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Post by pantsgoblin on Oct 24, 2022 13:28:00 GMT -5
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. I'm curious if someone at The Simpsons was also aware of that movie he wanted to make and they adapted it into that great gag of Apu chewing out Skinner when he didn't realize Billy & The Clone-a-saurus is an inadvertent Jurassic Park ripoff. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Nov 29, 2022 9:30:57 GMT -5
The Mice Who Make The ForestAsked to define the practical implications of his research, Dr. Mortelliti said, “Preserve a diversity of personalities.” There’s no one ideal personality; rather, different individuals perform different roles. Depending on circumstance — drought, natural disturbances, fluctuations in predator populations — different personality types may come to the fore.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 4, 2022 22:45:35 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. He was an obstetrician? Hmm. I recently learned that Ron Paul was the runner-up in the 2012 Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, one of the most 2012 and most New Hampshire facts I’ve ever read. |
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Post by Trurl on Dec 12, 2022 22:31:14 GMT -5
The song "Teardrop" off Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" was originally going to have Madonna singing instead of Liz Fraser. That would have been *sooo* terrible.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Dec 12, 2022 23:52:56 GMT -5
The song "Teardrop" off Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" was originally going to have Madonna singing instead of Liz Fraser. That would have been *sooo* terrible. And probably was the final nail-in-the-coffin of the collapse of that group's original trio, as founding member "Mushroom" Vowles tried to go behind the backs of the rest of the group to sell it to Madonna's camp. That, and the lyrics are Liz Fraser eulogizing friend (and lover) Jeff Buckley. Strange history behind that song. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Dec 13, 2022 9:33:03 GMT -5
Chinonye Chukwu, he director of "Till" (as well as the 2019 film "Clemency") is a 2007 grad of my alma mater (which means she arrived the fall after I graduated)...
I would really love to know how a woman born in Nigeria and mostly raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, ended up at a small midwestern liberal arts college in Indiana. (She then went on to film school at Temple.)
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 14, 2022 9:30:06 GMT -5
In eastern Kentucky during the New Deal there were librarians delivering books on horseback to hard-to-reach backcountry areas.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Dec 14, 2022 11:43:54 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 15, 2022 1:08:10 GMT -5
The first cinematic appearance of Mrs. Claus came in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians which beat the second appearance of Mrs. Claus (Rankin-Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) to market by three weeks.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Dec 22, 2022 23:59:33 GMT -5
The first cinematic appearance of Mrs. Claus came in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians which beat the second appearance of Mrs. Claus (Rankin-Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) to market by three weeks. I used to have a ticket to a free matinee showing of "Santa Clause Conquers the Martians" from when I was a little kid. It was sponsored by the local merchants in the county seat so folks could park their kids at the movies for a couple of hours and shop at their stores. I don't think I ever saw that movie in a theater, though. Guess that could have been why I still had the ticket. |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Jan 30, 2023 13:43:52 GMT -5
I think that is so, so fucking cool.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jan 30, 2023 14:38:37 GMT -5
Through a very roundabout series of events, I determined that my aunt's longtime nickname, ZB, may have been inspired by a one-off character (robot?) on the Jetsons called Zoom Broom. My mom's family name sounds soooort of like Zoombroom, especially when said with a Scottish accent; my aunt lived in Scotland (with the rest of the family) for two years, where she acquired the nickname. And my mom always told me it started as "zoombroom".
That kind of delights me honestly.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 16, 2023 12:43:20 GMT -5
I think it's fairly well known that Paul Winchell, the actor and ventriloquist best known as the original voice of Tigger, was a brilliant inventor and potentially the co-creator of the artificial heart (Jarvik denied that he used Winchell's original design). However, I've recently learned that he was also a certifiable lunatic who was known to have hours-long screaming arguments with his dead mother at her gravesite. He even went so far as to build an animatronic version of himself so he could continue the arguments when he was busy with something else.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Feb 28, 2023 17:54:35 GMT -5
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 1, 2023 16:38:43 GMT -5
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Post by liebkartoffel on Mar 1, 2023 17:39:51 GMT -5
TIL the original Shamrock Shakes were apparently a mixture of vanilla ice cream and lemon/lime sherbet, which sounds fucking delicious.
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Post by songstarliner on Mar 1, 2023 20:31:50 GMT -5
TIL the original Shamrock Shakes were apparently a mixture of vanilla ice cream and lemon/lime sherbet, which sounds fucking delicious. What is the flavor of Shamrock Shake? Mint? |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Mar 1, 2023 20:58:05 GMT -5
TIL the original Shamrock Shakes were apparently a mixture of vanilla ice cream and lemon/lime sherbet, which sounds fucking delicious. What is the flavor of Shamrock Shake? Mint? (Full disclosure: I've never actually consumed a Shamrock Shake). Apparently they were originally lemon/lime, then they were plain vanilla with green food coloring, and now they're mint. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 1, 2023 21:43:32 GMT -5
Lance Bass of N*SYNC fame apparently trained to be a cosmonaut in the early 00s.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 1, 2023 22:47:13 GMT -5
Nudeviking Huge cross-pressures for 13 year old me as someone who loved space but hated boy bands
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 1, 2023 23:15:21 GMT -5
Nudeviking Huge cross-pressures for 13 year old me as someone who loved space but hated boy bands He has a podcast about a cosmonaut that got stuck up on a Russian space station during the collapse of the Soviet Union where he talks about his time at Russian cosmonaut training. As someone who doesn't really care much about either N*SYNC or space it's honestly a very good podcast (The Last Soviet or something like that). I don't know why I'm surprised by the fact that someone who trained from childhood to be a celebrity is very good at speaking and presenting information in an engaging way, but Lance Bass is a very good podcast host and the story is wild. |
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Post by Celebith on Mar 2, 2023 9:29:22 GMT -5
I knew parts of the chorus, but reading the lyrics makes my brain hurt. It's like a trump speech, where you're kinda nodding along while he talks, but then you read the transcripts and wonder how long ago they had the aneurism. |
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Post by billy on Mar 2, 2023 11:07:20 GMT -5
TIL the original Shamrock Shakes were apparently a mixture of vanilla ice cream and lemon/lime sherbet, which sounds fucking delicious. What is the flavor of Shamrock Shake? Mint? Yeah it's a mild spearmint. I used to approximate them out of season with vanilla ice cream and green creme de menthe. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Mar 6, 2023 6:55:55 GMT -5
Black Sabbath played a gig in the early 2000s with Phil Collins on drums.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 7, 2023 17:32:10 GMT -5
The original Latin word for the Morning Star was Lucifer. (Meaning "bearer of light".) This was pre-Christianity, obviously. The linguist I was reading did not know how this name went from being the Morning Star to being used as the original name of Satan.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 7, 2023 19:13:01 GMT -5
The OMC song "How Bizarre" is from the year 1995. I always assumed it was from the '80s.
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 7, 2023 19:14:55 GMT -5
The OMC song "How Bizarre" is from the year 1995. I always assumed it was from the '80s. That's weird. 1995 seems a few years too early to me. Like that seems more like a thing that was around circa MTV's Total Request Live being a thing. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 7, 2023 19:17:31 GMT -5
The OMC song "How Bizarre" is from the year 1995. I always assumed it was from the '80s. That's weird. 1995 seems a few years too early to me. Like that seems more like a thing that was around circa MTV's Total Request Live being a thing. My recollection as someone whose brain still believes it's 1998 is that it took a few years for it to catch on the States, putting it in the TRL timeline. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 7, 2023 19:19:11 GMT -5
The OMC song "How Bizarre" is from the year 1995. I always assumed it was from the '80s. That's weird. 1995 seems a few years too early to me. Like that seems more like a thing that was around circa MTV's Total Request Live being a thing. I always thought of it as belonging to the category of "obnoxious songs from the 80s", but also was never exposed to it that much as a kid. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 7, 2023 19:34:19 GMT -5
That's weird. 1995 seems a few years too early to me. Like that seems more like a thing that was around circa MTV's Total Request Live being a thing. My recollection as someone whose brain still believes it's 1998 is that it took a few years for it to catch on the States, putting it in the TRL timeline. That makes sense. I think something similar happened with the Macarena right? Like it took years between its original release and hitting big in America. |
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