Blood Sugar Sex Magik is one of my all-time favorite albums. I had been listening to it for several years before I realized that Flea recorded two bass tracks on “If You Have to Ask”. Most of the song they’re just parallel octaves of the same melody, but in the outro you can very clearly hear them playing two different things. I don’t know how I never noticed that!
[Gold locks=blond hair]
Originally, this story was about an elderly woman breaking in. She was first called Gray locks, then in a subsequent version Silverlocks, which turned into Goldilocks.
Cite? (Not the Gold Locks bit, the part about originally being about an old woman.)
Yeah, not only would that be an odd chain of events, it would go against the general format of fairy tales, which have young protagonists, for the most part (children or young, unmarried adults).
Wikipedia says it was originally an old woman
I remembered reading about it in Bruno Bettelheim’s book, The Uses of Enchantment. When I checked after posting, it didn’t mention “Gray locks” though. It did say that the first version of the story was about a vixen (a female fox), which fits in more with talking bears anyway.
Where I come from its known as Black Friday because it is the day when a lot of companies have their christmas parties, and a small town full of overexcited people getting very drunk very quickly often tends to get fractious at times.
The A.A. Milne poem, later turned into a song, has the line:
King John put up a notice
Lost, stolen or strayed.
James James Morrison’s mother
Seems to have been mislaid.
Mother went to the end of the town after being warned not to. It’s obviously a bad place.
Could “mislaid” refer to being “mis-laid” or raped and disposed of? She has been heard of since, and “if people go down to the end of the town, well what can anyone do?”
Blame the victim, you cretins.
Wow. I love YF, I’ve seen it a couple of dozen times (probably), and I never noticed it. She’s even holding the candles out right in front of us. I love it.
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24 pages? Holy crap. Is that a record?
Okay, so mine is really bad, you guys. Elsewhere on the internet someone remarked that their childhood was full of naive questions, such as, ‘‘Why are tree stars good for the dinosaurs in The Land Before Time but we don’t eat them?’’
And mentally I was like, ‘‘What is she talking about? How can humans possible eat tree stars? They’re a fictional concept in a children’s movie…’’
And that’s when I realized that ‘‘tree stars’’ are what the dinosaurs call leaves.
hangs head
I mean, thinking back on it, it’s blatantly obvious. A part of my child brain understood that they were exactly like leaves in every way but name. But I never once looked at a real-life leaf and thought, ‘‘tree star.’’
Mae West: “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
Okay, she’s saying that she no longer is “innocent.” Obviously.
But it wasn’t until the local Dryden Theater showed some of her films, and I caught two in a rare double-feature, that the play on words hit me:
Snow… drifted.
Duhhhh! :o
In the musical Sweeney Todd, I had managed to pick out that
the melody to the “Rape Waltz” was the same as the Beggar Woman’s Motif, indicating very early on in the show that Lucy was the Beggar Woman.(Sondheim’s such a clever guy.)
It was only very recently that I realized that the amazingly creepy Organ Fugue Prologue is the minor transposition of “Green Finch and Linnet Bird.” Neatly done!
One I learned from the Cliff Notes to Catcher in the Rye
Holden Caufield has a red hunters cap that he likes to wear backwards, with the bill in the back. This was not the style in the 1950’s. In that era, the only person who would wear a cap that way would be a baseball catcher.
After sitting through Bram Stoker’s Dracula again, a movie I really don’t like, I finally figured out where the industrial band Carfax Abbey got its name.
I’ve been a fan of Discworld for ages. I think I read my first when I was fourteen, and have read each of them at least twice.
Up until yesterday I hadn’t figured out that the “smallest unit of magic”, the thaum, was not just a pun on thaumaturgy but also on atom. All these lines about splitting the thaum, or finding sub-thaumic particles flew right over my head. Goddamn, but I’m thick.
Especially since I’m well aware that the high-energy magic building was supposed to bring a nuclear power plant to mind, and lots of high-energy magic safety jokes were from Pratchett’s days as a nuclear engineer.
Do sports team logos count? I figured this out a while ago, but was reminded today because one of my co-workers is wearing the team’s jersey.
The logo for the Jersey Devils hockey team is not just a cleverly enhanced N and J…it’s meant to look like the popular depiction of THE Jersey Devil, with the N being a wing.
Niall is Neel, not Nee-all. I read nearly five hundred pages of that crap-tastic book with Nee-all clunking in my head every time I read it.
It wasn’t until my neighbor Neal turned out to be Niall that it all clicked.
Also, did you know that Circle-Kay is okay and at Kaye jewelers every kiss begins with the* letter* k? Sheesh.
Niall is pronounced Nile here. Neil is the other one.
Two simple ones, I didn’t get the puns in futilitycloset.com and Chips Ahoy! until a couple of days ago. :smack:
I’ve been reading the Order of the Stick webcomic since it began several years ago, but it wasn’t until strip #807 that it suddenly dawned on me that the cute white cat, Mr. Scruffy, is Belkar the halfling ranger’s freakin’ animal companion. Probably more odd, since I used to play D&D, is the fact that it never occurred to me while reading the early strips that Belkar didn’t have an animal companion in the beginning, something rangers acquire at 4th level (IIRC), despite his being several levels higher than that. The cat was originally introduced in the comic, 2-3 years ago, as simply the pet of an elderly man, and when the man died the cat just started following Belkar around.
I think the problem is that when I think of “ranger’s animal companion”, I think of something like a wolf, or a hawk, or some other obvious “wild” predator. Not a freakin’ housecat.
The names of the 3 male characters on 3rd Rock From the Sun – Tom, Dick, and Harry.