Things you were shockingly old when you learned

is Fleetwood Mac a type of car

flotsam-based raincoats for fishermen in harsh climates ("climie fishers") iirc

xpost I use two of the tablets but the thermos is not very big

* Aimee Mann was the lead singer of 'Til Tuesday, and an electrifying stage presence in said capacity

Wait till you hear about the admittedly less political sounding Climie Fisher.

an angler with an addiction to mountaineering so they gave him a corny nickname, like

Climb-y Fisher

i remember when i found out the Aimee Mann/Til Tuesday thing and it blew my mind

If you're of a certain age, it may have taken you a while NOT to think of her as the singer of Til Tuesday.

I have been pronouncing Ciaran Hinds name wrong forever.

I am afraid to ask how it is pronounced

“Karen”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TpgCVbNJ1Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GcodBcAnkM

I would have gone with "Sharon" myself.

I had no idea he was from Belfast. I thought he was English!

Yeah its basically "Kieren" right? Anyway I was saying "cheearan" and "hinds" like LINDSay

Can't not:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/saoirse-ronan-and-stephen-colbert-pronounce-ridiculous-irish-names-1.2495185?mode=amp

Personal note: My sister and I got very Irish names at birth, though we are decidedly not Irish. Substitute teachers balked at them, our peers could not pronounce them. I changed mine; my sister kept hers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiYmrWnprf8

I think Waterford Whispers had a post about how some parents had been mispronouncing their children's names for years. Could have been an old post though but caught my eye. Irish take on the Onion.
There was definitely a trend in D4 Southside Dublin a couple of decades ago to use obscurish gaelic names for their offspring.

JUst now realising that a webinar I'm watching hasa virtual table panel on . Made up of individual zoom portals but teched into sitting at a cartoon table.
Hadn't seen that before.
Cool, or is Australia actually so free of covid taht people sit around cartoon tables.

Like, I think this is live and therefore not post production . Lining up people behind a virtual table in a line where thy have teh scale about right.
I possibly hadn't noticed cos I was doing several things at the same time.
Have seen individuals with almost convincing tech backdrops that would have you almsot thinking they were in teh room being used as backdrop.
BUt this is individuals slotted i behind a virtual table on a virtual backdrop. Probably something taht has been done elsewhere but I haven't see it.
& there is still shadow in wrong places for the virtual room but interesting to see how this is progressing.

how young were you when you started watching the webinar

I was a lot younger when I realised how unimpressed i was by self congratulatory douches

I didn't put it together until just now that Elmyra from Tiny Toons was based off of Elmer Fudd.

The characters of Elmyra and Montana Max in Tiny Toons are surrogates for Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, September 25, 2017 6:20 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Beat me to it.

I remember being pretty late to that party as well! As a kid these characters seemed to me like odd mismatches corresponding to nobody. Very weird that could not make the leap.

xxpost I think Aimee Mann was also the bass player of Til Tuesday, not just the singer

The characters of Elmyra and Montana Max in Tiny Toons are surrogates for Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, September 25, 2017 6:20 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

my god

It would be extremely poor form to mock people on this thread, so I'll just say it was pretty genius to make incompetent animal-hunter Elmer Fudd into obsessive animal-lover Elmyra

I hadn't realised untilthis morningtaht you had the possibility of a 6+ way zoom type call that would allow you to look like you were together on a panel. Where each member is rendered as almost to scale input into an image where they look like they're lined up behind a table substitute.
What I have seen is single individuals shown in front of backdrops that can be somewhat convincing but still tend to glitch somewhat.
THis did show odd shadows for a single view and some glitching around moving arms and hands and things but otherwise seemed to work.
NOt sure to what extent this had to do with post production since I think it was broadcast pretty much live . It was for a week long design festival thing but fro what I've seen elsewhere most of teh time if you're doing things from Zoom you are doing individual talking heads in separate portals/screens. THis had taken talking heads and upper torsos and input into an image.
I'm not sure what teh current limits of this are, I would think having some time to work on post production would be a great deal of benefit which would allow things taht weren't possible to do live. Obviously for this to be a panel it had to be done pretty much live and i think the transmission was almost immediate.
So could be that this has been something that has been available for a while but I haven't seen it

Elmyra/Max revelation blowing my goddamn mind

I twigged to Max as a kid, but Elmer/Elmyra never. Even though not only is it right there in her name, but her face is exactly like Elmer’s face!

Crazy how many of us share this!

I think maybe as a kid, when we haven't encountered that many first names yet, we have less of a sense of which ones are uncommon and so uncommon cartoon character names don't flag themselves as maybe meaning something. like between Fudd and the glue manufacturer I probably figured that as an adult i would know dozens of Elmers.

reading the wikipedia entry about the different tiny toons characters is blowing my mind over and over. i mean...

Buster is based on the Chuck Jones version of Bugs Bunny, who was the calm and collected foil to Jones' incarnation of Daffy Duck and attacked others only when provoked.

Babs is based on the Bob Clampett version of Bugs Bunny, who was a constant trickster that liked to disguise himself to fool others.

idk. those bits aren't cited... feels like "original research."

also further wiki digging: the minor character Fowlmouth, whose gimmick was to use excessive profanity which was bleeped out, was the Foghorn Leghorn equivalent.

steven spielberg was jack warner

I was shockingly old when I learned of the existence of Tiny Toons. But I suppose I would have been a bit shockingly old to have been watching it in the early 90s.

It was an enormous deal if you were exactly the right age, but I think it had a short shelf life - none of the new characters became iconic in their own right, and iirc the comedy was fairly middling... I don't think there are any widely hailed "classic episodes" or short segments, although I could be wrong. Also, it only lasted two seasons before being replaced by Animaniacs, which left a bigger cultural footprint with Pinky and the Brain, Yakko's song with the countries of the world, etc. And even at that time I think the consensus among us kids was that the successor was the better show.

I had heard that Karen Carpenter played drums, but...

#DotM Karen Carpenter
I heard that Hal Blaine played on their hits. But why?! pic.twitter.com/Q2tDCmuPlb

— Stewart Copeland (@copelandmusic) March 30, 2021

oh yeah, she was a total badass

damn

fantastic

Fucking hell!

damn! I knew she could play, I didn't know that she could play

That Róisín Murphy was one half of Moloko.

...in which capacity she co-wrote gospel songs for the world:

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

aww, nice. ty

This could probably go in the wikipedia unusual details thread but I never knew this about Alan 'Fluff' Freeman:

He was memorably described by Graham Chapman as being "keen on motor bikes and leather and men"

Not 'arf!

not a shock so much as an interesting little thing

and the Addams Family tv show set looked like this to get the proper contrasts pic.twitter.com/9K1OglEnyb

— a hungry mouth (@AHUNGRYMOUTH) April 10, 2021