a popular UK politician called one of his many kids Sixtus, which shows a lack of imagination (similarly my current laptop appears on the network as 'six')
― koogs, Sunday, 18 April 2021 07:21 (three years ago) link
Isn't Una the absolute lack of imagination though, you'd think that at least the first would get a name specific to themselves.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 18 April 2021 07:24 (three years ago) link
not if you're aiming for the Paloma and Blanca follow ups
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 April 2021 07:26 (three years ago) link
sixtus and septimius/septimus are REAL old school names which i associate with Romans, Popes, and also really large Victorian families running out of name ideas for the nth son.
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:53 (three years ago) link
You've just very accurately described the family of the current Leader of the House of Commons.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 April 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link
Although he is more Catholic than most Popes.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 April 2021 12:09 (three years ago) link
kathleen hanna and ad-rock from the beastie boys are married
― voodoo chili, Sunday, 18 April 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
Marc Maron tells a funny story in one of the WTFs four or five years back where he was invited to some sort of private celebrity function at Horovitz and Hanna's designer craftsman house in Pasadena and awkwardly being the last to know any of this.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 18 April 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
Taylor Swift was, apparently, named after James Taylor
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 18 April 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
James Taylor Swift III
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 April 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
Thought it was Graham Taylor?
― a murmuration of pigeons at manor house (Matt #2), Monday, 19 April 2021 00:58 (three years ago) link
Both of their Wikipedia articles mention it. Perhaps it is erroneous but it is a piece of information that I just heard about today, so.
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 April 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
Baseball HOFer Rickey Henderson was named after Ricky Nelson. (His full name being Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson.)
― Sam Weller, Monday, 19 April 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
the kathleen hannah thing was in the documentary about her, The Punk Singer (2013) which is worth a watch.
― koogs, Monday, 19 April 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
and Don Henley's family changed their surname in honor of anticipating Ricky Henderson's future greatness?
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 April 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
I didn't learn, but recently realised of my own proud/mildly ashamed accord, that the wee icon for the clock app on my phone displays the actual current time and isn't just a static generic analogue clock image.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 10:11 (three years ago) link
it's even got a fancy sweeping second hand ooooooh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 10:21 (three years ago) link
oh shit!!
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 10:52 (three years ago) link
I remember when I finally noticed that
― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Rrose (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
If it was a snake it would have bit me.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
I probably only became aware because the time displayed at the top of my POS iPhone will get hung up and then suddenly jump 2-3 minutes ahead to the correct time so I stopped paying any attention to it.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
Both the clock app thing and the Tre/Trey/Trip thing are blowing my mind. And I'm a third, though my preferred name has little to do with my legal name.
I've known one or two Chips...short for Charles, is it not?
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
Juan is a name traditionally used for the first born.
― Alba, Thursday, 22 April 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
Joseph Smith never actually made it to Utah.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 22 April 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
Hugo Boss is not a contemporary guy. He got his break making uniforms for the Nazis and then died in 1948.
― Josefa, Friday, 23 April 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
Super Fly (1972) was directed by the son of the man who directed Shaft (1971). If only Gordon 'Trey' Parks III could've directed a seminal blaxploitation film in 1973 to complete the circle of life.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 April 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
Are those pun names for bands still popular? Because Trey Parker Jr. would be a good one.
― pplains, Friday, 23 April 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
The "taka taka taka" dance that Dr. Evil does in the first Austin Powers movie is the macarena.
― peace, man, Saturday, 24 April 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
that shit band KONGOS is made up of four sons of John Kongos
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
Hiding in plain sight
― Alba, Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
that Elmlea isn’t cream.🤯
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:55 (three years ago) link
cool i can start eating it again
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link
I always thought it was kind of strange that we have a metal door that goes from our kitchen into our garage, until last week when some friends car spontaneously caught on fire in their garage and the metal door prevented the entire house from being destroyed.
Everywhere else I've lived were outfitted with wooden doors, probably before this was part of the building code
― joygoat, Sunday, 25 April 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
That happened to someone I knew and it wiped out the animal sanctuary next to the garage, ouch. Luckily the garage was away from the house. Did any US houses ever actually have a set-up like Dan Tanner's in the stupid cop show Vegas, where he'd essentially park the car in the kitchen?
― john p. coltrane in hot pursuit (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 April 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
ooooh. i didn't know this either about the metal door thing
― Nhex, Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
Oh man. We don’t have a metal door but we also don’t have a car.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
Slapstick comedy gets its name from a thing called a slapstick which is used in theatres to make a slapping sound.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 26 April 2021 10:11 (three years ago) link
The etymology of the word 'cockpit' is thus (leading on from a conversation with someone about the origin of 'dashboard', which I think is detailed upthread somewhere):
The word cockpit seems to have been used as a nautical term in the 17th century, without reference to cock fighting. It referred to an area in the rear of a ship where the cockswain's station was located, the cockswain being the pilot of a smaller "boat" that could be dispatched from the ship to board another ship or to bring people ashore. The word "cockswain" in turn derives from the old English terms for "boat-servant" (coque is the French word for "shell"; and swain was old English for boy or servant)...From about 1935, cockpit came to be used informally to refer to the driver's cabin, especially in high performance cars
― john p. coltrane in hot pursuit (Matt #2), Monday, 26 April 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link
I can't remember where I read this now, but further upthread... That 'cockpit' originally referred to a space reserved for cockfighting and was adapted to denote the area of a ship where injured crewmen were taken (and which was often a bloody mess, resembling its linguistic forebear).― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Wednesday, October 3, 2018 6:13 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 April 2021 11:10 (three years ago) link
Maybe I need to recall the things I was shockingly old when I learned, although re-learning them over and over again is quite fun
― john p. coltrane in hot pursuit (Matt #2), Monday, 26 April 2021 11:30 (three years ago) link
And every high school symphonic band's percussion section needs one so that they can play "Sleigh Ride" as written.
See also the vibraslap, which is used exactly once in the score of "Godspell" and then languishes in the closet the rest of the time.
Specialty percussion instruments have a bittersweet air to me because they could someday cease to exist physically. It's easier to just trigger the samples, rather than lugging a cuica and berimbau and surdo and afuche-cabasa around town.
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 12:11 (three years ago) link
Likely my least-favorite bit of any song ever.
― pplains, Monday, 26 April 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
bada duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh DUHSH-MACKduh duh
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
I always thought they just slapped someone's face really hard during that part.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
whhhhhhiiinnnNnNNYYYYCLoP cLOp CloP clOP CLopSH-MACKduh duh
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
I have always wanted to have someone in an Indiana Jones costume, using a bullwhip, for that part
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfasru1i9I
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Monday, 26 April 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
"Specialty percussion instruments"... a recording engineer I know has a closet of these, and calls it 'the money maker' because bands waste so much time messing around with vibraslaps and shakers and triangles and whatnot
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 26 April 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
ngl, I loved it when bands like REM threw a bunch of random percussion shit into their tracks back in the 80s
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 26 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link