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We’re proud to announce four new additions to the mental_floss line:
Scuba Diving: Keep Your Friends Close and Anemones Closer
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Ambiguity: What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness
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I Avoid Clichés Like the Plague
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Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally[Also available in fitted women's sizes.]
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Hah! I have an Aunt Sally. That picture’s not too far off either. I know what she’s getting this year.
Love the new shirts!
posted by Tracie on 11-4-2009 at 1:04 am
I would probably buy a lot of shirts from here if postage weren’t so expensive to Australia!!
posted by Lola on 11-4-2009 at 1:53 am
When are you going to post these tee shirts in women’s sizes?
posted by Kate on 11-4-2009 at 8:37 am
Kate, the women’s sizes ought to be up shortly. We had a color issue with the art, and once that’s resolved they’ll be up — look for them later today!
posted by Terri on 11-4-2009 at 10:12 am
I love the cliches one! Oh who can I buy that for for Christmas?
posted by Kels on 11-4-2009 at 10:15 am
LOL! I did all my schooling in French so I didn’t get the “Dear Aunt Sally” reference. I found it on Wikipedia though! Now I can sleep at night!
posted by Ranger J on 11-4-2009 at 10:25 am
Ambiguity! HA!
posted by Hyacinth on 11-4-2009 at 10:43 am
Bummer you have to have the cigarette on that Aunt Sally Shirt. I would totally buy one and wear it to school. Schools kind of frown on the whole tobacco thing. Unless of course that wasn’t your intended audience anyway.
posted by Scott on 11-4-2009 at 12:29 pm
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally is the order of operations. Perentheses, exponents, multiply, divide, add, subtract. What does that have to do with French?
posted by Ian on 11-4-2009 at 2:21 pm
Wow. I had really missed the boat on the Aunt Sally one, even after Ian’s explanation. In Canada we use a different acronym (in French & English) because we use “Brackets” in lieu of “Parentheses”.
posted by ab on 11-4-2009 at 3:22 pm
Leave it to Canada to use brackets…
What’s the acronym you use?
posted by graham on 11-4-2009 at 4:45 pm
haha only in canada! theyre like americas hat! but really, we use brackets too, but we use parentheses too
posted by Ian on 11-4-2009 at 7:56 pm
I came to check out the comments hoping that someone would explain Aunt Sally. I’m Canadian too, here we use the mnemonic “BEDMAS”- Brackets Exponents Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction.
posted by Kie on 11-5-2009 at 9:39 am
BEDMAS!
posted by Amanda on 11-5-2009 at 7:06 pm
BEDMAS!?! how do you teach that better eat dat awesome squash? lol
posted by Ian on 11-5-2009 at 10:52 pm
Ian, you forgot the M, so maybe it could be: better eat dat mad awesome squash
posted by Christi on 11-8-2009 at 9:27 pm
We don’t make a sentence out if it, it’s just the word “BEDMAS”. It’s easy enough to remember, helped me through high school math.
posted by Kie on 11-9-2009 at 12:47 am
we say BIMDAS down under – brackets, indices, mult, div, add, subtract
posted by mike on 11-9-2009 at 8:10 am