A commonly-repeated anecdote claims that the name is derived from an occasion when King James I of England, while being entertained at Hoghton Tower during his return from Scotland in 1617, was so impressed by the quality of his steak that he knighted the loin of beef, which was referred to thereafter as "Sir loin".
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
Arnold Deutsch, the top Soviet spy recruiter in 30's/40's London had a cousin called Oscar who started a highly successful UK cinema chain with the acronym business title of "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation".
― calzino, Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
The original Odeons were the popular amphitheatres of ancient Greece. The name Odeon had been appropriated by cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, but Deutsch made it his own in the UK. His publicity team claimed Odeon stood for "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation".
― Number None, Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
I knew that, but more impressed that he was first cous with a top Soviet spymaster!
― calzino, Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
turns out the original ferris wheel had nothing to do with ferric oxide and was just built by a bloke called george ferris
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 March 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
William Shatner and Leonard Cohen were distantly related
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 2 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
misread that as Leonard Nimoy and thought well *that* adds to the ickiness of slash fiction
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 March 2019 03:58 (five years ago) link
Bob Fosse and Paddy Chayefsky (and presumably their egos) were good friends.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link
Donald Glover and Childish Gambino are the same person.
― just another country (snoball), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
also Teddy Perkins
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
the differences between homonyms, homophones, and homographs
― Brad C., Tuesday, 5 March 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
That there's apparently a cosmetic process that extracts fat from a patient's behind and injects it into their face.Or that somebody would be willing to go through that process.though I guess Botox isn't much more pleasant.
Just reading a book on the cosmetic surgery industry that mentions it.Might just prefer to hear it was a hoax,
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
there are polar bears in russia. i mean, if you'd asked me i'da said, 'erm, well i suppose there MUST be, but i never heard of em?'
― Hunt3r, Friday, 8 March 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
I just realized that "about 50 years ago" can no longer really plausibly be referring to, say, 1945, or even 1955.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 8 March 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
Yeah, someone I know had his 50th last month and the Facebook image was the cover of the LOEG 1969 issue, gave me some stares.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 March 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
― Hunt3r, Friday, March 8, 2019 4:30 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was going to say that there were penguins in South Africa when i read that . Think I had to get off the bus or something so didn't.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_penguin
and then there was always thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4&list=PLF388BB8ED67CA5D6
― Stevolende, Friday, 8 March 2019 23:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4&list=PLF388BB8ED67CA5D6
― Stevolende, Friday, 8 March 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
well just found out taht not all youtube videos work innit.
... tell me about it.
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Friday, 8 March 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
This old guy I know on Facebook posted a #throwbackthursday family portrait from 1979. Total Sears studio thing with forest background, Dad with the sideburns, daughters with the swishy bangs, dork son with a moptop.
And it didn't dawn on me until I saw it again later that the old guy was the dork son in the photo, not the Dad (who he really looks like now, minus the sideburns.)
― pplains, Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link
Fifty years ago I was in high school and it was nothing like 1945 or 1950!
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:09 (five years ago) link
how would you know though
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
Different soundtrack.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
I just haven’t updated my concept of what “50 years ago” is since I was a child I think. Until like today.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Saturday, 9 March 2019 03:32 (five years ago) link
I have only this evening realised that Count Von Count has a beard and it is blowing my mind and I definitely think it deserves to be on this thread.
― emil.y, Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
I've only just realised that there are two separate bad pirate ladies on Swashbuckle (cbeebies). Captain Sinker apparently left and was replaced by Captain Captain.
― kinder, Thursday, 14 March 2019 08:13 (five years ago) link
This isn’t something I only learned recently but for many years I didn’t realise that a coffee enema was an actual procedure, when people referred to it I assumed they were making a humorous reference to the laxative effects of coffee
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:10 (five years ago) link
xp to the horror of my wife I quite fancy Jennie Dale aka Captain Captain
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:54 (five years ago) link
I have only just figured out (well I was shown) how to write a 9 so it doesn't look like a 4.
*posties everywhere breathe a sigh of relief*
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Thursday, 14 March 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
I still have never learned how to hold a writing instrument 'properly' so I will probably be shockingly old when/if that ever happens. I write longhand constantly with no ill effect, though, which seems to put paid to the entreaties of my frustrated teachers and parents. Nyah.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 March 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
lol CAL
― kinder, Thursday, 14 March 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
I can completely relate! I never learned to grip the way you're supposed to with "a writing instrument" so I feel like that probably makes writing a more difficult proposition than it should be, but it's too late for me to break myself of the old habit so if I ever do, it'll probably be when I'm close to death. Also, I attended Catholic schools so I KNOW they paid extra special attention to the way we wrote (hell, we got marks for penmanship all the way through the end of grade school, i.e. until the end of the 8th grade!) and no one bothered to correct me, so I guess I was doing a good enough job as it was.
Anyway, new thing I have only just been corrected on (and this is timely for today): I learned the Irish stepped in to help Mexico out with the Mexican-American war, NOT the war for Mexican independence from Spain as I'd previously thought! I feel like an idiot because I parroted the latter misconception to my Mexican-born aunt a few months back as if it were true and she didn't correct me. I really should have known this because of my late mom's extreme pro-Mexican cheerleading and my late dad's having had an Irish grandmother (which I've already mentioned), but nope, took me THIS long to have had corrected, d'oh!
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 17 March 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
Playtex made astronaut suits: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-did-playtex-have-to-do-with-neil-armstrong-16588944/#zCMhFpR7AyUEmUBy.99
(which I learned because of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/science/female-spacewalk-canceled.html)
― rob, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
Cross your heart, hope not to die
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
that eggs are not dairy
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
?!
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
Expand on that, flappy
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
I want to believe
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
Eggs aren't dairy.
Dairy = milk derived.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/are-eggs-dairy
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
is this one for the American things thread?
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
i think this is a regional thing... i've met people who consider "dairy" to include eggs.
― visiting, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
those people are wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_product
I used to consider eggs to be part of dairy, because of the 4 food groups. and because of supermarket shelves. doesn't make it so!
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
dairy is made from milkdo the egg-dair ppl think eggs are elaborately whipped milk
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
wait, this is the Easter lobby’s fault, isn’t it
Eggs are dairy, but fish isn't meat. Ok.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
Eggs are a kind of meat
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
Somewhere in Shakespeare there's a line: "He's as full of wit as an egg is full of meat."
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:32 (five years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TL_Ro-sDZE4
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
Curse you, mobile YouTube, for not expanding
Anyway, Ivor Cutler, Egg Meat.
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
I used to consider eggs to be part of dairy, because of the 4 food groups.
me too until yesterday
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 11:26 (five years ago) link