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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's a ton of parks and other features around Melbourne named after John Batman and we're slowly getting around to changing them, although every single time we have to go through the usual "Heritage not hate"/"Muh childhood!!"/"That was all in the past just get over it" song and dance. Good to know it's happening. A shame to hear there's resistance still, this place is usually pretty progressive. I mean we elected a Green ffs.
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The Law of Conservation of Batmans will ensure that after you rename all of the little things away from “Batman”, the city itself will return to “Batmania”.
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naw I read the comic where Joker got god powers and tried to get rid of Batman, you'll end up with a giant Batman crucified to Uranus (boy I hope it wasn't Neptune because I picked the funnier planet)
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They should've just proclaimed that all these locations are now named after the superhero
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Kit Walker posted:They should've just proclaimed that all these locations are now named after the superhero I get where you're coming from, but maybe better to revert to the names given by the people they were stolen from, eh?
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Hyperlynx posted:I get where you're coming from, but maybe better to revert to the names given by the people they were stolen from, eh? Oh, for sure. I'm surprised that option was on the table at all
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Kit Walker posted:They should've just proclaimed that all these locations are now named after the superhero The King County strategy
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Fortunately we also have a perfectly fine Chris Columbus alternative.
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Sir Lemming posted:Fortunately we also have a perfectly fine Chris Columbus alternative. gremlins is an amazing movie
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I just found out that someone from Calgary invented "lol" https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent...speak-1.5269807 I guess we'll add that to the list of things this dump owes the world an answer for (such as my posting)
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This is ridiculously local to Ireland, but anyway - there's a sort of plasticine that every child in Ireland was very familiar with as a thing they used in arts and crafts classes in primary school. It is/was always called "mala", not as a brand name, just as a description of what it is, like calling it 'clay'. I just learned from reddit that it was a brand name, and it was actually called 'Marla'. This is like my own version of the Berenstein bears/Mandala effect thing. I cannot accept that the proper name is 'Marla'
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John Astin played Gomez Addams in the 60's. This means that Sean Astin is just IRL Pugsley.
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He also voiced Gomez in the ‘90s cartoon, which I only learned a couple of years ago. I remember not caring much for the cartoon Gomez because he just sounded like a normal guy, so Raul Julia (RIP) basically is Gomez to me, he was just that good.
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John Astin is still alive! (a thing I learned recently)
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Empty Sandwich posted:John Astin is still alive! (a thing I learned recently) What? No he's... what I have been under the impression he'd been dead for almost two decades. When I started watching Addams Family reruns, I looked him up, he was dead, I was certain of it! This is some Barenstain Bears poo poo edit: oh wait, I know what it was. He was in Brisco County Jr., and when I got the box set, I read the introduction by Bruce Campbell, and Bruce talked about how great it was to have had the opportunity to work with a legendary actor like John Astin. I think I interpreted that as Astin was dead. New stuff: Holy poo poo after banging my head against this for like fifteen minutes, I finally discovered that reddit doesn't even allow you to sort the posts in a thread by date? Haha reddit you loving suck so much What's especially funny about this is I learned this by looking at an 8 year-old reddit thread, which had outdated information, which would have been clear if I could have sorted by date, where it would have moved the new and correct information toward the top. credburn has a new favorite as of 09:48 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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credburn posted:New stuff: Holy poo poo after banging my head against this for like fifteen minutes, I finally discovered that reddit doesn't even allow you to sort the posts in a thread by date? Haha reddit you loving suck so much  sort by: new will put the newest at the top
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InediblePenguin posted:Reddit does suck but this option is literally right there I don't understand how I missed it. I've closed the browser window, but... gosh I want to... I just, I swear, that wasn't there when I was bitching about it!!
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You think that's air you're breathing?
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Reddit got rid of the ability to search within specific date ranges, and I will never forgive them for this.
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Reminds me of the time YouTube decided that you shouldn't be allowed to sort videos by Oldest, for some baffling reason. Thankfully, counter to the trend of everything getting worse all the time, they walked this back eventually
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Empty Sandwich posted:John Astin is still alive! (a thing I learned recently) Huh. I didn't know OG Gomez was Rudy's dad.
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Adoptive, but yes
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The whole story is wild. Astin was one of several men that Sean's mom had been sleeping with. She did the math and thought the bio dad was John Astin (who was married at the time), he divorced his current wife and married Sean's mom and raised Sean as his stepfather, although he thought he was Sean's biological father, although neither of them told Sean this. Eventually Sean got a DNA test and it turns out his bio father was his mom's significantly younger roommate at the time.
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He refers to John Astin, Desi Arnaz Jr (who Patty Duke thought might have been his father), Mike Pearce (his stepfather), and Michael Tell (his biological father) as his four dads and is close to all of them
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root beer posted:He refers to John Astin, Desi Arnaz Jr (who Patty Duke thought might have been his father), Mike Pearce (his stepfather), and Michael Tell (his biological father) as his four dads and is close to all of them This sounds like the plot to an 80s movie starring Tom Selleck and Ted Danson and is wholesome as hell.
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A reboot of My Mother the Car. Except it's a metaphor for everyone getting a ride.
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TK-42-1 posted:This sounds like the plot to an 80s movie starring Tom Selleck and Ted Danson and is wholesome as hell. There were only two dads, and it was a sitcom instead of a movie, and the big name was Paul Reiser, but this exact thing existed. And it was indeed both wholesome and very 80s.
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An actual man was named Dick Butkus? That's not some hackneyed old Vaudeville gag?
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Powered Descent posted:There were only two dads, and it was a sitcom instead of a movie, and the big name was Paul Reiser, but this exact thing existed. And it was indeed both wholesome and very 80s.
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Ommin posted:They just forgot to mention Steve Guttenberg. What we lost when the Stonecutters collapsed 
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Ommin posted:I think they were talking about 3 Men and a Baby or possibly the lackluster sequel, 3 Men and a Little Lady. They just forgot to mention Steve Guttenberg. Yeah I couldn’t remember who the third guy was.
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It was Orson Welles
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FreudianSlippers posted:An actual man was named Dick Butkus? *gasps in Superfans*
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TK-42-1 posted:Yeah I couldn’t remember who the third guy was. Gaius Marius posted:It was Orson Welles could have been just anybody
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Gaius Marius posted:It was Orson Welles I just got that Screw you
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JGdmn posted:*gasps in Superfans* They were more about Mike Ditka though, weren’t they?
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FreudianSlippers posted:An actual man was named Dick Butkus? Yeah, and he was one of the most brutal and violent men to play professional football. "A Boy Named Sue" was written about his life story.
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root beer posted:They were more about Mike Ditka though, weren’t they? Yes, but I’d have to believe they were aware of Butkus.
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FreudianSlippers posted:An actual man was named Dick Butkus? Stallone named his dog Butkus, after the dude. He likes to tell a story about how he was once so broke that he had to sell him (the dog), only to buy Butkus back once he had some cash from the script for Rocky.
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