"Flashdance...What a Feeling" was written and produced by Giorgio Moroder. no wonder it's one of my fav productions of the 80s
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 July 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
Best man at Peter Boyle's wedding? John Lennon.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 9 July 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link
Lady Antebellum is a band, not a woman.
Still p sure Lady Gaga is not a band
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Thursday, 9 July 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link
(xp) Wow, good one.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 July 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
the difference between a sickle and a scythe
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 9 July 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīðe, siġði (“sickle”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *segisnu (“sickle”). Germanic cognates include West Frisian seine (“scythe”), Dutch zicht (“sickle”), German Sense (“scythe”). Related to saw, which see.The silent c crept in the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
The silent c crept in the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
i never have thought about this
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 July 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
Things you were shockingly old when you first thought about
― Alba, Thursday, 9 July 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
Bikini Kill went to Evergreen State College, meaning that "went to school in Olympia" in Hole's "Rock Star" was meant literally.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
TESC is my alma mater, too, but sadly Hole never sang about me.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
did you sing about hole tho
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
The 57 in the Heinz Ketchup slogan is essentially meaningless.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-never-were-57-varieties-heinz-ketchup-180965158/
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
it means the ketchup was made up of the blood of 57 diff people when originally made
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
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― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
"Electric Avenue," in Eddy Grant's song of the same name, is not just a cool-sounding place made up for the song; but it is a real street in Brixton, and the song is partly about the 1981 Brixton riots.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
I learned that last year.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
Maya Rudolph was in The Rentals. I had NO idea.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
tf
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
I learned about "Electric Avenue" just last year too. Since 1983 I had thought it was a metaphorical place, something like Alphabet St. or Easy Street
― Josefa, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
Both of these things! That's cool about Electric Avenue though - I had always just assumed it was a state of mind.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
And of course so named because it was the first market street in London (Britain?) lit by electric lighting.
― Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
was hoping people died trying to walk on the street unless they grounded themselves
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
There's more of 'em than you'd think!
https://i.imgur.com/i5exh6l.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
DEALING IN MULTIPLICATIONhttps://i.imgur.com/ckAaw4m.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Also one in Venice, CA.
― nickn, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
On an Eddy Grant tip, I only recently learned that he wasn't the lead singer in The Equals.
― fetter, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
I thought Tony! Toni! Toné! was the name of a Tone Loc album until I was like 18
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Nice.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
Cait O'Riordan's name is not pronounced like 'Kate' but more like 'Coyt'
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Friday, 17 July 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Jason Patric is Jackie Gleason's grandson
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 17 July 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
I thought it was pronounced 'cat'. xp
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 17 July 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
I watched a video where two men kept saying Coyt like it was fine and normal and she seemed ok with it.
https://youtu.be/0eOrpnRM5co
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Friday, 17 July 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
It's pronounced like Kuyt, you have to be Dutch to pronounce correctly.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 17 July 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
tbf if we were saying it wrong I'm sure she would have spoken up recently
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 July 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
Steve Roach was a Motocross racer before he started making ambient music.
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 July 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
I watched a video where two men kept saying Coyt
I'd say the first fella was saying something more like "caught", which is what I'd expect.
she seemed ok with it
Ah now I'd say if there was one fight she's given up on...
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 18 July 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
should i trust macgowan pronunciation it's the only time i've heard then name aloud
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 18 July 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
tunny is tuna
― retail rage is for suckers (Hunt3r), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
Well over one million West Europeans responded to economic adversity in the seventeenth century by migrating to find a better life abroad. So many Scots left the kingdom to make a living in Poland in the seventeenth century that the Poles invented the word szot (Scot: meaning 'tinker'); and, in all, between 1600 and 1650 perhaps 100,000 Scotsmen, or one-fifth of the kingdom's adult males, went to live abroad.
― calzino, Monday, 20 July 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
There was a semi-famous Napoleon era Russian general descended from those Scots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Andreas_Barclay_de_Tolly
― brownie, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
I was reading about that recently.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
I was reading up on the events that led up to the March on Washington in 1963, and found an entry about the Baldwin-Kennedy Meeting, where James Baldwin hosted an off-the-record meeting with Bobby Kennedy, hoping to explain to the attorney general some of the causes behind recent civil unrest.
That in itself was an eye-opener, with Kennedy later saying the room seemed "possessed." But for the purposes of this thread, it was the last name on Baldwin's invited guest list that made me go wha?
David Baldwin, James Baldwin's brotherHarry Belafonte, singer and activistEdwin C. Berry, director of the Chicago Urban LeagueKenneth Clark, psychologist, activist, and founder of Harlem Youth Opportunities UnlimitedJune Shagaloff, Education Director of the NAACP (attending in an "unofficial capacity")Lorraine Hansberry, playwright best known for A Raisin in the Sun (1959)Lena Horne, musician, actor and activistClarence Benjamin Jones, advisor to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights lawyerJerome Smith, Freedom Rider associated with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)Rip Torn, a young white actor
― pplains, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
Ahaahhaha Fuck Yes
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
And the composer Tadeusz Baird? Unless Baird is a Polish name too.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
Tadeusz Baird was probably a descendant of some Scottish Baird, but no documents have been found to confirm this. We do know that his father, Edward Jan, was born in Poland in 1884, in Aleksandrów Kujawski (commune of Służewiec). His grandfather Józef (a railway worker) died in Warsaw in 1903. Tadeusz Baird also had Russian blood in him from his mother’s side. His mother, Maria Popov (born in 1894 in Yekaterinburg) was a daughter of Alexander Popov (director of a bank in Yekaterinburg) and Elisabeth née Shchepanov.
http://www.baird.polmic.pl/index.php/en/biography/childhood-and-family
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 July 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
tolstoy is a bit of a dick about Barclay de Tolly in War and Peace (for daft Russian nationalist reasons - de Tolly being a German speaking lutheran and non-Russian)
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
That Shirley Jones was David Cassidy's actual stepmother and Shaun Cassidy's mother.
(In fairness, The Partridge Family was just slightly before my time.)
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Monday, 20 July 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
I didn't know this either
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 20 July 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
I'd been aware of Blossom Dearie long before seeing the name Blossom Seeley.
I think I vaguely thought Seeley might have been playing off Dearie's popularity, but it actually Seeley was 30 years earlier.
― Please, Hammurabi, don't hurt 'em (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
that the duo that used to make me laugh in the Sonic Drive-in commercials are world class improv actors
https://www.tjanddave.com/
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
TBF only TJ is one of the Sonic guys. But yes, they are truly top of the heap.
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link