
Today I learned that "#-alarm fire" is a scale of how severe a fire is, and not the number of departments that responded to it.
GaryV:
--- Quote from: kphoger on March 24, 2023, 03:48:08 PM ---Because bees are industrious. That's why we say "busy as a bee" and why certain group activities are called "bees".
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I wonder, when "busy as a bee" started to be a thing, if they realized it's only the female bees who are busy, and the males are lazy bums.
US 89:
--- Quote from: GaryV on March 25, 2023, 05:43:50 AM ---
--- Quote from: kphoger on March 24, 2023, 03:48:08 PM ---Because bees are industrious. That's why we say "busy as a bee" and why certain group activities are called "bees".
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I wonder, when "busy as a bee" started to be a thing, if they realized it's only the female bees who are busy, and the males are lazy bums.
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Well, all the males can really do is mate, and that process involves blowing apart their bodies in order to get to the queen and then dying shortly thereafter. I can see why they’d maybe want to hold off…
1995hoo:
--- Quote from: SectorZ on March 24, 2023, 06:20:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 24, 2023, 02:05:25 PM ---Why are so many newspapers called “Insert City Bee?” Near me two of the more prominent papers are the Fresno Bee and Modesto Bee.
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Don't forget the Babylon Bee.
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The Danville Register & Bee in Virginia (so named because the Register merged with the Bee in 1989).
ZLoth:
Does anyone look at a solid state drive...
... and think "This sort of looks like a Atari cartridge"...
...or Nintendo cartridge?
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