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I can believe that was Quentin Tarantino's intention with "Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood"
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Milo and POTUS posted:Bread doesn't mean money; the guy was just being a huge rear end in a top hat It took me a while to realize that it did, in fact, mean money. "Man, what are you doing here?" certainly fits in with that gay bar interpretation, though that still seems pretty questionable
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Thanks to the current marketing blitz surrounding the 30th anniversary of Metallica's black album, I was reading about "Nothing Else Matters" and I only just now realized what seems to have been obvious to everyone else -- it's really just a straight-up love song. I think my brain always kind of skipped over the word "else" and assumed it was this really dark, depressed sort of thing. And it is a little bit dark, but only in the sense that it's a "can't wait to be back home with my girl" song. Not a "the world is pointless and I want to die" song.
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Jul 1, 2021 22:30
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Gaius Marius posted:We cannot possibly at the point we're calling the chili peppers old music Heck, even back when they had their first big hit they were already kind of old. First album in 1984, Blood Sugar Sex Magik in 1991. 7 years, AKA the length of the Beatles' career.
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Last night somehow the "why do birds suddenly appear" song came to mind, and I recalled a moment in the Simpsons where it was playing over and over and getting lodged into Lisa's subconscious, and I was a little stuck trying to figure out exactly what episode it was, so I was looking it up. It was the one where they bought a new doorbell from "Señor Ding-Dong". I can't prove this, but it seems fairly likely that's a double entendre. "Seen your ding dong." Beachcomber posted:As noted previously, I am bad at music. Same aesthetic, but basically totally different genre.
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Sep 17, 2021 14:02
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learnincurve posted:Marvel happened, suddenly you couldn’t get away from back in black and shoot to kill which aren’t their best work by a long shot, just the most popular. Maybe we just ran in different circles, but AC/DC seemed to have a flatline of generic "classic rock" popularity for the past 3 decades. I always remember Back in Black being a thing. By the time Marvel got to it, it was almost kind of a punchline. Like a slightly more modern version of using "Bad to the Bone" when a guy puts on sunglasses.
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Sep 23, 2021 17:08
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Trabant posted:Oregon + Idaho = Oreida, aka the cheapo potato products company. Oh duh. Well now I know the definitive way to pronounce that I guess. Also, thanks to RedLetterMedia I just learned that that company actually owns the trademark on "tater tots".
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Nov 1, 2021 14:05
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I like that song. I like it too, but my wife doesn't, and I guess I can understand why. All the yelling does get a bit repetitive and grating. Probably better as an instrumental.
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Brawnfire posted:Regarding the Forest Moon of Endor, apparently, Endor is the moon. I always thought it was a forest moon, of a planet named Endor. So that's taken a while to realize, I guess! Like most Star Wars EU stuff, they've felt the need to unnecessarily clarify something that was ambiguous in the movie while being overly careful not to contradict absolutely anything else. Because that might shatter the illusion, or something?
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Jan 23, 2022 00:52
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Savannah GA has a cobblestone area. Raleigh NC has a block or two -- or maybe more brick, not sure
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learnincurve posted:cobbled kerb stones Ehrmagehrd, kerblesterns
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Buckaroo Bonzai
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Live will always go down in history as picking that band name at exactly the wrong time.
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Mar 25, 2022 13:01
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That does make "Dancing On The Ceiling" even more impressive. Though I'm not sure how to feel about "Hold me closer, tiny dancer". It also makes any requests to "put on your dancing shoes" simply sound unnecessarily aggressive
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Brawnfire posted:Callin' out around the world Actually that's a Beatles song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7jel2l_iag (Not that that was ever some kind of secret.)
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Apr 20, 2022 12:43
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The only part I don't believe is that they had to bring in another songwriter to come up with "aw rooty, woo"
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What if early-aughts R&B singer Ashanti recorded a shanty
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Thanks to Todd In The Shadows I just figured out that "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is an acapella song. It's pretty obvious in hindsight, I guess I just never felt the need to listen closely because it sounds like just a "regular" song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noow9NqBvA8
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May 18, 2022 17:10
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FreudianSlippers posted:Imagine being this amazing acapella virtuoso but not only is the one (1) song people associate you with a novelty song you threw together 30+ years ago but most of them don't even realize it's acapella. Based on the video, he seems pretty well-adjusted for a jazz weirdo. He doesn't seem to loathe the success or crave it. He just went on his merry way doing more of the weird jazz and classical stuff. Well, maybe a few commercials on the side.
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The Moon Monster posted:For the longest time I thought "carrot and stick" referred to a carrot on a stick. I thought "well I guess the stick prevents you from getting the carrot but this metaphor still doesn't really make sense to me". I'm a bit confused about the bolded part, but the picture does explain it. The full phrase is something like "the carrot dangled on the end of the stick" and I guess that's kind of gotten shortened to "carrot on a stick" which is obscure if you haven't actually seen an example of it. It doesn't involve literally beating the horse though. It's just that if the person is sitting on the horse and also holding the carrot in front of it at sufficient length, the horse may think it can get closer to the carrot by walking forwards, but it actually never will.
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AFewBricksShy posted:My understanding of that phrase is "you can get the carrot or you can get the stick" meaning "you can get a treat or you can get a punishment". Either way you're going to do what I want you to do. I guess I've just learned something new then, because I've never heard that phrase. I've only heard the metaphor of the carrot being dangled at the end of a stick -- motivating you with the promise of something that you may or may not ever actually get. (The subtext being that the act of walking "toward" the carrot is not actually directly related to getting it, it's just arbitrarily handed to you afterward if the person wielding it decides you've earned it.) "The carrot or the stick" sounds to me like a clever/cruel twist on the above metaphor. Although after some googling, it sounds like nobody really knows which one was first. Since there are 2 different sticks involved, it's pretty much linguistically impossible to determine from old texts. Sir Lemming has a new favorite as of 18:04 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:All the dictionaries I checked said that the correct phrasing of the idiom is "the carrot or the stick" and there's several sources going back to the mid 1800s describing a donkey race where one rider whips their donkey and the other tempts it with a carrot dangling from a stick: https://archive.org/details/narrativelateex00unkngoog/page/n161/mode/2up I think the confusion is that the carrot "at the end of the stick" is less of a phrase and more just like, a concept? Whereas "the carrot or the stick" is more of an actual phrase. The former is sort of embedded in the latter. To me they both seem equally devious, just in different ways. It honestly never occurred to me that the dangling carrot was supposed to be considered positive reinforcement. The OP didn't seem to understand how the dangling carrot could be an effective metaphor in and of itself. And now I'm still unsure if it ever was. I guess I'll just never get this metaphor, it's like Lucy kicking Charlie Brown's carrot. Sir Lemming has a new favorite as of 18:34 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Not to beat a dead horse, but... This whole discussion has got me thinking about that particular phrase. The metaphorical meaning of it is pretty clear, but I've offhandedly wondered "why a horse?" And what I'm just figuring out is that the phrase is probably based on the assumption that beating a living horse would actually be useful, i.e. it would compel the horse to do something. As I'm not particularly in the habit of beating horses myself, this implication didn't really cross my mind. I just figured well yeah, of course that's a useless thing to do, the horse is already dead after all. Hell's wrong with you. You could probably make the idiom more palatable to modern audiences by specifically sticking to the "you can't beat a dead horse" phrasing, with emphasis on the idea by beating the horse, the owner has killed it, and perhaps they should regret beating it at all. It's a bit of a long walk, but it could work I guess. Like killing the goose that laid the golden egg or whatever.
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Captain Hygiene posted:One I learned about today on these very forums is that the phrase "just deserts" is not spelled "just desserts" even though it's pronounced like the latter. It comes from an older meaning for the word desert, describing the reward or punishment you deserve. I thought it was kinda funny that I was wrong about the phrase, but the meaning is close enough to something that could be described by desserts as a metaphor that the phrase feels like it works equally well either way.  Ok that's it, the English language needs to go in time-out. Frickin ridiculous
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Captain Splendid posted:It's further away than this Win deez
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Captain Hygiene posted:Oh that's funny, I thought folks were talking about iphone stuff but my android clock app's analog clock icon does keep time after all. I have no idea why, since its full digital clock/calendar display is already on the home screen by default so I've never had a reason to even look at the icon before now. I think the only reason is "a software engineer thought it might be cool" which is kind of cute in this era of algorithms and shareholders demanding only the most revenue-generating features. Someone just looked at the icon and noticed that to depict a clock you also must depict a time, and decided that it might as well depict the actual time 
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Captain Hygiene posted:That's a weird one because, as far as I can tell, tons of people (me included) grew up with it just being a verb to use without having a clue that there was any particular etymology or context to even worry about. Fortunately, I do think there's been a lot more awareness of that over the years, and I don't remember the last time I heard it come up outside of discussions why it and its related ethnic term are hateful. I attribute it to the internet still being in its infancy. If you didn't live in Europe (um, did you?) then you pretty much never talked to Europeans who would know the whole history of Roma persecution. Or at least it wasn't what they would lead with. "Hey just so you know, we used to be super racist too!" Basically there was slavery and the Holocaust, and we vaguely figured there must have been some other racism at some distant point in history (and no other racism happened in WW2, no siree!) Torquemada posted:It would bug a lot of people The correct joke is "that bugs me in a way that I cannot put into words"
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Organza Quiz posted:Unfortunately it's not a history thing, Europe is to this day extremely extremely racist towards Roma people. To paraphrase Mitch Hedberg, we used to be super racist. We still are, but we used to be, too.
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Baronjutter posted:There's porn on twitter. Wtf Yeah I heard this a few days ago too and was honestly very surprised. Like apparently they have no rule against it? But I kind of figured any place on the internet that doesn't intentionally crack down on porn would just automatically be full of it. I guess it kind of makes sense, though, that if you don't seek out and follow any of those accounts, and they also don't get monetized and "suggested" to you, you'll just never see it.
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Empty Sandwich posted:I just learned that the largest North American animal is the bison (also dangerous but mostly to tourists who try to like cuddle them) For you, the day you figured this out was the most important day of your life...
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This isn't really a major revelation, but I kind of never bothered to actually think through the lyrics to the chorus of Eve 6's "Inside Out" and figure out whether or not they form a coherent thought, and I'm here to report that they do. Unsurprisingly, it's basically a very flowery way of saying "I'm angsty". He doesn't even have any pride he could swallow, and he doesn't even have any faith he could turn back to, so don't bother asking him to do that. (And, more straightforwardly, he would like to put his heart in a blender.)
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Shifty Nipples posted:"Cah rib ian" is the cruise line and "care ah be in" is the place The former is an adjective, describing the type of cruise, and the latter is a noun, though I guess it's in an increasingly antiquated sense kind of like "the orient"
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Henchman of Santa posted:They're cousins, as was ODB. Yeah, but you'll never guess what I heard about his parents.
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Or perhaps nothing will be as funny as if the OP actually had straight-up forgotten that Pokémon existed, and no possible end to this derail will give us that satisfaction
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The word "guerilla" doesn't have a double R. Learned this while developing a search feature in a music database and not being able to find the band Guerilla Toss because nothing was autocorrecting for it.
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:The colors on this Oh wow. I know I've seen that but I gotta check mine now and see if it's up to par. Edit: It is, yay! Sir Lemming has a new favorite as of 21:24 on Feb 26, 2023 |
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Domus posted:Wow. Worked with one of those strippers for at least 7 years, and I never made that connection. Well now you know why!
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In Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" the lyric "move without rhythm, you won't attract the worm" is a Dune reference. I thought it was just a vague metaphor adjacent to "the early bird gets the worm", about dancing through life or whatever. (And of course, soon this shall all be fulfilled with a direct Christopher Walken connection.)
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Norah Jones is half-Indian. Her father is Ravi Shankar, who introduced George Harrison to Indian music.
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