Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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I was aware of the name source but not all the connotations of the term. Had been thinking of it as a term for Trump but it seems to be necessary for the country involved to be under occupation which it isn't quite yet.

Stevolende, Thursday, 26 July 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link

I was thinking it meant deceptive sellout ala 5th columnist so criteria about country actually being under occupation wasn't vital.

Stevolende, Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link

The 16 men are on a dead man’s *treasure chest*, and not, like, on a guy’s physical chest (like a tattoo)

Οὖτις, Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link

"One for the money and done for the rest" refers to the fact that all but one of those sixteen men are dead, too, and all the treasure belongs to the last one left alive.

A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link

No results found for "one for the money and done for the rest".

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 29 July 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link

it’s not like there’s an authoritative version of that song that actually means stuff at this point

but it’s fifteen men not sixteen

El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 July 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link

i always heard it was a furlong or a shilling of men. imperial measures are incredibly fucked

Hunt3r, Sunday, 29 July 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link

It's more "got shockingly far through today before I clocked" but: Emily Bronte and Kate Bush were born on the same day, 140 years apart.

Alba, Monday, 30 July 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link

16 men and whaddaya get
Another day deader and deeper in chest

how's life, Monday, 30 July 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/eHEm8qN.png

pplains, Monday, 30 July 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link

David Axelrod's a white guy

devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link

the musician or the politician?

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link

the latter. There's a musician named David Axelrod?

devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link

thread delivers

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link

anyway I would've sworn I'd seen pictures of David Axelrod the political consultant before, and would've sworn he was black, but he actually just had a mustache. Was I thinking of Eric Holder? Maybe.

devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link

https://www.reverbnation.com/musician/ericholder

looks white too?

Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link

My dad has a mustache but I've never mistaken him for a black man.

devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link

anyway I'm ostensibly at work

devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link

I think there's a new reissue of one of the David Axelrod William Blake lps, just saw it in a review section from I think this month.
Did some really great funky semi orchestral stuff and the Electric Prunes lps before he replaced teh actual band members.
Worth checking out if you're not already familar with him

Stevolende, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link

the latter. There's a musician named David Axelrod?

― devops mom (silby)

unless it's just a pseudonym for arnold shawmobile

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Probably not the right thread for this but I just found that the film director in "Singin' in the Rain" being slowly driven crazy by having to record sound was Kim Fowley's father.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFCctdiS04&list=PLQuPBULYvksL7mfbLwiiToy_iDi_8Cjc7&index=5

Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Monday, 27 August 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link

Not all judges have legal degrees/experience.

Yerac, Monday, 27 August 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link

This kind of blew my mind

I didn't realize until about a year ago that the chorus of Run-DMC "It's Tricky" was interpolating the chant from Toni Basil "Hey Mickey" https://t.co/ZdqV93HefI

— jay smooth (@jsmooth995) September 3, 2018

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 3 September 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link

because it was so fine?

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 3 September 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link

and right on time

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 3 September 2018 04:38 (five years ago) link

Did you also know "Mickey" is actually a cover of a song by Racey called "Kitty"? Cos I didnt until a couple months back.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 3 September 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link

Nope! I'm learning all sorts of things about this song today.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 3 September 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link

My fave Toni Basil fact is that she choreographed and co-directed the videos for "Once in a Lifetime" and "Crosseyed and Painless".

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 3 September 2018 05:59 (five years ago) link

Ha yeah I learned that a while back and also thought it was awesome.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 3 September 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link

And she has great cameos in Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 3 September 2018 06:26 (five years ago) link

And Head

koogs, Monday, 3 September 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link

And Greaser's Palace

Ward Fowler, Monday, 3 September 2018 10:23 (five years ago) link

Did you also know "Mickey" is actually a cover of a song by Racey called "Kitty"? Cos I didnt until a couple months back.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, September 3, 2018 6:01 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I work with the bloke from Racey's wife and didn't know this!

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, 3 September 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link

^ Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Monday, 3 September 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link

My fave Toni Basil fact is that she choreographed and co-directed the videos for "Once in a Lifetime" and "Crosseyed and Painless".

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, September 3, 2018 5:59 AM (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Things you learned from the "Things You Were Shockingly Old When You Learned" thread: There was a video for "Crosseyed and Painless."

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 3 September 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link

(looks video up on YouTube): Hmmm. I think I can see why MTV never played it. Racist bastards.

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 3 September 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link

So weird that Toni Basil pops up here now! I just learned from watching a season 1 episode of SNL that she was in a mid-'70s street dancing troupe called the Lockers along with Shaba-Doo (of Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo fame) and Fred 'Rerun' Berry (and her troupe nickname was Mickey).

Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 September 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link

And here she was just few days ago celebrating a youthful 74 years

TONI BASIL IS 74 YEARS OLD AND STILL DANCING LIKE A CLUB KID!!! THIS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU NEVER STOP MOVING!! SHE WAS ALMOST 40 WHEN SHE DID "MICKEY"💗💗💗💗💗 pic.twitter.com/PfYpypQCar

— Ana Philaxis©®(^_−)☆ (@SkyeCreativeONe) August 24, 2018

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 3 September 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link

saw Toni Basil in the credits of Dennis Hopper's awful 'The Last Movie' (1971). Don't remember if she was a performer or choreographer. Also saw Russ Tamblyn (Dr. Jacoby on Twin Peaks) in the credits.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link

I just learned today that Gene Kelly directed Hello, Dolly! It's not like I was unfamiliar with the movie or its history or its place in the declining days of roadshow musical movies, I just . . . never knew!

Eliza D., Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link

I've spoken French since high school and been familiar with the phrase roughly the same length of time, but it was only this morning age 48 that I realised the phrase "gay divorcée" rhymes. Having only seen it in print I guess I mentally voiced it with a clueless Aussie accent.

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 7 September 2018 06:50 (five years ago) link

I never heard of the phrase "shave and a haircut, two bits" till my partner mentioned it last night

I can do the knock, I just didn't know it had words

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 September 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link

That’s how the barber gets rich.

faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link

My office overlooks, among other things, a set of train tracks, and the other day a freight train passing by did "shave and a haircut, two bits" with its horn.

Chuck, did you never see "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDsgkRW2hDA

Eliza D., Friday, 7 September 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link

my second car was a pink toyota corolla with an air horn of the same riff, except that the pipes for the notes had been switched

it was hard to convey the correct motorist frustration with that as my warning bell

lee guacamole (darraghmac), Friday, 7 September 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link

Chuck, did you never see "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

ha, so many times

this is one of those 2 + 2 = 0 zero moments

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 September 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link

I was reading a novel about an old lady who keeps knocking on the narrator's door, "shave and a haircut, two bits" and I just assumed she was a barber

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link

my second car was a pink toyota corolla with an air horn of the same riff, except that the pipes for the notes had been switched

it was hard to convey the correct motorist frustration with that as my warning bell

this brings me joy

kinder, Friday, 7 September 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link

That tune as a car horn is not uncommon among Mexicans 'cause it means "chinga tu madre, cabron"

Dan I., Saturday, 8 September 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link

Gumbo is derived from the bantu word for okra, though it doesn't have to contain okra.

LIma beans were originally imported from Lima, Peru.

Red beans and rice were traditionally eaten on a Monday prepared using meat left over from Sunday dinner.

cos they just turned up in a multiple choice quiz

Stevolende, Saturday, 8 September 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link


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