That Moment...

I missed that. Guess the brain spasm was much stronger than I thought since I almost always notice those kind of errors.

ETA: I take exception to women not allowed to ride dirt bikes. I'll put my skills up against theirs any day of the week, twice on Sundays and Wednesdays.

 

Only you, Cave Troll. Only you.

 

It's safer than scanning Craig's List as long as the books aren't about dirt bikes, rappers and mind-controlling apparatuses that make people see fake lizard aliens.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurytus_of_Sparta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristodemus_of_Sparta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantites

That Moment When... you learn that there were two Spartans during the fateful battle of Thermopylae that went blind due to an eye disease. Eurytus didn't want to abandon Leonidas so he charged into the fray (blind, mind you) and died.

Aristodemus returned to in disgrace, was called a coward for not dying but later redeemed himself at Plataea.

The third, Pantites, was running an errand at the time and couldn't return to the fight to die with the others. So ashamed of his apparent failure, he hanged himself.

Good Lord, so not only did two blind guys fought with frenzy in war, but the name '300' is a lie because in reality only 298 Spartans fought in that battle...

Also, Cynaegirus, brother of Aeschylus, was so badass that during the Battle of Salamis, he saw the Persians retreat that he literally jumped into the water, swamp to their ships and tried pulling their ships back to land -- they basically had to hack his arms off just to get him to release them.

 

I think I read somewhere that it was actually closer to 1,000 Spartans that fought, but of course that's still pretty rubbish odds.

 

According to Herodotus, there was between 5,000 and 6,000 men and Diodorus Siculus puts the number somewhere around 7,400 men total. But there were only 300 Spartan Hoplites, which of course are the only ones worth mentioning.

 

That moment when a coworker saw on Facebook that planting pinecones result in cute mini pine trees..... So all of us in the office went out to collect pine cones and then potted them in the office.
.....I named mine Piny the Elder

 

TMW you realize you clicked Post Reply two hours before realizing "apparatuses" is not an actual word.

 

"Doom Slayer says they are all rubbish."

 

TMW somebody found it to be a real thing.

 

that moment when your music taste changes with what you're doing:
cleaning/reorganizing the bedroom: alternative rock music
Laundry: neo-soul/funk
cleaning the bathroom: french pop/dance music
Vacuuming: R&B

(started cleaning at 11:00am, finished a few moments ago. Pandora is thrilled)

 

Now I feel kinda dated when I say this: "Who remembers mix tapes (cassettes) they recorded off the radio?"

 

*raises hand*

 

That moment when you get home from work at a sensible time and red button behaves itself and you get to see your favourite young player score his first international goal.

 

Impossible!

 

TMW one of your MCs is just going out for a stroll, only to be
asked politely to become irritated, and then to be offered to
buy their bra cause of the pheromones she produces.
Suppose it isn't the creepiest/weirdest thing I can come up
with given where they are currently, but strange to be sure.
Though the MC does kinda need the money, since she is
fairly certain that credits are not accepted outside of their
known space region. On the flip side a genderless fly creature
is going to have a happy evening with her bra.

 

Me! Me Me Me!

 

Anybody ever do the comedy dub thing? Take bitz from songs or radio blah and make a funny interview or naughty song!

 

That moment when you're watching Star Trek and you find yourself thinking that somewhere out there there's a universe where Arnason didn't accidentally kick the ball into the wrong net and Skulason didn't boot that French tosser and Turkey are rubbish and Iceland have actually qualified for the Euros.

Unfortunately, this isn't it.

 

That moment when you applied to become a mentor in a mentoring program