I don't think "Farsi" is offensive but we call it Persian
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 10 July 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
Gonna take a break from discussing this.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 10 July 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link
Sorry mom's family left in '51.Dad's family left in '57 so that would mean my great uncle was executed in 56 if it makes a difference.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 10 July 2021 03:00 (two years ago) link
In 57 they had to bribe officials just to be allowed to leave. In 51 they could just leave.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 10 July 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
The Shining was released in the US on the same week as The Empire Strikes Back but was outgrossed by a third pop cultural powerhouse which was also released that week. The name of that third film? The Gong Show Movie. And that's the rest of the story. Good day!
― I Scream For Ice Cream But Also Just All The Time And For No Reason (Old Lunch), Sunday, 11 July 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
I think that was because The Shining was initially released only in LA and NYC (10 screens altogether). It was released nationwide three weeks later.
― Josefa, Sunday, 11 July 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
While I was vaguely aware that Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman had been married, I had no idea about the actual details of their short-lived nuptial bliss:
Borgnine's marriage to singer Ethel Merman in 1964 lasted only 42 days. Their time together was mostly spent hurling profane insults at each other, and both later admitted that the marriage was a colossal mistake (Merman's description of the marriage in her autobiography was a solitary blank page). Their divorce was finalized on May 25, 1965.
― hosonono (Matt #2), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
But can you tell us about his marriage to Katy Jurado?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
Apparently the straw that broke the camel’s back was during their honeymoon Ernest gave Ethel a Dutch Oven (he farted in bed and held her head under the covers).
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 12 July 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
and he yelled "Hello, Dolly" as he did it.
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
I don't think "Farsi" is offensive but we call it Persian― Deflatormouse, Saturday, July 10, 2021
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
Wiliam Dalrymple , the guy who wrote The Anarchy did an online webinar recently where he said that Persian was the language of the Indian Royal court around the time. I think he was saying that it was becoming harder to find people who spoke the version of the language particularly since a fellow scholar of his who had almost been fluent had died.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
Sophie Dahl's father was the actor, Julian Holloway, meaning her grandfathers were Roald Dahl and Stanley Holloway.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Guy Pratt, Pink Floyd sideman, is the son of Mike Pratt, of Randall & Hopkirk fame.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Friday, 16 July 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
I just learned this week that he played bass on Like a Prayer by Madonna.
― peace, man, Friday, 16 July 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
He also married Richard Wright's daughter.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
The Like a Prayer chunk in his stand-up is vg (also his book, but you don’t get him doing Madonna voice)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
His dad was also a songwriter/musician (as well as an actor) who wrote with Lionel Bart and Tommy Steele.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
that Lotte Lenya played central evil and treacherous secret agent in early Bond movie.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
most memorable character for me, I must say, in otherwise clumsy effort
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 16 July 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link
The LGBQT acronym for indigenous Canada adds like 6 more letters. 2SLGBTQQIA Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual (2SLGBTQQIA) which I heard a couple of weeks ago and couldn't work out what the 2nd Q was at the time.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 17 July 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
whaaaaaat. damn
― Nhex, Saturday, 17 July 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
i've never seen 2S at the front, but i guess it changes more often than i check in
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 17 July 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
I think 2s is specifically indigenous. I think it has even been something there has been some debate about cultural appropriation when non indigenous people have attempted to claim it asa term. have seen a talk where teh speaker flatly denied taht anybody who is not of a tribal background can claim a status of 2 spirithood. He went on to say taht the term used in different tribes and the perspective on the role changed from tribe to tribe. But it was something that had been accepted in a pre Christian hegemonical indigenous epistemology or something along those lines, like it was a thing in existence and acccepted not shunned in a lot of tribes. But Christian morality when imposed frowned upon marginalised sexuality. Probably actively marginalised it in fact.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 17 July 2021 09:27 (two years ago) link
The Peter Principle was a 1969 satirical book exploring the phenomena of being promoted to the level of one's own incompetence.I had come across the idea before but had no idea it wasa book until I found taht book in a charity shop yesterday.It's written by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. So the peter of teh name is one of the author's surnames. So maybe a bit narciossistic. I thought people named principles etc after other people and noramlly dead ones. But yeah interesting little tome, a bit dated and illustrated with loads of Victorian era Punch illustrations or similar alongside some diagrams etc.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 17 July 2021 09:32 (two years ago) link
xp sorry point was speaker was an indigenous 2 spirit person themselves and saying that it was not a term that could be used by non indigenous people. I think I put in a double negative that I didn't mean to.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 17 July 2021 09:34 (two years ago) link
Just found out that it's Genesis and Cosey on the cover of UFO's Force It album, pre-TG.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_half_of_throbbing_gristle_ended_up_on_a_ufo_lp_cover
Also, that all the facets on the cover was a pun on the title ("Force It").
― nickn, Monday, 19 July 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
facets = faucets (And I proof-read!)
The whole thing couldn't be any more Hipgnosis really
― cryptkeepers are different (Matt #2), Monday, 19 July 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
Robyn Hitchcock's father wrote the novel "Percy", about the world's first successful penis transplant, later a film starring Hywel Bennett with soundtrack by the Kinks.
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:32 (two years ago) link
I remember playing maniac mansion on the PC when I was 13 and being frustrated at being unable to select the tap, only something called a "faucet"
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
For some reason I had it in my head that Americans were more precise than us and distinguished between the spout and the thing you turn (the faucet). But now I see I’ve invented this and that faucet covers both things, just like tap does. I’ve also just discovered that in some parts of America it’s called a spigot instead.
― Alba, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
Often pronounced "spickit"
― peace, man, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link
Spigot's more like what's at the end of a garden hose.
― pplains, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I think I've only ever heard spigot in an outdoor context.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:07 (two years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cP7VnMmUL._AC_.jpg
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
Suzi Quatro is Sherilyn Fenn's aunt
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 22 July 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
No way
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 July 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
"Her sister Arlene is the mother of actress Sherilyn Fenn."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 22 July 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
I don't see much resemblance.. maybe the eyes:
https://images.discovery-prod.axs.com/2020/11/suzi-quatro-tickets_04-21-21_17_5fc4dd4abf0fe.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 22 July 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
Here's Mom:
https://i.imgur.com/WTSc0Ep.png
― pplains, Friday, 23 July 2021 00:13 (two years ago) link
I don't know if it's just seeing these posts in conjunction but suddenly I'm seeing a link between Peter Cook in Bedazzled and the Giant in Twin Peaks.
Good Suzi Quatro fact.
― Alba, Friday, 23 July 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
Speaking of peepers: Her family name of "Quattrocchi" ("four eyes", meaning "bespectacled") was shortened to Quatro
How long have spectacles been around? Seems crazy that there would be a family named after eyewear
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 July 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
Since the 13th century! But that's another good Suzi Quatro fact.
― Alba, Friday, 23 July 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link
Seems crazy that there would be a family named after eyewear
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 July 2021 06:15 (two years ago) link
Quatro's 60s bands were quite good. I picked up the Cradle cd last year and meant to pick up the Pleasure Seekers set.Both of them feature Suzi plus several sisters though looks like it didn't include this one.
― Stevolende, Friday, 23 July 2021 09:09 (two years ago) link
That leaving a mosquito bite alone really does work to stop it itching a lot more quickly.
― Alba, Friday, 23 July 2021 11:44 (two years ago) link
lol
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 July 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link
Suzi Quattro's 'Culture Fix' interview in the Times recently was err... Sadly it's behind a paywall, but:
If I could own one painting, it would be . . . The Scream by Edvard Munch. You can dive right into that picture and find so many things in there. I always really love that really famous painting of the last supper, but I don’t know which artist painted it. [It was Leonardo da Vinci.] I know I should.The book I couldn’t finishThe follow-up to Fifty Shades of Grey. I found myself actually flicking past the rude parts because they had become so repetitive and dull. To be honest, the thrill had gone.The book I’m ashamed I haven’t readI have a wide, wide range of taste and a thirst for knowledge. I can’t really think of a book I should have read that I haven’t.
The Scream by Edvard Munch. You can dive right into that picture and find so many things in there. I always really love that really famous painting of the last supper, but I don’t know which artist painted it. [It was Leonardo da Vinci.] I know I should.
The book I couldn’t finish
The follow-up to Fifty Shades of Grey. I found myself actually flicking past the rude parts because they had become so repetitive and dull. To be honest, the thrill had gone.
The book I’m ashamed I haven’t read
I have a wide, wide range of taste and a thirst for knowledge. I can’t really think of a book I should have read that I haven’t.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 23 July 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
I liked it when i noticed that the Scream mask as in comedy horror film was based on the Scream face as in Edvard Munch
― Stevolende, Friday, 23 July 2021 12:54 (two years ago) link