Teri Garr was in 5 Elvis movies:
Fun In Acapulco, 1963Kissin' Cousins, 1964Viva Las Vegas, 1964Roustabout, 1964Clambake, 1967
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
a few times every year during october i catch myself writing the date as 8-x-20xx because the oct- prefix momentarily confuses me
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
xps
what most people don't understand is that january and february were named after jann wenner and diane ferruary
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Karl is quite right.
Further, July was named after Miranda July.
August was named after August Busch Jr., who owned the St. Louis Cardinals and the Anheuser-Busch brewery.
― I wish you luck with a capital F (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
it was actually named after Augustus, not sure you realized that
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
xxxp Teri Garr was also one of the dancers at the TAMI show
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
lol wait YMP is your contention that the Romans actually used a 10-month calendar for awhile, before realising the seasons didn’t line up? That seems unlikely??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 06:56 (three years ago) link
wait until you hear about kalends, ides and nones
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 07:01 (three years ago) link
Tracer - yes and no. Yes, they started out with a 10-month 304-day calendar and then went to a 355-day calendar.
But they weren't idiots; they knew it would get out of synch. Tgere were two ways of dealing with the problem. For a time, winter days just didn't belong to a month. The days happened, there just wasn't a tidy name for them. Secondly, they could and did add extra days every now and then (intercalation) just as we do in leap years.
― do as thou wilt, as long as thou dost punctuate it correctly (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
For a time, winter days just didn't belong to a monthbig mood #2020
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link
lol yes. YMP that is wild.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
Highly recommend adding The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning to your reference library, as it's absolutely packed to the brim with 15 Things You Never Knew About the Year (And That's Okay) (And Here's Why)!
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
Is everyone ok with making 2020 an uncountable time, and then starting a new era after trump goes away? It will involve some Y2K—style updates to computers, but other than that we should be set
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Old Lunch is that a peel-off desktop calendar? Like the Far Side? Because damn, that’s reminding me that I need to pick up one of those Far Side peel off calendars. brb
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
No, it's an actual book! Although Oxford really missed a trick by not releasing a page-a-day calendar version of the book.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
Does anyone have the phone number for Oxford?
I had it, but I wrote it down on the back of one of those peel off calendar pages and recycled it. Believe it was on the back of a July page, if that helps!
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
anno Dummy
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
*yells in the direction of Oxford, from the front porch*
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
i just learned that michael keaton is beetlejuice.
holy shit
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
no you did not
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
He only played him in the biopic, he's not the real Beetlejuice
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
youve said it twice now thread dont say it again
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Klpo29d.jpg
Speaking of Beetlejuice.. Sylvia Sidney.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
i...
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooo you unbanned him by saying his name 3 times HE WAS SO OFFENSIVE
https://i.imgur.com/Q3Zb54F.jpg
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
hahahahaha
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
and now, clearly i know that's michael keaton. who else could that be? why did i never wonder who the actor was? he does a great job, he's fucking michael keaton! but i just thought "yeah, whoever that is, he's pretty good"
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
wait wait waitthat you can hold the spacebar down on an iPhone to move the cursor?????!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
Lol no way
― badg, Thursday, 22 October 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
and it is in fact the best way to move the cursor??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 October 2020 07:06 (three years ago) link
Given how much of a fan I've been since I was like ten, it's shocking how old I was when I just now figured out that the full four-member version of the Monkees were only a thing for a little over two years. Between six albums, a tv show, and a movie (not to mention touring, promotional appearances, etc.), I'm not sure when they slept.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 October 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
Holy shit, the space bar thing, thank you so much TH
― Dan I., Thursday, 22 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
it’s insane!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
Amazing.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 22 October 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
Speaking of months, am I the only one who has to sing "30 days hath September..." in my head EVERY TIME I have to remember which months have 30 days?
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 23 October 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
You are not the only one, HL.
If it helps: I am 49 years old, I have a degree in English, and I have been a professional writer and editor for 27 years. And yet I sill can't put things in alphabetical order without singing the song in my head.
― fretless porpentine (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 October 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
Try the knuckle trick: press two fists together such that yr thumbs are touching, the knuckles are months containing 31 days, the valleys between are months containing >31 days (the space between your two index knucks do not count as a valley).
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 October 2020 04:02 (three years ago) link
also, the milk is the dad and the box is the mom, so milk goeth before cereal
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Friday, 23 October 2020 04:05 (three years ago) link
The space bar thing is new in iOS 14
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 23 October 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
xps i do a similar thing but with fingertips: start with your palms up. ignoring your thumbs, count the months on your fingertips and the gaps between starting from the left. so your left index fingertip is january, the neighboring gap is february, the next fingertip is march, and so on working from left hand to right. months on fingertips have 31 days, months on gaps have 30. learned this as a kid and still use it regularly.
― visiting, Friday, 23 October 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
ahhh Ed that explains it :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 23 October 2020 07:12 (three years ago) link
No! I've seen it passed around as one weird trick for much longer than that:
https://mashable.com/article/ios-12-precise-text-selection-keyboard/
― Alba, Friday, 23 October 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
it works on my Android too, blew my mind
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 October 2020 12:14 (three years ago) link
I've never been lost about which month has how many days, etc.
Not bragging because I frequently forget what year it is.
― pplains, Friday, 23 October 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
Ha ha - same. Months are internalised but the year sometimes calls for a bit of careful consideration.
― Alba, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
I actually thought a colleague was joking when he pulled out the rhyme and then felt bad for calendar-shaming him.
― Alba, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
― Un-fooled and placid (sic)
Oh fuck no, nononono, this video murdered me. I don't know if it got discussed anywhere on ilx, I just saw it on twitter, but it literally made my eyes bleed.
― emil.y, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
I just watched it. I spent 2 minutes trying to understand the metaphor then threw it on to the mental bonfire.
― Alba, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link