i guess i’d thought that it was one letter away from “scramble” and “scribble” which kind of tie in with its crossword origins
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 March 2020 09:07 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6u0k5EO.jpg
When I was a child, I read 'shavers' as meaning 'people who shave' and I'm not sure I've ever consciously corrected this notion till now.
― Alba, Monday, 2 March 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
strictly 4 my shaverz
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 March 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
RIP
https://i.imgur.com/EF4lzLA.jpg
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Monday, 2 March 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
I never realized how much Rhode Island and Indiana look alike. When I was a kid, I had one of those "United States" puzzles and I still never knew that.
https://images.sunfrogshirts.com/2014/07/20/Indiana-Girl-in-Rhode-Island.jpg
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
They have a shirt or blanket for everything these days.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61G1zjjOqFL._AC_SX466_.jpg
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
Old poker buddy of mine had a tattoo of Rhode Island, which I mistook for Georgia the first time I saw it.
― pplains, Monday, 9 March 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
Just found out that not only does the regular edit of 'Big' not have the ending scene where Susan turns herself into a child and joins the class, the scene wasn't even on the extended cut DVD and plenty of people out there don't even believe it exists.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 10:30 (four years ago) link
^ this is a classic misremembering - that scene never existed but lots of people are convinced it did!
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 9 March 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
It did exist, I watched it again recently and was surprised it wasn't there, searched for it on YouTube and found people arguing about it on reddit.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
that seems like a bizarre twist to me
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Monday, 9 March 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
Yes, it is a silly ending that doesnt make sense, it was memorable for this reason.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 11:29 (four years ago) link
THe existence of and amount of complementary currencies in various areas around the world. I think they are mainly used to try to bolster the local economy and mainly to keep whatever money is in circulation actually in circulation. Because the interest rate of stashing them somewhere is too low to be of interest and they're not being siphoned off to fund things elsewhere.& they have to remain complementary currencies to actually work because if they become alternative currencies they automatically fallprey to the problems with mainstream currencies.
Was in a film called Tomorrow or probably originally Demain since it's a French film crew that made it.
― Stevolende, Monday, 9 March 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
Well if you can find any evidence of that scene existing, you'll be the first one
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 9 March 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
not only does that scene not exist, nor has it ever existed, but the post in which camaraderie supposedly referenced it is itself actually a myth and does not exist
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
That BIg scene never happened.
And I remember a lot about that movie, like how dude's birthday was the same as mine.
― pplains, Monday, 9 March 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
I know it wasn't in the US edit or the one in cinemas here, it was in some weird TV edit only, we used to get a lot of those.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
This appears to be what you're looking for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6783tkwbZw0
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 March 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
it's not, no.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
You're thinking of the alternate ending to that movie where Sinbad played the genie who killed Nelson Mandela.
― Waifu-ed Around and Fell in Love (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
No, those things are not real, this thing is real. 🤔👍
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
i have a friend who knows penny marshall so i got penny’s number and just texted and asked her, she says this alt ending story is bullshit, so...
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
it will turn up one day, I can wait
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
like a bad penny
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
Senate was the Assembly of the Elders which seems all too prescient about current state of the GOP aspect of the institution.
so the description is in the name or at least in translation.
Would think getting a younger representation would be more in line with the times. Maybe you need to shake up the whole political system anyway. Get one more fit for current purpose than enshrining things 200 years ago. Importance of tradition and creation of tradition etc.vs trying to be in conversation with current events/mores etc.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 10:30 (four years ago) link
tiktokracy
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
yeah senior, seniority, senescent, senile, senility = same root as Senate
― Quinoa pedal (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
not sure why I hadn't been conscious of that before. Seemed to strike Chris Hayes as a new idea too.Did immediately recognise the sen bit.& I think it was more to do with who is now left in the Democratic race than the GOP status quo that it came up
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
Lol big alternative ending doesnt exist
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
It exists in the prime timeline, not in our alternate Trump president timeline
― Dan I., Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
That there's no such saint as 'St Johnstone'.
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link
I was enquiring this of my Perthshire wife the other day! Having met her dad I'm in no way surprised to learn that the football club was something to do for the cricketers during off-season.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
I didn't really know or at least did not have in memory the date of the Union between England and Scotland until about three years ago.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:24 (four years ago) link
The name Perth derives from a Pictish word for wood or copse.[8] During much of the later medieval period it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as "St John's Toun" or "Saint Johnstoun" because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St John the Baptist.[2] Perth was referred to as "St Johns ton" up until the mid-1600s with the name "Perthia" being reserved for the wider area.[9] At this time, "Perthia" became "Perth Shyre" and "St Johns ton" became known as Perth.[9]
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link
God knows where St. Mirren got that spelling from though.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
That there's no such saint as 'St Johnstone'.― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:04 (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:04 (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was today years old when I learned this. I wonder if my granny or her priest were aware they were naming my uncle after a made up saint.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
Always assumed it was the "John's town" thing tbh
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
town named after the sheriff in "sloop john b" iirc
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
Sinjunston
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah I get how it became a name and there are lots of Johnstones around - though mostly as surnames. I had just assumed there was some poor bastard in history who had that name then got crucified or beheaded for refusing to renounce his Catholicism.
My granny had a *lot* of children so she was probably running out of saints names for the Christenings and had a quick scan of the sports pages for inspiration.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
That the 'female' vocals on 'I Got a Man' are delivered by a pitch-shifted Positive K.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
I know a Mr Johnstone from Perth who is a big saints fan.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
Yeah I get how it became a name and there are lots of Johnstones around - though mostly as surnames
As an acquaintance of mine commented when the question of who the hell cares about rugby on Scotland was posed, "People with surnames as first names".
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Whoa, I didn't know this either!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
The sad part is that, despite having heard it dozens if not hundreds of times in its heyday, I figured it out this morning just by listening to it. Like, oh hey whoa, those sound like processed vocals, never noticed that before.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
the video was misleading!
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
i just read this morning the plot of The Little Prince. I had no clue and have somehow never read this book.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
That Minnesota Fats was a real guy. My grandpa once said he played pool with him, but I thought he was bullshitting, he liked to pull my leg a lot.
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
Hfs @ positive k! I had no idea
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
thought it was a young Hurricane G lol
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link