Actually, what I meant by “notions” are sewing implements such as thread, needles, and, for a sewing machine, bobbins and such.
May I draw your attention to this book, by the writer of the skit in question? (The actual skit is omitted from the book “by popular demand”).
I’m going to guess about 8 people. Didn’t those movies come out shortly after the civil war?
I wonder if it’s only due to the environment I’m in, but I’m mystified how Van Halen seems to be totally forgotten. I was talking to a girl in probably her late twenties, who grew up in California, and mentioned Van Halen. “I’ve never heard any of his music.”
Again, this sounds like someone people wearing crinoline and bonnets or vests and monocles would enquire after at their local haberdasher’s, having just alighted from a hansom cab.
In other words, not something average people living in the mid-late 20th/early 21st centuries would seriously ask for except as part of some sort of facetious “Pretending to be from the past” thing, for the most part.
And nobody remembers Foster and Allen. Or Val Doonican. Or Climie Fisher. Or Swing Out Sister.
I’m exaggerating, but I think a lot of bands like Van Halen may have been big for a lot shorter time than we remember, only a couple of years of true hugeness, then a decade or so of lingering memory, then finally forgotten. If you’re not still churning out the occasional hit like U2, or a turning point in music history like The Beatles, then you will be forgotten, sooner or later.
I was talking to one of my aunts today and she didn’t know what creationism is. I think she probably knew what evolution is, but I’m not positive. She’d never heard of the Scopes Monkey Trial (and we live in Tennessee, although we aren’t native Tennesseans). She’s retired from a relatively high position in a good-sized company, she’s a college graduate, and she’s not dumb. She said, “well, it all happened before I was born and doesn’t affect me, so why would I care?”. I was dumbfounded. I didn’t think to ask her if she believed in the Book of Genesis as literal truth - we’re Catholic, so that’s unlikely.
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I was in the AUS school system 70-76, and it was never mentioned - we didn’t do AUS history. I knew about it a little bit from media references, but I didn’t know anyone got HURT, or that anything was DAMAGED.
I did read “The one day of the year” War wasn’t a really pupular story in the 70’s.
It wasn’t until years later that the media started running stories about the Darwin bombings. At that time, I expressed my amazement that everything I’d learned had been wrong. The bloke I was talking to (old enough to remember) told me that everyone in AUS at the time knew what had happend – it was just the government downplaying the event.
Years after that I saw a map of AUS shipping sunk off the AUS coast. That was never mentioned either.
c’mon. If you were a musician using the name George Harrison, that would be like an author using the name JK Rowling.
And If you then put the name on the cover of your album, that would be like publishing a book called “Harry Potter and the passed off merchandise”
With lesser-known authors, you do occasional see books with the note: This Author is not That Author – that’s why I only use my initials" but even that is not common.
On the other hand, using a different name as your pen-name or stage-name is so common that there is a compoind word describing each of those two cases.
I once read that Al Lewis and (I think) Dick Martin, who were really born with those names, were going to make the “other” guys bill themselves as Dino [Dean] Crocetti and Joseph [Jerry] Levitch! :dubious:
Cousin, twice removed. The family don’t talk about it. (Mr Ed is much younger, but Francis didn’t have any children)
Both directed by Arthur Lubin, and, if you ask me, Mr Ed’s “owner” Wilbur Post (Alan Young) also owes something to Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) in “Harvey”
My little sister (1968-) was surprised that the Beatles had done a cover of the Sesame Street song “Yellow Submarine”
My kids high-school english teacher had never heard of the Bowdlers (Thomas and Henrietta if you want to look them up). Not something I would expect everyone to know, but he was an ENGLISH teacher, teaching SHAKESPEARE in an edited version that had all the NAUGHTY BITS REMOVED for use in a Christian school.
Tolkien was also extremely interested in languages and words, and he would have been keenly aware of the humour of calling a second meal a “break fast”.
Maybe it was a really bad drawing
http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2013/03/18/cidu8/
It was banned in Singapore.
To understand that, it helps to know that “Chasing the Dragon” was a traditional chinese method of taking opiates by inhalation of smoke.
And that “Chasing the Dragon” leads to a kind of spaced-out fantasy traditionally called a “pipe-dream”
All I can say is I worked in retail (both general and electronics) for more than a decade and I never heard “notions” used to describe needles, threads, buttons and other sewing sundries.
A good time to teach them Metric then, where the numbers make sense, or are easily guessable.
I met Jerry Seinfeld about 15 years ago or so. I had no idea who he was or what he did. The name wasn’t familiar to me at all. Whoops! sorry.