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Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Lefty Specialist Jan 02 2020 08:09 AM

War criminals get their own clothing lines. God Bless 'Murica. https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1212391682412384256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2F2020%2F01%2F02%2Fserial-killer-navy-seal-eddie-gallagher-pardoned-by-trump-rebrands-as-right-wing-influencer%2F

Edgy MD Feb 05 2020 08:28 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The first woman to join the U.S. Marines signed up in 1918. But she was limited to auxiliary reservist duty. Women couldn't become full members until 1948. One of those first members to join in 1948 — and a few sources say the very first — was Bea F. Arthur.

MFS62 Feb 06 2020 04:26 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Lefty Specialist wrote: War criminals get their own clothing lines. God Bless 'Murica. I wonder what Lt. William Cali is doing these days? Later

RealityChuck Feb 07 2020 07:28 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Jim Pons, a rock drummer for the Turtles and the Mothers of Invention, retired from music in 1973 to take a PR position with the Jets, and designed the logo they used in the 80s. http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/7/152/full/5gtfjeljv9kf52bdv9otg3fhf.gif>

MFS62 Feb 09 2020 06:27 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Betty White was the first woman to win an Emmy, as the host of a game show called "Grab Your Phone". Happy 98th Birthday, Betty! And many, many more. Later

RealityChuck Feb 12 2020 05:21 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

He's dropped out of the race, so it's moot, but Andrew Yang was born here in Schenectady.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 13 2020 08:41 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

My fifth grade teacher died in a house fire in Georgia three years ago. (You can learn a lot from Facebook.) https://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/adventurous-couple-from-long-island-dies-in-georgia-home-fire-1.13458693 On another topic, this is something I've known for a few months now, but hadn't thought to post it here. My girlfriend's late grandfather served in the OSS during World War II and worked with Moe Berg.

kcmets Feb 16 2020 08:53 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

A mondegreen /ˈmɒndɪɡriːn/ is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. - Wikipedia Page

MFS62 Feb 17 2020 09:19 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

I just heard from a long time acquaintance who is now an active member of the Air Force that members of the Security Forces Group at F.E. Warren AFB have been found to be part of a drug ring. Those fuckers (his words) were doing security for the Minute Man III missiles while high - again! https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/02/10/fe-warren-removes-nuclear-security-forces-airmen-suspected-of-marijuana-use/?utm_expid=.jFR93cgdTFyMrWXdYEtvgA.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airforcetimes.com%2F#jwvideo That doesn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Has anyone read anything about that? Later

41Forever Feb 17 2020 01:48 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The Stereogum Number Ones column is just one revelation after another. I had no idea that the woman on the picture sleeve of "My Sharona," -- the one with the girl in the white tank top and mop of black hair holding a copy of "Get the Knack" -- is none other than Sharona Alperin, the very real subject of the song. [url]https://www.stereogum.com/2073647/the-number-ones-the-knacks-my-sharona/franchises/the-number-ones/

nymr83 Feb 17 2020 02:12 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=RealityChuck post_id=31619 time=1581553279 user_id=82] He's dropped out of the race, so it's moot, but Andrew Yang was born here in Schenectady.

why does his dropping out of a race make his birthplace suddenly moot, if it ever mattered anyway?

Frayed Knot Feb 17 2020 02:33 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The Stereogum Number Ones column is just one revelation after another. I had no idea that the woman on the picture sleeve of "My Sharona," -- the one with the girl in the white tank top and mop of black hair holding a copy of "Get the Knack" -- is none other than Sharona Alperin, the very real subject of the song. [url]https://www.stereogum.com/2073647/the-number-ones-the-knacks-my-sharona/franchises/the-number-ones/ "[Knack member Doug] Fieger says [My Sharona] took him about 15 minutes to write." ... Then I'm guessing that must have been one of the longer ones from that album.

dgwphotography Feb 17 2020 04:13 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

A mondegreen /ˈmɒndɪɡriːn/ is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. - Wikipedia Page There's a bathroom on the right

kcmets Feb 17 2020 04:27 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

She's got electric boobs Her mom has too

MFS62 Feb 17 2020 04:32 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

"Revved up like a deuce" heard as "Wrapped up like a douche". The correct words and meaning? A car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Light Later

kcmets Feb 17 2020 06:13 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Bald headed woman Bald headed woman to me

Lefty Specialist Feb 18 2020 07:27 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

50% of luxury condominium units built in Manhattan since 2015 remain unsold.

kcmets Feb 18 2020 08:01 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Any idea what price starts the 'luxury' range in Manhattan these days?

Benjamin Grimm Feb 18 2020 08:12 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

I don't know, but if they come down into the low six figures, let me know!

Lefty Specialist Feb 18 2020 09:40 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Average selling price in 2019 was $3.77 million. So, pretty far from low six figures.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 18 2020 09:47 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Okay, then I'll turn my attention to other things.

nymr83 Feb 19 2020 06:41 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

is this the 'apropos of nothing' thread? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/group-protests-dem-debate-by-unleashing-pigeons-wearing-maga-hats thought this was pretty funny and kudos on the acronym Pigeons United To Interfere Now.

MFS62 Feb 19 2020 06:52 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

is this the 'apropos of nothing' thread? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/group-protests-dem-debate-by-unleashing-pigeons-wearing-maga-hats thought this was pretty funny and kudos on the acronym Pigeons United To Interfere Now. I think if belongs in the Politics thread, but the acronym PUTIN interfering in American politics IS funny-strange for a supposed pro-Trump group. Later

Edgy MD Feb 21 2020 06:35 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

It seems disgusting and cruel to me. Is trolling such a way of life now that it justifies any sort of behavior?

Benjamin Grimm Feb 21 2020 06:48 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Edgy MD wrote: It seems disgusting and cruel to me. I agree.

MFS62 Feb 24 2020 07:20 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

(As heard on the radio yesterday) With 38 million copies sold, the Eagles' Greatest Hits album has surpassed Michael Jackson's Thriller to become the biggest selling album of all time. Later

Willets Point Mar 06 2020 08:24 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The band name Lipps Inc. is a pun.

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 06 2020 08:55 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

I knew that. I didn;t know until now that Peter Frampton has an autobiography coming out later this year. Of course the title is DO YOU FEEL LIKE I DO

Willets Point Mar 06 2020 08:59 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Speaking of puns and Peter Frampton, I liked the name that Phish gave their live album recorded at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton Comes Alive.

Edgy MD Mar 10 2020 11:35 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

You probably knew this, but I did not! It's not a Tie Fighter but a TIE Fighter. The name is an acronym for "Twin Ion Engines."

Double Switch Mar 10 2020 02:04 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Edgy MD wrote: You probably knew this, but I did not! It's not a Tie Fighter but a TIE Fighter. The name is an acronym for "Twin Ion Engines." I absolutely did not know this and I was around for the first Star Wars movie too. I think I was 29. It became way more popular to go see SW again than to go to a Saturday night Rocky Horror with bells on. [small confession - I read that as "Twin Iron Engines" and thought, Wow, that would be really heavy! But would weight matter in space?]

MFS62 Mar 10 2020 07:34 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Double Switch wrote: [small confession - I read that as "Twin Iron Engines" and thought, Wow, that would be really heavy! But would weight matter in space?] Not if you have a strong enough propulsion system to propel it at the desired (warp?) speed. Later

Frayed Knot Mar 10 2020 07:47 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Don't they now show Thai Fighters on some of those odd sports channels on TV these days?

Double Switch Mar 10 2020 07:57 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Double Switch wrote: [small confession - I read that as "Twin Iron Engines" and thought, Wow, that would be really heavy! But would weight matter in space?] Not if you have a strong enough propulsion system to propel it at the desired (warp?) speed. Later Shall I assume one needs a burly supply of dilithium crystals? "Scottie, stock up on dilithium crystals!" "Aye, sir."

MFS62 Mar 10 2020 08:11 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Double Switch wrote: Not if you have a strong enough propulsion system to propel it at the desired (warp?) speed. Later Shall I assume one needs a burly supply of dilithium crystals?

Of course! What else could propel an iron space ship at warp speed?

Later

RealityChuck Mar 11 2020 02:06 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Doing a lot of research for my novel, and I've found some fascinating facts in the past few days. 1. When Queen Victoria first took the throne, her heir was her uncle the Duke of Cumberland. Cumberland was disliked because he supposedly murdered his valet. Even further, he was thought to be the father of his sister's child. Oh, and his son -- the next after him -- lost his sight by the time Victoria became queen. If she had died, he would have become king in 1851, 2. There's been a lot made about the fact that Meghan is the first Royal with non-white ancestors. It turned out the the queen of George III was possibly non-white, which means every king and queen since then is not entirely white.

Willets Point Mar 25 2020 07:53 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Willets Point wrote: The band name Lipps Inc. is a pun. More Lipps, Inc revelations in The Number Ones. The songwriter was from Minneapolis and wrote the song lamenting that Minneapolis was not funky enough, a mind-blowing opinion considering the emergence of Prince and The Time and associated acts in that very city at that very time.

whippoorwill Mar 29 2020 09:19 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Governor Cuomo isn't Mario

Willets Point Mar 30 2020 07:32 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=whippoorwill post_id=34292 time=1585495156 user_id=79] Governor Cuomo isn't Mario

In more ways than one.

kcmets Mar 30 2020 08:27 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Andrew Cuomo was not one of my favorite people for reasons too long to list here but I'll say that his leadership the last couple of weeks has impressed the crap out of me..

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 30 2020 05:46 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Paul Carrack, who sung one of Squeeze's biggest US hits, Tempted but left the band after that 1 album in 1982, actually rejoined the band for the 1993 Some Fantastic Place album, and left again after 6 months. Paul Carrack deserves his own thread

LWFS Mar 31 2020 10:20 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Edgy MD wrote: You probably knew this, but I did not! It's not a Tie Fighter but a TIE Fighter. The name is an acronym for "Twin Ion Engines." Seeing this a bit late, but additionally... (pushes up glasses in middle) .. the TIE fighter was not an Empire-exclusive model, but merely a generic descriptor of the type of craft it was. Palpatine and the Empire, however, ordered so many for their fleet, that it became a sort of signature ship for them.

MFS62 Apr 04 2020 05:29 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 04 2020 05:32 PM

Actress Ann Baxter (The Razor's Edge, All About Eve, The Ten Commandments) was the granddaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Later

Willets Point Apr 04 2020 05:32 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Eve from All About Eve, too.

MFS62 Apr 04 2020 05:33 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Willets Point wrote: Eve from All About Eve, too. Yes, I posted my update while you were posting that. Thanks. Later

Benjamin Grimm Apr 04 2020 06:18 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Actress Ann Baxter (The Razor's Edge, All About Eve, The Ten Commandments) was the granddaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Later You should have known it last July 24! Benjamin Grimm, Random Apropos of Nothing Quiz(zes) wrote: Anne Baxter was the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Fman99 Apr 04 2020 08:58 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

More facts from The Ten Commandments that I learned today while watching. 1. Moses' wife was played by the same actress who played Lily Munster. 2. Charlton Heston's infant son played the baby Moses in the basket that was rescued.

Willets Point Apr 06 2020 04:51 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The United Kingdom does not have an official succession plan if the Prime Minister is incapacitated or dies.

Frayed Knot Apr 06 2020 07:20 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 18 2020 03:28 AM

Willets Point wrote: The United Kingdom does not have an official succession plan if the Prime Minister is incapacitated or dies. This surprises me also. I just assumed that in the event of anything happening to a high government official that the rules dictate that David Beckham step in. After him it would fall to Sting, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Cleese, and then the guy who finds a winning lottery ticket on his bar stool in his local pub ... in that order.

Willets Point Apr 06 2020 09:08 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Well, hopefully one of those people is in better shape than Boris Johnson.

Frayed Knot Apr 17 2020 08:20 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 17 2020 08:57 PM

The original 'Rambo' movie (titled 'FIRST BLOOD', not 'RAMBO I' as many people assume) was adapted from a novel titled 'First Blood' written some ten years prior to the movie's 1982 release. It never once in my life occurred to me that this movie wasn't simply invented from scratch as a vehicle to ride Stallone's popularity coming out of the ROCKY series as well as a way to capitalize on early 1980s nationalism. Rambo (no first name in the novel) was, perhaps not surprisingly, a less sympathetic character in the book (he directly kills cops as opposed to his portrayal in the movie) and also dies in the end, again in direct contrast to the flick.

Edgy MD Apr 17 2020 08:35 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The name came off of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial wall.

Frayed Knot Apr 17 2020 08:50 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The name 'Rambo'? The novel, using that name for its lead character, was completed in 1972. The memorial (and the movie) in '82.

Ceetar Apr 17 2020 09:13 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Willets Point wrote: The United Kingdom does not have an official succession plan if the Prime Minister is incapacitated or dies. The Queen is going to seize power again isn't she?

Edgy MD Apr 18 2020 07:55 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Frayed Knot wrote: The name 'Rambo'? The novel, using that name for its lead character, was completed in 1972. The memorial (and the movie) in '82. Yeah, that doesn't make sense, but Morell has frequently referenced an "Arthur John Rambo" from the wall.

kcmets Apr 23 2020 08:16 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Bob Hope's real name was Leslie Townes Hope.

Ceetar Apr 23 2020 09:32 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

you could dial a number on a rotary phone with a series of taps on the top instead of using the rotor.

Frayed Knot Apr 23 2020 09:58 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=kcmets post_id=35741 time=1587651372 user_id=53] Bob Hope's real name was Leslie Townes Hope.

And a lot of people don't realize that he was English by birth.

Family emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5

kcmets Apr 23 2020 10:02 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Didn't know that either until just NOW!

Edgy MD Apr 23 2020 10:47 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

I knew that in part because I sat through one of his specials that was just like all of his other specials, except it had a Bob Hope-for-president theme. The reigning Miss America was to be his running mate. They came out at the end and he just anti-climatically said, "Well, I guess since I was born in England, I can't run for president after all." "Boy," I thought, "this was a stupid waste of time. I wonder what else is on."

Frayed Knot Apr 23 2020 12:59 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The joke Hope used to use about the whole draft him for President idea was that his wife wouldn't allow him to run because she didn't want to move to a smaller house.

kcmets May 18 2020 11:51 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Several tidbits I didn't know until just NOW!! https://onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/gavanoherlihy.html

MFS62 May 18 2020 12:48 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Several tidbits I didn't know until just NOW!! https://onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/gavanoherlihy.html I remember him from Death Wish 3. But what I didn't know (when I looked it up in his bio) was that I thought the movie was set in Los Angeles, not New York. Later

Frayed Knot May 18 2020 01:13 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Several tidbits I didn't know until just NOW!! https://onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/gavanoherlihy.html I knew that character existed and was written out of the show, but I'm surprised that it was he who asked out as I always assumed it was the producers deciding that they couldn't think of enough stuff for him to do and say and so they made him disappear and figured it was early enough in the show that no one was attached enough to the character to care. Kind of good to discover that it was he who wanted out and doesn't appear to regret doing so at all. Second thought: Tennis champ of Ireland ... is that like being the best ice hockey player from Bolivia?

Edgy MD May 18 2020 02:03 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

She got a couple of details wrong. Among other things, Fonz didn't wear a denim jacket the first year, but a windbreaker. Secondly, there were two Chucks — O'Herlihy and Randolph Roberts. It was interesting in that the show used the same Christmas episode every year for several seasons, shooting a few minutes of a new frame story around the episode from season one, so Chuck would just disappear up the stairs and never come down. https://www.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/10/10-5.jpg>

kcmets May 18 2020 02:25 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Edgy MD wrote: Chuck would just disappear up the stairs and never come down. I read somewhere that he went upstairs to use the bathroom and got his head stuck the toilet and drowned but 1974 TV in America wasn't ready for twists in a plot like that quite yet.

Edgy MD May 22 2020 08:41 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The actors who amazingly played funny Nazis on Hogan's Heroes were European-both Jews who were fortunate to escape the Nazis. Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) was the son of a famous conductor and was able to escape Germany with his family in 1935. He had it in his contract that if Klink was ever the hero in an episode, he would walk. Johann "John" Banner (Sgt. Schultz) with an Austrian acting troupe when he got out in 1938, but he lost most of his family to the Holocaust. Robert Clary, who played LeBeau, actually survived Buchenwald as a French teenager. He is the last surviving cast member from the show and still has his Buchenwald tattoo.

Edgy MD May 23 2020 08:57 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

I re-watched Willow this evening and the guy who played Madmardigan's sidekick Airk was ... Gavan O'Herlihy. I guess Ron Howard felt sorry for him going upstairs and never coming down. And check out who got credit as an "Instrumentalist"! https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/screen-shot-2020-05-23-at-10.55.21-pm.png>

LWFS May 24 2020 09:21 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Just don't ask him to play second bass.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 25 2020 08:19 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Oh!

MFS62 May 25 2020 08:21 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Just don't ask him to play second bass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk Later

Fman99 May 26 2020 12:45 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Lyndon B Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson have the same initials. I wonder if that's why she got that nickname.

Ceetar May 26 2020 12:58 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

shush you.

MFS62 May 26 2020 01:15 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=Fman99 post_id=37439 time=1590518704 user_id=86] Lyndon B Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson have the same initials. I wonder if that's why she got that nickname.

So do the daughters, Linda Byrd and Luci Baines. Not sure which, but one of them almost ran me over in her sting ray, tear-assing home late on a Sautrday night as I was walking past the White House.

Later

Frayed Knot May 26 2020 02:11 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=Fman99 post_id=37439 time=1590518704 user_id=86] Lyndon B Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson have the same initials. I wonder if that's why she got that nickname.

The story is that Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor Johnson got her name as an infant when a family maid said she was 'purdy as a lady bird' ... so, no on the intentional matching initials part.

Obviously the daughters names were meant to keep the streak intact, as was the President's dog 'Little Beagle' Johnson.

Willets Point May 26 2020 04:37 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Fay Wray was considered for the role of the older Rose in 1997's Titanic.

kcmets May 27 2020 02:21 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Didn't know there was another LBJ - 'Little Beagle' Johnson - until NOW!!

MFS62 May 27 2020 02:36 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=kcmets post_id=37483 time=1590610881 user_id=53] Didn't know there was another LBJ - 'Little Beagle' Johnson - until NOW!!

There was a famous picture of it that looked like the President was holding it up by its ears that got dog lovers up in arms.

Later

kcmets May 27 2020 02:50 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=MFS62 post_id=37487 time=1590611818 user_id=60]There was a famous picture of it that looked like the President was holding it up by its ears that got dog lovers up in arms.

That story sounds vaguely familiar. You make it sound like the dog lovers were

the bad guys lol. I was very young, and poor. Couldn't afford internet, a smartphone

and twitter was just a twinkle in my imagination back then.

Benjamin Grimm May 27 2020 03:38 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

http://www.weirduniverse.net/images/2012/lbjdogs.jpg>

Willets Point May 27 2020 06:13 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band and filmmaker David Lynch were roommates when they attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

41Forever May 27 2020 07:49 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020 Edited 3 time(s), most recently on May 28 2020 06:50 AM

Willets Point wrote: Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band and filmmaker David Lynch were roommates when they attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. That Stereogum Number Ones column is a constant source of really cool information. Will be forever grateful that you first shared it with us. Not that I always agree with the guy. He was born in the mid-to-late 1970s, I think, so he doesn't have the memories that we older people have for certain songs that color our feelings about them. I thought he was waaaaaay too rough on "Love Will Keep Us Together." But he doesn't have the memories of saving my money to buy my first 45 rpm and playing it endlessly. He can just hear the music for the music, the way I would hear something from the early 1960s. That said, he's way too easy on disco. Then again, his listening is not clouded by the great high school disco/rock divide.... That said again, I hate "Centerfold" -- his subject today -- but that's largely because it would play automatically on the 300 Bowl upstairs jukebox when no one had put money in it for a while, and I can hear that opening keyboard riff in my nightmares. (Phil Collins' cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" performed that role in the downstairs jukebox and those opening drumbeats have the same effect.) It was an odd place to work as a teenager.

Edgy MD May 27 2020 09:09 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

"Centerfold" gave me "Mitchell List" for the Cranepool Parody Classic, so I'll forever be grateful.

kcmets May 28 2020 06:08 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

I feel like I'm Mr. Contrary here, especially the last few months*, but 'Centerfold' is like the best J G Band song. * ok ok, the last decade...

batmagadanleadoff May 28 2020 06:24 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Cenerfold's a fluky outlier. I think it was a Billboard #1 and it's nowhere near representative of the band. Like Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World or Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-Ling.

kcmets May 28 2020 06:40 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Wow, 16 minutes... you're getting slow in your old age! Nah nah nahnahnahnah, rinse and repeat...

Willets Point May 28 2020 08:34 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

I never liked "Centerfold" all that much, but the Stereogum write-up does a good job of describing its appeal

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 02 2020 06:19 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

That is a good column and the write-up on Centerfold--which always struck me as a brazen attempt to score a No. 1 -- is quite good. From that rekkid I always liked Freeze Frame better--same party, different beer. My intro to J Giels was a minor hit called "One Last Kiss" from the SACRIFICE album -- I wanted to like em more than I ever got into them. Our friend Gwreck is the forum's J Geils expert I believe. I did become one of the world's foremost experts in Peter Wolf's funky disco solo album "Lights Out" which was in extremely heavy rotation for me in the summer and fall of '84 but never really caught on big with a larger audience (like my freshman roommate who used to take it off and put on Ratt instead).

RealityChuck Jun 03 2020 06:16 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

"Centerfold" and "Freeze Frame" are fine, but the band never topped "Whammer Jammer," the song that launched ten thousand blues harp players. [YOUTUBE]ASF5CpqP6HY[/YOUTUBE]

Fman99 Jun 03 2020 06:27 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Yeah, that's the stuff. I heard a radio DJ refer to them once as the "world's greatest ever bar band" and I think that's a pretty apt description.

Edgy MD Jun 03 2020 08:57 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

My JGB jam is "First I Look at the Purse," a Smokey Robinson composition that Berry Gordy wouldn't let him release because it sounded too cold for the Miracles. I never saw the Giels Band, but I think "FILatP" was their set opener for a while. When I turned 14 (I think) I met my parents in the city for a birthday treat. They were taking me to dinner and to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. We met Dad as he finished his shift and he introduced me to one of his colleagues, who asked, "So, are you in town for the big rock show?" I guess I knew Giels were coming through town with a hit album and single, and so were headlining the Garden. Or perhaps I just knew that because we had taken the train in and some idiot had put Penn Station underneath the Garden. So I knew what my Dad's friend was asking, and I felt kind of like an in-the-know sophisticated teenager. So I responded, "I wish." The conversation ended perfunctorily and my Dad pulled me aside, and through gritted teeth said, "Edgydoyouknowhowharditwastogetthesetickets? Yourmothersaidyouwantedtoseethisandthisisarealspecialtreat. Andyouknow,thisshowhasrockandrolltoo!" I was mortified, but because I was such a spazz, and because the angry version of my Dad could make Chuck Norris shit his pants, I'm not really sure I was able to tell him, "Jesus, Dad, I was just being nice. I did want to see this Joseph show. I DO! I'm sorry I gave you any other impression." It's not that I didn't have any interest in Giels, but I hadn't yet entered the sweet and mysterious world of the rock show, and I kinda knew I didn't want my first to be the Giels Band at the Garden with my folks. Freeze Frame seemed alright, but felt slicker and 80s-er than the raunchier "Love Stinks" band I had seen on Saturday Night Live a year or two before. I found their presentation most interesting. I understood each band member as the avatar of a decade. Peter Wolf with his skinniness in his tights and sleeveless tops was the nu wave 80s. Keyboarist Seth Justman with his dangling earring and heavy stage makeup was the androgynous, glam 70s. Saxophonist/harmonicat Magic Dick was a hairball from the seventies with an acid trip of a name to match. Drummer Stephen Bladd was a fifties greaser. Bassist Danny Klein was a fedora-rocking gangster from the forties. Giels himself didn't quite fit into this continuum, but I was sure I was on to something. Anyhow, I hated that my Dad thought I was such an ungrateful shit, even for a few minutes. I enjoyed the show, and fell in love with Laurie Beechman, who played the Narrator. To this day, I go soft for a chick in a fez. Giels Shmiels. In later years, Peter Wolf has played a central role in my Big Theory/party game called, Virtually No Legendary Boston Musicians (Apart from Jonathan Richman) Are Actually from Boston. Also, as mentioned, they gave me the underlying composition for "Mitchell List" a Cranepool Parody Classick song that won a round for me.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 04 2020 03:04 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

"Centerfold" and "Freeze Frame" are fine, but the band never topped "Whammer Jammer," the song that launched ten thousand blues harp players. [YOUTUBE]ASF5CpqP6HY[/YOUTUBE] I just love that J. Geils Band live album -- Full House. It's one of my favorites lives of all-time. Straight up, no bullshit, hard drivin' blues rock and roll. And of course, Magic Dick's Whammer Jammer is the showstopper on that album. Recommended, fer sure. Nobody asked me, but if youse did, I'd say that Magic Dick is the best harmonica player in modern blues-rock history. Him and Paul Butterfield, and some other guy youse might've heard about who isn't really thought of as a harmonica player but can play the daylights out of it -- a feller by the name of Stevie Wonder. But let my good buddy, political pundit and potent polemical, Charley Pierce tell youse all about the J. Geils Band: One of the Best Rock Shows I Ever Saw Make that three of the best. By Charles P. Pierce Apr 12, 2017 This is a point of personal privilege. My de facto hometown of Worcester has only one great claim to rock and roll fame. Once, gigging in clubs in and around Worcester Polytechnic Institute, there was a terrific blues band led by a guitarist named John Warren Geils and a virtuoso harp player named Magic Dick, because Richard Salwitz is not the name for a great harp player in any universe. Ultimately, they merged with a Boston-based band called The Hallucinations, which was fronted by one Peter Wolf, an energetic guy who was formerly a late-night DJ at Boston's "underground" radio station, WBCN. (Occasionally, Wolf would be joined on air by a temporary resident of Cambridge named Van Morrison. Radio used to be great, kidz.) What emerged was the J Geils Band, and what I can tell you is this: Of the 10 best rock shows I ever saw, the Geils Band owns three of the slots. One of them occurred on October 20, 1971 (Yeah, I looked it up.) at the Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee. Somebody who was either 90 years old or extremely high booked the Geils band on the bill with It's A Beautiful Day, a band that probably was the living embodiment of twee hippie irrelevance. I was a freshman in college then, and I told everybody that we had to get there early to see this J Geils Band because, if my suspicions were correct, they might burn the joint down before IABD ever took the stage. I wasn't far wrong. Everything IABD tried to play, the crowd booed and the Geils band had to come back out and play to settle down the mob. It was a bigger mismatch than Holmes-Cooney. They were a working band. They opened for everyone from the original Allman Brothers to B.B. King. Their studio records are vastly underrated—"Floyd's Hotel" from The Morning After, with its hapless narrator and a cast of characters straight out of Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle," never got anywhere near enough airplay—but the real thing was the live show, captured most brilliantly on Full House, which contains the definitive version of Magic Dick's perennial showstopper, "Whammer Jammer." Their end-of-the-trail pop hits—"Centerfold," "Love Stinks," and the rest—were a nice reward they deserved for all the woodshedding they did, but never did define the best of them. As Tony Glover wrote in Rolling Stone: The Geils Band is one of my favorite performing groups — not only do they play a tight and tough no-bullshit mixture of blues and rock, but they know and groove on the value of giving folks a show. Not your run-of-the-mill campy sequined theatricality of miscellaneous gender, but instead slippin' and slidin' and raunchy madman jiving which makes watching as good as hearing. While Wolf was a compelling frontman, all gold shoes and lightning patter, and while Magic Dick stands with Paul Butterfield and Charlie Musselwhite as far as Caucasian blues harp players are concerned, it was Geils himself on guitar who held things together. Whether playing straight lead, or slide, for which he occasionally used a sparkplug, he was the connecting tissue between the blues and rock and roll that made the Geils band one of the best live acts of their era. They were steeped in the deep Chicago blues; their epic cover of John Lee Hooker's "Serves You Right To Suffer" was downright goddamn cataclysmic. They were beloved by fans and by musicians alike, and they became a virtual house band at Bill Graham's Fillmore East. For my money, they were as close to being an American Rolling Stones as any other band ever was. They have been nominated for inclusion in Wennerland, but not yet elected, and that's as serious an indictment of that joint as can be found anywhere. On Tuesday, John Warren Geils was found dead in his home in Groton, MA. He was 71 years old. Here's a nice interview he did with the local PBS station a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe-JZHAW6Q And we'll let the customary tour de force take us home. Blow your face out, baby. And thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYc4QOCgmw https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54469/john-geils-obituary/

MFS62 Jul 17 2020 09:13 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Wombats poop cubes, and build houses from it to attract mates. The cubic shape of their poop is likely related to the dry environments most wombats live in. They have to really squeeze every drop of moisture out of their food. Being dry helps the scat form more rigid shapes with sharper angles, hence housing. Later

Benjamin Grimm Jul 17 2020 10:45 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Makes me want to try it myself!

Benjamin Grimm Jul 18 2020 06:58 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Ducks swallow Reese's Peanut Butter Cups whole.

kcmets Jul 20 2020 09:20 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

AT&T's hottie, Lily, is Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub -- an Uzbekistan-born American actress and comedian.

Fman99 Jul 21 2020 08:53 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Denise Crosby, actress best known as "Tasha Yar" from Star Trek: The Next Generation, is the granddaughter of Bing Crosby.

kcmets Jul 22 2020 07:18 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Just caught up on the lengthy J Geils discussion posts. In between being really stoned listening to Blackmore wail 12 minute guitar solos ilve in Düsseldorf and being a white dope on punk I just remember TJGB as a somewhat kitchy hit machine. Like Billy Squire? I mean who the fuck was he? But he had some catchy radio tunes as well but I didn't run out and buy his albums or line up to see him. I will download Full House on your recommendations, and hold you all fully responsible.

metsmarathon Jul 22 2020 07:26 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Full House? cut. it. out.

batmagadanleadoff Jul 24 2020 02:40 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Do you have a habit of picking up books that you never quite get around to reading? Because there's a Japanese term for that. Tsundoku: The Art of Buying Books and Never Reading Them Be honest, how many books on that shelf have you actually read cover to cover? Excerpt: If this sounds like you, you might be unwittingly engaging in tsundoku - a Japanese term used to describe a person who owns a lot of unread literature. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/tsundoku-the-art-of-buying-books-and-never-reading-them?utm_source=pocket-newtab

MFS62 Jul 26 2020 07:19 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "piss poor." But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot; they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low. Later

whippoorwill Aug 08 2020 08:11 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Watership Down is about rabbits

kcmets Aug 12 2020 10:15 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Supreme Court Justices make a little over a quarter million dollars per year.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 12 2020 10:52 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

That's more than I make, so I suppose if they offer me the gig I'll probably take it.

Lefty Specialist Aug 12 2020 11:01 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

I'd do it for free and never leave.

MFS62 Aug 12 2020 11:40 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Lefty Specialist wrote: I'd do it for free and never leave. You'd be in it for the groupies. Later

kcmets Aug 12 2020 12:46 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

And to see if Ruth Bader Ginsburg wears clothes under her robe!?!

whippoorwill Aug 12 2020 01:34 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Never thought of that

Frayed Knot Aug 12 2020 03:02 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=kcmets post_id=43508 time=1597258018 user_id=53] And to see if Ruth Bader Ginsburg wears clothes under her robe!?!

Please, God, let the answer to that one be 'Yes'!

kcmets Aug 12 2020 04:00 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

=whippoorwill post_id=43513 time=1597260842 user_id=79]Never thought of that

Few would, I'm not well in the head some days!!

Chad ochoseis Aug 21 2020 08:52 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The title of that "Sail Away" earworm song by Enya from about 20 years ago isn't "Sail Away". It's "Orinoco Flow".

Edgy MD Aug 27 2020 03:15 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Atlanta Mayor and onetime vice presidential nominee-candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms is the daughter of shuffling soul sensation Major Lance, who we last saw in the "Rank Your Favorite Monkey Songs" thread. [YOUTUBE]B0KlRpQeyvo[/YOUTUBE]

MFS62 Sep 12 2020 08:14 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

The person who invented the hamburger bun later founded White Castle. Later

MFS62 Oct 07 2020 10:27 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

When he was a student, one of George Orwell's teachers was Aldous Huxley. Later

kcmets Oct 07 2020 11:11 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Edgar Allen Poe, who died today in 1849, married his 13 year old cousin. John Rocker, anyone? Rocker?

Edgy MD Oct 09 2020 07:40 PM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

President James A. Garfield was an amateur geometry enthusiast. While serving in the House of Representatives, before becoming president, he coined his own proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, to this day known as "Garfield's Proof." Plus, his wife was a perfectly respectable 26 years old at the time of their union, and totally not related to him. Which isn't to say that he wasn't her teacher at one point. He was. Plus he cheated on her during their engagment, and after their marriage. But he was good at math, so ... .

kcmets Dec 11 2020 09:38 AM Re: Things I Didn't Know Until Just Now- 2020

Baby and juvenile penguins do not have black and white feathers.