someone in the replies suggests that the spelling of the island did influence the town's official spelling, but nonetheless their independent origins was news to me! (not that I fact-checked this tweet)
― rob, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
so the spellings went that way... of their own accord
― kinder, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
Gabriel Clarke, ITV football's rakish half-time roving reporter, is the son of film director Alan Clarke.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
Cool.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
The correct pronunciation of menarche. Never heard it out loud until watching an episode of handmaids tale the other night. I was surprised!
― Kim, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
That one surprised me so much that I refuse to update it on the internal database
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
Is that the Midwestern hardware store where you'll save more?
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
Abolish the menarche
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 07:43 (two years ago) link
I just today realized that Spiritualized’s “Cop Shoot Cop…” isn’t about police but the more obvious one that fits the album.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
None of the classic Hall & Oates albums say just “Hall & Oates” on the cover.
(Per recent Craig Jenkins/Vulture piece)
― Josefa, Friday, 13 August 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
That the loud clicking sound generated by clicking/snapping one’s fingers is the sound of the finger hitting the fleshy part of the palm - seems obvious but I guess I always thought of it as being produced entirely by the friction of finger & thumb rubbing together, which now seems absurd when I give it any thought at all
― Woolf & Stein 3d (wins), Friday, 13 August 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah!
― Alba, Friday, 13 August 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
I dont believe this
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 13 August 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
Not taking questions, not thinking any more about it
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 13 August 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
Easily tested--put a piece of cloth or a band aid where your middle finger strikes the base of your thumb and listen for the lack of snap.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 13 August 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
Yeah I’ve been doing that a lot and I still barely believe it
― Woolf & Stein 3d (wins), Friday, 13 August 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Have also been obsessively clicking my fingers in the regular way probably slightly more than usual, hope my neighbours don’t think I’m insane
― Woolf & Stein 3d (wins), Friday, 13 August 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
holy shit
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 13 August 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
Whoa
― Kim, Saturday, 14 August 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
THere was a Virgin Megastore in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Just read that in passing in the Guardian from yesterday.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 14 August 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
I was completely unable to snap my fingers until I realised that's how it worked. I'm still not very good at it
― bovarism, Saturday, 14 August 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
― Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 15 August 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
That Edgar and Johnny's real last name is Winter.
That Kurt's real last name is Vile.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
yeah I thought that was a stage name derived from Mr Lotte Lenya
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 12:34 (two years ago) link
Wait what, it isn’t?
― Roffle Tolhurst (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
Apparently not! Unless his parents were fans.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
I mean, I've literally never otherwise seen or heard the last name Vile before but anything is possible.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
I think somebody specifically pointed out it wasn't what I'd taken it to be a couple of years ago. I had just assumed Weill was so well known it would have to be a reference
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
oh & I also think it had been something that had run through my head as a great punk name prior to me hearing about it being in use,
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
Curt Vile was a pseudonym used by Alan Moore early in his career.
― visiting, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
I seem to remember reading about this a while ago and him saying the parents didn't know anything about Kurt Weill. It does all seem a bit 'it was something little Julian Lennon said, not LSD' but they you go.
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
Here you go. From this NY Times article:
Mr. Vile – whose father and stay-at-home mother weren’t aware of the Weimar-era composer Kurt Weill when they named him – played the trumpet throughout elementary and middle school, initially intrigued that he only had to learn to work three valves before he’d be able to “make some cool sounds.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/arts/music/25wein.html
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
Kurt Vile also claims he doesn't smoke weed, so... take with a grain of salt
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
I had just assumed Weill was so well known it would have to be a reference
That may be a bit of a culture-bubble thing (no shade intended, just sayin).
― subpoena colada (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
Brimming with disambiguation:
https://i.imgur.com/Es5sUTY.png
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
Kurt Weil a Swiss vibraphonist born 1932, apparently. Maybe his parents really were Threepenny Opera fans.
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
Wait until you guys hear about Paul Potts!
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
OMG
― Alba, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
the snapping thing is blowing my mind
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
Jennifer Jason Leigh is Vic Morrow's daughter?! I swear everyone in Hollywood is related to someone else in Hollywood.
― jared o'mara's own double entry (Matt #2), Friday, 20 August 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I think last week I learned that Josh Brolin's dad was an actor.
― peace, man, Friday, 20 August 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
TWLToday We Learned pic.twitter.com/oaUsivOIqK— TRL Mailorder (@TRL_Mailorder) August 25, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
As a kid, always wondered which cities were in the other guitar/horseshoe crab-spaceships.
― Citole Country (bendy), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Cambridge and Dedham, iirc
― subpoena colada (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
actual LOLs
― Citole Country (bendy), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
That 'Slav' and 'slave' have the same root, because Slavic peoples were in fact used as slaves in Carolingian Francia.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
We may well still be in the age of Pisces, not the age of Aquarius. Hippy misinformation!
Probably. Inasmuch as there are ages at all.
https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-will-the-age-of-aquarius-begin/
― Alba, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle are sisters.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
heh I feel like I learn that every ten years or so and then somehow manage to forget it
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
Robert E Lee lead the army unit that stopped John Brown from his attempted raid. I think that was in Ibram X Kendi's Stamped From The Beginning, definitely read about it somewhere over the last week. So does that already put him on the wrong side of history before the civil war?
I heard a few years ago that Arlington cemetery was located so that it went right up to Lee's door so he would be continually reminded of the mess he had caused.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link