The Crabtree side and the Evelyn side
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 7 February 2019 04:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― JRN, Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:43 (five years ago) link
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 Permalinkhmmm 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
― 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!
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 7 February 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
He's being sarcastic and rueful about it.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:18 (five years ago) link
That Tomorrow's World isn't on any more.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
It's called "The Today Programme" now.
― Tim, Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
Actor/voice artist/ventriloquist Paul Winchell created one of the first artificial hearts and held several other medical patents.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
Whoa! Tigger? Gargamel? Will have to read more about that.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
He invented the heart with Dr. Henry Heimlich, of the maneuver fame!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 February 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
hey anagram it.. kind of is?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05h5sw6/episodes/downloads
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 7 February 2019 07:41 (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fair argument
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
also i watched oliviers capering through this on youtube last night after reading that and its such funnnnn
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
That Chevy Chase is a nickname that stems from an old ballad and that Chevy Chase is a place in Maryland too.
― Alba, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
Something to do with a fox or hare hunt in the Cheviots? Guessing here.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
the guy from Der Himmel Über Berlin is also Hitler - somehow I never put 2 & 2 together
― StanM, Saturday, 16 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Anne Baxter was Frank Lloyd Wright's granddaughter.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 February 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
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.)
― circles, Sunday, 17 February 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Sunday, 17 February 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
5The 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.
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.
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Sunday, 17 February 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
there is also the Pantheon, in Paris, not sure how that fits in..https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthéon
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 February 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
I always thought Chevy Chase was a kind of car :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
Now that is a winner!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
Wait wait I mean, I knew who Chevy Chase was, lol. I meant I thought his name was a nickname after a car.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
Still a winner
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
That Rufus of Rufus & Chaka Khan was a band not a man.
― Alba, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 07:31 (five years ago) link
Wow.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
I think it evolved out of the American Breed. Had some of the same players at least.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
I would say the same about Portugal. The Man but...
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
Yeah, for the longest time I wondered what Rufus Khan had been up to since he'd inadvisably split with Chaka. TBF, it seems almost deliberately misleading.
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
without ever looking it up til now, i always assumed it had something to do with stax records' rufus thomas. so i wondered a few minutes ago if it was an homage or something. wrong again.
"They re-emerged in 1969 under the name "Smoke". In 1970, after switching their management to Bob Monaco and Bill Traut, the group's name changed again to "Ask Rufus", the name is taken from the title of the advice column in Mechanics Illustrated. "
― andrew m., Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
fr wiki
― andrew m., Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
Nothing deliberate about it (leave alone “misleading”), they were always a band, and were known as such. When they became famous through their songs with Chaka, they were billed as “Rufus featuring Chaka (Khan)”. Only when Chaka had become a star in her own right (as well), they became “Rufus & Chaka (Khan)”, but the album sleeves still clearly featured the whole band. I doubt that anyone at the time was picturing a “Rufus Khan”.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
― Alba, Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:31 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i had a recent, similar revelation about Tony Orlando & Dawn
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
chaka and the rufii
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
I doubt that anyone at the time was picturing a “Rufus Khan”.
if you were a child listening to the radio in your parents' car, or to the announcer at the ice rink, and not browsing LP sleeves from decades earlier in America, you were absolutely capable of picturing this
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
“from decades earlier”? I said “at the time”. And sure, a young kid will picture all kinds of stuff in its mind, but I was responding to the suggestion it might have a been a “deliberately misleading” name. It wasn’t.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
1970 might as well be decades earlier in the 1980s, when you have not been alive for even one decade
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
I for one welcome our new policy of rigorously factchecking every Old Lunch post, though.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
Nooooooooo
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
FACT CHECK: yes.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
fact check the phrase “at the time”
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
you realise that, jokes aside, you are the one telling both OL and myself that we DIDN’T think Rufus was a person AT THE TIME, because we learnt years later that it was a band
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
this is classic ilx
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
and that records from 1970 still existed in 1976 and 1983 and 1988 and 2017
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
jim otm
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
breastcrawl would be shocked and amazed by the casual misconceptions about all kinds of things you can overhear in public
and half the time, it's not worth jumping in to correct them
I still feel bad that I even got into a discussion when I was around a group watching live U2 concert on television and I felt the need to correct a couple misconceptions. like, somehow there was an impression that "the Edge" had a real name of Brian Eno
long story short, I ended up in a discussion about U2 and still regret that
― mh, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
correct a couple misconceptions. like, somehow there was an impression that "the Edge" had a real name of Brian Eno
no, this is true, it's why he wears a hat and a silly beard to disguise himself
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
my plausible misconception has been corrected
― mh, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
or maybe you could just read what I wrote (like my words in their context) instead of what you think I wrote. (Is unmisconceptionalize a verb?)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
see, the thing about words is what you mean to convey and what you actually convey depends on the audience's reception, context, etc.
and everyone else on the thread is like "whoa, why did that guy jump on Old Lunch's humorous musings about whether something was 'deliberate'" because in context we know he's jokey and implying a conspiracy is the type of joke
so that's the context you kind of jumped into, literally disputing something that -- at least to me -- was an ambiguous statement meant in jest
― mh, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link