Things you were shockingly old when you learned

That the Tobe in Tobe Hooper doesn't rhyme with robe

Say what?

Yah, it's pronounced like Toby.

most very likely was NOT Peter Murphy

https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/blown-away-man/

xps

Yeah, I always said 'toab' until I was corrected in conversation some years ago - which is esp embarrassing b/c I always stan hard for TCM in horror-related talk and I'd been saying 'toab' for a good decade+ prior to that!

(xp) I think this is the source of the confusion, this was obviously made after the original ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBem3x7G6bc

... and there's another one for video tapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uvmuqBze-c

Re: the correct pronunciation of 'Tobe', I probably have DVD commentaries or somesuch to thank in this instance for keeping me from sounding like my generally idiotic self as I try to incorporate into conversation words I know from books but that I've never actually heard pronounced aloud. A positively mor-TIFF-y-ing experience, let me tell you.

it was Milo Bloom in the Maxell ads iirc

Lol is Tobe pronounced like Robe even a name people have? I’m guilty of these mistakes, but this is one that oddly never occurred to me.

Short for, er, Toby.

Americans have weird names

not a Cholmondeley or a St. John among them

Not really appropriate for Mr. Farrell, despite Oliver St. John Gogarty.

he's lived among the English long enough to accept their ways

While Apollo 11 was orbiting and landing on the moon, a robotic Soviet probe called Luna 15 designed to capture soil samples was also orbiting. Shortly before the lunar module blasted off to return to orbit, Luna 15 crashed into a mountain in Mare Crisium.

Or... DID IT?

I mean, we don't *know* that there isn't still a secret Soviet colony on the moon

would be pretty badass if there were a socialist paradise of moon miners, who lost contact with their control base long ago, but have just kept on keepin' on. Moon mining inna Stalinist style; they didn't hear about the wall coming down or Reagan or any of that.

MOVIE IDEA

plz don't steal it, I'm working on the screenplay now thxbye

generally, 1ml of water = 1g ...1L of water = 1 kg
(the US really needs to switch to metric)

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E11/204737.jpg?b64lines=IE5PIERFQUwsIHB1ZmZpbi4gVEhBVAogTU9PTiBNT05FWSBJUyBNSU5FLiA=

> generally, 1ml of water = 1g ...1L of water = 1 kg

and 1 calorie is enough energy to raise 1g of water up 1 degree centigrade

hydrants are all on the same side of the street

> generally, 1ml of water = 1g ...1L of water = 1 kg

and 1 calorie is enough energy to raise 1g of water up 1 degree centigrade

and that one gram of water will be one cubic centimetre in volume.

Took the wrong turning out of Liverpool st yesterday and wound up going down some back streets and then found myself on a road I was thinking might be the bottom stretch of Brick Lane that I rarely get to. Turned out to be Petticoat Lane which I've just been missing by a couple of streets for years.

It has a nice looking food market and several fabric shops that seem to be more Afrocentric than Brick Lane.
MUst get back there later in this trip.

Also discovered what a powerful band the Flying Luttenbachers are. Wow.

i saw them in Chicago in 1995! 'destroy all music' is the name of one of their albums iirc

This was with a pick up guitarist from the UK. Amazing player who fit in like he'd played with them for ages.
THink he may have toured UK/Europe with them before. BUt I'm told there is a more permanent New York line up of the band and I think the other 3 were from that. Don't think you'd notice without being told as in who would and wouldn't be full time.

i seem to recall saying something unkind about weasel walter (the drummer) on the internet, perhaps on these very boards, and he found it within 24 hours and sent me an angry email about it.

1ml of water = 1g ... and that one gram of water will be one cubic centimetre in volume.

Oh hey, maybe I can blow a mind or two with stuff I learned about body part proportions in art school (if I can remember them accurately). Not hard and fast, obvs as bodies are variable, but generaly-speaking:

• Your foot is the length of your forearm from wrist to elbow.
• Your ears fit snugly between your eyebrows and the bottom of your nose.
• There's just enough room between your eyes for another eye.
• The corners of your mouth align with the centers of your pupils.

I learned the eye thing from, of all places, Stephen King's "Duma Key." An art dealer, viewing the main character's self-taught artwork, asks him if he uses the third-eye method when painting faces.

Also I the human head is roughly 3.5 noses high, iirc? And the edges of the nostrils align with the corners of the eyes? The nose is basically the golden rectangle of the face, is what I'm saying here.

There's just enough room between your eyes for another eye

and your whole head is five eyes wide.

and hairline to browline = browline to bottom of nose = bottom of nose to chin.

something about the span of your outstretched hand from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your little finger being equal to something as well? can't for the life of me remember what though

if you hold you hand in front of your face you can figure it out

:)

something about the span of your outstretched hand from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your little finger being equal to something as well? can't for the life of me remember what though

defo confirmation here this ain't tru

If you are used to smiley faces and cartoon heads, the mind-blower when I was a kid was always that your eyes are halfway down your head (not at the top).

I mean, we don't *know* that there isn't still a secret Soviet colony on the moon

would be pretty badass if there were a socialist paradise of moon miners, who lost contact with their control base long ago, but have just kept on keepin' on. Moon mining inna Stalinist style; they didn't hear about the wall coming down or Reagan or any of that.

Matt McGinn already wrote this back in 1967 (with Robin Williamson on mandolin, ISB fans):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1hf9_oIOg

Ayn Rand's original name is Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum. i honestly have figured the less i know about that personality the better, so i'm tryna forget even this.

Ayn Rand gave someone power of attorney knowing they would apply for social security and medicaid for her in her dotage. Oh I didnt just find this out I just enjoy bringing it up

i actually DID know that one! *drinks again*

idk I feel like “ayn rand collected social security!” is a the inverse of “you’re a socialist but you have an iphone!”

you believe in something that isn’t the current situation but have to deal with the current reality. ayn rand was a delusional shitbag for so many
other reasons and collecting from a system she paid into is the smallest objection

Brenda Lee was only 14 when she recorded "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree"

she was 13 iirc

you do rc

Ida Lupino named names and spied for the FBI and HUAC.

I just realized the Add a Post text box on ILX can be resized on my phone by dragging the edge. How has this feature escaped my notice all these years?

Lee Hazelwood sounds like Johnny Cash

learnedobserved

That laundrette is recognised as an alternative spelling of launderette, rather than just being a surprisingly common error on launderette signs.

Olivia Newton-John's grandfather was physicist Max Born.