Today i learned that Meatloaf was only 5'2"!! I always thought he was about 9ft tall
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:25 (two months ago) link
No way!
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:26 (two months ago) link
Haha no scratch that - I've been given false information. He was six foot
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:30 (two months ago) link
ppl out there just fibbing abt meat loaf, in 2024!
― mark s, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:33 (two months ago) link
FAKE LOAF
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:36 (two months ago) link
Like a Gnat Out of Hell
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:38 (two months ago) link
5'2" ain't bad
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:41 (two months ago) link
We were barely seventeen and we were not so tall
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:57 (two months ago) link
Clock DVA, the sheffield band, who i have always called "Clock D V A" are actually "Clock Dva", Dva being russian for 'two'. it's a clockwork orange reference.
(still unconvinced by that)
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 14:37 (two months ago) link
Whoa really?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:47 (two months ago) link
I heard that several years ago. The 2 o'clock bit at least. Thirst has a symbol on the front that appears to signify that too. irckle with a triangle corresponding to the clock hands position filled in.
― Stevo, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:15 (two months ago) link
circle with a triangle
I remember them talking about this in the Made In Sheffield documentary - iirc they gave up telling everyone it wasn't D V A after a couple of years and started calling it that themselves.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:36 (two months ago) link
The difference between collision and allision, at least as far as maritime law defines it.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:35 (one month ago) link
Railways existed before steam engines and locomotives - I mean, duh, why wouldn't they?
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:31 (one month ago) link
well a locomotive wouldn’t be much use without them Tom duh
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:08 (one month ago) link
allision-- my aim's untrue
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:13 (one month ago) link
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:20 (one month ago) link
Wagonways!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Wagonway
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:23 (one month ago) link
... this is what I was shockingly old when I learned about.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:27 (one month ago) link
I used to know this insane wingnut minor-league weedlord out of Cave Junction who had built a working wood gas car— it didn’t go very fast or far, but it worked! Saw it with my own eyes. Lost tough with him because he outed himself as a virulent anti-vaxxer a few years before the pando
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:27 (one month ago) link
I’ve driven something converted to run off natural gas
what’s wild is how many road vehicles were electric back in the early days. Or cities with full-on electric buses with the overhead electric line. Was widespread for a brief period
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 03:29 (one month ago) link
"Waiting for Guffman" per wiki:
The film's title is a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.
oh. duh ...
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:47 (one month ago) link
What a "hospital pass"is. Saw this story and thought it must have something to do with the NHShttps://www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/03/28/rishi-sunak-i-inherited-worst-hospital-pass-for-a-new-pm-in-decades/
― Alba, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:32 (one month ago) link
Not shocking, but I just learned the character in the drawings of nude woman in black gloves and stockings that appear in Playboy are called femlins, and that the character was created by LeRoy Neiman.
Femlins were created by sport illustrator LeRoy Neiman in 1955 when publisher/editor Hugh Hefner decided the Party Jokes page needed a visual element.[1] The name is a portmanteau of "female" and "gremlin." They are portrayed as mischievous black and white female sprites, apparently 10–12 in (250–300 mm) tall, wearing only opera gloves, stockings and high heel shoes.[2] They are usually drawn in two or three panel vignettes, interacting with various life-sized items such as shoes, jewelry, neckties and such.
An auction is happening today of stuff from the Hefner estate.
― nickn, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:48 (one month ago) link
Americans call an umbrella a "bumbershoot".
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 29 March 2024 08:53 (one month ago) link
a handful of americans, perhaps
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 March 2024 09:48 (one month ago) link
i have never heard anyone call an umbrella a bumbershoot in my nearly 40 years.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 29 March 2024 11:05 (one month ago) link
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumbershoot
checks out
― koogs, Friday, 29 March 2024 11:29 (one month ago) link
it's definitely a word, just not in common everyday use for most Americans. it's like folksy slang.
― jaymc, Friday, 29 March 2024 12:22 (one month ago) link
It's generally only used when one is adopting the voice of a pompous twit, for comedic effect.
― henry s, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:19 (one month ago) link
Is bumbershoot like Lollapalooza, an out of use antiquated term used only to name a music festival?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:22 (one month ago) link
^^^^^ yes
― Jaq, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:36 (one month ago) link
I've only heard bumbershoot used by Americans as a faux-Britishism
― bendy, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:40 (one month ago) link
Extremely faux as no-one in Britain has ever heard of it.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Friday, 29 March 2024 13:44 (one month ago) link
Although there is (was?) a homophobic Jamaican variant that was popular in the UK when I was at school
― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Friday, 29 March 2024 13:48 (one month ago) link
if you mean bomboclaat, that one isn't homophobic, it's misogynist
― rob, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:09 (one month ago) link
in that it means menstrual pad. though it could also mean toilet paper, while bloodclaat is more clearly the former
and tbc none of these words are related to bumbershoot in any way
― rob, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:12 (one month ago) link
I think it mutated its meaning into north London! Anyway yes I guess from a different origin to bumbershoot.
― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Friday, 29 March 2024 14:16 (one month ago) link
ah right that is quite possible!
― rob, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:30 (one month ago) link
"He washed his hands of the whole thing"
Comes from Pontius Pilate (on Good Friday!).. he just wanted to give Jesus a flogging and let him go, but the crowd wanted blood, so he symbolically washed his hands to say that he didn't agree but do whatever you want. It's in the Stones song, don't know why I never made that connection
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 16:27 (one month ago) link
it’s weird to me that the voice of Garfield/Peter Venkman also co-created the Bob Newhart Show and co-composed its theme song
― brimstead, Friday, 29 March 2024 16:48 (one month ago) link
And was the voice of Carlton the Doorman on the Bob Newhart Show and Rhoda
― Josefa, Friday, 29 March 2024 17:03 (one month ago) link
Pontius Pilate Was the Voice of Garfield
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:55 (one month ago) link
huh never knew bumbershoot was american, totally thought it mysterious/british/lol.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Friday, 29 March 2024 22:58 (one month ago) link
well I just read a thing about Pontius Pilate and he didn't seem to give two shits about Jesus, for or against.. he certainly wasn't try to arrest him or hunt him down, that was news to me
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:40 (one month ago) link
I don't think we know anything much at all about Pontius Pilate and what he thought. Outside the gospels, which have their own agenda, there is almost no mention of him in the records.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:00 (one month ago) link
I got my info direct from the Gospel of Wikipedia
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:08 (one month ago) link
According to Eddie Vedder, Pilate had a dog. So there's that much that we know.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:51 (one month ago) link
The original Fido.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 March 2024 01:04 (one month ago) link