Astro Hacker News - Nothing Doing

swader999 |next [-]

I need this for some past companies I've worked at.

rzzzt |next |previous [-]

1897 seems like an important year.

TRiG_Ireland |next |previous [-]

The Futility Closet website (and, formerly, podcast) is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating facts.

tolugenius |next |previous [-]

Funny, does anyone know the history of any of the markers? I'm just curious why this is global thing really.

LahvacCz |root |parent |next [-]

The one from Míšov, Czech Republic is tribute to the running joke of nonexistent genius Jara Cimmrman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1ra_Cimrman

cryzinger |root |parent [-]

The bust (if you even can call it that...) pictured in the article is terrifying!

Photogrammaton |root |parent |next |previous [-]

The plaque is identical in two of the photos (one from Ireland, one from Luxembourg), and the wording is identical in those two plus a third (from Western Australia). That makes me curious.

wccrawford |root |parent |next |previous [-]

You don't think this is just a joke that multiple people thought of independently?

Some of them might be in reaction to a local event, or even a worldwide event that had no local impact. But I think they're mostly just jokes.

clickety_clack |root |parent |previous [-]

Was it in a Monty python sketch or something?

bckr |previous [-]

My great grandmother taught me that “nothing doing” meant something similar to “there’s nothing for it”.

arjie |root |parent [-]

I’m in my late thirties and it was still in common use in India, and perhaps specifically among Anglo Indians? But it meant more like “no chance”.

“Can I go out to the movies with my friends?”

“Nothing doing! You have an exam tomorrow”

Or failure to do something.

“I tried to fix it myself but nothing doing”.

HappMacDonald |root |parent [-]

Looney Toons / Merry Melodies also bear out this connotation quite well