andrewta@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 months agoWhy does the aurora borealis appear to be white in the sky but in pictures it has nice coloration?message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhy does the aurora borealis appear to be white in the sky but in pictures it has nice coloration?andrewta@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareall-knight-party@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoWait… Did you really just use the Benjamin Franklin grandma pussy quote for this?
minus-squareall-knight-party@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistress?wprov=sfla1 Learn and be scarred
minus-squaresfbing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoFrom reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
minus-squareall-knight-party@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoThat would make sense, cleverly recontextualizing a regular saying. It would fit the tone of the letter to do that humorously
minus-squareVisualBuilder4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoOh. I didn’t know this was a thing. In my mother tongue (German) it is like a normal expression.
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 months ago Nachts sind alle Katzen grau https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachts_sind_alle_Katzen_grau Apparently it was originally adapted from Don Quixote
Wait… Did you really just use the Benjamin Franklin grandma pussy quote for this?
Excuse me the what now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistress?wprov=sfla1
Learn and be scarred
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From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
That would make sense, cleverly recontextualizing a regular saying. It would fit the tone of the letter to do that humorously
Oh. I didn’t know this was a thing. In my mother tongue (German) it is like a normal expression.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachts_sind_alle_Katzen_grau
Apparently it was originally adapted from Don Quixote