Things you were shockingly old when you learned

There was a semi-famous Napoleon era Russian general descended from those Scots.

And the composer Tadeusz Baird? Unless Baird is a Polish name too.

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

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)

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.)

I didn't know this either

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.

that the duo that used to make me laugh in the Sonic Drive-in commercials are world class improv actors

https://www.tjanddave.com/

TBF only TJ is one of the Sonic guys. But yes, they are truly top of the heap.

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."

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 ! "

Never heard about Aristotle's wheel paradox before. It's a good one!

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/gifs/AristotlesWheel.gif

A propos paradoxa, I only recently heard about Buridan's ass.
http://evaero.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/donkey.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvTpEoi0tzE

OI MATE SOME BIG BOTTOM BURRO IS ALL OVER THE ILX-Y WEXIES

Mikal Gilmore is Gary Gilmore's brother.

And Rory’s first cousin.

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.

I watched nearly all of Mrs America before realising that Rosemary was not played by Megan Mullally

M.C. Escher was alive in my lifetime (died 1972).

I know it seems like that but if you look really closely

the mikal/gary thing has been mentioned in various places on ilx but i think the thread about him misspells "mikal" lol

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.

Wait'll you hear about that Cadillac.

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?

That Οὖτις and ulysses are in fact the same person.

Yeah but don’t tell Shakey!

And all of us are Homer.

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.

they are not the same poster, if that's what you're saying. which actually confused me when i first came here.

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

yep, that's actually how i tell you apart from all the other marks and matts

thats right

iirc mark s is the evangelist, all others are copycats.

It's been said that mark s makes learned posts that are good not bad.

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.

That Cary Grant was an acid fiend and turned on Esther Williams among others.

that Richard Hell's Blank Generation is a rewrite of this daft song from 1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-HlUAOjGE

lol wow

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.

a hundred trips in three years!

- "Hey, you mind if I bring a friend to trip with us?"

- "Are they cool? I mean, yeah, sure."

- "Yeah they're cool. My friend is ESTHER WILLIAMS."

https://i.imgur.com/JehqmvP.gif

Ecstacy doesn't work if you take SNRIs

^thing i learned 3 weeks ago

this thread is is freaking me out between blank gen and ecstasy info.

omg re Richard Hell

Thread delivers with that Richard Hell thing. I knew about Cary Grant the acidhead, but Larry Hagman was one also - David Crosby turned him on during the I Dream of Jeannie period.

Bob McFadden and Dor (aka Rod McKuen) also did that I’m a Mummy song.

Beat Generation is the b-side to I'm a Mummy, that's how I found out about it when i bought it last week!

Had no idea about "Beat Generation" either. Great find!