Mind blown by this.
And of course my occasional reminder that it's called My Fair Lady as that's how Eliza would pronounce Mayfair. The greatest and most understated phonetic pun in any movie title.— Mark Lamarr (@lamarr_mark) December 26, 2022
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 26 December 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
holy shit me too duh
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Monday, 26 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Kenny Rogers started out playing bass and was pretty good at it.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
lots of shots of him playing in this cliphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B45NsDaUa8o
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 26 December 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Thanks. There is a video on social media of him playing upright bass with Dudley Moore jamming on “Satin Doll” on The Tonight Show that is particularly interesting. He gets a little lost during his solo and laughs but mostly sounds pretty good. Also didn’t know that Mickey Jones was in The First Edition.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
Dudley Moore & Kenny Rogers: Satin Doll https://t.co/puvu5WXLUr via @notreble— Kenny Rogers (@_KennyRogers) January 7, 2018
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
appears unavailable here, but this is also good ("what're you doing New Year's Eve?"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqjepfQZwzY
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
In the "unknown bassist" category, I read that Giorgio Moroder spent the first part of his career playing stand-up bass in jazz groups.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
legend has it that he was kicked out of the jazz scene because of his tendency to only play repeated arpeggio figures
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
Ukraine is like the size of Texas. !?
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 31 December 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
I laughingly said to my 20yo daughter that as a kid I one day expected to understand the "macaroni" reference in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" when I grew up - assuming it was just nonsense for the rhyme - when she said "oh no that was a term for a fashionable dandy at the time" which floored me.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 31 December 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
Max’s Kansas City isn’t in Kansas.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
It’s not even in NYC anymore. You can get prepackaged sushi on the site though.
― Josefa, Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
and t-shirts last time i checked
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
Mind you, Kansas City isn't even in Kansas (well, not the main one)
― Alba, Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
that My Fair Lady thing is bullshit, imo, it's just a quote from "London Bridge Is Falling Down"; none of the action of the play/film takes place in Mayfair.
― fetter, Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
Yes but Mayfair is the archetypal posh place in London. It's in Rex Harrison's memoir, and also in The Making of My Fair Lady:https://i.imgur.com/7tdwcUX.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/7tdwcUX.pngI think it's kind of bullshit that a Cockney pronounces May as My, but that's b(a)y the by.
― Alba, Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
Rex Harrison snippet on Google Books
― Alba, Saturday, 31 December 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
Whether she was cockney or not, someone needed to teach that girl how to talk, am I right fellas?!
― Josefa, Saturday, 31 December 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
The cockney pun thing is a good story but not correct. The title references G.B.S.'S working title for Pygmalion- "(My) Fair Eliza", plus the line from "London Bridge". As mentioned above it's not set in Mayfair. This would be like doing a Seinfeld musical and giving it a title that is a pun on New Jersey.
― everything, Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
Does that not just mean it was GBS making the pun? It would be very much in character for him.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
This would be like doing a Seinfeld musical and giving it a title that is a pun on New Jersey.
― Alba, Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
My Fair Lady to Mayfair is like Seinfeld to the West Village. It’s just two neighborhoods away.
― Josefa, Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Now I can't stop thinking about a version of My Fair Lady starring Elaine, Jerry and Kramer.
― Alba, Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
For a second I thought was going to say Dean and Jerry. Hey My Fair LADY!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
'My Seinfeld Lady' might be somewhere close to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghCTZF61ey0
― Josefa, Saturday, 31 December 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
A day wasted is not a day without laughter.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 1 January 2023 08:45 (one year ago) link
"tie hoes to the runner" is apparently an urban myth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_goes_to_the_runner?wprov=sfla1
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 January 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link
Ned doesn't like Belle and Sebastian.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
are you tattling?
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
Never knew until today that ‘Party Fears Two’ was used as theme music for Radio 4’s ‘Week Ending’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st1IhgWrtPQ
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
The Linux paste command.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
nothing too shocking about it, but:that Lucky Daye started his singing career under his real name David Brown, reaching the top 20 in season 4 of American Idol in 2005.
― the shaker intro bit the shaker outro in the tail, hard (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
WTTW — the PBS affiliate in Chicago — stands for Window To The World.(I already knew that WLS — ABC-TV affiliate, and onetime top 40 AM radio powerhouse — stood for World’s Largest Store, as they were initially sponsored by Marshall Field & Co.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
Took me a while to get the dog and cow that WFMU uses (woof, moo).
― nickn, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 23:10 (one year ago) link
and WGN = world's greatest newspaper iirc
― rob, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
seriously was nobody else ignorant about macaroni
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 5 January 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
I was... but then I'm Canadian... but then we all knew the dumb song as kids anyway. I'm just thinking them yanks loves some pasta.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 5 January 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
oh, i definitely was. i never really thought about it as a kid, i just kind of thought it was an absurd rhyme, and plus, i loved macaroni, so two thumbs up!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 00:18 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Philip_Dawe%2C_The_Macaroni._A_Real_Character_at_the_Late_Masquerade_%281773%29.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 5 January 2023 00:32 (one year ago) link
:|
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 5 January 2023 00:35 (one year ago) link
wait, are you american? a lot of matthews around here ...
i'm american and remember learning about the macaroni thing at a really young age. i think in school we had worksheets for different folk songs with the lyrics typed out and a little glossary to help us understand.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 5 January 2023 01:15 (one year ago) link
only recently learned that the fears of being bitten by a Black widow or brown recluse are extremely exaggerated and that even if you get bitten by one, the chances of even going to the hospital, let alone dying, are very low, and in the US, nobody has died from a black widow bite in 30 years.
also learned that reports of bites from brown recluses are high in areas that don't even have them.
which is not to say that there aren't those that have adverse affects to spider bites from these types of spiders, but that usually a little antivenom and you're fine.
I think the movie Arachnophobia misshaped my view of the danger of spiders as a kid.
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
maffew12 is Canadian and I'm Australian
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
too many matts
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
i once made a dinner matwith elbow macaroni
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
you know what they say about dinner mats made out of macaroni.
just don't take it to a hot spring
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
we had that song too
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:41 (one year ago) link
even after seeing it as an adult, I've never really internalized that Arachnophobia was meant to be a delightfully creepy horror-comedy of sorts. the shots of the super-hybrid queen spider (or whatever) really got to 9-year-old me, I guess.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 5 January 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
like I found Goodman's character funny but the chewed up dude at the beginning scared me
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 03:36 (one year ago) link