Nathan Poe, the originator of Poe’s Law* is the nephew of Heather Poe, the wife of Mary Cheney.
-source. Nathan’s uncle/Heather’s cousin is a friend of mine.
ZDDP is the big one here:
Zinc “poisons” catalytic converters and O2 sensors, so it’s kept to a minimum in oils intended for cars. Motorcycles have faced similar issues, as in the past few decades emissions rules for them have tightened and forced manufacturers to add cats and O2 sensors, thus also requiring oils with reduced ZDDP content.
It’s not just that small engines “can” use high-ZDDP oils - they’re designed for it, so if you don’t use those oils, you can wreck the engine.
Is blink the plural of wink?
Plurals now? I found out that JRR Tolkien claimed that the plural of dwarf was properly dwarrows.
That would make the plural of barf “barrows”.
I think I’ll put on a couple scarrows and walk along the wharrows.
Just “dwarrow”. The word is already plural. “Dwarrows” would make it doubly plural. It would be like saying “mices” as the plural of “mouse”.
So a barrow downs is the site of a lot of sick? I can see where that might generate a wight or two.
Albert Brooks’s real name is Albert Einstein.
I thought it was illegal to mention that without also saying his brother was Super Dave Osborne.
And their father was Parkyakarkus.
And he died at a Friar’s Club Roast to honor Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. After delivering a speech that had the crowd clutching their sides Harry Einstein (AKA Parkyakarkus) suffered a heart attack and slumped over onto Milton Berle who cried out “Is there a doctor in the house?” which generated laughter before the seriousness of the situation was understood. Einstein was said to have “killed, then died” at the Friar’s Club that night.
Dick Shawn (“Lionel Saint Dubois”) also made a dramatic exit that kind of fell flat.
Wow, some story. You know, when the subject of death comes up, I often tell friends about something I’ve read about a Greek philosopher or something like that who, in his old age, drew a caricature of an ugly old woman and laughed at it so hard that he died. So, I tell my friends that that’s how I’d like to die. But that story sounds like an even better way to go.
“Lorenzo”
Known to his friends as LSD
From upthread, regarding Tunnel Road Reigate (an early road tunnel; my added bold in the quote):
Well looky here:
Props to @APB for the find (even if they were looking for something else.)
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Deep Throat was shown in movie theaters in the early Seventies without copyright (because who copyrighted porn flicks in those days?) but was considered unpublished because it was shown through four walling and therefore did not end up public domain (which was fortunate when the home video market exploded about 10 years later).
Now, that’s pretty random…
The 1968 movie musical Oliver! won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey was released the same year but wasn’t even nominated. Stanley Kubrick was nominated for Best Director, but lost to Carol Reed who directed Oliver!. A movie musical would not win Best Picture again until Chicago, released in 2002.