I think it’s because they’re quoting her use of the word. But I agree it’s almost indistinguishable from scare quotes when used around a single word like that.

Lio. Another comic strip.

Don’t forget the title music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8TmIxHSBcU

FYI you can trim 80% of that. https://www.amazon.com/LEXiBOOK-Educational-Activities-Mathematics-Dactylography/dp/B0B6HKB3JF/ Amazon sure loves its tracking data.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn02w01xr2jo

It was both countries, sadly.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Supposedly a lung infection caused by inhaling very fine volcano dust. Technically invented by a group of word puzzle fans, but it’s appeared in dictionaries.

This might also be the first time since I learned it (30+ years ago) that it’s been even close to relevant in a conversation.

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A variant of Eat hot chip and lie.

It’s way down in the Youtube comments: Michael Hughes - Rainfall

A great place to have some friends over for dinner.

And the follow-up, Big Gas Savings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxBh42TrGw

They are. I’ve seen “sere” show up in crosswords quite a bit. I didn’t think “fungiform” was rare, but Firefox’s spellcheck doesn’t seem to recognize it. “Resplendent” just sounds gorgeous. And “slugabed” is new to me, but I love it.

I believe the game showed pronouns on the character select screen. That’s all it takes to make certain people mad, unfortunately.

Everyone pokes fun at that number, but it was about planning for every possible scenario, including getting trapped in orbit for much longer than planned. Think about the astronauts stranded by Boeing right now. Should’ve been 1 week, and now it’s looking like 8 months.

There was a followup movie 6 years later, but as you can see from the audience score it wasn’t very good. None of the actors from the Tanner family came back for it.

There are way more rings than that, and they’re actually the best parts of the game. It gets so much worse in the levels without rings. Awful combat, terrible puzzles, inconsistent framerate, and thoroughly unclear objectives.

Oh, and everyone’s favorite: escort missions!

Don’t forget the extended cut… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9wgzUSsE_Y

Poetry.