Things you were shockingly old when you learned

yeah senior, seniority, senescent, senile, senility = same root as Senate

not sure why I hadn't been conscious of that before. Seemed to strike Chris Hayes as a new idea too.
Did immediately recognise the sen bit.
& I think it was more to do with who is now left in the Democratic race than the GOP status quo that it came up

Lol big alternative ending doesnt exist

It exists in the prime timeline, not in our alternate Trump president timeline

That there's no such saint as 'St Johnstone'.

I was enquiring this of my Perthshire wife the other day! Having met her dad I'm in no way surprised to learn that the football club was something to do for the cricketers during off-season.

I didn't really know or at least did not have in memory the date of the Union between England and Scotland until about three years ago.

The name Perth derives from a Pictish word for wood or copse.[8] During much of the later medieval period it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as "St John's Toun" or "Saint Johnstoun" because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St John the Baptist.[2] Perth was referred to as "St Johns ton" up until the mid-1600s with the name "Perthia" being reserved for the wider area.[9] At this time, "Perthia" became "Perth Shyre" and "St Johns ton" became known as Perth.[9]

God knows where St. Mirren got that spelling from though.

That there's no such saint as 'St Johnstone'.

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I was today years old when I learned this. I wonder if my granny or her priest were aware they were naming my uncle after a made up saint.

Always assumed it was the "John's town" thing tbh

town named after the sheriff in "sloop john b" iirc

Sinjunston

Always assumed it was the "John's town" thing tbh

Yeah I get how it became a name and there are lots of Johnstones around - though mostly as surnames. I had just assumed there was some poor bastard in history who had that name then got crucified or beheaded for refusing to renounce his Catholicism.

My granny had a *lot* of children so she was probably running out of saints names for the Christenings and had a quick scan of the sports pages for inspiration.

That the 'female' vocals on 'I Got a Man' are delivered by a pitch-shifted Positive K.

I know a Mr Johnstone from Perth who is a big saints fan.

Yeah I get how it became a name and there are lots of Johnstones around - though mostly as surnames

As an acquaintance of mine commented when the question of who the hell cares about rugby on Scotland was posed, "People with surnames as first names".

That the 'female' vocals on 'I Got a Man' are delivered by a pitch-shifted Positive K.

Whoa, I didn't know this either!

The sad part is that, despite having heard it dozens if not hundreds of times in its heyday, I figured it out this morning just by listening to it. Like, oh hey whoa, those sound like processed vocals, never noticed that before.

the video was misleading!

i just read this morning the plot of The Little Prince. I had no clue and have somehow never read this book.

That Minnesota Fats was a real guy. My grandpa once said he played pool with him, but I thought he was bullshitting, he liked to pull my leg a lot.

Hfs @ positive k! I had no idea

thought it was a young Hurricane G lol

Courtesy of mark s:

it took half a century but i finally realised that the red death in "masque of the red death" is a play on "black death", well done E.A.Poe

i.e. cosign (minus the half a century part).

Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" isn't a creative cover of BJ Thomas's "Hooked on a Feeling", but a practically note for note cover of the Jonathan King cover, right down to the ooga chakas and horn arrangements.

The original of "Hooked on a Feeling" was by BJ Thomas.

U learned that?

Just now. Typical of Jonathan King to ruin a perfectly good song.

Just listened to the BJ Thomas version, I'd never heard it till now, it is quite different.

The Jonathan King version is sort of reggae, which was a good idea, the ooga chakas were not a good idea. What a terrible cunt though.

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The D in Covid stands for disease. Thought that would be tautological so wouldn't be that.
So not a disease caught from misspelt crows then?

you can carry a number of viruses that stay dormant for years, possibly the rest of your life, with disease not flaring up or being actively contagious

infection and disease are two different things

Yeah think of it like hiv/aids, you can have the virus without having the disease

That the symbols on the cover of Slowdive's Pygmalion are adapted from Ligeti's graphical score for Artikulation.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/41/0c/7b410c1f96ab225a1b4fccbec13e9bb3.jpg

Using the rona lockdown to finally work my way through Berlin Alexanderplatz. Had to check something on the Wiki and had a D'Oh moment when I read this titbit:

NME and The Wire journalist Chris Bohn wrote under the pseudonym "Biba Kopf" from 1984 onwards in tribute to its central character.

Lol of course and I've actually watched it and didn't make the connection.

Oh you two.

MY dad was a senior systems analyst in the Apollo moonshot and taught at one of Kenya's early Universities alongside Ngugi Wa Thiongo both of which I only found out in the memorial tribute my brother posted to Facebook a couple of days ago.

Oh & that Kenya's under a 7.30 curfew since last friday.

I think Bohn may have announced it at the time . Certainly was aware of it from around the time he started.
Saw bits of the tv series at the time and probably should go back and watch it through myself. Think I intended to before so may already have it on a hardrive from a couple of years ago.

I know nothing of Ligeti or Artikulation but I am entranced at the beauty of that graphic. I vaguely recall the Slowdive image.

OK I just listened to http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/watch-gyorgy-ligetis-electronic-masterpiece-artikulation-get-brought-to-life-by-rainer-wehingers-brilliant-visual-score.html

That's so interesting. Is the graphical score actually useful, or simply a visual impression of what is happening sonically? Also, segment 210-214 (at least) sounds just like R2D2 to me.

Ah, I just learnt that the graphical score was by a different person, Rainer Wehinger.

Ah! I remember I did wonder about the Biba Kopf name at the time. (Not read/seen any Berlin Alexanderplatz though.)

The main character in Fassbinder's "Fox and His Friends" - played by Fassbinder, of course - is called Franz Biberkopf too.

The Aretha Franklin recording of 'Let It Be' was released before the Beatles version.

The Judy Collins recording of 'Both Sides, Now' was released before the Joni Mitchell version.

I'm willing to bet there are more examples like this.

Pretty sure Judy Collins also recorded "Suzanne" before Leonard Cohen.

She did "Dress Rehearsal Rag" about 5 years before Cohen did it.

Along quasi-similar lines: Davy Jones had charting solo singles before he joined the Monkees.

diana anaid is a palindrome