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In 1973, Keith Moon (drummer of The Who) passed out on stage after downing a massive amount of horse tranquilisers and chasing it with a bottle or two of brandy ( ). When reviving him backstage with a cold shower didn't work, Pete Townsend had no better idea left than to ask the audience whether anybody could play the drums. Scott Halpin, a 19-year old boy who could play the drums but hadn't actually done so for a year, was at the concert together with a friend of his, who promptly started yelling at the security that his buddy could do it. The concert's promoter Bill Graham asked Halpin if he could do it, Halpin answered with "yes" and, to the surprise of the band and the cheer of the audience, put him onstage. Halpin was given a shot of Moon's leftover brandy for the nerves and then played three songs with Townsend giving him instructions. Halpin afterwards got a tour jacket and a promise of 1,000$ for his troubles - the former was promptly stolen, the latter never materialised. Halpin died in 2008 of a brain tumor.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O-N8MZ9ilk Video of Moon passing out and Halpin getting onstage (look at the description for timestamps) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B92DK5zoH8 Halpin performing "Naked Eye", the last number of the concert and the most complex of the three songs he was drumming for. Kid did pretty well, all things considered.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Fact: this is loving adorable and Part of me feels really bad for laughing about this, but this is really good.
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May 12, 2016 23:56
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Check out this nazi gently caress signing a marriage bann with a swastika in 1761 from the Amsterdam Stadsarchief & yes I know the origin etc
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May 13, 2016 00:04
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Check out this nazi gently caress signing a marriage bann with a swastika in 1761 I don't? I don't even know what a marriage ban is?
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May 22, 2016 16:36
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I think snapchat thought there was an argument about the swastika not being invented by the nazis, he might be posting from two pages in the future. There's an archaic meaning of 'ban' to mean simply 'proclamation' that's fallen out of use, but have no idea since I can't read 18th century whateverthefuck that is.
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May 22, 2016 16:52
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It's usually spelled bann and that's the spelling Snapchat A Titty used
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May 22, 2016 21:56
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Mr Havafap posted:I don't? A Marriage Bann is a proclamation to the church parish or community at large. Usually they are proclaimed or published in a church newsletter a couple of times before the actual wedding. The idea is to allow someone to present a legal or canonical objection to the marriage. Things like, the groom already has five wives in different villages, the bride doesn't want to get married, the groom isn't the right sect and hasn't consented to the wedding, the bride is really a nun who ran away with the cute gardener, there's a question about the mental state of one of the parties. My late MIL raised the mental question to prevent our marriage, taking it all the way to the bishop. Fortunately Father Joe, my parish priest, liked discussing history with me so he could vouch for my sanity and clear me for marriage.
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May 23, 2016 08:20
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Here's something interesting: The world's oldest dam. http://www.hydriaproject.net/en/egypt-sadd-al-kafara-dam/relevance9 It was built at the same time as the Giza pyramids, ie 2600-2800BC. It was some 111 m wide and 14m high. The website has a great animation about the building and subsequent collapse of the dam.
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May 23, 2016 08:23
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Khazar-khum posted:My late MIL raised the mental question to prevent our marriage, taking it all the way to the bishop. You can't drop that kind of info without linking to the Ask/Tell thread about it. It raises so many more questions than it helps to answer.
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May 23, 2016 12:14
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dobbymoodge posted:You can't drop that kind of info without linking to the Ask/Tell thread about it. It raises so many more questions than it helps to answer. There's an Ask/tell thread about getting married in the Catholic Church?
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May 30, 2016 09:06
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Samuel Beckett used to drive André the Giant to school. 
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May 31, 2016 22:44
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Khazar-khum posted:There's an Ask/tell thread about getting married in the Catholic Church? Probably the liturgical Christianity thread.
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Jun 1, 2016 02:30
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Some lesser-known Churchill quotes: "I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities. But the exhibit I most desired to see was 'The Boneless Wonder'. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury bench."[On Ramsay MacDonald] "My wife and I tried two or three times in the last few years to have breakfast together but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop." "At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled, in revolution he abdicated: in exile he remarried." "If you wanted nothing done at all, [Prime minister Arthur] Balfour was the man for the job." [Ramsay MacDonald is] "A sheep in sheep's clothing" "The biggest argument against democracy is a five-minute discussion with the average voter." [Prime minister Stanley Baldwin]"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened" "I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived."
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Jun 11, 2016 23:42
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Jaguars! posted:Some lesser-known Churchill quotes: Churchill was probably history's most quotable man after Mark Twain.
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Jun 13, 2016 00:25
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Canemacar posted:Churchill was probably history's most quotable man after Mark Twain. I suspect a certain Mr Shakespeare owns that position.
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Jun 13, 2016 09:14
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Is that Will Shakes Beard, of Stratford?
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Jun 13, 2016 11:38
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Khazar-khum posted:I suspect a certain Mr Shakespeare owns that position. I think of him as more the father of Modern English than a master of the pithy one liner.
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Jun 13, 2016 12:54
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Oscar Wilde was pretty great.
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Jesus has historically been pretty quotable.
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Jun 13, 2016 13:20
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Is there a PYF Witty/Historical Quote thread somewhere?
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Platystemon posted:Jesus has historically been pretty quotable. I had a discussion with a (highly religious) coworker a couple years ago and told her that Jesus must've been a horrible carpenter if he dropped the trade and went into preaching. She disagreed.
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Cacafuego posted:I had a discussion with a (highly religious) coworker a couple years ago and told her that Jesus must've been a horrible carpenter if he dropped the trade and went into preaching. She disagreed. He spent much of his life trying to get as far away from carpentry as possible. Then they nailed him to a wooden cross. How ironic.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:He spent much of his life trying to get as far away from carpentry as possible. Then they nailed him to a wooden cross. Somebody could write a whole mega post on the Roman's sense of humour really.
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Wasn't a carpenter just another word for day laborer back then? Like carpenters weren't experts who build scaffolding or walls or structures, but rather, folks on a work crew that happened to work with wood and brick?
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Jun 13, 2016 15:23
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That's still basically true today
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Huh, apparently true - Wikipedia cites a dictionary to the effect that tekton is more like workman or builder. Makes sense, his dad was a builder too.Cacafuego posted:I had a discussion with a (highly religious) coworker a couple years ago and told her that Jesus must've been a horrible carpenter if he dropped the trade and went into preaching. She disagreed. She's right, it doesn't necessarily follow 
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Jun 13, 2016 15:47
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Jack of Hearts posted:Is there a PYF Witty/Historical Quote thread somewhere? "Most historical quotes have been made up in modern times." - Nikola Tesla
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Jack of Hearts posted:Is there a PYF Witty/Historical Quote thread somewhere? Do you know where the word "laconic" comes from?
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Elyv posted:Do you know where the word "laconic" comes from? I do...is this leading up to a punchline involving "if"? I don't get the connection.
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Carbon dioxide posted:"Most historical quotes have been made up in modern times." - Nikola Tesla This fits historical facts in general, I'm pretty sure like half the facts in this thread are just myths or exaggerations And yes I know tesla didn't actually say that dude was too autistic to grasp or care about public notions of things
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Jun 13, 2016 16:19
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Elyv posted:Do you know where the word "laconic" comes from? That word always confuses me, because in my mother tongue it shifted meaning to 'indifferent'.
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Elyv posted:Do you know where the word "laconic" comes from? That's the language dragons speak.
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Nah, that's Dov.
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BACK ON DA RAILS The Cape York meteorite was a big chunk of iron that fell to Earth in a couple of pieces some 10,000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite It landed in the frozen north of Greenland and was scavenged by the existing culture of the time. Being made of Iron, the meteorite was a godsend to anyone who lacked the ability to create their own, as it allowed you to craft superior tools and weapons from an existing bountiful supply without smelting. This concept was recently exemplified when science determined King Tut's iron burial dagger was indeed made of a cold-forged meteoric iron. Pictured: an Inuit bone tusk with iron blade:  With each piece of the meteorite being stored in a different location, and some of them weighing over 30 tons, the ability to make seemingly limitless supply of iron tools became common to the Inuit, which baffled the gently caress out of anthropologists for quite some time. For thousands of years this quintessential rock was bought and sold and used to defeat invaders and harpoon whales. It bonded cultures and peoples and likely employed a good amount of craftsmen, hunters, and mystics alike. It also opens up the mystery as to why the Thule (modern day Inuit) bothered to invade the remainder of the arctic and wipe out the Dorset (past day Inuit) when they could have turned south to warmer climates. In the 19th century some white people finally bought parts of it and put them in a museum until we figure out how to launch it back from whence it came while angrily shaking our fist. GolfHole has a new favorite as of 18:09 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Jun 13, 2016 18:00
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God bless the meteorite.
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Jun 13, 2016 18:02
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Peary was a fucker, a real one.
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God broke one of His own commandments when He cuckolded Joseph and that made Jesus a bastard and therefore not the rightful King of Israel.
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Carbon dioxide posted:"Most historical quotes have been made up in modern times." - Nikola Tesla "If you want somebody to believe something tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it." - Benjamin Franklin
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ToxicSlurpee posted:"If you want somebody to believe something tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it." - Benjamin Franklin "Don't believe everything you read on the internet"--Abraham Lincoln
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Hogge Wild posted:God broke one of His own commandments when He cuckolded Joseph and that made Jesus a bastard and therefore not the rightful King of Israel. Lmao
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