The talk of French phrases reminded me, I realized several years ago that Sedan de Ville essentially means Town Car. So for a number of years the big Cadillac sedan and the competing big Lincoln sedan had effectively the same name name, but in different languages.
Well, IMO, something wouldn’t get into print until it was understood by a lot of people. Especially not something like a Beastie Boys song.
However, I would guess that it wouldn’t really acquire a name until it was starting to go out of fashion. Before then, it would be asked for by “I want my hair to look like MacGyver” or like digs said “leave it long in the back”
No, a rat tail was having just a very small bit of hair at the nape of your neck left long. No more than half an inch wide, and thin enough to put under your shirt if you wanted to look professional
It used to be 50 years ago. These days “No Through Road” is the standard
I have a wealthy friend who lives in a mansion at the end of a cul-de-sac. We make sure to refer to it as a “dead end” to annoy his wife. We even got their kids to call it that.
So now they use an English phrase for the French phrase we use?
Tom Cruise is older right now than Wilford Brimley was in the movie Cocoon.
Last year (2019) Wil Wheaton (who portrayed Wesley Crusher on Star Trek TNG) became older than Patrick Stewart (who portrayed Captain Picard) was when the show first broadcast.
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And shorter too.
If you’re going for “time passes”:
- The Berlin Wall (1961-89) has now been down for longer than it was up.
- The Falklands War of 1982 is now closer to WW2 than to the present day.
- The Tet Offensive of 1968 is now closer to World War One than to the present day.
- The Second World War ended 75 years ago this month - and only 69 years after the Battle of Little Big Horn.
I love these timescale comparison types of things. I think we’ve had a couple threads of these, but damned if I can figure out some decent search terms.
The moon is host to nearly 200 tonnes of waste material: Moon buggies and bags of poo: what humans left on the moon | The moon | The Guardian
According to WatchMojo, the harmonica is the best-selling musical instrument of all time.
Famous people and their last words. Match 'em.
John Jacob Astor
Beethoven
John Wilkes Booth
Ted Bundy
Lewis Carroll
James Dean
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Gary Gilmore
Doc Holliday
Steve Jobs
George Orwell
FDR
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
A dying man can do nothing easy.
At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.
Damn. This is funny.
Give me my glasses.
Give My Love to My Family and Friends
Good-bye, dearie. I’ll see you later.
I have a terrific headache.**
I must go in, for the fog is rising.
It’s very beautiful over there.
Let’s do it.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
Pity, pity - too late!
Take away these pillows, I won’t need them any longer.
Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country…useless…useless…
That guy’s gotta stop… He’ll see us.
John Jacob Astor: Good-bye, dearie. I’ll see you later.
Beethoven: Pity, pity - too late!
John Wilkes Booth: Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country…useless…useless…
Ted Bundy: Give My Love to My Family and Friends
Lewis Carroll: “Take away these pillows, I won’t need them any longer.”
James Dean: That guy’s gotta stop… He’ll see us.
Emily Dickinson: I must go in, for the fog is rising.
Thomas Edison: It’s very beautiful over there.
Benjamin Franklin: A dying man can do nothing easy.
Gary Gilmore: Let’s do it.
Doc Holliday: Damn. This is funny.
Steve Jobs: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
George Orwell: At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.
FDR: I have a terrific headache.
Mark Twain: Give me my glasses.
Oscar Wilde: My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
When looking to 80s songs for a thread, I found about the curious tale of who Queen had to pay for the rights to use scenes from the classic Metropolis silent movie in their Radio Gaga video.
Queen had to buy performance rights to the film from the communist East German government, which was the copyright holder at the time.[18] At the end of the music video, the words “Thanks To Metropolis” appear. The video also features footage from earlier Queen promo videos.[17]
According to the recent Radiolab episode, “G”, it is illegal to administer an IQ test to a black child in the state of California.
The Azores are the only part of the European Union that grows tea,
When birds eat fish eggs, some of the eggs can survive to be excreted later, thus bird can spread fish species to different bodies of water:
That is really cool!
…but only since the uk left.
The ratio of fibonacci number n to fibonacci number n-1 approaches the golden ratio (approx 1.6) as n increases.
This is (by coincidence) approximately the conversion factor of kilometers to miles.
So if you memorize the fibonacci sequence, you can roughly approximate km/mile conversion by going up or down the sequence. (5 miles is about 8km, 8 miles is about 13km, … 55 miles is about 89km, etc.)