Tweet of the Day, Not QUITE The Future We Were Promised edition.

But close.

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Tweet of the Day, Yeah Forget The New Top Gun Flick edition.

I didn’t see the point of the new Top Gun remake much, and this both annoys and offends me.

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Tweet of the Day, Get Away From The Mama Bear With Cubs, Ye Daft Idjit edition.

Sometimes I’m torn.

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Tweet of the Day, …Clever. edition.

Took me a moment, and when I did, I almost swore in front of my kid’s bus driver. And it would have been one of the elaborate swears, too. Well done, this one.

Tweet of the Day, This Texan-German Dialect Thing Is Interesting.

Particularly if one is a reader of Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series, which of course I am. Texasdeutsch sounds a bit like Amideutsch from the books. Not quite the same — fewer English loan words, and the German is from a different time period — but close enough to make the BBC video at the link worth watching. Nice to see that somebody’s writing the language down, hey?