Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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My wife went on holiday to the West Indies
Jamaica?
No she went of her own accord

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies
Jamaica?
No, Turks and Caicos Islands

I forced my wife to go to the Caribbean
Jamaica?
That’s right, Jamaica.

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies.
Jamaica?
Yes, but she Haiti’d it.

I called it Dyer Maker right up until the day I started doing night work at the classic rock station.

The callers on the request line called it the one that went OH Oh Oh-oh-oh Oh OH.

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies.
Jamaica?
Sure, put it on! I love Led Zeppelin!

(In fact we can listen to the whole album, the wife won't be back for a week)

No, we didn't even sign a non-disclosure agreeement

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"

"Bron-Y-Aur? I hardly know 'er!"

Little-known zepfact: John Bonham once vomited in a hotel stairwell and it inspired "Stairway to Heavin'"

a fan that attended the drama program at Carnegie Mellon that Plant befriended on a US tour was the inspiration for "Danson Days"

The Jamaica in New York is etymologically unrelated to the Caribbean island

John Bonham once vomited in a hotel stairwell

Just once?

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.

― 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.

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

Little-known zepfact: John Bonham once vomited in a hotel stairwell and it inspired "Stairway to Heavin'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zxBiY0_BBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgbC2qYzjQg

as it is De La Soul Day, I just realized Trugoy is yogurt spelled backwards.

Pos is Sound Sop!

as it is De La Soul Day, I just realized Trugoy is yogurt spelled backwards.

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, March 3, 2023 4:49 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao, nice find! i didn't know this either.

That Pictures at an Exhibition was actually written as a piano piece, and the orchestral version everyone knows was adapted by Ravel.

Didja get Posdnuos too?

Squirrels are omnivores.

Queen Victoria was the first person ever to be called Victoria in the UK.

That‘s amazing. Have also heard that there were more or less no girls named Wendy before J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.

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.

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

He shot a man in Moscow

just to watch him die

From that day forward, he wore black.

red ryder, this is the cotton mouth
and negatory on the survival of the premier there red ryder

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

He shot defenestrated a man in Moscow

just to watch him die

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".

Tomayto-Tinnitus

I think both are more or less accepted, or at least I hear both used

Yeah, I've since read that both are acceptable, but it was still a bit of a surprise to hear.

I think both are more or less accepted, or at least I hear both used

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:05 PM

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, March 7, 2023 2:15 PM

I can't hear anything because of all the tinnitus.

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

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

“tin-eye-tus” is not acceptable and not correct fyi

The record label EmArcy comes from MRC — Mercury Record Company.

I was in my 30s before I learned that the record label K7! is pronounced "cassette" in French

oooh, good one!

Operation Barbarossa - the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union - involved 600,000 horses

The pronunciation of forecastle

always good to come across the word "foc's'le" whilst reading

tracer hand otm
and while we're on the subject, I try to share this every time it's mentioned near me: it's possible to have a respite from tinnitus by putting your hands over your ears, fingers toward the back (like a "perp walk" hands on head, but with the palms covering your ears). While keeping your hands there, drum your fingers rapidly on the back of your head for 30s to a minute. Lift your hands off, and hopefully enjoy a little silence.

I remember reading how expensive it was to stage a military campaign on horseback in medieval times in a book on that time which presumably doesn't change much when moved forward to the 20th century. Possibly much easier to transport horses on other transport for teh bulk of teh distance so less food/other maintenance. But 600,000 horses is an expense in itself.
That is just a number and doesn't say where they were coming from and needing to be moved to to take part. But daily maintenance is pretty high anyway.
I think medieval era would be ship to bulkhead point and then overland under own steam. 700 or whatever years later you do have train and plane though not sure if latter would have been used at all. Not sure how they respond to flight. Also lorry of course..
But food, some place to house etc etc is a logistic.

Horses can double as food of course.