Talk:829: Arsenic-Based Life
What a waste of good poison, the food at conferences usually does that on it's own anyways. Davidy22[talk] 13:27, 8 January 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'œuvres"? 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.--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. 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? 141.101.102.216 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
- "Colonel" 177.12.48.45 21:14, 12 August 2025 (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/. 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 Agusbou2015 (talk) 20:25, 8 February 2023 (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.
- 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? 141.101.102.216 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
- "Hors d'oeuvres" is English; "hors d'œuvre" (with a ligature and without the trailing s) is French. 173.245.50.84 12:53, 29 January 2014 (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. Not sure how true any of that is but plenty of creatures live in extreme heat and pressure environments. I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 21:33, 24 January 2015 (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. 172.70.134.161 13:34, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
