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Tom Swifty's zijn een soort woordgrappen die ik eigenlijk alleen in het Engels ooit gezien had. Kennelijk is er ook een niet erg actieve subreddit voor.

Het idee is een uitspraak te maken (meestal door ene Tom) die op een pun eindigt. Ik begin maar even met een zelfbedachte en leg de grap meteen uit.

• "Dit is het eind van de rivier." sprak Tom, aanvechtend.

De Vecht is een rivier. Tom heeft het over het eind van de rivier. Hij is dus aan het e(i)nd van de Vecht. Aan Vecht End.

• "Gelukkig is dit het eind van het tulpenveld," zei Tom uitgewasse

I'm in a multiplayer BlackICE 8.4 game, and the only SS brigades I can make are SS-Panzer, SS-Panzer-Abt and SS armored support. No infantry, mot-infantry, arty, engineers, what-have-you...

At the start of the game there are a bunch of prompts regarding including SS in the game, but I don't know which one will allow me to build custom divisions. I'm pretty sure I selected no separate command structure for SS, and a-historical full divisions. But I did get a few event spawned ones.

What are the options I need to select to build all the ss-brigades? Alternatively, can I do some save file editing?

A long time ago I saw what might have been some kind of joke image, or perhaps some kind of haha-only serious picture. It was of a guy behind his computer, and he had some kind of black balaclava on with a fabric funnel instead of the eye-hole. The large end of the funnel was stretched over the screen. The idea being that the sun would not shine onto his screen. It might have been at a LANparty that could be seen in the background.

This isn't in our regular chapter schedule. There were a few people interested in having a post for discussing the whole book now that we're done with it.

Nowadays we've all heard how weird our own voice sounds, but back then the recorded speaker must have been like: "That sounds nothing like me at all." Someone else in the room would insist that it did sound like them.

Via a different subreddit I encountered this paper. The authors place European political parties on two orthogonal axis, while claiming that these axis are well established in the literature. On the latter I can agree, I've been seeing figures like this one for many years since my fists civics classes in highschool.

My question is: What is the motivation behind these axes?

Let me explain: The image I showed above suggests that if I were to do Principal Component Analysis* on actual parties, I'd get different axes. But