Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Kate Bush on 'Games Without Frontiers'

Wait, really? Now I know.

speaking of I always thought the line in "Games" was "she's so funky, yeah"

iirc, there's a live version where they actually sing "she's so funky, yeah," aware that that's how many heard it.

i would sing "funk-tual" knowing i had no clue wtf was happening there.

I still don't, tbh.

(googles)

Ohhhh, a gime!

I thought it was "She's so popular" when I was a kid*, rationalising it as an additional playground-centered metaphor for the dominance/acquisition element of war.

"Controlling that country's resources via occupation is very attractive!" "The idea of goosing our beleagured political party's polling via an invasion has excited our members!" "A tall and pretty country is invading another, let's gang up for run-off shine!"

* just listened to the Gabriel, PWEI and Arcade Fire versions and tbh I think I'm sticking with it

xp with puns u missed thread:

stan lee. his born name was stanley. smdh at myself.

his surname was lee-ber

so there's levels! see, i'm still learning.

And I heard he wanted to keep his real name for "serious" writing.

if only he'd had the time :( taken too soon

good write, sweet prints

― unproven (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:02 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That "not if I see you first" following "see you later" is an insult

(eg Jagger on 'You're So Vain', Kate Bush on 'Games Without Frontiers')

A lesser known example's that 1 hit wonder "Screaming Jets" by Johnny Warman. Which had Gabriel singing in the choruses which I only realised a few years ago.

That there were two mayors Richard Daley of Chicago! Somehow my brain just never made the connection that the "Mayor Daley" associated with historical events in the 1960s couldn't possibly be the "Mayor Daley" who was the mayor until just a few years ago. (I don't live in Chicago, so maybe this is just a little more forgivable)

Maybe "Richard Daley" is really just an ceremonial title bestowed upon all Chicago mayors

https://i.imgur.com/x5EoGDi.jpg

There's another Daley running for mayor next year (because of course there is). He isn't a Richard yet but I expect that to change any day now.

that "express yourself" is based on "respect yourself" by the staples sisters???! HOW COULD I HAVE NOT KNOWN THAT

Kate Bush on 'Games Without Frontiers'

Wait, really? Now I know.

How did I not know this when listening to it noe, it's so fucking obvious?

*now

Trevor Peacock, the actor best known for Jim ("no no no no no no yes") on the Vicar of Dibley is not only the father of both Daniel (Comic Strip) and Harry (Ray Bloody Purchase), but wrote a lot of notable 60s pop hits (including lots of Vernon's Girls lyrics) and most famously "Mrs Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter" for Herman's Hermits.

Wow, nice one!

that the distinctive sound of a resonator guitar was not achieved by someone playing a standard guitar using some sort of special technique (i wasn't that old but like i already had personally been playing for a few years guitar when i realized this)

Trevor Peacock, the actor best known for Jim ("no no no no no no yes") on the Vicar of Dibley is not only the father of both Daniel (Comic Strip) and Harry (Ray Bloody Purchase), but wrote a lot of notable 60s pop hits (including lots of Vernon's Girls lyrics) and most famously "Mrs Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter" for Herman's Hermits.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, November 29, 2018 3:42 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woof

That's brilliant, classic pub quiz question, 'which cast member of Vicar of Dibley wrote a US #1 single?'.

that really is great, even without recognising the kids (though one was in Greatest Show In The Galaxy!)

I just learned there is a song called Baby Shark, and that everybody knows it but me. I like it.

If my gf were not a preschool teacher, I would be similarly unaware (hit me up if you need to know the latest trends among the under-five set).

doo doo doo doo doo doo

How much simple muscle strength means for balance.

I've been an occasional runner, never a lifter, but after only a few weeks of (even weight-free) ankle/thigh/hip muscle exercises in an attempt to alleviate knee pain when running, it is 100 x easier to stand still on one leg even on wobbly surface.

Somehow got stuck thinking the chinese used the abacus until I was reading a book called Alex in Numberland that points out that it was the Roman version that was called that. Should be obvious with the -us ending

N.U.Unruh sold his real drums to pay the rent then replaced them with bits and pieces he stole from building sites.
I thought somebody had nicked the drumkit thus bringing Einsturzende neubauten into the metal percussian arena.
Should have read that earlier, it's up on fromthearchives Einsturzende neubauten chronology.
Of course all true rebels in Berlin would have been squatting anyway.

I was literally listening to Baby Shark when I clicked on to this thread!

I am making a playlist to inflict it on moar people tomorrow

Dauphinoise potatoes comes from the French for dolphin.

See also the Dauphin and the region of the same name.

dauphin also means "prince" or "boy who is going to become the next king", i guess i always have imagined it to mean "potatoes in the style that the little rich entitled boy likes"

I always wondered if the Dauphin bit had any tie in to the Merovingian kings lineage starting with sea monsters, that is unless they were the escapees from troy.

BUt yeah I did wonder what the significance of dolphins was in the titling of the heir to the throne. Somehow been aware fo taht for decades and not looked much further into it.

Went to Dauphin Jr High in Enterprise, Alabama (home of the Bo-weevil Monument) for 8th grade. We were the Dauphin Dolphins.

& thin that I just learned: That Angela Thirkell, novelist that I love, was the mother of Colin MacInnes, novelist that I love (and granddaughter of Pre-Raphaelite Edward Byrne-Jones).

That George Bush Sr was older than Jimmy Carter.

How much simple muscle strength means for balance.

I've been an occasional runner, never a lifter, but after only a few weeks of (even weight-free) ankle/thigh/hip muscle exercises in an attempt to alleviate knee pain when running, it is 100 x easier to stand still on one leg even on wobbly surface.

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 30 November 2018 16:31 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i too was shockingly old when i learned this

this may be in the nature of the type of knowledge it is tbf

Been learning this bit by bit at yoga class over the last few years

andrew beetbort was orson bean’s son-in-law?!?

Been learning this bit by bit at yoga class over the last few years

Some time ago I passed a sign advertising "yoga for extremely stiff men"; can't say I wasn't tempted.

Apparently Ween's The Mollusk was the main inspiration for SpongeBob SquarePants:

https://i.redd.it/e28d1i43mw121.jpg

You know that thing where you frequent establishments on parallel streets and only upon taking some new route via a perpendicular street does your brain make the connection that these two locations are actually really near one another (and is that even a thing outside of my own fractured psyche)? So okay, I knew that the lead singer of the Lovin' Spoonful is named John Sebastian and I knew that the Welcome Back Kotter theme song was sung by a guy named John Sebastian but somehow it never occurred to me that they were the same dude until this morning. And now I realize that this isn't actually related to my initial example and may actually just be a sign of early-onset Alzheimer's or something.

You know that thing where you frequent establishments on parallel streets and only upon taking some new route via a perpendicular street does your brain make the connection that these two locations are actually really near one another (and is that even a thing outside of my own fractured .

You know that thing where you frequent establishments on parallel streets and only upon taking some new route via a perpendicular street does your brain make the connection that these two locations are actually really near one another (and is that even a thing outside of my own fractured psyche)? .

I get weirded out when I drive down the same street in the opposite direction to usual

It's not unusual for me to have a moment when I finally consolidate two places in my head that are actually the same place, just approached from different directions on a regular journey.