Grumio posted:

Oprah Winfrey's first name is actually Orpah, but people kept mispronouncing it as Oprah so she went with it

rollick posted:

what the gently caress

Ruth 1:3-4 CSB‬ posted:

Naomi’s husband, Elimelech, died, and she was left with her two sons. Her sons took Moabite women as their wives: one was named Orpah and the second was named Ruth.

Sir Lemming posted:

Yeah it's a Bible name. I always used to hear it as her mom misspelled it on the birth certificate but I obviously don't know that for a fact.

Yngwie Mangosteen posted:

The Moabites (those from the land beyond Jordan) also gave their name to Moab Utah because it was similar to the Native American name (Moapa; water full of mosquitos) for the land but also fit into their biblical Natives are Israelites mythology.

Hyperlynx posted:

Also, Nasi Goreng is delicious.

Sir Lemming posted:

Yeah it's a Bible name. I always used to hear it as her mom misspelled it on the birth certificate but I obviously don't know that for a fact.

rollick posted:

Oprah was so huge and omnipresent when I became media aware, I never even registered it as a name. She was just Oprah. She had always been Oprah. Harpo backwards, Oprah. Do the younger generations even know who Oprah was?

Also the idea of everyone loving up your name so much that you just give in is kind of heartbreaking.

Gaius Marius posted:

Her and Boyardee

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

At least he chose that version intentionally, instead of having it inflicted on him.

Ommin posted:

I had never heard of this before a was certain he said "Nazi Goring". LOL

Ommin posted:

Favorite Micheal Caine fact: You can do I perfect Micheal Caine impersonation of him saying his own name by substituting the phrase "my cocaine".

Friend posted:

Say "rise up lights" (in an american accent)

Then say it fast.

Now you know how to say "razor blades" in Australian.

Inceltown posted:

Maybe it's my existing Aussie accent but that doesn't work at all.

Saying "razor blades" fast does sound like an Aussie saying "razor blades" fast though.

Amoeba102 posted:

Can't decide if it fits more to a saffer or nz accent.

Creature posted:

I’m Australian and pronounce it as 'razor blades'.

rollick posted:

Oprah was so huge and omnipresent when I became media aware, I never even registered it as a name. She was just Oprah. She had always been Oprah. Harpo backwards, Oprah. Do the younger generations even know who Oprah was?

Also the idea of everyone loving up your name so much that you just give in is kind of heartbreaking.

Captain Hygiene posted:

I feel like parenthood must be a constant struggle to not just rapidly age into a skeleton and decay into dust

Captain Hygiene posted:

I feel like parenthood must be a constant struggle to not just rapidly age into a skeleton and decay into dust

TK-42-1 posted:

I just said 'Oh wow Oprah's real name is Orpah' and my 11 year old just said 'who?' and apparently he's literally never heard of Oprah before. Blew my loving mind.

quote:

Sex and The City star Parker and Ferris Bueller's Day Off star Broderick have long been committed Hibernophiles and have a holiday home in Donegal.

Parker, who has been married to Broderick since 1997, are regular visitors to Ireland and are reported to spend their summer holidays in the northwest with their children, son James (21) and twins Tabitha and Marion (14).

She and Broderick celebrated last New Year’s Eve in Cill Charthaigh, Co Donegal before they both began a run in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite in the West End, London.

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On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented car outside Tempo, Northern Ireland, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with another car. The driver, Anna Gallagher, 28, and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, were both killed instantly.[37][38] He was vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he had begun dating during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He suffered a fractured leg and ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung. Grey's injuries included severe whiplash, which later required surgery to avoid paralysis.[39][37] Broderick told police he had no recollection of the crash and did not know why he had been in the wrong lane: "What I first remember is waking up in the hospital, with a very strange feeling going on in my leg." He was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced up to five years in prison, but was convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined £100 (US$175).[37][40][41][42][43]

The victims' family called the verdict "a travesty of justice". The victims' brother/son, Martin Doherty, later forgave Broderick amid plans to meet him in 2003.[44] In February 2012, when Broderick was featured in a multi-million-dollar Honda commercial that aired during the Super Bowl, Doherty said the meeting had still not taken place and that Broderick "wasn't the greatest choice of drivers, knowing his past".[45]

TK-42-1 posted:

I just said 'Oh wow Oprah's real name is Orpah' and my 11 year old just said 'who?' and apparently he's literally never heard of Oprah before. Blew my loving mind.

Captain Hygiene posted:

I feel like parenthood must be a constant struggle to not just rapidly age into a skeleton and decay into dust

YeahTubaMike posted:

edit: one recent example is when she showed me the "We Are the World" video and I thought that Daryl Hall was Randy Travis

Mister Olympus posted:

There are a lot of pop cultural things that a wide age range share because of the long shadow of boomer tastes dominating media that The Kids are now totally unaware of, it's caught me off guard with students a lot

e: like for as popular as disney still is, a lot of kids haven't seen any of the older movies. i had an entire class of college freshmen for whom alice in wonderland was a completely new thing, disney version or otherwise

Improbable Lobster posted:

I feel like a lot of the reruns and rereleases of the past, which helped to bring older media/pop culture into the current zeitgeist, don't really happen like they used to. Like yeah the old shows and stuff are on streaming but they're usually difficult to find unless you're looking for a specific one that you already know about.

rollick posted: