Pretty much, except the 'r' isn't silent (rhotic English and all that).
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
Jagwaaaar
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 5 July 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
OK, wow, I just listened to UK and Australian pronunciations of "jaguar" on Forvo. That one I did not know.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 5 July 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
many an NFL commentator pronounces it 'jagwire' which I would not recommend
― Josefa, Friday, 5 July 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Technically we're all mangling the original Old Tupi pronunciation, so…
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 July 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
OK, wow, I just listened to UK and Australian pronunciations of "jaguar" on Forvo. That one I did not know.― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, July 5, 2019 3:39 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, July 5, 2019 3:39 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
You're the ones saying it weird, wow
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 5 July 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
How do you pronounce "guano"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 July 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
Guay-noh
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 July 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Jk
trying to figure out how "guitar" fits into this
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 July 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
I play the gee-you-it-are
― Οὖτις, Friday, 5 July 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
ah, so that's how Gwar got their name
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 5 July 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Guava?
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 5 July 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
Elvis presley was introduced on TV by Charles Laughton because Ed Sullivan had recently had a nasty car crash.Just heard that a couple of minutes ago.
― Stevolende, Friday, 5 July 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
That seems like a great set up for the Mandela effect, given how iconic and historically significant Elvis' Sullivan appearances are and that people have vivid reference points for Sullivan intros (Beatles most prominently). I wonder how many people would swear up and down that they distinctly remember Sullivan introducing Elvis' first appearance.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 5 July 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Spent time with my anxiety ridden agoraphobic father in law which means sitting around watching weird classic rock performance from PBS on his dvr.This taught me that the guy who sang “Hang On Sloopy” was Rick Derringer of “Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo” fame which led to learning that he co-wrote “Real American”, the Hulk Hogan entry song and also played guitar on a bunch of Steely Dan songs as well as “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and Air Supply’s “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All”, produced a bunch of Weird Al albums, used to hang out with Andy Warhol, and is now a right wing nut job.
― joygoat, Friday, 5 July 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Elvis presley was introduced on TV by Charles Laughton because Ed Sullivan had recently had a nasty car crash.
When Lennon/McCartney appeared on "The Tonight Show", Joe Garagiola was sitting in for Johnny.
― pplains, Friday, 5 July 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
Thread trending towards “trivia nobody cares about at any age”
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 July 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
Funny thing about Joe Garagiola, he grew up across the street from none other than Yogi Berra (who was also a baseball catcher.)
― pplains, Saturday, 6 July 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
what a Mandela effect is
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 July 2019 01:58 (four years ago) link
(It seems like a kind of dumb phenomenon tbh?)
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 July 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link
It kinda just occurred to me that in the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's quest to get home takes on extra poignancy because in the frame story, she's living with her aunt and uncle. What happened to her parents is unclear.
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 6 July 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
Same goes for the Baader-Meinhof effect, which is doubly irritating when you're familiar with the tale of the Red Army Faction. Kind of like being fluent in German and watching Hitler's Downfall memes.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
I just learned what that is now too (the 'effect', not the Baader-Meinhof gang, which I did know about ofc.) That just seems like a new term for a common psychological phenomenon, though, right? Is anyone claiming that the recency illusion is evidence of something of greater significance? Mandela Effect people seem to think that it means something that a bunch of them made the same dumb mistake, that this is possibly even evidence of parallel universes.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 July 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
Mandela Effect truthers are one of the stupider species of crazy, it’s not just that they’ve constructed a wacky sci-fi narrative just to avoid admitting their own fallibility but the reality-shattering plot is constructed almost exclusively of banal, inconsequential pop culture garbage. These morons are going all Keanu whoa at commonly misquoted movie lines and children’s authors with slight variant spellings on their surnames, funnily enough the chilling goings-on at cern haven’t affected anything that actually mattersThe exception to that obviously is the paradigmatic case, which is even more annoying if anything cause it’s just Americans stubbornly clinging to their racism and myopia. The ppl who “remember” Mandela dying in the 80s never come across as being really on the ball when it comes to international events (or anything else lol)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
Is there a database anywhere where you can list all your dumb mistakes and see if anyone else thought them too, so they can be Offically Mandela Effect? e.g I was convinced Patricia Routledge had died some time before she had
^^ I just wrote that and then checked and she hasn't even died lol
― kinder, Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
There’s a subreddit dedicated to cataloguing them, you can post the thing you misremembered and then someone who earnestly believes that a different black celebrity than they thought starring in a shitty movie is a sign of the end times will be like “that’s not a real ME you idiot, you’re just wrong”
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
They should've dubbed it the Shazaam effect instead.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I mentioned the paradigmatic case on the IA thread:
Like, a bunch of non-South Africans mixing up Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko is not a supernatural phenomenon.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
Or the berenstain effect, I feel like that’s the most famous one still xp
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
William Shakespeare's extant handwritten signatures are another obvious instance of time travel:
Willm ShakpWilliam ShaksperWm ShakspeWilliam ShakspereWillm ShakspereWilliam Shakspeare
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
That only four companies account for the manufacture of truck cabs for virtually all semis on US highways, and only one, Volvo, also makes cars.
This may be a less than common piece of knowledge, but what shocked me was how little attention I've paid until recently to the nameplates of the countless 18-wheeler beasts I encounter while driving, other than the attention required to avoid getting crushed by them. (By the trucks, not their nameplates.)
― punning display, Saturday, 6 July 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
I should perpetuate the Shazaam Effect by saying our next-door neighbor drove a Mack Roda sedan back in the late 70s, but I haven't seen one since.
― pplains, Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
John McEnroe has a stepdaughter whose father is Richard Hell!
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
the Everly Brothers are not brothers
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
i will never be old enough to learn that
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Nor were the walker brothers
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Please don’t break my heart re Ed and Tom Chemical
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
Patty Smyth! xpost
― Yerac, Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
The confusingly named Patty Smyth, indeed.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
the opening sentences of her wikipedia entry are weirdly and thus amusingly written:
Patricia Smyth (born June 26, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. She first came into national attention in the band: Scandal. She went on to record and perform on her own. Her distinctive voice and New Wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on cable music video channels such as MTV.
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
In what way are two male siblings born to the same parents not Brothers. I think the Everly brothers name describes the referent quite well.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Sure, and I suppose Mr and Mrs Rigtheous are proud of their two boys?
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
The Warrior is very easy to recall in multiple current situations.
I was a minorly obsessed with R. Hell in college so I knew of Smyth. I randomly got him to agree to design a tshirt for my radio station's fundraiser and it was memorable. He said he liked my voice and that fed me for years. I do not like McEnroe. Boomers. so weird.
― Yerac, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
:p
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
She left Richard for a much younger man obv.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Everlys thing has to be a weird joke, I'm guessing?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
Smyth was approached by Eddie Van Halen in 1985 to replace David Lee Roth in VH. She turned them down in part because "those guys were drunk and fighting all the time."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
So she married a New York Irishman instead.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
"patti 'sonyc' smith" was right there
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link