Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Pat is short for Patrick

Paddy is short for Padraic

Thank you for coming to my pat talk

Patty is short for Patricia

(Sorry, forgot to add that)

patty is short for a burger
Gets a bit taller if you add a bun

Paddy is short for Patrick too. Then of course there's...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packie_Bonner

What's green and stays out in the rain?

Paddy O'Furniture.

thank you for refining my ignorance

puerto rico is further east than maine

i miss my business trips to San Juan so much :(

the website Pitchfork is probably named for the idea of critics coming at things with pitchforks, rather than it just being some random arbitrary word to name a music publication.

Pitchfork's pointed digs are no accident. The name, Schreiber says, came from the gangster epic "Scarface," in which Tony Montana's pitchfork tattoo is said to be code for an assassin.

"When I started out, it was about really laying into people who really deserved it,"

glad that's no longer what people think is cool

maybe being like self-consciously and self-aggrandizingly kind is a bit cringe sometimes but god

Blues Boy King

Also: 'Unchained Melody' is a cover, the original of which was released a decade before the Righteous Brothers' version.

Because I read so many old kids' books and rarely injured myself, I got to the age of 31 still thinking that if I ever had to get stitches for a cut it would be done without anesthetic. When I slammed my finger in a door and had to get it stitched, I went in prepared to grit my teeth through the pain of the stitches, and was pleasantly surprised when they just numbed my finger up.

"Ok, now listen. I know you're pretty happy with your spoons, right? Just scoop everything up and there you go. And of course, can't say enough about knives. They slice, they dice, yadda yadda yadda. But let me ask you this: What if you had a utensil somewhere in between, something you could use to gently pick, poke and prod your food -- without making a mess?"

Whatever else threw me to greenspun ilx in 01-02, it came across gen’l shit it involved with pitchfork, and i quickly learned ryan was not worth attn. how that fits the great chain of being...🤷🏻‍♂️

Just heard the Patti Page song 'Mama From the Train' for the first time, featuring the lyric:

Throw mama from the train.........a kiss, a kiss

I have no idea how I ended up thinking this in the first place, but from late 1996 until a few minutes ago I was certain that it was George Segal's voice talking about parking tickets in the middle of DJ Shadow's 'Stem / Long Stem'

when i was a child i thought that woody harrelson sang the cheer's theme song

lol, jim. They liked it so much they made him a cast member several years later!

xpost joygoat, I thought the exact same thing. Although I don't remember when I was disabused of the notion and I don't remember who it actually is. The vocal resemblance is uncanny, though.

You can clean a thermos interior with Polident denture cleaner, the plop-plot-fizz-fizz tablets... takes the tannins and stains right off.

i initially thought stem/long stem featured elliott gould

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhFK80q9Tjk

JUst finding out what a negative force timing was in the fall of the Inka empire. Pisarro arriving just as Attawalpa arrives in Qosco after getting rid of his rival for the fringe teh symbol of Inka leadership. Though the civil war that had just transpired might just mean that things were already in trouble as did Attawalpa being the son of a first cousin not a sister of his father.

Attawalpa being the son of a first cousin not a sister of his father.

Errrrrrrrr, exsqueeze me?

As I kid, I thought Nicholas Lyndhurst was singing the theme tune of Only Fools and Horses.

As a grown man of 35, David Walliams believed that Dennis Waterman wrote the theme song to Minder.

Mike Nichols had a rare reaction to a defective whooping-cough vaccine as a child that caused him to lose all of his hair, head and body, and in addition to wearing a wig even had to apply eyebrows and eyelashes every morning for the rest of his life.

OK, that's a new on me too.

In that oral history biography of Nichols from 2019 someone in it, I forget who, described him as a man who had no face. I guess because of the hair loss and the general slightness of his features.

Whoa @ Nichols news. Next thing I know you'll tell me all four of May's limbs were prostheses.

As I kid, I thought Nicholas Lyndhurst was singing the theme tune of Only Fools and Horses.

― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:47 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

SAME!

i feel seen

I am shockingly old and still trying to learn the proper use of toward/towards, forward/forwards, and backward/backwards.

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/10/slouching-towards-bethlehem.html

yeah remember thinking the theme song on a few things was sung by the lead character.
Possibly semi intentional in the choice of song even when it does turn out to not be the actor's voice.

AP style doesn’t consider “towards” a word at all iirc

The Nicholas Lyndhurst thing is a pretty widely-held misapprehansion.

I was v recently thinking of doing a "themes sung by actors" poll with that as one of the options!

I thought for a long time that Alan Thicke sang the Growing Pains theme song but that assumption wasn't completely out of left field, given that...

Thicke had a successful career as a TV theme song composer, often collaborating with his then-wife Gloria Loring on these projects, which included the themes to the popular sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life.

(Pretty sure I just blew someone's mind right there.)

You can clean a thermos interior with Polident denture cleaner, the plop-plot-fizz-fizz tablets... takes the tannins and stains right off.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

THANK YOU! I've got a bottle I drink tea out of and have been fretting about the residual gunk lately.

My friend just shared this article about Bluetooth. I’ll never see that symbol the same way again.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/02/19/fact-check-bluetooth-named-after-viking-king-harald/4505776001/

Wow.

Oh. Pretty sure I somewhat recently read something about historical Bluetooth and chuckled over his name. Little did I know.

Canada has a problem with racism.
It's not all 'nice' progressive liberalism. Found out last year from a Webinar about violence towards indigenous people and others about abolishing the police and the black film scene. Then caught one on slavery in Canada last night. It includ3d thibgs like Enslaved people running back to the US prior to the UK banning slavery in 1830 as well as some more recent stuff.
Speaker said she wasn't talking about some special 'nice' form of the set up. There is no nice one.

King Harald Bluetooth, who was famous for uniting Scandinavia just as we intended to unite the PC and cellular industries with a short-range wireless link

this guy

That green and red peppers are not different types of vegetable

You can clean a thermos interior with Polident denture cleaner, the plop-plot-fizz-fizz tablets... takes the tannins and stains right off.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

THANK YOU! I've got a bottle I drink tea out of and have been fretting about the residual gunk lately.

― peace, man, Thursday, March 25, 2021 2:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Tried this out last night and I had to use two tablets per bottle, TWICE, but it really got the job done.

Yeah, I've used denture cleaners to clean the nooks and crannies of our coffee carafe before, seemed to do ok.

The How Clean Is Your House team used to have those tablets in their utility belts along with white vinegar, lemon juice and a few other things.
Used to watch that show quite heavily about 10 years ago