If Music Could Talk

BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2019, 11:12pm

Should I tell them or will you?

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

Haha I saw this recently in a documentary about Cook, bizarre.

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2019, 11:02am

revbob wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2019, 10:51am

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2019, 10:19am

revbob wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2019, 9:38am

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2019, 7:17am

Regina has absolutely nothing. It is a delusion of a city.

It's good for use in limericks.

This is true. But it shows an awareness of how it's properly pronounced.

Yes, I think a lot of people assume it is just a made up place too just for the convenience of the rhyme.

I've had Americans correct me on the pronunciation. One even persisted after I told her I was from that horrible province.

Reminds me of the joke about the three Chicago streets that rhyme with “Vagina”: Paulina, Medina, and Lunt.

Flintstones Vitamins still exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintston ... e_Vitamins

I can't recall the last time I saw them on the shelf, but I'd buy 'em in a heartbeat.

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

08 Mar 2019, 8:45pm

Flintstones Vitamins still exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintston ... e_Vitamins

I can't recall the last time I saw them on the shelf, but I'd buy 'em in a heartbeat.

I saw them at the grocery store yesterday.

revbob wrote: ↑

09 Mar 2019, 1:06pm

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

08 Mar 2019, 8:45pm

Flintstones Vitamins still exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintston ... e_Vitamins

I can't recall the last time I saw them on the shelf, but I'd buy 'em in a heartbeat.

I saw them at the grocery store yesterday.

The Pebbles vitamin ensures encephalitis!

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

The largest hurricane on record was 2200 km in diameter, around the distance from New York to Kansas City.

Not on Wikipedia, but the "beautiful suicide" photo popped in my mind so I went looking for context:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/beauti ... ding-1947/

Holy guacamole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September ... etic_storm

We'd be all kinds of fucked if this happened today.

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

I'm revising some lectures for a US survey class and had to look up something on Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice, and came upon this passage:

it was generally accepted knowledge in D.C. that she also had a long, ongoing affair with Senator William Borah, and the opening of Alice's diaries to historical researchers indicates that Borah was the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth (1925–1957).

Alice was renowned for her "brilliantly malicious" humor, even in this sensitive situation, since she had originally wanted to name her daughter "Deborah," as in "de Borah." And according to one family friend, "everybody called her [Paulina] 'Aurora Borah Alice.'"

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

04 Aug 2020, 3:16pm

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

I'm revising some lectures for a US survey class and had to look up something on Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice, and came upon this passage:

it was generally accepted knowledge in D.C. that she also had a long, ongoing affair with Senator William Borah, and the opening of Alice's diaries to historical researchers indicates that Borah was the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth (1925–1957).

Alice was renowned for her "brilliantly malicious" humor, even in this sensitive situation, since she had originally wanted to name her daughter "Deborah," as in "de Borah." And according to one family friend, "everybody called her [Paulina] 'Aurora Borah Alice.'"

Those kooky 'Velts.

I saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.

matedog wrote: ↑

17 Sep 2020, 10:12am

I saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.

No, loyalist violence isn't really remembered in the UK.

Silent Majority wrote: ↑

17 Sep 2020, 10:18am

matedog wrote: ↑

17 Sep 2020, 10:12am

I saw a preview for a Netflix doc on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and had never heard of it. Is this event well known in UK/Ireland? But holy shit, what a fucked up event.

No, loyalist violence isn't really remembered in the UK.

Much of it has proven to be state sponsored. Like has happened in so many other places the loyalist paramilitaries were a proxy force of the state be it the state of NI at one point or the UK government itself. Im not picking sides here nor trying to stir anything up because often when this sort of thing is mentioned you get a backlash from someone saying something about Republican paramilitaries. I see this as akin in present day to someone saying Black Lives Matter to which you hear someone respond All Lives Matter. And like in the US you have police who are members of the kkk or other far right organizations you have had in NI members of the former UDR and RUC who were also in or sympathetic to the various loyalist paramilitaries.