SlightlyScruffy
SlightlyScruffy t1_jadhkur wrote
Reply to Did you know? by MufuckinTurtleBear
It's actually spelled dire-rear.
SlightlyScruffy t1_jadgujb wrote
Reply to Well I'm halfway there by ScalieBoi42
Where is this, with a British phone box?
SlightlyScruffy t1_jacypag wrote
Reply to boy: i wanna kiss your lips right now! by [deleted]
Richard Condon wrote a novel called The Vertical Smile some decades ago.
SlightlyScruffy t1_ja4532a wrote
Nah, it's just quite close.
SlightlyScruffy t1_j5k3sdf wrote
r/brandnewsentence
SlightlyScruffy t1_ixuom61 wrote
Reply to comment by Lupercali in TIL that in 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote and published a 50,000 word novel, 'Gadsby' which does not contain the letter 'e' . A warehouse containing most copies of the book burned down. by Lupercali
I've read that too. Nice. I've got an entire book of different oulipo, some of which is hard going.
SlightlyScruffy t1_ix7k9yk wrote
Reply to A 20 mph speed limit intervention implemented at city centre scale had little impact on short- or long-term outcomes for road traffic collisions, casualties and speed. by _DeanRiding
The scheme did slightly reduce vehicular traffic, and very slightly reduced speeds, which between them must have had an effect on air quality too.
SlightlyScruffy t1_je702ak wrote
Reply to TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever. by RedditPrat
I had scarlet fever in the late 50s. Thank you!