Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I saw an ad on a music magazine in the 90s for a record by a band called two bit thief, and the design of the ad made me think that the singer was a dwarf. Today I remembered the band while looking at the mother love bone poll (there was an ad for this band in the same magazine), so I looked up the band and they all seem to be of regular height. The record is called "Another sad story...in the big city" which could be a megadeth album title.

I loved this post

lol same

If I knew that before today, I forgot it.

Maybe he is the subject of “Easy to Be Hard.”

i was traveling for work and nearly home when my wife texted a picture of one of the cats saying "she won't stop yelling." i said "tell arrow [the cat] to put a sock in it, i'll be there soon!" only i accidentally typed cock instead of sock. i corrected it before hitting send, but it made me pause. was it originally cock and sock is the "clean" version? cuz i hate that if so!

Martha Plimpton is Keith Carradine’s daughter.

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No way!! I had no idea.

Blimey is a minced oath.

Cockney Rebel bassist Paul Jeffreys died in the Lockerbie bombing, somehow that tidbit passed me by until now

Same!

Wonder what they have on him in the archives. Maybe I will find out.

Just looked at this: http://paul-jeffreys.co.uk/ Hadn't realized it was their honeymoon!

jesus! :(

Watched Marat/Sade the other day and only just realised where Arthur Lee got his final words from for "The Red Telephone". Even the triple chant of "freedom".

... i will have to look into that

The title is held by his son Christopher Guest, the fifth Baron, who succeeded him in 1996. Christopher Guest is a film director, writer, actor and musician, married to the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who is therefore the current Lady Haden-Guest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Haden-Guest

In New Zealand, the Classic Kiwi Dip has been a party staple for decades. I love this stuff. It’s a can of reduced cream mixed with a packet Maggi onion soup and a bit of malt vinegar. I love this stuff so much that I bring back several pairings of the onion soup and cream every time I visit. I’ve tried premade onion dips in the US and they’ve never tasted even close.

A couple months ago at my PiL’s house, onion dip was being passed around. It tasted almost exactly like the CKD! “Omg what’s the recipe?” I asked my MiL.

Lipton’s onion soup mix and sour cream 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I guess because all the previous onion dips I’d tried were sour cream-based, I assumed that was the issue and I needed reduced cream specifically.

Tbf, CKD does benefit a little extra from the malt vinegar.

a little malt vin in the onion dip does sound good

Not sure how I’m gonna break this news to my fellow kiwis, since for generations we’ve been under the impression our CKD is extremely unique.

Does the vinegar curdle the cream?

I think I’ve used the Knorr French Onion mix before for the same. Looks like they have a dip recipe on the bag sometimes, although theirs appears to include mayonnaise in addition to sour cream

https://www.knorr.com/us/en/r/french-onion-dip.html/107790

lmao my dad used to make the onion soup mix plus sour cream combo all the time and I was SPRINTING to tell you

We are not kiwi of course just your everyday snack connoisseurs

French onion dips a thing in Aus too but yeah we just make it with sour cream and Continental french onion soup in a packet. I'd be curious to try an evap milk/malt vinegar combo instead!

(assuming reduced cream = evaporated milk ? I am maybe rong)

Not sure if it’s quite the same - it’s only sold in nz and oz, nowhere else in the world

https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/15-09-2019/future-of-kiwi-onion-dip-hangs-in-the-balance-as-nestle-factory-closes#

Afaict, reduced cream is made from cream and skim milk, while evaporated milk is just milk. I think reduced cream has a higher fat content.

Also, I don’t know of any other instance where reduced cream is used, except in CKD, which tells you just much of this stuff we eat.

It only dawned on me minutes ago that the name of the protagonist of the Alien series, Ripley, is just the first name of the director of the first film with the "d" rotated 180 degrees.

Ha!

Believe it . . . or not!

Ripley Scarn

Today i learned that Meatloaf was only 5'2"!! I always thought he was about 9ft tall

No way!

Haha no scratch that - I've been given false information. He was six foot

ppl out there just fibbing abt meat loaf, in 2024!

FAKE LOAF

Like a Gnat Out of Hell

5'2" ain't bad

We were barely seventeen and we were not so tall

Clock DVA, the sheffield band, who i have always called "Clock D V A" are actually "Clock Dva", Dva being russian for 'two'. it's a clockwork orange reference.

(still unconvinced by that)

Whoa really?

I heard that several years ago. The 2 o'clock bit at least. Thirst has a symbol on the front that appears to signify that too. irckle with a triangle corresponding to the clock hands position filled in.

circle with a triangle

I remember them talking about this in the Made In Sheffield documentary - iirc they gave up telling everyone it wasn't D V A after a couple of years and started calling it that themselves.

The difference between collision and allision, at least as far as maritime law defines it.

Railways existed before steam engines and locomotives - I mean, duh, why wouldn't they?

well a locomotive wouldn’t be much use without them Tom duh

allision-- my aim's untrue

well a locomotive wouldn’t be much use without them Tom duh

Wagonways!

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