In high school we had a mid-year transfer student, a real hillbilly from mountains of SW Virginia. He was butt of jokes for his raggedy clothes, bowl haircut and notable accent and quaint expressions. It wasn't til, in English Lit class, when the teacher asked him to give the meaning of a particularly difficult Shakespearean sonnet that we realized he had a gift.....He was able to perfectly reckon the meaning of the (quite foreign to us) antiquated passage. His isolated mountain home carried on the linguist tradition of early 1700 English settlers without impact from outsiders. He told us his area hadn't received electricity until after he was born, in 1952.

He quickly became accepted as 'the kid who talked like Shakespeare' and he 'learned' us Yanee kids lots of useful words like 'ken' (know), 'kith and kin' (family and relatives) and other obtuse turns of phrases. Still remember many, to this day.

>Corn was domesticated about 10,000 years ago, in what is now Mexico.[3] Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for thousands of years. Fossil evidence from Peru suggests that corn was popped as early as 4,700 BC.

Wow. I didn't know this! Love thinking of Native Americans enjoying popcorn for thousands of years before the rest of the world.

If they had just put a set of ball-chain down each of the bore, they might have won the war. On second thought, maybe it was for the best they were a bunch of dummies.

When I was a little kid that scene was used as a threat for punishment. If I misbehaved I would be forced to watch it.

Naively I thought the kernels were processed a certain way 😛

Because that is way too sensible and effective. Navies had been doing that for a long time. The failure here is so predictable, you can't get the split second synchronization you need between the two barrels, so one fires first, snapping the chain.

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Why not just put the two cannon ball attached by chain down the bore of one cannon?

That day was also the invention of the first hamburger.

It's been widely regarded as a bad move.

That’s too many damn cows killed on the field of battle

My mind auto-filled with "descriptive term for corn that has been popped".

This is my first indoor movie…. I was 8

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One more idiocy brought by the Confederates

There’s the Bad News Bears(1976) a movie about a youth baseball team being coached by an old alcoholic who recruits a girl. It’s a weird relationship, don’t think about it.

One kid says (I’m sorry) “Jews, Spics, Ni**ers, and now A GIRL??”. He says that multiple times I think.

This movie was a smashing success that inspired many sequels, including one set in Tokyo.

You guessed it, PG lol. It was just around before anything else.

Fun fact: this movie starred Jackie Earle Haley, who played Rorschach in Watchmen and Freddy Krueger in the 2010 remake. He’s a slightly-older child who smokes cigarettes, rides his dirt bike onto the field, hits on older women, and hits dingers during intentional walks to win the game.

"Popcorn" describes corn that pops. It is exactly a descriptive term.

Wouldn't that 20% then inherit 100% of the lice, thusly eliminating them?

Athens Georgia. I lived there when I was a kid. This canon is really close to the tree that owns itself.

Then the mom came outside: "What are you boys doing out there? Why does it smell like smoke?"

The first person on earth was conscious, intelligent and educated, and the first person to wear clothes.

Never seen The Patriot tbh, but thanks for the info, it's something I shall have to research further.

That was it!!! My sister used to walk around singing that creepy song to freak me out. Unlocked memory right there

Ahah mi fanno morire

Saw it in the theatre. The last movie that legit gave me nightmares.