Talking of ITV football, I was shockingly old when I learned that Tom Rosenthal, of Friday Night Dinner fame, is Jim Rosenthal's son.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 07:12 (three years ago) link
Funny story is that Jamaica, Queens is named for the Lenape word for "beaver" (yameco) and evolved from Dutch to English. Jamaica the country is named for the Arawak word for the island (Xaymaca) and evolved from Spanish to English. Totally unrelated! https://t.co/5jfFl8fw6k— Jordan Fraade (@schadenfraade) August 9, 2021
― rob, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
How did they wind up with the same spelling tho
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
someone in the replies suggests that the spelling of the island did influence the town's official spelling, but nonetheless their independent origins was news to me! (not that I fact-checked this tweet)
― rob, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
so the spellings went that way... of their own accord
― kinder, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
Gabriel Clarke, ITV football's rakish half-time roving reporter, is the son of film director Alan Clarke.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
Cool.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
The correct pronunciation of menarche. Never heard it out loud until watching an episode of handmaids tale the other night. I was surprised!
― Kim, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
That one surprised me so much that I refuse to update it on the internal database
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
Is that the Midwestern hardware store where you'll save more?
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 03:16 (three years ago) link
Abolish the menarche
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 07:43 (three years ago) link
I just today realized that Spiritualized’s “Cop Shoot Cop…” isn’t about police but the more obvious one that fits the album.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
None of the classic Hall & Oates albums say just “Hall & Oates” on the cover.
(Per recent Craig Jenkins/Vulture piece)
― Josefa, Friday, 13 August 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
That the loud clicking sound generated by clicking/snapping one’s fingers is the sound of the finger hitting the fleshy part of the palm - seems obvious but I guess I always thought of it as being produced entirely by the friction of finger & thumb rubbing together, which now seems absurd when I give it any thought at all
― Woolf & Stein 3d (wins), Friday, 13 August 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah!
― Alba, Friday, 13 August 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
I dont believe this
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 13 August 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Not taking questions, not thinking any more about it
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 13 August 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
Easily tested--put a piece of cloth or a band aid where your middle finger strikes the base of your thumb and listen for the lack of snap.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 13 August 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah I’ve been doing that a lot and I still barely believe it
― Woolf & Stein 3d (wins), Friday, 13 August 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
Have also been obsessively clicking my fingers in the regular way probably slightly more than usual, hope my neighbours don’t think I’m insane
― Woolf & Stein 3d (wins), Friday, 13 August 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
holy shit
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 13 August 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link
Whoa
― Kim, Saturday, 14 August 2021 10:40 (three years ago) link
THere was a Virgin Megastore in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Just read that in passing in the Guardian from yesterday.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 14 August 2021 11:00 (three years ago) link
I was completely unable to snap my fingers until I realised that's how it worked. I'm still not very good at it
― bovarism, Saturday, 14 August 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
― Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 15 August 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
That Edgar and Johnny's real last name is Winter.
That Kurt's real last name is Vile.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link
yeah I thought that was a stage name derived from Mr Lotte Lenya
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 12:34 (three years ago) link
Wait what, it isn’t?
― Roffle Tolhurst (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
Apparently not! Unless his parents were fans.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
I mean, I've literally never otherwise seen or heard the last name Vile before but anything is possible.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
I think somebody specifically pointed out it wasn't what I'd taken it to be a couple of years ago. I had just assumed Weill was so well known it would have to be a reference
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
oh & I also think it had been something that had run through my head as a great punk name prior to me hearing about it being in use,
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
Curt Vile was a pseudonym used by Alan Moore early in his career.
― visiting, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
I seem to remember reading about this a while ago and him saying the parents didn't know anything about Kurt Weill. It does all seem a bit 'it was something little Julian Lennon said, not LSD' but they you go.
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
Here you go. From this NY Times article:
Mr. Vile – whose father and stay-at-home mother weren’t aware of the Weimar-era composer Kurt Weill when they named him – played the trumpet throughout elementary and middle school, initially intrigued that he only had to learn to work three valves before he’d be able to “make some cool sounds.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/arts/music/25wein.html
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Kurt Vile also claims he doesn't smoke weed, so... take with a grain of salt
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
I had just assumed Weill was so well known it would have to be a reference
That may be a bit of a culture-bubble thing (no shade intended, just sayin).
― subpoena colada (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
Brimming with disambiguation:
https://i.imgur.com/Es5sUTY.png
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
Kurt Weil a Swiss vibraphonist born 1932, apparently. Maybe his parents really were Threepenny Opera fans.
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Wait until you guys hear about Paul Potts!
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
OMG
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
the snapping thing is blowing my mind
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
Jennifer Jason Leigh is Vic Morrow's daughter?! I swear everyone in Hollywood is related to someone else in Hollywood.
― jared o'mara's own double entry (Matt #2), Friday, 20 August 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think last week I learned that Josh Brolin's dad was an actor.
― peace, man, Friday, 20 August 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
TWLToday We Learned pic.twitter.com/oaUsivOIqK— TRL Mailorder (@TRL_Mailorder) August 25, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
As a kid, always wondered which cities were in the other guitar/horseshoe crab-spaceships.
― Citole Country (bendy), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
Cambridge and Dedham, iirc
― subpoena colada (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
actual LOLs
― Citole Country (bendy), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
That 'Slav' and 'slave' have the same root, because Slavic peoples were in fact used as slaves in Carolingian Francia.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
We may well still be in the age of Pisces, not the age of Aquarius. Hippy misinformation!
Probably. Inasmuch as there are ages at all.
https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-will-the-age-of-aquarius-begin/
― Alba, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link