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Silver Falcon posted:Slightly off-topic, but I was recently on a trip to the southern hemisphere. And lemme tell you, you think those constellations are bad? Go to the southern hemisphere where they have such things as a bunch of lines (telescope), a diamond, a triangle, and a different diamond (cross). Back in the 1700s, astronomers decided to arrange this whole sky business properly once and for all, and fill in all the blanks between the famous constellations, even if there was absolutely nothing of note in the gaps. So you get terrible stuff like Telescopium and Triangulum Australis. Or Lynx, so named because you'd need the eyes of a lynx to spot it, apparently. The best shady old-school astronomer story, though, relates to alpha and beta delphini, named Suolacin and Rotanev. These names were diligently copied into star charts by astronomers for decades before it was realised they'd all been played for ABSOLUTE FOOLS. The italian astronomer Nicolo Cacciatore had translated his name into latin, written it backwards, and then snuck these names into his star charts next to some otherwise obscure little stars. And now the names are there forever.
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The platters in hard drives (the ones that still use spinning rust, anyway) are sometimes very brittle and prone to shattering all over the place. On the plus side, I have successfully securely deleted the contents of that old hard drive! 
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My understanding is they're also full of extremely toxic heavy metals!
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Tree Bucket posted:Back in the 1700s, astronomers decided to arrange this whole sky business properly once and for all, and fill in all the blanks between the famous constellations, even if there was absolutely nothing of note in the gaps. So you get terrible stuff like Telescopium and Triangulum Australis. Or Lynx, so named because you'd need the eyes of a lynx to spot it, apparently. Yeah the astronomers and cartographers back then often went "Ah gently caress it, just fill in the blank spaces with whatever" which often had unintended consequences in later years. 16th century French mathematician Oronce Fine used to create world maps by combining established partial maps with incomplete data from recent expditions but also with myths and legends from the medieval era into one big mess and on his 1531 map he invented a gigantic continent at the south pole which was several times larger than South America. In recent times this has been latched onto by conspiracy theorists as "proof" that Antarctica wasn't covered by ice during that period (?) which is somehow evidence that global warming isn't real (????) or something Here's a 20 minute video which pieces together the actual geographical details which Oronce Fine smooshed together to create his imaginary supercontinent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRMy-6YXcs
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Baron von Eevl posted:My understanding is they're also full of extremely toxic heavy metals! Apparently the more recent ones use cobalt, yeah. This one was 15 years old, dunno how that stacks up. I cleaned thoroughly!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:The platters in hard drives (the ones that still use spinning rust, anyway) are sometimes very brittle and prone to shattering all over the place. I learned a similar lesson with an old copy of Brood War Snapped into a thousand tiny pieces in the cd rom drive while it was spinning up
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I just discovered that TLO Rollcall is basically a parody of Lip Gloss by Lil Mama.
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Hardcordion posted:I just discovered that TLO Rollcall is basically a parody of Lip Gloss by Lil Mama. poo poo, I never knew that. Our version has better flow, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5y3NQi_RAY
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I guess it's more accurate to say TLO samples Lip Gloss. Either way, for a few seconds it was very weird to hear that beat on a bar's speaker system.
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Hardcordion posted:I guess it's more accurate to say TLO samples Lip Gloss. Either way, for a few seconds it was very weird to hear that beat on a bar's speaker system. Oh poo poo, I hope you didn't start singing along and embarrass yourself. One time Under Pressure started playing and I started singing Ice Ice Baby by mistake but I think I got away with it
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh poo poo, I hope you didn't start singing along and embarrass yourself. It was slightly embarrassing to be like "Oh poo poo I know this! ...wait, nevermind" to my trivia teammates.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh poo poo, I hope you didn't start singing along and embarrass yourself. You didn't. Everyone was sneering at you
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Tree Bucket posted:You didn't. Everyone was sneering at you No! No!! 
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Hardcordion posted:It was slightly embarrassing to be like "Oh poo poo I know this! ...wait, nevermind" to my trivia teammates. Better than my reaction in 2019 when I found out Friend posted:Same for me a couple weeks ago at a Mavericks game. I shot forward in my seat and said "LIP GLOSS IS TLO ROLL CALL!" and then turned to my wife and said "remind me to show you a video about anime when we get home."
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I had a similar reaction when I found out Neil C did Brody Quest.
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There's a Metallica B-side from Death Magnetic called "Hate Train", which is cringeworthy enough for starting off with the lyric "Hate! Is a train!" But I also just realized it's supposed to rhyme with "freight train"  (Still a pretty sick song all things considered, should've been on the album)
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Sir Lemming posted:There's a Metallica B-side from Death Magnetic called "Hate Train", which is cringeworthy enough for starting off with the lyric "Hate! Is a train!" But I also just realized it's supposed to rhyme with "freight train" Should have gone with "All aboard the hate train! HAHAHA!" as a Ozzy/Sabbath homage.
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Bette Midler and Barbara Streisand are different people.  Like, I must have known on some instinctive level that they were different people because they had different names, but I just conceptually smooshed them together. And so Barbara Streisand didn't sing "Wind Beneath My Wings". Maybe the Mandela effect is real after all.
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Streisand just wrote an autobiography where she claims Mandy Patinkin broke down in tears because she wouldn't sleep with him.
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Blurred posted:Bette Midler and Barbara Streisand are different people. No, they're the sa- What-
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Sir Lemming posted:There's a Metallica B-side from Death Magnetic called "Hate Train", which is cringeworthy enough for starting off with the lyric "Hate! Is a train!" But I also just realized it's supposed to rhyme with "freight train" Metalocalypse did it first/better
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Metalocalypse did it first/better I only recently realized that the creator of Metalocalypse and Home Movies are the same guy. He also voices half the band and does the writing/singing/guitar/bass himself. The dude is crazy funny and talented.
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Well for one they spell and pronounce their names differently
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The Chad Jihad posted:Well for one they spell and pronounce their names differently I’m still not convinced he’s not related to Nixon
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Wooo, wooo, wooo-ooh, wooo, wooo, wooo-ooh Wooo, wooo, wooo-ooh, wooo, wooo, wooo Bette Midler
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The Chad Jihad posted:Well for one they spell and pronounce their names differently Hey you never know, it could be an Iain Banks / Iain M Banks situation where they use a different name for their other project
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hey you never know, it could be an Iain Banks / Iain M Banks situation where they use a different name for their other project Are they related to the serial experiments?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hey you never know, it could be an Iain Banks / Iain M Banks situation where they use a different name for their other project One of my favorite bits in Hot Fuzz is how there's a night desk sergeant played by Bill Bailey who's introduced reading a book by Iain Banks, and then the next morning there's a daytime desk sergeant played by Bill Bailey in a different haircut, reading a book by Iain M. Banks
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Phy posted:One of my favorite bits in Hot Fuzz is how there's a night desk sergeant played by Bill Bailey who's introduced reading a book by Iain Banks, and then the next morning there's a daytime desk sergeant played by Bill Bailey in a different haircut, reading a book by Iain M. Banks  A new author fact and a new joke in a great movie, all in one day. 
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Blurred posted:Bette Midler and Barbara Streisand are different people. Took a while to realise that Barbra Streisand has one hit song called "Memory", and one where she sings the word "Memories..." at the start, but they aren't the same. e: also they're both on an album called "Memories", but she doesn't have a song by that title 
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A lute Al-Oud 
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He looks a bit pensive, maybe a shy al-Oud
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Mary Wollstonecraft was Mary Shelley's loving mother? 
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Animal-Mother posted:Mary Wollstonecraft was Mary Shelley's loving mother? I kinda assumed everyone knew this. Did you not even got to community college bro
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I did know someone who had a realization moment that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was Mary Shelley.
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Animal-Mother posted:Mary Wollstonecraft was Mary Shelley's loving mother? And her dad was William Godwin.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I kinda assumed everyone knew this. Did you not even got to community college bro The only thing I remember from community college was that we had an English professor who wanted to do a whole unit on Hemingway, nine tenths of the students stopped coming to class, and then he got fired after telling us he wanted to re-enact his Vietnam War trauma upon us.
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