Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

[Volpone]

You ever remember something that you'd swear to but physical evidence disagrees with? For example, there are 2 burger joints in town--Burger Boy and Burger Girl. Owned and operated by the same people. Same branding. One day I'm walking The Dog and I see a piece of a Styrofoam Burger Girl shake cup. I think that it's odd, because that restaurant is on the other side of town--and neat because I've never been there, only to Burger Boy. Well the next day I'm walking the same route and see the piece of cup again, only now it says "Burger Boy." Are there 2 cups? Neither place is near where I live. Do both places use the same cup and one side says Burger Boy and the other says Burger Girl? Did I misremember and it always said Burger Boy?*

What if you DIDN'T misremember? What if your mind ISN'T playing tricks on you? What if, when this happens, what actually happened is that you skipped a track and landed into a different reality in the multiverse?**



*I didn't misremember. There were 2 similarly sized pieces of cup--1 on each side of the road, a few blocks apart.

**Or it's a glitch in the Matrix? We're really living in a simulation.

 

[whisky]

I'm having after eights at six thirty

So rebellious.

 

[whisky]

If you had previously dated Gillian Anderson, would you call the show the ex files?

 

[Dr Dave]

 

[Volpone]

It's always wild, when a word or phrase suddenly sounds odd. Chatting with someone about a girl I had been interested in. I never pursued her because of an age difference and also because her tastes seemed a little more expensive than I was prepared to support. I almost said "I don't think she'd go for my standard of living," but I stopped because it sounded so odd. "Standard of living?" Is that right? Is that what designer clothes and dining out and driving a Porsche is? It sounded odd. So I DuckDuckGo'ed it and yes, that's a thing and yes, that's what it means.

Incidentally, that's one thing Google still has going for it: "googled" is a lot smoother to say than "duckduckgo'ed". I just hate Google so much at this point that I only use it when I absolutely have to. I guess we could use it the way "jeep" used to be used for any rugged vehicle before we got the term SUV. Or post-it or xerox. It's funny, how some of these words are kind of moot these days. It's so rare to actually photocopy something these days. You're more likely to print out a PDF or scan a document to PDF than to use a paper copy to make another paper copy.