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Nothing Doing futilitycloset.com

rzzztan hour ago

1897 seems like an important year.

TRiG_Ireland2 hours ago

The Futility Closet website (and, formerly, podcast) is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating facts.

bckr2 hours ago

My great grandmother taught me that “nothing doing” meant something similar to “there’s nothing for it”.

arjiean hour ago

I’m in my late thirties and it was still in common use in India, and perhaps specifically among Anglo Indians? But it meant more like “no chance”.

“Can I go out to the movies with my friends?”

“Nothing doing! You have an exam tomorrow”

Or failure to do something.

“I tried to fix it myself but nothing doing”.

HappMacDonald44 minutes ago

Looney Toons / Merry Melodies also bear out this connotation quite well

tolugenius2 hours ago

Funny, does anyone know the history of any of the markers? I'm just curious why this is global thing really.

Photogrammaton23 minutes ago

The plaque is identical in two of the photos (one from Ireland, one from Luxembourg), and the wording is identical in those two plus a third (from Western Australia). That makes me curious.

LahvacCz2 hours ago

The one from Míšov, Czech Republic is tribute to the running joke of nonexistent genius Jara Cimmrman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1ra_Cimrman

cryzinger5 minutes ago

The bust (if you even can call it that...) pictured in the article is terrifying!

wccrawford2 hours ago

You don't think this is just a joke that multiple people thought of independently?

Some of them might be in reaction to a local event, or even a worldwide event that had no local impact. But I think they're mostly just jokes.

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