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Powered Descent posted:Bobby Darin's rendition of Mack the Knife was better than Sinatra's. Fight me. Ella Fitzgerald's trumps both, especially since she blanks on the lyrics and confesses that to the live audience without missing a beat. Just starts ad-libbing like she's in a street rap battle. I will fight all y'all!
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By the by did you know that the best rendition of "My Way" after mine in Hummpub's karaoke at 14:00 on a weekday is Nina Simone's?
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Bouncer: "Isis Snowden, born 9/11? Get outa here with this fake ID!" Also, my great niece is named Isis and she was born only about 3-4 months before the terrorist group's name was widely circulated. She has always had it rough.
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I honestly hadn't even made the connection in this thread until people started being more explicit about it. I'm happy to report that those has-been terrorist losers have never managed to replace the Egyptian goddess in my mind.
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Dec 18, 2023 12:17
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My son's nickname sounds like the Arabic acronym for ISIS. He once introduced himself to a Middle Eastern salesman who was like, "Yyyeah, maybe stick to your full name."
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Hirayuki posted:My son's nickname sounds like the Arabic acronym for ISIS. He once introduced himself to a Middle Eastern salesman who was like, "Yyyeah, maybe stick to your full name." Not sure that going around and introducing yourself as "Nicepiss" is going to help the cause much.
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Hirayuki posted:My son's nickname sounds like the Arabic acronym for ISIS. He once introduced himself to a Middle Eastern salesman who was like, "Yyyeah, maybe stick to your full name." Kinda hoping it's Dashiell because that's fuckin hilarious.
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I say drop the nickname entirely and just be yourself, little Osama.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Kinda hoping it's Dashiell because that's fuckin hilarious.
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Random one - watching an old Janet Jackson video & saw a familiar face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0dqk6Vybeo Didn't realize Djimon Hounsou of Gladiator, Blood Diamond & Guardians of the Galaxy was in this almost 35 year old classic. I swear the dude doesn't age, I need to find whatever fountain of youth these people know about lol
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When you go to a McDonald's, they say "welcome back" because you've been to one before.
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Dec 19, 2023 09:22
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Ok here's one I like much better, this was a joy to discover Speedy, my pet turtle, is not trying to tell us to stop when we scratch her shell butt and she starts wigglin away. It turns out she actually really likes it, as tragically she has no way to itch her own rear end. I don't think even she knew we could do that for her. This is possibly the most satisfied little turtle ever? https://i.imgur.com/gTiMfia.mp4 She has been traveling around the house getting butt scratches from my whole family since we learned this pleases her. She did not want to go back to bed in her terrarium tonight. Afterward she came over to me and stuck only her butt out so I could scratch nothing else  
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Dec 19, 2023 10:04
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Aww, I remember my girlfriend in highschool had a turtle named Bubbles who used to do that. Loved a good butt scratch.
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CJacobs posted:Speedy, my pet turtle,
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Ella Fitzgerald's trumps both, especially since she blanks on the lyrics and confesses that to the live audience without missing a beat. Just starts ad-libbing like she's in a street rap battle. "What's the next chorus to this song now? This is the one, now, I don't knoooow" is so great. I also like the part where she does a Louie Armstrong impression (specifically from Live in Berlin, but she might have done it other times). Not a thing I just realized, but Ella Fitzgerald rules.
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I just found out that the version of Body Movin' by The Beastie Boys that I know isn't the original, it's a remix by Fatboy Slim. This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvRBUw_Ls2o CW: slapstick gore, I guess? Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 21:39 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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Hyperlynx posted:I just found out that the version of Body Movin' by The Beastie Boys that I know isn't the original, it's a remix by Fatboy Slim. I just realized MCA directed a bunch of their videos
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Obviously The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is full of extremely blatant parallels to Christianity. However, it only just now clicked for me why one of the main characters is named Peter. 
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I dunno, I thought the inverted crucifixion scene was pretty on the nose
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TK-42-1 posted:I just realized MCA directed a bunch of their videos  That was famed Swiss director Nathanial Hörnblowér, a developer of special film techniques and film stocks who was one of Spike Jonze's early mentors. (And totally not Adam Yauch in a fake mustache doing a weird inconsistent accent) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W53CwCwSbR0 Hörnblowér was a controversial figure, he famously pissed off a lot of Hollywood people when he crashed the stage during the 1994 MTV Music Awards after Spike Jonze lost out on 'best music video director' for his work on Sabotage to REM's Everybody Hurts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lljcHzLLFoU Here's some behind-the-scenes footage of Yauch directing the music video for Intergalactic. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4zwkRkuQZw
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Random one - watching an old Janet Jackson video & saw a familiar face CJacobs posted:Ok here's one I like much better, this was a joy to discover
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I just realised that in Spanish, a leading "h" is silent. That's why "hombre" sounds like "ombray" and why my new colleague Hernan introduced himself as "Ernan". It's just a silent letter. Easy! We've got lots of those already, so that's simple enough to wrap my head around.
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Gotta make way for that j
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Baron von Eevl posted:Gotta make way for that j What's that one do?
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It goes "huh"
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Hyperlynx posted:What's that one do? Why don't you tell us,........Jyperlinx
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Made an absolute fool of myself typing "Ola" in texts and emails before finding out the actual spelling
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you pronounce the h in hacer and its conjugations
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So h is silent and j is h. What's j then? G?
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rollick posted:Made an absolute fool of myself typing "Ola" in texts and emails before finding out the actual spelling It's cool, just pretend it was Portuguese
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Hyperlynx posted:So h is silent and j is h. What's j then? G? It's pronounced "hif"
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El Giphy means the boss
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Hyperlynx posted:I just realised that in Spanish, a leading "h" is silent. That's why "hombre" sounds like "ombray" No it doesn't.
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Hyperlynx posted:I just realised that in Spanish, a leading "h" is silent. That's why "hombre" sounds like "ombray" and why my new colleague Hernan introduced himself as "Ernan". Wait until you hear how they pronounce 'ska'
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rollick posted:Made an absolute fool of myself typing "Ola" in texts and emails before finding out the actual spelling That’s fine hawowanlawow posted:you pronounce the h in hacer and its conjugations That’s not
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English laugh like this: hahaha Spanish laugh like this: jajaja Indonesians laugh like this: wkwkwk Finns laugh like this:
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jajaja xD Yeah, ola technically means wave, but it's pretty obvious what you actually meant.
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Homer and Marge Simpson are millenials.
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They're Gen X because that show ended 23 years ago after the final episode: Behind the Laughter. Good run.
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If you had actually watched Behind The Laughter you'd have known that they had stories for years.
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