When I was in the fifth grade, one of my teachers was a former police officer. During our P.E. class, he had us do a number of exercises, which he would direct by calling out their names (running in place, sit-ups, etc).
At one point, he called for "Side-straddle hops", which resulted in our general confusion. We stood in the field, not knowing what he asked for. He decided to demonstrate, and we immediately identified the exercise as "Jumping Jacks".
I guessed that the name was not used by the LAPD Academy because it sounded silly.

I see a Disney movie coming up with this. Kind of like "Cool Runnings".
Plucky girl and her cow aim for Olympics Dressage.

I fenced when I was in college. It was fun, but I wasn't very good at it. Like any other fighting sport, it takes a lot of practice to get really good, and there's a big difference between expert and average. Sometimes we would go two or three against the top fencer in our group. We would rarely win. That gave me a visceral understanding of the old quote, "God made some men small, and some men large; but Colt made them all equal."

I only ♥-ed this for its title alone xD hahaha

"Because I don't judge you--at least publicly." LOL
I have to use that sometime.

Here in Westfield, we even have a sweet statue in the center of town to celebrate the exact moment lil Grace told Honest Abe to quit shavin' those badass whiskers. We put hats and scarves on them in the winter. True story.
http://www.westfieldny.com/

*strokes his mighty beard*

I am proud of you, O noble bristly forest of manliness

Now, there's a neat conversation starter!

omg it's coming true

I live in Montreal and I go to this place occasionally. It is indeed stunning. If you like stained glass, some of our metro (subway) stations also have impressive stained glass.

A doorbell chime, padlock. You play the chimes in a certain order to unlock your front door. It didn't take off very well, because anyone within 100 meters in every direction was going to hear the combination.

I Heart Science, Black XL

I wanted to post something about a low-budget Dalek yelling, "Urinate! Urinate!", but I see in the YouTube comments that Doctor Who lives in our brains.

Jeez, couldn't you have found an old James Bond shot that made the same point about Sean Connery? Zardoz makes me queasy.

It's called a Wonut because woe betide anyone who eats one.

It makes me sad. Woman have been starving themselves and now men do too. Those are a lot of hoops to jump through for acting.