Chuck Tingle may have finally outdone himself with these two titles....

[conuly]

Not Pounded In The Butt By Anything And That's Okay and Not Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Not Pounded In The Butt By Anything And That's Okay" And That's Okay.

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6 People Who Broke (Stupid) Laws In The Best Way Possible

This Apartment-Size Wind Turbine Makes Use of Gusts Coming From All Directions

The Hidden Life of Modal Verbs

How to Teach Artificial Intelligence Some Common Sense

Inside the misunderstood culture of furries

Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages? (Spoiler: Yes)

Why women go to war – new study reveals motivations of female militia fighters

The True Story of Robert the Bruce, Scotland’s ‘Outlaw King’

For arid, Mars-like Peruvian desert, rain brings death

The Dark Secrets of this Now-Empty Island in Maine

Mexico Gave the Migrant Caravan a Warm Welcome. It Wasn’t Always This Way.

Migrants fill Tijuana shelters, more on way to US border

Many U.S. drugstores fail to provide naloxone for opioid overdoses

US, UN warn against Rohingya repatriation plan

The Media Barely Covered One of the Worst Storms to Hit U.S. Soil

Oceans are losing a football field of seagrass every 30 minutes

As wildfires grow deadlier, officials search for solutions

FBI data shows sharp rise in US hate crimes

Comments

[the_siobhan]

Chuck Tingle is my hero.

[conuly]

Indeed.

[gwydion]

A National treasure!

[dhampyresa]

LOVE IS REAL

[conuly]

And platonic, and that's okay!

[alexseanchai]

Re modal verbs: "might could" is Appalachian? Weird. Where did I pick it up, then?

[conuly]

Appalachia?

[alexseanchai]

I've never lived there. I thought it was a Southernism?

[conuly]

There's sure to be some overlap. Hey, do you say things "need washed" or "need done"?

[alexseanchai]

I do!

[steorra]

It is definitely known in the US South.
The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project says that examples have been "collected in areas that span from Florida to West Texas, and (going north) to southern Pennsylvania and New Jersey."

[alexseanchai]

Ah! That'd do it :)

[mtbc]

Mmm, I first heard it from an Alabama native. In Scots we have "micht cud".

[conuly]

A lot of aspects of Appalachian speech (some of which is part of Southern speech etc) comes from Scots.

[rachelkachel]

The modal verbs article reminds me of how mathematicians have an exact, useful definition of "almost all". Scientists and mathematicians want to be precise, and sometimes you have to be precise about how imprecise your numbers are. Also, FiveThirtyEight and how their uncertainties get misreported.

[conuly]

What's that definition?

[rachelkachel]

I had to look up the wording since I'm not actually a mathematician, but "almost all" equals "everything except a negligible subset" - which can, depending on context, actually be (countably) infinite. So even though there are infinitely many primes, almost all positive integers are composite. Isn't math fun?

[conuly]

Or... even though the set of integers is infinite, almost all numbers are not integers?

[rachelkachel]

Yep, exactly.

[sovay]

Not Pounded In The Butt By Anything And That's Okay and Not Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Not Pounded In The Butt By Anything And That's Okay" And That's Okay.

I'd heard about the first, but not the second. I'm delighted.

[conuly]

THAT BLURB!

[landofnowhere]

"Not Pounded In the Butt When Quined" Not Pounded In The Butt When Quined. (And That's Okay!)

[conuly]

It is!

[amaebi]

Chuck Tingle's work was substantially referred to on the new podcast "Creature Feature" by an evolutionary biologist who clearly hadn't known of him before researching non-obvious sexual urges.

I think he has new fans now.

[conuly]

Who, Chuck Tingle or the biologist?

[amaebi]

Chuck Tingle. The biologist is a woman, and I'm afraid for the future of her podcast. Not on account of its substance, but her performance, which is okay, but not in a style that's generally respected in any way.

[conuly]

That's unfortunate.

[randomdreams]

He is the most brilliant book title creator of our time.

[conuly]

Yes.

[chez_jae]

I have yet to read anything by Chuck Tingle, but just reading the titles of his books makes me laugh!

[conuly]

Ditto. I don't know if his work is any good (and judging from the synopses they're never going to be to my taste) but he has a real gift for titles.