Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Usual pronunciation more like VAY-cnt

I was about 8 when it was released and we took great delight singing that way in the playground; always assumed it was deliberate on JL's part.

I've always believed it was, he loves spitting out that syllable

today I accidentally found out how to do emoji on my phone keyboard

seven years ago I think you still had to install an app to get emoji

That it’s Gil Scott-Heron saying “you know when you’ve been tangoed” in the UK soft drink advert

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyWRm4lV4AA6CDC.jpg:large

wait what xp

i just googled that i would've sworn he was joking

[voiceover]: He was not joking

Yeah that is an amazing nugget of knowledge to learn after all these years

I had to check too. Sounds like one of those apocryphal stories, like Bob Holness playing sax on Baker Street.

Mind blown.

The revolution will be tangoed

That has definitely replace his dad playing for Celtic in the Unlikely Facts About Gil Scott-Heron league table.

that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.

Robbie Robertson, the senior African American editor in the Daily Bugle, is played in the Sam Raimi films by Bill Nunn, who played Radio Raheem.

that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.

this is sort of like how “wherefore art though romeo” doesn’t mean “dude i can’t find you”

Wow I had no idea about that discontent thing that is wild

That it’s Gil Scott-Heron saying “you know when you’ve been tangoed” in the UK soft drink advert

― gray say nah to me (wins), Sunday, February 3, 2019 10:52 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wooooah

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York

i.e.: "Now, the winter of our discontent is made glorious summer by this sun of York", "now" is not the subject of the sentence at all though it appeared to be

Next you'll tell us that "kill all the lawyers" isn't intended as good advice.

that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:41 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm but listen isnt the thrust rather a complaint tho

The Disney live action movie The Gnome-Mobile was based on a story by Upton Sinclair

The founder of Crabtree and Evelyn was also the founder of Janus Films.

wuuuuuut?!?!
that's crazy!

it's like there were two completely different sides to that man

nicely done

^^

The Crabtree side and the Evelyn side

That the hip-hop producer Rockwilder's name is a play on "rottweiler".

I didn't actually read that anywhere, it just occurred to me suddenly.

that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:41 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm but listen isnt the thrust rather a complaint tho

― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, February 7, 2019 1:16 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It turns quickly enough to unattained personal ambition, sure, but on a surface reading the "our" there refers clearly enough to the York fortune as a whole, in which case the next line flips this one -- though reading it with a flavour of the "royal we" yields a nice foreshadowing too, yeah!

He's being sarcastic and rueful about it.

That Tomorrow's World isn't on any more.

It's called "The Today Programme" now.

Actor/voice artist/ventriloquist Paul Winchell created one of the first artificial hearts and held several other medical patents.

Whoa! Tigger? Gargamel? Will have to read more about that.

He invented the heart with Dr. Henry Heimlich, of the maneuver fame!

hey anagram it.. kind of is?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05h5sw6/episodes/downloads

It turns quickly enough to unattained personal ambition, sure, but on a surface reading the "our" there refers clearly enough to the York fortune as a whole, in which case the next line flips this one -- though reading it with a flavour of the "royal we" yields a nice foreshadowing too, yeah!

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 7 February 2019 07:41 (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fair argument

also i watched oliviers capering through this on youtube last night after reading that and its such funnnnn

That Chevy Chase is a nickname that stems from an old ballad and that Chevy Chase is a place in Maryland too.

Something to do with a fox or hare hunt in the Cheviots? Guessing here.

the guy from Der Himmel Über Berlin is also Hitler - somehow I never put 2 & 2 together

Anne Baxter was Frank Lloyd Wright's granddaughter.

sabra is not just a brand of hummus, but also a term for israeli jews born in israel.
(also, it's from the hebrew word for prickly pear cactus, which is native to north america, not israel.)

That Chevy Chase is a nickname that stems from an old ballad and that Chevy Chase is a place in Maryland too.

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The concept of the Hall of Fame has its roots in ancient Norse mythology. Valhalla was an enormous hall in Asgard where warriors who were slain in battle would go upon their death.

King Ludwig I of Bavaria was apparently inspired by this legend, and built two different halls inspired by the Norse legend: Walhalla near Regensburg, Bavaria (completed in 1842), and the Ruhmeshalle in Munich (completed in 1853), whose name literally means "Hall of Fame." These halls were museums containing plaques and statues of important German-speaking people, including scientists, artists, and politicians.

there is also the Pantheon, in Paris, not sure how that fits in..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthéon

I always thought Chevy Chase was a kind of car :/

Now that is a winner!