I'm very glad to have read that (from this article) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/the-secrets-of-sleep as - tmi alert - I'm often confounded by waking with a boner after a dream with absolutely no erotic content
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
hrrrm I always assumed it was because I really needed to pee
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
almost equally confounding
Kryger writes that “healthy sleepers” typically experience about five awakenings an hour, although they do not remember them.
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
At my age, if it doesn't feel like I was wide awake for hours at a time, I figure I slept OK.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
Looked up the primetime schedule for 1964 and saw that the following all debuted within days of one another, 55 years ago this month (9/64):The Addams FamilyThe MunstersBewitchedGilligan's IslandJohnny QuestThe Man from UNCLEAnd also Underdog a few days later, in early October.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
There were incredible numbers of kids around to boost ratings for that kind of programming. Being 10 at the time, I was in television wasteland heaven. Although even then I thought Gilligan's Island was kind of dumb.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
Approximately 40% of life is getting shaken down
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
the first three were syndicated on local stations when I was a kid. apparently gilligan’s island still was at a price premium
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
the channel 5 vs channel 11 dichotomy steered my syndication experience strongly in favor of addams/bewitched/gi line-up. When i would encounter munsters i still recoil with ‘the hell is this crap!?’ And yet tolerated gi.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
I was curious because I was watching Addams and Munsters in tandem and while I knew that they had debuted around the same time, I didn't realize that they'd debuted six days apart from one another. They're similar enough in those early stages (although Addams has a leg up in being run by a Marx Bros. writer) that one suspects a bit of tomfoolery.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
And yes, Gilligan is trash.
Always assumed The Munsters was a crude rip-off of the AF, which always felt older and more sophisticated to me. Did Bewitched come before I Dream of Jeannie, or after?
― fetter, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
Speaking of learning things about the Munsters, I was in my late 30s when I heard about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZSWim3kvsE
That's not colorized. The pilot was filmed in color.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
that looks... very wrong
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dlVA2M07pQ
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I watched that Munsters pilot last night. It was weird. I kinda liked the original Eddie, though, presented as like a legit feral child.
Bewitched, Addams, and Munsters all debuted within the same seven-day span. Jeannie was a year later.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
I also was shockingly old when I learned that Munsters was a Universal show, which is why they were able to utilize the Karloffian makeup design on Herman.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
Bewitched was a hit in 60s Japan and heavily influenced the creation of the Sally The Witch manga, a story about a magical princess who lives on earth but has to keep her identity secret. This in turn became a massive hit when it was animated and practically invented the "magical girl" genre that is still going strong today e.g. Sailor Moon, PreCure, Madoka Magica etc.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
I always assumed Bewitched was a rethinking of the situation at the end of Bell, Book and Candle. Like what happens next in a way that would work as a tv sitcom.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
The other grandmother who appeared less often in the Addams Family was played by Margaret Hamilton!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
Bombay is now called Mumbai
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
wow -- i remember learning that in 1997! i was at my job processing visas for other people's overseas travel and i learned that Bombay is called Mumbai by a disgruntled customer.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
lol would a strong cockney accent preserve the rhyming i dunno englishes
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
yet they still call the popular snack Bombay Mix.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
Congrats to you all for learning that the former Bombay changed its name.
I can't mark the year, but it was pretty late in life that I realized Bombay and Mumbai weren't two different cities.
I mean, there's no catchy song about it like Istanbul has.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
Constantinople?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
now picturing bewitched reboot cast with s. asian dr. mumbai character, or did they actually do this already.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
i learned it as part of my job at the time, not sure how i would have found out otherwiseyou know they don't say Calcutta anymore too right?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Kolkata
that one only changed in 2001, though
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
No one in France got the memo. It's still Bombay, Pékin, Calcutta. I think the assumption is that most foreign place names are 'wrong' anyway, so why bother.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
that's very french of them
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
Indeed it is.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
you should hear how we pronounce “orleans.”
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
Or, God forbid, Des Moines.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Black holes are named after the Black Hole of Calcutta Kolkata!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Madras is now Chennai, Bangalore is now Bengaluru, there's lots of others too, not just British colonial names being changed. This is an interesting piece on the Hindu nationalist motivations behind some of it I posted in the South Asia news thread: https://scroll.in/article/902177/no-hindi-hindu-hindustan-implemented-fully-bjps-hindutva-renaming-will-wipe-out-a-lot-of-india
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
Chennai was the one I was most shockingly old to learn about. Cricket is useful for this sort of thing.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
The name was only changed in 1995 so you did OK.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
Oh wait, I think that was your point.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, September 18, 2019 10:39 AM (twenty-three minutes ago)
this one hit a little close to home
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
Had an argument with the wife once about whether it is in fact correct to pronounce Notre Dame the university differently from Notre Dame the cathedral.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
I'm at a point where whatever people from hood x or y say is correct as far as I'm concerned. I struggled for years before embracing the French pronunciation of 'tupperware', though:
https://forvo.com/word/tupperware/#fr
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
(leyana's, that is.)
Also, I still vaguely cringe when I hear Spider-Man pronounced 'speeder-man'.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
John Fahey a similarly juicy example
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
I have no idea how you pronounce John Fahey's name. Is this about to become a thing I was shockingly old when I learned it?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Sund4ar, what side of the argument were you on?
there are a ton of midwestern towns that have messed up pronunciations and eventually you just have to roll with it
Nevada (nuh-VAY-duh) and Madrid (mad-rid) come to mind
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Locals pronounce Prescott AZ as "Press-kit". Guy fixing my computer was adamant it should be "Press-cot" because that's how the guy it was named for pronounced his name. Pick your battles man! Just made him sound like a pompous tool.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Is someone about to blow my mind by suggesting that 'Fahey' and a popular brand of Greek yogurt are homonyms, is that what's about to happen
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
As a general rule, no speaker of English should ever defer to the way Americans insist on pronouncing words. It's just bad form.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
I can't deal with Coeur D'Alene being pronounced "Cortle Lane" but I do it anyway
I draw the line at Louisville's preferred pronunciation as being "Lowvull" I will call it "Lew-i-ville" so the rest of the world doesn't look at me like an insane person
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link