How would the '70s hippie and post-hippie culture be different if Lonnie Frisbee had embraced his gayness and become an LGBTQ+ activist within the hippie movement, instead of the two-faced Pentecostal preacher he was?

How would the '70s hippie and post-hippie culture be different if Lonnie Frisbee had embraced his gayness and become an LGBTQ+ activist within the hippie movement, instead of the two-faced Pentecostal preacher he was?

This is probably a fairly low-stakes question about the '70s compared to the ones regarding Vietnam War participation and so on, but I'd like to hear your thoughts as to whether there would be differences.

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u/MAClaymore — 11 days ago

Hermes Pan was a dancer and choreographer, most remembered for his work in the musicals of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. I can't remember if the official Greek god of dance is Hermes or Pan, but it's definitely one of them

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u/MAClaymore — 15 days ago

"Why is anything anywhere?"

In a few sitcom episodes, there have been dialogues of this form, when a character A is confronting a character B about an item, usually theirs, which is out of place.

>A: Why is my journal on your bed?

>B: I dunno. Why is anything anywhere?

Modern Family definitely features it once and possibly twice. Is this dialogue a trope?

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u/MAClaymore — 1 month ago

What's the deal with Tatsuya Ishida? What motivated him to take such a crazy turn?

https://fstdt.com/8YYQPZRFGFHDF

He used to be so witty as the author of Sinfest, then he started taking a political turn in the 2010s, and now this comic from this past July is just par for the course for him (warning: antisemitism and multiple slurs). Anyone know what specifically led him down this road?

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u/MAClaymore — 1 month ago

14th-century book page listing the Cyrillic alphabet as it was at the time, along with Italianate Latin phonetic equivalents. Not really humor, more "interesting AF"

u/MAClaymore — 1 month ago
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Boutilimit is a city in Mauritania, 164 km southeast of the capital Nouakchott. It is well known for its handicrafts, including rugs and silver goods. Moktar Ould Daddah, the first president of Mauritania, was from Boutilimit.

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u/MAClaymore — 1 month ago

Kathleen Martínez is a Dominican archaeologist, lawyer, and diplomat in charge of cultural affairs at the Dominican embassy in Egypt. She is one of the leading figures in the ongoing search for Cleopatra's tomb.

(Dominican Republic, not Dominica)

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u/MAClaymore — 1 month ago
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All the opening credits sequences in this year's Oscar winners were impressive.

But Marty Supreme's was truly seminal

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u/MAClaymore — 1 month ago

How many Forward Sortation Areas (postal code prefixes) have been around ever since the system was started in the '70s, and how many are newer than that?

When I went to the Wikipedia table of postal codes in zone H (Montréal), I noticed the list was still, as of now, exactly the same as it was when the article was created in the middle of the '00s

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u/MAClaymore — 2 months ago

I've never seen a phone number in North America with the area code matching the exchange code, such as (416)-416-xxxx. Is there a reason these phone numbers are blocked?

I know about the restrictions blocking a 555 area code or exchange, a 0 or 1 at the beginning of an area code or exchange, and a 9 in the middle of the area code, but I've never heard this one brought up

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u/MAClaymore — 2 months ago
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How to remember the NEW names of the Great Lakes

Here's a way to remember the new names of the Great Lakes, as of August 27 2026

u/MAClaymore — 2 months ago
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Grunting in tennis is a vocalization made by some players of the sport. It has been a source of controversy, with some players stating that it is cheating when done deliberately, whereas others defend it as a way to expel energy. Maria Sharapova's grunts once reached a record 101.2 decibels.

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u/MAClaymore — 2 months ago

TIL that the pigment Ultramarine is not called that because it's "really blue", but instead because it came from beyond the sea, being mined in the Middle East and then imported into Europe

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u/MAClaymore — 2 months ago

[WP] You are Charmion of Alexandria. You were a servant to Cleopatra, sacrificing yourself in your 20s to the same snake. Yet, after death, you find yourself with no reward. You are a mere spectre, out of phase with the human world, forgotten. That is, until you decide to haunt your old Library...

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u/MAClaymore — 2 months ago