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[-] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Aglet. Thanks Phineas and Ferb!

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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

I'm too old to know what Phineas and Ferb is, but when I was young I used to love knowing obscure words like:

  • The indent between your upper lip and your nose is called the philtrum (more commonly known now because of piercings

  • The recess on the bottom of a wine bottle is called a punt.

  • The infinity symbol (like a sideways 8) is a lemniscate

  • The cap on the pointy end of an umbrella, or any other tubular thing (including a pencil) is called a ferrule

  • The space between your eyebrows is your glabella

Etc. Anyway, aglet was one of those. I was always so happy when I had an opportunity to use one ("Oh, man, my aglet broke!").

[-] SariEverna@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

And the infinity symbol is likely related to the analemma, the shape the sun traces out over the course of a year.

[-] gencha@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

These are awesome! Thanks

[-] arashikage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The cardboard ring around a coffee cup is called a Zarf

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[-] OldWomanoftheWoods@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago
[-] BURN@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Aglets, and it’s 100% due to Phineas and Ferb

[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Telomeres for your shoestrings

[-] Pinklink@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 1 year ago

Aglet. Not Phineas & Ferb. Terraria.

[-] BKBenji@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I personally don't know what they're called but to my cat that's called food.

[-] SeriousNick@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Aglets. Terraria my beloved.

[-] Eamona6533@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Aglet. Thanks phineas and ferb!

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[-] Naura@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

Aglet - phineas and ferb

[-] GrimSheeper@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Aglet. Another shout-out to Phineas and Ferb.

[-] Oinkzilla@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Aglet. Archie comics did a bit on them, that's where I learned

[-] WorldlyIntrospection@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easy. The 80s and older crowd will know this from some inherent eldritch knowledge or have no idea. But everyone else will know this from Jimmy Neutron.
scrolling through the comments, seeing Phineas and Ferb everywhere

I'm only in my mid twenties. Y'all need to stop making me feel old.

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I know it from an Archie comic I read in the 90's

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[-] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Aglet - Jimmy Neutron

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Shoes.

Shoes, with the Aglets of the laces resting upon them.

[-] ImADifferentBird@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Aglets.

And their true purpose is sinister.

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[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

🎶 A, G, L, E, T, Aglets! Don't forget it 🎶

^^^One word at a time^^^

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

What, the shoes?

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

OP, they’re obviously called aglets.

Didn’t Phineas and Ferb teach you anything?

[-] atocci@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly the point I'm trying to prove 😉

[-] vektor@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Aglets. Learned that from Phineas and Ferb.

A picture of a shoe, with laces, which have plastic aglets on the ends.

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[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I knew a kid once who said when he grew up that he wanted to be the guy that puts the aglets on shoelaces.

I don't know what ever happened to him, but I like to think he found his calling in shoe plastics.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You wanna maybe use a red circle mate?

[-] 2d@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Aglets, if you’re talking about the ends on the laces, and please update why you’re asking lol

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[-] dogpound@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Odelay42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ferrule is the round metal thing the aglet goes through

[-] erre@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Lace tips??

[-] SCmSTR@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shoes? Maybe Reeboks?

Edit: I am appalled by how many people know the term aglet.

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[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

They're aglets. I believe Phineas and Ferb is a cartoon, but I've never seen it.

[-] Sirsersur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

These are Aglets. I didn't look it up, i watched Phineas & Ferb as a child.

[-] Death2lois@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I only know they are aglets thanks to "Repossessed!" Fantastic spoof of The Exorcist with Leslie Neilson and Linda Blair (from the original). Blair played Nancy Aglet and fought possession again. They made a joke about her name that got the word weirdly stuck in my brain. "We've tried everything the devil hates. Sex, drugs, rock and roll..."

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Aglets.

Laces.

Sneakers.

[-] OsakaWilson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I believe there was a book in the 80s called Sniglets that made up words for things and this was one of them. I didn't remember what it was called. Any or all of this memory could be wrong.

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[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I misremembered it as eglet, and I probably learned it from uncle John's bathroom reader because I am old.

[-] ramplay@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Whoa, hold on now... I'm not old, and I shit through atleast 4 edition's of Uncle John's bathroom readers in my pre and early teens

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[-] willeypete23@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Shoe string condoms.

[-] firebat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Plastic thingies on laces

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I was gonna say "tongle dongles"

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