I knew a college radio DJ who spelled it "segueway," which I guess captures both the pronunciation and alludes to the original word, which (while decidedly odd) has a sort of considerate sweetness to it.
― Okay, Boomerang (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
how do you pronounce seguidilla tho
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
i knew a 25 year old working in a steakhouse that asked customers if they wanted a "lib" of steak
This is brilliant
― kinder, Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
Often I feel a bit dim on ilx but I come onto threads like this and think na clearly I'm the cleverest of all
― kinder, Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
I was about 30 years old when I realized that whenever Snoop called someone a fuckin "B.G." that he meant "baby gangsta" and not a "Bee Gee", which I thought was his way of saying someone was old and out of touch (cos Bee Gees, 70s)
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
― kinder, Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:19 AM
Maybe you should be more kind, as your name implies.
― nickn, Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
I always thought "kinder" implied that each post was like a little surprise!
― pplains, Saturday, 13 June 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
Teeny Terrapin for you, pp!And none for Gretchen Wieners.
― kinder, Saturday, 13 June 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
I assumed kinder's profile name was a reference to children, have never heard of kinder surprise eggs before now
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Kinder Surprise Eggs is a reference to children.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
of course, just wasn't imagining ninja turtles inside chocolate eggs
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
― pplains
For you to choke on!
― nickn, Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
When you spell out "ghoti" in Greek doesn't it spell Jesus?
― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 14 June 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
I was once offered "Mein Strown" (Minestrone) soup at a restaurant.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 14 June 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link
That Woody Allen starred in a 1976 film called The Front.https://i.imgur.com/bVq3xYQ.jpg
― Alba, Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
Popped up on Amazon Prime and I thought I'd slipped into a parallel universe.
― Alba, Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link
You've never seen it or heard of it? It's been on telly quite a few times over the years.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
Never heard of it
― Alba, Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:48 (three years ago) link
It was his attempt at being a serious actor.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
The Front was actually the first 'Woody Allen movie' I ever saw since it was on TV.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 15 June 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
The name of the defunct British frozen food retailer Bejam was an acronym for Brian, Eric, John And Millie, the family members who were the company directors.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Monday, 15 June 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
Pavlov’s dogs were eaten during the siege of Leningrad.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 15 June 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link
That rings a bell.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
(sorry)
the unwritten famine rules are: no longpiggery until there has been no confirmed barking or meowing for at least a few days.
― calzino, Monday, 15 June 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
The name Lenin was an alias. His real name was Ulyanov.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 15 June 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
That is pretty shocking.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
quite a few of the top Bolsheviks adopted a nom de guerre to make themselves sound a bit more rad!
― calzino, Monday, 15 June 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
the o/g shitposters iirc
― mark s, Monday, 15 June 2020 12:10 (three years ago) link
Thought it was a security thing too. The one surprised me was that Willy Brandt was a pseudonym - and that was definitely to keep out of the clutches of the Nazis.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:10 (three years ago) link
speaking of Bolsheviks i learned the other day that it means "majority" and Mensheviks means "minority", the names imposed by Lenin after he'd won a vote even though he didn't really have a majority. something very modern feeling about rebranding like that.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:16 (three years ago) link
an interesting comparison is how accomplished the Tsarist secret police were at penetrating revolutionary activists compared with how shit they were at making them kowtow to the state and beating the resistance out of them. Like Stalin reminisces about his time in Siberian exile like it was a scout camp and a positive formative period of his life, he had access to a decent library was going on hunting and fishing adventures, it sounded like going on a slightly austere arctic center parcs break next to the gulags of the Soviet era.
― calzino, Monday, 15 June 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
ha I was about to post that I was 50 years old before I realised that there were TWO Lou Reeds on the cover of New York and then I checked to be sure and THEY'RE ALL LOU REED WTF
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
Is one of the Lou Reeds in blackface
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:17 (three years ago) link
that is a key question but I think we're goodhttps://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81XV9CoyCoL._SL1425_.jpg
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
Did he ever do I want to be black live though
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:02 (three years ago) link
Boy, did he ever.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
Second track on Take No Prisoners
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
N-word and all.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
And yet an image search for Lou Reed blackface comes up empty. What a disappointment
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 10:26 (three years ago) link
He did tell one journalist at the time that his next album would feature him in blackface holding a watermelon on the cover - subtle as ever.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, June 15, 2020 11:56 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
yo this fucked me up
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 June 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
what i came here to post was that i had always thought the NAS line "sleep is the cousin of death" was (a paraphrase of) shakespeare.
then there was a poll on the best lyrics from that tune and i did some googling and i couldn't find anything and thought maybe he just made it up ?
well, wrong again. turns out it goes way back to:
the Greek gods Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death) who, in the Greek mythology, were brothers
as depicted in this 1874 john william waterhouse paining
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Waterhouse-sleep_and_his_half-brother_death-1874.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_and_his_Half-brother_Death
and also, closer to the NAS lyric, in this line of verse from 16th cent poet thomas sacksville, the earl of dorset:
By him lay heavy Sleep, the cousin of Death
so that's that, then.
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 June 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
You may also have been thinking of the Shelley line, "How wonderful is Death,/ Death and his brother Sleep!"
― Greetings from CHAZbury Park (Lily Dale), Friday, 19 June 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
There's 'sleep, death's counterfeit' in Macbeth.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 19 June 2020 07:36 (three years ago) link
oh those are both good, and more likely to have caught my ear.
i wonder, though, had the "sleep / death" thing been floating around in the vernacular ? i can imagine it having neo-protestant moral implications re: laziness / productivity
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 June 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
aye, there's the rub
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Estragon is French for tarragon
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be tru (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
Good one.
― Rapsputin (Tom D.), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
Natalie Wood was Russian American - daughter of Russian immigrants, real name Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko - though I suppose I hadn't really thought about her ethnicity before.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link