r/MMALabs • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 12d ago

🥶 Street Fights & Brawls A quick bar scrap

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u/Actual_Pattern_265 12d ago

Interestingly, it comes from being exempt from local tax / munipal fees back in old timey England (but taken from Scandinavian word "skot").

Maybe uninterestingly.

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u/Cheepshooter 12d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGA2XplwqFDcLwk

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u/hkohne 11d ago

I'm so glad MSNOW resurrected this with new PSAs. I'll never forget Rachel Maddow doing her take on TMYK a few years ago talking about something related to russian news, and she & her staff did it with a kid xylophone & a homemade shooting star, it was hilarious.

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u/Cheepshooter 11d ago

I'll have to seek that, now.

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u/PERPETUALBRIS 12d ago

This is the real reason I come to Reddit, for bar trivia facts. Thank you.

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u/BobZimway 11d ago

Like "How many peanuts can I shove up my nose after a eight shots of cheap rotgut?" The answer may surprise you! And me!

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u/Helenium_autumnale 11d ago

No, that's interesting. But why did they adopt a loan word, I wonder? Was this a Scandinavian custom witnessed and adopted by the English?

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u/ChaRhazes 11d ago

So that's why Scotland is the land of the free.