the existence of Solitary Bees, of which most forsake honey production and colony life to go it alone with the bairns or something.
― calzino, Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link
Rock Me Amadeus is not part of the soundtrack to Amadeus.
― Alba, Thursday, June 1, 2017 5:27 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think this is understandable. It's weird that they'd omit one of his most famous compositions from a movie about his life.
― Trockasturm Hoar The Ramming Battle Ceraton (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
Er war Superstar.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
times square was named after the new york times
― just another (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
I just learned that now
― Moodles, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
That Chubby Checker is a play on Fats Domino, despite how obvious it is. Not that I often find myself thinking of Chubby Checker...
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
that right-clicking will automatically clear all clearable cards in microsoft solitaire
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
xpost I always wondered if anyone got the joke when I briefly changed my dn to Portly Backgammon.
― Sir Isaac Gluten (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
Wow. As in, I didn't realise that either.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
Yeah that's a good one!
― badg, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
damn
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
Grew up with my Mum's Fats Domino album so when Chubby Checker and the Fat Boys hit the charts I immediately thought "who's this imposter?" My pun radar was strong as a kid.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 June 2017 04:31 (six years ago) link
the more i think about the more it kinda makes me mad
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 June 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
Let me add some fuel to that fire with a selective list of Chubby Checker's singles:
The TwistLet's Twist AgainTwistin' U.S.A.Slow Twistin'La Paloma TwistTeach Me to TwistLimbo RockLet's Limbo Some MoreTwist it UpThe Twist (Yo, Twist!)
― Sir Isaac Gluten (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 June 2017 10:27 (six years ago) link
Hey, don't forget The Twist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcqdHKqqc3M
― how's life, Thursday, 8 June 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
That there were hazelnuts in Ferrero Rocher.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 8 June 2017 12:19 (six years ago) link
The proper pronunciation of "parameters."
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 June 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
Rafa Nadal has ocd.
― The XX pants (ledge), Monday, 10 July 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
http://www.preguntasfrecuentes.net/wp-files/2013/ticks-nadal.jpg
― Ludo, Monday, 10 July 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
the chubby checker thing is "oval literally means egglike" stunning
― goole, Monday, 10 July 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
How has Christopher Nolan not optioned the biopic
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 10 July 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
"the chubby checker thing is "oval literally means egglike" stunning"
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Iwsx_nD9YOc/VAWSVZabXqI/AAAAAAAAC2k/pnbbE0zjZDs/s1600/shat.png
― calzino, Monday, 10 July 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
omfg oval literally means egglike
― niels, Monday, 10 July 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
ovum Latin for egg.Hence oeuf in French
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
I think it was only a few weeks ago I consciously realised for definite that Jason Sudeikis and John Krasinski are different people
I think I knew but would forget each time I saw one of them.
― kinder, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
I've never owned a car, but I do hire them a lot and amazingly I've never known until today that there is often a little arrow on the fuel gauge on the dashboard indicating which side the petrol cap is on! This would have saved me loads of messing about at petrol stations over the years.
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link
wait waht
― yes!!! its ur real Hogbards world (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I only just learned that recently myself (but then I only just started driving again recently for the first time in 20 years so I figure I'm off the hook).
― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
https://blog.allstate.com/is-your-gas-cap-on-the-left-or-the-right/
here is the secret
― mh, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
read that secret a while ago but i don't own a car. hired one last week, it had a full lcd dashboard and much to my disappointment no little arrow.
― The XX pants (ledge), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
wow rude
― mh, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
I'm going to feel robbed if the next few cars I hire don't have this feature now.
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
That human beings were around when the UK was still part of the landmass of Europe.
― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
That you don't actually have to slide the little slide bar to turn things on/off on iPhone--a simple tap switches the selection. Duh.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
awww
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
Until now, I seriously thought Bob Dole was involved in the founding of the Dole Food company.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 30 July 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
Magpies and jays are corvids. So presumably really smart.Hadn't taken that in before reading the thread this week.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 30 July 2017 07:10 (six years ago) link
I thought he just gave them a handout
― kinder, Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
[some joke about Dole quoting a verse from the Book of Job]
― calzino, Sunday, 30 July 2017 10:17 (six years ago) link
There is a bit in 24 Hour Party People where Coogan's Tony Wilson character is getting high and maintaining that Albert Broccoli's family invented broccoli, and that's how they were able to finance the Bond films.
It sounded suspect, but I will confess that I looked it up when I got home, just to be sure.
― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
Holy shit, I never knew that about the gas pump icon.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
The word hench (as in, "my arms a looking quite hench"). Today, in fact.
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
That makes two of us.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link
About 10 years ago I worked with a young apprentice who mainly talked fluent gangsta, apart from when he was talking to his strict Jehovah's Witness parents on the phone. And everything/everybody that was not small, was hench to him!
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
my eldest boy taught me hench, several years back yeah
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
Confused that people are freaking out about oval = egg-like. Don't think I ever questioned it, unless I 'm missing a wider point?
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
I was not aware of it before this thread. But I attended public school in the US, so there's a veritable cornucopia of common knowledge that has yet to cross my doorstep.
― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
I was shockingly old when I learned that some people didn't know oval meant egg-like.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
> unless I'm missing a wider point?
that ovum = latin for egg?
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
I might ask for a fried ovum next I'm in a cafe, just to show off.
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link