Things you were shockingly old when you learned

The only two celebrities who I ever remember I share a birthday with are Lenny Henry and Michael Jackson - they were actually born the same day as each other.

I forget Charlie Parker and remember Lenny Henry! Doh!

Re: "gameshow host", the word i was looking for is "presenter".

From what I'd seen him in at the time, I'd thought he was cast against type in Chef. He was sunnier than a Sunny D.

The word(s) you're looking for are "Trevor McDoughnut"

Lol

I don't think Lenny Henry has been jolly - as a gameshow host or anything else - for about 30 years.

New York public TV also had Good Neighbors and To the Manor Born, hence my enduring love for Penelope Keith.

Mention of The Brittas Empire reminds me that I haaaate that Britcom thing where they make up a character name and then force it into a "pun" for the series title. And yes, that includes Fawlty Towers.

Nelson's column with John Gordon Sinclair is the nadir of that

at least that worked and Nelson is a name. Brittas Empire way worse imo.

Lee & Herring had loads of these as ideas
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A. Bird in the Hand (Anthony Bird is manager of the Hand pub), Anne R. in The Month (Anne R. is manager of The Month Pub) and by the end of the list coming up with There Are More Things In Heaven and Earth Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy (About how Ian Thing is joined by his relatives at the Heaven and Earth Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy pub).

See also
Roll Reversal - Ian Roll is a driving instructor, Ian Reversal is a baker. They swap jobs, with hilarious consequences.

Chalk and Cheese - Ian Chalk and Ian Cheese are two men. They are very different. However, they eventually become friends and realise they are not so different after all.

Bent Coppers - Ian and Iain Bent are brothers who are policemen. One is corrupt and the other is homosexual. They both suffer from curvature of the spine, and they're made of copper. They're robots in the future.

working title for Married... with Children was Al in the Family

There was also rotten to the coors, where johnny rotten is manager of the coors & also runs a fresh fruit stall, but every week johnny rotten is so rotten to the coors that he neglects his stall and the fruit goes rotten to the core

haha, more pls!

a series about the close bond between a kid and their mother’s brother Robert, as seen through the kid’s eyes, called Bob’s My Uncle

A series about a man named Thomas, who is secretly a werewolf.

It's called Wolverhamptom

Fans of the Two Ronnies and old school UK comedy will immediately
twig that 'hampton' is rhyming slang for penis.

Anne R. in The Month

oof.

this is horrible and kind of amazing.

please let there be a running gag about when you can order oysters, just to hammer it home.

Feel like you're all forgetting about the genius that was The Wright Way.

Mann & Machine was an American science-fiction cop show that ran for nine episodes on NBC in the spring of 1992. It follows Robert "Bobby" Mann (David Andrews), an LAPD detective working in the "near future," and his new partner Eve Edison (Yancy Butler), the first android capable of feeling emotions and learning from experience.

This is related to something that irritates me - giving a character a name that is also a word, but changing/adding a letter for plausible deniability:

"I've just written a story about this character called Judge Dread."
"Come on, that's a little on-the-nose."
"OK, how about Judge DREDD?"
"Sure, that's entirely credible!"

Alexander Minto Hughes (2 May 1945 – 13 March 1998),[1] better known as Judge Dread, was an English reggae and ska musician. He was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica,[2][3] and the BBC has banned more of his songs than those of any other recording artist, because of his frequent use of sexual innuendo and double entendres.[3]

Forever Knight (1992-1996)
800-year-old vampire Nick Knight quests for redemption as a cop in Toronto, trying to hide his vampiric nature from the rest of the world.

I haaaate that Britcom thing where they make up a character name and then force it into a "pun" for the series title.

Song lyrics that invent characters with imporobable names for the sake of a rhyme are far worse.

Like, I wonder what Herman Farbage is about to do...

Nelson's column with John Gordon Sinclair is the nadir of that

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, June 11, 2021 1:59 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

at least that worked and Nelson is a name. Brittas Empire way worse imo.

― kinder, Friday, June 11, 2021 2:58 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It does work but he's a columnist called Nelson who lives in London. Tooooo on the nose

Baddiel’s Syndrome failed because David Baddiel was an architect rather than a medical condition.

Baddiel’s Syndrome failed because David Baddiel was an architect rather than a medical condition.

Wondering if this is something I had forgotten from knowing it before.
You need to rename an SRT file to match the name of the videofile it accompanies.
Tried running Lupin after finding the 2nd series was circulating. popped the file that was in with the videofiles in with it and got no reaction from the subtitle button so wondered what the story was. Same thing with a version of Midsommar.
Now wondering if I had a similar problem with some other stuff a few months ago and just assumed that the file didn't work so moved onto something else.

Now got it working ok so will have to retry the films

someone explain the "Anne R. in The Month" pun to me?

just the common rule of thumb that you should only eat fresh oysters when there's an R in the month (i.e. avoid May-August)

Jerry Garcia was named for Jerome Kern

xp huuuuh. never heard that one, ty

Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire
June in A Matter of Life and Death
Zira in Planet of the Apes

= all played by Kim Hunter

Knew that, but easy to forget.

re R in the Month, first learned of that when visiting and eating oysters in new orleans. of course modern refrigeration kinda makes it moot.

the b-side to Glen Campbell's classic "Galveston" is "How Come Every Time I Itch, I Wind Up Scratching You?"

I was probably older than you when I learned that just now on this thread.

Hadn't heard R in the Month had anything to do with oysters until this thread. I thought it was just a more often than not thing. Presumably just past into common parlance so separated from its original context. But that explains usage better I guess. Like reason why it would not be in the months that don't have an R in them.

(xxp) Great song. One of his very few (co-)compositions.

Wonder what the saying is for oysters in the Southern Hemisphere.

I thought the oyster thing it was only partly to do with refrigerated transport. Also: Shellfish are filter-feeders. Everything that's in the water they're in passes through them, and some of it stays.

As such, they accumulate more environmental toxins, parasites, and such when the water is more concentrated. Due to evaporation and all. One would expect that shellfish would have more potentially harmful stuff in them in summer than in winter.

Of course, I don't know if there's an equal and opposite rule in the Southern hemisphere

ha pplains xpost

thought this was a red tide poisoning thing

Should You Eat Shellfish Only in Months with an 'R'?

I watched this video last year about clams being used as a kind of water pollution alarm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtanyJuW5CA

I thought oysters spawned in the non-R months? And spewed gross stuff everywere

story of my love life

The pipehitter thing is extra funny because I assume spec ops bros initially picked it up from Pulp Fiction thinking it meant badass instead of “insane crackhead.”

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, June 17, 2021 1:49 PM (two hours ago)

I assumed until just now that it mean that marcellus wallace was esoteric enough that he had associates who where known for their shtick of literally hitting people with pipes.

I did and still do

is that a joke?

pipe-hitting: that's where i hit people with pipes