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The Wikipedia image about pseudocopulation of barnacles is impressive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle#Sexual_reproduction

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Imagine if students liked this idea as much as "talk like a pirate" day. Pity the teachers!

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I am offended that testicles isn't on that listicle(s)

@dgar One 'low hanging fruit' is missing on this list, the Greek male hero Testicles.

@dgar Polycules!

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-Julius Cesar: Where's my beloved Cleopatra?
-Servant: She's in bed with laryngitis.
-JC: Damn those Greeks!

@dgar My mobile devices hotspot: Lesbophone

@dgar HOW IS TESTICLES NOT ON THIS LIST

@dgar testicles?

@dgar Phillippines

@dgar tagging @wayword lol 😂

@dgar reminds me of a play by Woody Allen where characters have names of diseases, like Trichinosis, Bursitis, Diabetes, Hepatitis, etc.

@dgar Also, as someone recently pointed out on X, polycules

@dgar @c_dan4th You may find this interesting. One of my first websites.

https://www.sticksandshadows.net/greek/index.html

@dgar I shared a flat with a guy from Preston many moons ago and he had learned all his classics in the local library through books. He said Penèlòpe, Cicèro and Herodœtus with long Lancastrian vowels, it was cute but the lecturers didn’t find it so endearing.

@dgar Testicles

@dgar gah! I can't unsee - or unhear - that now. 😀

@dgar@aus.social Sounds like an idea for the next Asterix comic, where they visit Ancient Greece.

@dgar Also Receptacles, Debacles, Unicycles, Monocles, and Popsicles

@dgar 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@dgar i remember the first time i hear "schedule" pronounced this way. i lost it but quickly realized the person was not being ironic. some parts of the country (US) pronounce it "ske-doo-lee" -- and of course that's now standard pro-noun-cee-a-tion in our house too.

@dgar There are probably greek characters in Asterix comics that are named like that.

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Sounds like a load of bollocles

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BILLIONS OF BLISTERING BARNACLES ! 🧔🏻‍♂️⚓🛳️
@Fragglemuppet

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Ventricles had the heart of a warrior.

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https://youtu.be/lC2Fcsoue9Q?list=PL68FD0D7F63715384&t=30

@dgar meanwhile I just want to know if Polites was really in the Odyssey or if he and his name were made up for Epic the musical.

Like I would believe it except JRH played "holy moly" so straight in Circe saga, and if you want to simplify Pol's trusting nature to being *polite* (and trusting others to be) and told me he's only in Epic and that was where his name came from, I would also believe that.