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New Day Cafe: Tuesday Treasures [1]

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Date: 2023-12-19

Happy Tuesday, Newdists! Grab a cuppa and a nosh and join us for a bit

Not for nothin’ but I think Christopher Plummer did a far better job!!

x IT’S FINALLY HERE! 🥹 For the first time ever, nearly 60 years after the film’s release, listen to Christopher Plummer’s ✨ORIGINAL✨ vocals for “Edelweiss” in The Sound of Music. (ICYMI: he was dubbed by Bill Lee in the 1965 film.)



Watch the full clip: https://t.co/CJctXIDox7 pic.twitter.com/DP23VHgrJg — The Sound of Music (@SoundofMusic) December 1, 2023

You all know I love cartoons, but even I didn’t realise how many words we’ve gotten from them!

Forthwith (no, that’s not one of them) are some words from ‘toons. Thanks to Colleen Kilday’s article from Stacker.

Another moniker for an intelligent person, the word "brainiac" originated in the "Superman" comic book series as the name of a new character. In "Action Comics" #242, issued in 1958, Brainiac makes his first appearance as an extraterrestrial, superintelligent villain. The word's first known use outside of the comic book world, however, took place years later, sometime in the 1970s.

"Simpsons" fans everywhere know "a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man," given the phrase is the revered motto of the fictional town of Springfield. Just over two decades after Bart's teacher, Ms. Krabappel, mentioned never hearing of the word until she moved to Springfield on Season 7, Episode 16, "Lisa the Iconoclast," the term — meaning "to make bigger or more expansive," per Merriam-Webster — was officially added to the dictionary in 2018. After all, it is a perfectly cromulent word.

Another "Simpsons"-attributed word entered the dictionary in 2009: meh. On Season 6, Episode 5, "Sideshow Bob Roberts," Lisa expresses confusion that voting records are not classified, to which the clerk offers the indifferent response, "Meh."

From its first use in the 16th century until the 1940s, the word "nimrod" has had various meanings. At times, it meant someone mighty and courageous, reflecting its biblical origins. Still, it could also connote a tyrannical person.

Then, in a 1948 "Looney Tunes" cartoon, Daffy Duck uses it while speaking to Elmer Fudd, referring to him as "my little nimrod." Bugs Bunny also used the word to taunt Yosemite Sam in the episode "Rabbit Every Monday."

The animated use seemed to establish the word's meaning for a younger audience; "Nimrod" transformed to mean a foolish person.

Doh: 'The Simpsons'©Michael Tullberg // Getty Images Dan Castellaneta first uttered Homer Simpson's most famous catchphrase in 1989, when it was still featured on "The Tracey Ullman Show." Castellaneta took inspiration from comedian James Finlayson's grunt in the Laurel and Hardy films. However, it was "The Simpsons" that popularized the term to the point of entry into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001. You can read more at the link.

Treasures of stone….. x The extravagance of the Baroque era is unmatched.



We used to make symphonies out of stone. pic.twitter.com/I5kMmPtQN6 — Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) November 16, 2023 From last week, but it touched me, so…..

x FDR writes Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, today 1941, after Pearl Harbor, to thank them for and decline their offer to serve in World War II—she died in air crash a month later and the disconsolate Gable signed up to fly combat missions out of England: pic.twitter.com/Zzq8WQHoH2 — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 16, 2023

One Dutch treasure…..

x This Dutch pharmacy commercial wins Christmas.



Do yourself a favor… pic.twitter.com/f6HROdNZmp — Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) December 18, 2023

And finally….a little treasure of the Holiday season:

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