Re: Breaking learning thread

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[Guest]

Paul McCartney was deported for arson!

[Fangirl Three]

I knew that

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From where?

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Norway?

So I lit a fire. Isn't it good? Norwegian wood.

[Fangirl Three]

From where?

From Shout! by Philip Norman, which up till this moment I had assumed was the most widely known Beatles biography.

I'm genuinely shocked that cool, hip types like you and StWDTBD aren't familiar with it.

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I meant where was he deported from?

[Fangirl Three]

Hamburg! Where they were playing in that club in 1960.

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And didn't George Harrison get deported for being under age?

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It sounds like they were a regular bunch of troublemakers.

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"Wharf," stands for, "warehouses at river front."

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I'm going to have to Google that because I have my suspicions.

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Wikipedia says it's derived from the Old English word, "warft," which meant yard.

[Fangirl Three]

If there's one thing that annoys me it's those who try and impose ludicrous fake etymologies on good people such as yourself.

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Linda Ronstadt's grandfather invented flexible rubber ice trays.

[Guest]

You could punch the bull in The Way of the Exploding Fist

https://youtu.be/j_3rmoA1JKY?t=560

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Is that some sort of euphemism?

[Nightjar]

Linda Ronstadt's grandfather invented early versions of the toaster and microwave oven.

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...is the aunt of...

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