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New Facts for Old People - 2022

Willets Point Jan 03 2022 12:37 PM

In the 1960s, Bill Haley moved to Mexico and his band - known as Bill Haley y sus Cometas - had massive hits on the Mexican charts and their own Mexican tv series.

Edgy MD Jan 03 2022 05:43 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

"¡Hasta Luego, Caimán!" [YOUTUBE]-uu11K0EQHU[/YOUTUBE]

Willets Point Jan 03 2022 06:04 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

"Florida Twist" was Bill Haley's response to Chubby Checker and Joey Dee and the Starliters and was a monster #1 song on the Mexican charts. [YOUTUBE]w58E9OrcS0A[/YOUTUBE] This is just a very unexpected second act for a rock & roll pioneer.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 03 2022 07:07 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

The Lightning Seeds, who do that nice song called "Pure" had Zak Starkey drumming for them for awhile.

Edgy MD Jan 03 2022 08:18 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Willets Point wrote: "Florida Twist" was Bill Haley's response to Chubby Checker and Joey Dee and the Starliters and was a monster #1 song on the Mexican charts. [YOUTUBE]w58E9OrcS0A[/YOUTUBE] This is just a very unexpected second act for a rock & roll pioneer. In a way, it's kind of his third act, as he'd been banging around since the war and having some success with his band as a western swing act.

Willets Point Jan 03 2022 09:39 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

True.

kcmets Jan 06 2022 01:13 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

The little shreds of paper that are left over when you rip a page out of a spiral notebook are called kadoobies. No really, look it up...

Lefty Specialist Jan 21 2022 02:49 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Pete Davidson and Colin Jost teamed up with a comedy club owner and are now the proud owners of a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry. Yes, really. https://apnews.com/article/pete-davidson-colin-jost-staten-island-ferry-f10cabd45d98e436db9bcf9c87711ac5?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

MFS62 Jan 21 2022 03:17 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Lefty Specialist wrote: Pete Davidson and Colin Jost teamed up with a comedy club owner and are now the proud owners of a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry. Yes, really. https://apnews.com/article/pete-davidson-colin-jost-staten-island-ferry-f10cabd45d98e436db9bcf9c87711ac5?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow I can just see the meme of Pete sailing it down the Hudson with Kim Kardashian aboard, looking like Cleopatra sailing down the Nile. Later

Frayed Knot Jan 21 2022 05:38 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Until she gets too close to the starboard rail and it capsizes.

The Hot Corner Jan 21 2022 07:18 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Frayed Knot wrote: Until she gets too close to the starboard rail and it capsizes. Nearly made me spit out my beer.

Chad ochoseis Jan 28 2022 05:12 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Iguanas will become immobilized in cold weather and fall out of trees where they've made their homes. They do generally survive both the fall and the cold, though. https://www.news4jax.com/weather/2022/01/28/heads-up-cold-florida-weather-means-iguanas-falling-from-trees/#:~:text=Iguanas%20drop%20when%20temps%20drop%20below%2040%C2%B0&text=Because%20they%20are%20cold%2Dblooded,temperatures%20drop%20below%2040%C2%B0.

MFS62 Mar 07 2022 01:46 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Yellowstone National Park is celebrating the 150th anniversary of becoming the first US National Park. (1872) Later

Willets Point Mar 28 2022 07:57 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

The members of Sonic Youth, a band that seemingly spoke for Generation X, were born in the 1950s. Kim Gordon is just a few years younger than my mother. I'd just assumed for years that she was just a few years older than me. My mind is blown!

Edgy MD May 03 2022 09:31 AM New to Me: Things I Didn't Know Until 2022

Did we have a thread for enlightened ignorance for this year? If we did, I couldn't find it. If somebody knows where it is, please link, and I'll merge. I ask because I just learned today that the insanely graphic footage that made Evel Knievel a worldwide legend, just missing sticking his landing while attempting to jump the fountain at Caeser's Palace, was shot by actress Linda Evans. [YOUTUBE]81NX56ucaKY[/YOUTUBE]

kcmets May 03 2022 09:37 AM Re: New to Me: Things I Didn't Know Until 2022

Is this it or is this different: http://phpbb3.ultimatemets.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=30988

Willets Point May 03 2022 09:39 AM Re: New to Me: Things I Didn't Know Until 2022

Is this it or is this different: http://phpbb3.ultimatemets.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=30988 'Tis

MFS62 May 11 2022 07:04 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

There's actually a lawn weed called "Creeping Charlie". I thought it was what the guy at the garden store called it, but the name is right there on the product he sold me to get rid of it. Later

whippoorwill May 11 2022 11:35 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

I love creeping Charlie!

Edgy MD May 16 2022 09:13 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Before fronting Stealer's Wheel, Gerry Rafferty was in a 60s folk-pop outfit called The Humblebums, along with bandmate Billy Connolly. https://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/UTRS_186__49545__01152009123049-7109.jpg>

Fman99 May 17 2022 07:32 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

The band Judas Priest took their band name from a Bob Dylan 1967 song titled "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest." [youtube]2Svltq6LxoI[/youtube]

Willets Point May 17 2022 08:39 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Edgy MD wrote: Before fronting Stealer's Wheel, Gerry Rafferty was in a 60s folk-pop outfit called The Humblebums, along with bandmate Billy Connolly. https://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/UTRS_186__49545__01152009123049-7109.jpg> Not to be confused with Poet Laureate Emeritus Billy Collins.

Edgy MD May 17 2022 08:53 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Billy on lead vocal. [YOUTUBE]7jtWqs9WW5Y[/YOUTUBE]

whippoorwill May 20 2022 12:28 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Snakes can crawl backwards

MFS62 May 20 2022 01:03 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

=whippoorwill post_id=92964 time=1653071315 user_id=79] Snakes can crawl backwards

Not sure if I want to hear the details of how you found that out.

Later

whippoorwill May 20 2022 05:09 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

I said hello (out by the pool) and he slide backwards into his hidey hole

kcmets May 20 2022 05:38 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

This guy could be talkin' out his ass, but he sounds like he knows his stuff... Q: Can snakes slither backwards or do they just prefer not to? A: I think they prefer not to. The ability of snakes to control locomotion is legendary. They can move in so many different ways it's truly astonishing. The level of coordination and motor control of the thousands of complex muscles that cross anywhere from one to 30+ vertebral segments is baffling. We are really at the infancy of understanding how they do what they do because the system is so complex. But, there is one part of the system that is specifically designed to not go backwards. The scales on their belly point backwards so they can engage the substrate and this allows them to gain purchase on tiny imperfections in what they are moving across. When and if they tried to go backwards, these scales would automatically catch and start ripping, tearing and getting in the way. So I am sure they have the ability, motor/neural control to go backwards, but their scales makes it difficult/uncomfortable.

whippoorwill May 21 2022 03:09 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Nah. This guy was crawling backwards

Johnny Lunchbucket May 22 2022 05:36 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

The "Joe Michaels Mile" -- a biking- hiking path running along the Cross Island from Fort Totten to Douglaston, is named in honor of Queens own Joe Michaels, the drummer for Jay and the Americans who took up marathoning after a series of heart attacks -- six of them-- beginning in his late 20s. He later took up ultramarathoning, and died of a 7th heart attack in his early 40s. Also, the Joe Michaels Mile is actually 2.4 miles but I knew that already.

whippoorwill May 22 2022 05:56 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

That's sad

Marshmallowmilkshake May 26 2022 06:25 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

I had no idea that Burt Ward -- Robin, to you and me -- made an attempt at a singing career. And Frank Zappa produced it! This is a really tough listen. [YOUTUBE]DmfJ9ULutQ4[/YOUTUBE] OMG, there is an Adam West version, too -- in character!! [YOUTUBE]21zFrZ2kovA[/YOUTUBE]

kcmets May 27 2022 01:35 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Anthony Quinn's real name was Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca.

Edgy MD May 27 2022 01:37 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Anthony Quinn would have made a good Bat-villain.

kcmets May 27 2022 02:31 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

He had twelve kids, with three wives, didn't know that until just NOW!!!

Edgy MD May 29 2022 11:40 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

I'm pretty sure some of those kids were with non-wives, or perhaps with future wives. I vividly recall a New York Post issue where the story of a septuagenarian Quinn impregnating his personal assistant, to his wife's surprise, was deemed newsworthy enough to get a front-page splash headline that just read "ZORBA THE STUD."

smg58 May 29 2022 04:04 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

His personal assistant/third wife is a cousin of a former colleague of mine, who would make road trips over Thanksgiving to this lavish estate in Rhode Island (and who was a little creeped out by Quinn's grave being right on the property).

MFS62 Jun 02 2022 08:54 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

The word bunny derives from bun—which was an old English word for a squirrel, not a rabbit. Later

Willets Point Jun 09 2022 07:09 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

I'm pretty oblivious to professional golf, but I just discovered that U.S. Open is playing just a couple of miles from my house.

MFS62 Jun 22 2022 05:49 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Shreveport, La. was named after Captain Henry Miller Shreve. He was an engineer and steamboat captain who improved on Robert Fulton's steamboat design and opened up the Mississippi, Ohio, and Red rivers to steamboat navigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller_Shreve Later

Benjamin Grimm Jun 22 2022 07:30 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Wasn't there a Mets player who was a direct descendant of Robert Fulton. Which reminds me... Todd Zeile is a direct descendant of John and John Quincy Adams. (And Abigail too!)

Edgy MD Jun 22 2022 07:38 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Wasn't there a Mets player who was a direct descendant of Robert Fulton. Good memory. You're thinking of the late Cory Lidle.

MFS62 Jun 30 2022 08:48 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

The inventor of basketball, Dr. Naismith, was Canadian. Later

Willets Point Jun 30 2022 10:24 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Casino gambling only became legal in Atlantic City in 1978. When I was a kid the way people talked about going to Atlantic City casinos made it seem like they'd been doing if for generations.

Frayed Knot Jun 30 2022 10:55 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

=MFS62 post_id=97809 time=1656600490 user_id=60] The inventor of basketball, Dr. Naismith, was Canadian. Later

Hence the N B Eh

Frayed Knot Jun 30 2022 04:37 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Willets Point wrote: Casino gambling only became legal in Atlantic City in 1978. When I was a kid the way people talked about going to Atlantic City casinos made it seem like they'd been doing if for generations. Yeah, that was a big deal at the time. Lots o folks fer it, lots agin, lots of promises as to the benefits, lots of those never realized. If you've never seen the Burt Lancaster/Susan Sarandon movie ATLANTIC CITY [1980] it's set right on the cusp of that era.

MFS62 Jul 15 2022 10:55 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Portugal was the first neutral country to recognize the United States after the Revolutionary War. Later

Frayed Knot Jul 15 2022 11:10 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

That a young Hillary Rodham was an attorney on the Watergate prosecution team is a well known fact. But new to me was that the reason she was that they tried to get her boyfriend first but he declined in order to get back to Arkansas and start running for office; he then recommended her to go in his place. Also in that group: future Massachusetts Governor William Weld and future Red Sox exec Larry Lucchino.

MFS62 Jul 29 2022 01:20 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Peter Dinklege, star of Game of Thrones was born in New Jersey. Later

whippoorwill Jul 29 2022 02:45 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Willets Point wrote: Casino gambling only became legal in Atlantic City in 1978. When I was a kid the way people talked about going to Atlantic City casinos made it seem like they'd been doing if for generations. Mom , Dad and I went to the first casino in AC. Can't remember its name. Dad had to wear a suit, mom and I dresses and nylons. I would have said it was 1977 but maybe it was ‘78

Willets Point Aug 08 2022 09:49 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

The songs "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing" were both composed by the same songwriter, Chip Taylor. Taylor's birth name was James Wesley Voight and he's the brother of John Voight (and thus the uncle of Angelina Jolie). As wildly different as those two songs are, it's quite a musical legacy to have!

Edgy MD Aug 08 2022 12:31 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Indeed, there's a third brother with less fame, but probably more achievement than either — geologist/volcanologist Barry Voight, who predicted the Mt. St. Helen's disater and has been commissioned as a consultant to help monitor active volcanoes around the world.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2022 07:05 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Both Gregg & Duane Allman were left-handed, though both played guitar as righties. Also, Duane's given name was Howard; Howard Duane Allman.

kcmets Sep 29 2022 10:12 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

A tablespoon is equal to three teaspoons. All these years cooking and I never knew that there was a cut and dry relationship between the two.

Ceetar Sep 29 2022 10:29 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

I don't know that this is a hard and fast 'fact' but unless you're monitoring sodium intake (138/92, 134/90 in each arm today) there's really no good reason I can find to buy unsalted butter.

kcmets Sep 29 2022 10:46 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

Unsalted butter is kinda useless to me.

whippoorwill Sep 29 2022 11:26 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

=kcmets post_id=109115 time=1664467948 user_id=53] A tablespoon is equal to three teaspoons. All these years cooking and I never knew that there was a cut and dry relationship between the two.

I learned this either in home ec or figured it out myself…it's really a pretty helpful thing to know!

Frayed Knot Sep 29 2022 11:30 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

=kcmets post_id=109119 time=1664470012 user_id=53] Unsalted butter is kinda useless to me.

You can always, y'know, add salt.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 29 2022 11:42 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

I can't tell the difference.

kcmets Sep 29 2022 11:53 AM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

=whippoorwill post_id=109120 time=1664472368 user_id=79]I learned this either in home ec or figured it out myself…it's really a pretty helpful thing to know!

I may have too, but it was long forgotten if so. Just happened I was doing

something that said 6 teaspoons which I thought was odd so I googled how

many teaspoons in a tablespoon and voila.

whippoorwill Sep 29 2022 12:23 PM Re: New Facts for Old People - 2022

That does seem odd…why not just say 2 tablespoons? Hmmmm Re: butter. I can't really tell the difference either but wow has the price ever gone up! About a dollar a stick for our store brand