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“Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
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Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
That top answer is hardly conclusive - it's definitely a possibility, but given the weird choices in the art for the "axe" (bendy handle, not a defined edge at the bottom) - I buy it could have been a yellow paint tube. Nouns beginning with Y are not exactly easy to come across (the official "Yo-Yo" is hardly as common as the other words on the ball), and as has been pointed out, it's entirely possible the art was wo…
> I buy it could have been a yellow paint tube. I don't know how anyone would come to that conclusion. It's "definitely not possibly" (adverb chaining, really?) a tube squirting yellow in image. If ascribing modern symbolism to images rather than what's portrayed plainly, there's no reason that any of the images are symbolic of words starting with the appropriate letters.
I mean, it's clearly not a well designed piece, otherwise this whole discussion wouldn't be here.
I could easily say "no one would ever draw an axe with a bendy handle". The intent is obviously unclear given all this discussion.
http://www.myiconfinder.com/uploads/iconsets/256-256-77393dd...
A paint tube for colour is an icon that exists and gets used. The representation on the ball isn't far enough off I would rule it out.
Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
The smaller stack exchanges are a really wonderful source of content I never thought I needed to know. I always check out the "hot network questions" side panel when I land on stack overflow and almost always find something interesting.
I always get sucked in to the addicting Hot Network Questions as well when I land on Stack Overflow, which is why I need to block the entire sidebar so that I can get some work done! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-hot-network-q...
I do this too! Firefox - uBlock's "Block Element" feature.
Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
#164This reminds me of the scene in Silicon Valley where Peter Gregory notices the popularity of Burger King, the number of sesame seeds they use, and remembers that sesame seeds only grow in Myanmar, Brazil, and Indonesia - the former two of which have large Cicada populations that emerge at different times. After some research, he finds that this is about to occur simultaneously in both countries for the first time in…
Sesame seed production – 2014
Country Production (tonnes)
Tanzania 1,138,920
India 811,000
Sudan 721,000
China 629,900
Myanmar 519,400
Nigeria 434,990
World 6,235,530
Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
The smaller stack exchanges are a really wonderful source of content I never thought I needed to know. I always check out the "hot network questions" side panel when I land on stack overflow and almost always find something interesting.
I always get sucked in to the addicting Hot Network Questions as well when I land on Stack Overflow, which is why I need to block the entire sidebar so that I can get some work done! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-hot-network-q...
I also block the Hot Network Questions on Stack Exchange sites while at work – though not when using my home profile. As a Firefox user, I simply added the following lines to my `userContent.css`:
@-moz-document
domain("stackoverflow.com"),
domain("superuser.com"),
domain("serverfault.com"),
domain("askubuntu.com"),
domain("stackexchange.com")
{
#hot-network-questions {
display: none;
}
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#166This is the kind of deep investigation of a super specific issue I always enjoy reading. This is what I thought the internet would be, 20 years ago.
Exactly. I started skimming the article like I do most these days, scrolling to the punch line while collecting the gist. When I got to the part about the ball being a knock-off, I was struck with excitement because I knew I wanted to read this whole thing, word for word. Almost as good as the story about the missing German family ( http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun... )!
What an interesting story! Thanks for sharing.
The way it's written, and the theme, remind me of: http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html