Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I'm being followed by a moon rabbit, moon rabbit, moon rabbit.

what the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Moon#/media/File:Man_In_The_Moon2.png

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXrjWe3tR8

月のうさぎ

can a mod turn all of CerebralCosplay's posts into a pic of Balthazar Getty from Lost Highway.

TIL that sometimes doctors use maggots to treat wounds

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, February 12, 2023 1:38 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol, I just randomly learned this yesterday from a kids book about houseflies that I read to my daughter

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The Jam song title, "Billy Hunt", is rhyming slang.

Welp, I just learned that now too. First heard the song 38 years ago and loved it, but found it slightly confusing (likely similar to most American Jam fans’ reactions to many of their songs).

huh. if it is what i am guessing, i am glad I have the scot form of “Venator.”

Well, the actual (Cockney) rhyming slang is Berkshire (or Berkeley) Hunt - shortened to "berk" - but it seems pretty obvious to me now that the name "Billy Hunt" was chosen for rhyming reasons (also it's apparently Australian rhyming slang).

we find it clearer to just use the word

You mean you say Silly Hunt instead of Billy Hunt...

never heard of billy hunt fwiw

Also: 'Unchained Melody' is a cover, the original of which was released a decade before the Righteous Brothers' version.

― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also: "Unchained Melody" is a melody written for the 1955 prison film Unchained, hence the title.

Oh wow - I always just thought "hmm, that's a fucking odd title but OK"

"actually this melody seems pretty chained"

^^^me for years

Also: "Unchained Melody" is a melody written for the 1955 prison film Unchained, hence the title.

I was shockingly old when I posted that itt a few weeks ago.

Pete and Repeat in Riverside Drowning Repost Shockah!

That the word cigarette just means 'small cigar'.

Yes; and "mandolin" means "small mandola."

It's easy enough to see that violin is to viola as mandolin is to mandola.

As an owner of multiple mandolins and mandolas, I was interested to find out that mandolas predate mandolins.

So "mandola" doesn't mean "big mandolin"; it's the other way round.

Also: "Unchained Melody" is a melody written for the 1955 prison film Unchained, hence the title.

I was shockingly old when I posted that itt a few weeks ago.

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.),

Huh, I did a ctrl+F and could only find the Old Lunch post I quoted. And that is still the case. Possibly my browser struggles with the size of thread, or could it be that it was posted in another one? No big matter, happy to yield ilx precedence on this one!

Turns out it was over here: This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

(I enjoyed the factoid, both times around!)

Quite probably that's where I picked it up in the first place!

when "ghosted" became a big part of online vernacular I devised from context that it referred to killing a person, therefore turning them into a ghost. took like a year to realize it didn't mean that at all.

Wow, I admire your credulity at the level of murder casually taking place.

Iirc it has something to do with pottery wheels

The evil Nazi in Raiders of the lost ark is the same actor as the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells from Blackadder. WTF.

Ronald Lacey? He was creepy, insinuating or pathetic in so much British TV/cinema I'm surprised to learn he was only 55 when he died.

they've changed the legal marriage age to 18 in the uk (oh, england and wales only. so gretna green is relevant again). i figured i'd've heard about this before now.

It only happened today!

yeah, there were articles last april. but you'd think there'd've been more of a fuss.

Iirc it has something to do with pottery wheels

Yesterday I learned that pottery wheels were the first wheels ever invented, in ancient Mesopotamia, and it was [insert really long time here] before anyone had the idea of turning them sideways as a means of conveyance.

"Look at this, Ma!"

That sounds below the normal range of human hearing <20Hz are called infrasound.

Magnetic Field is Made of Photons

https://van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/414

but a photon detector near a magnet won't detect anything...

The evil Nazi in Raiders of the lost ark is the same actor as the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells from Blackadder. WTF.

ha, incredible

Thora Hird was Mel Tormé’s mother-in-law for a decade in the ‘60s and ‘70s!

Despite having listened to it literally hundreds of times from the age of 12 and up, this morning was afaict the first time I realized that Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Maker" is just an exaggerated play on saying "Jamaica."

This is up there (or down there) with me somehow only recognizing "Rubber Soul" as a pun a few years ago.

I'm assuming it's from the extremely old joke about someone's wife going to the West Indies.

Yeah, I dunno! I think that's what I'd always heard, but I have no idea what the joke is. But I heard a DJ say it this morning and it just clicked. "D'yer Maker." "Jer-maker." "Jamaica."

Jokes you were shockingly old when you heard

It's:

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies
Jamaica?
No she went of her own accord

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies
Jamaica?
No, Turks and Caicos Islands

I forced my wife to go to the Caribbean
Jamaica?
That’s right, Jamaica.

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies.
Jamaica?
Yes, but she Haiti’d it.

I called it Dyer Maker right up until the day I started doing night work at the classic rock station.