Nothing Doing
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38 points
14 comments
August 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
tolugenius
Funny, does anyone know the history of any of the markers? I'm just curious why this is global thing really.
bckr
My great grandmother taught me that “nothing doing” meant something similar to “there’s nothing for it”.
TRiG_Ireland
The Futility Closet website (and, formerly, podcast) is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating facts.
rzzzt
1897 seems like an important year.
swader999
I need this for some past companies I've worked at.
layer8
It’s curious how there seem to be so few combinations of place and time where nothing important happened.