Things you were shockingly old when you learned

One more thing about Aubrey Morris I didn't know. "Up the Junction" was on recently and he was in it playing a sort of cliched 60s Jewish slum landlord who (mostly) rented to black families (à la Rachman) and, I thought, "He's laying on the Jewish bit strongly here, with the accent and the gestures" but, it turns out (again), he was Jewish, his real name was Aubrey Steinberg and his parents were refugees from pogroms in Ukraine.

matt #2 otm re velvets obv

no

did you know that if you do a google image search for "jesus arm wrestling demon" the top thing google recommends you is "hillary clinton"?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/30/a4/24/30a4249c84aebac3f238d7c3c698e2c5.jpg

personally i think the devil has this one, look at those guns

Can't argue with that.

Is that Kurt Russell?

Who, Jesus or the demon?

that jesus is martin thingy from freaks and geeks

Me too

I was today years old when I found out Gandalf carried his pipe in his staff. pic.twitter.com/SfXsw8pJkB

— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) May 15, 2020

Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty are siblings

what???

xxp

Toulouse Lautrec used to have a hollow walking stick he filled with hard liquor/industrial strength absinthe so he could have a few swigs if was working on the go.

what???

Ha, everyone knows that! (Including me as of about three months ago.)

I'd assumed it was generally known , Have known it for a couple of decades at least.
Not sure what i would come out in though.
& not sure if there are any telltale family resemblance points facially or anything.

actually eyes are somewhat similar and the way they smile now that i've looked through a number of photos.

Thought everybody knew that. Makes sense when you think about it too.

Thing I care to post is: Calum=Malcolm, as in that they are different forms of the same name.

That's darlene love and the blossoms doing BV on The Monster Mash

(watching 20ft from stardom)

Lenny Bruce's father was born in Kent.

... that's Kent as in Kent, the Garden of England not Kent as in Kent, Ohio.

i’ve heard there are plenty of kents in america

Thing I care to post is: Calum=Malcolm, as in that they are different forms of the same name.

rather like Theodore and Dorothy - same meaning, same syllables, different order.

Lindsey Buckingham had a brother who was a silver medalist at the 1968 Olympics in swimming.

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

I hear he swam down one time, swam down two times

never going backstroke again

hah, that quip is better-crafted than mine. applause.

Today I learned that Mt St Helens and Ian Curtis topped themselves on the same day

I was today years old when I discovered that moose are not, as I thought, a deer-sized ungulate, but are in fact prehistoric fucking monsters.

The full size of an adult Alaskan moose pic.twitter.com/TEhgP7zZHG

— Nature is Lit🔥 (@NaturelsLit) May 21, 2020

You wouldn't want one of them loose in the hoose

Also bison are MUCH larger than I realized. I honestly thought black bears were the largest N. American land animals.

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/59985072_404894426760998_5932616498941001728_n.png?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=b96e70&_nc_ohc=2Z9UqogVwMYAX_M-zDG&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=4ad0dcdcd6dd833005e00ce51a1e59ca&oe=5EED9C0B

There was a moose that wandered through a fairly urban neighborhood of the town I lived in during my teens, and it was a big news story. People were freaking out.

Swedish woman I work with has many an amusing moose story she often shares with us.

They're like urban foxes over there.

The "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" credits make so much more sense now.

man we have meese here and they are huge, and quicker'n you think, and cranky, and i stay the hell away.

last year a riding pal of mine was riding across grand mesa, which can be pretty remote, and he came across a pair of hunters observing a bull and a cow with her two existing calves. after verifying they had a cow tag, he watched and recorded one guy sighting his muzzle loader and then downing the cow. the calves were flipping out afterward, running around, while the bull, who was deprived of hot cow action, stayed on the scene furious. the hunters began to load gear to retrieve her.

my pal told me he thought of trying to disrupt the whole set up during sighting, but thought better. glad i wasn't there.

That Eagle-Eye Cherry is Don Cherry's son and Neneh Cherry is his half-sister.

I thought that was well known!

^shocked

The fact that 'Save Tonight' became a hit when I was 12 years old and totally unaware of Don Cherry's existence likely had something to do with it.

Joel in Adventureland and Bill Haverchuck in Freaks and Geeks--unforgettable characters--are both played by Martin Starr.

during an in-depth conversation about the gender of the sheep emoji a friend found this article. so i learned that modern farmer is attempting to survive by creating viral content, and i also learned there are a lot of different kinds of sheep, some of which are indeed pretty cool-looking.

i hope modern farmer does ok. i thought it was a pretty good article.

https://modernfarmer.com/2017/12/12-sickest-sheep-breeds-world-according-author/

Fritz Lang may have killed his wife.

The jury's out on that one!
http://www.williamahearn.com/lisa.html

I'd assumed they used a stencil to do this:

Not tonight Netflix, I’ve found something else to watch till at least midnight. pic.twitter.com/1JzqqNWrXT

— Lee Madgwick (@LeeMadgwick) May 22, 2020

That doesn't look like any bike sign I've ever seen, but such is the ineffable nature of art, I suppose.

Michael Shannon is in Groundhog Day

Looks more like a bird wearing a monocle.