Steve Roach was a Motocross racer before he started making ambient music.
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 July 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
I watched a video where two men kept saying Coyt
I'd say the first fella was saying something more like "caught", which is what I'd expect.
she seemed ok with it
Ah now I'd say if there was one fight she's given up on...
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 18 July 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
should i trust macgowan pronunciation it's the only time i've heard then name aloud
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 18 July 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
tunny is tuna
― retail rage is for suckers (Hunt3r), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
Well over one million West Europeans responded to economic adversity in the seventeenth century by migrating to find a better life abroad. So many Scots left the kingdom to make a living in Poland in the seventeenth century that the Poles invented the word szot (Scot: meaning 'tinker'); and, in all, between 1600 and 1650 perhaps 100,000 Scotsmen, or one-fifth of the kingdom's adult males, went to live abroad.
― calzino, Monday, 20 July 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
There was a semi-famous Napoleon era Russian general descended from those Scots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Andreas_Barclay_de_Tolly
― brownie, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
I was reading about that recently.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
I was reading up on the events that led up to the March on Washington in 1963, and found an entry about the Baldwin-Kennedy Meeting, where James Baldwin hosted an off-the-record meeting with Bobby Kennedy, hoping to explain to the attorney general some of the causes behind recent civil unrest.
That in itself was an eye-opener, with Kennedy later saying the room seemed "possessed." But for the purposes of this thread, it was the last name on Baldwin's invited guest list that made me go wha?
David Baldwin, James Baldwin's brotherHarry Belafonte, singer and activistEdwin C. Berry, director of the Chicago Urban LeagueKenneth Clark, psychologist, activist, and founder of Harlem Youth Opportunities UnlimitedJune Shagaloff, Education Director of the NAACP (attending in an "unofficial capacity")Lorraine Hansberry, playwright best known for A Raisin in the Sun (1959)Lena Horne, musician, actor and activistClarence Benjamin Jones, advisor to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights lawyerJerome Smith, Freedom Rider associated with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)Rip Torn, a young white actor
― pplains, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
Ahaahhaha Fuck Yes
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
And the composer Tadeusz Baird? Unless Baird is a Polish name too.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
Tadeusz Baird was probably a descendant of some Scottish Baird, but no documents have been found to confirm this. We do know that his father, Edward Jan, was born in Poland in 1884, in Aleksandrów Kujawski (commune of Służewiec). His grandfather Józef (a railway worker) died in Warsaw in 1903. Tadeusz Baird also had Russian blood in him from his mother’s side. His mother, Maria Popov (born in 1894 in Yekaterinburg) was a daughter of Alexander Popov (director of a bank in Yekaterinburg) and Elisabeth née Shchepanov.
http://www.baird.polmic.pl/index.php/en/biography/childhood-and-family
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 July 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
tolstoy is a bit of a dick about Barclay de Tolly in War and Peace (for daft Russian nationalist reasons - de Tolly being a German speaking lutheran and non-Russian)
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
That Shirley Jones was David Cassidy's actual stepmother and Shaun Cassidy's mother.
(In fairness, The Partridge Family was just slightly before my time.)
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Monday, 20 July 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
I didn't know this either
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 20 July 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
I'd been aware of Blossom Dearie long before seeing the name Blossom Seeley.
I think I vaguely thought Seeley might have been playing off Dearie's popularity, but it actually Seeley was 30 years earlier.
― Please, Hammurabi, don't hurt 'em (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
that the duo that used to make me laugh in the Sonic Drive-in commercials are world class improv actors
https://www.tjanddave.com/
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
TBF only TJ is one of the Sonic guys. But yes, they are truly top of the heap.
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
The other guy in the Sonic commercials is Peter Grosz, writer for "The Colbert Report" and "Late Night with Seth Meyers" and a regular panelist on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me."
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
Best one was where Peter got the slushies from the window and handed one to T.J. and handed one to the guy in the backseat and T.J. was "WAIT HOLD ON ! "
― pplains, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
Never heard about Aristotle's wheel paradox before. It's a good one!
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/gifs/AristotlesWheel.gif
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
A propos paradoxa, I only recently heard about Buridan's ass.http://evaero.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/donkey.jpg
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvTpEoi0tzE
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
OI MATE SOME BIG BOTTOM BURRO IS ALL OVER THE ILX-Y WEXIES
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
Mikal Gilmore is Gary Gilmore's brother.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
And Rory’s first cousin.
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
I don't know who that is. I don't really know who Mikal is either tbh, I know he's a music writer but that's it.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
I watched nearly all of Mrs America before realising that Rosemary was not played by Megan Mullally
― kinder, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
M.C. Escher was alive in my lifetime (died 1972).
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
I know it seems like that but if you look really closely
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
the mikal/gary thing has been mentioned in various places on ilx but i think the thread about him misspells "mikal" lol
― mark s, Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
mikal wrote a good book abt his mostly awful family: SHOT IN THE HEART
The actress Susan Fleetwood was Mick Fleetwood's elder sister. Bracing myself for revelations about Tommy Fleetwood.
― Udo Starmer (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Wait'll you hear about that Cadillac.
― nickn, Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
I knew that Mikal Gilmore bit as he'd also written a thing in Rolling Stone about the murder, maybe at the time the book came out?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
That Οὖτις and ulysses are in fact the same person.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah but don’t tell Shakey!
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
And all of us are Homer.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Tbc I haven't just found out that Οὖτις and Ὀδυσσεύς are one and the same, but it did take me a hell of a long time to draw this ILX-specific inference.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
they are not the same poster, if that's what you're saying. which actually confused me when i first came here.
― budo jeru, Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
ilxor odysseus a third poster (now uses a difft name)
ppl who didn't know this shd read my posts more they are witty and learned
― mark s, Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
yep, that's actually how i tell you apart from all the other marks and matts
― budo jeru, Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
thats right
― mark s, Sunday, 16 August 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
iirc mark s is the evangelist, all others are copycats.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 16 August 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
It's been said that mark s makes learned posts that are good not bad.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 16 August 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
they are not the same poster, if that's what you're saying
Sshh, I'm trying to bait Shakey out of exile. If he doesn't come back, Telemachus will no longer be able to distinguish his biological father from the craftiest impostor of the lot.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 16 August 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
That Cary Grant was an acid fiend and turned on Esther Williams among others.
― the secret of sucess is to know all rules ...and brake them (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 August 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
that Richard Hell's Blank Generation is a rewrite of this daft song from 1959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-HlUAOjGE
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
lol wow
― Number None, Monday, 24 August 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
xxp ! I didn't know this about CG, but just reading about it, seems he was less a fiend than an early adapter in the late '50s—taking it therapeutically on the heels of yoga and hypnosis.
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
a hundred trips in three years!