Obvious Things You 0nly Just Realised - 2020

[touchingcloth]

I see from my notes that the Honourable Member for Islwyn is not the Messiah, but rather a very naughty boy.

[buzby]

I like to remember that CandleWind97 was technically the b side at first, I love the idea that the biggest selling song ever is one that absolutely nobody knows or cares about.

He had scheduled Something About The Way You Look Tonight to be released as the lead single off his new album The Big Picture (scheduled for release at the begining of October) at the beginning of September 1997, but it didn't chart.

When the Mercedes/Pont de l'Alma tunnel interface happened he was asked by Branson to get Taupin on the phone to re-write/re-record Candle In The Wind, which was then issued as a single track promo CD to radio stations.


By the time of the full release (PTCD 1/PTMC 1) on the 13th of September, it was a double A side to Something About The Way You Look Tonight (with non-album track You Can Make History (Young Again) as the B-side). Nice bit of cross-promotion there Reg!. The only time Candle In The Wind 1997 appeared on a B-side was on the jukebox-only 7" release of Something About The Way You Look Tonight (PTJB 1)

Imagine going into a pub and putting that dirge on the jukebox.

[touchingcloth]

Imagine going into a pub and putting Candle In The Wind 1997 on the jukebox.

The troubling thing is that this has definitely happened. A lot.

Feel like pure shit, just want Candle Wind 97 x

[studpuppet]

She's not actually French in the books IIRC, she just affects a French accent to go with her name (and with being a cook).

Ahh. Cribbins never made that clear...

[Sebastian Cobb]

When did they stop regularly pressing 7" singles for jukeboxes?

[buzby]

When did they stop regularly pressing 7" singles for jukeboxes?

Around 2001 - the larger jukebox operators were replacing their last 7" jukeboxes with CD-based machines in 2000. The number of 7" jukebox-specific releases began to tail of dramatically by 1998. The 7" single as a retail format fell out of favour in late 1994 due to declining sales and changes to chart eligibility rules, so from 1995 onwards 7" releases were usially only pressed specifically for jukebox operators.

[Norton Canes]

This guy on Gogglebox is Bill 'off of the BBC2 chess programmes' Hartston. Mind blown!




(sorry about the tits)

[Icehaven]

(sorry about the tits)

That's no way to talk about those two men sitting in front of a picture of breasts.

[touchingcloth]

That's no way to talk about those two men sitting in front of a picture of breasts.

When I first read I thought it was referring to the Pringle jumper being a bit baggy in front.

[Icehaven]

David Harbour and Ethan Suplee aren't the same person.

[Sebastian Cobb]

David Harbour and Ethan Suplee aren't the same person.

Have you seen Surplee recently?

[jenna appleseed]

I've definitely seen an interview with Steve Nallon where he talks about Thatcher having the line, "The Labour party, like Moses, need to keep taking the tablets" written for her and apparently she wanted to change it to "The Labour party, like Moses, need to keep taking the pills"

I was going to mention/ask about that attributed quote, you bastard ;-)

[touchingcloth]

Those posts above aren't about someone with the surname "Slurpee".

[gib]

lin is an old word for flax, so a flaxen cloth is a linen cloth and flaxseed is linseed

Update

the halfway stage between lin and linen is the thread used to make the cloth, which gives us 'line'

lin -> line -> linen

[Menu]

Jongleurs, Bournemouth 1990.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6TgaPJcR0

Funny, funny stuff.


ETA  More background https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/margaret-thatcher-didn-t-get-monty-python-s-dead-parrot-gag-a6680081.html
        And see the Personal section of Whittingdale's wiki page for something that looks like it's from the New Statesman book.

Thanks for all that. It's all in the delivery isn't it? Although the audience, despite my earlier concerns, do seem to get what the reference is to. Good for them!

Ewww just looked up the John Whittingdale thing.

[kalowski]

I was going to mention/ask about that attributed quote, you bastard ;-)

So I've not dreamt it, then, you bastard? ;-)

[JaDanketies]

When masturbating, avoid getting cum on the bottom of your t-shirt by merely rolling it up over your belly a little bit.

Wish someone told me that two decades ago

[kittens]

a professional is someone who does something as a profession. a professional guitarist plays a guitar as their profession. i know it meant it was their job, just the link between the words professional and profession. duh

[Hand Solo]

When masturbating, avoid getting cum on the bottom of your t-shirt by merely rolling it up over your belly a little bit.

Wish someone told me that two decades ago

That shirt must look like a plasterer's radio by now.

[Sebastian Cobb]

When masturbating, avoid getting cum on the bottom of your t-shirt by merely rolling it up over your belly a little bit.

Wish someone told me that two decades ago

Do a David Baddiel and hold your shirt up in your gob.

Try not to drool all over it, otherwise Frank Skinner might think it's spunk.

[Gulftastic]

'Feelings' wasn't a hit for any big 70's star, but some bloke called Morris Albert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU0Pp2n6ooE

[Ferris]

Cajuns (the francophone lot in the southern US) are descended from francophone Acadian settlers who were exiled from the eastern Canadian provinces by the British (load of cunts).

"Acadian" (+ time) = "Cajun".

_{2 native francophone Acadians in Ferris Jr's nursery group which I think must be unusual. He has to do bilingual finger painting/going on the swings and so forth as a result. It's a disgrace.}

[touchingcloth]

Cajuns (the francophone lot in the southern US) are descended from francophone Acadian settlers who were exiled from the eastern Canadian provinces by the British (load of cunts).

"Acadian" (+ time) = "Cajun".

_{2 native francophone Acadians in Ferris Jr's nursery group which I think must be unusual. He has to do bilingual finger painting/going on the swings and so forth as a result. It's a disgrace.}

Is it the francophone but which is unusual, or the Acadian one? I've always imagined the former is RIFE in socialist Canada.

[NoSleep]

So Cajuns are Canajuns?

[jenna appleseed]

So I've not dreamt it, then, you bastard? ;-)

Don't remember the Steve Nallon part but think I saw a claim it had happened in a 90s book of political witticisms/quotations.

[Ferris]

Is it the francophone but which is unusual, or the Acadian one? I've always imagined the former is RIFE in socialist Canada.

Well, you're really asking two questions there - you see [tedious Canada based answer that no one gives a fucking shit about, shut up ferris you boring cunt].

<sub>There are different waves of Canadian francophones speaking different French dialects. The majority are in the eastern provinces (or at least east of Ottawa), but the ones still in the Anglo provinces past Québec City are largely descendants of Acadian French settlers from the 17th and 18th century who were able to return after the expulsion of the Acadians (no I'd never heard of it either, though it seems like proper shitty colonialist British activity so I'm inclined to believe it).

Getting hooped off their land (and then returning) is what makes francophones unusual in (anglo) Nova Scotia where we are, as the majority of the diaspora stayed put throughout the US, thanks very much. The francophones west of (say) Moncton are descendants of people who settled New France in the 1700s and were never really expelled in the same way, though they were subject to all sorts of British unpleasantness.

I had no idea about any of this until I moved here and it became a bigger deal. Support of the Maple Leafs (my [anglo] hockey team) is considered a not good idea in certain parts of the province for example, mainly rural counties though and nobody really gives a shit in the city (especially because the Leafs are fucking turgid at the mo).

That said, parts of my wife's family are francophone or bilingual which isn't that usual round these parts (and a few speak Chiac which is a very cool dialect you hear on the east coast from time to time) and they've never bothered to try and string me up (for being not only a Leafs Fan, but also actual English) so maybe it's all fine. I'll go further - they are all lovely and sneak me glasses of wine when no one is looking. Anyway.



Imagine typings a response where you are knowingly a tedious twat, then type a load of bollocks out anyway. Having your gateâu and eating it too. Pathetic. Lucky no one will bother reading all that pish.</sub>

[kalowski]

Don't remember the Steve Nallon part but think I saw a claim it had happened in a 90s book of political witticisms/quotations.

I assume he was reporting what he'd read in the same book.

[touchingcloth]

The siesta thread gave me an earworm of All Night Long, but having just looked up the lyrics it turns out they're not

We're going to party, caramba, fiesta, forever

But are

Party, karamu, fiesta, forever

Well, I wasn't expecting that. It's like the Japanese translation of Johnathan caramel.

[touchingcloth]

Well, you're really asking two questions there - you see [tedious Canada based answer that no one gives a fucking shit about, shut up ferris you boring cunt].

<sub>There are different waves of Canadian francophones speaking different French dialects. The majority are in the eastern provinces (or at least east of Ottawa), but the ones still in the Anglo provinces past Québec City are largely descendants of Acadian French settlers from the 17th and 18th century who were able to return after the expulsion of the Acadians (no I'd never heard of it either, though it seems like proper shitty colonialist British activity so I'm inclined to believe it).

Getting hooped off their land (and then returning) is what makes francophones unusual in (anglo) Nova Scotia where we are, as the majority of the diaspora stayed put throughout the US, thanks very much. The francophones west of (say) Moncton are descendants of people who settled New France in the 1700s and were never really expelled in the same way, though they were subject to all sorts of British unpleasantness.

I had no idea about any of this until I moved here and it became a bigger deal. Support of the Maple Leafs (my [anglo] hockey team) is considered a not good idea in certain parts of the province for example, mainly rural counties though and nobody really gives a shit in the city (especially because the Leafs are fucking turgid at the mo).

That said, parts of my wife's family are francophone or bilingual which isn't that usual round these parts (and a few speak Chiac which is a very cool dialect you hear on the east coast from time to time) and they've never bothered to try and string me up (for being not only a Leafs Fan, but also actual English) so maybe it's all fine. I'll go further - they are all lovely and sneak me glasses of wine when no one is looking. Anyway.



Imagine typings a response where you are knowingly a tedious twat, then type a load of bollocks out anyway. Having your gateâu and eating it too. Pathetic. Lucky no one will bother reading all that pish.</sub>

I read it all - every word - and I have to say it was pish to the very last letter. A remarkable achievement writing so many sentences with none of them the least bit interesting, bravo.

[JesusAndYourBush]

The siesta thread gave me an earworm of All Night Long, but having just looked up the lyrics it turns out they're not

But are

Well, I wasn't expecting that. It's like the Japanese translation of Johnathan caramel.

You've reminded me that in about 2004 I was listening to the song "Southpaw" by Japanese group Pink Lady and in the lyrics they mention "Harry Kane" and because the music video featured baseball-related imagery I assumed maybe he was a famous baseball player, but a Google turned up zilch, because Harry Kane wasn't a thing yet.  Fast forward to a couple of years ago and I'm listening to the song and the penny drops... it's "hurricane".