Quickie Questions

- Yep, that's it!

If a TLP draft has a lowercase word in its title, should it be made lowercase there or would that mess up the capitalisation? (let's say, "Propeller Hat of Whimsy" makes the page at Propeller Hatof Whimsy.)

Keep it uppercase, use Wiki Word after it launches.

I believe you mean custom title but yeah, thank you very much!

How common were black people in ancient Greece and/or Rome since they would’ve had some contact with Africa?

Depends on your definition of "black", I believe - most of the modern concepts of race originated in regions with whiter skin than the Mediterranean and with a slave trade dominantly sourced from sub-Saharan Africa unlike the mixed-source antique slave trade, so they tend to have a sharper distinction between "white" and "black" than would exist in Ancient Greece and Rome.

They were certainly common enough that the term "Aethiopian" was coined to describe them and appear in the Iliad and Aesop's Fables, but I can't find any percentage. One in a few tens of Mediterraneans, maybe?

Edited by SeptimusHeap on Feb 17th 2024 at 5:19:19 PM

Okay I got in trouble for posting a video but not the understuff.... but the video had no understuff. What was I supped to do?

Edited by Shyhero on Feb 18th 2024 at 7:45:49 AM

understuff?

I don't know what "understuff" means, but that's not part of the requirement for posting videos. What is needed is that you say what it's a video of.

• The stiff under the video that tells you what it's about.

• Right the understuff the stuff under the video

In the video in question, it should have been something like

Clip from Pokemon S 1 E 31 Dig Those Diglett

Edited by Shyhero on Feb 18th 2024 at 7:56:07 AM

Well, you can give your own description of what the video is of.

When did Newspaper comics start being in color all week?

Is there some kind of place I can go to make trope pages of my OCs? Like privately?

You could trope them on your troper page, accessible by clicking your username on one of your forum posts.

Newspapers have had the option to order color daily strips for years (which are done by a third party whereas Sunday strips are colored by the cartoonist) — Stephan Pastis mentioned it being a thing in the mid-2000s.

What’s the origin of the word lesbian?

Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Feb 23rd 2024 at 4:59:09 AM

It comes from the Greek island of Lesbos, where Sappho lived.

Sappho being a poet believed to be into women. We also get the word "sapphic" from her.

In hindsight, how obvious was it that Lance Armstrong was doping?

Here's a Wikipedia page on the matter.

You know the Artistic License X tropes? I've always wondered how TV Tropes itself always makes sure what they bring up is an accurate correction to the material that had Artistic License X, especially when it's not a well-known fact

We don't, inaccurate information is combated by someone hopefully noticing it.

How much cultural cross-pollination's occurred between the Inuit & Yupik compared to between their respective southern counterparts?

What is that scene from American Pie? (haven't seen it)

A scene where the main character (Jim) after being told that sex is like a “warm pie”, puts his dick inside a baked apple pie, just as his dad walks in.