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  1. Suffering succotash - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Dec 31, 2014 · I suppose it's possible the expression was used (on rare occasions) in the mid-1800s, but I'd have thought that would be largely irrelevant to it being revived/coined by …

  2. What the #$@&%*! is that called? - English Language & Usage …

    Oct 15, 2012 · @TobiasKienzler StephenStraight is saying the Grawlixes only define spoken/verbalized censorship, like in comics' speech bubbles (auditorily imagine the Charlie …

  3. Why do people call their characters "toons"? - Arqade

    Jul 17, 2012 · The "origin" of the term "absolutely" came from the "carTOON" industry and decades of generations of people calling the characters in WB and Disney cartoons "toons". …

  4. A word for 'non-animated' movies - English Language & Usage …

    Oct 28, 2022 · 6 You might just say I prefer movies that aren't animated, or movies with live actors. The other sense of animated could interfere with its use to mean with cartoon characters.

  5. How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping/snoring?

    May 26, 2011 · 73 In cartoons and comics it's not uncommon to see a series of Z's to indicate that a person is in deep slumber, such as in the following political cartoon. (source: Berkeley Daily …

  6. What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?

    Aug 23, 2014 · Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?

  7. What are all of Sonic the Hedgehog's transformations? - Arqade

    Dark Sonic Dark Sonic is a next form of sonic that was only seen in the Sonic X series. The form was gained from sonic seeing his friend in pain. The power enhances Sonic's strength, speed, …

  8. Origin of the expression "pull your finger out"

    Jul 25, 2014 · All this rubbish about cannons and early 60s cartoon characters is puritanical avoidance of issue and use of euphemistic metaphors. The shock value of the use of this term …

  9. game identification - Who is the girl with white hair that ... - Arqade

    Sep 2, 2017 · She has white hair, a black rectangular thing over her eyes, and she's commonly found on the thumbnails of 'Gaming on Crack' videos Here is an image:

  10. ilomilo - Which is ilo, and which is milo? - Arqade

    Whenever I play ilomilo, I can't keep track of which character is ilo (Ilona), and which character is milo (Milton). I really enjoy ilomilo, but I need to know which -ilo is which, because in ilom...