Metostopholes
Amazing. Right before the party they need to slather it in KY jelly.
Aw no, the corn! Paul Newman’s gonna have my legs broke!
I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic’s.
His hair was perfect.
His name is actually just spelled “Lore”. And yes, it also took me embarrassingly long to realize this.
Back during prohibition in the US, there was a product called Vine-Glo that was a brick of grape concentrate. It came with a warning: “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”
You can go further back. The Old French ostel is from the Latin hospitale, meaning “inn” or “large house”, which is the noun form of the adjective hospitalis, from hospes, meaning “host”.
So the H in hotel is for host, kind of.
(you can go further back into the theoretical language Proto-Indo-European, but there’s no written record of it, so no letter H that we know of)
Girlfriend: “These walkie-talkies are ridiculous! This relationship is over!”
Boyfriend: “This relationship is what? Over.”
Relevant XKCD:
Title text: Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.