Hula hoops are named after the dance. Hoops like them had existed for quite some time. The hula dance had existed for quite some time. It was just that in 1958 they decided to call them hula hoops.
I was eight in 1958. Hula Hoops were everywhere, and my remembered impression is that everyone knew that they made you “do the hula dance.”
I too was alive in 1958 but too young to remember the first wave of Hula hoops. But while there’s no doubt there was a connection between the name and Hawaii, statehood had nothing to do with it, since it was not to be a state for another year. I would have been too young to pick up on a wave of “Hawaii-cana,” but perhaps it was the anticipation of statehood. Plus – and I know this is a nitpick – but for Hawaii to have been a state “for more than 20 years” would put one in the 1980s, not 1970s.
Darkseid had a first name? Next you’ll be telling me that Desaad’s first name was Mark E.
And please forget all of this, because I finally clicked to the fact that someone else called the nitpick before I did. 
Okay 
I was gonna say that I already acknowledged my error.
It becomes clearer once Van Morrison’ “lost verse” is revealed.
Oh, oh the games we played
Inside and outside
Holed up in your rumpus room
Playing the B side
Pushing down the old dirt trail
You bringing up the rear
Oh Oh your sweet pain
A delight to my ears
Up You, my brown-eyed girl
Ok, I just made that up butt I couldn’t resist. I couldn’t resist the misspell either.
It would be ironic if this actually became generally known as the Weird Al Effect. Because a hundred years from now, when people talk about the Weird Al Effect in Alice in Wonderland nobody will remember the effect was originally named after Weird Al Yankovic.
Yeah. Somebody on the equivalent of the SDMB circa 2113 will say that it’s named after “Weird Alice” Liddell.
OK I have just finished reading the entire, what? 4yo old thread, thank you Annie X-Mas
I was watching one of my favorite movies, “Dr. Strangelove” and noticed something new…
In the “War Room” Gen. Turgidson(George C. Scott) has a binder in front of him labeled “World Targets In Megadeaths”
How is it possible that I have never noticed it before? :smack:
Capt
ETA First on page thirty, isn’t that some sort of record?
The Baskin Robbins logo has a glaringly obvious 31 (as in the number of flavors they carry) right in the middle of it, that I never noticed until recently.
I hadn’t notice it until…
right now.
We’ve had threads quite a bit longer than this one, actually.
And this may be page 30 for you, but it’s page 8 for me and could be page 60 for someone else. Remember the number of posts per page varies depending on user settings.
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We’ve had threads quite a bit longer than this one, actually.
And this may be page 30 for you, but it’s page 8 for me and could be page 60 for someone else. Remember the number of posts per page varies depending on user settings.
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Of course you are correct. I noticed that you made the same reference earlier in the thread but by the time I had read all of it I was so exhausted I could not think.
Cheers
Capt
I find it in no way probable that “Deux” could possibly pronounced as “Duh”
::runs for exit::
I heard what sounded kind of like Tchaikovsky coming from the living room where the kids where watching TV. They were watching . . . Disney??
Wow, Sleeping Beauty used Tchaikovsky’s ballet for the basis of their soundtrack. Makes sense. Why did it take me so long to realize that?
You are welcome. I’m amazed it’s lasted for so long, and been revived so many times.
Me neither. Duh…
Ash *Ketcham *of *Pokemon *fame. His last name sounds like “Catch 'Em.”
The song even has the lyric “Gotta Catch 'Em All!” in it. :smack:
Have just found this thread for the first time: can’t resist contributing the following. I can’t stand Pratchett’s works – have tried, and for me they are simply lead-heavy, totally un-funny failed humour. (Many people whom I respect, love the guy’s stuff – but, well, there you go.)
A friend of mine who worked as an engineer for the above-mentioned electricity generating authority, was acquainted with Pratchett via work. I find some rather mean satisfaction in the fact that my friend (knowing nothing then, about his literary aspirations) considered him to be a dork.
Really? My ex also worked as an engineer for that electricity generating authority and got along with Mr. Pratchett quite well. He found they could have good discussions about authors they liked and the oddities and frustrations of dealing with others (they were both house hunting at the same time).
Of course, my ex might take a four sentence exchange to be a deep conversation - but hey, he’s an engineer.