That Paul Robeson was a professional football player for a couple of years in the newly formed NFL in the early 20s while attending Columbia Law School. He really could do everything.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
He just kept rollin' along
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
That Americans can a) vote in person weeks in advance of election day, and b) have to stand in line for hours on end to do so. Or is this just a modern development?
The whole system and its variability across states is baffling - presumably down to multiple efforts at 'improvements' alongside an agenda to disenfranchise minority groups.
UK is no exemplar of how to organise shit and I appreciate the geography and scale differences but we seem to muddle through getting tens of millions of people to tick a box in a single day with not too much fuss.US seems to make it really hard for itself, maybe deliberately.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
I'm also surprised they release daily early voting stats by party adfiliation in advance of results which is a big no in most other countries.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 13:24 (three years ago) link
its completely deliberate
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
I do think the idea of spreading an election out over a week or two makes sense, especially in a country as large as the US. Theoretically it might also mean less chance of some bullshit last-minute promise by the incumbent party to sway the floating voters. Anyway, this is probably all for one of the numerous US politics threads instead of here.
― logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I know if varies state by state and there are issues with queues, but the principle of allowing early voting is good one, it seems to me, and quite a surprise in a country that often goes out of its way to make it hard to vote.
Not many other countries seem to have taken this positive step, though possibly that's because mail-in voting is better implemented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_voting
― Alba, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
Sally Field was teh tv Gidget. I was just looking up where she started and that seems to be her first big role or at least one of tehm.
I was thinking it was her taht made Can She Bake A Cherry pie back in like 68 and taht's Karen Black.
Also that Gidget started with Sandra Dee as a one off film. I know that Sandra Dee was viewed as sqaeaky clean from having seen Grease I now know she turned up in Frasier years later which I don't think I've come across before.
A quote from Sally Field about public perception turned up inn a webinar I was on a few days ago. Slipped my mind she had been Forest Gump's mum in the film when people couldn't place her.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
Flying Nun as well.
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 18 October 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
I was vaguely aware that the disconnect of Roman month names (September being the ninth month rather than seventh, etc.) had to do with Julius Caesar and Augustus.
But not in the way that I'd been told.
It wasn't so much that July and August were added (nudging the other months out of sequence). Rather, the Roman year began in March, so September was seventh, October was the eighth, etc.
That said, it's also true that there were only 10 months in the Roman calendar.
That was fixed by adding two months, yes - but the months that were added were January and February, NOT July and August. July and August were existing months that got renamed.
― I wish you luck with a capital F (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
good stuff
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
This is a gold mine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
i never realized that either, and now it makes perfect sense! (sept/oct/nov/dec = 9/10/11/12)
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
Teri Garr was in 5 Elvis movies:
Fun In Acapulco, 1963Kissin' Cousins, 1964Viva Las Vegas, 1964Roustabout, 1964Clambake, 1967
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
a few times every year during october i catch myself writing the date as 8-x-20xx because the oct- prefix momentarily confuses me
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
xps
what most people don't understand is that january and february were named after jann wenner and diane ferruary
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Karl is quite right.
Further, July was named after Miranda July.
August was named after August Busch Jr., who owned the St. Louis Cardinals and the Anheuser-Busch brewery.
― I wish you luck with a capital F (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
it was actually named after Augustus, not sure you realized that
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
xxxp Teri Garr was also one of the dancers at the TAMI show
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
lol wait YMP is your contention that the Romans actually used a 10-month calendar for awhile, before realising the seasons didn’t line up? That seems unlikely??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 06:56 (three years ago) link
wait until you hear about kalends, ides and nones
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 07:01 (three years ago) link
Tracer - yes and no. Yes, they started out with a 10-month 304-day calendar and then went to a 355-day calendar.
But they weren't idiots; they knew it would get out of synch. Tgere were two ways of dealing with the problem. For a time, winter days just didn't belong to a month. The days happened, there just wasn't a tidy name for them. Secondly, they could and did add extra days every now and then (intercalation) just as we do in leap years.
― do as thou wilt, as long as thou dost punctuate it correctly (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
For a time, winter days just didn't belong to a monthbig mood #2020
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link
lol yes. YMP that is wild.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
Highly recommend adding The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning to your reference library, as it's absolutely packed to the brim with 15 Things You Never Knew About the Year (And That's Okay) (And Here's Why)!
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
Is everyone ok with making 2020 an uncountable time, and then starting a new era after trump goes away? It will involve some Y2K—style updates to computers, but other than that we should be set
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Old Lunch is that a peel-off desktop calendar? Like the Far Side? Because damn, that’s reminding me that I need to pick up one of those Far Side peel off calendars. brb
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
No, it's an actual book! Although Oxford really missed a trick by not releasing a page-a-day calendar version of the book.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
Does anyone have the phone number for Oxford?
I had it, but I wrote it down on the back of one of those peel off calendar pages and recycled it. Believe it was on the back of a July page, if that helps!
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
anno Dummy
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
*yells in the direction of Oxford, from the front porch*
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
i just learned that michael keaton is beetlejuice.
holy shit
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
no you did not
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
He only played him in the biopic, he's not the real Beetlejuice
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
youve said it twice now thread dont say it again
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Klpo29d.jpg
Speaking of Beetlejuice.. Sylvia Sidney.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
i...
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooo you unbanned him by saying his name 3 times HE WAS SO OFFENSIVE
https://i.imgur.com/Q3Zb54F.jpg
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
hahahahaha
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
and now, clearly i know that's michael keaton. who else could that be? why did i never wonder who the actor was? he does a great job, he's fucking michael keaton! but i just thought "yeah, whoever that is, he's pretty good"
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
wait wait waitthat you can hold the spacebar down on an iPhone to move the cursor?????!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
Lol no way
― badg, Thursday, 22 October 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
and it is in fact the best way to move the cursor??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 October 2020 07:06 (three years ago) link
Given how much of a fan I've been since I was like ten, it's shocking how old I was when I just now figured out that the full four-member version of the Monkees were only a thing for a little over two years. Between six albums, a tv show, and a movie (not to mention touring, promotional appearances, etc.), I'm not sure when they slept.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 October 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
Holy shit, the space bar thing, thank you so much TH
― Dan I., Thursday, 22 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
it’s insane!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
Amazing.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 22 October 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
Speaking of months, am I the only one who has to sing "30 days hath September..." in my head EVERY TIME I have to remember which months have 30 days?
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 23 October 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link