Well, back in the day, I used to ride the train a lot, and those toilets flushed with a foot pedal. I always thought the pedal seemed like a good idea. Of course, those bathrooms were the ones that had the sign “Do Not Flush Toilet While Train is Standing in Station”, because you could see the tracks when you flushed. Still, a pedal is one less surface germ vector.
In My Fair Lady Prof. Henry Higgins comes across Eliza Doolittle at Convent Gardens and takes her to live with him in his more affluent neighborhood in Mayfair.
Mayfair Lady with a Cockney accent, yields…
Even more fun, it’s “Covent Garden” though the ancient word “Covent” basically means “Convent”.
Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall. That has to have a tie in with the movie Annie Hall that she co-starred in with Woody Allen.
And Michael Douglas was unable to use his birth name on screen so he chose to use Diane Keaton’s last name.
According to his Wiki
" In response to questions as to whether he selected his new surname due to an attraction to actress Diane Keaton, or in homage to silent film actor Buster Keaton, he has responded by saying “it had nothing to do with that. Keaton has said in several interviews that he searched a phone book under “K,” saw “Keaton” and decided to stop looking.”
The hill at Munich Olympic Park was made the same way (the hill was there before the Olympics, and it formed part of the Olympic precinct). Well worth a visit.
Actually, I did the obvious bit of research and discovered that “Schuttbergs” are very common and many cities have them - some more than one.
Are there any RINOs that the Dems would be happy enough with to vote for? I know it is distasteful to vote for the other team but this way they can control who the next Speaker is instead of the Pubs. That’s the best the Ds can hope for, right?
People are (jokingly?) throwing around Liz Chaney’s name.
Um, what are the above two posts doing in this thread?
Sorry, I replied thinking I was in the other thread. Reported.
I swear I thought I was in the SotH election thread.
Today I learned about the Therac-25. It was a medical imaging instrument built in the 1980s. It had a couple software bugs. These bugs killed at least three people. The identity of the coder has never been revealed.
Looks like it was a radiation therapy machine rather than an imaging instrument (hence the possibility of dangerous overdosing). Interesting story, mind.
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Oops, you’re right.
If you DM me the thread they belong in, I can move them. If the thread has moved on, it might not make sense, though.
That thread has long since passed on to other sub-topics. It’s been an interesting ride, however!
The Post Office threatened to stop delivering mail to Chicago because of its confusing addresses.
Chicago’s street system was a complicated mess well into the early 20th Century. Although the 1830 city plan made provision for an orderly system of north-south and east-west streets, the annexation of surrounding communities (such as the Village of Hyde Park) had led to duplications of names, and even whole addresses, across the growing city. Things got so bad that the postal service threatened to stop delivering mail to Chicago addresses.
I wonder if this is the reason for the USPS rule that no city can have two separate streets with the same name.