Today I learned Adele's last name
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
i learned her middle names last night but i've forgotten them again one of them might've been Blue?
― huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
I think I was taught "Elgin" with a soft-g/j sound in college Classics courses!
I just learned a couple of days ago that NONE of the types of bees that are native to North America a) make honey, any honey, at all, or b) live in hives. They burrow in the ground and live solitary lives and never make honey.
This is shocking. I had a garden full of native pollinators all summer long and I assumed they flew away to hives at night and that my borage was flavoring some honey somewhere. No.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Yeah, but can't we assume that some of the non-native bees have gone native and do just that (make hives & honey)? I see wild honey bee hives in hollow trees fairly often, out on hikes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
I also remember reading that the hive collapse syndrome or whatever it was called only happened to domestic bee hives (i.e. the white wooden boxes) and was never found in wild honeybee hives
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
Apparently European honeybees do go feral but they're a danger to native ones because they compete for pollen! But only native pollinators are able to pollinate some native plants, such as tomatoes, blueberries, and squashes. I read about one flower (tomato?) where the pollen is too hard to reach, so the native bees do a buzzing dance from inside the flower that makes pollen shake off and fall onto them!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
That Gary Mapp, the mysterious bass player on most of the tracks that were eventually released as the classic Thelonious Monk Trio album on Prestige was a cop!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
Defund the bass player.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
Like, an undercover cop?
― foley track out of sync (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
just a standard cop I think .. his name is never credited on any other records apart from police reports but here he is playing along with Monk/Art Blakey/Max Roach ...lols!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:55 (two years ago) link
the quote I read was : "Apparently he was a policeman first and bassist second, and occasionally you can tell from his exceptionally wrong notes."
― calzino, Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
Babycham is just a type of Perry.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 27 November 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
The Atlanta Falcons logo makes an F.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 29 November 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
Yes! Surely it should be a kids' champagne.
― kinder, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
Babycham is just a type of Perry.― Dan Worsley, Saturday, November 27, 2021 3:12 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, November 27, 2021 3:12 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Without even knowing what this was, I immediately thought to myself: "British"
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1bSyKUItOGY/Wmmh9YpQGeI/AAAAAAAACXY/6_nc9lQ7GMsvOYlW9Ll7PDrtMGDJSqW5ACLcBGAs/s1600/Babycham%2B-%2B1950s.jpg
it's fer posh birds that play tennis!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
http://mynie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/c5.jpg
The American version... but it's just malt liquor
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
"mark my words you're headed for the poorhouse"
^^^
classic advertising slogan!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
"... some people just know how to live!"
Classic ILX slogan!
― nickn, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
'pictures of people who just know how to live'
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 12:54 (two years ago) link
Gong Li
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
What stare decisis means.
Stare decisis — Latin for “to stand by things decided.”
It’s the doctrine of judicial precedent. If a court has already ruled on an issue (say, on reproductive rights), future courts should decide similar cases the same way.
― nickn, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Learned last week about the National Day of Mourning as an alternative to Thanksgiving, even though it has been celebrated since the 1970s.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
Nikita and Nina Kruschev were together for 43 years before they got married.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 5 December 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
Well, the Bolsheviks were originally very anti marriage.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 December 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
I can copy and paste symbols that aren't on my phone. So I can do the hidden text thing.
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 December 2021 07:58 (two years ago) link
No square brackets like. I guess the fact that I can see square brackets should be an indication. Just not something I can independently access on my phone as far as I can see.
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 December 2021 08:00 (two years ago) link
& then I find a 2nd page of symbols. Cool. Great. Well early morning still. Lovely
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 December 2021 08:02 (two years ago) link
I just do a different formatting (eg italics) then change the letter to h
― Alba, Monday, 6 December 2021 08:37 (two years ago) link
Up until a ripe age I had a vague idea that the elongated interjection 'pee-you!' (ie, 'pew!' for an unpleasant smell) was the acronym 'P.U.' and stood for something in Latin.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 6 December 2021 08:46 (two years ago) link
Reid Miles, mastermind of the classic Blue Note album cover aesthetic, took the picture on the cover of Bob Dylan’s the Basement Tapes
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 6 December 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
The pac-man ghosts all move in different ways.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 6 December 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
there's a great web page about that, right down to disassembly level, and points out an overflow bug.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-pac-man-dossier
http://donhodges.com/pacman_pinky_explanation.htm
― koogs, Monday, 6 December 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
and the other interesting thing is that because their movements are deterministic then you can use patterns that work every time.
with Ms Pacman they gave them a random factor so the patterns don't work.
― koogs, Monday, 6 December 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
I had no idea Babycham was perry either! I guess I thought it was like west coast cooler or some other godawful fruit alkypop.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 6 December 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
Ed Grimley was not a real guy - it was just a character played by Martin Short!
I was too young to have seen his sketches on SNL and too old to care by the time he got a Saturday morning cartoon. I was just peripherally aware of a guy with a weird haircut named Ed Grimley. I guess I just assumed that he was some over-the-top 1980s comedy weirdo.
― peace, man, Friday, 10 December 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
"Sieg Heil!" doesn't mean "Say Hail!"*, it means "Victory Hail!" as in "Hail victory!".
*) a misunderstanding probably easier to make in Norwegian, where the corresponding imperative is "si", archaic "sig"
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 10 December 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
"Pee-you" is written "P.U." a lot (or used to be), so I can see why you would thing that way.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 10 December 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
Reminds me of that thing in Ulysses where someone gets an offensive postcard saying "U.P.: up" - I've never understood this.
― fetter, Friday, 10 December 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-significance-of-U-p-Up-in-Ulysses
― mh, Friday, 10 December 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
that extremely cool actor Pedro Pascal is Salvador Allende's great nephew.
― calzino, Saturday, 18 December 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
That John Martyn's real name was Iain McGeachy and thus he wasn't called John Martyn at all!
― moe tucker depping for mike portnoy (desk recording) (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
I think he assumed that no-one in England would be able to pronounce McGeachy.
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
Plus, that's a Scots equiv to "John" isn't it?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
i'll be Iaian McGeachy in a Taxi honey
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
"Your dressing is over here, Mr. Geeky... *headbutt* ... ugh..."
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
dressing room, that is
• Duluth• Milwaukee• Chicago• Detroit• Cleveland• Buffalo• Toronto
― pplains, Friday, 24 December 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
It wasn't until today that I realized... Detroit isn't really a "Great Lake" city.
OK, this one kind of blew my mind a bit. Jefferson Airplane drummer, Spencer Dryden was related to Charlie Chaplin. His dad, Wheeler Dryden, was Chaplin's younger half brother, Chaplin's mother was Spencer Dryden's granny!
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 24 December 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link