I had to check too. Sounds like one of those apocryphal stories, like Bob Holness playing sax on Baker Street.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
Mind blown.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
The revolution will be tangoed
― gray say nah to me (wins), Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
That has definitely replace his dad playing for Celtic in the Unlikely Facts About Gil Scott-Heron league table.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Robbie Robertson, the senior African American editor in the Daily Bugle, is played in the Sam Raimi films by Bill Nunn, who played Radio Raheem.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.this is sort of like how “wherefore art though romeo” doesn’t mean “dude i can’t find you”
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Wow I had no idea about that discontent thing that is wild
― froggles! (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
That it’s Gil Scott-Heron saying “you know when you’ve been tangoed” in the UK soft drink advert
― gray say nah to me (wins), Sunday, February 3, 2019 10:52 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wooooah
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York
i.e.: "Now, the winter of our discontent is made glorious summer by this sun of York", "now" is not the subject of the sentence at all though it appeared to be
― froggles! (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
Next you'll tell us that "kill all the lawyers" isn't intended as good advice.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:41 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hmmm but listen isnt the thrust rather a complaint tho
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
The Disney live action movie The Gnome-Mobile was based on a story by Upton Sinclair
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:52 (five years ago) link
The founder of Crabtree and Evelyn was also the founder of Janus Films.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:59 (five years ago) link
wuuuuuut?!?!that's crazy!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 February 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
it's like there were two completely different sides to that man
― Josefa, Thursday, 7 February 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
nicely done
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 February 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
^^
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Thursday, 7 February 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
The Crabtree side and the Evelyn side
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 7 February 2019 04:34 (five years ago) link
That the hip-hop producer Rockwilder's name is a play on "rottweiler".
I didn't actually read that anywhere, it just occurred to me suddenly.
― JRN, Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:43 (five years ago) link
that the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" belongs to a sentence celebrating how things have taken a turn for the better.― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:41 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkhmmm but listen isnt the thrust rather a complaint tho― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, February 7, 2019 1:16 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, February 7, 2019 1:16 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It turns quickly enough to unattained personal ambition, sure, but on a surface reading the "our" there refers clearly enough to the York fortune as a whole, in which case the next line flips this one -- though reading it with a flavour of the "royal we" yields a nice foreshadowing too, yeah!
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 7 February 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
He's being sarcastic and rueful about it.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:18 (five years ago) link
That Tomorrow's World isn't on any more.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
It's called "The Today Programme" now.
― Tim, Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
Actor/voice artist/ventriloquist Paul Winchell created one of the first artificial hearts and held several other medical patents.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
Whoa! Tigger? Gargamel? Will have to read more about that.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
He invented the heart with Dr. Henry Heimlich, of the maneuver fame!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 February 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
hey anagram it.. kind of is?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05h5sw6/episodes/downloads
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 7 February 2019 07:41 (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fair argument
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
also i watched oliviers capering through this on youtube last night after reading that and its such funnnnn
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
That Chevy Chase is a nickname that stems from an old ballad and that Chevy Chase is a place in Maryland too.
― Alba, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
Something to do with a fox or hare hunt in the Cheviots? Guessing here.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
the guy from Der Himmel Über Berlin is also Hitler - somehow I never put 2 & 2 together
― StanM, Saturday, 16 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Anne Baxter was Frank Lloyd Wright's granddaughter.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 February 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
sabra is not just a brand of hummus, but also a term for israeli jews born in israel.(also, it's from the hebrew word for prickly pear cactus, which is native to north america, not israel.)
― circles, Sunday, 17 February 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Sunday, 17 February 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
5The concept of the Hall of Fame has its roots in ancient Norse mythology. Valhalla was an enormous hall in Asgard where warriors who were slain in battle would go upon their death.King Ludwig I of Bavaria was apparently inspired by this legend, and built two different halls inspired by the Norse legend: Walhalla near Regensburg, Bavaria (completed in 1842), and the Ruhmeshalle in Munich (completed in 1853), whose name literally means "Hall of Fame." These halls were museums containing plaques and statues of important German-speaking people, including scientists, artists, and politicians.
The concept of the Hall of Fame has its roots in ancient Norse mythology. Valhalla was an enormous hall in Asgard where warriors who were slain in battle would go upon their death.
King Ludwig I of Bavaria was apparently inspired by this legend, and built two different halls inspired by the Norse legend: Walhalla near Regensburg, Bavaria (completed in 1842), and the Ruhmeshalle in Munich (completed in 1853), whose name literally means "Hall of Fame." These halls were museums containing plaques and statues of important German-speaking people, including scientists, artists, and politicians.
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Sunday, 17 February 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
there is also the Pantheon, in Paris, not sure how that fits in..https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthéon
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 February 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
I always thought Chevy Chase was a kind of car :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
Now that is a winner!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
Wait wait I mean, I knew who Chevy Chase was, lol. I meant I thought his name was a nickname after a car.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
Still a winner
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
That Rufus of Rufus & Chaka Khan was a band not a man.
― Alba, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 07:31 (five years ago) link
Wow.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
I think it evolved out of the American Breed. Had some of the same players at least.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
I would say the same about Portugal. The Man but...
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
Yeah, for the longest time I wondered what Rufus Khan had been up to since he'd inadvisably split with Chaka. TBF, it seems almost deliberately misleading.
― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
without ever looking it up til now, i always assumed it had something to do with stax records' rufus thomas. so i wondered a few minutes ago if it was an homage or something. wrong again.
"They re-emerged in 1969 under the name "Smoke". In 1970, after switching their management to Bob Monaco and Bill Traut, the group's name changed again to "Ask Rufus", the name is taken from the title of the advice column in Mechanics Illustrated. "
― andrew m., Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
fr wiki
― andrew m., Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
Nothing deliberate about it (leave alone “misleading”), they were always a band, and were known as such. When they became famous through their songs with Chaka, they were billed as “Rufus featuring Chaka (Khan)”. Only when Chaka had become a star in her own right (as well), they became “Rufus & Chaka (Khan)”, but the album sleeves still clearly featured the whole band. I doubt that anyone at the time was picturing a “Rufus Khan”.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link