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Nihilistic Mystic
I have been having a lot of struggles lately, and a friend told me to just take baby steps, so I taped babies to my feet. Much better now
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My wife said I have no sense of direction at all, so I packed my bags and right.
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When does Friday come before Thursday? In the dictionary.
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I used to play piano by ear but now I use my hands.
TeDaDeS
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My wife asked me to put ketchup on the grocery list...
but now I can't read the list anymore.
but now I can't read the list anymore.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup
Amoy theory
A popular folk etymology is that the word came to English from the Cantonese keh jup. The word keh means 'eggplant'; tomato in Cantonese is 番茄, which literally translates to 'foreign eggplant'.
Another theory among academics is that the word derives from one of two words from Hokkien of the Fujian region of coastal southern China: kôe-chiap (in Xiamen and Quanzhou) or kê-chiap[30][31] (in Zhangzhou). Both of these words (膎汁, kôe-chiap and kêchiap) come from either the Quanzhou dialect, Amoy dialect, or Zhangzhou dialect of Hokkien, where it meant the brine of pickled fish (膎, 'meat'; 汁, 'juice') or shellfish. There are citations of koe-chiap in the Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of the Amoy from 1873, defined as "brine of pickled fish or shell-fish".
Malay theory
Ketchup may have entered the English language from the Malay word kicap. Originally meaning 'soy sauce', the word itself derives from the Chinese terms.
In Indonesian cuisine, which is similar to Malay, the term kecap refers to fermented savory sauces. Two main types are well known in their cuisine: kecap asin which translates to 'salty kecap' in Indonesian (a salty soy sauce) and kecap manis or 'sweet kecap' in Indonesian. Kecap manis is a sweet soy sauce that is a mixture of soy sauce with brown sugar, molasses, garlic, ginger, anise, coriander and a bay leaf reduced over medium heat until rather syrupy. A third type, kecap ikan, meaning 'fish kecap' is fish sauce similar to the Thai nam pla or the Philippine patis. It is not, however, soy-based.
European-Arabic theory
American anthropologist E. N. Anderson relies on Elizabeth David to claim that ketchup is a cognate of the French escaveche, meaning 'food in sauce'.[34] The word also exists in Spanish and Portuguese forms as escabeche, 'a sauce for pickling', which culinary historian Karen Hess traced back to Arabic kabees, or 'pickling with vinegar'. The term was anglicized to caveach, a word first attested in the late 17th century, at the same time as ketchup.
Amoy theory
A popular folk etymology is that the word came to English from the Cantonese keh jup. The word keh means 'eggplant'; tomato in Cantonese is 番茄, which literally translates to 'foreign eggplant'.
Another theory among academics is that the word derives from one of two words from Hokkien of the Fujian region of coastal southern China: kôe-chiap (in Xiamen and Quanzhou) or kê-chiap[30][31] (in Zhangzhou). Both of these words (膎汁, kôe-chiap and kêchiap) come from either the Quanzhou dialect, Amoy dialect, or Zhangzhou dialect of Hokkien, where it meant the brine of pickled fish (膎, 'meat'; 汁, 'juice') or shellfish. There are citations of koe-chiap in the Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of the Amoy from 1873, defined as "brine of pickled fish or shell-fish".
Malay theory
Ketchup may have entered the English language from the Malay word kicap. Originally meaning 'soy sauce', the word itself derives from the Chinese terms.
In Indonesian cuisine, which is similar to Malay, the term kecap refers to fermented savory sauces. Two main types are well known in their cuisine: kecap asin which translates to 'salty kecap' in Indonesian (a salty soy sauce) and kecap manis or 'sweet kecap' in Indonesian. Kecap manis is a sweet soy sauce that is a mixture of soy sauce with brown sugar, molasses, garlic, ginger, anise, coriander and a bay leaf reduced over medium heat until rather syrupy. A third type, kecap ikan, meaning 'fish kecap' is fish sauce similar to the Thai nam pla or the Philippine patis. It is not, however, soy-based.
European-Arabic theory
American anthropologist E. N. Anderson relies on Elizabeth David to claim that ketchup is a cognate of the French escaveche, meaning 'food in sauce'.[34] The word also exists in Spanish and Portuguese forms as escabeche, 'a sauce for pickling', which culinary historian Karen Hess traced back to Arabic kabees, or 'pickling with vinegar'. The term was anglicized to caveach, a word first attested in the late 17th century, at the same time as ketchup.
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Can anyone tell me what oblivious means, because I have no idea.
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I have a joke about nepotism, but I'll only give it to my kids.
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Which vegetable do sailors hate the most?
Leeks.
Leeks.
TeDaDeS
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I'll tell you a joke about procrastination...
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I was cold so I sat in a corner.
The corner was 90 degrees.
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As I handed my Dad his 50th birthday card, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said…
“You know, one would have been enough.”
“You know, one would have been enough.”
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I’m done being a people pleaser.
If everyone’s ok with that.
If everyone’s ok with that.
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Once my dog ate all the Scrabble tiles.
He kept leaving little messages around the house.
He kept leaving little messages around the house.
TeDaDeS
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Why did no one tell me Albert Einstein was a real person?
I thought he was just a theoretical physicist.
I thought he was just a theoretical physicist.
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"Why is Peter sitting in the fridge?"
“The recipe said, rest in the fridge for 1 hour.”
“The recipe said, rest in the fridge for 1 hour.”
Well, that's relative.
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If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.
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The bartender says, “We don’t serve time travelers here.”
A time traveler walks into a bar.
A time traveler walks into a bar.
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I have two very nice lamps in my living room. We have an on-and-off relationship.
