I'm trying to prove a point. Without looking it up, what are these?

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• Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglet. Thanks Phineas and Ferb!

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  • FermatsLastAccount@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don't forget it

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Terraria for me

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    • GreentheNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Terraria made me think they were some sort of instrument because of how it looked.

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• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m too old to know what Phineas and Ferb is, but when I was young I used to love knowing obscure words like:

  • The indent between your upper lip and your nose is called the philtrum (more commonly known now because of piercings

  • The recess on the bottom of a wine bottle is called a punt.

  • The infinity symbol (like a sideways 8) is a lemniscate

  • The cap on the pointy end of an umbrella, or any other tubular thing (including a pencil) is called a ferrule

  • The space between your eyebrows is your glabella

  Etc. Anyway, aglet was one of those. I was always so happy when I had an opportunity to use one (“Oh, man, my aglet broke!”).

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  • SariEverna@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And the infinity symbol is likely related to the analemma, the shape the sun traces out over the course of a year.

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  • arashikage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The cardboard ring around a coffee cup is called a Zarf

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  • gencha@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These are awesome! Thanks

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  • ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Another fun one: the # symbol is an octothorpe

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  • waz@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But are you old enough to remember Tom Cruise discussing them in the film Cocktail? (in the cinema on the original release‽ )

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    • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, it came out when I was 26, but I don’t think I saw it.

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• OldWomanoftheWoods@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglets.

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• BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglets, and it’s 100% due to Phineas and Ferb

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  • Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A-G-L-E-T

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    • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don't forget it!

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• pozbo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Telomeres for your shoestrings

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  • Pinklink@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like you

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• Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglet. Not Phineas & Ferb. Terraria.

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• Eamona6533@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglet. Thanks phineas and ferb!

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  • SammyBecker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got it from simpsons lol

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• Naura@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglet - phineas and ferb

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• BKBenji@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I personally don’t know what they’re called but to my cat that’s called food.

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• SeriousNick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglets. Terraria my beloved.

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• Oinkzilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglets

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• GrimSheeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglet. Another shout-out to Phineas and Ferb.

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• Gleddified@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglet. Archie comics did a bit on them, that’s where I learned

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• ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglet - Jimmy Neutron

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• WorldlyIntrospection@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Easy. The 80s and older crowd will have some inherit eldritch knowledge or have no idea. But everyone else will know it from Jimmy Neutron.
  *scrolling through the comments, seeing Phineas and Ferb everywhere"

  I’m only in my mid twenties. Y’all need to stop making me feel old.

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  • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know it from an Archie comic I read in the 90’s

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  • ImADifferentBird@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know it from Justice League Unlimited.

    https://youtu.be/QkEBvqaXXHc

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• Dave_r@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shoes.

  Shoes, with the Aglets of the laces resting upon them.

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• Poggervania@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  OP, they’re obviously called aglets.

  Didn’t Phineas and Ferb teach you anything?

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  • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly the point I'm trying to prove 😉

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• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  🎶 A, G, L, E, T, Aglets! Don’t forget it 🎶

  ^^^One word at a time^^^

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• ImADifferentBird@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglets.

  And their true purpose is sinister.

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  • PenguinJuice@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What's their true purpose?

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    • ArgentRaven@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      THAT is… The Question.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What, the shoes?

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• vektor@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglets. Learned that from Phineas and Ferb.

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• 2d@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglets, if you’re talking about the ends on the laces, and please update why you’re asking lol

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  • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My thinking is that the aglet is a well known word these days, but if you were to poll a group, it would be mostly younger people who know what it is. Because of Phineas and Ferb.

    I'm glad so many people responded and most people got it right! But, I'll have to do a real poll to figure out if there's any actual correlation here, and also account for the fact that people who know what it is were more likely to answer than those who don't.

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• Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You wanna maybe use a red circle mate?

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• dogpound@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ferrule

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  • Odelay42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ferrule is the round metal thing the aglet goes through

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• Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A picture of a shoe, with laces, which have plastic aglets on the ends.

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  • themusicman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ceci n’est pas une aglet

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    • deveaux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      C’est deux aglets.

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• Death2lois@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I only know they are aglets thanks to “Repossessed!” Fantastic spoof of The Exorcist with Leslie Neilson and Linda Blair (from the original). Blair played Nancy Aglet and fought possession again. They made a joke about her name that got the word weirdly stuck in my brain. “We’ve tried everything the devil hates. Sex, drugs, rock and roll…”

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  • Lifes_Like_Plinko@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Saw a post here recently about a ‘reverse exorcism,’ in which the devil tries to get the priest out of the child.

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    • Death2lois@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh my… lol. Not sure if I could handle that one, maybe as a gag bit in a larger comedy/parody…

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  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    (during a wrestling match between the priest and the possessed woman)
    "You know, Mean Gene, professional wrestlers don't use steroids anymore!"
    "Or any LESS!"

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  • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not the reasoning I would have expected, but interesting nonetheless

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• RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I knew a kid once who said when he grew up that he wanted to be the guy that puts the aglets on shoelaces.

  I don’t know what ever happened to him, but I like to think he found his calling in shoe plastics.

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• octoperson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re aglets. I believe Phineas and Ferb is a cartoon, but I’ve never seen it.

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• SCmSTR@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shoes? Maybe Reeboks?

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  • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the result I was hoping for

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• ArugulaZ@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.

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