Things you were shockingly old when you learned

The people we know as Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were actors who auditioned for, and were cast as, the characters "Roy Rogers" and "Dale Evans."

xxp wbat about Texhoma?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texhoma,_Texas

Texhoma students are served jointly by two districts: kindergarten through fourth grade students by Texhoma Independent School District in Texas and fifth through twelfth grade students by Texhoma Public Schools in Oklahoma. For much of the 20th century, the divided town was served by a single school district. It is the only city in Texas where graduating students can attend either Texas or Oklahoma Universities and pay in-state tuition for either.

The village lies on the state line with Indiana, where it borders the town of West College Corner, Indiana. The public school, part of the Union County–College Corner Joint School District, is bisected by the state line and is operated jointly with the Indiana authorities.

I have probably mentioned it before, but US postal codes *can* cross state lines and I learned it the hard way

u OK hun?

IIRC the Pentagon and National Airport are located in Virginia while having DC zip codes.

There is a major airport in Australia where you cross the state line while taking off or landing (Coolangatta, crossing NSW - Qld).

and for several months of the year they are in different time zones

The people we know as Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were actors who auditioned for, and were cast as, the characters "Roy Rogers" and "Dale Evans."

― Saint Buffy (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, October 10, 2019 1:10 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wat

what a coincidence

if u think about it tho man,

Married at 14 and a mother at 15, she was divorced at 17 (some sources say widowed). Intent on a singing career, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and worked in an insurance company while taking occasional radio singing jobs. After another unhappy marriage, she went to Louisville, Kentucky, and became a popular singer on a local radio station. There she took the stage name Dale Evans (from her third husband, Robert Dale Butts, and actress Madge Evans).

I highlighted the relevant part, but boy, that first sentence was a doozy too.

I remember being surprised to find out that KC MO was much larger than KC KS, but that was long ago. In California I don't think that cities can even span county lines.

― nickn, Wednesday, October 9, 2019 10:50 PM

Helena, Arkansas, is one of those old Mississippi River cities that was founded before Arkansas was even a state. It's the hometown of Confederate generals, the "King Biscuit Time" radio show, and Conway Twitty.

Around 1900, West Helena was began getting settled and formally became its own city in 1917. By the 1990s, West Helena's population was about 2,000 more than Helena's. That was also about the time that the two cities decided to join each other and become one city together.

They consolidated in 2006 and became Arkansas' youngest city and 33rd-most populated. TAKE A WILD GUESS WHAT THEY DECIDED TO FORMALLY NAME THE NEW TOWN.

https://i.imgur.com/ABD0noR.png

IS THAT NOT THE DUMBEST THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE.

Ahaha

Kind of surprised that there are places that cooperate on school districts across state lines. Not being able to desegregate schools between Kansas and Missouri has been, uh, relevant to Kansas City area politics.

i also spent some time reading about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans last night

Dissatisfied with his job and city life, Andy and his brother Will built a 12-by-50-foot houseboat from salvage lumber, and in July 1912 the Slye family traveled up the Ohio River towards Portsmouth. Desiring a more stable existence in Portsmouth, they purchased land on which to build a house, but the Great Flood of 1913 allowed them to move the houseboat to their property and continue living in it on dry land.

just one of many brilliant details

reminded me of the time in Skyrim when I realised the Companions's hall was a big upturned boat

Utilities, school districts, zip codes, port authorities, national parks and even federal courthouses can straddle statelines.

But not area codes! For example, the federal courthouse in Texarkana sits right on the Arkansas/Texas line, but the landlines on the west side of the building have Texas area codes and the ones on the east use the Arkansas number.

Which is damn silly since with overlays and cellphones, area codes ought to be the least restricted by arbitrary political boundaries. I've got one family member who lives in the same town as me who has a different area code in her phone number. Meanwhile, my sisters who live in other states, still use the same one I use. Hell, I could even set up a Google Voice number with some faraway area code and start taking calls from it before lunch. I'm sure there's a very detailed explanation for it, but it still sounds coo-coo to me.

https://i.imgur.com/Ji7jTtM.jpg

That it’s in fact «Us Weekly» and not «US Weekly»

reminded me of the time in Skyrim when I realised the Companions's hall was a big upturned boat

― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Thursday, October 10, 2019 9:24 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

...Huuuuh. Well, how about that.

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

Hey, didja know that there are only ten U.S. highways that have a compass direction as a suffix?

only just today I learned that King Biscuit Time was something other than the Beta Band side project that produced the headsticky single "I Walk the Earth"

That it’s in fact «Us Weekly» and not «US Weekly»

Tracy Jordan calls it Us Weekly in 30 Rock and I thought it was a joek (I realised since, though)

That it’s in fact «Us Weekly» and not «US Weekly»

― kinder, Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:59 PM (fifty-one minutes ago)

!!!!!!!

i also thought this

and have since realized it was the actual name

I worked 20 years in radio. I once saw a Geo Tracker flip over after running into some of these things.

And as God as my witness, until yesterday, I thought they were called GUIDE WIRES.

https://i.imgur.com/r5Za7gh.jpg

when as we all know, they're actually called partially-yellow strings

"Duck tape" is actually the original name.

This is a new one to me too. Apparently it's made from cotton duck canvas, but coincidentally found an application later on for repairing ducts.

me and my husband nearly split up once arguing about whether it was duck tape or duct tape

a split over the name of the tape strong enough to hold the wing on a plane would be ironic

Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver) at 1:51 11 Oct 19

That it’s in fact «Us Weekly» and not «US Weekly»

Tracy Jordan calls it Us Weekly in 30 Rock and I thought it was a joek (I realised since, though)
― kinder, Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:59 PM (fifty-one minutes ago)

!!!!!!!

i also thought this

Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver) at 1:51 11 Oct 19

and have since realized it was the actual name

IIRC a lot of the humour of Jordan's character came from him having weird conceptions of everyday things, so I assumed him thinking it's "us" and not US was a part of that.

easy to conflate USA Today and Us Weekly, too

mace is a brand of pepper spray

The lettering on "Rubber Soul" was designed by Rebecca Front's dad.

Elijah Cummings's middle name was Eugene.

He could therefore have gone by E.E. Cummings.

Read somebody this week pointing out that Kierkegaard translates as church warden

I thought it meant churchyard?

Fred?

the romani crucifixion legend: three iron nails ran in, but a kid stole the fourth (made of gold) and since then -- since this reduced christ's suffering -- the kid's (romani) people are allowed by jesus to wander free of borders, to have their own law, and to steal (from those who aren't romani)

mace is a brand of pepper spray

> a kid stole the fourth (made of gold)

would a gold nail even work?

(wikipedia has two slightly different takes btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_crucifixion_legend )

the version i cleave to was actually explained by a romani character in LA REINA DEL SUR: can i really be the only person watching LA REINA DEL SUR?

would a gold nail even work?

― koogs, Sunday, October 20, 2019 3:19 PM bookmarkflaglink

It worked for the transcontinental railroad!

I thought it was symbolic in that context.

if you find and remove the gold nail the entire US railway system will physically fall apart

I am not Fred but yeah, Kierkegaard = churchyard.