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Brawnfire posted:Here's something I just realized/found out: a Van Dyke beard is named for a Flemish painter, not Dick Van Dyke, who doesn't seem to be strongly associated with a beard style after all... as far as I can tell? Not sure where I got that idea. I think the only facial hair I associate with Dick Van Dyke is the mustache he sported on Diagnosis: Murder
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rollick posted:Looking it up, they all died relatively young from different causes, three of them by cancer. A lovely run of luck. Dee Dee living to 50 is actually kind of a miracle.
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rollick posted:There are surprisingly few well known rock groups where all the original members are dead. The last man standing from Buddy Holly and the Crickets only went in 2022. Robbie Robertson, from The Band, just died back in August. He was another person who I thought was already dead, but it turns out the rest of the members of The Band went before him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7qqnK0Q5hk
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Carthag Tuek posted:otoh the rolling stones are still alive against all odds so With all that drug use, they’ve faced the reaper and walked away so many times that he’s given up on them.
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Brian Jones died in 69
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Philippe posted:He's hidden his phylactery well It's gotta be the nobel prize he returned right?
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Grassy Knowles posted:Brian Jones died in 69 Hell of a way to go
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1 posted:There's bound to be a few stragglers; we've still got plenty people famous in the '50s hanging about! Like... uh... Noam Chomsky? And Glynis Johns. And, uh, that old lady from The Archers. Tom Lehrer  He's also put all his songs and a bunch of recordings into public domain: https://tomlehrersongs.com/ There's also one Bee Gee left, Barry.
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Just realized Tom Lehrer is alive, and I’m happy about it
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Rachel Cusk is not Philomena Cunk.
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The title of the song Crowes in the Nose by Birdflesh is a play on words from the Swedish "kråkor i näsen" which means boogers.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Just realized Tom Lehrer is alive, and I’m happy about it drat, he was my mom’s economics teacher, and she’s 82. Some people keep going forever.
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This weird book I read as a kid in the early 80s was actually the first in a series, not a standalone book: To be fair the second book was published in the late 80s and I would have been too old for it by then. Also it turns out that there's been several movie adaptations (one with Gary Busey and Ice-T!!) and an animated series
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Cats are a kind of furry, land-based shrimp. No, I will not be taking questions 
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When Smithers said "I think women and seamen don't mix" there was a double entendre occuring
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The term "mother of all X" only became widely known among English-speakers in the 1990s when Saddam Hussein said that the Gulf War Coalition's involvement would lead to the mother of all battles. "Mother of all battles" was an existing phrase in Arabic dating to ~600CE.
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Tree Bucket posted:When Smithers said "I think women and seamen don't mix" there was a double entendre occuring Of course you'd think that!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:This weird book I read as a kid in the early 80s was actually the first in a series, not a standalone book: Neither of the people on that cover is wearing a hood.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Neither of the people on that cover is wearing a hood. I dont even see a tutu
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I saw Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat) in a 1970's Columbo episode, and man, did he look old, even then! Turns out, it's not Marc Alaimo, but another actor named Tim O'Connor, who is around 20 years older (and now dead). But, Marc Alaimo (who is 81 years old as of this post) did write the final episode of Columbo, "Columbo Likes the Nightlife." According to Wikipedia, he is also known as "The Neck."
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doctorfrog posted:
Close, it was his son
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Steve Martin and Leslie Nielsen still aren't the same person.
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Felix culpa means 'happy accident', not 'the cat's fault'
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I like it better the other way
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From the cat's perspective it's absolutely a happy accident.
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Samovar posted:Felix culpa means 'happy accident', not 'the cat's fault' gently caress this, language is fluid
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Dionne Warwick pronounces her last name wrong
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Me, wise: the solution to the riddle is simple. the cat's name is happy
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Captain Splendid posted:Dionne Warwick pronounces her last name wrong Nah if someone says their name (or the name of the place they're from) a certain way, that's how it's said for them. It's why the English are able to get away with poo poo like Worchestershire. For someone actually saying a name wrong, there's Doug Walker being completely unable to pronounce "Bakshi" correctly in his LotR comparison video, consistently saying it "Bashki" instead. He was so insistent on it that I naively thought he knew what he was talking about at the time, until a while later when I saw a video where Ralph Bakshi is interviewed and he says his own name out loud and it's as it's spelled.
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Beyoncé Knowles doesn't stress the ultimate syllable on her first name even though there's an accent.
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Beyohn-SEH
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Beons A. Knowles
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credburn posted:Beyoncé Knowles doesn't stress the ultimate syllable on her first name even though there's an accent. Accents in Spanish mark the stress, but in French (which doesn't have stress) they change the sound of the vowel. If she ignored the accent she'd be "Be-Yonss"
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Captain Splendid posted:Accents in Spanish mark the stress, but in French (which doesn't have stress) they change the sound of the vowel. this often fucks me up cause ive taken some classes in both french and spanish & while mother tongue mostly doesnt have typographical accents, except sometimes we might put them as a stress indicator -- like en = "a/an" vs én = "one" but you might also write the latter as een anyway if youre an idiot from denmark who never heard another language you might say buy-on-SI (stress on last, vowel is like in "even", but short)
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It's not Bey Once like once upon a time?
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It's Beyonce, rhymes his Ponce de Leon's first name.
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Captain Monkey posted:It's Beyonce, rhymes his Ponce de Leon's first name. so -cé is silent?
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