"F**k my Hat, I didn't know that!" Amazing things you've only just found out

[Small Man Big Horse]

Just realised you can change the fonts on here!

I knew we could but never do, probably as it would be annoying. Though of course now I'm tempted to do it all the time.

[touchingcloth]

I knew we could but never do, probably as it would be annoying. Though of course now I'm tempted to do it all the time.

M8t, it's handy if you want to annoy Barry.

[Ptolemy Ptarmigan]

The "does Bowie rhyme with go-ee or cow-ee" debate has been put to rest by Graham Nash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBdgwVY4idk&t=77s

[beanheadmcginty]

Didn't old Dave name himself Bowie after Jim Bowie, inventor of the Bowie knife? If so, then Nash is spot on there.

[olliebean]

M8t, it's handy if you want to annoy Barry.

Matet? What's that, a group of musicians who are all friends? Wouldn't M8y be better?

[NoSleep]

Wouldn't M8y be better?

Mate-why?

[Paul Calf]

I don't know that thios is an OTI0JR or a FMHIDKT, but the 'rein' in 'reindeer' doesn't refer to the reins that are used to control domesticated deer. In fact, it's from a Norse word meaning 'pure' or 'virginal'.

And reindeer and caribou are different names for the same species.

[Gulftastic]

In 1982, annoyed that network announcers often did not refer to him by his nickname "Marvelous", Marvin Hagler legally changed his name to "Marvelous Marvin Hagler"

[touchingcloth]

I don't know that thios is an OTI0JR or a FMHIDKT, but the 'rein' in 'reindeer' doesn't refer to the reins that are used to control domesticated deer. In fact, it's from a Norse word meaning 'pure' or 'virginal'.

And reindeer and caribou are different names for the same species.

I knew the caribou thing. The reindeers not being named for the reins that are used to rein them in thing is proper Fuck Ma Hat stuff, though.

[gib]

hmm

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=reindeer

[JesusAndYourBush]

The "does Bowie rhyme with go-ee or cow-ee" debate has been put to rest by Graham Nash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBdgwVY4idk&t=77s

The man himself begs to differ...

https://vocaroo.com/12iAqsONaY9K

[touchingcloth]

Did the man himself used to pronounce his first name as "zavid", or does Adam Buxton do it that way for some other reason?

[Ptolemy Ptarmigan]

The man himself begs to differ...

https://vocaroo.com/12iAqsONaY9K

Yes, I know how Bowie says it (despite what his No 1 fan Gervais thinks), so I was amused that Nash had an odd third pronunciation for it that I'd never heard before.
I didn't know that's how the inventor of the Bowie knife pronounces his own name, as beanheadmcginty said. Still seems really odd for Nash to be saying it like that after all this time.

[NoSleep]

Yes, I know how Bowie says it (despite what his No 1 fan Gervais thinks), so I was amused that Nash had an odd third pronunciation for it that I'd never heard before.

I've heard this pronunciation once before. On Negativland's Escape From Noise album, where they sample this denunciation:

https://youtu.be/l0fP3YqmjfA

[touchingcloth]

Yes, I know how Bowie says it (despite what his No 1 fan Gervais thinks), so I was amused that Nash had an odd third pronunciation for it that I'd never heard before.

He's thinking of buoys.

[Ptolemy Ptarmigan]

I've heard this pronunciation once before. On Negativland's Escape From Noise album, where they sample this denunciation:

https://youtu.be/l0fP3YqmjfA

Ha. Also Cyndi Looper and Jack Cougar Mellencamp. Mispronounces Patty Smyth's surname as well.

Apart from that he makes some good points.

[Spudgun]

Yes, I know how Bowie says it (despite what his No 1 fan Gervais thinks), so I was amused that Nash had an odd third pronunciation for it that I'd never heard before.

There's also this (nine seconds in): https://youtu.be/RT8gGEdTbAs

[Ptolemy Ptarmigan]

There's also this (nine seconds in): https://youtu.be/RT8gGEdTbAs

Baba Booey!

More research needed.

[beanheadmcginty]

Love the idea of starting a Boowee truth novement.

[kalowski]

George Clinton says it on P-Funk:

Then I was down south and I heard some funk with some main ingredients
Like Doobie Brothers, Blue Magic, David Boo-wie.

[studpuppet]

George Clinton says it on P-Funk:

I seem to recall Nile Rodgers saying it like that in older interviews as well. Definitely a US thing.

[phantom_power]

Didn't Bowie say he didn't care how people pronounced it and he was never sure himself? Though it is clearly Bo-Ee or the Zowie joke wouldn't work

[Paul Calf]

'Zowie' doesn't have to rhyme with 'Bowie' though.

[touchingcloth]

'Zowie' doesn't have to rhyme with 'Bowie' though.

Also any pronunciation of Bowie can be made for Zowie.

[Better Midlands]

Giant Haystacks and John Cooper Clarke shared a class at school.

[phantom_power]

Also any pronunciation of Bowie can be made for Zowie.

Well presumably Zowie is a Kerazy spelling of Zoe, which is the only way the joke really works.

[touchingcloth]

Well presumably Zowie is a Kerazy spelling of Zoe, which is the only way the joke really works.

What's the joke? Just that it rhymes slash is spelled the same as the surname? And I always thought that Zowie was the Duncan one which directs films, so having them in my head as a man I don't think I've ever mentally linked it to Zoe. Until this new boo-ee evidence I've pronounced Zowie and Bowie to rhyme wi someone saying "wow-ee!"

[pigamus]

Zoe Bowie would be an aural joke, but changing the spelling makes it visual as well.

[Paul Calf]

Zoe Bow would work. Zöe Bowie would also work.

[pigamus]

Zoe Bow would work. Zöe Bowie would also work.

I think people tend to leave the diaeresis out nowadays, and it goes over the E, not the O.