Poached from elsewhere:
A. Driver plays a driver in Paterson named Paterson in the Jim Jarmusch film Paterson
Thereās a town named Orange in Australia and itās famous for its apples.
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The Finnish word for āorangeā (the fruit, not the color) is āappelsiiniāā¦itās from the German (and Dutch) word(s) that mean(s) āChinese appleā.
I didnāt learn that today. I learned that a few years ago. Itās just related to knoathās post and I thought youād enjoy me sharing that. Click 
if you did enjoy me sharing that. Kiitos!
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Oh I get itā¦sino-apple
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Iād never heard of Shrovetide beforeā¦daughter reports that Laskiainen is coming up - āLaskiainen is associated with Shrove Tuesday (a.k.a. Fat Tuesday) and is a celebration of the beginning of Lent that takes place before Easter.ā
Welcome to the world of ignorance :). About 20 years ago I was in NYC at a conference. I had to ask a friend why there were so many people walking around on the street with a black mark on their forehead.
Just donāt see that around here.
Welcome?!?!?1 I already have a lifetime membership!!! I didnāt encounter the ash on the forehead thing until I went to college.
I ran into it in kindergarten. It kind of freaked me out at the time. All these kids with visibly dirty faces. Someone told me what was going on.
Iāve never actually noticed it. I know itās a thing, but I donāt think Iāve ever noticed someone with ash on their forehead.
Maybe if they put ash on their shoes insteadā¦
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I think I can take first place here. In the 80ās when I went to the city for school (right off the farm, and I mean right off the farm), I see people eating donuts for breakfast and was like, wtf that much sugar first thing?
They were bagels. Iād never heard of a bagel before I was about 19.
So, you knew what donuts were, and were just surprised people were eating them for breakfast? What time of day did you eat donuts on the farm?
I didnāt say there were no Catholics, but the ones that were there never walked around town with marks on their forehead.
Also, it was a large rural area not very well populated. So not much of a density of any religion.
There certainly wasnāt any religion other than Christianity either. No Jewish folks for example.
One Asian kid in the entire high school, everyone else white.
Itās not my fault, itās just where I grew up. Lack of diversity is one reason I donāt live there anymore. I got out.
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lol at the sequence of these two postsā¦
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quite the juxtaposition, I say. :tup:
He probably had Episcopalians for breakfast. Theyāre a lot like Catholics, only theyāre different.
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Not just Catholics, mainline Protestants do Ash Wednesday too. BUT, probably a majority of the folks you see walking around with ashes on their foreheads during the day are Catholic because Protestants tend to only have Ash Wednesday services in the evening. Whereas most Catholic churches will have a mass or two early in the morning that people might go to before work.
Not a hard & fast rule or anything. Protestant churches can have an Ash Wednesday service in the morning but most of them donāt.
Just saw some cooking show, a week or two ago, where they were talking mango varieties, but no idea what it was. First time I heard it mentioned, never really thought about it
Everyone?
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