Strands #231
“Make yourself at home”
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Supposedly a lung infection caused by inhaling very fine volcano dust. Technically invented by a group of word puzzle fans, but it's appeared in dictionaries.

This might also be the first time since I learned it (30+ years ago) that it's been even close to relevant in a conversation.

Strands #227
“How Poe-tic”
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This was a fun one for me. First time I got the spangram before anything else.

No one said Starship Troopers yet? This is the trailer I remember most back then. Just a lighthearted fun action movie about blasting aliens, right?

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They skipped the "https://” and some clients don't recognize it as a URL.

Strands #224
“Time to get cozy”
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I believe Famitracker already supports the Famicom mappers that took advantage of the extra audio. Pretty cool to think the NES can finally output that music too after all this time.

::: spoiler spoiler I grew up watching a bunch of Looney Tunes and got the theme pretty quickly, but I'd never heard of Foxy. I was shocked how much of a Mickey Mouse ripoff it appeared to be (and as I'm now finding, close enough that Walt Disney himself stepped in to ask them to stop). :::

Strands #223
“Toon time”
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I didn't recognize one of the terms, and wow... try looking it up. That's pretty blatant. No wonder that's not used much.

Strands #220
“Full house”
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Strands #218
“Most excellent”
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A variant of Eat hot chip and lie.

Strands #217
“Got any bleu cheese?”
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Better than my awful showing yesterday.

Strands #216
“No way!”
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Well that was my worst one yet. I feel like I found every word except the ones I was supposed to.

MacGruber? (NSFW)

Also the hitman from Mulholland Drive.

My theater didn't do that. There was one segment that was framed a bit differently, which I suspect is where the interaction would have been, but it played more like a short press conference and had no interaction.

It's way down in the Youtube comments: Michael Hughes - Rainfall

Strands #210
“Weed 'em and reap”
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