Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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?

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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.

Wikipedia again has done good info on the last spike (there were at least 4...)

"Immediately afterwards, the golden spike and the laurel tie were removed, lest they be stolen, and replaced with a regular iron spike and normal tie"

(some good)

You know those Romans, they're big on keeping the trains running on time.

Thx anatol.

There's a town called Peniscola

Heard of Pensacola.
But does Peniscola have a similar seemingly semantic breakdown in Spanish as it does in English? Do locals call it something else

That John Lennon never toured as a solo artist post-Beatles and just did a couple of benefit shows.

I remember a show he did in Oxnard, CA in the 70s, Linda Ronstadt opening. Don't think it was a benefit.

Martin Scorsese on Lou Reed,

In 1987, he auditioned for the role of Pontius Pilate in my film The Last Temptation of Christ, but his old friend David Bowie ended up playing the part

Is this common knowledge?

never heard this before, it's not mentioned on the Criterion disk with MS commentary

Lou transacting with Keitel's Brooklyn Judas would have been A+

and pilate, pretty pilate
can anyone shake your hand?

thirty silver peices, in my hand

And the Judean girls go doot do doot doot doot doot do do doo

I'm waiting for the Messiah

You guys are falling out of grace.

Now this really is shocking on my part, given that it's my hometown where I lived for the first 20-odd years of my life:

Owing to its industrial roots, Paisley, like many industrial towns in Renfrewshire, became a target for German Luftwaffe bombers during World War II. Although it was not bombed as heavily as nearby Glasgow (see Clydebank Blitz), air raids still occurred periodically during the early years of the war, killing nearly a hundred people in several separate incidents; on 6 May 1941, a parachute mine was dropped in the early hours of the morning claiming 92 victims; this is billed the worst disaster in Paisley's history.[19]

To be fair to myself I've never seen any memorial to or any mention of this anywhere in Paisley.

In terms of numbers that might be the worst disaster in Paisley's history, but I'm not sure this wasn't worse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cinema_disaster

I remember a show he did in Oxnard, CA in the 70s, Linda Ronstadt opening. Don't think it was a benefit.

The concerts documented on Live in New York City were Lennon's only rehearsed and full-length live performances in his solo career, and his first – and last – formal, full-fledged live concerts since the Beatles retired from the road in 1966.

?

I also don't remember it being a big deal (and seriously, if it were a one-off why pick Oxnard?). Probably 1975 but maybe '74.

Couldn't find anything on google after a quick look, but I did see Ronstadt with Jackson Browne in Oxnard in Jan 1974. I really remember Lennon, though.

was Mandela there too?

Lol

- Bob Marley

HaHa

It has just occurred to me that Danny La Rue is a play on "dans la rue". Was this intentional? Obviously it was his stage name, not his real name.

The modern pogo stick was invented by Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, from Germany. A German patent was registered in Hanover on March 1920[3] for a device they called a "spring end hopping stilt". It is thought that the beginning two letters in these men's last names is where the word "pogo" comes from.

Well, that's just like those two guys who came up with the little adventure camera, Heinrich Goetzinger and Jürgen Protzman.

Bill Urich and Daniel Nalberg, inventers of

Bo Tierney, Xander Anderson and Carson Newman take the cake imo

I bet Ben Bradlee wouldn't have been so fond of portmanteaus had his two best reporters been Bob Dickson and Carl Thalhead.

Josef Von Sternberg's son, Nicholas Josef Von Sternberg, is a cinematographer and shot Dolemite.

The Germans blatantly ripped off that idea from Basil Hopping-Stilt and put their own names on it.

xp what wow

that 'er' and 'erm' are meant to indicate when someone is saying 'uh' and 'um'

'um' and 'er' are interchangeable value-free pauses, 'erm' is 'are you sure about that...', 'uh' is slack-jawed incomprehension.

never trust a big butt and a rockism

I learned yesterday, a year after getting my ear pierced, that skin doesn't grow over the pierced flesh, the hole just sits there, and I was revolted

"Chicken cordon bleu" basically means "blue ribbon chicken."