Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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Pete Puma was voiced by Stan Freberg.

i didn't know anyone remembered pete puma besides me. "whole lotta lumps." that pete puma?

*searches*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKyhTX9LQEA

Yup. Apparently he was in one other cartoon back then, but he was so popular that he was revived upon occasion, at first voiced again by Stan Freberg, and then later by others.

He sounds kinda like Tommy Chong

Heh

Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar from ST:TNG) is the grand-daughter of Bing Crosby.

ha, never knew

I mentioned this in the DS9 thread a while back when I realized, but in similar Trek relation revelations: Alexander Siddig/Siddig El Fadil is Malcolm McDowell's nephew. Once you see it...

Star Trek: The Next Relation Revelation

I only just recently learned that the Marx Brothers were actually really all brothers.

you'll never guess which one they decided to make the straight guy romantic lead

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I only just recently learned that the Marx Brothers were actually really all brothers.

Wow, they look so much alike though! I mean, their most famous routine (probably) was literally built around their resemblance to each other.

Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar from ST:TNG) is the grand-daughter of Bing Crosby.

I always thought she was his daughter.

supposedly Brett Marx, who played Jimmy Feldman in Bad News Bears, and looks a ton like Harpo, is actually the grandson of Gummo Marx, and great nephew of the other Marx brothers.

Tickled by the fact that, for his entire life in the US, their dad was known as Frenchie because he'd been born in Alsace.

my grandma was known as Sicilyie

They might look similar, but they did such a good job distinguishing their characters. Like, check this out:

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Would you assume these four were brothers if they did not bill themselves as such? Dunno. Clearly I wouldn't have!

Good catch!

"Yes" is by Merry Clayton, not the Pointer Sisters.

I was watching the Muppet Show the other day and noticed the (Muppet) musicians were all left handed! So I looked it up and indeed:

The Muppets appear to be left-handed because the people who operate them use their right hands for the most important work. The right hand operates the head and mouth while the left hand holds rods attached to the arms. (The rods are always painted the same color as the background scenery, disguising them somewhat.) AIthough the puppeteers are ambidextrous, they appear to favor the left hands of their puppets because their own left hands manipulate them. Some of the puppets have hands that grasp. Here, two puppeteers are involved: one to work the mouth and the left arm, the other to work the right arm. The puppeteers, of course, stand below the puppets to operate them, and watch themselves on television monitors which show their movements reversed, right to left. It sounds complicated, and it is.

Would you assume these four were brothers if they did not bill themselves as such? Dunno. Clearly I wouldn't have!

I'm sure I've said it before but Zeppo is the spit of my cousin, Jim. Not that Jim looks like that now.

so fucked that they made the Muppets left-handed so their puppeteers can masturbate at the same time

xpost Or Zeppo!

That Stacey Abrams had a side career as a romance novelist under a pen name.

!

You didn't know that? I guess not!

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Oh shit!

idgi, is this like the chip & dale = indiana jones + magnum pi thing?

second image a bit of a reach, and isn't yellow the stereotypical raincoat color?

If you look more closely, the jacket in the second one appears to be the exact same one that Feldman wore. Given that Spielberg produced Goonies, I assume this was an intentional easter egg.

that british people doin't say lon-ji-tude, they say 'long-i-tude'

i had no idea anyone pronounced it lon-ji-tude

Tom Delongitude

Positive Mental Longitude

i had no idea anyone pronounced it lon-ji-tude

Lon-ji-tude??!?!? More like Lol-ji-tude.

Lol. Was just reading about the Longitude Act.

Lon-ji-tude is too difficult to say if you pronounce -tude as -tewd, but I assume you don't do that in the US anyway?

How do you pronounce chaise longitude?

Wait, -tude and -tewd are pronounced differently?

here we go

Bad Attiteeyood Baracus

Dewde.

that british people doin't say lon-ji-tude, they say 'long-i-tude'

!!!

Nearly as bad as 'leftenant' imo.

it's because it's very long, it's the longest of all tudes.

In Romanian, it's lung with a hard g but longitudine with a soft g, just like in NA English.

I've never actually heard anyone say 'leftenant' irl tbh so I'm dubious about how common its use is in the UK.

i love long tudes

I have (in Southern England).

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