Guy Pratt chiming in to confirm they were all his dad's!
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 5 February 2023 12:17 (one year ago) link
The expression “va-va-va voom” can be traced back to Art Carney, who said it on TV in 1949
― Josefa, Sunday, 5 February 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
!
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
Although I can hear him say it.
The word "glamour" originates from Scotland.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 6 February 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
Up there with "Drambuie" as things often erroneously assumed and pronounced as French, in certain places at least.
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 6 February 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
glamour and (related) gramarye are both scottish -- the first popularised by walter scott -- but their shared root is old french gramaire (meaning learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo) from latin grammatica
― mark s, Monday, 6 February 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo
my major in college
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 6 February 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
And here I thought it was something to do with the thane of Glamis
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 February 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
Carb Rangoon, things of that bat
_learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo_my major in college
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 February 2023 23:30 (one year ago) link
Yeesh zing c’mon man
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 February 2023 23:31 (one year ago) link
What I always think of when I hear the word glamour:
'I went to the l-l-library and l-looked it uh-uh-up,' Bill said. 'I think It's a gluh-gluh' — hepaused, throat straining, and spat it out — 'a glamour.' 'Glammer?' Eddie asked doubtfully. 'G-G-Glamour,' Bill said, and spelled it. He told them about an encyclopedia entry on thesubject and, a chapter he had read in a book called Night's Truth. Glamour, he said, was theGaelic name for the creature which was haunting Derry; other races and other cultures atother times had different words for it, but they all meant the same thing. The Plains Indianscalled it a manitou, which sometimes took the shape of a mountain-lion or an elk or an eagle.These same Indians believed that the spirit of a manitou could sometimes enter them, and atthese times it was possible for them to shape the clouds themselves into representations ofthose animals for which their houses had been named. The Himalayans called it a tallus ortaelus, which meant an evil magic being that could read your mind and then assume the shapeof the thing you were most afraid of. In Central Europe it had been called eylak, brother ofthe vurderlak, or vampire. In France it was le loup-garou, or skin-changer, a concept that hadbeen crudely translated as the werewolf, but, Bill told them, le loup-garou (which hepronounced 'le loop-garoo') could be anything, anything at all: a wolf, a hawk, a sheep, evena bug.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link
I think of the novel by Christopher Priest.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
I read that NME C86 is short for class of 86 and not as I thought a play on C90 cassette tapes. Mind blown if true.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
https://www.ft.com/content/830fe611-602d-4f54-b4c3-11b18d0d7d98
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
Nah it was named after C81 which was 81 minutes long
― Tim, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
Happily I can’t see FT articles
― Tim, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
https://archive.is/ZRwBe
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
The term vegan was invented in Leicester in 1944.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
I literally just found out what ICYMI means.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link
i guess YMI
― na (NA), Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:52 (one year ago) link
It's like it's something I saw for years but never took any notice of so it became almost invisible.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
i did think for a while it was cleverer than it is. "i see you...", er, M I
― koogs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
"i see why..." obv
― koogs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
I think for a while I conflated "I can't believe it's yogurt," "I can't believe it's not butter," and "The Country's Best Yogurt" with various piles of initials like TCBY ICBINY ICBINB YMMV ICYMI AIUI etc.
When I see ICYMI I have a tough time believing that it has nothing to do with yogurt,
Your yogurt may vary.
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 February 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
MTG probably thinks TCBY = "These Cucks Brought Yogurt"
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
Good frozen yoghurt
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
TCBY actually originally stood for This Can't Be Yogurt, then they retconned it to mean The Country's Best Yogurt.
I remember a few kids in my fourth grade class getting into an argument about which it meant.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
The word derives from Latin harena, a particularly fine-grained sand
I'm guessing (without looking it up) that Spanish word harina (flour) derives from the same word.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/AnUYgP8.jpg
TCBY used to be have its name on the tallest building in Arkansas.
They're still around, but now HQ'ed in Salt Lake City — which, believe me, is completely on-brand for them.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
TCBM
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
"It's fun to eat at the T C B Y ..."
Actually I assumed it was Taking Care of Business yoghurt.
― nickn, Thursday, 9 February 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
If the company was founded with current nutritional guidance, I guess it would be This Cant Be Plant-Based Yogurt.
― bendy, Thursday, 9 February 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
it’s fun to eat at the Y
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
Nina Simone’s birth name was Eunice Waymon.
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:49 (one year ago) link
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, February 9, 2023 10:36 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
They Could Be Midgets
― budo jeru, Friday, 10 February 2023 04:48 (one year ago) link
Had a fakebook when I was a kid with 'Mull of Kintyre' in it. Wasn't until I saw the video a couple of years ago that I realized Mull of Kintyre is a geologic feature in a geographical location, and not a unit of material like a ball of wax.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 10 February 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
TIL it's not a person (like Martin Mull, c'mon).
― nickn, Saturday, 11 February 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link
yup i thought it was a problematic person from kintyre wherever that is
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 11 February 2023 03:25 (one year ago) link
what's a fakebook
― more crankable (sic), Saturday, 11 February 2023 04:38 (one year ago) link
a book of sheet music that helps you “fake it” like you know how to play it, usually with just the main chords and melody sketched out
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 February 2023 09:41 (one year ago) link
eventually a fakebook of standards called “the real book” got made and was passed around via photocopy, and it was like the ur-text for anybody who wanted to get up to speed with jazz classicshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Book
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 February 2023 09:44 (one year ago) link
Mull of Kintyre was one of the first songs in the first guitar method book I got when I started guitar lessons in sixth grade. I hate it so much.
― peace, man, Saturday, 11 February 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link
fake it till you like it
― mark s, Saturday, 11 February 2023 12:19 (one year ago) link
Love the mull misunderstandings.You should've mulled it over a bit more...
― kinder, Saturday, 11 February 2023 12:40 (one year ago) link
Yeah my dad had a million fake books, which is how he knew so many songs to play around the campfire.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
Paul McCartney's haircuts from about 1979 through 1989 could be described as...
Wait for it...
Mullet of Kintyre
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 11 February 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
I always think of Tom Ewing at Popular:
This has the slightly dubious distinction of being the first record I ever disliked. I barely knew about records at all, I was four and three quarters: so my cynicism started early, if you like. This one was inescapable – number one for nine weeks, two million sold, flattening the opposition through Christmas ’77 and then on into ’78. I didn’t know what number ones were but I guess I just got bored of “Mull” being around, its comforting lullaby sway pushing into even our pop-free household*. I remember not being able to figure out what a Mull was, or a Kintyre: I’d been reading the Hobbit, and the Narnia books, so I reckoned it was an honorific, like King, or Tarkaan. And this dark haired guy singing it, he’d be the Mull, then?
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 11 February 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
TIL that sometimes doctors use maggots to treat wounds
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 February 2023 06:38 (one year ago) link
and leeches are great for taking down traumatic bruising!
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 12 February 2023 06:48 (one year ago) link