Tiffany problems

[Moose-tache]

If we assume Roentgen had a hand fetish, the time gap between the X-ray gun and the horny R-ray gun is zero.

[hwhatting]

Sometimes a hand X-ray is just a hand x-ray.

[Raphael]

I learned relatively recently that prefaces to books were already common in the first decades and generations after the introduction of movable type printing to Europe. Before I learned that, I would have guessed that they were a 19th century or perhaps an 18th century invention. Somehow, they "feel" so "modern" to me.

[bradrn]

Henry IV, Part 1, Act III, Scene 1:

GLENDOWER: Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil.
HOTSPUR: And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil [...]

I never expected 'coz' to date back to 1597. (Wiktionary also has a quote from Romeo and Juliet, in fact.)

[hwhatting]

I never expected 'coz' to date back to 1597. (Wiktionary also has a quote from Romeo and Juliet, in fact.)

Yes, Shakespeare uses it all the time. I must say that I've probably seen it more often in Shakespeare than in modern texts...

[bradrn]

I just discovered the existence of Queen Roxana, died 310 BCE.