Were the athletes on a team representing their country?
“Her maternal great-grandfather was Chang Bunker, one of the famous conjoined “Siamese Twins”, Chang and Eng Bunker.”
Another etymology factoid from “Something Rhymes With Purple”:
The word “miniature” is unrelated to words like “minimal” or “minuscule”; it comes from the Latin word “minium” meaning cinnabar or red lead (because monks would illuminate manuscripts using red ink).
The name is Jameel “Farah”. He’s in The Blackboard Jungle under that name.
Do you remember the segment from SNL in which John Belushi, playing John Belushi as an old man, walked through the cemetary recounting how each of his colleagues from SNL had died, but he was still around because he could dance?
There is a word to describe that sketch, just give me a minute, I will think of it.
I remember that skit very well. Belushi died almost exactly 4 years after the skit aired. Here it is.
TIl that cheese rolling is a sport. USA! USA!
Ms. Lampe appears to be a champion at the human-rolling aspect of the sport. For the cheese-rolling itself, the shape of the cheese would be key. You want as much of the mass of the cheese as possible to be as close as possible to the center of rotation, with as little mass as possible near the rim. You can see this effect yourself by rolling a hollow hoop, a solid cylinder, a hollow ball, and a solid ball down a ramp: The solid ball will always reach the bottom first, followed by the solid cylinder, then the hollow ball, then the hollow hoop.
There’s an episode about it in this series.
The Mrs. and I watched this show called The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher which is one of those typically British Victorian murder mystery shows following Detective Whicher who was the specialist brought in to solve the case of a child murdered in his home. He makes an accusation against a member of the family, can’t prove it, and gets fired/suspended/run out of town, etc. Loved the show, it’s worth a watch.
Now, in recent days we watched A Very British Murder which is a show about real murders hosted by a historian. She tells about a murder where a child was murdered in his home. Gee, the Mrs. says, that’s sounds a lot like the plot of Whicher, maybe that’s where they got the idea from.
Historian then mentions the police brought in a celebrated detective to solve it… one Mr. Whicher, who accused a member of the family, couldn’t prove it, and got run out of town. Talk about pulled from the headlines!
I lived close to the bottom of Cooper’s Hill for most of the three years I lived and worked near there from 1987 to 1990. I never saw the cheese rolling race during that time. I was always busy with something else.
I learned about cheese rolling from watching The Amazing Race. The cheese episode was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
From the people who brought you cheese rolling …
The old ferret-down-the-trousers game.
TIL that John Wayne’s final ever role was in Star Wars:
It was actually just his heavily distorted voice, the voice was used without his knowledge and he was never credited, but a role is a role.
Good thing they didn’t ask for permission. The Duke would never have approved of his voice being used for traitorous spy.
How does that line go, “… it will not be seen in him there”
Think of how interesting it would be if they were legitimate!
Well, if just using someone’s voice counts, then it might not be his final ever, because some other movie could do the same thing.
But final for now, sure.
I thought the same, but then it ocurred to me that they may mean to say the last use of someone’s voice while they are still alive. Sounds a bit hair-splittery, but then it would definitely be the last one.
And nowadays, with AI and CGI and so on, who knows what counts?