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Post by liebkartoffel on Aug 11, 2022 14:43:16 GMT -5
Gene Roddenberry wrote (truly terrible) lyrics to the Star Trek theme song that he never intended to include in the show, purely so he could claim a lyricist credit and bilk Alexander Courage out of half the performance royalties.
Beyond The rim of the star-light My love Is wand'ring in star-flight I know He'll find in star-clustered reaches Love, Strange love a star woman teaches. I know His journey ends never His star trek Will go on forever. But tell him While he wanders his starry sea Remember, remember me.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 11, 2022 15:44:15 GMT -5
Gene Roddenberry wrote (truly terrible) lyrics to the Star Trek theme song that he never intended to include in the show, purely so he could claim a lyricist credit and bilk Alexander Courage out of half the performance royalties. Beyond The rim of the star-light My love Is wand'ring in star-flight I know He'll find in star-clustered reaches Love, Strange love a star woman teaches. I know His journey ends never His star trek Will go on forever. But tell him While he wanders his starry sea Remember, remember me. I wasn't aware until the obits for Uhura that she had a fling with Roddenberry. Good for him.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 11, 2022 18:59:52 GMT -5
Gene Roddenberry wrote (truly terrible) lyrics to the Star Trek theme song that he never intended to include in the show, purely so he could claim a lyricist credit and bilk Alexander Courage out of half the performance royalties. Beyond The rim of the star-light My love Is wand'ring in star-flight I know He'll find in star-clustered reaches Love, Strange love a star woman teaches. I know His journey ends never His star trek Will go on forever. But tell him While he wanders his starry sea Remember, remember me. I wasn't aware until the obits for Uhura that she had a fling with Roddenberry. Good for him. Based on what I've read about Roddenberry, when it came to ethical nonmonogamy, he was very good at the "nonmonogamy" part of it.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 11, 2022 19:12:24 GMT -5
I wasn't aware until the obits for Uhura that she had a fling with Roddenberry. Good for him. Based on what I've read about Roddenberry, when it came to ethical nonmonogamy, he was very good at the "nonmonogamy" part of it. I would expect nothing less from the screenwriter of Pretty Maids All in a Row.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Aug 11, 2022 19:19:06 GMT -5
I wasn't aware until the obits for Uhura that she had a fling with Roddenberry. Good for him. Based on what I've read about Roddenberry, when it came to ethical nonmonogamy, he was very good at the "nonmonogamy" part of it. I watched a talk Roddenberry give a talk live in the early 80's, and it seemed to me that he was either hammered, mildly senile, or simply didn't give a fuck anymore. He rambled on telling stories about filming the series for maybe 20 minutes, laid out the plot for the next movie he wanted top make, which was pretty much a beat by beat description of the already-released "ET", and them left during the blooper reel.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Aug 12, 2022 23:37:46 GMT -5
Floyd D Barber That’s the recollection of the writers early on in The Next Generation, too (one recalled a phone call with Roddenberry where Roddenberry, affecting an Irish accent, talked about the joy of letting out “waves and waves of cum”; more seriously the soft-headedness lead to less scrupulous people in his entourage taking advantage of him and, counter Writer’s Guild rules, taking over the show, which was one of the reasons for the bad-to-uneven at best quality of the show early on).
His head was really turned to Swiss cheese by alcoholism and, especially, drug use—some of it typical late 60s-70s sybaritic stuff but a lot from using to enable multiple all-nighters a week working on pilot and tv movie scripts (mostly unproduced ones, too).
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Aug 20, 2022 13:29:07 GMT -5
Years after he played Eddie Munster, Butch Patrick migrated over to the rival franchise to play Pugsley Addams in what was an attempt to reboot the series in the same way The Brady Bunch Variety Hour had turned that series into a sketch/musical series. Although unlike that monstrosity, no member of the original show reprised their old characters (Gomez was played the guy who played Mr. Carlin on the Bob Newhart Show).
One episode was produced (with special guest Jim Nabors) and aired as a filler in several markets in 1973 but no copy of it is known to exist today.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 30, 2022 9:28:26 GMT -5
The Production Assistant who figured out how to lure Marlon Brando out of his trailer, to the set of Superman, with foods he liked was a 16-year-old Cary Elwes.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Sept 8, 2022 13:00:55 GMT -5
The shell is the last part of an egg that a chicken produces before laying, so if something happens, the egg just slips out without one.
Source: a former coworker who has chickens and posted a photo of an egg without a shell today.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 9, 2022 21:50:09 GMT -5
Uhhhh did any of you know that Amelie Gillette, writer of the column that begat this very board, is married to Mark Proksch aka Colin Robinson?? And they met via The AV Club???
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Post by songstarliner on Sept 9, 2022 21:50:46 GMT -5
Uhhhh did any of you know that Amelie Gillette, writer of the column that begat this very board, is married to Mark Proksch aka Colin Robinson?? And they met via The AV Club??? WHAT
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 9, 2022 22:03:24 GMT -5
Uhhhh did any of you know that Amelie Gillette, writer of the column that begat this very board, is married to Mark Proksch aka Colin Robinson?? And they met via The AV Club??? WHAT I KNOW
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Sept 10, 2022 22:26:38 GMT -5
that a local guy, whose satellite system I used to work on, was a friend of Elvis, and that Elvis would sometimes visit him when he was in the area. Huh.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 14, 2022 7:42:23 GMT -5
Last night I saw an ad for the appliance brand Miele and I swear to you I thought it was pronounced "me-el" but no it's MEE-LA ...
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 14, 2022 14:40:37 GMT -5
Last night I saw an ad for the appliance brand Miele and I swear to you I thought it was pronounced "me-el" but no it's MEE-LA ... I think I saw the same ad and I always thought it was "me-el-lay" like the Italian word for honey. What kind of crazy moon language are they using up there? It stuck out to me because there was a Miele building that would put up the most beautiful blue tree in December on Route 1 in NJ, and the building was a landmark for me that the turn to head home was about to come up, and the tree was almost distractingly beautiful, if you like blue lights like I do.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 16, 2022 8:26:52 GMT -5
I knew chiropractic was a scam - I described it to a friend as "massage/physical therapy at best, pure quackery at worst" but yesterday I learned that the guy who invented it literally said the ghosts of doctors past told him how to do it. So.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Sept 18, 2022 17:42:54 GMT -5
Last night I saw an ad for the appliance brand Miele and I swear to you I thought it was pronounced "me-el" but no it's MEE-LA ... I think I saw the same ad and I always thought it was "me-el-lay" like the Italian word for honey. What kind of crazy moon language are they using up there?
Um, German? In German that word would be pronounced "Mee-luh". Googled the company. It is German.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 18, 2022 17:59:17 GMT -5
I think I saw the same ad and I always thought it was "me-el-lay" like the Italian word for honey. What kind of crazy moon language are they using up there?
Um, German? In Geman that word would be pronounced "Mee-luh". Googled the company. It is German.
Sure, but I don’t speak German nor did it occur to me to look it up - just thought it was funny that it subverted expectations
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Post by Desert Dweller on Sept 18, 2022 18:16:40 GMT -5
Um, German? In Geman that word would be pronounced "Mee-luh". Googled the company. It is German.
Sure, but I don’t speak German nor did it occur to me to look it up - just thought it was funny that it subverted expectations
Not sure what I would have thought if I'd seen it before you said something. And I don't really speak German, either. I know about 300 words of it, but I don't know the grammar. What I do have are several tedious college classes in foreign language diction. So I can pronounce German, but I have no idea what I'm saying.
In any case, when you gave the correct pronuncation, I knew it was German.
That's it for today's "Useless things that DesertDweller knows".
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 19, 2022 16:25:29 GMT -5
‘Here Comes The Bride’ was written by Richard Wagner. Surely I must’ve known this on some level.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 19, 2022 16:40:45 GMT -5
I think I saw the same ad and I always thought it was "me-el-lay" like the Italian word for honey. What kind of crazy moon language are they using up there?
Um, German? In German that word would be pronounced "Mee-luh". Googled the company. It is German.
So yes, crazy moon language.
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Post by ganews on Sept 30, 2022 8:24:58 GMT -5
The numbered metallic buttons outside the various facilities here at work are check-in scan points for patrolling security guards, to make sure they actually are patrolling.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Sept 30, 2022 8:42:06 GMT -5
that a local guy, whose satellite system I used to work on, was a friend of Elvis, and that Elvis would sometimes visit him when he was in the area. Huh. My dad had a long-time customer at his pharmacy who was a soldier stationed in Germany in the late 1950s. One of his barrack-mates was Elvis. The customer said Elvis was very friendly -- not at all stuck-up, and more than happy to do his part like everyone else.
Floyd, does that mean we're six degrees of Elvis separation from one another?
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Sept 30, 2022 13:25:16 GMT -5
that a local guy, whose satellite system I used to work on, was a friend of Elvis, and that Elvis would sometimes visit him when he was in the area. Huh. My dad had a long-time customer at his pharmacy who was a soldier stationed in Germany in the late 1950s. One of his barrack-mates was Elvis. The customer said Elvis was very friendly -- not at all stuck-up, and more than happy to do his part like everyone else.
Floyd, does that mean we're six degrees of Elvis separation from one another?
I'm thinking five degrees at most.
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Post by Celebith on Oct 18, 2022 7:59:49 GMT -5
The harmonicist (or whatever you call a harmonica player) / trumpeteer / saxamaphonist for the J. Geils Band was "Magic Dick" Not even Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz. Just straight up, Magic Dick. ETA: He was often referred to as "Magic Dick and his Lickin' Stick". And while Wikipedia is not always a good source, they do cite an actual print referenceSometimes I think I missed an opportunity to give my kids outrageously suggestive names, instead of just the outrageously long ones that they have.
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Post by ganews on Oct 18, 2022 9:04:21 GMT -5
The harmonicist (or whatever you call a harmonica player) / trumpeteer / saxamaphonist for the J. Geils Band was "Magic Dick" Not even Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz. Just straight up, Magic Dick. ETA: He was often referred to as "Magic Dick and his Lickin' Stick". And while Wikipedia is not always a good source, they do cite an actual print referenceSometimes I think I missed an opportunity to give my kids outrageously suggestive names, instead of just the outrageously long ones that they have. Was and Is. I got to see J. Geils Band for free about 9 years ago (minus Geils himself, I heard there were lawsuits) and it was a darn good show that Peter Wolf and Magic Dick put on.
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Post by Celebith on Oct 18, 2022 10:44:24 GMT -5
The harmonicist (or whatever you call a harmonica player) / trumpeteer / saxamaphonist for the J. Geils Band was "Magic Dick" Not even Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz. Just straight up, Magic Dick. ETA: He was often referred to as "Magic Dick and his Lickin' Stick". And while Wikipedia is not always a good source, they do cite an actual print referenceSometimes I think I missed an opportunity to give my kids outrageously suggestive names, instead of just the outrageously long ones that they have. Was and Is. I got to see J. Geils Band for free about 9 years ago (minus Geils himself, I heard there were lawsuits) and it was a darn good show that Peter Wolf and Magic Dick put on. I'd love to see them live. Apparently, they're a lot of fun, and I always loved their weirder stuff, like No Anchovies, Please!
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Oct 18, 2022 13:12:37 GMT -5
Was and Is. I got to see J. Geils Band for free about 9 years ago (minus Geils himself, I heard there were lawsuits) and it was a darn good show that Peter Wolf and Magic Dick put on. I'd love to see them live. Apparently, they're a lot of fun, and I always loved their weirder stuff, like No Anchovies, Please! This has a strong Firesign Theater vibe to me, which, of course, is a good thing.
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Post by Scruff on Oct 18, 2022 13:24:43 GMT -5
The harmonicist (or whatever you call a harmonica player) / trumpeteer / saxamaphonist for the J. Geils Band was "Magic Dick" Not even Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz. Just straight up, Magic Dick. ETA: He was often referred to as "Magic Dick and his Lickin' Stick". And while Wikipedia is not always a good source, they do cite an actual print referenceSometimes I think I missed an opportunity to give my kids outrageously suggestive names, instead of just the outrageously long ones that they have. A Hollywood stuntman and former Michael Myers changed his name officially to Dick Warlock. He has a son named Billy Warlock who was in the movie Society and I think some soap operas. Which, I can't imagine a better pick up line than "Hi, I'm Hollywood stuntman Dick Warlock."
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Post by pantsgoblin on Oct 24, 2022 12:45:49 GMT -5
The obstetrician who delivered Selena Quintanilla, the famous singer who was murdered by a former business partner, was future Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul.
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