Dungeon Crawler Carl? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope I’ve never read Dungeon Crawler Carl specifically though, it sounded too grimdark for my taste (the Royal Road stub even has the “Grimdark” label) I can see that; the premise of the series itself is pretty danged dark, and it’s really violent OTOH, at least IMO, while the two main protagonists are certainly flawed, they do try to make good choices and help others; it’s not as
What is number nine coal? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope In the song, 16 Tons, the singer claims on the day he was born he loaded “16 tons of number nine coal ” What does “number nine” mean? Does it designate quality, or size of lumps, or what?
Real Nude Models for High School Art Classes Far as I know no high school in the US allows nude models However, jr high HS students can attend art classes with live naked models outside of school My son said he was taking art classes there at USC soon, he is only 14 said they bring in the nude models later in the semester Hmmmm
Long-gone department store bongs - what did they mean? “Dude, let’s go to Dillards, and get ourselves a mighty hookah!” No, I’m not talking about that sort of bong When I was a child, my mother would often drag me shopping to AM A’s, her favorite department store in Buffalo Id didn’t matter if you went to the AM A’s downtown, in Univiersity Plaza, or at Eastern Hills Mall; throughout the store, you would hear the call of the store
Two women under one roof is misery in Chinese. Or not. According to this source, although the combinations of multiple women results in some interesting and amusing meanings, there is no actual character consisting of two women under one roof A “woman” under a “roof” means “quiet,” “peace,” “tranquility ” Two “women” means “handsome” or “pretty,” and also “cunning ” This negative (misogynistic) suggestion
Lawks a lordy, my bottoms on fire - Straight Dope I can see by the context that “Lawks a lordy!” is an expletive (“Oh, my goodness!”?), but what does it actually mean? Where did it come from? What’s a “lawk”?
Schoolyard halllucinogen from the 70s called locker room? When I was in elementary school back in the '70s, I remember a couple of my roguish schoolmates occasionally bringing a substance that, when inhaled, caused momentary dizziness and head spinning No big deal, but at the time it was a real hoot ( I know, stupid too, but we were twelve) I remember it was in a small dark jar, and looked vaguely like vaseline It was called “Rush” or
Ten Commandment equivalents in other religions? Obviously all religions have rules for how their followers should live their lives, but I’m wondering if they all have a neatly packaged set of ‘biggies’? Christians and Jews obviously share the Ten Commandments (with slight variations in how they are divided up worded in various denominations ) How about Islam? I vaguely remember reading that Moslem’s consider Christians and Jews
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