Things you were shockingly old when you learned

just a standard cop I think .. his name is never credited on any other records apart from police reports but here he is playing along with Monk/Art Blakey/Max Roach ...lols!

the quote I read was : "Apparently he was a policeman first and bassist second, and occasionally you can tell from his exceptionally wrong notes."

Babycham is just a type of Perry.

The Atlanta Falcons logo makes an F.

Babycham is just a type of Perry.

Yes! Surely it should be a kids' champagne.

Babycham is just a type of Perry.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, November 27, 2021 3:12 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Without even knowing what this was, I immediately thought to myself: "British"

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1bSyKUItOGY/Wmmh9YpQGeI/AAAAAAAACXY/6_nc9lQ7GMsvOYlW9Ll7PDrtMGDJSqW5ACLcBGAs/s1600/Babycham%2B-%2B1950s.jpg

it's fer posh birds that play tennis!

http://mynie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/c5.jpg

The American version... but it's just malt liquor

"mark my words you're headed for the poorhouse"

^^^

classic advertising slogan!

"... some people just know how to live!"

Classic ILX slogan!

'pictures of people who just know how to live'

Gong Li

What stare decisis means.

Stare decisis — Latin for “to stand by things decided.”

It’s the doctrine of judicial precedent. If a court has already ruled on an issue (say, on reproductive rights), future courts should decide similar cases the same way.

Learned last week about the National Day of Mourning as an alternative to Thanksgiving, even though it has been celebrated since the 1970s.

Nikita and Nina Kruschev were together for 43 years before they got married.

Well, the Bolsheviks were originally very anti marriage.

I can copy and paste symbols that aren't on my phone. So I can do the hidden text thing.

No square brackets like. I guess the fact that I can see square brackets should be an indication. Just not something I can independently access on my phone as far as I can see.

& then I find a 2nd page of symbols. Cool. Great. Well early morning still. Lovely

I just do a different formatting (eg italics) then change the letter to h

Up until a ripe age I had a vague idea that the elongated interjection 'pee-you!' (ie, 'pew!' for an unpleasant smell) was the acronym 'P.U.' and stood for something in Latin.

Reid Miles, mastermind of the classic Blue Note album cover aesthetic, took the picture on the cover of Bob Dylan’s the Basement Tapes

The pac-man ghosts all move in different ways.

there's a great web page about that, right down to disassembly level, and points out an overflow bug.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-pac-man-dossier

http://donhodges.com/pacman_pinky_explanation.htm

and the other interesting thing is that because their movements are deterministic then you can use patterns that work every time.

with Ms Pacman they gave them a random factor so the patterns don't work.

I had no idea Babycham was perry either! I guess I thought it was like west coast cooler or some other godawful fruit alkypop.

Ed Grimley was not a real guy - it was just a character played by Martin Short!

I was too young to have seen his sketches on SNL and too old to care by the time he got a Saturday morning cartoon. I was just peripherally aware of a guy with a weird haircut named Ed Grimley. I guess I just assumed that he was some over-the-top 1980s comedy weirdo.

"Sieg Heil!" doesn't mean "Say Hail!"*, it means "Victory Hail!" as in "Hail victory!".

*) a misunderstanding probably easier to make in Norwegian, where the corresponding imperative is "si", archaic "sig"

"Pee-you" is written "P.U." a lot (or used to be), so I can see why you would thing that way.

Reminds me of that thing in Ulysses where someone gets an offensive postcard saying "U.P.: up" - I've never understood this.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-significance-of-U-p-Up-in-Ulysses

that extremely cool actor Pedro Pascal is Salvador Allende's great nephew.

That John Martyn's real name was Iain McGeachy and thus he wasn't called John Martyn at all!

I think he assumed that no-one in England would be able to pronounce McGeachy.

Plus, that's a Scots equiv to "John" isn't it?

i'll be Iaian McGeachy in a Taxi honey

"Your dressing is over here, Mr. Geeky... *headbutt* ... ugh..."

dressing room, that is

• Duluth
• Milwaukee
• Chicago
• Detroit
• Cleveland
• Buffalo
• Toronto

It wasn't until today that I realized... Detroit isn't really a "Great Lake" city.

OK, this one kind of blew my mind a bit. Jefferson Airplane drummer, Spencer Dryden was related to Charlie Chaplin. His dad, Wheeler Dryden, was Chaplin's younger half brother, Chaplin's mother was Spencer Dryden's granny!

read today that the bloke who wrote Strange Fruit also adopted the Rosenberg's children after they were electrocuted.

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

I don't know if that list of cities is a well-known litany, but if it's based on size, Hamilton, Ontario is twice the size of Buffalo.

A lot of that is the city-limits/metro-area distinction though - Buffalo's metro area population is a lot bigger than Hamilton's

That Meeropol bio whoa

I admit a U.S. bias to those cities.

Might also explain why I thought Detroit had a Great Lake shore.

I immed thought Toledo and Akron. Turns out just one. I mean, Toledo is 3x more populous than Duluth, offset by being 1/3 as wealthy I spose. I had to look up the sizes tbh.

Akron is just Akron, no lake.

Detroit IS basically on a great lake and is close to a 2nd one, don't be so hard on yourself

A 2nd not so great lake, that is

Was shocked to learn recently that part of Virginia is further west than Detroit.