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Call signs can change, too. There's a rock station here that's been through five call signs just in the time I've been alive.
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i don't know if it's still this way, but i had friends working at a local radio station in the early 2000s and they said it was like vanity plates, where you can pay the basic fee to get whatever they give you or pay a big extra fee to customize the last three letters.
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Liberty 2-4 is changing call signs! Liberty 2-4 is now AIR FORCE ONE! * orchestra music swells, everyone in white house situation room goes nuts *
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San Francisco has KFOG as a weather joke.
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aardwolf posted:Liberty 2-4 is changing call signs! Liberty 2-4 is now AIR FORCE ONE! (e: I had taken this out of context to the thread/conversation and thought you'd found an insight here instead of were just making a joke, my dumb) snip and shrug, leave the evidence No idea what you learned but from googling the quote (being clever I guessed the movie but wanted to be sure) saw the clip, then saw a face in the situation room. Hey, it's that guy. Phillip Baker Hall. He died this summer, in June. Was in a lot of good stuff. Just a character actor I guess but a good one. So I figured that out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFYK9eB8cPU BaldDwarfOnPCP has a new favorite as of 07:56 on Sep 28, 2022 |
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'Astro' means 'star or celestial body', so 'astrology' is obviously the study of stars and planets n' poo poo, etc etc Stuff I just figured out: 'asterisk' means 'little star'
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Stellar observation, there.
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Could have been a dis aster.
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Somewhat relatedly, what most people think of as "constellations" are actually asterisms
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Torquemada posted:Could have been a dis aster. Oh poo poo
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Doing a rewatch of Farscape. I'm a goddamn idiot. The episode "Jeremiah Crichton " is obviously referencing Jeremiah Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDsiHHcEbr4
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Wormwood is not a type of wood Dang I was imagining the process of making gin mash as a lot harder than it actually is
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I uh... I just found out that a certain actress's name is not Anna Taylor-Joy, it's Anya Taylor-Joy I feel like this is a Berenstein/Berenstain Bears situation and I've shifted timelines  Idk what to do with this information
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Pretty Hate Machine is two years older than Nevermind
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I uh... I just found out that a certain actress's name is not Anna Taylor-Joy, it's Anya Taylor-Joy Weird, I would have said the same as you. Maybe theres another famous Anna double barrel or a similar name we've got stuck in our head?
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson isn’t as pretty as Anya.
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You guys know that electronic techno song "Sandstorm"? It's a song I've heard three or four times in my entire life? I feel like it's a bit of trivia that I know what it's called, like an obscure factoid I've held on to for when an occasion comes up and I can say, 'You know, this song is called "Sandstorm."' I don't even know where I first heard it or why I know what it's called. But apparently everybody is extremely familiar with this song. Why? Looking it up on wikipedia, the song is from 1999, which is a bit newer than I thought -- though I remember vaguely hearing it while I played PS1 games, which made me think it was on a Wipeout soundtrack but it's not. Wikipedia also says: quote:As an April Fools' Day joke on 1 April 2015, YouTube displayed the message "Did you mean: Darude – Sandstorm by Darude" for all video search queries that involve music, in addition to adding a button which played the song during a video Is this why? A friend who is four years younger than me (graduating class of uhhh 2005 or 2006 I guess) said they played it during school dances. Maybe it's just a popular song  edit: I guess if I don't go to school dances, sporting events, Reddit or YouTube I put myself ten years behind the zeitgeist. Most of my life these forums have existed as my primary and often singular social outlet. I don't engage much with YouTube or Reddit at all. It's just surprising to me that Sandstorm is completely absent in some circles, but ubiquitous in others and I would have assumed that even as isolated as I can be, most of the time trending ideas and sound bytes still find their way to me but for some reason this song didn't. credburn has a new favorite as of 23:12 on Oct 9, 2022 |
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Sandstorm was just incredibly popular. For example probably every sporting event with more than 100 people in attendance would play it (alongside perhaps zombie nation).
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It's just very popular. My Canadian high school pumped in the gym during pep rallies in the early 00s.
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credburn posted:You guys know that electronic techno song "Sandstorm"? Well, it is a pretty drat popular song. The youtube april fool's thing was a reference to a pre-existing meme; for quite some time there was a huge meme that whenever someone asked "what music is in this video?" in the youtube/reddit/whatever comments, people would reply with "darude - sandstorm" regardless of what the real answer was. KYM says it started in 2013.
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Scaramouche posted:Sandstorm was just incredibly popular. For example probably every sporting event with more than 100 people in attendance would play it (alongside perhaps zombie nation). I think Kernkraft 400 is probably THE song that people don't know the name of, e g. even the people that think they know believe it's called "zombie nation" when that's the name of the musician. Video is pretty cool too Pretty sure that guy still DJs around the world and makes bank off that one tune though, respect. And yeah Sandstorm was big as hell in Europe in 99/00
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credburn posted:You guys know that electronic techno song "Sandstorm"? I know exactly what you mean, but I don't know why. Like as of a few years ago, everyone suddenly had always known about Darude Sandstorm; while I didn't even know if it's the song that is called Darude or the artist or what. I'm sure it's all a result of brain algorithms filtering out useless background info etc etc etc, but it's a really uncanny feeling. I can see why the mandelastein effect people get so unsettled.
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Tree Bucket posted:mandelastein effect It's spelled "mangosteen"
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Sandstorm was big on YTMND back in 05 or 06 so it goes that far back
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credburn posted:You guys know that electronic techno song "Sandstorm"? quote:Finnish DJ and composer this is my mind blown moment because could have sworn he died recently
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You're probably thinking of avici
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Milo and POTUS posted:You're probably thinking of avici Thank you, yes I was
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MMA man Wanderlei Silva used Sandstorm as his entrance music
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Scaramouche posted:Sandstorm was just incredibly popular. For example probably every sporting event with more than 100 people in attendance would play it (alongside perhaps zombie nation). And it wasn't just background music, the crowds fuckkin' went nuts over it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYTCDFjxCYI
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Sandstorm was inescapable in 2002 for me
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:this is my mind blown moment because could have sworn he died recently He is not dead, but he did participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, which musically is the same as dying.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I think Kernkraft 400 is probably THE song that people don't know the name of, e g. even the people that think they know believe it's called "zombie nation" when that's the name of the musician. also its a cover of one of the songs for the Commodore 64 game Lazy Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DyoDJCqac&t=581s (should start at around 9:40)
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Carthag Tuek posted:also its a cover of one of the songs for the Commodore 64 game Lazy Jones Yeah I went down a little rabbithole on this last night, so it's based on that C64 game tune, which in itself was probably inspired by a 1980 song called It Happened Then by a guy called Peter Baker who was essentially ripping off Kraftwerk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgf82hF3qj8 That song is reasonably similar in the chorus, but the guy seems pretty chill and on his website he's like "eh it's a few notes and we were all doing similar stuff". So either he genuinely doesn't care or he's been advised that he doesn't have the clout to succeed with an infringement case. From my POV it all lines up but there's enough difference between them
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Yeah that is pretty far off to my ears. Basically only the first bar of the chorus really fits.
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I'm really dumb. The Blink 182 song "I Miss You" has what I thought were just sort of non-sensical, mildly "Whistful", lyrics: "We can live like Jack and Sally if you want, Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas" It's a loving reference to The Nightmare Before Christmas. Obviously. DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 20:43 on Oct 11, 2022 |
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Wow that lyric is significantly worse for knowing that, lol.
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exquisite tea posted:Wow that lyric is significantly worse for knowing that, lol. Not sure what else it could mean. This was a time when Hot Topic was basically entirely Blink182, P!ATD, and Nightmare Before Christmas merch. Might still be, actually
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DON'TWASTE YOURTIME ONME YOU'REALREADY THE VOICE IN SIDE MY YED
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(i miss you)
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… What's my age again?
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