TIL: Today I Learned

PatrThom · Jun 4, 2017

DarkAudit said:
I could fill a warehouse with the "I don't know what that is" replies. GAH!

Hey! It's like we're all different people with different life experiences or something.

--Patrick

Bubble181 · Jun 4, 2017

PatrThom said:
Hey! It's like we're all different people with different life experiences or something.

--Patrick

Gotta hand it to him, JCM really knows how to fake different personalities and stuff.

Gruebeard · Jun 4, 2017

I can't believe no one has made a joke about this once being @Dave's childhood home

Cheesy1 · Jun 4, 2017

Gruebeard said:
I can't believe no one has made a joke about this once being @Dave's childhood home

Can't be, glass wouldn't be invented for a few more millennia.

Gruebeard · Jun 4, 2017

Cheesy1 said:
Can't be, glass wouldn't be invented for a few more millennia.

Well, like every "vintage" home, it occasionally gets renovated and brought up to code.

Cheesy1 · Jun 4, 2017

Gruebeard said:
Well, like every "vintage" home, it occasionally gets renovated and brought up to code.

"It still has its original wallpaper, though! Look at those guys spear that mammoth!"

fade · Jun 5, 2017

Cheesy1 said:
"It still has its original wallpaper, though! Look at those guys spear that mammoth!"

Time for Dave to digitize that old family Super 8 footage:

sixpackshaker · Jun 5, 2017

PatrThom said:
TIL "Koyaanisqatsi" was used in an episode of Scrubs, of all places.
TIAL that "Bone Collector" is the name of a TV show, and not the name for a line of outdoor wear or gun accessories or the like. I keep seeing the logo in rear windows of pickups, now I know why.

--Patrick

Weird, I have a Bone Collector shirt, and I've never heard of the show.

My brother works for the corporate side of a large sports retailer. He gets crappy shirts for free. And give all the big ones to me.

Dave · Jun 5, 2017

Feeling the love.

fade · Jun 5, 2017

Dave said:
Feeling the love.

Hey, it's when everyone ignores you that you have to worry.

Null · Jun 5, 2017

TIL: Fade doesn't like being ignored.

drawn_inward · Jun 5, 2017

Null said:
TIL: Fade doesn't like being ignored.

Fade is our resident Mikey.

fade · Jun 5, 2017

Hey, wait, I was trying to cheer Dave up.

drawn_inward · Jun 5, 2017

fade said:
Hey, wait, I was trying to cheer Dave up.

I just jumping on the bandwagon dog pile. :banana:

Celt Z · Jun 5, 2017

Hugs for everybody! :banana:

Gruebeard · Jun 5, 2017

fade said:
Hey, wait, I was trying to cheer Dave up.

I'd just like to point out that I don't make the "fade doesn't like anything" posts because I know you don't like them.

mikerc · Jun 12, 2017

TIL C-3PO had a silver lower right leg in the OT. And that's not a silver leg after Lucas messing about with CGI years later - it was silver in the original theatrical releases! How did I never notice this?

sixpackshaker · Jun 12, 2017

mikerc said:
TIL C-3PO had a silver lower right leg in the OT. And that's not a silver leg after Lucas messing about with CGI years later - it was silver in the original theatrical releases! How did I never notice this?

The leg does not stand out on its own.

And the leg was gold on the toys.

Yoshimickster · Jun 16, 2017

TIL-Pluto the dog is not just the only member of the Sensational six to have kids, but ALSO-doesn't have an identical niece or nephew.

fade · Jun 17, 2017

I don't even know who the sensational six are. Sounds like an all gay troupe of Spider-Man villains. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

"They've escaped the closet.. and Ryker's island maximum security lockup."[DOUBLEPOST=1497713410,1497713276][/DOUBLEPOST]They're tired of being persecuted... And prosecuted.

Sparhawk · Jun 17, 2017

Yoshimickster said:
TIL-Pluto the dog is not just the only member of the Sensational six to have kids, but ALSO-doesn't have an identical niece or nephew.

I know of the Fab Five, we're Disney people, being Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto. Who are you adding to make it six?

Dei · Jun 17, 2017

Yoshimickster said:
TIL-Pluto the dog is not just the only member of the Sensational six to have kids, but ALSO-doesn't have an identical niece or nephew.

Technically, Goofy eventually had a kid. Just not until the 90s.

Sparhawk said:
I know of the Fab Five, we're Disney people, being Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto. Who are you adding to make it six?

Maybe Daisy?

Sparhawk · Jun 17, 2017

Dei said:
Maybe Daisy?

That's the first thought, but I've read enough Yoshi to know to not take my thought as the direction that he has gone.

Yoshimickster · Jun 17, 2017

Yeah Daisy is the sixth.

figmentPez · Jun 17, 2017

Dei said:
Technically, Goofy eventually had a kid. Just not until the 90s.

Max Goof (then called Goofy Jr.) first appeared in 1951

Yoshimickster · Jun 17, 2017

Yeah I forgot about Max. Also I find it interesting how Goofy would be a legit inventor at times, one old comic showed he made a pertually moving car that could go up to 90 miles an hour...thing...couldn't stop of course, but when the hell have inventors in comics ever been perfect?

evilmike · Jun 17, 2017

TIL: The new Duck Tales opening has a call back to a famous story from the comics, "The Flying Dutchman":

(Duck Comics Review)

PatrThom · Jun 17, 2017

Let me know when they remake the one about the doom diamond. I wanna see that ship battle in action.

--Patrick

Yoshimickster · Jun 20, 2017

Today I learned that a Heel-face turn refers to when a bad-guy becomes good...been saying it wrong for years, and especially now knowing its a clear wrestling reference I feel a fool.

HCGLNS · Jun 20, 2017

Yoshimickster said:
Today I learned that a Heel-face turn refers to when a bad-guy becomes good...been saying it wrong for years, and especially now knowing its a clear wrestling reference I feel a fool.

How did you not know this? It's essential knowledge.

Yoshimickster · Jun 20, 2017

Considering I knew Heel and Face were references to bad and good wrestlers for years, I'm not sure either.

Eriol · Jun 20, 2017

Yoshimickster said:
Today I learned that a Heel-face turn refers to when a bad-guy becomes good...been saying it wrong for years, and especially now knowing its a clear wrestling reference I feel a fool.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn
And related:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceHeelTurn
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
Of course then there is:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCostumeSwitch
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodCostumeSwitch

Damnit, you got me on to tropes at work! Damn you all!!!

fade · Jun 20, 2017

Eriol said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn
And related:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceHeelTurn
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
Of course then there is:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCostumeSwitch
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodCostumeSwitch

Damnit, you got me on to tropes at work! Damn you all!!!

The anime section for heel-face turn must be about 27 pages long, since that seems to be a regular occurrence in anime.

GasBandit · Jun 20, 2017

fade said:
The anime section for heel-face turn must be about 27 pages long, since that seems to be a regular occurrence in anime.

Boy is it ever. It's as common as "You'll never get away with this!" in American animation.

DarkAudit · Jun 22, 2017

TIL this mini cassette Alex plays in A Clockwork Orange...

Is this recording originally released in 1958.

(The reality is mini and micro cassettes suck for music playback.)