# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674 "2020-04-13T03:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 312
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6231 "2023-03-16T13:14:29Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > > [@zimaane](#): > > > > Maybe some of you know this already, but I learned recently that the Addams Family TV/movie/video game franchise started as cartoons in the New Yorker magazine in the 1930s, drawn by Charles Addams. > > I think a lot of us do know this, but the later works inspired by those cartoons do little to point that out. They are fantastic cartoons too, not just the Addams Family, but all of his cartoons in his horror and surreal style. I’m surprised Addams eccentric personal life hasn’t been made into a movie as well. Very few of Addams’s cartoons portrayed the Addams Family. I’ve read his work extensively, but have only seen a handful with the characters. There are a few more featuring Fester or Pugsley alone, but there are entire collections that feature the characters only once or not at all. Note that once the show began, the _New Yorker_ refused to accept any comics with the family, but Addams still contributed in most every issue. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6232 "2023-03-16T13:27:08Z")
Just rasping down my horse’s feet between trims to tidy them up and to get them into her trail boots exhausts me. I don’t see how they do it. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6233 "2023-03-16T14:17:06Z")
Do you use an angle grinder? That seems to be the go-to tool from the hoof vids I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6234 "2023-03-16T15:52:32Z")
No. Just a farrier’s rasp. I have never seen anyone use power tools on a hoof. Possibly because most horses do not care for power tools. Much of horse handling on the ground revolves around how easily horses get upset. They panic easily, and when an animal upward of a half ton panics in a confined space, bad things happen. Very bad things. Any horse person has stories. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6235 "2023-03-16T16:55:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Very few of Addams’s cartoons portrayed the Addams Family. There are a limited number of them. I’m sure I’ve seen them all in collections. Didn’t know about the New Yorker no longer accepting Addams Family cartoons. Do you know why that was? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6236 "2023-03-16T16:57:24Z")
I presume the magazine didn’t want to appear to be promoting the show. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6237 "2023-03-16T18:28:55Z")
Today I learned Brenda Lee was 13 years old when she recorded the song [Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin%27_Around_the_Christmas_Tree#Original_recording_by_Brenda_Lee). ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6238 "2023-03-16T18:40:06Z")
The charts for that record are so bizarre, even for a holiday song. It didn’t chart at all for two years after its release. Then it charted every December between 1960 and 1962 _after_ Rockabilly was thought to be dead and gone. It disappears for more than 50 years (during which several Rockabilly revivals had come and gone) and then charts every winter from 2014 to last Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6239 "2023-03-16T19:17:41Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I presume the magazine didn’t want to appear to be promoting the show. I figured that would be a part of it. Wondered if there was a copyright issue or just more weird behavior from Addams. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6240 "2023-03-16T19:56:10Z")
No. It was the magazine editor that made the rule. He had no problem with Addams’s other cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6241 "2023-03-16T20:04:15Z")
That would be my guess. The highbrow New Yorker magazine didn’t want to be associated with a mass market television comedy. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6242 "2023-03-16T20:59:02Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > “Attorney” and “Lawyer” are not 100% interchangeable! Speaking of words most laypeople use interchangeably but actually mean different things – “direct flight” does **not** mean the same thing as “nonstop flight”. “Nonstop” is pretty self explanatory; the flight goes from A to B with no intermediate stops. “Direct” only means the flight goes from A to B with no change in flight number. It may make an intermediate stop along the way for fuel, or to pick up more passengers. There can even be a change of planes as long as the flight number stays the same. Thankfully pretty much everyone in the travel industry knows that most people don’t know the difference, and that when a customer asks for a “direct” flight, what they _really_ want is a nonstop flight. > **[Direct flight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_flight)** > > A direct flight in the aviation industry is any flight between two points by an airline with no change in flight numbers, which may include one or more stops at an intermediate point(s). A stop may either be to get new passengers (or allow some to disembark) or a technical stop over (i.e., for refuelling). Direct flights are often confused with non-stop flights, which are a special case of direct flights involving no intermediate stops. When there is a change in flight number, the subsequen The t... > [@Railer13](#): > > I’m pretty sure (take that with many grains of salt) that the times are leaving the gate for departure and arriving at the gate for arrival. If you want to be really technical about it, as I understand it the official departure time is when they release the parking brake. ---
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> [@zimaane](#): > > That would be my guess. The highbrow New Yorker magazine didn’t want to be associated with a mass market television comedy More likely, they wouldn’t want to be seen as having a commercial tie-in. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6244 "2023-03-16T21:51:10Z")
I wonder if the characters were ever collectively referred to as the Addams Family before the TV series. Or just that weird family in the Addams cartoons. I know all of the first names were created for TV. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6245 "2023-03-16T22:19:37Z")
Not so much a commercial tie-in as just not cosmopolitan enough for them as they saw it. Back in the 60s they still looked askance at television in general. They would have had no problem with people assuming a tie-in to a museum or theatre, television not so much. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6246 "2023-03-16T22:30:07Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I wonder if the characters were ever collectively referred to as the Addams Family before the TV series. Or just that weird family in the Addams cartoons. I know all of the first names were created for TV. I don’t think so. I was a fan of his collections before the show, and at first did not connect the name of the show with the cartoons when I first heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6247 "2023-03-16T22:55:42Z")
Here’s the actual television set for the Addams Family show. It was taped in B&W, but the colors translated into the correct shades of gray. [![](https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/the-untold-truth-of-the-addams-family/and-looked-very-different-in-real-life.jpg) ](https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/the-untold-truth-of-the-addams-family/and-looked-very-different-in-real-life.jpg) ---
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> [@zimaane](#): > > The highbrow New Yorker magazine [![](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/16/72/56/3910584/3/1200x0.jpg) ](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/16/72/56/3910584/3/1200x0.jpg) ---
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The earliest I can find a clear reference to the “Addams family” on google is 1947, the _The New Republic_: [Google Books](https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_New_Republic/zEQfAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22addams+family%22&dq=%22addams+family%22&printsec=frontcover) (quote: “the somber family of three known as the Addams family to _New Yorker_ readers.”) But this is only a snippet view, and I don’t have access to the full issue, so I’m not sure what it’s about. It suggests to me that this name is in circulation, but perhaps not yet used by Addams or his publisher. ---
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