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This was the first time I've heard this expression (though apparently it is common), and after a brief mental moment of "huh?", it made me smile:
"I'd never yuck your yum".

It was in this Anna Akana video : When you and your friend are dating the same guy (ft. Julie Nolke)

Reading the video comments, some other viewers were likewise quite amused by the phrase, while others said they can't stand it. Which, if your exposure to the phrase was from a grade school teacher, I can understand.

Via duskpeterson:


TK Maxx Xmas 2020 - The Lil' Goat

“The Greatest Gift” | Xfinity 2020 Holiday Commercial

Mog’s Christmas Calamity | Sainsbury’s Ad | Christmas 2015

"Come Together" - a H&M Holiday Short Film directed by Wes Anderson

John Lewis Christmas Advert 2016 (Buster The Boxer)

On another site, I saw a comment by someone with surname "Bumgarner".

I'm familiar with the surname "Baumgartner" which comes from German and means something like "Tree Gardener". So I wondered if that was the person's real name, and he'd shortened it like that as a joke... bum-garner... gatherer of bums... I was thinking of the British definition of "bum", ie. "buttocks", though gatherer of tramps could be amusing too.

But no, according to the 2010 Census there were over 6000 people in the U.S. with the surname Bumgarner.

It truly is however, a "Respelling of German Baumgartner."

Bumgarner History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms - This page seems lip-curling to me. It shows the "Ancient Arms of Bumgarner" image with a tree and a small picket fence around it. It says "They are believed to have been of the order of the Teutonic Knights." Jeez Louize, the site is trying to sell stuff. It says the name means "Orchard" when it must have meant someone who worked in an orchard - the name comes from BaumgartNER, not BaumgarTEN. But anyway, the page also has some good stuff:
"Spelling variations of this family name include: Baumgarner, Baumgarten, Baumgart, Paumgarten, Baumgartel, Paumgartel, Paumgart, Bomgarten, Baumgarden, Pomgarten, Pomgarden, Baumgartner, Paumgartner, Baumgarden, Bamgardner, Bogart, Bogaard, Bogaart and many more."

So the name Bogart (from Dutch) (as in Humphrey Bogart) also comes from, or is related to Baumgartner! And actually, boomgaard is the Dutch word for "orchard", so ok then.

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Kudos to conuly, for letting me know about this online etymology dictionary!

This was another post intended to be quick and short on something that amused me, which while writing it morphed into umpteen more things of curiosity to me. It's now an hour and a half later. This is why I shouldn't...

It also took longer to write due to words being difficult to me this morning.

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Other items of curiosity:

Bummer - is related to the German verb "bummeln - to go slowly, waste time." In my experience, "bummeln" is used in a positive sense, as in "let's go have a good time, strolling around downtown looking at stores and things."

Bumptious - an adjective that means "offensively assertive".

"The coronavirus pandemic was given a deadline of midnight last night to sign the agreement."

That's it for you, you virus, if you won't sign the agreement, you're done for!

Listening to it again, the whole thing was:
"RyanAir, which owns Laudamotion, was threatening to close the Vienna hub [...] The union representing the workers, who are currently on shorter hours due to the coronavirus pandemic, was given a deadline of midnight last night to sign the agreement."

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There's another news item I've heard twice now, which didn't make sense either time:
"[Trump's] been angered by the speed of reopening in some states, pushing governors, in particular Democrat ones, to speed up plans that he felt were too slow in spite of a spike...."

But I get it now. The first use of the word "speed" meant "slow speed" rather than "fast speed".

On PBS, I watched the Nova episode The Planets: Saturn

From the transcript:

"At 5,000 miles deep, the pressure of the atmosphere is 80 times greater than that at the bottom of our deepest oceans, enough to transform this sooty, graphite rain into diamonds. But even these diamonds are likely destroyed by the pressures of Saturn, eventually dissolving."

Here's another article about it:
'Diamond rain' falls on Saturn and Jupiter

Lightning storms turn methane into soot (carbon) which as it falls hardens into chunks of graphite and then diamond. These diamond "hail stones" eventually melt into a liquid sea in the planets' hot cores...

It made me think of a song I once downloaded and bought, named "Diamonds Shower" by Friedrich Liechtenstein:


Video title: Friedrich Liechtenstein tanzt zu Diamonds Shower vor Raffinerie
Posted by: Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mb3MqB6YNU
Date posted: Oct 12, 2015


I looked up info on the artist...
Once an Ornamental Hermit, Now a German Media Darling

I found this amusing Edeka (German grocery store) ad featuring the same artist, which I'd actually seen before, but it is still funny. The video doesn't show an English translation, but "Supergeil" means basically "super-cool" or "super-awesome", although the word "geil" originally meant "horny".


Video title: EDEKA Supergeil (feat. Friedrich Liechtenstein)
Posted by: EDEKA
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxVcgDMBU94
Date posted: Feb 20, 2014


Then I found these even more amusing videos by BVG (the Berlin Transport Company), which runs the public transport in Berlin. The videos have English closed captions that can be turned on. This first one feels especially heart-warming to me:


Video title: BVG "Is mir egal" (feat. Kazim Akboga)
Posted by: Weil wir dich lieben (BVG)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvcpy4WjZMs
Date posted: Dec 11, 2015


"Alles Absicht" means "Everything on purpose".


Video title: BVG "Alles Absicht"
Posted by: Weil wir dich lieben (BVG)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pic3FnvUrY
Date posted: Sep 26, 2016



Video title: BVG-Arie
Posted by: Weil wir dich lieben (BVG)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlKhh6HFGdI
Date posted: Jul 5, 2017



The guy in the first BVG video is Kazim Akboga:
https://www.youtube.com/user/KazimAkboga/videos

From reading comments on his videos, I found out the sad news that he had suffered from depression and killed himself in Feb. 2017.
:-(

Translated video description: Flen in Sörmland has long had a hidden existence. In the summer of 2019, the residents gathered to change this with the help of GB Glace, which has its ice cream factory in the middle of Flen. Over one night, together and with joy, they managed to create a whole new image of Flen in Google Street View, visible worldwide. This is the video that shows how it went.



Video title: När Flen tog Google Street View i egna händer
Posted by: GB Glace
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzABuiImLXk
Date posted: Jul 19, 2019




I'm sure they're visible somewhere, but I wasn't able to find the people shown in the video, in the actual Google Maps Streetview. In many places, the streetview doesn't even seem to work right as I can advance to an intersection, but then it doesn't let me go anywhere from there.

But I did find this which amused me:

https://www.google.com/maps/@59.0568429,16.571043,3a,75y,161.84h,81.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipP4eySlGmhTyGvgKecMO3C3de970JzG_RyGgRW-!2e10!7i7680!8i3840

https://www.google.com/maps/@59.0568422,16.5711295,3a,75y,211.41h,87.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipOCQXskx8--pijMmURkW16KOX7dvAQXtSYQ6wVv!2e10!7i7680!8i3840

Woman and 2 children: Yay, the Streetview car is passing by, let's hold up signs!
Man: Let me quickly vacuum the yard so it looks good!

Hah. Here's something funny to try. On your phone, start a comment, and using the predictive text feature (assuming your phone does that), keep clicking on the middle word.
Mine went like this:

Thanks for the update and for the record I have a new phone and I don't want to be a part of the team and I will be there at the same time I don't have a new phone and I will be there at the same time I don't have a new phone and I will be there at the same time

Alternately, you can randomly hit any of the suggested words each time, or hit them in a certain pattern, and see what comes out.

Too good not to share: Hey Squirrelfriend

This is another good one: Sandwich man saves the day

The website has a lot more: https://katraccoon.com/

This PBS kid's show is entertaining and quite funny in some parts: Odd Squad

That website is good too; you can watch the episodes there, and it has other special features. Awww man, it even has a downloadable 2017 puppy calendar.

There's an "End Road Work" sign across the street which was put up months ago and is still there, even though no road work has been done. At first the sign was taped over with black plastic, but that has since blown away. I suppose they were planning to do some roadwork originally, but it must have been delayed.

Someone put up a small new sign underneath it. I squinted at it through my window to see what it says. "Cats in the Bushes" ?

I looked again. "Cash for Houses"

Hmm. The first version was more interesting.