Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Thanks stevolende, that looks interesting.

That Pink Floyd etc bassist Guy Pratt is the son of Mike (Randall and Hopkirk Deceased) Pratt

That came as a surprise to me when I found out. There was a nice little twitter thread a few weeks ago about the things he’d use to show his character’s hip credentials. Was more surprised to discover he was a musician too.

As I've got the day off, I thought I'd share my obsession with Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) screen grabs which helped to establish Jeff Randall's hip credentials. A thread, starting with Martin Sharp's poster for the 'legalise cannabis' rally in Hyde Park, July 16, 1967.
1/6 pic.twitter.com/bw9FrJEBNy

— Marco Rossi (@marcosquawks) January 24, 2023

Guy Pratt chiming in to confirm they were all his dad's!

The expression “va-va-va voom” can be traced back to Art Carney, who said it on TV in 1949

!

Although I can hear him say it.

The word "glamour" originates from Scotland.

Up there with "Drambuie" as things often erroneously assumed and pronounced as French, in certain places at least.

glamour and (related) gramarye are both scottish -- the first popularised by walter scott -- but their shared root is old french gramaire (meaning learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo) from latin grammatica

learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo

my major in college

And here I thought it was something to do with the thane of Glamis

Carb Rangoon, things of that bat

_learning, spells, mumbo-jumbo_


my major in college

Yeesh zing c’mon man

What I always think of when I hear the word glamour:

'I went to the l-l-library and l-looked it uh-uh-up,' Bill said. 'I think It's a gluh-gluh' — he
paused, throat straining, and spat it out — 'a glamour.'
'Glammer?' Eddie asked doubtfully.
'G-G-Glamour,' Bill said, and spelled it. He told them about an encyclopedia entry on the
subject and, a chapter he had read in a book called Night's Truth. Glamour, he said, was the
Gaelic name for the creature which was haunting Derry; other races and other cultures at
other times had different words for it, but they all meant the same thing. The Plains Indians
called it a manitou, which sometimes took the shape of a mountain-lion or an elk or an eagle.
These same Indians believed that the spirit of a manitou could sometimes enter them, and at
these times it was possible for them to shape the clouds themselves into representations of
those animals for which their houses had been named. The Himalayans called it a tallus or
taelus, which meant an evil magic being that could read your mind and then assume the shape
of the thing you were most afraid of. In Central Europe it had been called eylak, brother of
the vurderlak, or vampire. In France it was le loup-garou, or skin-changer, a concept that had
been crudely translated as the werewolf, but, Bill told them, le loup-garou (which he
pronounced 'le loop-garoo') could be anything, anything at all: a wolf, a hawk, a sheep, even
a bug.

I think of the novel by Christopher Priest.

I read that NME C86 is short for class of 86 and not as I thought a play on C90 cassette tapes. Mind blown if true.

https://www.ft.com/content/830fe611-602d-4f54-b4c3-11b18d0d7d98

Nah it was named after C81 which was 81 minutes long

Happily I can’t see FT articles

https://archive.is/ZRwBe

The term vegan was invented in Leicester in 1944.

I literally just found out what ICYMI means.

i guess YMI

It's like it's something I saw for years but never took any notice of so it became almost invisible.

i did think for a while it was cleverer than it is. "i see you...", er, M I

"i see why..." obv

I think for a while I conflated "I can't believe it's yogurt," "I can't believe it's not butter," and "The Country's Best Yogurt" with various piles of initials like TCBY ICBINY ICBINB YMMV ICYMI AIUI etc.

When I see ICYMI I have a tough time believing that it has nothing to do with yogurt,

Your yogurt may vary.

MTG probably thinks TCBY = "These Cucks Brought Yogurt"

Good frozen yoghurt

TCBY actually originally stood for This Can't Be Yogurt, then they retconned it to mean The Country's Best Yogurt.

I remember a few kids in my fourth grade class getting into an argument about which it meant.

The word derives from Latin harena, a particularly fine-grained sand

I'm guessing (without looking it up) that Spanish word harina (flour) derives from the same word.

https://i.imgur.com/AnUYgP8.jpg

TCBY used to be have its name on the tallest building in Arkansas.

They're still around, but now HQ'ed in Salt Lake City — which, believe me, is completely on-brand for them.

TCBM

"It's fun to eat at the T C B Y ..."

Actually I assumed it was Taking Care of Business yoghurt.

If the company was founded with current nutritional guidance, I guess it would be This Cant Be Plant-Based Yogurt.

it’s fun to eat at the Y

Nina Simone’s birth name was Eunice Waymon.

TCBM

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, February 9, 2023 10:36 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

They Could Be Midgets

Had a fakebook when I was a kid with 'Mull of Kintyre' in it. Wasn't until I saw the video a couple of years ago that I realized Mull of Kintyre is a geologic feature in a geographical location, and not a unit of material like a ball of wax.

TIL it's not a person (like Martin Mull, c'mon).

yup i thought it was a problematic person from kintyre wherever that is

what's a fakebook

a book of sheet music that helps you “fake it” like you know how to play it, usually with just the main chords and melody sketched out

eventually a fakebook of standards called “the real book” got made and was passed around via photocopy, and it was like the ur-text for anybody who wanted to get up to speed with jazz classics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Book

Mull of Kintyre was one of the first songs in the first guitar method book I got when I started guitar lessons in sixth grade. I hate it so much.

fake it till you like it

Love the mull misunderstandings.
You should've mulled it over a bit more...

Yeah my dad had a million fake books, which is how he knew so many songs to play around the campfire.

Paul McCartney's haircuts from about 1979 through 1989 could be described as...

Wait for it...

Mullet of Kintyre