I don't think so. Anyway, I thought it was a made-up proper name or an Italian word.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 October 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
IT's a term that was popularised during the Vietnam war, though I've got it running through my head that it might make an appearance in Catch 22. KInd of hyper-portmanteau shortening of a couple of words.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 October 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
you are thinking of FUBAR, no? ("fucked up beyond all recognition"?)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 October 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
"The group still needed a name, so MacKaye chose the word "fugazi" from Mark Baker's Nam, a compilation of stories of Vietnam War veterans, it there being a slang acronym for "Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In [into a body bag]"." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugazi#Formation_and_early_years_(1986%E2%80%931989))
― StanM, Sunday, 28 October 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
there you go
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 October 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
that the Brooklyn Dodgers are still around and they are not called the Brooklyn Dodgers.
― Yerac, Sunday, 28 October 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
There are alternative views on that word derivationhttp://www.yourdictionary.com/fugazi
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 October 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
"The group still needed a name, so MacKaye chose the word "fugazi" from Mark Baker's Nam, a compilation of stories of Vietnam War veterans, it there being a slang acronym for "Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In [into a body bag]".
Yeah, right, we all know where he really got it from.
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/233/cover_18291617102008.jpg
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 October 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
saying you were inspired by Derek Dick aka battered Fish Masala doesn't sound so cool!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 October 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
I have to confess I've never heard a single note, crotch, demisemiquaver of Fugazi, the band, and it might well because I automatically think of Fish capering about with his big face painted.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 October 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
I can remember them on Peel when I was a kid. Never felt compelled to listen any further.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 October 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
I have never heard a note of that Fugazi, but could 99% assuredly say it sounds nothing like Ian MacKaye's band, based on that album cover alone.
― pplains, Sunday, 28 October 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
OK, I take it back. For about 15 seconds, starting here - https://youtu.be/XOHhDsVV-DY?t=257 - both Fugazis sound the same.
― pplains, Sunday, 28 October 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
i love all of these Fugazis tbh
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 October 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
Despite Portishead being one of my most listened-to bands of my adult life, I only just became aware that Beth Gibbons had a solo album in 2002
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 28 October 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
I love that album
― coetzee.cx (wins), Sunday, 28 October 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I enjoyed it on first listen last night, yeah
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 28 October 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
I listened to that so much at the time, it still holds up
― kinder, Sunday, 28 October 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
I love it but it isn't a solo album
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 28 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
No no I know, but still
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 28 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Paul Webb, right. Talk Talk guy
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 28 October 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
when I was a teenager "1 Fugazi" was written on show flyers and meant $5
― flappy bird, Sunday, 28 October 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
not to leave my tablet on the plane
:/
― lie back and think of englund (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 October 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
when they've done the controlled explosion I'm sure they'll send you the bits
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 October 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
Um, how is it possible that I've only just this morning realized that an asterisk has five points, not six? This feels like some 'Berenstein/Berenstain'-esque revisionist history shit tbrr.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
citation needed
wikipedia has 5-pointed in the text but 6-pointed in the big box-out on the right. so i think it's a typeface thing, the way 'a's can be different in different typefaces.
― koogs, Monday, 29 October 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link
6 in Georgia, Times New Roman, Garamond, Verdana. 5 in Helvetica, Arial, Courier, Comic Sans.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Monday, 29 October 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link
actually, if i'd gotten further than the picture
"In English, an asterisk is usually five-pointed in sans-serif typefaces, six-pointed in serif typefaces [citation needed]"
― koogs, Monday, 29 October 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
mine are normally 5-pointed when i'm hand-writing stuff because you can draw one without lifting the pen from the paper
― koogs, Monday, 29 October 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
Okay, so I'm only partially crazy, then. Whew.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
Well, I was at least shockingly old when I realized that asterisks have a varying number of points.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
Pompey is pronounced Pom-pi and not Pom-pay.
― brownie, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Is that Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus or Portsmouth?
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
'Twas only a few years ago I found out that many 3 or 4-way junctions here in the UK have traffic lights where you need to press the crossing button in order to activate a pedestrian crossing cycle. Before that I'd just stand there bemused as the green man remained resolutely unlit.
― GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
What FBPE stands for. Like a minute ago. And I almost searched for FPBE. In fact I've just had to check again whether it is FBPE or FPBE.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
You sure about that?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
https://forvo.com/word/pompei/#it
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
but... Pompey though
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Depends on the Pompey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Oh, right. Had no idea.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/cute-small-pomeranian-dog-peeing-park-urinating-105437652.jpg
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
Also, mispronounced in English...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
I was all set to finally add “why Portsmouth has that inexplicably annoying nickname Pompey" to this thread and then I found out no one really knows. The first explanation here sounds totally fucking made-up though:https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2010,00.html
― Alba, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
"Jacob" is the latin cognate of the name "James." I was trying to figure out why it was Jacobean Era, when James was the guy. I knew in Spanish it's Jaime, or Diego related to Iago? So I feel like I was so close for so long, but somehow failed thrive in onomastics.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
That Windsor Safari Park doesn't exist any more and Legoland is in the same place.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 2 November 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link
Beth Gibbons also worked with Paul Webb on the first O-Rang album, which came out before (or perhaps just after) Dummy.
― fetter, Friday, 2 November 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
& O-rang were Talk Talk minus Mark Hollis or something similar.
― Stevolende, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
Apart from the unofficial fourth member (IE producer and co-writer) of Talk Talk, Tim Friese-Greene, who went on to record as... Heligoland!
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 2 November 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
I'm not a car person so maybe i just never really thought about it before but... car tyres don't have inner tubes!
― Herb Achelors (NickB), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
The complexity of getting tubeless bike tires to work at all, and keep em orderly long term, has increased my respect immensely. To amazement really. They just basically work all the fucking time and keep going and holy fuck what a great way to wreck a planet.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link