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
I think I read the movie tie-in novel first though lol
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
That there are no bridges across the Amazon https://www.livescience.com/why-no-bridges-over-amazon-river
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 7 January 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
!
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 January 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link
is Ski just an anglicisation of Skyr? (yogurt-wise)
― koogs, Monday, 9 January 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
Oooh
― Alba, Monday, 9 January 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
Wasn't it supposed to be Swiss (for some reason) and Alpine and, therefore, healthy (for some reason), a bit like Alpen?
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 9 January 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
it's the full-of-fitness food (where fitness means blobs of fruit)
my sister and i ate it with like ten spoons of sugar in it (even more full of fitness)
― mark s, Monday, 9 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
Yvonne = Ivan
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 9 January 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
Nothing to do with Skyr, marketing bs/genius.
Rather brilliant thread about Ski here. Big LOL at the dustbin analysis.
Okay, as requested, more history of weird stuff with food and logistics.Let's talk about how Ski Yoghurt utterly dominated the 70s UK yoghurt wars, by understanding how humans work better than humans do.Oh, and also through strippers.Read on... /1 pic.twitter.com/5fQqn0AObx— John Bull (@garius) July 30, 2021
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 9 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
pleased to discover that my sister and i were correct abt sugar and fitness (and that we were eating 14 spoonfuls of sugar per pot)
― mark s, Monday, 9 January 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
Georgie Born out of Henry Cow and Olivia Newton-John were cousins.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 9 January 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
Dolly Parton is the godmother of Miley Cyrus.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
That Al Franken is one of the gorilla transporting guys in Trading Places.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
Just now, and I have owned both for decades:
"From nearly 50 years I own the albums, I never noticed this continuity between the two albums covers..."
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/325128010_4192419900982537_506495545880088972_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=r-56ozKQgusAX8wd09f&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfB3pbDraO7EfMP4UmCh8XIEwY5bgml9GzbFm_GFcR3iJA&oe=63C2C91E
― nickn, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 22:14 (one year ago) link
that's a new one to me too, wow!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
OK my mind is blown to its foundations now
― moving on from the Corby 4400 era (Matt #2), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
this. changes. everything
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
They are bboth by the same artist Roger Dean who Yes discovered through Osibisa.So maybe it's intentional or maybe he was using the same art set up so had similar things likely to coincide. Not sure what else he had running across both sides of a gatefold.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link