Ralph Bates, star of various 70s Hammer movies and well known face on British TV, was the great-great-grandson of Louis Pasteur.
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Friday, 22 December 2023 19:29 (four months ago) link
... apt because he played both Victor Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll, slightly less respectable scientists than his great-great-grandfather.
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Friday, 22 December 2023 19:31 (four months ago) link
Legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins shot Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 23 December 2023 17:25 (four months ago) link
Oooo
― blurbing about music in architecture magazines (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 23 December 2023 17:42 (four months ago) link
It’s not Celcie Ville, it’s Selsey Bill
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 11:17 (four months ago) link
As noted by Madness in "Driving In My Car".
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 11:47 (four months ago) link
I have only just now cottoned on to the fact that there are two Wahlbergs, Mark and Donnie, and they're different people. I think that every time I saw the name I thought "oh, that Wahlberg guy" and forgot about it. How wrong I was!
― 1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Friday, 29 December 2023 03:11 (four months ago) link
they were in two different musical groups too
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 December 2023 15:06 (four months ago) link
one lit a carpet on fire once
Which one did the underwear ads? I'm betting it was Mark.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 December 2023 15:08 (four months ago) link
yup. he was pretty jacked at the time
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 December 2023 15:09 (four months ago) link
that the dipper of Big Dipper fame is one of these:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dipper_%28PSF%29.png/1280px-Dipper_%28PSF%29.png
and not one of these:
https://www.scepter.com/media/rxindyvg/1gal-gas-1003-375_375-px.jpg
― budo jeru, Friday, 29 December 2023 20:15 (four months ago) link
TIL that some people call gas cans dippers
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 29 December 2023 21:36 (four months ago) link
not me. i just thought that's what the shape looked like, and i could imagine a "dipping" motion of putting gas in your car with one, so ...
― budo jeru, Friday, 29 December 2023 21:37 (four months ago) link
I lit a carpet on fire once. and my real name is one of those. am I secretly a Wahlberg?
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 29 December 2023 22:57 (four months ago) link
TBH until reasonably recently i thought the Big Dipper was based off
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/SLNSW_23962_Hollywood_Hotel_girls_at_Luna_Park_taken_for_Fullers_Theatres_Ltd.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 December 2023 23:10 (four months ago) link
nkotb vs funky bunch in white boy steroid dance off
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:17 (four months ago) link
Donnie Poo doxxed
― bae (sic), Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:38 (four months ago) link
Today I learned the guitar parts for the Cure’s “Other Voices”. I’m 53. I’ve wanted to play it since I was 16. Also, now I know why I love the broken chord shapes I typically play, they are all over that album and Seventeen Seconds.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 30 December 2023 09:50 (four months ago) link
Yes those chords are deliciously weird.
Note that Smith has also known to tune a little bit off, intentionally. Not like tuning everything down a specific amount - he wants it wrong, on purpose.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:48 (four months ago) link
I've long been perplexed and intrigued by the obscure slur "butterface," but never actually knew what it meant. I enjoyed trying to determine what about someone's face would remind someone of butter. I mentioned this to a female friend recently, in the context of wondering why there's never been a band, to my knowledge, called Butterface, and she incredulously explained the origin of the word and let me tell you a small part of me died right there
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 December 2023 00:37 (four months ago) link
Tip, in the sense of a gratuity, was originally an acronym ('to insure promptitude')
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 31 December 2023 03:32 (four months ago) link
The meaning "give a gratuity to" is first attested 1706.
The popularity of the tale of the word's supposed origin as an acronym in mid-18th century English taverns seems to be no older than Frederick W. Hackwood's 1909 book "Inns, Ales and Drinking Customs of Old England," where it was said to stand for To insure promptitude
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 31 December 2023 04:04 (four months ago) link
Don't blame me, blame the New Yorker factcheckers!
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 31 December 2023 08:47 (four months ago) link
I've heard so many fake acronym stories (posh, golf etc) that I'm immediately doubting this. I was once on a pleasure boat on the Thames where the tour guide proudly explained to us that "wharf" was an acronym for "warehouse at riverfront".
― fetter, Sunday, 31 December 2023 10:35 (four months ago) link
print the legend (to insure promptitude)
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 31 December 2023 10:43 (four months ago) link
"Cabal" is another fakeronym.
Someone in my orbit once speculated that sic (Latin for "thus") stands for "spelling is correct."
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2023 12:04 (four months ago) link
Well in my defence, I read it in the latest New Yorker feature about tipping, and just assumed with their legendary factchecking that it was correct...
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 31 December 2023 12:38 (four months ago) link
Both parts of Dick Tracy's name tying into police work. & him having had the possibilityof being called Plainclothes Tracy before they picked Dick.
One of a number of facts that I got out of a book on American Comic Strip Artists I've been reading.Bit of a struggle since it's very oversize.
― Stevo, Sunday, 31 December 2023 16:17 (four months ago) link
the in situ statue at mt. rushmore has a name which is “shrine of democracy.”i mean many points re the controversy of its existence are mostly known by me. i just didn’t know it had a name and yet how could it not
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 January 2024 19:18 (four months ago) link
Bit of a struggle since it's very oversize.
nice
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 14:48 (four months ago) link
Seemed to reproducecomic strip pages at close to original size which meant book was unwieldy.So not sure what ideal setting for reading it would be. Reading room somewhere.Had some very good stuff in plus biographies of the artists.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 19:01 (four months ago) link
Recently learned those ‘stories’ on Instagram and Facebook allow the creator to see who viewed them.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 19:56 (four months ago) link
Stories is such a bad feature
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 20:05 (four months ago) link
burrito = little burro
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:32 (four months ago) link
i love that one. and "taco" means "wad"
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:33 (four months ago) link
shoot your taco
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:35 (four months ago) link
which is funny because the modern burrito is not a small meal. Still small compared to an actual burro, though.
― bendy, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:36 (four months ago) link
it's called that because the burrito transports the ingredients like a donkey hauls goods ...
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:41 (four months ago) link
"taco" means "wad"
Huh. I am pretty fluent in Spanish, and I always assumed the word came from tacón, which means "heel." This made sense to me, as the shape of the folded tortilla is kind of like a shoe or boot heel.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:50 (four months ago) link
just figured out, like 2 days ago, that the lyrics are "highway to the danger zone"(until then, thought they were "I went to to the danger zone")― homosexual II, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:03 PM (fifteen years ago)
(until then, thought they were "I went to to the danger zone")
― homosexual II, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:03 PM (fifteen years ago)
I didn't see this part of the thread until today...
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 18:00 (four months ago) link
Karel Reisz was one of the children rescued by Nicholas Winton from the Nazis.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:48 (three months ago) link
So I knew that James Taylor sang on "Back in the High Life Again," but did not know that the lyrics are by Will Jennings and that it was subsequently recorded by Warren Zevon.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:55 (three months ago) link
Only recently learned that the entire order of carnivora is broken down into the suborders of feliformia and caniformia — cat-animals and dog-animals. This doesn't actually account for all carnivores (bears and others are in other orders), but I hadn't realized that cats and dogs are such a literal binary split in taxonomy. Also how are there not metal bands named feliformia or caniformia?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:08 (three months ago) link
Oops I take that back, bears actually are caniforms.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:16 (three months ago) link
Makes sense since Caniformia is The Bear State.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:19 (three months ago) link
At a minimum Snoop Dogg should make an album called Caniformia.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:20 (three months ago) link
So I knew that James Taylor sang on "Back in the High Life Again"
Same tune as Steve Winwood?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:33 (three months ago) link
Yes, Winwoid. Taylor sang harmony and you can kind of hear it. A departure for Winwood, who tended to do everything himself prior to that record.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 January 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link
Steve Winwoid is the New Jersey Steve Winwood
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:16 (three months ago) link