Liikewise the film New York, New York is set in the 1940s thus the theme song is supposed to sound of that period.
― Josefa, Monday, 10 June 2024 19:37 (three months ago) link
I'm absolutely astounded by that 'New York, New York' fact. I assumed it was from the 40s or 50s, but it was a (surprisingly minor) hit in the summer of 1980. This reminds me of something else I was shockingly old to learn. When I was a little kid, there was a song that went 'New York, New York: so good they named it twice, New York, New York: all the scandal and the vice, New York, New York, oh isn't it a pity....what they say about New York City". Those words might not be 100% correct, it's not as if I've heard this song a lot since the 70s. Anyway, for some reason I got it into my head that it was sung by Elton John and I believed this for about 40 years. Hold on, I need to do some googling....
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 10 June 2024 19:54 (three months ago) link
So at some point during lockdown fever for some reason I was looking to see what had been Elton John's biggest hit and couldn't understand why that song wasn't listed. And then when I googled the lyrics I discovered that it was actually by some bloke called Gerard Kenny who I've never heard of. And apparently it wasn't even a hit in Britain. And yet as a 4 or 5 year old I convinced myself itself it was a chart topper by Elton John and nothing shook this belief for many decades. It doesn't even sound anything like Elton John now that I hear it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsi5lXxzByU
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 10 June 2024 20:00 (three months ago) link
wtf
Although it only reached number 43 on the UK Singles Chart, it remained on the chart for two months.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2024 20:09 (three months ago) link
... also wrote "I Could Be So Good for You!
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2024 20:11 (three months ago) link
I remember that song! surprised it wasn't a bigger hit in the UK, the radio must have played it a lot. these days sounds more like a sitcom opening song, like Cheers.Gerard Kenny also wrote the Minder theme song "I Could Be So Good For You"!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 10 June 2024 20:14 (three months ago) link
xpost dammit Tom!wouldn't be surprised if there was a clip of him singing New York New York on 3-2-1
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 10 June 2024 20:15 (three months ago) link
now that we have AI we can finally hear what a Jo Stafford / Tommy Dorsey rendition of "NY, NY" would sound like circa '43
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 14:34 (three months ago) link
have you actually drunk a fizzing alka-seltzer?― mookieproof, Monday, June 10, 2024 7:21 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I bought some aspirin the other day. I wanted to pop one in a public toilet when I realized they had sold me effervescent tablets. I was in a hurry. I took some water in my mouth and let it dissolve in my mouth. I didn't learn anything, but it was the first time at a shockingly old age.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:06 (three months ago) link
at first I thought you meant you were planning to put the alka-seltzer in the toilet and then drink out of the toilet
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:08 (three months ago) link
You mean, an Anal Alka-Setzer ?
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:10 (three months ago) link
(xp) Waiting till it had stopped fizzing of course.
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:20 (three months ago) link
It’s literally Psalm 137 from the King James version of the Bible:― assert (matttkkkk)
― assert (matttkkkk)
hardly anybody adapts the ending of that psalm where the psalmist sings "blessed are they who smash your babies' heads against the rocks"
the early mega man games picked the robot masters from designs submitted from fans. the kid who designed dust man and crystal man for the "mega man" series of games went on to create the manga "one punch man".
i don't know if that's really what the thread is intended for but i feel like i should have known that already, it seems like the kind of random trivia i know
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:08 (three months ago) link
woah! that also feels like the kind of thing I should know. but i guess the last time I was really learning new Mega Man trivia it was 2001. i also know nothing about the manga, except that it's very popular.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:11 (three months ago) link
today:
the opening "flute" sound of the theme for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is meant to be a coyote howling
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 21:30 (three months ago) link
oh wow
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 01:25 (three months ago) link
TIL that "pooterish" means self-important in the manner of Charles Pooter, nothing to do with farts
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 01:29 (three months ago) link
I beg you to set out the context or, ideally, contexts in which you have read "pooterish" as "farty" and it made sense
― conrad, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 08:57 (three months ago) link
Most Farty Adrian Chiles Column
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 11:19 (three months ago) link
I think it was only a few months ago that I learned that when pole dancers swing around in circles, the POLE itself is actually rotating. Apparently?!? I thought the dancers were swinging themselves around and I couldn't figure out how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile, which in retrospect makes NO sense at all. Now I know the laws of nature and surface traction are intact and the world makes sense again.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:21 (three months ago) link
OMG
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:27 (three months ago) link
I learned that sometime in the past year as well.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:29 (three months ago) link
Oh man, that’s a good one. I had no clue.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:39 (three months ago) link
Wonder how many firemen have chaffed themselves trying to recreate special moments.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:58 (three months ago) link
I mean, if you look at the pole it's clearlyrotating.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:58 (three months ago) link
well, that may explain my failed efforts
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:20 (three months ago) link
Pour Some WD-40 On Me
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:25 (three months ago) link
the pole rotates in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere
― kinder, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:08 (three months ago) link
I think it was only a few months ago that I learned that when pole dancers swing around in circles, the POLE itself is actually rotating. Apparently?!? I thought the dancers were swinging themselves around and I couldn't figure out how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile, which in retrospect makes NO sense at all. Now I know the laws of nature and surface traction are intact and the world makes sense again.― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:21 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:21 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
what
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:26 (three months ago) link
here's to the ppl who look at the pole when they watch poledancing 🍷
― mark s, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:28 (three months ago) link
i mean it isn't a sin to appreciate both pole and dancer
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:33 (three months ago) link
today:the opening "flute" sound of the theme for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is meant to be a coyote howling― budo jeru
― budo jeru
it's an ocarina
it's the one thing people used to play on the ocarina before ocarina players were all link cosplayers who play zelda music
to be clear i love link cosplayers who play zelda music
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:34 (three months ago) link
i mean it isn't a sin to appreciate both pole and dancer― he/him hoo-hah (map)
― he/him hoo-hah (map)
are we pole or are we dancer
Barre exercise is just pole dancing, sideways.
Change my mind.
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:52 (three months ago) link
I suspect you can't do a full 360 around the barre without looking like the Suspiria remake.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 16:23 (three months ago) link
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, June 12, 2024 8:21 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
ok this isn't true?
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 16:25 (three months ago) link
WHAT
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 16:30 (three months ago) link
per Wiki:
Dance poles may have two different modes, spinning and static. In the spinning mode, the pole uses ball bearings to spin. This mode can be used to complete more experienced pole moves, make moves easier to complete, and add a more dramatic effect to the move. Most spinning poles can also be fixed to the static mode where the pole cannot rotate. The static mode is regularly used when pole dancing is first taught to beginners.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 16:31 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUmLLROwADk
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 17:16 (three months ago) link
how they could stick enough to stay up but still be mobile
missed this part, i was just trying to say that dancers can spin like crazy on a stationary pole as the vid demonstrates, but obviously they slowly move down
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 17:18 (three months ago) link
i.e. i thought the claim was "all poles are rotating" which is why i said not true
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 17:20 (three months ago) link
Had the sudden realization while reading that the expression "drop a dime" very obviously traces to calling in police tips from a payphone
― ን (nabisco), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:47 (three months ago) link
Eric André is not the "Eric" who co-created _Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!_. I don't know. You'd think I would be like more aware of this stuff maybe? But I kind of thought, you know, David Lynch-inspired takes on Public Access shows broadcast on Adult Swim, I mean. I thought they were kind of the same show. Look I'm gonna be honest I'm looking at this list of Adult Swim shows debuting from 2010 onwards and I've never heard of any of these except for the "Joe Pera" one people seem to like and the show by those Nazis. To be honest I kinda go out of my way to avoid both Tim and Eric's stuff and Eric André's stuff. Anxiety of influence.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 14 June 2024 04:59 (three months ago) link
I did know that the cheez-a-riffic guitar line in the Top Gun theme was Steve Stevens.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 June 2024 11:56 (three months ago) link
Did NOT know, I mean
It’s “belay that order”, not “delay that order” (as heard in the Navy and old Star Trek episodes).
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 24 June 2024 01:23 (three months ago) link
i don't think i ever knew that was joni mitchell in blackface on the cover of that album until this year. think i read about it on ilm first! forgot about it and then read about it again in a review of the new ann powers book. i've looked at the cover a million times and i don't think it ever registered.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 June 2024 01:32 (three months ago) link
there are flight map screens on the backs of airplane seats. who knew? that's cool.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 12:13 (three months ago) link
i just saw obama's sister on t.v.! auma obama! i had no idea. she was protesting in kenya. and getting teargassed! had no idea he had a sister.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 12:49 (three months ago) link
Some planes include nose cone cameras as part of the in-flight entertainment menu too! You can't see much tbh
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 13:50 (three months ago) link