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On 14/11/2023 at 14:04, HeartsOfficialMoaner said:

It's a weird name. Doesn't look like how it is pronounced. It's no wonder the boy couldn't find the place, nobody understood where he was looking for.

Add to that, Edinburgh does this thing where they have two street names on the same street. There is Sciennes and Sciennes Rd. Built on this corner is Sienna Gardens. Delivery drivers and others always getting lost around there.

There was a convent in the 16th Century dedicated to St Catherine of Siena in the area (hence St Catherine's Place)

Siena got corrupted to Sciennes ("Sheens") by the locals over time. Siena Gardens is a fairly new street compared to surrounding streets and perhaps should have been called Sciennes Gardens (PTTGOYN w@nky developers who give new estate streets names that don't fit in with older streets round about).

Now, you're a real Southsider if you can pronounce Montague Street correctly ..

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5 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

There was a convent in the 16th Century dedicated to St Catherine of Siena in the area (hence St Catherine's Place)

Siena got corrupted to Sciennes ("Sheens") by the locals over time. Siena Gardens is a fairly new street compared to surrounding streets and perhaps should have been called Sciennes Gardens (PTTGOYN w@nky developers who give new estate streets names that don't fit in with older streets round about).

Now, you're a real Southsider if you can pronounce Montague Street correctly ..

Mun*****gie Street.

ETA - I knew the filter would do that.

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1 hour ago, scottsdad said:

I must have watched this loads of times as a kid. Only when Nichelle Nichols died and they mentioned that they kept this ad-libbed line in the show did the penny drop.

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That's two threads in a row I've opened and you're talking about Star Trek. This isn't the Big Bang Theory you know 

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On 12/11/2023 at 16:01, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

Did you know there is a hidden button on the bottom of the crossing control box?

It turns to let blind people know it's safe to cross.

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Is that not why it bleeps?

On 13/11/2023 at 10:12, RH33 said:

Moob support.

There was a female commentator on MoTD called it a sport's bra last weekend, silly sausage.

On 14/11/2023 at 10:09, coprolite said:

I was well into my twenties before realising that "-san" was a Japanese suffix and that Mr Miagi wasn't calling the Karate Kid "Daniel, son"

Watched Richard Chamberlain in Shogun and it stuck in my head, still randomly come out with Hi anjin-san, when my wife asks me something.

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