Apparently his hair was more concise
I guess he must have spent two decades using up all his anger.
I was channel surfing in Germany once, and caught an episode The Joy of Painting. Unlike most American shows, it was not dubbed into German. I like to believe that the broadcasters realized that it’s impossible to sound that mellow while speaking German.
May I recommend An Officer and a Gentleman.
I was looking up the stats on an old football game. The over/under betting line was 45 points. It was a push; the game ended 45-0.
I wonder how often that happens.
I believe that is 100% accurate.
Cream Ale is an under appreciated beer style. Few craft brewers brew cream ales (steam beer also). I convinced a friend with a brewery to brew a cream ale a few years ago and it turned out pretty good.
He wasn’t a fan of the hair we know him for
Brushes are for painting, dammit, not hair.
I recall an interview with Bob Ross where he was asked, “Why did you retire from being a drill instructor in the Air Force?” He said, “I got tired of yelling at people.” 
In the Polish village of Sułoszowa, virtually everyone lives on the same street.
I’ve always thought of it in the same way! Great, great song no matter what.
As someone who lives near the banks of the Genesee River and a few minutes drive from the Genesee Brewing Company, I am depressed by the way people manged to misspell the name in three different ways in this thread.
As someone who grew up east of Middle Genesee Lake, not far from Genesee Lake School, and who worked at the camp just down the road from The Upper Genesee Car Top Boat & Canoe Access, not to be confused with the town aways south of there named Genessee Depot, and I’m pretty sure Lunt and Fontanne built their mansion “Ten Chimneys” outside of Genessee Depot, let me check…yep, it’s just west of Genessee Depot, and I’m wondering if all these Genesees make up for a Genessee or three.
I’m sure there’s a whoosh in all this, but the Lunt/Fontanne mansion is in Genesee Depot, WI, according to its own website.
A famous courtesan of the late 19th century UK was nicknamed “Skittles.”
Brings new meaning to “Taste the rainbow.”
When I was looking up the lyrics for “Spill That Wine” by Eric Burdon and War, I found a years-long argument over whether the line “Spine that wine, taste that pearl” meant cunnilingus or heroin. Taste the rainbow indeed.
I do know that “… tonight when I chase the dragon …” from Time Out of Mind by Steely Dan is about smoking opium. Curiously, they never released an album called Steely Dan III, surely an oversight.
I remember as a child seeing a demonstration of the TASER on That’s Incredible. They’ve been around a while, but really only became common sometime in the early 90’s.
I posted this yesterday in the factual questions thread about calendars, but I didn’t realize until then that our calendar doesn’t have a leap year every four years.
Under our “modern” Gregorian calendar, we have a leap year every 4 years, except when it’s an end of century year, in which case it’s only a leap year if it’s divisible by 400.
So, the year 2000 was a leap year. The year 1900 was not, and 2100 is our next skip in the pattern.
This was done to fix the problem with the Julian calendar, which was off the actual solar year by 1 day for every 128 years counted.
And I believe there is a modification that could be added to take out the leap year every 3600 years that would make the calendar absurdly accurate.
A plot point in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance (1880) is that the male lead, Frederic, is apprenticed to the Pirate King until his 21st birthday. But since he was born on February 29th (1856), it turns out that he won’t be free until 1940. (Because he can’t marry his betrothed, Mabel, the Major General’s daughter, while he is a pirate, he asks her to wait for him – 63 years. She sings “It seems so long,” but agrees.)
Except that Gilbert was apparently unaware of that calendar quirk, so the actual end of his apprenticeship should have been 1944.
So I’ve know about the divisible by 400 thing since I was a kid, because my father, a lifelong G&S fan who has performed in or directed most of the operettas, explained it to me when he was doing the show sometime in the 1960s.
I remember seeing ads for digital watches back in the '70s that had a calendar feature, and the copy said that it would automatically account for leap years up to the year 2000. Which must be a pretty ridiculous design, because 2000 was a leap year. The only way for the watch to get it wrong is if the watch had the 100-year exception programmed in, but not the 400-year reverse exception. That’s a feature that won’t be needed until 2100.