My God, those were the days, weren’t they? I even pitted this Boards servers back in 2002, a year before you joined:
Looking at the thread, the very last post has @MannyL inventing the cloud, so he has that going for him, which is cool. But then he envisioned it as a not-for-profit service which, lol, this is America:
Of “Deliverance,” one of the greatest movies of all time, IMDB says:
Billy Redden didn’t know how to play banjo. To simulate realistic chord playing during “Duelling Banjos”, another boy, a skilled banjo player, played the chords with his arm reaching around Redden’s side while Redden picked. Musicians Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell played on the soundtrack.
By the way, a grown up Billy was in “Big Fish.”
And here he is, working at Wal Mart.
Brian Eno wrote this. Said it was an amazing assignment which got him thinking about music differently:
This ones about sodas. I found out, well it was a while ago, but cream soda is actually vanilla flavored. Most of them seem to just use artificial vanilla flavor now anyways. I don’t know why, but as a kid, I thought it really had cream in it.
Also, club soda has just a little bit of sodium bicarbonate in it. It seems it’s not really necessary. But some people associate the taste with it anyways, so they put it in (I can’t even taste it, myself).
And you do realize tonic water, with quinine, was originally used to treat malaria. It doesn’t have anywhere near the therapeutic dose now, of course, since it is only a beverage now.
The metal or plastic tube fixed round each end of a shoelace is called an Aglet.
(I see this has already been mentioned, so i’ve mentioned it again.)
The soundtrack from the 1970 horror film Cauldron Of Blood, one of Karloff’s last movies, was the source of most of the background music for the Filmation live action series Shazam! that started in 1974.
Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald’s Corp. (1977) was a case in which puppeteers and television producers Sid and Marty Krofft alleged that the copyright in their H.R. Pufnstuf children’s television program had been infringed by a series of McDonald’s “McDonaldland” advertisements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald's_Corp.
This yielded a total award to the Kroffts of $1,044,000.
There was a Sid and Marty Krofft theme park. Built in the Omni Hotel in downtown Atlanta, only 300,000 attended by the time of its closing just 10-months later. Also seems to hold some dubious world records, including ‘longest free-standing escalator’. This meant the elevator is only supported at the ends (and not in the middle), which is exactly the sort of creative civil engineering goal we all want in our LSD-themed amusement park, right kids??
Lastly: I went. Twice. First time was near opening day as lines were long. Second time was… later… and it took us about 50 minutes to do it all.
Sid and Marty got their start with a Paris cabaret style revue featuring topless puppets. It was one of the top attractions in Las Vegas and the 1964 World’s Fair.
Those puppets are firmer then the women carved on a hindu temple.
There was an ‘amusement’ park in Melbourne called Wobbies world, that consisted of incredibly tame, lame and unexciting rides ideal for children under 7. Ok, under 5.
Remember, this is an advertisement - designed to make it look fun, exciting and attractive.
It was endlessly parodied by comedians - notably in a series of sketches that can be found on Youtube under the title ‘Pissweak World’.
Four of the rarest elements are named after the town of Ytterby in Sweden - Ytterbium, Yttrium, Terbium and Erbium. All were first found in nature near that town.
Four other elements were also first found there - Scandium, Holmium, Thulium and Gadolinium.
More than a third of recorded lynching victims in the US were white.
In 1898, a large anti-segregation meeting was held in a Masonic hall in Jackson, Mississippi. The hall was located on Lynch street. (John Ray Lynch was an emancipated slave, and the state’s first black Congressman.). In 1970, two blacks were shot dead by police during a demonstration on the same street.
Been listening to Twenty Thousand Hertz?
Off topic, but our dog Mo (RIP) was death on aglet’s. The only thing she would chew on, but if you left a pair of shoes on the floor, she would find them and gnaw off the aglets.
There are way more than those types. They didn’t even include any Asians in that set.
Good point. Maybe the key is the title “…Most Common…”?
A quick google reveals:
https://ariamedtour.com/blogs/nose-shapes-in-different-races/
TIL that the US is issuing new quarters honoring women on the reverse, with a new portrait of Washington on the obverse. Got a “Maya Angelou” in my change this morning and the new design caught my eye. Now I’m actively looking for a “Sally Ride.”
You’d think any subject about the world that has “Most Common” in the title would include Asians.
I learned that slicked back hair is called “Evangelical Hair” in some circles and I learned in over 20 years ago. But these days it is more fluffy than LBJ’s version. Look at Matt Gaetz’ hair; it is a great example.