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Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social |
“Brain worms” is one of those metaphorical tropes we use so much, I forget it had a literal origin!
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Danny Pinion
@sirala6.bsky.social
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Former lover quoted as saying, "That's not the ONLY dead worm he's dragging around, if you know what I mean."
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Phasmatic
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I thought it must have come from the scene in Star Trek II where Kahn takes over Chekov’s brain with a worm.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy
@elandobbs.bsky.social
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You ever do that joke where you purse your fingers and put them against someone’s head and say “what’s this?” and when they ask what you say “it’s a brain sucker. know what it’s doing?” and when they say what you say “starving to death”?
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Gertrude The Squid 🐙
@gertrudethesquid.bsky.social
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In this case, the literal and the figurative may both be true.
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Phil
@keeptheskyblue.bsky.social
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That's what the brain worms want so that they can feed in peace. 🧠🪱
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Emotional Support Locomotive
@trainboy.bsky.social
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Lisan al ghaib
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stan
@stanthemanchan.bsky.social
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We're also bringing back the literal origins of "mad as a hatter"
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Mr. Magoo's nephew
@joebob7.bsky.social
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Larval pork tapeworms are passed via oral/fecal transmission and burrow into your brain. Seizures are one of your first symptoms.
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JWMangrum
@jwmangrum.bsky.social
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The brain worms *want* us to forget *Theremin noises*
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Hello, I used to be Kate. The Erstwhile Kate.
@erstkate.bsky.social
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I didn't realise it did! This poor lady had a worm in her brain, but it is not something that has ever been seen in Australia before. Makes me even more suspicious of salad, sadly... www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
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⚜️ PoliticalPR ⚜️
@politicalpr.bsky.social
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you think it might be true?
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Ceiling Cat
@ceilingcat.bsky.social
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I think all such expressions had literal origins and are secretly anachronistic. “Bite the bullet”, “the cats out of the bag”, etc. have interesting literal origins, but we still use them to mean the same thing.
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Matt Karger
@mattkarger.bsky.social
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Genuinely feels like I'm watching an episode of House.
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Zeroisanumber
@zeroisanumber.bsky.social
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The woim has made the clearest case for my vote of any candidate this cycle.
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@mrscrubs.bsky.social
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Cysticercosis is a hell of a thing.
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Steve Watts
@sporkyreeve.bsky.social
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Between this and “killing puppies” to represent obvious villainy it’s a big couple weeks for literal tropes
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I Dissent Cha Cha
@rachacha.bsky.social
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Wait, brain worms targeted the "brain worm memories" part of your brain?
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Cam Walker
@walks30.bsky.social
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Brain worms don’t “eat”brains, though they live on the nutrients for the brain.
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
@kleinman.bsky.social
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Also it was popularized as an insult by a future Red Scare podcast host/Succession actress who was being interviewed by an Infowars correspondent
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Renee DiResta 🆒
@noupside.bsky.social
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Helping the less online here…
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IzanamiC⛩️
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I still can't get over that Kennedy actually said worms ate his brain. Is it contagious--as tho it is or exists as a thing. Is this why tRump doesn't like the guy? I'm sick of these two & their consuming mentally illnesses that the American public is subjected to every damn day. #Bonhoeffer2.0
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