From the Narrow Desert

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Just one of those coincidences

Ezra [Koenig] tells how [he] knew a classmate in high school who believed that "armageddon" was pronounced "ar-MAGA-don" (similar to the naming conventions of dinosaurs) until the release of the 1998 film Armageddon.

Somehow they neglected to capitalize the d.

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