A balrogi is a super-extra-spicy pierogi.
This is where J.R.R. Tolkein got the inspiration for the demonic balrog creature in the Lord of the Rings stories. Gandalf's line "You shall not pass!" is an in-joke because after ingesting a balrogi, /everything/ passes, very, very quickly.
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On March 20th 2026, Amelia Hambottom, owned by the Laurel family of Wigan, won the prestigious £5,000 Galloway Award for Most Nonplussed Pig. The family say they will spend the prize money on extending the animal's sty and adding a hat rack.
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In order to ensure their whiteboard markers are reliably "Without Ghost", the Mitsubishi Pencil Co. Ltd. of Japan have a small team of exorcists on their payroll.
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As a safety precaution, the PSR J0952−0607 pulsar has had a multi-lingual warning sign erected nearby, stating: "Warning: do not lick this neutron star."
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Just as the eyes are the windows to the soul, the nostrils are the air vents.
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In addition to Darths Vader, Sidious and Continent, there is also Darth A-gadda-da-vida and an especially fearsome Sith known as Darth Outshakeitallaboutyoudothehokeypokeyandyouturnaroundthatswhatitsallabout.
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It wasn't The Who put the bomp in the bomp, bomp, bomp, it was generously donated by the Andrews Sisters, who had several barrels left over after recording Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. The ram in the ram a lam a ding dong was provided by the BBC's long-running 'One Man and His Dog' TV show.
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The main export of the fantasy kingdom of Terabithia is macaroni. This accounts for 12.9% of the country's export volumes, and approximately 188 million gold pieces annually.
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The first inclined plane was invented in the Akkadian Empire in about 2100 BCE, by taking a /dis/inclined plane, giving it a pep talk and getting a couple of beers in it, and then sending it on a two-day confidence-building course.
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In the Skyrim setting of Tamriel, when a Khajiit pushes a breakable item off a shelf or other high place, this is known as a Puss Ro Dah.
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You need two cans to dance the Tintin.
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Bananas must be separated from other fruit, lest the ethene gas they they give off causes the other fruit to ripen prematurely. Kumquats must be segregated from one another because they gossip.
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Cookery is a dangerous profession, and a common underappreciated hazard is the risk of 'spatula crash'. This occurs when a spatula moving at high speed collides with the bottom of a pan, ejecting Béchamel sauce or razor-sharp fragments of potato waffles at lethal velocities.
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The Territorial Army marks its territory by smearing its bogeys on it.
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Epigraphy is the study of the handwriting of electronic pigs.
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The correct technical term for 'arrow' is 'flying murder stick'.
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I am typing with my normal human fingers.
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Planet-buster bombs are always manufactured with a 'Snooze' button.
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While traditional wassails from about 1644 were were stitched out of the same canvas used by Royal Navy frigates, modern wassails mostly use a 50-50 drayon-cotton mix.
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In medieval times, people believed that pigs went 'meow', and hence the village of Meopham ('meowfam') means 'the village of pigs'.
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All Daves have a left leg that is immortal.
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Captain Kurt Hoffmann of the Scharnhorst once managed to ramp the ship off a larger-than-average wave and get air, starting a fad among the last few Kriegsmarine captains, but it fizzled out when Captain N.J.W. William-Powlett of the Royal New Zealand Navy did an ollie in the HMNZS Gambia
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The French Bouvelard family have been making roads since the early 1600s. The youngest son, Bertrand 'Buffalo' Bouvelard emigrated to America, and was distantly related to Buffalo Bill Cody.
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Knitting is 5,468 times more dangerous than croquet.
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Iɟ ʎon ʍɐuʇ ʇo ʇʎdǝ lᴉʞǝ ʇɥᴉs' sᴉɯdlʎ nudlnƃ ʎonɹ ʞǝʎqoɐɹp' ʇnɹu ᴉʇ ndsᴉpǝ poʍu' ʇɥǝu dlnƃ ᴉʇ ᴉu ɐƃɐᴉu˙
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Approximately 17% of secretary birds are only secretary birds part-time. The rest of the time, they are telegraph poles.
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bathmat (n.)
This onomatopoeic word is the sound made by striking a wet sheep with a carpet-beater.
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Carol of the Bells was composed in honour of the accountant Carol Macinroy, who worked at Arthur Bell & Sons whisky distillery from 1875 to 1916.
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Lesbian pirates swackle their bush.
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If you ever have a date with a Great Old One, take them to Bingo. They /love/ Bingo.
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