Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Such a shame that no one remembers the great Finno-Ugric entertainer Sami Davis Jr.

I didn't realise they were Finno-Ugric (like Finns, Estonians and Hungarians) rather than Eskimo-Aleut until just now. (Not that this will shock anyone)

Well, you do get them in Finland after all.

Though I thought they were mostly in Finland, but they are mostly in Norway, though I suppose the topmost part of Scandinavia is in Norway.

Xp yeah, but most of Scandinavia is not Finland, and the Finns came from a later migration it seems.

I went through the same kind of culture shock a few years ago: finland

I mean, on one hand, I feel kinda funny mocking indigenous people.

But on the other hand,

https://i.imgur.com/PvOdpWB.jpg

tbf slightly fair to the non-Sami Norwegians, they have been in Norway since 3000 BC, it's not quite a white settlers/ Native American sorta thing.

http://i.imgur.com/stpZV75.gif

You see, this is what you get with De la Rue - state of the art e-passports.

Soviet police memo to help determine one's national origin. pic.twitter.com/bAwy6WmF1p

— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) May 21, 2016

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i like a good ancient culture and their various art things but the last couple of years have thrown up a couple that i knew nothing about

Today it was these things (stone spheres of costa rica):
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=costa+rica+spheres&tbm=isch

Last year it was these things (Sanxingdui masks):
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sanxingdui&tbm=isch

That crazy old Coors Light ad where the guy is practically delirious about "twins" was based on an old country song about little baby ducks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfH2mgOnM-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk64JluO4CI

Oh, god. I know (and love) the Tom T. Hall song but have thankfully never been subjected to that nightmarish perversion of his song before now.

Evelyn Waugh is male

same :-0

Fun fact: his first wife was called Evelyn, so there was in fact a female Evelyn Waugh

http://www.edinburghspotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/evelynreview.jpg

Only way I've kept that one straight is because I used to work with a guy named Mar10n Waugh.

His wife's name was Janey.

More like Evelyn Wau, amirite.

(I did in fact know about old Evelyn. Do a Google image search for George Eliot if you're interested in further literary surprises.)

When I saw live musical performances on TV, I knew the music was often pre-recorded and that the artists were just lip-singing.

you know that's "lip-syncing", right? :P

I was shockingly old when I realised that the name of the band who did Funkytown was a pun on the above

Well, you don’t say.

According to Wikipedia, friends took to calling the Waughs he-Evelyn and she-Evelyn. Hevelyn and Shevelyn would surely have been better?

make the edit alba DO IT

That it's pronounced Ever-Lin, Not Eeeeev-Lin

Stop spoiling my nicknames.

Where are you getting that from, anyway? All the things I can immediately find on the internet say that with him it was Eve-Lin not Ever-Lin.

(not very authoritative sources, I admit)

these folks seem to agree it's EVE-lin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061qw73

Evil Genius with Russell Kane
Writing Brideshead Revisited? Genius. Naming his son Auberon? Evil. And it gets worse... Russell weighs it all up with Jolyon Rubinstein, Ellie White and Sadie Harrison.

Ihave always pronounced it Ehvuhlin in my mind but now I'm wondering if I've ever heard that name spoken aloud. Wouldn't have guessed at the evil or ever pronunciations. I still think that Alba's joke would work though.

Is ever not pronounced Ehvuh, then?

I think I've vacillated between Eve-lin and Eever-lin. Never done Ever or Ehvuh (are these two meant to be different? I guess Eh can be pronounced like the letter A)

Eve-lin is what I've heard most. Ehvuh-lin I end up clipping down in classic British style to Evlin, which could give rise to 'Vluh' as an imo excellent short name. VLUH

... like his son, Ron Waugh, little Ronnie Waugh. Always pronounced it as Eve-lin, fwiw.

ever-lyn = the femme fatale with the deadtooth from twin peaks

I always assumed it was Ever-Lin as that's how Bill Deedes pronounced it, and I guess he should know of anyone.

Shevverlin is still great tho

The old duffers here pronounce it eeeev-lin though, so let's just assume waugh deliberately pronounced it both ways to screw with people, which sounds plausible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUahGZzaNU

woff

I often look back on my callow youth, and when I do a smile flits across my now mature but pitted face. I hardly recognize the naïve boy I once was. To think that I once believed that Evelyn Waugh was a woman! Of course now, with a couple of ‘O’ levels under my belt, I am far more sophisticated and I know that Evelyn Waugh, should he be alive today, would be very, indeed, dead proud of his daughter, Auberon; because of course Evelyn is the father of Auberon and not, as I once thought, the mother.

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1443448085i/16361932.png

Where's sic when you really need a factcheck

I briefly considered Auberon/ Oberon for my son's name! I had to ditch it bc I kept thinking of that Oberyn Martell scene on GoT.

actually I also had Evelyn as a potential girls' name... huh

Joan Bakewell says it Eve-lin and that's good enough for me:

https://youtu.be/UvtjUt0GzKg

omg @ how she says "waugh" - it is a monument to an entire way of being

laughter
slaughter
Waugh-ter

guys guys I'm pretty sure it's pronounced evil-lyn
thats my he-man joke I'm here all week you're welcome

as I've gotten older, I have learned that being young sucks, nobody lets you do anything and your brain doesn't work good

I didn't start getting my shit together til age 28