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Spider web elbow tattoos are considered traditional style tattoos. In some locales, it’s associated with prison, with each ring representing a year spent doing time or with spiders or animals caught inside representing people they have killed.

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The tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon is the feeling in which one cannot retrieve the exact word they want, but can recall similar words, phrases or feelings. The idea was first discussed in William James' 1890 work The Principles of Psychology, it was not given a name until 1966 in a publication in the Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.

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Learning the order of the planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) has often been taught by creating a sentence using the acronym MVEMJSUN, for example, My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nachos.

PS: Sorry, Pluto.

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An obbligato is used in classical music to describe a line that is required to be performed exactly as written by the specified instrument without any changes.

The term has fallen out of use, and is now sometimes used to refer to a countermelody, or subordinate line in a work.

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This is a reference to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. The poem opens with the speaker, who is running late for a family member’s wedding, encountering an elderly seaman who grabs his hand and pulls him aside.

Illustration by Gustave Doré

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The poem climaxes with a description of a marginal note that the speaker remembers in a library book, and that he imagines was written by a beautiful girl.

These final lines show the speaker imagining the note-writer leaving her message after becoming so enthralled with Holden Caulfield that she drops her sandwich on the book. The notion of a young female reader falling in love with Caulfield has also been touched on in David Levithan’s novel The Realm of Possibility.

Alternatively, it’s possible that the note referred to some real-life person the girl was in love with – perhaps someone of whom Holden reminded her. Whether it’s two lovers brought together through a favorite book or a love affair between reader and character, it’s also an allegory for the love of reading more broadly.

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This scene originally aired on November 9th, 2003 in the second episode of Arrested Development titled “Top Banana.”

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An attempt at gaining the upper hand in the situation makes her realize that she is the weak one, due to what everyone else is telling her.

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This song is mainly told from the female protagonist’s point of view.

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References the aforementioned diary, possibly where he found out about her tryst.

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