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!").
And the infinity symbol is likely related to the analemma, the shape the sun traces out over the course of a year.
The cardboard ring around a coffee cup is called a Zarf
These are awesome! Thanks
But are you old enough to remember Tom Cruise discussing them in the film Cocktail? (in the cinema on the original release‽ )
Another fun one: the # symbol is an octothorpe
Aglets.
Aglets, and it’s 100% due to Phineas and Ferb
A-G-L-E-T
Don't forget it!
Telomeres for your shoestrings
I like you
Aglet. Not Phineas & Ferb. Terraria.
I personally don't know what they're called but to my cat that's called food.
Aglets. Terraria my beloved.
Aglet - phineas and ferb
Aglet. Another shout-out to Phineas and Ferb.
Aglets
Aglet. Archie comics did a bit on them, that's where I learned
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.
I know it from an Archie comic I read in the 90's
Aglet - Jimmy Neutron
Shoes.
Shoes, with the Aglets of the laces resting upon them.
🎶 A, G, L, E, T, Aglets! Don't forget it 🎶
^^^One word at a time^^^
OP, they’re obviously called aglets.
Didn’t Phineas and Ferb teach you anything?
Exactly the point I'm trying to prove 😉
What, the shoes?
You wanna maybe use a red circle mate?
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.
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.
Aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
A picture of a shoe, with laces, which have plastic aglets on the ends.
Aglets.
Laces.
Sneakers.
They're aglets. I believe Phineas and Ferb is a cartoon, but I've never seen it.
I misremembered it as eglet, and I probably learned it from uncle John's bathroom reader because I am old.
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
These are Aglets. I didn't look it up, i watched Phineas & Ferb as a child.
Shoes? Maybe Reeboks?
Edit: I am appalled by how many people know the term aglet.
Aglets
Aglets, if you’re talking about the ends on the laces, and please update why you’re asking lol
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..."
Lace tips??
Aglets. Can't remember where I learned the word.
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