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Witch WIndow is a goo dinf

the best dinf

The lighthouse was built under the direction of Árni G. Þórarinsson, who recruited experienced mountaineers to scale the rock on which it is located. Their climbing tools did not allow them to bite into the rock near the top, and there were no handholds near the top, so they made a human pyramid (one man on his knees, a second atop him, and a third one climbing on the second one) to reach it.

Looks and mannerisms
* He wears a black suit, usually over a black shirt but never wears a tie.
* He usually has awkward posture - he stoops at a 45 degree angle at the waist and carries his hands in front of his chest like a mouse on hind paws.
* Since he stoops, he tilts his head and looks up at the person he speaks to, rather than at eye level.

just @ me next time, jeez

The book appears in the background of a bookstore scene of the film Mr. Woodcock.

wtf i hate this redesign

it looks like you're accidentally viewing mobile on your browser

Which article is that from

everyone always hates all new designs. change it back if you like, preferences > appearance. i definitely don't miss all the links on the left that i never looked at.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/wikipedia-redesign-vector-2022-skin.html

I do like the sticky table of contents in the left margin, and the bolding of the current position. Also that the number of language links is summarized in the header. (I frequently use this as a quick gauge of relevance/fame when e.g. writing quiz questions for an international audience.)

"Until Simply Red enlist John Zorn, or Mariah Carey works with Tortoise," Stuart Maconie wrote in Q, "she remains the only pop aristocrat who's keeping her ears open."[79]

(I reverted back to the old design in a heartbeat because there has never been a worse redesign. No, funnily Wikipedia I don't want all the text flanked by two pointless blank columns).

if you hit the 'expanded square' icon in the bottom right it kills the margins.

Get some "have sexual intercourse" is attested 1899 in a quote attributed to Abe Lincoln from c. 1840.

which pop aristocrat is stuart maconie bigging up and why does he think having open ears = collaborating with altdork legends?

of course I should have guessed

I wonder if Taft came up with "hittin it from behind".

There are some interesting cars featured in the production. Apart from the 1971 Cadillac Eldorado convertible - licence # 388FUX, there are a number of classic British cars: a Triumph TR6, a Rover P5 and Sun Ra and his associates are driven and interviewed in a 1940s Lagonda.

there's a whole imdb for cars in films - imcdb - i find out last week when wondering what the car was in Carnival of Souls

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Morris&model=Minor+1000&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on

(wasn't a Morris minor 1000 fwiw)

not wikipedia, imdb

"Neile Adams was born in Manila, the Philippine Islands on July 10, 1932 as María Ruby Neilam Arrastia y Salvador of Eurasian descent as her DNA attests. Her bloodline, to clarify erroneous reports, consists of 26% mixture of Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, 7% Polynesian and 67% Spanish Basque and English"

(was in an Alfed Hitchcock Presents episode with Steve McQueen (who she was married to) and Peter Lorre. it's the episode with the zippo lighter)

... still alive btw.

Early traces of Julian's prowess grace two sides of this historical platter.

if you hit the 'expanded square' icon in the bottom right it kills the margins.

― ledge, Friday, 20 January 2023 14:38 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

a million thank yous for this

Lady Perry was born in Warrington, Cheshire. Her mother's family owned a cotton mill

The Shire of Esperance light-heartedly fined NASA A$400 for littering. (The fine was written off three months later, but was eventually paid on behalf of NASA in April 2009, after Scott Barley of Highway Radio raised the funds from his morning show listeners.

Sharp married for a second time and also had a relationship with the novelist Beryl Bainbridge, with whom he had a daughter, Ruth. Bainbridge later said, "He showed up for Rudi's birth, but then went downstairs saying he was going to get a book out of the car and never came back."[6]

He decided to become a playwright after seeing The Front Page. To learn the craft, he retyped the Ben Hecht–Charles MacArthur classic more than twenty times

Booke was fluent in French, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, German, Greek and Italian. He said that he also “fussed" with a half-dozen other languages such as Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Persian, Polish, and Swedish.

which pop aristocrat is stuart maconie bigging up and why does he think having open ears = collaborating with altdork legends?

madonna, thanks to her work with uhh artdork legend william orbit

(going back to the awful redesign and why I don't use it, moving the contents list to the left and out of being a separator between lead and body is maddening esp. when it's an article with an infobox but there are left-aligned pictures at the start of the first section. wretched text squeeze).

Leslie manufactured the speaker to work with other organs besides Hammond, including Wurlitzer, Conn, Thomas and Baldwin.[6] He never particularly liked Hammond organs, once remarking "I hate those damn things."[7]

LOL

Perhaps but relevant context in the previous paragraph

By 1940, Leslie decided his prototype was ready to market, and went to the Hammond Organ Company to demonstrate it. Laurens Hammond, however, was not impressed with Leslie's attempt to better his own organ design, and declined to market it.[4] The company even changed the speaker interface on their organs to make them "Leslie-proof," though Leslie quickly worked around this.

oh lesliepaws

https://i.imgur.com/n8NCpDS.jpg

“Throughout 2016, Buckethead's release output declined sharply, with only 24 albums being released. Pike 226, "Happy Birthday MJ 23" was released on the 53rd birthday of basketball player Michael Jordan.[56] 2016 also saw Buckethead return to touring, after a four-year absence.[57]”

"The chain has had numerous New York City competitors that adopted its mix of hot dogs and tropical fruit drinks, including Gray's Papaya, Papaya Dog, Papaya Heaven, Papaya Paradise, and Papaya Place. In 1976, Nathan's Famous set up shop next door to Papaya King, and a "hot dog war" ensued. Nathan's cut the price of its hot dogs from 50 to 35 cents, while Papaya King sold its hotdogs for a quarter. Six months later, Nathan's capitulated and left the block."

That sounds right up my alley. Like an Orange Julius but papaya?

it's been a long time but ime Papaya King drinks are thinner and more artificial tasting than Orange Julius. Orange Julius is better but those Papaya King drinks are perfect with their hot dogs when you're drunk at 3am

otm

man i lived on gray's papaya when i first moved to NYC. they were six blocks from the couch i was crashing on and you could get two dogs with everything on it and a big orange daiquiri for five bucks. I had weeks where that was my dinner every night.

scratch that i misremember: it was $3.50!
https://archive.ph/pM8sc
i had no idea they reopened at 8th ave and 40th; i gotta go.

the conversations out front of gray's were an excellent crash course to NYC street etiquette

This recording was extremely controversial and was widely panned by those in the Northern Soul scene, who described it as a 'terrible cover version of The Invitations' classic', 'trash', 'bad for Northern Soul',[14] 'an embarrassing novelty single',[16][17] 'crassly commercial', 'selling out',[18] 'horrible', 'even worse than Footsee',[7] 'dire', 'awful',[17] 'annoying', 'our Vietnam flashback moment', and 'a fucking travesty'.[9]

The 1st episode is 69 minutes, 2nd episode is 64 minutes long.

"After 1916, there is no record of him and his fate is unknown.[citation needed]"

i mean

Hahaha

Pons donated Ita, her pet ocelot, to the New York Zoological Gardens when it became too dangerous to remain in her apartment in The Ansonia on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Pons had received the pet, which she believed was a baby jaguar, from a friend in Brazil. The pet and Pons were very attached to each other, but it snarled at visitors and was deemed a hazard