The evil Nazi in Raiders of the lost ark is the same actor as the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells from Blackadder. WTF.
ha, incredible
― nashwan, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 12:01 (one year ago) link
Thora Hird was Mel Tormé’s mother-in-law for a decade in the ‘60s and ‘70s!
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
Despite having listened to it literally hundreds of times from the age of 12 and up, this morning was afaict the first time I realized that Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Maker" is just an exaggerated play on saying "Jamaica."
This is up there (or down there) with me somehow only recognizing "Rubber Soul" as a pun a few years ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 12:17 (one year ago) link
I'm assuming it's from the extremely old joke about someone's wife going to the West Indies.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I dunno! I think that's what I'd always heard, but I have no idea what the joke is. But I heard a DJ say it this morning and it just clicked. "D'yer Maker." "Jer-maker." "Jamaica."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
Jokes you were shockingly old when you heard
― Alba, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
It's:
My wife went on holiday to the West IndiesJamaica?No she went of her own accord
― Alba, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
My wife went on holiday to the West IndiesJamaica?No, Turks and Caicos Islands
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
I forced my wife to go to the Caribbean Jamaica?That’s right, Jamaica.
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
My wife went on holiday to the West Indies.Jamaica?Yes, but she Haiti’d it.
― Wile E. Galore (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
I called it Dyer Maker right up until the day I started doing night work at the classic rock station.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
The callers on the request line called it the one that went OH Oh Oh-oh-oh Oh OH.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
My wife went on holiday to the West Indies.Jamaica?Sure, put it on! I love Led Zeppelin!
― Josefa, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
(In fact we can listen to the whole album, the wife won't be back for a week)
― Josefa, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
No, we didn't even sign a non-disclosure agreeement
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
Other Zeppelin pun titles you might have missed if you didn't notice the apostrophe:
"No Quart 'er""Gallow's Pole""The Battle of Ev 'er More""The Rov 'er""Tramp 'led Und 'er Foot""Walt 'er's Walk"
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
"Bron-Y-Aur? I hardly know 'er!"
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
Little-known zepfact: John Bonham once vomited in a hotel stairwell and it inspired "Stairway to Heavin'"
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
a fan that attended the drama program at Carnegie Mellon that Plant befriended on a US tour was the inspiration for "Danson Days"
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
The Jamaica in New York is etymologically unrelated to the Caribbean island
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
John Bonham once vomited in a hotel stairwell
Just once?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
― Stoop Crone (Trayce),
Because he looked slightly Asian to my 10-year-old eyes, I thought he was a Japanese ally of the Nazis lol. Of course, these countries didn't sign the Tripartite Pact for another three years.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
I was 40 something years old when I realised that in this scene he's just a hat on a stick
Yup. My favorite RAIDERS cheat is how they dealt with an absent Ronald Lacey at the end of the truck chase. Looks almost like it’s just Toht’s hat and coat and not much else. pic.twitter.com/hmTV9wRMQj— Charles de Lauzirika (@Lauzirika) June 14, 2018
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zxBiY0_BBw
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 March 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgbC2qYzjQg
― Wile E. Galore (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
as it is De La Soul Day, I just realized Trugoy is yogurt spelled backwards.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 March 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
Pos is Sound Sop!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 March 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, March 3, 2023 4:49 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao, nice find! i didn't know this either.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 4 March 2023 03:32 (one year ago) link
That Pictures at an Exhibition was actually written as a piano piece, and the orchestral version everyone knows was adapted by Ravel.
― cb: pugh, pugh, barney mcgrew; lb: cuthbert; rb: dibble; cm: grub (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link
Didja get Posdnuos too?
― pplains, Saturday, 4 March 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
Squirrels are omnivores.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 March 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
Queen Victoria was the first person ever to be called Victoria in the UK.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
That‘s amazing. Have also heard that there were more or less no girls named Wendy before J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
Yes. Fun fact: if she had been born a decade earlier she would have simply been called "Queeny Spice."
jk
I used to work for an eccentric old woman named Christine Stevens. Her husband owned the Empire State Building, ran Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign, and founded both the National Book Awards and the Kennedy Center. She knew Marc Chagall and Andrew Wyeth. Long story.
Anyway, she was born in 1918, so she was 80-ish when we met. "Christine," as a first name, was rare at that time - its popularity is a mid-20th century. She was probably the oldest Christine in the country.
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
This seems too bizarre to be true, but it is. He was an Air Force radio operator stationed in Germany. He told me and my siblings about it many times over our lives. https://t.co/yJXi8LZYaj— . (@rosannecash) March 7, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
He shot a man in Moscow
just to watch him die
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
From that day forward, he wore black.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
red ryder, this is the cotton mouthand negatory on the survival of the premier there red ryder
― andrew m., Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
Always to remind ourselves that Stalin's granddaughter is a punker and lives in Portland
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/17/12/32470B7200000578-3496532-Relief_In_August_she_wrote_it_had_been_a_year_since_she_was_diag-a-20_1458216520231.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
He shot defenestrated a man in Moscow
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
This was several years ago now, but I was still "shockingly old" to have learned how "tinnitus" was pronounced.
My entire life, everyone I knew pronounced it as "TI-NIGHT-TUS" and it was only my wife's doctor pronouncing it, correctly, or so I'm told, as "TINN-IT-US".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
Tomayto-Tinnitus
I think both are more or less accepted, or at least I hear both used
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I've since read that both are acceptable, but it was still a bit of a surprise to hear.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:05 PM
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:15 PM
I can't hear anything because of all the tinnitus.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
my left ear 24/7/365 - not just loud live music over the years, but the drum was punctured by a yew tree branch, and I had a tropical fungal infection.. I'm surprised I can even hear the ringing anymore
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
yore eere has lived a wild life!
i just learned that new zealand has almost zero native mammals! something like 3 species of bat before the māori brought over rats and dogs. that seems like something i shld have known!!
their only other mammal was someone called "saint bathans mammal" back in the mists of fossilized time,
notable for being a late-surviving "archaic" mammal species, neither a placental nor a marsupial
― the royal y'all (cat), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
“tin-eye-tus” is not acceptable and not correct fyi
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
The record label EmArcy comes from MRC — Mercury Record Company.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
I was in my 30s before I learned that the record label K7! is pronounced "cassette" in French
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
oooh, good one!
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link