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"Bated" is still around in the word "abate".
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Oh wow, it turns out "with bated breath" means "while holding breath". "Bated" being derived from "abated", as in "stopped". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_bated_breath#English
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# ? Mar 28, 2023 23:44 |
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Hyperlynx posted:Oh wow, it turns out "with bated breath" means "while holding breath". "Bated" being derived from "abated", as in "stopped". Right, which is why you would say “don’t wait with bated breath” so that your suitor doesn’t die.
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# ? Mar 28, 2023 23:51 |
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Lincoln posted:Two big dials, one for power and one for time. This should have never stopped being the norm.
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ishikabibble posted:I think the repeat performance thing was more something from the radio days. By the time national TV broadcasts were widespread you had stuff like Kinescopes and Telecines which were literally 'a 35mm movie camera pointed at a CRT' and 'a broadcast camera pointed at a projection screen' respectively. There were business concerns besides quality. It still hosed with stuff like the brightness curve in ways that were only sort of manageable with the electronics and film stock of the time. Fake edit: here’s is one of Wikipedia’s sources for the “hot kinescope” section of the kinescope article, which I will embed here in full because the original website is gone, and the Something Awful forums may well outlive the Internet Archive. The context for the specific details are that this involves preservation NBC’s Producers’ Showcase, which aired from 1954 to 1957. quote:Technical Considerations Here’s a source linked to another defunct website, though this one is secure in the archives because it’s a transcription from a January 1952 article in American Cinematographer . quote:In the beginning there was a very definite reason for the decision of Desilu Productions to put I Love Lucy on film instead of doing it live and having kinescope recordings carry it to affiliate outlets of the network. The company was not satisfied with the quality of kinescopes. It saw that film, produced especially for television, was the only means of insuring top quality pictures on the home receiver as well as insuring a flawless show. "Putting a show on film, you can plan and cut, which you can't do with a live show," Freund explained. "Also, you avoid the fluffs that are bound to happen in live shows. But most important, if the film doesn't look right after its edited, you can re-shoot scenes, and add others to improve the picture, if necessary." e: also of note (and another case of link rot!) quote:Videotape engineer Frederick M. Remley[31] wrote of kinescope recordings: Platystemon has a new favorite as of 03:47 on Mar 29, 2023 |
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Platystemon posted:“Beck and call” frequently becomes “beckon call” because no one recognizes “beck” as its own word. Lol
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 06:11 |
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BR (of outsourced IT fame) is short for "brest bregards".
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 08:09 |
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I've never used LOL in chat because I grew up with it meaning Lots Of Love and that's never what I'm trying to convey. edit: by "grew up" I guess I mean "until I was 13 and started chatting with creeps online"
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 08:28 |
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Then there's the people who insist on saying "without further adieu." aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 08:45 |
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credburn posted:I've never used LOL in chat because I grew up with it meaning Lots Of Love and that's never what I'm trying to convey. Certainly makes a lot of internet discussions funnier when you read LOL as Lots of Love
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 11:13 |
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lol a person is drowning
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 12:28 |
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Platystemon posted:lol vOv
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credburn posted:I've never used LOL in chat because I grew up with it meaning Lots Of Love and that's never what I'm trying to convey. My grandmother still uses it that way, so our family group chat gets stuff from her like 'your uncle is in the hospital, lol' from time to time.
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# ? Mar 29, 2023 12:49 |
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Loving my rear end off at that
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 12:08 |
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flavor.flv posted:Radarange is an awesome name and I wish it stuck and became the genericised term It also explains the joke in Airplane! where they ask someone to check the radar and the next scene is them checking a microwave.
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 12:45 |
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"Out of my Head" as featured on a recent Ted Lasso episode is by Nineties band Fastball, and not Randy Newman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uEJXodcME0
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mlnhd posted:"Out of my Head" as featured on a recent Ted Lasso episode is by Nineties band Fastball, and not Randy Newman. you can tell because it's good
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 13:42 |
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I loving loved Fastball. I remember waiting poised with my fingers over the record buttons on my boombox for The Way to come on and the DJ wouldn't shut the gently caress up until the first lyric
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 13:52 |
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Fastball is a seriously underrated 90s one hit wonder. Fire Escape is a pretty great song too.
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 13:57 |
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Fastball is one of those classic one-hit wonders that isn't actually a one-hit wonder, since Out of My Head was also a pretty big single.
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 14:17 |
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And aptly named since it's quite difficult to get out of your head
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 14:20 |
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I just realized more people appreciate fastball here than I’d expect and that is a nice thing
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 15:01 |
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Whenever I'd post a quoted reply in a fast-moving thread, I'd note the page I was on so I could get back to where I'd left off reading. Today I realized I could just click the quoted poster's name in my reply.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 01:59 |
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I like The Way too but at the same time it portrays an elderly couple with dementia wandering off into the desert to die as them going off to some happy place.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 02:34 |
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maybe they did
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Shifty Nipples posted:I like The Way too but at the same time it portrays an elderly couple with dementia wandering off into the desert to die as them going off to some happy place. I mean, anyone can see the road that they walked on was paved in gold.
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Hirayuki posted:Whenever I'd post a quoted reply in a fast-moving thread, I'd note the page I was on so I could get back to where I'd left off reading. Today I realized I could just click the quoted poster's name in my reply. Why not just open the reply page in a new tab and then hit "mark post as last read" when you're done?
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flavor.flv posted:Why not just open the reply page in a new tab and then hit "mark post as last read" when you're done?
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exquisite tea posted:Fastball is one of those classic one-hit wonders that isn't actually a one-hit wonder, since Out of My Head was also a pretty big single. They had another song that charted pretty well... umm... gently caress what was it... Oh wait it was Out of My Head which was how the conversation began :| e: I realized myself as I was writing it in real time; I think this kind of sounds like I'm making fun of you
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credburn posted:They had another song that charted pretty well... umm... gently caress what was it... Fire Escape
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 15:16 |
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I'm currently reading the All Creatures Great And Small series by James Herriot. I never knew before how often veterinarians have to get all up inside cows' and horses' buttholes.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I'm currently reading the All Creatures Great And Small series by James Herriot. I never knew before how often veterinarians have to get all up inside cows' and horses' buttholes. I loved those books as a kid. They’re gross.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I'm currently reading the All Creatures Great And Small series by James Herriot. I never knew before how often veterinarians have to get all up inside cows' and horses' buttholes. I grew up in an extremely conservative household that was pretty restrictive as to what I could read, but those were on the OK list, probably due to my folks just having a general acceptance of the PBS show. They never knew how much I learned about the world from reading about country vets getting all up in there, lol.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I'm currently reading the All Creatures Great And Small series by James Herriot. I never knew before how often veterinarians have to get all up inside cows' and horses' buttholes. Ha! I remember, growing up, my sister wanted to be a vet until she learned this
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Grassy Knowles posted:I loved those books as a kid. They’re gross. I read a few of them on my aunt and uncle's ranch but did not partake of the animal's actual butts. It was still amusing late night reading. The new series is quite good for a quiet little romantic English thing. Gonna watch the old one too again for mostly sleep purposes.
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# ? Apr 1, 2023 02:07 |
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Apparently Jon Voight was in debt to the mob, or maybe The Joker or something.
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# ? Apr 1, 2023 09:06 |
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Pneub posted:Apparently Jon Voight was in debt to the mob, or maybe The Joker or something. Jon Voight went all in on supporting the Trump presidency, constantly pushing the idea that the 2020 election had been stolen and preaching to his Twitter followers for Trump's re-election. He's pretty much unemployable now. His career rot started way before that though, he was making films like this as far back as 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXYk3HBrqZE E: the kindest thing we might say about Karate Dog is that it at least contributed to this amazing cultural artifact quote:Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012) Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 09:43 on Apr 1, 2023 |
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Baby Geniuses 5 was in 2014. This man pissed off the wrong people.
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# ? Apr 1, 2023 10:42 |
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Pneub posted:Baby Geniuses 5 was in 2014. This man pissed off the wrong people. He got an extreme case of Fox News Brain in the 00s and Obama's presidency pushed him right over the edge even before it started Jon Voight, 2008 posted:The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
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