Things you were shockingly old when you learned

weirdly I knew that about 10cc without having much of a clue what they even sound like

wait till you hear their reggae track

The song "Coffee Blues" is a tribute to Maxwell House Coffee, which Hurt describes, "rapping" in the beginning of the song, as being two or three times any other brand, ergo, he only needs one spoonful to make him feel all right, what he describes as "my lovin' spoonful" in the song. The song is part of a group of songs with a long history in recorded blues that generally use the term "a spoonful" to suggest sex, and in some cases use of a drug such as cocaine.[36] The term "lovin' spoonful" has been conjectured as referring to the amount of ejaculate released by a human male during a typical orgasm.

... Mississippi John that is, not William or, er, John.

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actually I looked them up after posting that and naturally I know a bunch of their songs, including Dreadlock Holiday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just learned that Cardi B.'s real name is apparently Belcalis, but she often went by the nickname "Bacardi." Bacardi, B. Cardi, Cardi. B.

(Coincidence or no, her sister's actual name is Hennessy.)

I'm sure this is the kind of thing everybody on this board knows this already but I only learned today that the Ramones did not come up with "Second verse, same as the first"

pretty sure that was the violent femmes

boy scouts iirc

It was Herman's Hermits! I didn't know that until I googled it right now.

Or to be more accurate it was Fred Murray and R.P. Weston, who wrote the song in question in 1910!

Yesterday I learned that ILX comment boxes--like the one I'm typing in now--can be enlarged or minimized using a tiny little doodad in the bottom right corner. Very exciting.

Whoa! When did that happen?

I had never noticed that!

Members of 10cc disagree about the origin of the band's name. I will note that early singles written by them include "When He Comes" and "Come on Plane".

(with each other I meant, not with us)

Pixel = picture element. Probably everybody other than me knew that.

I went to school for graphic design and I did not know that.

It probably wasn't the best school for graphic design, though, tbrr.

I didn't know that

Yesterday I learned that ILX comment boxes--like the one I'm typing in now--can be enlarged or minimized using a tiny little doodad in the bottom right corner. Very exciting.

Isn't that more of a browser function kind of thing?

Loved the song for 35 years, but only just discovered that in ‘West End Girls’, when Tennant sings ‘ Call the police, there's a mad man around, Running down underground to a dive bar, In a West End town’ he’s actually referring to a bar called The Dive Bar in Gerrard Street, Soho.

It gets a brief mention here https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/may/17/london-soho-stories-sex-drugs-rock-and-roll

That reminds me, I wasn't old at the time but it didn't immediately click that Kelis' 'Trick Me' has a line referencing that - 'Call the police there's a mad girl in town'

Isn't that more of a browser function kind of thing?

I don't know: it's there on both Chrome and Edge.

It is. It's probably been like that forever.

loquats are a thing.
Blooming tasty too.
& i THink heavily sweetening.
Saw some in the chinese place and at the time assumed they were the apricots I'd been looking for. Opened one yesterday and found out it had seeds not a stone.
So bunged one into a stew and ate one and they seem pretty sublime.

I learned about loquats last week when I had a Lebanese colleague over for diner! His sister had sent him a picture of her trying to harvest them from a huge tree in her garden. They look so tasty, will have to find a place where to get them.

you can actually put french toast in the toaster the day after you make it, yummm

When is French toast ever left over!!!

literally just figured out the pun in clue’s “mr. boddy”

Oto is japanese for Sound, hence Cafe Oto.

Yesterday, that the Byker Wall in Newcastle is the name of a housing development, rather than an actual wall.

Tanganyika and Zanzibar = Tanzania
like 4 minutes ago, in a talk on African involvement in first world war
Actually I think German Colonial involvement in East Africa

& Tanganyika was a name that the country took up when it became iNdependent in 1961. But still should have thought possibly though Zania does sound as much like a regional/country name ending as it does a portmanteauisation of Zanzibar.

JUst reading in one of the appendixes to 1491 that indigenous people in teh Americas use the word Indian. Which I'd been consciously avoiding and using the term Native American for but apparently that term is too exclusive of people from different geographical areas outside of the US apparently.

Would surmise that the term Indian is the term that has been used in English since the people were first encountered, so it works as the cognitive representation of them. Like there is no reference in English prior to them being called that so the reference is as much to these people as long as you omit the word Red which had been a part of it in a derogatory way for way too long. Like.

Mann goes onto saying that the self description for the indigenous groups would have been far more locally based prior to first contact with Europeans,. Would have been likely to be part of the local village and then possibly part of the wider clan/tribal network. But wouldn't have been as part of a wider ethnicity. But then the European equivalent wouldn't have been as fixed at the time of contact though possibly to Christianity which I think was thought by them as being primarily Western European. Though Europe was only a term gaining popularity in the 17th century apparently. Did hear that the idea of Europe asan entity was invented by 8th century Irish monks to allow them some form of unity with those on the distant European mainland which they were heavily marginalised from. Connection to at least. Ireland being a great source of learning at the time and location of some of teh best Understanding of Latin and Greek at the time

20 yrs ago I was working in the cataloguing dept of the British Museum's anthropology collection, whose in-house subject heading list used Indian to denote any indigenous people in North America including "Canadian Indians", "Alaskan Indians" etc. Felt very strange.

The previous two contributions reminded me of something I learned this week. In Florida there is the highway called the Tamiami Trail which crosses the Florida Everglades. I knew Miami was an Indian name, so I assumed Tamiami was another Indian name. And it's pronounced "Tammy-ammy" which sounds plausibly American Indian (same rhythm as Tallahassee, Chattahoochee, etc.).

In fact it's called Tamiami because it connects the cities of Tampa and Miami.

(I only ever took the Tamiami from Miami to Naples and never considered the fact that it continues on up the Gulf Coast from Naples to Tampa).

I got this from a B.S. Johnson novel - a marmite is a earthenware cooking pot. A jar of Marmite has a marmite depicted on the label because it was originally sold in marmites. Also Marmite was invented by a German.

That's brilliant, never knew that!

definitely going to start pronouncing it in the French manner from now on

And here I thought it was invented by marmots

The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5ive

But not
The Jackson Five

Working in THE Coal Mine

The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5ive

But not
The Jackson Five

the voice of Rock-a-Doodle was Glen Campbell.

what's Rock-a-Doodle?

I had same question

Looked it up

I don't know the voice acting cast for Don Bluth's Mrs Frisby and the Rats Of N.I.M.H. either, the only one of his films I've seen, if anyone wants to shock me while I'm old

Don’t know if it’s an esoteric fact or a TIWSOWIL but I saw a Ken Burns documentary on Jackie Robinson last night and learned that he and his family lived with Carly Simon and her family, when she was a kid.

xpost All I know is the crow is Dom DeLuise and a young Shannen Doherty is one of the kids, and also that the actress who voiced Mrs. Frisby Brisby committed suicide just a few years later. :(