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Learning a new language is odd because Google has caught on to the fact I'm trying to learn German and now I'm getting adverts in German but they're clearly targeted at local residents of particular places in Germany. I had one for a pottery barn and one of the main selling points in this video was that the barn was only a twenty minute walk and that I should do my part to support local business.

A twenty minute walk from where I'm not sure. I don't think that advert intended to reach England.

One time my friend shared a song with me that was partly in German and asked me if I could translate. So I listened to the song and just heard - I am an omen. I am the plague. I am the end of your days! and I just burst out laughing. I don't know what I was expecting him to play but I wasn't expecting it to be so metal.

Anyone ever went in the Millennium Dome in 2000? I did on a school trip, when I was 10. It was the most confusing place I had ever been to.

Where was this place?

Apparently the word "Google" didn't exist before the internet, but it definitely did. In the old folk song Old Zip Coon from the 1800s it said "Google" very clearly, even though it obviously wasn't about the internet but it still said the word. So it did exist.

It was coined by a 9-year-old boy named Milton Sirotta in 1920 and popularized by mathematician Edward Kasner.

OLE ZIP COON

G.W. Dixon - ca. 1835
Fiddlin' Doc Roberts


(3x) O ole Zip Coon he is a larned skoler,
Sings posum up a gum tree an conny in a holler.
(3x) Posum up a gum tree, coonny on a stump,
Den over dubble trubble, Zip coon will jump.

Chorus:
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O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day.
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O ist old Suky blue skin, she is in lub wid me
I went the udder arter noon to take a dish ob tea;
What do you tink now, Suky hab for supper,
Why chicken foot an posum heel, widout any butter.

Chorus:

Did you eber see the wild goose, sailing on de ocean,
O de wild goose motion is a berry pretty notion;
Ebry time de wild goose, beckens to de swaller,
You hear him google google google google gollar.

Chorus:

I went down to Sandy Hollar t other arternoon
And the first man I chanced to meet war ole Zip Coon;
Ole Zip Coon he is a natty scholar,
For he plays upon de Banjo “Cooney in de hollar”.

Chorus:

My old Missus she’s mad wid me,
Kase I would’nt go wid her into Tennessee
Massa build him barn and put in de fodder
Twas dis ting and dat ting one ting or odder.

Chorus:

I pose you heard ob de battle New Orleans,
Whar ole Gineral Jackson gib de British beans;
Dare de Yankee boys do de job so slick, creek.
For dey cotch old Packenham an rowed him up de first.

Chorus:

I hab many tings to tork about, but dont know wich come
So here de toast to old Zip Coon before he gin to rust;
May he hab de pretty girls, like de King ob ole,
To sing dis song so many times, ’fore he turn to mole.

Chorus:

Apparently the word "Google" didn't exist before the internet, but it definitely did. In the old folk song Old Zip Coon from the 1800s it said "Google" very clearly, even though it obviously wasn't about the internet but it still said the word. So it did exist.