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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #2432
    dave3004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    Hood is short for neighbourhood


  • #2433
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,197 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Is too

    twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star (7 syllables / notes) DDAABBBBA
    baa-baa, black sheep, have you any wool? (9 syllables / notes) DDAABBA


  • #2434
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,152 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    pickarooney wrote: »
    twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star (7 syllables / notes) DDAABBBBA
    baa-baa, black sheep, have you any wool? (9 syllables / notes) DDAABBA
    It's the same tune though.


  • #2435
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Cienciano wrote: »
    It's the same tune though.


    Twin-kle twin-kle have you any wool

    Baa Baa Black Sheep Lit-tle star

    A,B,C,D,Lit-tle Star

    A,B,C,D have you any wool

    Nope. Doesn't work..


  • #2436
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Shane-KornSpace wrote: »
    This!!
    That symbol on cosmetic products is how long the item is good for after being opened!
    I've spot the symbol many times before but it never ever clicked until a few minutes ago! Mind blown.
    *monocle falls*


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  • #2437
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    pickarooney wrote: »
    twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star (7 syllables / notes) DDAABBBBA
    baa-baa, black sheep, have you any wool? (9 syllables / notes) DDAABBA
    You got them mixed up and some of the notes wrong :P

    Twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star
    DDAABBA - 7 notes

    Baa-baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
    DDAABCDBA - 9 notes

    The tunes are similar but different. I even checked on the keyboard :o


  • #2438
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Yoga is awesome! :D


  • #2439
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    That bird on the Windows 7 logon screen - it's not some random bird drawn badly, it's a well drawn humming bird!
    http://pichost.me/1796408/
    The tail is on the bottom, not in the middle.


  • #2440
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    Shane-KornSpace wrote: »
    This!!
    That symbol on cosmetic products is how long the item is good for after being opened!
    I've spot the symbol many times before but it never ever clicked until a few minutes ago! Mind blown.

    Still trying to figure out those signs above doorways showing a man running towards a fridge. There's never ever a fridge out there.
    http://t1.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/42/27/34/400_F_42273439_p5v07HJag9opMYf2Ocz6SGLV1Zsp87xn.jpg


  • #2441
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    You got them mixed up and some of the notes wrong :P

    Twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star
    DDAABBA - 7 notes

    Baa-baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
    DDAABCDBA - 9 notes

    The tunes are similar but different. I even checked on the keyboard :o

    they are the same tune

    http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/classicalmusic101/qt/mozart_nursery_rhymes.htm


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  • #2442
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    You know the saying "faith, hope, and charity"? Well I just realised the "charity" bit means you should accept good things that happen to YOU, not you giving all your stuff to other people!


  • #2443
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    You got them mixed up and some of the notes wrong :P

    Twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star
    DDAABBA - 7 notes

    Baa-baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
    DDAABCDBA - 9 notes

    The tunes are similar but different. I even checked on the keyboard :o



    I would've said they're the same. Baa-baa black sheep should be DDAABBBBA, not DDAABCDBA. So the air would be identical.


  • #2444
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    newmug wrote: »
    I would've said they're the same. Baa-baa black sheep should be DDAABBBBA, not DDAABCDBA. So the air would be identical.
    There is a higher inflection on "have you any wool" that you don't get with "how I wonder what you are", so they're not the same tune.


  • #2445
    TheBigLebowski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭TheBigLebowski


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    And ba ba blacksheep

    And 'I'm a little teapot'.


  • #2446
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    There is a higher inflection on "have you any wool" that you don't get with "how I wonder what you are", so they're not the same tune.



    Not around there isn't! You wanna take this outside!?!?!


  • #2447
    TheBigLebowski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭TheBigLebowski


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    There is a higher inflection on "have you any wool" that you don't get with "how I wonder what you are", so they're not the same tune.

    Wha :confused:

    Have you any wool = Little star

    Same tune dude.


  • #2448
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger




  • #2449
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Realised today that the word jobsworth comes from the phrase 'that's more than my job's worth'.


  • #2450
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    TheBigLebowski wrote: »
    Wha :confused:

    Have you any wool = Little star

    Same tune dude.

    But one had five notes and the other has three


  • #2451
    Maisie Orange Limb
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Maisie Orange Limb


    Same tune, one has an ornamentation on it...


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  • #2452
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Same tune, one has an ornamentation on it...

    I almost checked...:(


  • #2453
    GalwayGirl26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭GalwayGirl26


    Banoffi= Banana and toffee.


  • #2454
    Maisie Orange Limb
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Maisie Orange Limb


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I almost checked...:(

    Almost checked wha?


  • #2455
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,197 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    That's like saying all those songs which have the same three chord progession are the same tune. We're talking about a simple half-octave progression of notes which scarcely qualifies as a tune at all; any variation at all on that is significant.


  • #2456
    Maisie Orange Limb
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Maisie Orange Limb


    pickarooney wrote: »
    That's like saying all those songs which have the same three chord progession are the same tune. We're talking about a simple half-octave progression of notes which scarcely qualifies as a tune at all; any variation at all on that is significant.

    It's a variation on "ah, vous dirai-je" which in itself was had a theme (folk song) and variations done by Mozart, some of which ended up nearly beyond recognition.
    It's the same base tune, and one has an ornament on it.
    Many concertos/symphonies/whathaveyou will take a "simple progression of notes" and do incredible things with them throughout the piece, inversion, ornamentation, etc. Still the same theme.


    And yes, a lot of songs ARE based on pachelbel


  • #2457
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    Ya know how most people are aware of really significant things that fall on their birthday? Like "I share my birthday with Bono" and all that?


    World war 1. It took me 26 years to realize that I share my birthday with the start of world war 1. In all the history classes I sat through (even for leaving cert) I didn't once notice the date.


  • #2458
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    double post sorry


  • #2459
    takamichinoku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    No clue how I thought this, but I thought Judy Garland was pushing 40 in the Wizard of Oz until just there right now.


  • #2460
    mynamewasgone!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭mynamewasgone!


    The mother painted the kitchen a different colour..... 3 months ago


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  • #2461
    764dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭764dak


    Windows 7 doesn't have 3D Pinball.


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