Gyroscopic Investing

These are definitely excellent names!

Mad Cow Disease

I always thought Sleeping Sickness sounded like a pretty chill way to die.

Munchausen Syndrome

Ondine's curse is on that top 10 list and it's my favorite ever. It's a reference to a Greek myth.

There's also a cool name for an uncommon type of seizure: "Jacksonian March". Named after Hughling Jackson, a late 19th century physician at London's famous neurological hospital (Queen Square). The seizure type is super fascinating, and it's what led to surgeons mapping out the motor homonculous (the primary motor strip of the brain, in the posterior frontal lobe) in the 1890s and early 1900s.

I'll have to count the number of letters in #7 but when I was in high school the word "pneumonoultramicrospicsilicovolcanoconiosis" had surpassed "antidisestablishmenttarianism" as the longest word in the English language and I was the only one who could both pronounce and spell it correctly much to everyone's amazement. Isn't really that hard because it spells exactly like it sounds, once you get past the first letter.

Anyone who invents a word that long is a butthole.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 3:51 pm Anyone who invents a word that long is a butthole.

My classmates in high school probably thought that anybody that can spell and pronounce that word is a butthole but when me and my wife were watching the eruption of Mount Kilauea after having visited it the year before (best trip ever with a helicopter tour, BTW), somebody said something about the potential respiratory health consequences of being too near to the volcano and I was able to tell her, yeah they're talking about pneumonoultramicrospicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

pp4me wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 3:37 pm I'll have to count the number of letters in #7 but when I was in high school the word "pneumonoultramicrospicsilicovolcanoconiosis" had surpassed "antidisestablishmenttarianism" as the longest word in the English language and I was the only one who could both pronounce and spell it correctly much to everyone's amazement. Isn't really that hard because it spells exactly like it sounds, once you get past the first letter.

Sorry, but "antidisestablishmentarianism" only has 3 "t"s, not 4.

pp4me wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 4:17 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 3:51 pm Anyone who invents a word that long is a butthole.

My classmates in high school probably thought that anybody that can spell and pronounce that word is a butthole but when me and my wife were watching the eruption of Mount Kilauea after having visited it the year before (best trip ever with a helicopter tour, BTW), somebody said something about the potential respiratory health consequences of being too near to the volcano and I was able to tell her, yeah they're talking about pneumonoultramicrospicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

pneumonoultramicrospicsilicovolcanoconiosis —- I don’t have to google that to know you spelled it wrong. it’s got to be microscopic, not microspic.
Edit: Now that I’ve looked it up, I see the Oxford Dict lists it as a fictitious word.

Uh oh, Kriegs, that means the entire populace of Germany are buttholes.

Micropenis.

Stiff man's syndrome. Unfortunately a very real, disabling disease characterized by continuous, severe spasm of multiple muscle groups.

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:51 am

pp4me wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 4:17 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 3:51 pm Anyone who invents a word that long is a butthole.

My classmates in high school probably thought that anybody that can spell and pronounce that word is a butthole but when me and my wife were watching the eruption of Mount Kilauea after having visited it the year before (best trip ever with a helicopter tour, BTW), somebody said something about the potential respiratory health consequences of being too near to the volcano and I was able to tell her, yeah they're talking about pneumonoultramicrospicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

pneumonoultramicrospicsilicovolcanoconiosis —- I don’t have to google that to know you spelled it wrong. it’s got to be microscopic, not microspic.
Edit: Now that I’ve looked it up, I see the Oxford Dict lists it as a fictitious word.

Uh oh, Kriegs, that means the entire populace of Germany are buttholes.

Oh well, I guess my spelling skills are deteriorating just like a lot of other things. I used to routinely win spelling bees in school.

Maddy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:25 am Stiff man's syndrome. Unfortunately a very real, disabling disease characterized by continuous, severe spasm of multiple muscle groups.

It's now called "stiff person syndrome".

pp4me wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:31 am Oh well, I guess my spelling skills are deteriorating just like a lot of other things. I used to routinely win spelling bees in school.

Let’s just call it a typo.