Everybody knows WD-40 goes on your stiff elbow, not your nuts.
Depends on how much you pay.
That’s Windex. Which turns out to be an excellent coolant and lubricant for machining aluminum.
Today I learned that the combined live action-animation scenes for Disney’s “Mary Poppins” were created using a technology called Sodium Vapor Process which required a special almost unreproducible lens element. The process can be mimicked with modern technology but no one knows what happened to the special prisms the original cameras used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk
It sounds like simply getting the right coating on the prisms – not that difficult a thing. Ray Harryhausen used Sodium Vapor shots for 1960s movies, according to the book From the Land Beyond Beyond. The Wikipedia article says he used it in First Men in the Moon because it was otherwise hard to combine his characters with backgrounds.
I recently randomly came across something about the actor Vincent Gardenia. He was born outside of Naples and his real name was Vincenzo Scognamiglio. After looking at that last name I immediately thought of this thread.
Britney Spears anagrams to Presbyterians
PepsiCo anagrams to copies
I got this from a Youtube channel called “Lateral with Tom Scott”
I miss one P in copies.
Short anagrams seem easy. I admire André Breton who came up with “Avida Dollars” for Salvador Dalí all on its own without any computer assistance.
You are right. I may have to find that tidbit to see whether he was wrong, or my memory dropped the ball
There are a number of automated anagram generators on the Internet, such as https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi. Plugging in “Britney Spears” produces over 34,000 results. Some interesting ones besides “Presbyterians” are
Nearby Priests
Inert Passerby
Try Serbia Pens
Try Bean Spires
Sniper Betrays
Binary Presets
Braise Rent Spy
Pry Sent Rabies
Banisters Pyre
Barren Piss Yet
Spry Bear Stein
Stern Bear Yips
my last name is as well … including me, there are only 8 people with the same last name on this planet and all are immediate family. Its a germanized version of a slavic last name, so there might be the same 1800’s spelling thing going on as with Travolta … there are a few other last names that spell differently, but are phonetically pretty much the same (think: Meyer/Mayer/Meier).
Along the same lines - and quite obv. for german speakers, here in Chile is this quite well known supreme court judge: Hugo Dolmestch - Wikipedia
I can literally see some underpaid1800s chilean clerk screwing up at the “registro civil” while processing an inscription of a newborn or migrant.
Dolmetsch = Translator in German … and germans were notorious for their last names denominating their profession (Müller, Mayer, Schmied, Huber, Schneider,…)
I checked on a anagram site, but didn’t notice their top word was one letter short!
TIL that the abbreviation “etm” is a somewhat legitimate way to write “… and shit”.
Does that stand for something or did you misspell etc.?
I watch some old school electronics repair channels on YouTube. The Algorithm decided to give me a recommendation I didn’t expect. It was for Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist.
Turns out he is a vintage electronics fan. The most recent video concerns one of those amazing looking Philco space age swivel TV sets. (One model was the Predicta. We actually had one in the TV junkers pile at home when I was a kid. We got it working but the tube was faint. Forget replacing the tube due to the design.)
He tracked down and bought one that was still in the box. A couple guys helped him get it, unbox it, test it (it didn’t work), repair it. At the end (after a long time) they got it working.
I never thought much of his act. But now I have an entirely new way of looking at him. I had no idea.
Random fact: Jeff Dunham is cool (in one way).
An uninteresting random fact
It stands for et merda.
Thank you. Hope I get a chance to use that.
This will be my next user name.
TIL that what is left of a bird that hits a plane or is sucked into the engine is called snarge. I also learned that the feather expert at the Smithsonian, who examined the snarge from the plane that landed in the Hudson River, is named Carla Dove.