I just realised that Yodas face is a caricature of Alec Guinness's. Is that well known?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
Not only is it not well known, it's not true.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
yes. it's common knowledge that yoda is obi-wan's father
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
I only recently learned that Gary Lewis is the son of Jerry Lewis. TBF, the music of Gary Lewis & the Playboys is not a thing I've ever had a conversation about with anyone ever so I'm not particularly surprised that his family ties have never come up.
― Encyclopedia Beige and the Case of the Bland Sandwich (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 December 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
Washington Redskins are not from Washington State.
― Yerac, Friday, 22 December 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
For a long time, my wife thought the University of Connecticut sports teams (widely referred to as "UConn") came from Yukon.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 December 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
a+
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 December 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
I'm certainly seeing a marked similaroty between the face of Yoda and that of Alec Guinnness. https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Yoda-in-Star-Wars-The-Empire-Strikes-Back.jpg" class="noborder">https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjGYry1p_Yg_3DXOOVr0fCkHpSSLlvpq_vvfLUrl6jQucf2HOMhttps://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKbJOTzfdrupDbNza-15oiF7L-D0-HXssSXAg6o7SNvj6HcjQ52wnoticed it even more in the backdrop they had in one section ofThe Galaxy Britain Built where it looked slike Alec Guiness's face looking out from Yoda's bdy.
I assumed the similarity was an in joke from the production team. I'm certainly seeing a great similarity around the eyes. I was just surprised when I saw it that I hadn't noticed it before.I now can't find the picture they used in that programme but it was towards the end.So was wondering if it was something that had been remarked on much before.I can't unsee it now that I've noticed it.
― Stevolende, Friday, 22 December 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2014/10/1980YodaEmpireStrikesBackLucasFilm-768x361.jpg
― Stevolende, Friday, 22 December 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
dead ringers apart from the nose, eyes, chin, ears, color, shape of head and height
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 December 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
Alec Guinness rarely mangled his syntax as badly as Yoda.
― Moodles, Saturday, 23 December 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
Lol mookie
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 December 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
Spanish words ending in '_idad' are very often the same in English except you swap it with '-ity', so 'navidad/nativity, universidad/University. Therefore Trinidad is simply Trinity
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Saturday, 23 December 2017 02:16 (six years ago) link
So I guess in English we would say 'the drummer for gaeity'?
― Encyclopedia Beige and the Case of the Bland Sandwich (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 December 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
lol
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 December 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
ha
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Saturday, 23 December 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
according to wikipedia
The make-up artist Stuart Freeborn based Yoda's face partly on his own and partly on Albert Einstein's
http://www.scififx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/20101031_yodac4_bg.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 23 December 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
I finally looked up this week what TL:DR and TFW means.
― Yerac, Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
Too lascivious; don't rub
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
I'm still really seeing that Froggy thing you see in Alec's face around the eyes.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 23 December 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
The London Metropolitan Line no has no interior doors on its trains.Didn't look as I sat down, proceeded to read, then realised i could see right down the train when I stood up to get off.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 23 December 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
Guillermo and Benicio Del Toro aren't related
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 December 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
The more you know someone the more you're disappointed
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 24 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy
― Brad C., Sunday, 24 December 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
More of a trilogy than The Hobbit.
― Moodles, Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
The lord of the rings is a trilogy
Don't even come back with the books as designed argument
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 December 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
At the very least, turning it into 3 movies that track with those three parts is totally defensible.
― Moodles, Sunday, 24 December 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
That 'Teddy Ruxpin' is an animatronic toy teddy bear, and not the name of US Senator or similar.
― mor frog bs (S-), Friday, 29 December 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
That "pickles" are made from cucumbers, and later that pickles can refer to any preserved in brine vegetable.
― nickn, Friday, 29 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
not quite a "shockingly old" answer but... first time i saw "PED XING" road signs i thought they must be chinese or something.
― new noise, Friday, 29 December 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
"nothing" comes from "no thing", "none" comes from "not one"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 29 December 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
The PED XING isn't helped by the way it's often XING PED when painted on the road.
― koogs, Saturday, 30 December 2017 06:39 (six years ago) link
not quite a "shockingly old" answer but... first time i saw "PED XING" road signs i thought they must be chinese or something.the chinese word for pedestrian is XING REN so that is totally believable
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 30 December 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
That interstate exits are numbered according to the mile marker, so exit 230 is fifteen miles away from exit 215.
― Encyclopedia Beige and the Case of the Bland Sandwich (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
(TBF, I've only recently started driving again for the first time since I was a teenager.)
― Encyclopedia Beige and the Case of the Bland Sandwich (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
in Florida, that wasn't always the case. when I grew up, the exits were merely sequential with no regard for miles, so when I'd go from my house to Downtown Disney, I'd go from exit 49 to exit 26 but it would really be 26 miles and not 23. they renumbered them all in 2002 to match up with the mile markers. they had to write the old mile marker on the signs temporarily because people were getting massively confused with the number changes.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Our exit sign also has the mile marker attached to it, which always makes me go damn.
I mean, you might have an Exit 153 in your state, but we've got the Exit 153.
― pplains, Saturday, 30 December 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
Yes, this changed in living memory.
The advantage of sequential exit numbering is knowing when your exit is next. "Just passed exit 66; that means 67 is next."
The disadvantage with sequential exit numbering is that sometimes new exits get built between existing ones, requiring everything to be renumbered. The exit numbers that are mile-based don't have that problem.
As Neanderthal notes, for a while there were signs that said the old exit number, for people navigating based on the previous system. I remember one near my parents' house that said "OLD EXIT 37," and I always thought it had an evocative folk-wisdom kind of ring, like "Old Engine 42" or "It's just old Luke and Luke's waiting on the judgement day."
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 December 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
Missouri blew my mind this year. Their mile markers are divided into tenths of a mile.
― pplains, Saturday, 30 December 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
Exit 73.4!
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 December 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
They haven't gone that far, but I wish!
― pplains, Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
we have a lot of exits at the same mile marker here and they always add an A, B, or a C in sequence.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 December 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
the chinese word for pedestrian is XING REN so that is totally believable
thought you were being funny but this turns out to be true!
― new noise, Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
was gonna ask if this means they have a marker every tenth of a mile (!) but it turns out they only place them every fifth of a mile.
― new noise, Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
Aw, damn. You're right.
Missouri blew my mind this year. Their mile markers are divided into fifths of a mile!
― pplains, Sunday, 31 December 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
They are fancy compared to the normal kind.
https://i.imgur.com/Qq7b8ub.png https://i.imgur.com/trCmJeg.png
― pplains, Sunday, 31 December 2017 01:19 (six years ago) link
srsly hoping pplains has a whole Pinterest page of "Highway Markers I Have Loved."
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
That cobwebs are made of old spiderwebs, and not, I dunno, magic old dust like I previously thought.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
I only learned what pimento cheese is 2? years ago (thanks warmleatherette!) It is astonishingly delicious.
― Yerac, Sunday, 31 December 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
More like a Geocities page with a midi of "In My Life" playing in the background.
― pplains, Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link