217. Rotate Your Plate Breakage

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• Maxx
• Nick

Topics:

• Puzzmo
• I'm worried about my tableware rotation strategy
• Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigaldi-Nanna's_museum
• It Was A Coffin That Sang, by Olena Davis
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/xBLG36yN.png

Microtopics:

• Instead of giving someone a business card, stamping your information on them so they have to call you before they take a shower.
• Where's George?
• George isn't here. George was never here.
• Canadians looking forward to when they can walk around with King Charles' face in their pocket.
• Giving the barista a coupla chucks for a cup of coffee.
• Money with RadarSat on it.
• inaturalist dot org.
• Taking a photo of a weird plant with a weird seed pod.
• The fantasy of collecting information.
• The game where you try to name every street in San Francisco.
• Running all the streets in your city over the course of a decade.
• Games Genie.
• Lexicographic Ordering and Time Travel.
• A sanctioned topic. (It's on the list.)
• Wario Ware presenting you with a full sized crossword and giving you six seconds to solve it.
• A fun little histogram.
• Finally implementing the letter T.
• Doing the crossword on paper and making your daughter enter your answers into the app.
• Will Shortz coming out of his orb to carry out a hit on a competing puzzle.
• Fugue Orbs.
• Comparing the interface design of Connections and Red Herring.
• Things Relating to Wonder Woman.
• Extremely well SEO'd pestilences.
• Arranging your dinner plates in a stack vs. in a queue.
• Using all your plates evenly so they all break at the same time.
• Rotating the Stock.
• The dangers of Low-Sodium Perpetual Stew.
• Default plates from the food service factory.
• Airplane boarding algorithms and how to convince everyone in the terminal to follow yours.
• Plates that are made for using.
• A whole Jefferson, in your Republic dollars.
• The urge to queue.
• Lanesplitting your backpack.
• History: it's a lot older than we think
• Ancient cash registers.
• Pranksters organizing the topic bucket.
• How many museums deep are we?
• The human wife.
• Efficient.. Successful. Human.
• Top five lists of your life.
• How small a flavoring agent has to be to be considered a spice.
• A twelve foot tall statue of either Zeus or Poseidon.
• Myth- and Nationhood- Making.
• A museum where you can feel wood cut with various tools.
• Hearing about a cool metalworking museum but fixating on how the bathroom works.
• Cool Bathroom Ghost.
• The toilet commenting on your performance.
• Piping bookshop noises into your bathroom.
• Robert Stack's Solved Mysteries.
• Being sad and trying to have a good sadness.
• Michael Brough talking about his design process.
• Fun exercise vs. shitty boring exercise.
• What to do about the world ending.
• Driving in circles around the McDonald's drive-thru ordering more and more coffee until they catch on.
• Telling a joke on Twitter and an archaeologist getting it 1000 years from now.
• The world's oldest joke.
• A fart joke from 1900 BCE.
• Reconstructive historical linguistics.
• The linguistics of swearing and taboo.
• Eater of bees.
• Top five stanzas.

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