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"Mastodon" is one that works in the opposite direction, because finding out that it means "boob tooth" sparks no penny-drop moment whatsoever.

Steve K 🎃

More etymological discussion - re Ukrainian tryzub - between me (in blue) and @korystamper.bsky.social (in gray)

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French guy in 1806, looking at a mastodon fossil: "You know what's distinctive about this giant elephant with huge long curved tusks and a big old cyclops hole in the middle of its skull?" His buddy: "I'm guessing it's..." The guy: "That's right! The tops of its back teeth look like nipples!"

Ответ для Angus Johnston

I get it. It's 1806, you're out on an archeological dig in the middle of nowhere where there's no internet, and you start thinking about boobs. Suddenly everything is a boob. We've all been there.

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French guy exploring the American west: you are not going to believe what I think these mountains look like

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The protopunk lower east side hippie band the Fugs once did a wonderfully stupid, wonderfully infectious song called "Boobs A Lot," which concludes with a spoken-word line I think of all the goddamn time: "You gotta like something. And I sure like boobs."

Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈

I get it. It's 1806, you're out on an archeological dig in the middle of nowhere where there's no internet, and you start thinking about boobs. Suddenly everything is a boob. We've all been there.

Ответ для Angus Johnston

Look, if nineteenth-century French guys knew anything, they knew breasts

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Same dude named the Grand Tetons, I'm sure of it.