A childhood friend of mine whose grandfather graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1906 ($300/year!) said that the last bit of medicine from those little bottles you stick a syringe into was called a “nurdle of grunge”.
And the metal or plastic hard end of a shoelace is called an aglet.
Slightly unrelated: My favorite Ask Beth or Dear Abbey, or Ann Landers .. forget which, was a gentleman who complained that his friends, when staying at his house, used too much toothpaste. His solution was to lay out measured bits (nurdles, I suppose) of toothpaste on wax paper for their use. When they left, they gave him a carton of 144 toothpaste tubes. “What is their problem?” he asked. The response was not what he expected.
I.. I did not know that Cass.
Thanks?
Apparently you can spell it Knerdle, or knurdle or nerdle or nurdle. I always used “knurdle.”
Am I wrong in remembering that little sprout is an Anime trope for being spaced-out or empty-headed? It seems doubly-appropriate for Castela 😀
(1980s jock bursts in)
NUUUUURRRRRDLE!!!
I suppose Cass does run a high risk of turning full vegie.
It’s a new one on me. Will it be on the test this morning?
A childhood friend of mine whose grandfather graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1906 ($300/year!) said that the last bit of medicine from those little bottles you stick a syringe into was called a “nurdle of grunge”.
And the metal or plastic hard end of a shoelace is called an aglet.
For the longest time, as a kid, I always pronounced aglet as ‘eyelet’, which is, of course, the name of the hole that you poke the aglet through.
Very confusing. And also my accidental introduction to the concept of recursion and a lifelong interest in computing.
There’s an old joke about “All Odd Numbers are Prime”. Mathematician: “3, 5, 7, 9 – nope”, Physicist “3,5,7,9-experimental error, 11,13”, Economist “3,5,7,9,11,13,15,.. yep!”. I always add Computer Scientist: “1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1…”
Slightly unrelated: My favorite Ask Beth or Dear Abbey, or Ann Landers .. forget which, was a gentleman who complained that his friends, when staying at his house, used too much toothpaste. His solution was to lay out measured bits (nurdles, I suppose) of toothpaste on wax paper for their use. When they left, they gave him a carton of 144 toothpaste tubes. “What is their problem?” he asked. The response was not what he expected.
So, his friends are polite, gracious, and they know know how to pun. Nurdle nerds.
We should all be so lucky.
“I will now go dormant until Spring, please place me under two inches of mulch”
Relationship Sage Scarlet is back on duty.