Obvious Things You 0nly Just Realised - 2020

[idunnosomename]

Brandon Stark, known as Bran,
His uncle Brandon Stark,
Big fan of legendary figure Bran Stark (the builder)

Too many Bran Starks

spider-man theme tune considers rewrite

[Jerzy Bondov]

Clearing four lines at once is a 'Tetris' hth as well

[kittens]

spider-man theme tune considers rewrite

lol

[Better Midlands]

The band intro from the same live version of Woman Of The Ghetto was also sampled by St Germain on the classic Rose Rouge (alongside a sample of Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet). St Germain was signed to Blue Note at the time (which by then was a sublabel of EMI), so at least wouldn't have had much trouble licencing the Marlena Shaw samples.

I never knew that, nice spot. The St Germain track is a favourite of mine.

[Ambient Sheep]

The shapes are called Tetromino's hence the name, hth.

Yeah, when I was a kid my cousin had a little puzzle called "Tetrominos" which was a set of the shapes in yellow, that had to be fitted correctly into a red rectangular tray.  Something like that, anyway.

[DistressedArea]

A lady tractor is called a tractress.

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tetra = four

Tell that to the twats who say "quadrilogy".  "There was no pre-existing word for it!" they insist.  Tell them or grave them, thank you.

[Pseudopath]

Tell that to the twats who say "quadrilogy".  "There was no pre-existing word for it!" they insist.  Tell them or grave them, thank you.

Yeah...it should really be a "tetralogy" as in the Tetralogy of Fallot (one for the congenital heart defect fans there).

[NoSleep]

Quad are you triangle say?

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Lobster Tetralle

[olliebean]

Yeah...it should really be a "tetralogy" as in the Tetralogy of Fallot (one for the congenital heart defect fans there).

But "trilogy" is "tri" like "triangle," so four should be a "squalogy," yeah? Or maybe a "rectalogy"...

[touchingcloth]

I'm tetrasexual - I only fuck cartons.

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I only fuck cartons.

[petril]

I'm tetrasexual - I only fuck cartons.

same here, but I only fuck offensive campaigns by the Viet Cong

[DrGreggles]

Christopher Lloyd was in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'.

[imitationleather]

Christopher Lloyd was in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'.

Yep I'd also not realised this.

[touchingcloth]

The numbers on Scrabble tiles are not assigned randomly.

Yep I'd also not realised this.

How did you miss it? He plays Bob Hoskins.

[beanheadmcginty]

Legendary Channel 4 Teletext quizmaster Bamber Boozler of "Bamboozle" fame's first name is a tribute to legendary University Challenge quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne.

[imitationleather]

Legendary Channel 4 Teletext quizmaster Bamber Boozler of "Bamboozle" fame's first name is a tribute to legendary University Challenge quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne.

Yep I'd also not realised this.

[touchingcloth]

Fuck me, I'd forgotten that I'd forgotten Bamboozle.

Did anyone else used to feel that Bamboozle and Teletext in general was something secret and unknown? I did, I can't remember my school peers ever talking about it so wherever I found out about it from it seemed like some magic box.

[Better Midlands]

You's lot are too young, Telextext was popular in ther 80s for TV listings and holidays (booked it, packed it, fucked off).

I remember being excited to get home and check the Top 40 on Tuesdays after school when the charts were released.

[touchingcloth]

You's lot are too young, Telextext was popular in ther 80s for TV listings and holidays (booked it, packed it, fucked off).

I remember being excited to get home and check the Top 40 on Tuesdays after school when the charts were released.

I remember the holidays and the listings, but somehow anything interactive seemed secret.

[Ferris]

You's lot are too young, Telextext was popular in ther 80s for TV listings and holidays (booked it, packed it, fucked off).

I remember being excited to get home and check the Top 40 on Tuesdays after school when the charts were released.

I had a record reviewed on teletext. 8/10. Still have a photo of the review.

My guitar work was described as "smouldering". Ok cheers

[beanheadmcginty]

I remember the holidays and the listings, but somehow anything interactive seemed secret.

Sorry to say it, but you may have indirectly outed yourself as a rich moneybags flashcunt there.
The reason your peers didn't wax lyrical about the interactivity of Teletext is because it wasn't interactive for them (apart from the reveal button).
In order to play Bamboozle and other things of that ilk, you needed a posh TV equipped with Fastext (the coloured buttons).
We never had it growing up, which is why I still so clearly remember the sad yet thrilling day I inherited my dead grandad's Fastext-enabled Sony Trinitron in the second year of university and I could finally fulfil my childhood dream of actually being able to play and win Bamboozle. We'd all dash home from lectures at lunchtime to play it after that.

If anybody wants a genuine snap of Bamber Boozler surfing without a top on, PM me.

[olliebean]

Everyone I watched on TV when I was a teenager is now old or dead.

[Better Midlands]

Everyone I watched on TV when I was a teenager is now old peado or dead peado.

FTFY

[touchingcloth]

Bruce Lee was an American.

EDIT: And to follow on from that, Brandon Lee wasn't killed by a blank round in the way I'd assumed - a blank going off in too close proximity - but by a bullet lodged in the gun's barrel being ejected by a blank round. So he got properly shot by a slightly less powerful bullet, rather than fake shot with a more powerful than usual blank, which is the idea I've had in my mind for god knows how many years.

[imitationleather]

Since all those self-aggrandising edit glitch removal accounts are apparently doing something more important I guess I'll have to step in.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Bruce Lee was an American.

EDIT: And to follow on from that, Brandon Lee wasn't killed by a blank round in the way I'd assumed - a blank going off in too close proximity - but by a bullet lodged in the gun's barrel being ejected by a blank round. So he got properly shot by a slightly less powerful bullet, rather than fake shot with a more powerful than usual blank, which is the idea I've had in my mind for god knows how many years.

Did your school have a completely incorrect rumour about how Bruce Lee died?

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Legendary Channel 4 Teletext quizmaster Bamber Boozler of "Bamboozle" fame's first name is a tribute to legendary University Challenge quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne.

Actually Bamber Gascoigne changed his name by deed poll in tribute to his favourite Teletext game.  Prior to the 90s his name was Edward Graveshandy.