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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #3242
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    What?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak_(brand)


  • #3243
    Heckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,368 ✭✭✭Heckler


    That Gwyneth Paltrow is American. Always thought she was british


  • #3244
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    What?

    Sounds odd, but I checked the Wikipedia page:
    Squier remained involved in the project, but as the home market became eclipsed by radio in 1934 he changed the direction of the company to deliver music to commercial clients.[6][7] He was intrigued by the made-up word Kodak being used as a trademark and so took the first syllable from "music" and added the "ak" from "Kodak" to create the name Muzak which became the new name of the company.


  • #3245
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Sounds odd, but I checked the Wikipedia page:

    But it's nowhere close to obvious or even a well known fact.


  • #3246
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »
    But it's nowhere close to obvious or even a well known fact.

    No argument there.
    When I first saw the post I found it hard to believe it was true, and was surprised to see that it was.
    So true yes, but obvious, absolutely not.


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  • #3247
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    The King of Moo wrote:
    Sounds odd, but I checked the Wikipedia page:

    I'd never heard of Muzak before. I assumed it was just music in elevators the idea that someone set up a label to provide music specifically for elevators is kinda mind blowing


  • #3248
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Do elevators still have music?


  • #3249
    Lau2976
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Lau2976


    That local anistetic is administered in one spot and no that it's bought locally.


  • #3250
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Please tell me you're not serious...


  • #3251
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    major bill wrote: »
    Seen this on Twitter that left me feeling stupid but the saying

    "be there or be square" is because your not a round


    OMG people!!!!!!!


    What? :(


    I didn't know that either lol. But sure, square and circles are not the only shapes. Why not be there or be a triangle? It's far more eloquent :P


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  • #3252
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Turns out that's not the case, I'm afraid...

    Wikipedia Link
    In the parlance of jazz, a square was a person who failed to appreciate the medium, or, more broadly, someone who was out of date or out of touch, hence the saying "be there or be square". In the counterculture movements that started in the 1940s and took momentum in the 1960s a "square" referred to someone who clung to repressive, traditional, stereotypical, one-sided, or "in the box" ways of thinking.


  • #3253
    walkingshadow
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 369 ✭✭walkingshadow


    New Home wrote: »
    Turns out that's not the case, I'm afraid...

    Wikipedia Link

    No good sir, I'm on the level.


  • #3254
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Roose Bolton warden of the North in Game of Thrones and Rats from the Flats in Paths to Freedom is played by the same actor :o


  • #3255
    MarkY91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    i today found out that clondalkin is not on the northside.

    ill be damned!


  • #3256
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    Clonea Power is a beach not a person.


  • #3257
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    Clonea Power is a beach not a person.

    Clonea (the beach) & Clonea Power are two different places altogether.


  • #3258
    jeni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭jeni


    yeahimhere wrote:
    Was talking about how they trained pigeons to deliver messages back in the day. Then copped HOMING pigeons. They just took them from their home and they'd always fly back. Duh.


    Bahaaaa I was watching game of thrones and they were sending a pigeon n actually thought to myself how do they tell them were to go


  • #3259
    jeni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭jeni


    yeahimhere wrote:
    Was talking about how they trained pigeons to deliver messages back in the day. Then copped HOMING pigeons. They just took them from their home and they'd always fly back. Duh.


    Bahaaaa I was watching game of thrones and they were sending a pigeon n actually thought to myself how do they tell them were to go


  • #3260
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Clonea (the beach) & Clonea Power are two different places altogether.

    Never ever heard of Clonea Power.. But I have to ask...


    Who decided, and who agreed that was a good name for a place?


  • #3261
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    major bill wrote: »
    Roose Bolton warden of the North in Game of Thrones and Rats from the Flats in Paths to Freedom is played by the same actor :o

    Michael McElhatton. Can be found in various watering holes around Dublin. Nice guy. Bit like Nidge - if you're expecting Rats you're going to be very surprised when he starts to talk.


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  • #3262
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Allyall wrote: »
    Never ever heard of Clonea Power.. But I have to ask...


    Who decided, and who agreed that was a good name for a place?

    Always thought that too, only been there once or twice but its a blink & you miss it place.


  • #3263
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    jeni wrote: »
    Bahaaaa I was watching game of thrones and they were sending a pigeon n actually thought to myself how do they tell them were to go

    Raven surely?? If it was in S5E2 don't say anything more, have not seen it yet.


  • #3264
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Just searched on google maps to see where Clonea Power was and I spotted that it's beside the Clodiagh river. It was then I realised there are two rivers in Ireland with the same name because there is also a river in Offaly called the Clodiagh river. Weird that they're are two rivers with the same name.


  • #3265
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Just searched on google maps to see where Clonea Power was and I spotted that it's beside the Clodiagh river. It was then I realised there are two rivers in Ireland with the same name because there is also a river in Offaly called the Clodiagh river. Weird that they're are two rivers with the same name.

    couple of blackwater rivers too.


  • #3266
    walkingshadow
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 369 ✭✭walkingshadow


    That the character D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers was not called 'Dog-tanion'. Thank you Muskahounds.


  • #3267
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    walkingshadow wrote: »
    That the character D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers was not called 'Dog-tanion'. Thank you Muskahounds.

    That was a great cartoon.


  • #3268
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Pat Mustard == Georgie Burgess


  • #3269
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,439 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Someone just posted in another thread that the band they rip off in Father Ted was called Nin Huguen and the Huguen Notes.

    Just realised the Hugenots bit now.


  • #3270
    Asarlai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    That Times Square in New York is named because that's where the The New York Times has/had its head office.


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  • #3271
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    Modern Family is done mockumentary style, but there's not even the pretence that a fly-on-the-wall documentary is being made (unlike The Office for example).
    I suppose the format is so familiar by now that no explanation is needed.


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