Ishaan comments on Rationality Quotes December 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ishaan 22 December 2013 04:57:19AM *  0 points [-]

I'm going to guess you have at one point watched this "Phineas and Ferb" episode, and then forgot it. There's a song and the chorus is "A-G-L-E-T don't forget it".

If that's how it happened, it's pretty amusing, because one of the running gags was that Candace kept going on about how there was absolutely no need for anyone to know the word aglet, and she became frustrated when it started catching on everywhere.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 22 December 2013 07:37:05AM 2 points [-]

My brain has, in the intervening weeks, offered up a memory of learning the word "aglet" from a Reader's Digest vocabulary quiz in my childhood. That said, your explanation is much better than mind, despite being false, so I'm tempted to accept it as the official story of why I know the word "aglet".

On this site, I really ought to be downvoted for that sentiment, I suppose.