Is bumbershoot like Lollapalooza, an out of use antiquated term used only to name a music festival?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:22 (six months ago) link
^^^^^ yes
― Jaq, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:36 (six months ago) link
I've only heard bumbershoot used by Americans as a faux-Britishism
― bendy, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:40 (six months ago) link
Extremely faux as no-one in Britain has ever heard of it.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Friday, 29 March 2024 13:44 (six months ago) link
Although there is (was?) a homophobic Jamaican variant that was popular in the UK when I was at school
― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Friday, 29 March 2024 13:48 (six months ago) link
if you mean bomboclaat, that one isn't homophobic, it's misogynist
― rob, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:09 (six months ago) link
in that it means menstrual pad. though it could also mean toilet paper, while bloodclaat is more clearly the former
and tbc none of these words are related to bumbershoot in any way
― rob, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:12 (six months ago) link
I think it mutated its meaning into north London! Anyway yes I guess from a different origin to bumbershoot.
― squirm baby squirm (Matt #2), Friday, 29 March 2024 14:16 (six months ago) link
ah right that is quite possible!
― rob, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:30 (six months ago) link
"He washed his hands of the whole thing"
Comes from Pontius Pilate (on Good Friday!).. he just wanted to give Jesus a flogging and let him go, but the crowd wanted blood, so he symbolically washed his hands to say that he didn't agree but do whatever you want. It's in the Stones song, don't know why I never made that connection
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 16:27 (six months ago) link
it’s weird to me that the voice of Garfield/Peter Venkman also co-created the Bob Newhart Show and co-composed its theme song
― brimstead, Friday, 29 March 2024 16:48 (six months ago) link
And was the voice of Carlton the Doorman on the Bob Newhart Show and Rhoda
― Josefa, Friday, 29 March 2024 17:03 (six months ago) link
Pontius Pilate Was the Voice of Garfield
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 29 March 2024 21:55 (six months ago) link
huh never knew bumbershoot was american, totally thought it mysterious/british/lol.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Friday, 29 March 2024 22:58 (six months ago) link
well I just read a thing about Pontius Pilate and he didn't seem to give two shits about Jesus, for or against.. he certainly wasn't try to arrest him or hunt him down, that was news to me
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 March 2024 23:40 (six months ago) link
I don't think we know anything much at all about Pontius Pilate and what he thought. Outside the gospels, which have their own agenda, there is almost no mention of him in the records.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:00 (six months ago) link
I got my info direct from the Gospel of Wikipedia
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:08 (six months ago) link
According to Eddie Vedder, Pilate had a dog. So there's that much that we know.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:51 (six months ago) link
The original Fido.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 March 2024 01:04 (six months ago) link
he just didn’t like the last supper, was hoping for lasagna
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 30 March 2024 01:40 (six months ago) link
Well, we do know he was friends with Biggus Dickus.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:43 (six months ago) link
lol table
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 March 2024 17:06 (six months ago) link
Pilate was very flexible in his opinions
― kinder, Saturday, 30 March 2024 17:25 (six months ago) link
Charley Pride, baseball prospect. It feels like I'm learning this for the first time, but there's so much stuff on his Wikipedia page about his baseball career, I'm questioning that--I must have learned about this at some point. No recollection at all, though.
Though he loved music, one of Pride's lifelong dreams was to become a professional baseball player. In 1952, he pitched for the Memphis Red Sox of the Negro American League. In 1953, he signed a contract with the Boise Yankees, the Class C farm team of the New York Yankees. During that season, an injury caused him to lose the "mustard" on his fastball, and he was sent to the Yankees' Class D team in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Later that season, while in the Negro leagues with the Louisville Clippers, two players – Pride and Jesse Mitchell – were traded to the Birmingham Black Barons for a team bus. "Jesse and I may have the distinction of being the only players in history to be traded for a used motor vehicle," Pride mused in his 1994 autobiography.
Pride pitched for several other minor league teams, his hopes of making it to the big leagues still alive, but was drafted into the United States Army in 1956. After basic training, he was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, where he was a quartermaster and played on the Fort's baseball team. That team won the All Army Sports Championship. When discharged in 1958, he rejoined the Memphis Red Sox. He tried to return to baseball, though hindered by an injury to his throwing arm.
Pride played three games for the Missoula Timberjacks of the Pioneer League (a farm club of the Cincinnati Reds) in 1960, and had tryouts with the California Angels (1961) and the New York Mets (1962) organizations, but was not picked up by either team.
I'm sure that what led me down that path is obvious.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:29 (six months ago) link
at least he had something to fall back on
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:00 (six months ago) link
Beyoncé won't have baseball if the country thing doesn't work out.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:18 (six months ago) link
I was today years old when I learned Judy Garland is Liza Minelli's muva!! feels sacrilege to have gone this long unknowing of their bio tether
― stwahberrymilkgirlll, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:26 (six months ago) link
:-O
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:31 (six months ago) link
they even sound the same
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:32 (six months ago) link
We don't know how old you are, but that may indeed live up to the "shockingly" part of the thread title.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:33 (six months ago) link
yeah like i said sacrilege
― stwahberrymilkgirlll, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:44 (six months ago) link
too old to have not known honestly
i don't think they sound similar. Judy garland has a playful voice while liza minelli's is stark
― stwahberrymilkgirlll, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:47 (six months ago) link
I guess I'm referring to the timbre of their speaking voices
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:49 (six months ago) link
I've heard from both of them a similar sibilance when pronouncing 'S', also
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:22 (six months ago) link
Hang on to your hat: Liza Minnelli also related to Vincente Minnelli.
(Just having fun here. My learning curve shocks me every day.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 22:18 (six months ago) link
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.
I knew that Jamie Lee Curtis's mother was Janet Leigh, of Psycho - I had somehow never put two and two together that her father might be Tony Curtis, until I learned that earlier this year.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 22:41 (six months ago) link
I laughed out loud reading your razz. spicy. I'm not taking it as a personal attack. I shared this in good fun:) but eh my learning curve did a little shimmy
― stwahberrymilkgirlll, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:14 (six months ago) link
It's in the Stones song, don't know why I never made that connection
― Andy the Grasshopper
infuriating post because it puts the wrong stones song in my head
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:40 (six months ago) link
I can't get no sanitation?
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 April 2024 00:37 (six months ago) link
Pilate has a dog in The Master and Margarita, which is also where Jagger got his Pilate info from
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 4 April 2024 00:58 (six months ago) link
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You can see it though now, right? I think she looks so much like Tony C in the face.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 4 April 2024 10:46 (six months ago) link
xpost - I learned just last week what Lily Dale is when friend mentioned having gone there years ago. I had no idea! I need to visit.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 4 April 2024 10:47 (six months ago) link
Martin Luther King was called Michael after his dad from birth. Both only took on the name Martin Luther King years later. I read that in the intro to his autobiography last week. King pere was aqparently sent on a trip to Europe by his church during which he became heavily interested in Martin Luther, returned and changed both his and his son's names. His son was 5 years old.
― Stevo, Thursday, 4 April 2024 10:53 (six months ago) link
Good one.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 April 2024 10:59 (six months ago) link
I learned that not so long ago myself. Trying to imagine telling my nearly five year old she would have a different name from now on - I don't think it would go down well.
― gene besserit (ledge), Thursday, 4 April 2024 11:28 (six months ago) link
Just realised that "Yakety Sax" is an extended arrangement of the sax break on "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters - the clue was right there in the name.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 April 2024 11:33 (six months ago) link
It also sounds the same!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 4 April 2024 11:36 (six months ago) link
yes there is also that
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 April 2024 11:42 (six months ago) link
lol
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 April 2024 11:51 (six months ago) link