Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Yes but Mayfair is the archetypal posh place in London.

It's in Rex Harrison's memoir, and also in The Making of My Fair Lady:

https://i.imgur.com/7tdwcUX.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/7tdwcUX.png

I think it's kind of bullshit that a Cockney pronounces May as My, but that's b(a)y the by.

Rex Harrison snippet on Google Books

Whether she was cockney or not, someone needed to teach that girl how to talk, am I right fellas?!

The cockney pun thing is a good story but not correct. The title references G.B.S.'S working title for Pygmalion- "(My) Fair Eliza", plus the line from "London Bridge". As mentioned above it's not set in Mayfair. This would be like doing a Seinfeld musical and giving it a title that is a pun on New Jersey.

Does that not just mean it was GBS making the pun? It would be very much in character for him.

This would be like doing a Seinfeld musical and giving it a title that is a pun on New Jersey.

My Fair Lady to Mayfair is like Seinfeld to the West Village. It’s just two neighborhoods away.

Now I can't stop thinking about a version of My Fair Lady starring Elaine, Jerry and Kramer.

For a second I thought was going to say Dean and Jerry. Hey My Fair LADY!

'My Seinfeld Lady' might be somewhere close to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghCTZF61ey0

A day wasted is not a day without laughter.

"tie hoes to the runner" is apparently an urban myth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_goes_to_the_runner?wprov=sfla1

Ned doesn't like Belle and Sebastian.

are you tattling?

Never knew until today that ‘Party Fears Two’ was used as theme music for Radio 4’s ‘Week Ending’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st1IhgWrtPQ

The Linux paste command.

nothing too shocking about it, but:

that Lucky Daye started his singing career under his real name David Brown, reaching the top 20 in season 4 of American Idol in 2005.

WTTW — the PBS affiliate in Chicago — stands for Window To The World.

(I already knew that WLS — ABC-TV affiliate, and onetime top 40 AM radio powerhouse — stood for World’s Largest Store, as they were initially sponsored by Marshall Field & Co.)

Took me a while to get the dog and cow that WFMU uses (woof, moo).

and WGN = world's greatest newspaper iirc

seriously was nobody else ignorant about macaroni

I was... but then I'm Canadian... but then we all knew the dumb song as kids anyway. I'm just thinking them yanks loves some pasta.

oh, i definitely was. i never really thought about it as a kid, i just kind of thought it was an absurd rhyme, and plus, i loved macaroni, so two thumbs up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Philip_Dawe%2C_The_Macaroni._A_Real_Character_at_the_Late_Masquerade_%281773%29.jpg

:|

wait, are you american? a lot of matthews around here ...

i'm american and remember learning about the macaroni thing at a really young age. i think in school we had worksheets for different folk songs with the lyrics typed out and a little glossary to help us understand.

only recently learned that the fears of being bitten by a Black widow or brown recluse are extremely exaggerated and that even if you get bitten by one, the chances of even going to the hospital, let alone dying, are very low, and in the US, nobody has died from a black widow bite in 30 years.

also learned that reports of bites from brown recluses are high in areas that don't even have them.

which is not to say that there aren't those that have adverse affects to spider bites from these types of spiders, but that usually a little antivenom and you're fine.

I think the movie Arachnophobia misshaped my view of the danger of spiders as a kid.

maffew12 is Canadian and I'm Australian

too many matts

i once made a dinner mat
with elbow macaroni

you know what they say about dinner mats made out of macaroni.

just don't take it to a hot spring

we had that song too

even after seeing it as an adult, I've never really internalized that Arachnophobia was meant to be a delightfully creepy horror-comedy of sorts. the shots of the super-hybrid queen spider (or whatever) really got to 9-year-old me, I guess.

like I found Goodman's character funny but the chewed up dude at the beginning scared me

I think I read the movie tie-in novel first though lol

That there are no bridges across the Amazon https://www.livescience.com/why-no-bridges-over-amazon-river

!

is Ski just an anglicisation of Skyr? (yogurt-wise)

Oooh

Wasn't it supposed to be Swiss (for some reason) and Alpine and, therefore, healthy (for some reason), a bit like Alpen?

it's the full-of-fitness food (where fitness means blobs of fruit)

my sister and i ate it with like ten spoons of sugar in it (even more full of fitness)

Yvonne = Ivan

Nothing to do with Skyr, marketing bs/genius.

Rather brilliant thread about Ski here. Big LOL at the dustbin analysis.

Okay, as requested, more history of weird stuff with food and logistics.

Let's talk about how Ski Yoghurt utterly dominated the 70s UK yoghurt wars, by understanding how humans work better than humans do.

Oh, and also through strippers.

Read on... /1 pic.twitter.com/5fQqn0AObx

— John Bull (@garius) July 30, 2021

pleased to discover that my sister and i were correct abt sugar and fitness (and that we were eating 14 spoonfuls of sugar per pot)

Georgie Born out of Henry Cow and Olivia Newton-John were cousins.

Dolly Parton is the godmother of Miley Cyrus.

That Al Franken is one of the gorilla transporting guys in Trading Places.

Just now, and I have owned both for decades:

"From nearly 50 years I own the albums, I never noticed this continuity between the two albums covers..."

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/325128010_4192419900982537_506495545880088972_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=r-56ozKQgusAX8wd09f&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfB3pbDraO7EfMP4UmCh8XIEwY5bgml9GzbFm_GFcR3iJA&oe=63C2C91E

that's a new one to me too, wow!

OK my mind is blown to its foundations now