Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Dave & Ansel Collins weren't brothers.
Dave is a solo singer with teh surname Crooks who worked with instrumentalist Ansel Collins.
So it's like
'Dave'
& Ansel Collins

gosh how revelatory. ONly known the song Double Barrel since my preteens and only just found that out

A loofah is a plant. The plant is dried and then used as a sponge.

that the main actress in When a Stranger Calls and the landlord from Kimmy Schmidt are both Carol Kane

she's in The Muppet Movie too which is awesome

my husband recognised her in Annie Hall (as being Lillian from Kimmy Schmidt), which is probably his best "spotting" yet, although doesn't beat me spotting Silverthorn from The Girl From Tomorrow in Mad Max Fury Road; he'll have a long way to go to beat that, not that I like to go on about it.

She's Latka Gravitz's other half in Taxi too and the 100 year old woman in Princess bride, wife of the Billy Crystal character.
THink she's been in quite a few things and I think I recognise her when she appears.

Dave & Ansel Collins weren't brothers.
Dave is a solo singer with teh surname Crooks who worked with instrumentalist Ansel Collins.
So it's like
'Dave'
& Ansel Collins

Did not know this. Used to think simlarly about Rufus and Chaka Khan: thought they were a married couple.

Dave is much better known as Dave Barker, he made quite a lot of good records under that name.

I thought his surname was crooks but probably not one he'd want to use as a stage name?

Yeah I've no idea why or when he started using the name Barker.

He was an early toaster.
Does that make him a 'barker'?
I think it's a term people used for sideshow hustlers etc, the guy who got people to enter the tent and stuff.

Spice shelves in supermarkets are sorted alphabetically

xp Wikipedia says he started as a singer but Lee Perry gave him the name Barker and also started him toasting, so you might very well be right, though the workings of Perry's mind even back then were not necessarily transparent.

Spice shelves in supermarkets are sorted alphabetically

― Øystein, Monday, September 7, 2020 8:35 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

as they should be at home as well, you barbarian!

Seriously though I just learned about the "pin tab" feature on my desktop and whoa

Did not know this. Used to think simlarly about Rufus and Chaka Khan: thought they were a married couple.

― fetter, Monday, September 7, 2020 10:11 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Rufus had largely been the American Breed during the 60s.
Found that odd since I had one of their pop-rock lps in the 80s. & the denim shirt covered Rufus lp on cd in the 90s

The word loveseat denotes a 2 seater chair like a small couch not just the s shaped legs in opposite directions thing I was introduced to.
Not sure exactly when I was introduced to the joined seat with people facing different directions version. Must have been when I was very young. It's what I've always pictured by the term. So been wondering why the Trump family liked them so much in Mary Trump's book.
Seems to just be a smaller subset of the group though.

the single version of Do Nothing is different from the album version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnC3GmfRrw

There are only two presidents buried in Arlington National Cemetery: JFK and ... Taft.

Terry Hall's changed.

That this piece of music has a title; that that title is "Entrance of the Gladiators"; and that the composer intended it to be played for soldiers as they marched off to glory in war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0

I am reminded of William Gibson's quote "The street finds its own uses for things."

serious lols at that

I can't be the only person to read the composer's name as 'Julius Fuck', right?

The words “don” and “doff” are contractions of “do on” and “do off.”

Ha, I worked that out earlier this year and was amazed that I'd never realised it before. Proper revelation.

!

I do off my cap to that fact

Extent of negative effect of grapefruits on the way certain pills work.
As in can pretty much counter teh effect and isn't just a random thing.

Shame grapefruits are nice, eaten peeled like oranges. None of that half a one in a breakfast bowl with sugar shite.

Holy shit and Julius Fuck, I never thought of that music as anything other than circus/Looney Tunes music.

Yeah, this is the craziest shit ever

I've been meaning to start a thread forever to showcase the instrumental pieces that everyone knows but that hardly anyone knows the name/composer of. Like 'Sabre Dance':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI

great thread idea! i was at a relative's organ recital(!) and the best bit was watching the audience reaction when they recognised what was written down in the program as "J.S.Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor". top marks went to the kid in front who said excitedly "it's the Dracula song!!!"

Done and done: Instrumental Pieces that Everyone Knows but that Hardly Anyone Knows the Name/Composer Of

Literally just this moment realized that Eeyore is the sound a donkey makes.

A "petard" is a bomb. I always thought it was some kind of sword. (Thanks to today's NYT x-word puzzle for this).

hoist by your own petard = blown up by your own bomb. I think.

Specifically when you plant your petard next to the fortress wall but don’t run away fast enough and get flung into the air (hoist) by the blast

That’s how we learned it in basic training obv

I never bothered to look into it (obvs) and just always assumed it was like a jock strap or something. Perhaps a portmanteau of 'peter' and 'leotard'. Like casting out a line and catching your own dick with the hook.

hoist by your own petard = blown up by your own bomb. I thin

Yeah it's this. I always pictured someone getting run through with a sword and slightly lifted off their feet.

i always assumed it was like a pike or spear, and in my mind hoisting yourself on your own mean you were running too fast, got the tip stuck in the ground, and kind of pole-vaulted yourself up into the air

My mental image was something along the lines of Old Lunch's post. Like a belt/jockstrap version of "pulling oneself up by one's own bootstraps."

Since I learned the actual meaning I’ve completely forgotten what I imagined it to mean before.

I swear there was some story I read as a preteen that even had an illustration of the saying: a character unwittingly tying himself to a pulley attached to a pole when he meant to tie something else to it and then he pulled on the rope and lifted himself skyward and was unable to get down

^^ - I have a very similar memory of such an illustration

There's a scene in the Pink Panther with David Niven and Capucine where she tries to say this while drunk and it is charming

https://www.zbook.ir/the-chronicles-of-narnia/the-horse-and-his-boy/chapter-12-15/images/pic05.jpg

the petard of tash hoists from above

thought petard was another word for "gallows" and you were being hung by your own rope

Perhaps a portmanteau of 'peter' and 'leotard'.

I'm absolutely dying at this reverse-engineered explanation, and will never be able to think of "hoist by his own petard" in any other way.