Things you were shockingly old when you learned

That's darlene love and the blossoms doing BV on The Monster Mash

(watching 20ft from stardom)

Lenny Bruce's father was born in Kent.

... that's Kent as in Kent, the Garden of England not Kent as in Kent, Ohio.

i’ve heard there are plenty of kents in america

Thing I care to post is: Calum=Malcolm, as in that they are different forms of the same name.

rather like Theodore and Dorothy - same meaning, same syllables, different order.

Lindsey Buckingham had a brother who was a silver medalist at the 1968 Olympics in swimming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Buckingham

I hear he swam down one time, swam down two times

never going backstroke again

hah, that quip is better-crafted than mine. applause.

Today I learned that Mt St Helens and Ian Curtis topped themselves on the same day

I was today years old when I discovered that moose are not, as I thought, a deer-sized ungulate, but are in fact prehistoric fucking monsters.

The full size of an adult Alaskan moose pic.twitter.com/TEhgP7zZHG

— Nature is Lit🔥 (@NaturelsLit) May 21, 2020

You wouldn't want one of them loose in the hoose

Also bison are MUCH larger than I realized. I honestly thought black bears were the largest N. American land animals.

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/59985072_404894426760998_5932616498941001728_n.png?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=b96e70&_nc_ohc=2Z9UqogVwMYAX_M-zDG&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=4ad0dcdcd6dd833005e00ce51a1e59ca&oe=5EED9C0B

There was a moose that wandered through a fairly urban neighborhood of the town I lived in during my teens, and it was a big news story. People were freaking out.

Swedish woman I work with has many an amusing moose story she often shares with us.

They're like urban foxes over there.

The "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" credits make so much more sense now.

man we have meese here and they are huge, and quicker'n you think, and cranky, and i stay the hell away.

last year a riding pal of mine was riding across grand mesa, which can be pretty remote, and he came across a pair of hunters observing a bull and a cow with her two existing calves. after verifying they had a cow tag, he watched and recorded one guy sighting his muzzle loader and then downing the cow. the calves were flipping out afterward, running around, while the bull, who was deprived of hot cow action, stayed on the scene furious. the hunters began to load gear to retrieve her.

my pal told me he thought of trying to disrupt the whole set up during sighting, but thought better. glad i wasn't there.

That Eagle-Eye Cherry is Don Cherry's son and Neneh Cherry is his half-sister.

I thought that was well known!

^shocked

The fact that 'Save Tonight' became a hit when I was 12 years old and totally unaware of Don Cherry's existence likely had something to do with it.

Joel in Adventureland and Bill Haverchuck in Freaks and Geeks--unforgettable characters--are both played by Martin Starr.

during an in-depth conversation about the gender of the sheep emoji a friend found this article. so i learned that modern farmer is attempting to survive by creating viral content, and i also learned there are a lot of different kinds of sheep, some of which are indeed pretty cool-looking.

i hope modern farmer does ok. i thought it was a pretty good article.

https://modernfarmer.com/2017/12/12-sickest-sheep-breeds-world-according-author/

Fritz Lang may have killed his wife.

The jury's out on that one!
http://www.williamahearn.com/lisa.html

I'd assumed they used a stencil to do this:

Not tonight Netflix, I’ve found something else to watch till at least midnight. pic.twitter.com/1JzqqNWrXT

— Lee Madgwick (@LeeMadgwick) May 22, 2020

That doesn't look like any bike sign I've ever seen, but such is the ineffable nature of art, I suppose.

Michael Shannon is in Groundhog Day

Looks more like a bird wearing a monocle.

He's clearly had some work done since then.

In the '60s, Charles Wilp tried to get the Monks to record the soundtrack to an Afri-Cola ad but the execs rejected it.

Henery Hawk preceded Foghorn Leghorn.

That Costello is an Irish name, not Italian.

That ventriloquism developed from an ancient Greek religious practice called gastromancy, where the practitioner would channel the voices of the dead who were apparently resident in their stomach. It only became stagecraft in the 18th century, and dummies only began to be used in the 19th century vaudeville era.

i think this factoid was on QI or something

"The word ventriloquism derives from the Latin words ventri (belly) and loquor (to speak)"

there was a good-looking cultural studies book abt it all maybe ten years back -- by stephen something? -- which i bought to read and then was suddenly w/o a bday present for a friend and gave it to them unread and now can't remember author or title

an ancient Greek religious practice called gastromancy

^best school of magic

Scatomancy tho.

Dumbstruck by Stephen Connor?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dumbstruck-Cultural-Ventriloquism-Steven-Connor-ebook/dp/B001KVZPVC

The etymology of the word "tabby," which ultimately is from the Arabic, the name of some neighborhood in Baghdad. There's more to it, see here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tabby

Ooh, that's a good one.

Thanks

That Costello is an Irish name, not Italian.

Costell'O

stephen connor, yes, cheers

That not refrigerating beer or wine and just drinking it with a couple of ice cubes thrown in is totally fine

I've done that many times with wine but for some reason never considered doing it with beer.

it is absolutely not fine

Lol yes i cry foul

When I was in singapore a most places gave you a glass of ice with your bottle of Tiger and after my initial revulsion it turns out to be awesome when its hot as shit and you are eating noodles and curry puffs and chicken rice.