I was shockingly old when I realised that the name of the band who did Funkytown was a pun on the above
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 04:53 (six years ago) link
Well, you don’t say.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 05:03 (six years ago) link
According to Wikipedia, friends took to calling the Waughs he-Evelyn and she-Evelyn. Hevelyn and Shevelyn would surely have been better?
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link
make the edit alba DO IT
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
That it's pronounced Ever-Lin, Not Eeeeev-Lin
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
Stop spoiling my nicknames.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:43 (six years ago) link
Where are you getting that from, anyway? All the things I can immediately find on the internet say that with him it was Eve-Lin not Ever-Lin.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:47 (six years ago) link
(not very authoritative sources, I admit)
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:48 (six years ago) link
these folks seem to agree it's EVE-lin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061qw73
Evil Genius with Russell KaneWriting Brideshead Revisited? Genius. Naming his son Auberon? Evil. And it gets worse... Russell weighs it all up with Jolyon Rubinstein, Ellie White and Sadie Harrison.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:51 (six years ago) link
Ihave always pronounced it Ehvuhlin in my mind but now I'm wondering if I've ever heard that name spoken aloud. Wouldn't have guessed at the evil or ever pronunciations. I still think that Alba's joke would work though.
― how's life, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link
Is ever not pronounced Ehvuh, then?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 10:24 (six years ago) link
I think I've vacillated between Eve-lin and Eever-lin. Never done Ever or Ehvuh (are these two meant to be different? I guess Eh can be pronounced like the letter A)
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
Eve-lin is what I've heard most. Ehvuh-lin I end up clipping down in classic British style to Evlin, which could give rise to 'Vluh' as an imo excellent short name. VLUH
― ogmor, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
... like his son, Ron Waugh, little Ronnie Waugh. Always pronounced it as Eve-lin, fwiw.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 11:12 (six years ago) link
ever-lyn = the femme fatale with the deadtooth from twin peaks
― scotti pruitti (wins), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
I always assumed it was Ever-Lin as that's how Bill Deedes pronounced it, and I guess he should know of anyone.
Shevverlin is still great tho
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
The old duffers here pronounce it eeeev-lin though, so let's just assume waugh deliberately pronounced it both ways to screw with people, which sounds plausible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUahGZzaNU
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
woff
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
I often look back on my callow youth, and when I do a smile flits across my now mature but pitted face. I hardly recognize the naïve boy I once was. To think that I once believed that Evelyn Waugh was a woman! Of course now, with a couple of ‘O’ levels under my belt, I am far more sophisticated and I know that Evelyn Waugh, should he be alive today, would be very, indeed, dead proud of his daughter, Auberon; because of course Evelyn is the father of Auberon and not, as I once thought, the mother.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1443448085i/16361932.png
― to eat a little "snack", to have an snack (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Where's sic when you really need a factcheck
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
I briefly considered Auberon/ Oberon for my son's name! I had to ditch it bc I kept thinking of that Oberyn Martell scene on GoT.
― kinder, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
actually I also had Evelyn as a potential girls' name... huh
― kinder, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Joan Bakewell says it Eve-lin and that's good enough for me: https://youtu.be/UvtjUt0GzKg
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
omg @ how she says "waugh" - it is a monument to an entire way of being
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
laughterslaughterWaugh-ter
― Arthur Pizzarelli AKA The Peetz (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
guys guys I'm pretty sure it's pronounced evil-lyn thats my he-man joke I'm here all week you're welcome
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
as I've gotten older, I have learned that being young sucks, nobody lets you do anything and your brain doesn't work good
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
I didn't start getting my shit together til age 28
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 April 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
There is no scientific or medical word for boogers.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 April 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
No fuckin way
― flappy bird, Sunday, 15 April 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
xpost My grandmother's name was Evelyn. We pronounced it with second syllable short i. The british way sounds nicer.
― Yerac, Sunday, 15 April 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
That Mark Knopfler played guitar on Rod Stewart's "Young Turks." I just learned that yesterday.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Sunday, 15 April 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
i realized that wolfgang voigt aka gas was mike ink in burger/ink ...... last week.
― map, Sunday, 15 April 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
Huh, I had no idea!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 April 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
I for one am shocked that you guys didn't learn that in elementary school.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 15 April 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
Fine. How about my "booger" nugget?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 April 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
I only learned that when I read your post tbh.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
Previous internet discussions of that seem to do a lot of hair-splitting between mucus and boogers.
― jmm, Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
To not trust anyone (for the most part)
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 15 April 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
booger nugget
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Sunday, 15 April 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
i've never seen a single picture of any member of the band slade until about 5 minutes ago when i did a youtube search for them. interesting
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
I had to search, and huhhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rftnB33goIg
― alvin noto (mh), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
I only knew their looks from that Runaway video.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
Haha, yeah, I watched a bunch of Slade and other glam videos a few months back when I was reading Reynolds' Shock and Awe. I had also only known them from the "Runaway" video, which was a good example of younger me being totally baffled as to why these oddball bands woukd have videos on MTV, not at all realizing that they had careers prior to the 80s.
Slade definitely had a style going on back in the day. Noddy Holder was quite the character. I like his shtick and sartorial panache.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
Well I’ve just learned that there’s a band called Slade. What’s interesting about what they look like?
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
Hi
http://artist1.cdn107.com/b80/b807d2dc47c76ed1f73fe5ac6423875f_lg.jpg
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
Gosh!
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
i remember being out on the playground in 3rd or 4th grade and noticing it get light and dark and light again and thinking it was super weird. i don't think i made the connection that clouds would move and block the sun until i was maybe 7, lol. i know that's not SHOCKINGLY old but i remember being embarrassed that i didn't realize it earlier.
― map, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
Silby, does that mean that you've only heard Quiet Riot's version of "Cum on Feel the Noize"?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link