Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Due to only slight interest in the band via classic rock radio I didn't realize that Benjamin Orr sang lots of the Cars' hits. I always assumed it was just Ric Ocasek, the only guy in the band I could recognize by sight. Relatedly, I discovered extremely late what a major fox Orr was.

This was me but with The Beautiful South. Only recently learned they had a male singer other than Paul Heaton. No opinion on his vulpinity.

xpost Many years back my wife and I were at the movies, and while I can't remember what movie it was, beforehand was the trailer for "MacGruber," which had a fleeting "upper decker" joke in which I think he defines it, and my wife cracked up so much, for several hysterical minutes, that she almost had to leave the theater.

Heaton brought the second drummer from the Housemartins over to the South just for his voice, but wrote fewer and fewer songs for him as the band went on. A Little Time is a big single that the other bloke is male lead on, off the top of my head.

Stanley Burrell was an 11-year-old batboy with the Oakland A's in the early '70s.

Reggie Jackson thought the kid looked so much like Hank Aaron that he started calling him "Hammer" and that's where MC Hammer got his name. pic.twitter.com/ShCxY3Hnc1

— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) January 22, 2021

great story

Mind blown

proper

I've just realised the correct phrase is "whet your appetite" and how did that just occur to me?

wait what did you think it was?

Yeah?!

Wet, obviously. I think that's probably the only phrase where I actually do use the hw- sound.

As in wet your whistle or whet your wistle.

As for whetting the baby's head ...

Yeah I guess I've not thought about it much but unconsciously wd've used "wet"

Wouldve never occurred to me but im from an area where wh can as easily serve as a v so

“wet” is also 90s slang for shooting someone so now I am imagining someone going “I’m hungry” and then firing a gun into their stomach

Now I'm picturing "Now I'm Gonna Wet Ya" is about Cube being hungry

"I wet myself"

Whettin' up in Whetstone

wet is also slang for weed dipped in formaldehyde, aka The Big Lurch

and Big Lurch is a rapper that ate part of his g/f!

not his, his roomate's g/f.

Really sad, that story

Just heard that Laura Papen was a scientologist fro listening to Leah Remini on Louis Theroux's podcast Grounded.
JUst been watching through the last series of Orange is the New Black in which she features .

wet your appetite = mouth watering vs whet your appetite = sharpen your hunger
both seem reasonable to me

whetstone is one that sharpens other things.

I just saw that there is an archaic noun form of whet as an appetiser a thing to sharpen one's appetite

which means that you could eat an appetiser as a whet apparently. Hadn't seen that specific formulation before.

whetstone is one that sharpens other things.

It's an area in London too.

The neighbourhood where Bosom Manor's several seasons unfold.

That immigrants only make up 3.5% of the world population.

Sebastian Bach was barely in Skid Row for 9 years, his first replacement lasted 16

As a kid I loved seeing the video for Barnes & Barnes' "Fish Heads" on Muchmusic, but only today did I learn that it originally aired on SNL and that the star/director of the video is Bill Paxton.

!!

I never really paid a lot of attention to Matthew Sweet, outside his handful of singles that were omnipresent on alt-rock radio back in the early and mid 90s, and I always knew he had some pretty great guitar solos. I think I might have known at one time that Richard Lloyd played the solo on "Sick of Myself", but I didn't know until I read Lloyd's book last year just how much he played with Sweet. Blew me away to see the dude had both Lloyd and Robert Quine playing guitar on so many of his albums.

Made me listen to "Sick of Myself" for the first time in about two decades, thanks!

I recently learned that actor Russ Tamblyn (famous for his roles in West Side Story, Twin Peaks, and etc) also wrote experimental poetry and is featured in a few esoteric journals from the 70s and 80s.

I never really paid a lot of attention to Matthew Sweet, outside his handful of singles that were omnipresent on alt-rock radio back in the early and mid 90s, and I always knew he had some pretty great guitar solos. I think I might have known at one time that Richard Lloyd played the solo on "Sick of Myself", but I didn't know until I read Lloyd's book last year just how much he played with Sweet. Blew me away to see the dude had both Lloyd and Robert Quine playing guitar on so many of his albums.

I recently learned that actor Russ Tamblyn (famous for his roles in West Side Story, Twin Peaks, and etc) also wrote experimental poetry and is featured in a few esoteric journals from the 70s and 80s.

And his brother was the singer/keyboard player in the Standells.

Tbr, he was fine as hell in his heyday. Would smash.

That "Beatlemania" was not the first "celebrity + mania" construction. It was preceded by 150 years by "Byromania," for Lord Byron.

Secondary realization: Byromania is not a play on "pyromania" as the latter word wasn't in the language for at least two more decades.

Maybe it was the other way round!

Lisztania was coined by phoenix in the 1800s

Ha l meant to type ‘lusitania’

Seriously, the term "Lisztomania" is by Heinrich Heine, 1844.

phony lisztania has bitten the dust

Sense of "fad, craze, enthusiasm resembling mania, eager or uncontrollable desire" is by 1680s, from French manie in this sense. Sometimes nativized in Middle English as manye. Used since 1500s as the second element in compounds expressing particular types of madness (such as nymphomania, 1775; kleptomania, 1830; megalomania, 1890), originally in Medical Latin, in imitation of Greek, which had a few such compounds, mostly post-classical: gynaikomania (women), hippomania (horses), etc.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/mania

I believed 'tulip mania' (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was used either already during or shortly afterwards the actual 17th century tulip craze, but I can't find a source to confirms this right now.

ergotmania not a medieval dance craze then?

I know Lisztomania is a film with Roger Daltrey as the titular musical hero named after his fandom.

I have no idea how I never realized that Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted was Jane Wiedlin.

She was great! Also in Clue.

I learned these things because I noticed while watching Star Trek IV that she had an out-of-the-blue five-second cameo as a face on a screen and then discovered that she had an actual filmography.

I believed 'tulip mania' (Dutch: _tulpenmanie_) was used either already during or shortly afterwards the actual 17th century tulip craze, but I can't find a source to confirms this right now.