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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Unlike the goons who write pages-long screeds about star wars and transformers. That’s quintessentially proletarian. No War but Star War, comrade.
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I only watch films that have either a melting face or an exploding head so I don't actually post in any of those sort of threads. Though as far as I know they're all basically SMG posting huge tomes and randos trying to argue with him.
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That David Walliams played Brian's terrifying ex, Vulva in 'Spaced'. In my defence I haven't watched it in years; I just started remembering bits of the episode a few days ago when something reminded me of it - probably a bag of twiglets.
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In Christoper Cross’ “Sailing,” the line, “the canvas can do miracles” refers to the sails of a sailboat, not a painting on canvas.
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I had this great epiphany that the Payday candy bar is named after the old phrase “working for peanuts”. Then I looked it up, and they just didn’t have a name by Friday, so some guy just said “It’s payday. Let’s call it Payday” and everyone said sure.
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dirksteadfast posted:I had this great epiphany that the Payday candy bar is named after the old phrase “working for peanuts”. Then I looked it up, and they just didn’t have a name by Friday, so some guy just said “It’s payday. Let’s call it Payday” and everyone said sure. This was me with "Baby Ruth". It's named after an actual baby, not Babe Ruth. Also your original Payday idea woked better than reality and they should have gone with that explanation.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Growing up, the phrase "a couple of -blank-" says meant more than two, less than five. Turns out it was just my family, and to all rational people, a couple means two. Same.
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About a year or so ago I realized that in the world of music, Chris Brown is not Bobby Brown. That cleared up a whole lot of confusion.
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both are abusers tho
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Krankenstyle posted:both are abusers tho No to be confused with Bobbi Brown makeup. Yes, there is a Bobbi Brown Black Eyeliner.
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Baby Ruth is named after Babe Ruth but they made up that other story so they wouldn't have to pay him
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"Sultans of Swing" is by Dire Straits not Blue Oyster Cult. I'm no better than the people who think "Sex and Candy" is by Nirvana.
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Aug 5, 2018 16:50
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Howard Hawks and Howard Hughes are not quite the same person.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:"Sultans of Swing" is by Dire Straits not Blue Oyster Cult. I'm no better than the people who think "Sex and Candy" is by Nirvana. Legend_of_Zelda_System_of_a_Down.mp3
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The North Tower posted:No to be confused with Bobbi Brown makeup. Yes, there is a Bobbi Brown Black Eyeliner. I saw that some years ago and assumed Bobbi Kristina Brown was its patron/ founder.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I'm no better than the people who think "Sex and Candy" is by Nirvana. Nobody is that dumb
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I mean, if we could go back in time, I’d love to hear a Nirvana cover of Sex and Candy though.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Legend_of_Zelda_System_of_a_Down.mp3 To be fair, it does kind of sound like them.
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I realized today that the names for the Washington Wizards and Mystics are related.
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bamhand posted:I realized today that the names for the Washington Wizards and Mystics are related. Many of the WNBA teams at least started out as having similar names and uniforms to their NBA counterparts. See also: Detroit Shock (Pistons) Minnesota Lynx (Timberwolves) San Antonio Silver Stars (Spurs) Phoenix Mercury (Suns) Sacramento Monarchs (Kings) Houston Comets (Rockets) Charlotte Sting (Hornets) Miami Sol (Heat)
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The Heavy in TF2 was probably saying 'khorosho' and not 'Horror show' like I'd been hearing it as instead...
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I learned that from A Clockwork Orange. Little Alex calls things "real horror show", and it was many years later when I was dating a Russian girl that she used the word and I made the connection.
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Yeah the slang in Clockwork Orange is chock full of borrowed, bastardized and Frankensteined Russian, so you discovered a fun little linguistic secret.
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Memento posted:I learned that from A Clockwork Orange. Little Alex calls things "real horror show", and it was many years later when I was dating a Russian girl that she used the word and I made the connection.  I still catch myself calling slippers "toofles" sometimes, or talking about kots and koshkas.A few years later, though, I was very grateful for the glossary in my copy of Trainspotting.
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Hirayuki posted:A few years later, though, I was very grateful for the glossary in my copy of Trainspotting. I had to flip to that glossary so many times, but I thought it was worth it.
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Walter Matthau was not a news anchor-turned-actor, and was in fact never a news anchor at all—I think I somehow combined him and Walter Cronkite into one person. I can't really explain this one, because I wasn't confused about who Walter Cronkite was.
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Rollersnake posted:Walter Matthau was not a news anchor-turned-actor, and was in fact never a news anchor at all—I think I somehow combined him and Walter Cronkite into one person. I can't really explain this one, because I wasn't confused about who Walter Cronkite was. Huh, low key blowing my mind here. Even though I know who Walter Cronkite is. Weird.
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Rollersnake posted:Walter Matthau was not a news anchor-turned-actor, and was in fact never a news anchor at all—I think I somehow combined him and Walter Cronkite into one person. I can't really explain this one, because I wasn't confused about who Walter Cronkite was. Uh. Very weirdly, same.
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So in Spelunky, the little bit of flavour text that pops up to let you know the alien mothership is in the level is 'Feels like the fourth of July'. It's not some weird reference to fireworks I wasn't getting - the alien enemies shoot exploding lasers and their ships explode on death  - but to the loving movie
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Gitro posted:So in Spelunky, the little bit of flavour text that pops up to let you know the alien mothership is in the level is 'Feels like the fourth of July'. It's not some weird reference to fireworks I wasn't getting - the alien enemies shoot exploding lasers and their ships explode on death Independence Day?
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Ferris Buellers Day Off actually.
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Aug 19, 2018 20:24
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Born on the Fourth of July, obviously. Because Tom Cruise is a Scientologist.
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Len posted:Independence Day? gently caress, I hope so
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Donald Trump is the President of The United Sates.
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Anna Pavlova, famous for the cake named after her. Her surname is just the female version of Ivan Pavlov, famous for his dribbling dogs, last name.
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I felt really dumb when I realised this, but hermaphrodite comes from the parents of the original Hermaphroditus, Hermes and Aphrodite.
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How dare you.
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Aphrodite posted:How dare you. You're not weaseling out of child support that easily
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Oh my god. I've just realised in the song "Daria" by Cake, he's not singing "I won't be soothed over like, Smoothed over like milk, Silk, a bedspread, or a quilt, I sing on a cake, Or a serene translucent lake." He's singing ICING ON A CAKE. 
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Hyperlynx posted:Oh my god. I've just realised in the song "Daria" by Cake, he's not singing Fun fact: That song is about a radio DJ in Portland.  Well, that's the story I heard at least.
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