Whettin' up in Whetstone
― eating a jester in the blacksmith's shop (Matt #2), Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
wet is also slang for weed dipped in formaldehyde, aka The Big Lurch
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
and Big Lurch is a rapper that ate part of his g/f!
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
not his, his roomate's g/f.
Really sad, that story
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
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 .
― Stevolende, Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
wet your appetite = mouth watering vs whet your appetite = sharpen your hungerboth seem reasonable to me
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 January 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
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
― Stevolende, Saturday, 23 January 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link
which means that you could eat an appetiser as a whet apparently. Hadn't seen that specific formulation before.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 23 January 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
It's an area in London too.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 January 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
The neighbourhood where Bosom Manor's several seasons unfold.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Saturday, 23 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
That immigrants only make up 3.5% of the world population.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
Sebastian Bach was barely in Skid Row for 9 years, his first replacement lasted 16
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
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.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 08:16 (three years ago) link
!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 10:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
Made me listen to "Sick of Myself" for the first time in about two decades, thanks!
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
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.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
And his brother was the singer/keyboard player in the Standells.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
Tbr, he was fine as hell in his heyday. Would smash.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josefa, Sunday, 31 January 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
Maybe it was the other way round!
― kicked off mumsnet for speaking my mind (Matt #2), Sunday, 31 January 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
Lisztania was coined by phoenix in the 1800s
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Sunday, 31 January 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
Ha l meant to type ‘lusitania’
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Sunday, 31 January 2021 11:42 (three years ago) link
Seriously, the term "Lisztomania" is by Heinrich Heine, 1844.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 31 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
phony lisztania has bitten the dust
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Sunday, 31 January 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 1 February 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 February 2021 10:02 (three years ago) link
I have no idea how I never realized that Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted was Jane Wiedlin.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 February 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
She was great! Also in Clue.
― Nhex, Monday, 1 February 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
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.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
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.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Allegorie_der_Tulipomanie.jpg
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
tulips=tendies
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
a friend of mine calls chicken tenders Chicken Tendies, and i can never get it out of my head
― Karl Malone, Monday, 1 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
Better than "nuggs"
― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 February 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
What fossils really are
― Alba, Monday, 1 February 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
what was your confusion?
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 1 February 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
really into swatch
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
I thought they were just like, prints, rather than actually containing the dead thing. I think they can be prints too, but mainly they’re not that
― Alba, Monday, 1 February 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
yeah, fossils can often be footprints or skin imprints or anything else that's an imprint but it's also organic material that petrifies. you weren't too far wrong really!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 February 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
also c/f the Pompei figures which are plaster casts of the voids left where people were caught in the ash
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link
Maybe dont google bog bodies but do because awesome
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
I thought fossils were essentially organic material replaced by minerals.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 01:59 (three years ago) link
That The Real World is still running. If you’d asked me to guess I’d have said it was cancelled around the turn of the century
― Alba, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
is Puck still on it
― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bog_bodies(applies both xp and not xp)
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
thought fossils were essentially organic material replaced by minerals.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 05:35 (three years ago) link
Me too, Alba.LOL, Neanderthal.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link
That the, to me, extremely boring and clunky name Denis/Dennis derives from Dionysius.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 February 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link