Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

My generation began conflating the words, and today's generations never had a real chance to learn we were making that mistake. So now it's no longer a mistake, just evidence of the language evolving.

Seriously. These commercials ran in virtually every TV show with the chance of an adult watching for decades.

Some of these commercials were captured and made it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brim+commercial (search query link).

The English language, the US dialect in particular, has been mixing & confusing "rim" & "brim" for decades, & I have a theory for how that came to be.

Every Boomer & Gen-X'er remembers Brim Coffee, even if only subconsciously, while Millennials & Gen-Z'ers have never heard of it.

General Foods advertised the hell out of it in the '70s & '80s with the slogan, "Fill it to the rim with Brim," before suddenly ending it in the '90s. The ad campaign was so successful, it blurred the words together.

They would if there wasn't a ram shortage.

I tried to enjoy my nice, piping hot plate of still-frozen lasagna cooked according to the box's clear and specific instructions.

@Phorm It turns doomscrolling into bloomscrolling. I like it.

Reading Mastodon feels to me like reading newspaper columns, so reading your stories here feels like stumbling upon a serialized story episode in the daily tribune: a very pleasant surprise every time.

An offsite link helps, but the link shouldn't substitute for the episode you tell here. At the story's end, it's a gentle hand offering to pull us out of here and into a storyteller genie's bottle for more, if you will.