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Thursday, May 8, 2008, 4:14pm ET

I was gonna make a Mitt Romney joke. But then I thought a lot of you wouldn't get it. Then I was gonna make a Schrodinger's cat joke, but then I thought even less of you would get it. Then it turned into a Schrodinger's LOLcat joke, but that was just getting stupid. And that's been done already.

So I went with what you see now; not my best work but it took me like 2 weeks to come up with two words that mean the opposite of each other, both of which you can be at the same time. There's credible and incredible, but they don't make for a good joke. Then there's flammable and inflammable, but as you all know, they actually mean the same thing. Here's a video of Marina from HotForWords.com explaining why.


Obviously her looks are the big reason Marina's so popular, but she does know her shit, as an actual philologist. She's not my type, but hell, put ANYONE in front of a camera telling me about the etymology of words and I'm hooked.

Regarding this old comic, here she is explaining the origin of the phrase "gird your loins" (God, these stillframes are making my site look all smutty).



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