Things you were shockingly old when you learned

reminded me of the time in Skyrim when I realised the Companions's hall was a big upturned boat

― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Thursday, October 10, 2019 9:24 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

...Huuuuh. Well, how about that.

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

Hey, didja know that there are only ten U.S. highways that have a compass direction as a suffix?

only just today I learned that King Biscuit Time was something other than the Beta Band side project that produced the headsticky single "I Walk the Earth"

That it’s in fact «Us Weekly» and not «US Weekly»

Tracy Jordan calls it Us Weekly in 30 Rock and I thought it was a joek (I realised since, though)

That it’s in fact «Us Weekly» and not «US Weekly»

― kinder, Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:59 PM (fifty-one minutes ago)

!!!!!!!

i also thought this

and have since realized it was the actual name

I worked 20 years in radio. I once saw a Geo Tracker flip over after running into some of these things.

And as God as my witness, until yesterday, I thought they were called GUIDE WIRES.

https://i.imgur.com/r5Za7gh.jpg

when as we all know, they're actually called partially-yellow strings

"Duck tape" is actually the original name.

This is a new one to me too. Apparently it's made from cotton duck canvas, but coincidentally found an application later on for repairing ducts.

me and my husband nearly split up once arguing about whether it was duck tape or duct tape

a split over the name of the tape strong enough to hold the wing on a plane would be ironic

Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver) at 1:51 11 Oct 19

That it’s in fact «Us Weekly» and not «US Weekly»

Tracy Jordan calls it Us Weekly in 30 Rock and I thought it was a joek (I realised since, though)
― kinder, Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:59 PM (fifty-one minutes ago)

!!!!!!!

i also thought this

Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver) at 1:51 11 Oct 19

and have since realized it was the actual name

IIRC a lot of the humour of Jordan's character came from him having weird conceptions of everyday things, so I assumed him thinking it's "us" and not US was a part of that.

easy to conflate USA Today and Us Weekly, too

mace is a brand of pepper spray

The lettering on "Rubber Soul" was designed by Rebecca Front's dad.

Elijah Cummings's middle name was Eugene.

He could therefore have gone by E.E. Cummings.

Read somebody this week pointing out that Kierkegaard translates as church warden

I thought it meant churchyard?

Fred?

the romani crucifixion legend: three iron nails ran in, but a kid stole the fourth (made of gold) and since then -- since this reduced christ's suffering -- the kid's (romani) people are allowed by jesus to wander free of borders, to have their own law, and to steal (from those who aren't romani)

mace is a brand of pepper spray

> a kid stole the fourth (made of gold)

would a gold nail even work?

(wikipedia has two slightly different takes btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_crucifixion_legend )

the version i cleave to was actually explained by a romani character in LA REINA DEL SUR: can i really be the only person watching LA REINA DEL SUR?

would a gold nail even work?

― koogs, Sunday, October 20, 2019 3:19 PM bookmarkflaglink

It worked for the transcontinental railroad!

I thought it was symbolic in that context.

if you find and remove the gold nail the entire US railway system will physically fall apart

I am not Fred but yeah, Kierkegaard = churchyard.

Wikipedia again has done good info on the last spike (there were at least 4...)

"Immediately afterwards, the golden spike and the laurel tie were removed, lest they be stolen, and replaced with a regular iron spike and normal tie"

(some good)

You know those Romans, they're big on keeping the trains running on time.

Thx anatol.

There's a town called Peniscola

Heard of Pensacola.
But does Peniscola have a similar seemingly semantic breakdown in Spanish as it does in English? Do locals call it something else

That John Lennon never toured as a solo artist post-Beatles and just did a couple of benefit shows.

I remember a show he did in Oxnard, CA in the 70s, Linda Ronstadt opening. Don't think it was a benefit.

Martin Scorsese on Lou Reed,

In 1987, he auditioned for the role of Pontius Pilate in my film The Last Temptation of Christ, but his old friend David Bowie ended up playing the part

Is this common knowledge?

never heard this before, it's not mentioned on the Criterion disk with MS commentary

Lou transacting with Keitel's Brooklyn Judas would have been A+

and pilate, pretty pilate
can anyone shake your hand?

thirty silver peices, in my hand

And the Judean girls go doot do doot doot doot doot do do doo

I'm waiting for the Messiah

You guys are falling out of grace.

Now this really is shocking on my part, given that it's my hometown where I lived for the first 20-odd years of my life:

Owing to its industrial roots, Paisley, like many industrial towns in Renfrewshire, became a target for German Luftwaffe bombers during World War II. Although it was not bombed as heavily as nearby Glasgow (see Clydebank Blitz), air raids still occurred periodically during the early years of the war, killing nearly a hundred people in several separate incidents; on 6 May 1941, a parachute mine was dropped in the early hours of the morning claiming 92 victims; this is billed the worst disaster in Paisley's history.[19]

To be fair to myself I've never seen any memorial to or any mention of this anywhere in Paisley.

In terms of numbers that might be the worst disaster in Paisley's history, but I'm not sure this wasn't worse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cinema_disaster

I remember a show he did in Oxnard, CA in the 70s, Linda Ronstadt opening. Don't think it was a benefit.

The concerts documented on Live in New York City were Lennon's only rehearsed and full-length live performances in his solo career, and his first – and last – formal, full-fledged live concerts since the Beatles retired from the road in 1966.

?

I also don't remember it being a big deal (and seriously, if it were a one-off why pick Oxnard?). Probably 1975 but maybe '74.

Couldn't find anything on google after a quick look, but I did see Ronstadt with Jackson Browne in Oxnard in Jan 1974. I really remember Lennon, though.

was Mandela there too?