There’s a subreddit dedicated to cataloguing them, you can post the thing you misremembered and then someone who earnestly believes that a different black celebrity than they thought starring in a shitty movie is a sign of the end times will be like “that’s not a real ME you idiot, you’re just wrong”
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
They should've dubbed it the Shazaam effect instead.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I mentioned the paradigmatic case on the IA thread:
Like, a bunch of non-South Africans mixing up Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko is not a supernatural phenomenon.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
Or the berenstain effect, I feel like that’s the most famous one still xp
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
William Shakespeare's extant handwritten signatures are another obvious instance of time travel:
Willm ShakpWilliam ShaksperWm ShakspeWilliam ShakspereWillm ShakspereWilliam Shakspeare
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
That only four companies account for the manufacture of truck cabs for virtually all semis on US highways, and only one, Volvo, also makes cars.
This may be a less than common piece of knowledge, but what shocked me was how little attention I've paid until recently to the nameplates of the countless 18-wheeler beasts I encounter while driving, other than the attention required to avoid getting crushed by them. (By the trucks, not their nameplates.)
― punning display, Saturday, 6 July 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
I should perpetuate the Shazaam Effect by saying our next-door neighbor drove a Mack Roda sedan back in the late 70s, but I haven't seen one since.
― pplains, Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
John McEnroe has a stepdaughter whose father is Richard Hell!
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
the Everly Brothers are not brothers
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
i will never be old enough to learn that
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Nor were the walker brothers
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Please don’t break my heart re Ed and Tom Chemical
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
Patty Smyth! xpost
― Yerac, Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
The confusingly named Patty Smyth, indeed.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
the opening sentences of her wikipedia entry are weirdly and thus amusingly written:
Patricia Smyth (born June 26, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. She first came into national attention in the band: Scandal. She went on to record and perform on her own. Her distinctive voice and New Wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on cable music video channels such as MTV.
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
In what way are two male siblings born to the same parents not Brothers. I think the Everly brothers name describes the referent quite well.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Sure, and I suppose Mr and Mrs Rigtheous are proud of their two boys?
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
The Warrior is very easy to recall in multiple current situations.
I was a minorly obsessed with R. Hell in college so I knew of Smyth. I randomly got him to agree to design a tshirt for my radio station's fundraiser and it was memorable. He said he liked my voice and that fed me for years. I do not like McEnroe. Boomers. so weird.
― Yerac, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
:p
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
She left Richard for a much younger man obv.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Everlys thing has to be a weird joke, I'm guessing?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
Smyth was approached by Eddie Van Halen in 1985 to replace David Lee Roth in VH. She turned them down in part because "those guys were drunk and fighting all the time."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
So she married a New York Irishman instead.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
"patti 'sonyc' smith" was right there
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Story I heard with the Everlys was that Don the older one didn't like being treated as a twin of his younger brother Phil. So it became one of several things contributing to the resentment between the 2 that stopped them talking for several years.There's only about 2 years between them but I heard it rankled.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 7 July 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
The rainbow discussion upthread reminded me of a realization I had earlier this year, of the enormity of Noah's flood. God wiping out all life on earth, every grandma and newborn baby, every dog, all the kittens and cattle and mice dying horribly, having to watch each other struggle and choke with no hope of being saved. Millions of people, trillions of creatures. It's kind of an atrocity which I'd only ever thought of in the context of a cutesy Bible tale; your little wooden ark, the pairs of stuffed animals you tuck safely inside, wise old Noah with his fluffy beard. But everyone and everything else on the planet died screaming, what the fuck? How did I not put that together sooner?
― cat, Monday, 8 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
don't worry, God promised not to let it happen again
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 July 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
seems like an awesome god idk
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 8 July 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
mention of noah reminds me of THIS, which belongs in this thread even if i learned it a couple of years ago (i was shockingly old a couple of years ago):
Genesis 7
1: And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.2: Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.3: Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
well that's just unrealistic
― Number None, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
i mean it's like they were lying in bible classes when i was a kid ABOUT WHAT'S ACTUALLY IN THE BIBLE
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
YOU JUST CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
The animals went in seven by sevenHoorah! Hoorah!The animals went in seven by sevenHoorah! Hoorah!The animals went in seven by sevenThe little pig thought he was going to heavenAnd they all went into the arkFor to get out of the rain.
The animals went in seven by sevenThe little pig thought he was going to heavenAnd they all went into the arkFor to get out of the rain.
(little pig v porrly briefed even in this the truthtelling verse -- tho of course he is an unclean animal)
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
I asked Sunday School teachers, and later the minister at my confirmation hearings, about things in the bible, and they didn't know they were in there
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 8 July 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
YOU HAD ONE JOB
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
And they'll know we are ChristiansCos we're dumb
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 July 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
iswydtxpoat
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 July 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Version we used to sing was
The animals went in 2 by 2The elephant and the kangarooAnd they all went marching down the drain down the lane.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 8 July 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
YOU HAD ONE JOBimo they effectively did their job of showing me young that even genuinely well-meaning religious teachers were absolutely bullshitting it & therefore all speakers on religion should be disregarded
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 8 July 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
FFS some american evangelicals non-ironically describe Jesus as blonde and blue eyed, so.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 8 July 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
seven pairs of each beast could still go in two by two y'know.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
Hermaphrodite is a compound name taken from the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite. Character with both male and female genitals after he was melded with naiad Salmacis.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
The two first letters in ISO three-letter international currency codes are the countries' ISO two-letter country codes, also used for top-level domain names and such. Should have been obvious, I guess, but a few distractions (the US not using the .us domain name, the Russian ruble having the code RUB) have kept me from noticing.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
well your post made me go look something up and apparently the UK's country codes are GB and GBR, with "UK" reserved from the set of available 2-character codes so nobody else can use it. Contrariwise the .gb TLD is reserved but almost completely disused in deference to .uk
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, exactly, that's another one of the high-profile apparent counterexamples that hides the general pattern.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
God wiping out all life on earth
O rly? Fish were pretty chill about it, from what I heard.
Fish were like "Cool. More water. Thanks, God!"
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 July 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
I learned today that Jamiroquai is extremely good
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 July 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
in what language
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
Rigatoni.jpg
“Jamiroquai, it’s delicious”
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 July 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
Only learned last night that you can use headphones as a microphone.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 12 July 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
I just learned that a "fathom" is only 6 feet/183cm, not some huge undersea depth as I had imagined.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Friday, 19 July 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link