g_r_a_e t1_japud0e wrote on March 3, 2023 at 4:33 AM

Reply to TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice

A photon might disagree

g_r_a_e t1_j6ld8p9 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 3:28 AM

Reply to comment by ghostface176 in Andy Kaufman - 1970s by TheMegaSage

yep that's one of the many layers of Kaufman's genius

g_r_a_e t1_j1sgypc wrote on December 27, 2022 at 1:17 AM

Reply to comment by SoundlessScream in All 10 people feared missing in Austria avalanche found alive | CNN by ybdiel

We got a mountain range called the Snowy Mountains so this is probably one of the few times I could say 'we literally have snowy mountains' and be literally correct.

edit: porbably haha!