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I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2
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I bet you didn't know that I could pick two random words, and Wibbs could write a post about them with more information than I could write a post about my most knowledgeable subject.
Freakin love this thread.
Yeah, I imagine Wibbs sitting all day in a huge library, surrounded by gazillions of collectibles and whenever reading a post he is rummaging around, finds something and a lightbulb over his head goes on and off he goes to type his response - or something like that
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Me. Earlier, showing me mates around. I look quite fetching in hose I'll have ye know.
The above is a pic of a so called Cabinet of Curiosities. Rooms* of rich guys where they built collections of items from around the known world of the 16th and 17th centuries. Their tastes ranged from fine art to ethnic art and unusual natural specimens. There was quite the bit of competition between such collectors.
While museums of a sort had existed since classical times, they were private affairs and generally of artistic items. The Cabinet of Curiosities extended the range of items collected and curated in one spot and the newly discovered worlds being added to maps on a near yearly basis added more and more stuff.
A few started to be left to universities and states in collectors wills, opened up to the public and really kicked off what we think of as museums today.
*Cabinet originally meant a small room(usually private), rather than an item of furniture. We still have hints of that where politicians go in cabinet to hold private meetings. Later on it became a small room in a box, an item of furniture where you kept your private stuff.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was originally going to be titled Revenge of the Jedi. George Lucas changed his mind (something along the lines of 'a Jedi wouldn't seek revenge') and so the title was changed. However, this was deep into production, and marketing for the film had already started. Thousands of posters with the original name had already been produced, so Lucasfilm recalled the vast majority of these and destroyed them. Only about 7000 survived, the majority of which were sold off to fan club members for a few dollars. Today, an authentic Revenge of the Jedi one sheet poster (a 27 by 41 inch poster displayed in US cinemas) can be valued anywhere, depending on the condition, from $500/$600, right up to $2000/$3000.
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Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was originally going to be titled Revenge of the Jedi. George Lucas changed his mind (something along the lines of 'a Jedi wouldn't seek revenge') and so the title was changed. However, this was deep into production, and marketing for the film had already started. Thousands of posters with the original name had already been produced, so Lucasfilm recalled the vast majority of these and destroyed them. Only about 7000 survived, the majority of which were sold off to fan club members for a few dollars. Today, an authentic Revenge of the Jedi one sheet poster (a 27 by 41 inch poster displayed in US cinemas) can be valued anywhere, depending on the condition, from $500/$600, right up to $2000/$3000.
(notice the lightsaber colours!)
Mind blown. Not at the Revenge bit but the lightsaber colours being wrong.0 -
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Hope this is new, as I only just discovered it myself.
Putting.full.stops.beween.your.words, instead of spaces, will change your Google search suggestions.
Searching for "Something random" (without quotes) suggests for me:
* Something random to say; or,
* Something random to draw.
Fair enough.
Searching for "Something.random" (without quotes) suggests for me:
* Something random to say; or,
* Something random Kenya.
Damn that random Kenya.
It doesn't seem to happen with other punctuation marks. I figure that it's based on searches by our larger-fingered friends, who hit the full stop instead of the space bar when on a mobile, (although, of course, my hands are slim.and.dainty).
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FluffyTowel wrote: »Hope this is new, as I only just discovered it myself.
Putting.full.stops.beween.your.words, instead of spaces, will change your Google search suggestions.
Searching for "Something random" (without quotes) suggests for me:
* Something random to say; or,
* Something random to draw.
Fair enough.
Searching for "Something.random" (without quotes) suggests for me:
* Something random to say; or,
* Something random Kenya.
Damn that random Kenya.
It doesn't seem to happen with other punctuation marks. I figure that it's based on searches by our larger-fingered friends, who hit the full stop instead of the space bar when on a mobile, (although, of course, my hands are slim.and.dainty).
Give it a go!
You can also add one or a number of minus words to any google search.
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*crosses name from list* :mad::DLostinBlanch wrote: »You've got mates? :eek:
Funny enough the same LostinBlanch only last week while in his company informed me about Art Deco, that the deco bit was short for decorative. I did not know that. Art Nouveau(a design style I fcuking love, especially when the French and Spanish took it to luxurious extremes, just as they did with Deco) is obviously New Art and local versions of it were Moderne, Modernismo, or Jugendstil(Young style), but I never made the connection with Art Deco and decorative.
Though he also suggested that maybe it was a Dublin lad by the name of Declan had come up with the style and in the naming fashion of Dubs...Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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During the recording sessions for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bob Dylan was working on a song that never made the cut as he could only get a chorus and refrain out of it. The song was abandoned. The demo was a spartan recording but as with most things Bob Dylan records, it ended up on collectors bootlegs under the title "Rock Me Mama" named after a line in the chorus.
Many years later, this demo piqued the interest of Chris "Critter" Fuqua and Ketch Secor of the band Old Show Medicine Crow. Secor wrote new lyrics around Dylan's chorus to flesh it out a bit. They wished to release the song but needed to get Dylan's permission, which he gave. They agreed on a 50/50 split of profits for the song now titled "Wagon Wheel." It would go on to be covered by what seems like everybody!
Thats right. Bob Dylan....Bob Dylan is to blame for Wagon Wheel.
The demo recording is below. Sound quality is not the greatest.
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In the original Norse myths "Elf" (Álfr) is probably just an alternate word for dwarf and not a different race.
Not quite. There are very fine distinctions between all the little people, especially in Iceland:
jarðvergar (gnomes), álfar (elves), ljósálfar (fairies), dvergar (dwarves), ljúflingar (lovelings), tívar (mountain spirits), englar (angels) and huldufólk (hidden people).
They are all different "races" in a universe of their own
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I guess you could say he's changed genre, he's into metal now. :pac:
Brava!Not quite. There are very fine distinctions between all the little people, especially in Iceland:
jarðvergar (gnomes), álfar (elves), ljósálfar (fairies), dvergar (dwarves), ljúflingar (lovelings), tívar (mountain spirits), englar (angels) and huldufólk (hidden people).
They are all different "races" in a universe of their own
My old boss (currently my overnight houseguest) used to call me The House Elf. I should probably sue him :pac: I'm not short though, I'm just really good at gravity.0 -
My old boss (currently my overnight houseguest) used to call me The House Elf. I should probably sue him :pac: I'm not short though, I'm just really good at gravity.
The Chinese would say you are rooted to the centre of the world (a Tai Chi exercise to kind of gravitate downwards).
Tell your old boss he can move into an álfhól (elf house), a garden feature at many Icelandic homes, very tiny, wooden and without all mod cons (elves don't need mod cons...).0 -
The Chinese would say you are rooted to the centre of the world (a Tai Chi exercise to kind of gravitate downwards).
Tell your old boss he can move into an álfhól (elf house), a garden feature at many Icelandic homes, very tiny, wooden and without all mod cons (elves don't need mod cons...).
Well I'm definitely not an elf, I love all my mod cons!
I do have a little elf door in a semi-hidden part of my living room baseboards, I only put there as a little fun for my niece and nephews to discover and totally not because I love a little whimsy.0 -
Talking of Bob,I was amazed to find out that when he is not making music,he is out in his shed making gates
https://www.needsomefun.net/bob-dylan-iron-works-mood-swings/
Ever since I found this out I wondered how the conversation would go when some travellers knocked on his door
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I got it from this guy:Not quite. There are very fine distinctions between all the little people, especially in Iceland:
jarðvergar (gnomes), álfar (elves), ljósálfar (fairies), dvergar (dwarves), ljúflingar (lovelings), tívar (mountain spirits), englar (angels) and huldufólk (hidden people).
They are all different "races" in a universe of their own
He's really good for Norse myth, though he's talking about the original Norse myths (i.e. Viking) not modern Icelandic ones.
It's at 17:00, though I was incorrect he's saying dwarf was just a word for a type of Elf (not the other way round as I had it).
I'm not sure how the Norse myths changed into the modern Icelandic ones.
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