Talk:829: Arsenic-Based Life - Revision history

76.53.240.149 at 20:00, 1 April 2026

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177.12.48.45 at 21:14, 12 August 2025

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172.70.134.161: wikihow editor

2024-11-24T13:34:45Z

wikihow editor

42.book.addict at 19:12, 5 November 2024

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Agusbou2015: I forgot to sign.

2023-02-08T20:25:41Z

I forgot to sign.

Agusbou2015 at 20:25, 8 February 2023

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Weatherlawyer at 21:33, 24 January 2015

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RyanofTinellb at 01:18, 30 December 2014

2014-12-30T01:18:45Z

141.101.102.216: Pronounciation-related question

2014-12-27T15:24:28Z

Pronounciation-related question

173.245.50.84 at 12:53, 29 January 2014

2014-01-29T12:53:50Z

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	My recollection, as an active wikiHow editor in 2010, is that while wikiHow had articles about parties and events, there was no article by that title when this comic was published. It was created ''Malamanteau'' style after the comic was brought to the attention of the wikiHow community. Since wikiHow unfortunately no longer makes article history available to the public, I checked it from my inactive account. The article was created on Dec 3 with an explicit instruction to lace the drinks with arsenic, nominated for deletion 2 days later for "inaccuracy", and remade on Dec 27 in a safe and mostly serious form, retaining the quoted line from the comic as the 7th of 8 steps. As of 2024, it still exists in a substantially similar form to that version, but is marked as a stub which hides it from search engines and most readers. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.161\|172.70.134.161]] 13:34, 24 November 2024 (UTC)		My recollection, as an active wikiHow editor in 2010, is that while wikiHow had articles about parties and events, there was no article by that title when this comic was published. It was created ''Malamanteau'' style after the comic was brought to the attention of the wikiHow community. Since wikiHow unfortunately no longer makes article history available to the public, I checked it from my inactive account. The article was created on Dec 3 with an explicit instruction to lace the drinks with arsenic, nominated for deletion 2 days later for "inaccuracy", and remade on Dec 27 in a safe and mostly serious form, retaining the quoted line from the comic as the 7th of 8 steps. As of 2024, it still exists in a substantially similar form to that version, but is marked as a stub which hides it from search engines and most readers. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.161\|172.70.134.161]] 13:34, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
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		+	Unfortunately it looks like the arsenic based life paper was retracted last year :( https://www.science.org/content/article/fifteen-years-later-science-retracts-arsenic-life-paper-despite-study-authors[[Special:Contributions/76.53.240.149\|76.53.240.149]] 20:00, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

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 ::"Hors d'oeuvres" is English; ''"hors d'œuvre"'' (with a ligature and without the trailing ''s'') is French. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84|173.245.50.84]] 12:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 :::I am dumbfounded at the pronounciation part of the explanation. Do you really pronounce it with the "r" sound before the "v" sound? Why would you do that? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.102.216|141.101.102.216]] 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 :::: Basing my pronunciation on what I heard in the TV series ''Bewitched'', I get something like /ɔːˈdɜːv/. In a rhotic accent, this would be /ɔ:ɹˈdɜːɹv/. [[User:RyanofTinellb|RyanofTinellb]] ([[User talk:RyanofTinellb|talk]]) 01:18, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 :::::None the less angicised it is pronounced ordurves. Arsenic is a pick-me-up in low doses and widely used at one time to show off horses, especially at sales. Many people died through its abuse in the good old days. Many creatures exist on poisonous habitats. On one Nat Geo show they had bison in Yellowstone eating arsenic rich vegetation in winter.

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	I have heard there is a grass in Amlwch's old copper quarry that can grow in copper rich soil that kills everything else.		I have heard there is a grass in Amlwch's old copper quarry that can grow in copper rich soil that kills everything else.
	Not sure how true any of that is but plenty of creatures live in extreme heat and pressure environments. [[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 21:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)		Not sure how true any of that is but plenty of creatures live in extreme heat and pressure environments. [[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 21:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
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		+	My recollection, as an active wikiHow editor in 2010, is that while wikiHow had articles about parties and events, there was no article by that title when this comic was published. It was created ''Malamanteau'' style after the comic was brought to the attention of the wikiHow community. Since wikiHow unfortunately no longer makes article history available to the public, I checked it from my inactive account. The article was created on Dec 3 with an explicit instruction to lace the drinks with arsenic, nominated for deletion 2 days later for "inaccuracy", and remade on Dec 27 in a safe and mostly serious form, retaining the quoted line from the comic as the 7th of 8 steps. As of 2024, it still exists in a substantially similar form to that version, but is marked as a stub which hides it from search engines and most readers. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.161\|172.70.134.161]] 13:34, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

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	I have heard there is a grass in Amlwch's old copper quarry that can grow in copper rich soil that kills everything else.		I have heard there is a grass in Amlwch's old copper quarry that can grow in copper rich soil that kills everything else.
−		+	Not sure how true any of that is but plenty of creatures live in extreme heat and pressure environments. [[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 21:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
−	Not sure how true any of that is but plenty of creatures live in extreme heat and pressure environments.
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−	[[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 21:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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 :::: Basing my pronunciation on what I heard in the TV series ''Bewitched'', I get something like /ɔːˈdɜːv/. In a rhotic accent, this would be /ɔ:ɹˈdɜːɹv/. [[User:RyanofTinellb|RyanofTinellb]] ([[User talk:RyanofTinellb|talk]]) 01:18, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 :::::None the less angicised it is pronounced ordurves. Arsenic is a pick-me-up in low doses and widely used at one time to show off horses, especially at sales. Many people died through its abuse in the good old days. Many creatures exist on poisonous habitats. On one Nat Geo show they had bison in Yellowstone eating arsenic rich vegetation in winter.
-::::::Here's the wikiHow article: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Event-Entertaining
+::::::Here's the wikiHow article: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Event-Entertaining [[User:Agusbou2015|Agusbou2015]] ([[User talk:Agusbou2015|talk]]) 20:25, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
 I have heard there is a grass in Amlwch's old copper quarry that can grow in copper rich soil that kills everything else.

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	:::I am dumbfounded at the pronounciation part of the explanation. Do you really pronounce it with the "r" sound before the "v" sound? Why would you do that? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.102.216\|141.101.102.216]] 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)		:::I am dumbfounded at the pronounciation part of the explanation. Do you really pronounce it with the "r" sound before the "v" sound? Why would you do that? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.102.216\|141.101.102.216]] 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
	:::: Basing my pronunciation on what I heard in the TV series ''Bewitched'', I get something like /ɔːˈdɜːv/. In a rhotic accent, this would be /ɔ:ɹˈdɜːɹv/. [[User:RyanofTinellb\|RyanofTinellb]] ([[User talk:RyanofTinellb\|talk]]) 01:18, 30 December 2014 (UTC)		:::: Basing my pronunciation on what I heard in the TV series ''Bewitched'', I get something like /ɔːˈdɜːv/. In a rhotic accent, this would be /ɔ:ɹˈdɜːɹv/. [[User:RyanofTinellb\|RyanofTinellb]] ([[User talk:RyanofTinellb\|talk]]) 01:18, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
		+	:::::None the less angicised it is pronounced ordurves. Arsenic is a pick-me-up in low doses and widely used at one time to show off horses, especially at sales. Many people died through its abuse in the good old days. Many creatures exist on poisonous habitats. On one Nat Geo show they had bison in Yellowstone eating arsenic rich vegetation in winter.
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		+	I have heard there is a grass in Amlwch's old copper quarry that can grow in copper rich soil that kills everything else.
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		+	Not sure how true any of that is but plenty of creatures live in extreme heat and pressure environments.
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		+	[[User:Weatherlawyer\| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer\|talk]]) 21:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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	::"Hors d'oeuvres" is English; ''"hors d'œuvre"'' (with a ligature and without the trailing ''s'') is French. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84\|173.245.50.84]] 12:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)		::"Hors d'oeuvres" is English; ''"hors d'œuvre"'' (with a ligature and without the trailing ''s'') is French. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84\|173.245.50.84]] 12:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
	:::I am dumbfounded at the pronounciation part of the explanation. Do you really pronounce it with the "r" sound before the "v" sound? Why would you do that? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.102.216\|141.101.102.216]] 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)		:::I am dumbfounded at the pronounciation part of the explanation. Do you really pronounce it with the "r" sound before the "v" sound? Why would you do that? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.102.216\|141.101.102.216]] 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
		+	:::: Basing my pronunciation on what I heard in the TV series ''Bewitched'', I get something like /ɔːˈdɜːv/. In a rhotic accent, this would be /ɔ:ɹˈdɜːɹv/. [[User:RyanofTinellb\|RyanofTinellb]] ([[User talk:RyanofTinellb\|talk]]) 01:18, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

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	:I do not talk French but my dictionary tells me that "d'œuvre" (without the trailing ''s'') is correct. Thanks for your hint, explanation is updated.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:41, 24 October 2013 (UTC)		:I do not talk French but my dictionary tells me that "d'œuvre" (without the trailing ''s'') is correct. Thanks for your hint, explanation is updated.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:41, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
	::"Hors d'oeuvres" is English; ''"hors d'œuvre"'' (with a ligature and without the trailing ''s'') is French. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84\|173.245.50.84]] 12:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)		::"Hors d'oeuvres" is English; ''"hors d'œuvre"'' (with a ligature and without the trailing ''s'') is French. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84\|173.245.50.84]] 12:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
		+	:::I am dumbfounded at the pronounciation part of the explanation. Do you really pronounce it with the "r" sound before the "v" sound? Why would you do that? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.102.216\|141.101.102.216]] 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

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	Maybe it is to be noted that in the comic, "serve cocktails and hors d'oerves" should have been written "serve cocktails and hors d'<b>œuvres</b>"? [[Special:Contributions/194.254.109.166\|194.254.109.166]] 15:14, 24 October 2013 (UTC)		Maybe it is to be noted that in the comic, "serve cocktails and hors d'oerves" should have been written "serve cocktails and hors d'<b>œuvres</b>"? [[Special:Contributions/194.254.109.166\|194.254.109.166]] 15:14, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
	:I do not talk French but my dictionary tells me that "d'œuvre" (without the trailing ''s'') is correct. Thanks for your hint, explanation is updated.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:41, 24 October 2013 (UTC)		:I do not talk French but my dictionary tells me that "d'œuvre" (without the trailing ''s'') is correct. Thanks for your hint, explanation is updated.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 19:41, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
		+	::"Hors d'oeuvres" is English; ''"hors d'œuvre"'' (with a ligature and without the trailing ''s'') is French. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84\|173.245.50.84]] 12:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)