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The word stout used to mean ‘proud’ and ‘brave’ in the 14th century, but eventually morphed into the connotation of ‘strong’. How does a beer achieve such status? Before we may know the answer, we must understand its grand-pappy, the Porter. If you’ve ever had a Guinness, you know a bit about…
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if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s right
hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot
Holy crap batman. Is this true? If so, that’s damned awesome. Like unicorns farting rainbows awesome.
(via morganathewitch)
Anyone running the warrior dash in IL this weekend? Can’t wait!!! KCCO!!
I’ve run it twice now. Such a blast!!"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep…that have taken hold."
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (via vanity-scribblings)
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I just really want to start a gym for geeks where you’d have to like run away from Daleks or GET TO ENGINEERING through some ducts or like compete in a Tri-Wizard Tournament or train with lightsabers and it would just be hilarious nerdy wonderful fun.
Do. It. Now.
not ducts, JEFFERIES TUBES
ALL OF THIS. ALL OF IT.
AND WE COULD PLAY QUIDITCH
And slash zombie dummies too!
"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind."
— C. S. Lewis (via diaphanee)
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