... population 207,100 (I didn't even know it existed!)
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
Try Guys
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
xp I mean it's most of Portsmouth, and it's only an island on a technicality.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
Still a good pub quiz question.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.ezglot.com/words-ending-with.php?w=gue&l=ita&l2=&length=&submit=Search
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
Looking at the least-populated islands in the British Isles, some very odd ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_of_Manhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B9mhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foulness_Island
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
The most-populated ones are kinda odd too.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
Calf of Man's lighthouses built by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
lundy island was just all over the lore of the puffin club
(i guess bcz lundi means puffin in norse, something i only just learned)
https://www.barterbooks.co.uk/catalog/images/books/ppt201.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
I just learned this week that puffins visit the Farallon Islands right outside San Francisco Bay
I had no idea they ventured this far south
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
Lundy = knights templar, puffins, "self-proclaimed king Martin Harman", pirates & wreckers, gets a shout-out in the shipping forecast, quite a Big Deal for a barely-populated island.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
HEY
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
You are talking about my kindred
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
We can dig it.
― nickn, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
what a 'try guy' is
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 September 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
I'm hoping to never learn
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 29 September 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
I vaguely knew that Alsatians were a dog breed but I guess I'd never been curious enough to discover that they're just German shepherds utilizing an alias.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 September 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link
of Glen Ballard's involvement in Thriller and Bad, and writing credit on "Man in the Mirror"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 29 September 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
After detour through the Glen Ballard Wikipedia links, I learned that Ringo is putting out a record every year of late.
― bendy, Friday, 30 September 2022 11:45 (one year ago) link
Wow, wonder who is buying them apart from Rob Sheffield?
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2022 12:17 (one year ago) link
Calling the breed Alsatian or German Shepard is just another point of contention in the ages old border dispute between France and Germany over the Alsace region.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
Disputed Terri(tory)ers
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolley_Kibberhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colley_Cibber
― koogs, Saturday, 1 October 2022 06:32 (one year ago) link
https://fullhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Kimmy_Gibbler
― circa1916, Saturday, 1 October 2022 06:48 (one year ago) link
(xp) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0714457/?ref_=tt_ch
Cell-mates Titus Oates and Colly Kibber plan a robbery together whilst they are in prison. However, when they are released, they stage a dramatic fight to give Regan the impression that they have fallen out with each other. Regan trails Kibber, believing that he may have killed Oates, but this is just the diversion the two villains are looking for, leaving Oates to put the criminal plan into place.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeKLydy_nTM
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2022 10:22 (one year ago) link
Crinkle-crankle walls use fewer bricks than straight ones which need at least two layers of bricks for strength: here arch support provided by the curves. I like them because they teach that a straight line is not always the best model, true for poetry and us all. pic.twitter.com/o62JUYnKXc— Ian Duhig (@ianduhig) October 10, 2022
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
That Suella Braverman actually was named after Sue-Ellen from Dallas.
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
Was born two weeks after JR was shot! Sue Ellen Ewing was in a really bad state at that point, so that was an interesting choice.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
This week I realized “brainstorm” is a play on “rainstorm”
I also recently realized “Van Morrison” isn’t one surname. I always thought the Van was a prefix - I took me realizing Morrison isn’t a Dutch name to consider it. Then I looked it up and saw it’s short for Ivan (also learned Ivan can be Van). Growing up I didn’t really encounter any Vans, and also lumped Van Morrison and Donovan together so kind of just assumed it was a mononym.
― ed.b, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
never thought about brainstorm/rainstorm
there was a period in the UK when people had decided that the word "brainstorm" was offensive to people with epilepsy but my ex contacted a few campaingning groups who said they thought that was bollocks
― saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
i did used to think Van was his middle Dutch name tho :D
i mean fuck it, orangemen
I knew a kid whose middle name was Van.
Looked it up in the SSA's baby name registry and it has never left the top 1000 names! Morrison's birth year, 1945, is pretty close to peak Van though. It topped out the next year at 265.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link
Oh wait, it dropped out of the top 1000 between 1992 and 2005.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
like famous composer Van Gelis
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
Van Heflin and Van Johnson would both have been popular when Van Morrison was growing up.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Van Cliburn, but that was a nickname
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
I doubt he was as famous on the streets of Belfast as Van Johnson.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
(xp) It was short for his middle name Lavan.
Van Heflin = middle name Evan
Van Johnson = middle name Van Dell
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
As a kid I too thought Van Morrison must be his last name, but then I thought about it a bit and realized it was extremely unlikely there was any place in Netherlands called "Morrison"
― bendy, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
I have a sister named Vanessa (whom we called Van) so it never occurred to that it wasn't his first name, but I also never thought about what it could be a short form of. I guess I thought "Van" was the male form of the name.
― nickn, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
His full name is Vanagon.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
I think part of the confusion comes from the fact that people often emphasize the "Mor" instead of the "Van" which makes it sound more like a last name.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
I think I usually emphasise a person’s surname over their first name. Exception being when I’m having a discussion about different members of the Jackson family or something.
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/cz1Dwwp.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
when David Lee Roth isn't enough of a pain in the ass...
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
apparently the Red Hot Chili Peppers have a song called "Sexy Mexican Maid" that was co-written by D.H. Peligro of the Dead Kennedys (RIP)
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
Yeah, he was a Chi-Pep briefly after Hillel died, but they fired him over drug issues. RIP.
― peace, man, Monday, 31 October 2022 11:57 (one year ago) link
Did he refuse to take drugs?
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 31 October 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
No, he gave it away, gave it away, gave it away.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 31 October 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link