Things you were shockingly old when you learned

W.E.B du Bois had a more unsung brother called Schubert so Webby doo bwa hada brother who close friends called Shooby doo bwa.
LIttle known fact like

Melanie Griffith was married to Antonio Banderas, and *twice* to Don Johnson, and Dakota Johnson is their kid! Anyone following basic tabloid news would know this but these four celebrities have never been filed anywhere near each other in my brain. I did at least know Griffith was Tippi Hedren's daughter, thanks to Roar.

Are you inside my brain? I went looking up Melanie Griffith's family the day before yesterday (couldn't remember which out of her and Goldie Hawn had which parents/children)

melanie griffith, mauled by a lion because her mom was crazy.

Now I’m terrified of poison ivy. Nettle rash is quite tame by comparison, passing very quickly.

This is true, but don't go groping random plants on a walk in the UK either, because giant hogweed can fuck you up. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/06/giant-hogweed-facts/

(It grows along the riverbanks here and gets pretty tall and close to the path in summer, as do the nettles - though looking at the above page I'm wondering if the stuff I've seen might be common hogweed and not giant after all, but I'm still going to try not to touch it)

Turn and run
Nothing can stop them
Around every river and canal their power is growing
Stamp them out
We must destroy them
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odor
They are invincible
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering

wow, kinder! freaky. my partner and i just watched Something Wild and i looked up her Wiki.

That confidant and confidante are masculine and feminine forms (I think I just thought they were alternative spellings)

Some common surnames in other languages that are (more or less) exact translations of the word 'smith':

Hungarian = Kovács
Polish = Kowal(ski)
Russian = Kuznets(ov)
Portuguese = Ferreiro/Ferreira
Spanish = Herrero/Herrera

it took me years of posting here to finally figure out what xpost meant. esp since I didn't use Usenet much and they used it slightly differently anyway

(obv I have known what it means for the last few years, but my first few years i thought it was someone saying "excellent post", which wouldn't make sense when it followed text like "you fucking idiot, go play in traffic")

similarly for ages I thought smh stood for so much hate
don't know where I got that idea from but it fit, even if it made posts seem more aggressive

i thought rmde was "rub my damn ears"

restore 'rollin my damn eyes' plz u bastards
good times

I've heard a lot of adults say "mischievious," it must be a very common mistake.

I say "buoyed" like "booyd" and "buoyant" like "boyant".

― Maria, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:34 (twelve years ago) link

I've just heard Captain Kirk AND Spock say 'mischievious' in a Star Trek episode.

ffs

It obviously became Standard English in the future.

the long influence of "Ebeneezer Goode"

mischievious is the aluminium of mischievous

Grievious misuse imo

Mischievious seems to be popular with people I know from the Indianapolis area.

Maybe that's where Spock's ancestors were from.

The Indianapolis 500-years-from-now

Indianapioulis

I just learned today that a president can pardon himself (I think I knew that) and do so without announcing it (definitely didn't know that).

Can he pardon himself in anticipation though? I mean, he isn't (yet) under investigation for any federal crimes is he?

According to John Dean--I know--he can pardon himself in advance, as an insurance policy, and not in any way make it public.

I thought it was supposed to be debatable grey area and fun things like that. An admission of guilt as well.
If it is true then it needs to be looked at. Needs the turtle blockage of the Senate to be removed too surely.

I found the conversation from yesterday on CNN transcripts.

BROWN: Right. And I just want to go back to this and we'll go back to Flynn. But sources I've spoken to close to the president, John, they backed down the idea he would ever issue a self-pardon because it would be essentially admitting wrongdoing, admitting criminal wrongdoing in their view and president would never want to do that.

Do you really think he would? DEAN: Well, that -- that's a good question. He might, as an insurance

policy, want to stick one in his pocket, and not announce that he had done it, a self-pardon. But there is no question, a pardon is -- to accept a pardon is to acknowledge guilt. There is a Supreme Court case on that.

In fact, Gerald Ford, after he pardoned Nixon, carried a little slip of paper with a quote from the relevant Supreme Court ruling that he could pull out when anybody asked him why he was giving Nixon this pass. He said, well, Nixon admitted guilt when he accepted the pardon which is true.

So, that's what Trump is worried about. That's why he wouldn't announce it. If he were ever indicted, that's his -- that's his check, that is his ability to say, hey, you can't prosecute me because I have self-pardoned.

[16:50:01]

Then we'd litigate that issue for probably several years.

BROWN: So, you're saying essentially in the dark of the night, he could pardon himself, no one would -- no one would know? Is that what you're saying? Of course, this is speculative.

DEAN: He could do that.

BROWN: OK, OK.

DEAN: He does not have it announce it.

BROWN: OK.

DEAN: He does not have it announce it.

Should've edited that, but it's clear enough.

He doesn't have to announce it, but it wouldn't be a secret for long.

I don't think the "admitting guilt" thing would stop him from self-pardoning; he would just claim he's doing it to protect America from all the fake hoax Democrat Socialist prosecutions of your favorite president.

Better be able to get him on something else he can't pardon
Obstruction of the last couple of weeks should be bad enough. & he had been criminģ when he's not been golfing so surely there must be something not covered. has he combined the 2 at any point.
Surely he'll be back to criming as soon as he's left office too. Will he be able to project a pardon forward.

Christmas Island isn't in the middle of the Pacific somewhere, but a bit south of Java.

Imagine how much more the concentration camps would cost the taxpayer if they were that far away. You really didn't think it through.

Fair I guess (Nauru though?)

That 'send them to coventry' is an actual English idiom and not just the title of Pa Salieu's mixtape.

yeah, not bad town. I think it got heavily bombed in WWII but there you go.
my half sister went to University there too.
Close to Birmingham
I think the phrase must go back further than WWII.
HOme of 2 Tone too

folk etymology of "send them to Coventry" dates it to the Civil War but i dunno if that's really really true

yeah, not bad town.

Who told you that?

'Sending someone to Coventry' is proper cancelling.

Saw some good gigs in the town.
Forgot I'm not entitled to have been anywhere in the UK without certain people's permission , gosh how insufferably smug

Coventry's fine ffs, it's just your usual snobbery about the Midlands

usual?

I've never been to the midlands

OK this is probably diagnostic of something: I had a dream last night in which I was amazed to find out that railway crossings were unlike road intersections, because the train never has to stop, only the cars have to stop when a train is passing. In my waking hours I know this as a matter of course, but in my dream I somehow didn't and needed to share this insight. So I thought, in my dream, I must post this to the "things I was shockingly old" thread on ILX. I find this a little disturbing.

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lol, i love that

That Johnny Cash recorded a theme song for Thunderball with lyrics a bit on the nose. It was rejected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx-x-sGk9oI

Sounds a little too much like the "Underdog" theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1fH0SvGPg