Smyth was approached by Eddie Van Halen in 1985 to replace David Lee Roth in VH. She turned them down in part because "those guys were drunk and fighting all the time."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
So she married a New York Irishman instead.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
"patti 'sonyc' smith" was right there
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Story I heard with the Everlys was that Don the older one didn't like being treated as a twin of his younger brother Phil. So it became one of several things contributing to the resentment between the 2 that stopped them talking for several years.There's only about 2 years between them but I heard it rankled.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 7 July 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
The rainbow discussion upthread reminded me of a realization I had earlier this year, of the enormity of Noah's flood. God wiping out all life on earth, every grandma and newborn baby, every dog, all the kittens and cattle and mice dying horribly, having to watch each other struggle and choke with no hope of being saved. Millions of people, trillions of creatures. It's kind of an atrocity which I'd only ever thought of in the context of a cutesy Bible tale; your little wooden ark, the pairs of stuffed animals you tuck safely inside, wise old Noah with his fluffy beard. But everyone and everything else on the planet died screaming, what the fuck? How did I not put that together sooner?
― cat, Monday, 8 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
don't worry, God promised not to let it happen again
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 July 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
seems like an awesome god idk
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 8 July 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
mention of noah reminds me of THIS, which belongs in this thread even if i learned it a couple of years ago (i was shockingly old a couple of years ago):
Genesis 7
1: And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.2: Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.3: Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
well that's just unrealistic
― Number None, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
i mean it's like they were lying in bible classes when i was a kid ABOUT WHAT'S ACTUALLY IN THE BIBLE
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
YOU JUST CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
The animals went in seven by sevenHoorah! Hoorah!The animals went in seven by sevenHoorah! Hoorah!The animals went in seven by sevenThe little pig thought he was going to heavenAnd they all went into the arkFor to get out of the rain.
The animals went in seven by sevenThe little pig thought he was going to heavenAnd they all went into the arkFor to get out of the rain.
(little pig v porrly briefed even in this the truthtelling verse -- tho of course he is an unclean animal)
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
I asked Sunday School teachers, and later the minister at my confirmation hearings, about things in the bible, and they didn't know they were in there
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 8 July 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
YOU HAD ONE JOB
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
And they'll know we are ChristiansCos we're dumb
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 July 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
iswydtxpoat
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 July 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Version we used to sing was
The animals went in 2 by 2The elephant and the kangarooAnd they all went marching down the drain down the lane.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 8 July 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
YOU HAD ONE JOBimo they effectively did their job of showing me young that even genuinely well-meaning religious teachers were absolutely bullshitting it & therefore all speakers on religion should be disregarded
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 8 July 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
FFS some american evangelicals non-ironically describe Jesus as blonde and blue eyed, so.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 8 July 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
seven pairs of each beast could still go in two by two y'know.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
Hermaphrodite is a compound name taken from the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite. Character with both male and female genitals after he was melded with naiad Salmacis.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
The two first letters in ISO three-letter international currency codes are the countries' ISO two-letter country codes, also used for top-level domain names and such. Should have been obvious, I guess, but a few distractions (the US not using the .us domain name, the Russian ruble having the code RUB) have kept me from noticing.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
well your post made me go look something up and apparently the UK's country codes are GB and GBR, with "UK" reserved from the set of available 2-character codes so nobody else can use it. Contrariwise the .gb TLD is reserved but almost completely disused in deference to .uk
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, exactly, that's another one of the high-profile apparent counterexamples that hides the general pattern.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
God wiping out all life on earth
O rly? Fish were pretty chill about it, from what I heard.
Fish were like "Cool. More water. Thanks, God!"
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 July 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
I learned today that Jamiroquai is extremely good
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 July 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
in what language
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
Rigatoni.jpg
“Jamiroquai, it’s delicious”
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 July 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
Only learned last night that you can use headphones as a microphone.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 12 July 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
I just learned that a "fathom" is only 6 feet/183cm, not some huge undersea depth as I had imagined.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Friday, 19 July 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
I can't even begin to six feet why you would think that.
― pplains, Friday, 19 July 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
i am just now learning this as well!
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 July 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
They changed the movie title bcz 43,744,532 Fathoms Under The Sea used more digits than most cinemas had for their marquees
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 19 July 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
Um, literally the distance you can physically fathom or grasp with your arms outstretched? I suppose "fathom" for "grasp" may only be used in the abstract "understand" rather than the literal sense in English now? Norwegian has "fatte" ("understand" nearly always, physically "grasp" in some older literary usage), which may have helped me understand this unit without too much trouble.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
The Verne title refers to distance traveled rather than distance from surface.
― Stevolende, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
Uh, that's a league, apparently meaning about an hour's walk, not a fathom.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
I think Stevolende knows that, he's just listing something else he realized late. I had the same misconception, "How can you be that deep, the earth isn't even that thick?!!"
― nickn, Friday, 19 July 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
It wasn't until I heard my college professor say Friedrich Nietzsche's surname outloud that I realized it wasn't pronounced the same as Green Bay Packers linebacker Ray Nitschke, even though it obviously doesn't have a K in it. This was long after I'd first tried to read him and probably attempted to name-drop him in a few weighty conversations.
― punning display, Friday, 19 July 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
That 'perk' is an abbreviation of 'perquisite'.
― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Saturday, 20 July 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
Good one!
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 July 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
"pox" is just a 15th century re-spelling of "pocks", as in pockmarks
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pox
(this dawned on me while reading some twitter discussion abt chickenpox which has now disappeared from my timeline so no link - anyhow there was much talk of "pocks" so I might be the last person alive to have realised this)
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 20 July 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
I thought standardised spelling was only really happening thanks to the printed word which was only happening around that time, possibly even a little later. Otherwise there was a lot of spelling variation depending on what area you were in or where your education was from etc.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 20 July 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
That there is a science fiction element to Dude, Where's My Car?
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 20 July 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
xpost/eckes poste
this is true, so I guess a better summary might be that in the late 15th century people began to think of "pocks" as a word/condition in its own right rather than a plural of another word, and would sometimes write it down accordingly in a less plural-looking manner, and we've* done so ever since
a bit less snappy though
* I've**** ok I am not quite that old
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 20 July 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
high flying birds are on this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_6P3K7XUAMd86e.png
― mark s, Saturday, 20 July 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
that "Avenging Force" with Michael Dudikoff is a sequel to the Chuck Norris classic "Invasion U.S.A."
― methanietanner, Saturday, 20 July 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
For some reason i always mistakenly thought Maiden's Number of the Beast was a concept album...until my late 20s
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 July 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
It is one if you want it to be.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 July 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
Lol true
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 July 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
The Left Bank in Paris is not on the left side of the map but rather on the left side of the river when you're traveling downstream
― Josefa, Saturday, 20 July 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
Just learned at NCT today that “pump and dump” doesn’t in fact mean conscientiously expressing several bottles of milk in advance
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 20 July 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link