Think that's weird, head up to Carter Lake, Iowa – only place in the state where you can walk to Nebraska and not get your feet wet.
― pplains, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_irregularities_of_the_United_States#Separated_by_the_Mississippi_River
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
Norwegian Wood ends in arson.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
That ain't the only thing that ends with arson!
https://i.imgur.com/Yg4chFY.gif
― pplains, Thursday, 11 June 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
Italy is smaller than Arizona.
― i am not throwing away my snot (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, June 7, 2020 2:56 PM
https://i.imgur.com/8JcfCkD.png
Well, you'd still have to ball it up first.
(Fun little map.)
― pplains, Friday, 12 June 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
according to some quick searching, arizona is 3k square miles smaller than italy
― mh, Friday, 12 June 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
Italy does look bigger.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Friday, 12 June 2020 00:25 (four years ago) link
Maybe not common knowledge, but I was surprised to learn recently that Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, in 1910 bought an airplane designed by the Wright brothers. And that he crashed in it and died. And that he was the first Briton ever to die in a plane crash.
― Josefa, Friday, 12 June 2020 02:17 (four years ago) link
I think I just learned that Holly Golightly was a hooker?
― Boring, Maryland, Friday, 12 June 2020 02:36 (four years ago) link
... are you confusing the book character with the singer?
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Friday, 12 June 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link
I've got something to tell you about Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Friday, 12 June 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
she was really Bruce Willis the whole time?
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 June 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
According to Wikipedia, Capote said Holly Golightly was "not a prostitute but an American geisha".
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 12 June 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
Die Hard with a Shopping Montage
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Friday, 12 June 2020 07:00 (four years ago) link
the guy who created minecraft turned out to be a massive fuckhead
― form of mouth device (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 12 June 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
More like escort? At least, in the movie she accepts money for her company but finds a way to escape (e.g., through a window) before things get physical - I probably read the book 30 years ago and have quite forgotten it.
― Tom Paine in the membrane (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 June 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link
The remake with Bruce Willis changes the main character to a guy named Hoopy Goloopy.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Friday, 12 June 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
I've never seen the movie, actually. I just assumed she was some rich single young woman navigating love and dating in the crazy big city!
― Boring, Maryland, Friday, 12 June 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I basically just know the character name and the fact that it features a very nuanced and timeless performance by Mickey Rooney.
― ...Like a Soggy Handburger (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 June 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
And she mollifies his character by suggesting that she might - might - consider posing for him... But never quite does.
― Tom Paine in the membrane (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 June 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
The narrator role in the novel is either Truman Capote himself or a close substitute so there's no love interest between him and the Holly character. He doesn't swing that way.From what I remember he's describing people he got involved with because he was rooming in the same house as tehm during teh war or something to that effect,.Has been a very long time since i read the novel, it was pretty good though. But not quite cute enough to show well on a filmscreen at the time.Do enjoy both though but they are pretty different.
― Stevolende, Friday, 12 June 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
The existence of Juneteenth.
― Alba, Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link
it's a terrible cutesy name for what it is.
― koogs, Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
lol people who've never read "Breakfast at Tiffany's" have never enjoyed Holly dropping the f-bomb
― comparing me to Harold Shipman is unfair (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
I am 41 years old and I only just discovered that 'segue' is pronounced 'segway'.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link
In the Capote story, Holly also drops the n-bomb in a way that would make the Major in Fawlty Towers proud.
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
― Matt DC, Saturday, June 13, 2020 7:35 AM bookmarkflaglink
what did you think it was? "suh-goo"?
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
when i was younger and only read it in the music press i used to think it was "seeg"
― comparing me to Harold Shipman is unfair (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
when I was younger at 14:21 today I thought the same tbh!
― calzino, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
I've heard Oxford professors pronounce it 'seeg' so your younger selves were obviously, prestigiously correct.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
Same! xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
I was at school when I figured it out so not shockingly old but it def took me a while to make the connection that the word I’d head people use and the word I’d read in books were in fact the same word
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
I used to enjoy the music of Pete Segwayer
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
then again I was shockingly old when I found out I'd been saying "lingerie" wrong for years
Sayg for me
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
i knew a 25 year old working in a steakhouse that asked customers if they wanted a "lib" of steak
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
she coulda also been very racist and asking the customer if they wanted a barbecued democrat
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
Seg-ew
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
When, in 1970, palaeontologist Lambert Beverley Halstead pointed out that "Scrotum" is a scientifically valid name and the first ever proposed for a dinosaur, a shudder went through the normally stolid taxonomic community.
I read this in a very entertaining chapter in a book about the geological history of Europe last night. Parties of giggling schoolchildren going to see the magnificent Scrotums at the natural history museum could have been a thing.
― calzino, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
Scrotusaurus Nutz
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
It’s one of those great “English is fucked up” things, segue and ague are both 2 syllables but the second syllable is pronounced completely differently in each case, and words like plague and league are only 1 syllable
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
English being fucked up is the only reason spelling bees are a thing. it's an event to spell words with no apparent rules
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
Speaking of English irregularities, I had always thought the band Ghoti Hook was pronounced like John Gotti. Later I remembered that saying (see below) and thought duh, the next work is "hook."
The word "ghoti" is a phonetic spelling of "fish”, invented in the 19th century as an example of the irregularities of English spelling. Pronunciation: the "GH" as in the word "rouGH", "O" as in "wOmen" and "TI" as in naTIon. However, the band pronounces its name more intuitively, as a homophone for "goatee".
And today I learned via Wiki that the band pronounces it "goatee" and that they were a Christian rock band.
― nickn, Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
lol I remember them from my Xtian days
when you're on a church retreat and only Christian music is allowed...
you just let your ears build up with wax until you cain't hear no more
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
I'm not seeing the point of naming yourself after a pronunciation joke and then not pronouncing it like that. Maybe the joke's on me, though, in the end.
― we are the village green evacuation society (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
They maybe they have fake beards that they put on a coathook when workday is done
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
When you spell out "ghoti" in Greek doesn't it spell Jesus?
― Josefa, Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
that's the ending to Indy and the Last Crusade iirc
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah I'd always just assumed 'seeg'.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
As in 'segue heil'?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link