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
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, April 3, 2024 6:41 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
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
Haha!
― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:43 (six months ago) link
Traffic has a song called "Roll Right Stones" which is named after the Rollright Stones which is a set of megalithic monuments which I've never heard of until 10 minutes ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollright_Stones
― Hunky Tory (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2024 21:19 (five months ago) link
I fancy I’ll open a stationer’sStock quaint notepads for weekend pagansWhile you were out at The Rollright StonesI came and set fire to your shed‘Cos you probably work at an all-night garageYou probably work at an all-night garageYou probably work at an all-night garageWith Talk Radio on
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 8 April 2024 21:23 (five months ago) link
Flip Wilson coined “what you see is what you get”
― brimstead, Monday, 8 April 2024 21:24 (five months ago) link
The voice saying “number nine… number nine…” in “Revolution 9” is not John Lennon.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 08:11 (five months ago) link
It doesn't sound anything like John Lennon!
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 13:10 (five months ago) link
These are not things that I just learned, but these are things my wife (who is about the same age as me) just learned in quick succession last night while we were watching the basketball game:
1) Knight Rider was about a guy and his talking crime-solving car. 2) David Hasselhoff was famous in Germany not for acting but for his singing.3) The apes in the Planet of the Apes movies talk.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 13:17 (five months ago) link
David Hasselhoff is also famous in Germany for believing that his execrable song 'Looking for Freedom' contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and then singing the song perched on a crane above the Wall on New Year's Eve that year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2Sgd9sc0M
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 13:56 (five months ago) link
I'd give him more credit than Reagan
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:01 (five months ago) link
I always thought it was Lennon.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:03 (five months ago) link
I woulda thought it was George before I thought it was John...
... George Martin!
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:15 (five months ago) link
I'd give him more credit than Reagan.
Oh God, yeah. I was living in West Berlin in 1987 when Reagan came to give his 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!' speech. I remember that Berliners of all political persuasions were irritated by yet another politician flying in for a self-serving soundbite and then clearing off again.
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:18 (five months ago) link
Definitely more than Thatcher.
― Hunky Tory (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:19 (five months ago) link
Thatcher's only contribution to German reunification was to try to block it.
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:32 (five months ago) link
The Young Ones' Vyvian is named after Vivian Stanshal.
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 04:46 (five months ago) link
OK now that is a neat tidbit I never knew!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 06:07 (five months ago) link
It doesn't sound anything like John Lennon
I’m an idiot! What can I say? All British accents sound the same.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:50 (five months ago) link
Undeniably true
― the mcguinn brothers (Matt #2), Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:56 (five months ago) link
I disagree. I got really good at locating English accents by inflexion etc when I was hitching. Think I was getting down to nearest large town at least. There are a lot of them
― Stevo, Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:01 (five months ago) link
I think I’ve trained myself to recognize a Manchurian accent from all the musicians I listen to who are from there.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:54 (five months ago) link
Mancunian
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:55 (five months ago) link
The Mancunian candidates
― the mcguinn brothers (Matt #2), Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:55 (five months ago) link
I only learned the phrase “May December” (or “May September”) because of the new Todd Haynes film
When I heard the phrase I assumed the phrase referred to the school year: “a teacher dates a student over the summer holiday”, for example
I did not realize that it referred to the months of the year as a metaphor for the stages in one’s life
Yesterday the meaning of this phrase became clear to me after an unrelated google
The funny thing is that I’m a fan of Kurt Weill
I used to accompany my friend on piano covering Threepenny Opera songs and others
My stage name was Pfalz Gewürstraminer
And certain songs, like “Surabaya Johnny”, I just accepted that it was somewhat lost in translation
But “The September Song” never made any sense to me, because I didn’t get this “months = stages of one’s life” metaphor
When you don’t get the metaphor, it really is just a strange thing to hear Frank Sinatra belting “SEPTEMBER! NOVEMBER!” with the drama all dialled up
Anyway well it makes sense now
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:56 (five months ago) link
I figured out September Song after many listens to Lost in the Stars but it does seem to be a conceit that resonated more in the past. Just about everyone used to wind down a lot in their sixties, and nowadays who knows how many decades you got after middle age?
― bendy, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:57 (five months ago) link
Sinatra recorded that whole September of My Years album when he was only 49!
― Josefa, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:25 (five months ago) link
life expectancy in the US in 1965 was 70 years. september is the ninth month of the year. (70/12)*9 = 52, so not far off in fact
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:35 (five months ago) link
wait, what's september gurls about? December boys got it bad because they are about to die?
― silverfish, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:41 (five months ago) link
It was inspired by three of the women in Chilton's life who he was thinking about at the time, including his ex-wife, having birthdays in September.[5]
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:43 (five months ago) link
Alex Chilton was a big astrology guy
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:57 (five months ago) link
He liked things enigmatically literally didn't he? Sister Lovers was him and abandmate dating a pair of sisters though it sounds like it should be a poetic allusion dunnit? may just be later valorisation?
― Stevo, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:58 (five months ago) link
Chilton born on Dec. 28 too.
― pplains, Thursday, 11 April 2024 15:09 (five months ago) link
Yeah I always assumed “December boy’s got it bad” was singular not plural
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 April 2024 17:15 (five months ago) link
I only got the September song metaphor because my mom used to play “April Come She Will” a lot when I was a kid
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 12 April 2024 02:12 (five months ago) link
I just learned the song "Popcorn" by Hot Butter was first done by a guy named Gershon Kingsley in 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htuL6mvlTgk
― nickn, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:46 (five months ago) link
TIL that Peggy Lee substantially rewrote the lyrics for her version of “Fever,” making it very quite different from the Little Willie John original.
― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 April 2024 03:18 (five months ago) link
TIL = within the past week
― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 April 2024 03:19 (five months ago) link
TWIL
Didn't realise that the original letter locations on a typewriter were changed so that the word 'typewriter' could be typed with keys that are situated only on the upper row.
When Sholes sold his typewriter design to the Remington company, Remington engineers made an additional change to the layout by transferring the letter “R” to the upper row so their typewriter salesmen could quickly type the word “typewriter” to potential clients by locating all of the necessary letters in the upper row.
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Friday, 12 April 2024 11:19 (five months ago) link
The use of the word piracy to copy someone’s work goes back to the 17th century.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 12 April 2024 21:11 (five months ago) link