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Eyes in glass? In this economy!?! FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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packetmantis posted:Isinglass is still used as an additive in beer and wine. I usually hear about it in the context of why some beers aren’t vegetarian/vegan
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Feb 4, 2021 10:49
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packetmantis posted:Isinglass is still used as an additive in beer and wine. Maybe it's regional, but I just call it "on the rocks."
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Feb 4, 2021 13:17
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BalloonFish posted:That's like how two numbers in The Music Man are basically just lists of 1900s Midwest Americana references. Really the whole show is a 'nostalgia for that time you don't properly remember because you're not quite old enough' fest. There are several issues of Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang on Project Gutenberg. Expect Prohibition jokes and mild naughtiness.
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Feb 4, 2021 14:54
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Tiggum posted:I know that Americans don't use the word "fringe" for hair, but do you also not use it for anything else? It seems like a pretty common, ordinary word to me? Fringe is not really a fringe word in the US 
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Feb 4, 2021 16:12
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French benefits
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Feb 4, 2021 16:21
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Slimy Hog posted:Fringe is not really a fringe word in the US I'm fact, it's central to the sovcit movement.
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echopapa posted:There are several issues of Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang on Project Gutenberg. Captain Billy's Whizz Bang posted:Dear Capt. Billy—What is a good name for a new college sorority?—Al E. Wrat.  quote:“Is my wife forward?” asked the passenger on the Limited.  quote:Dear Skipper—When is a good girl not a good girl?—McNotty.  'Trouble in River City' indeed! Not least because Captain Billy's first published in 1919 and The Music Man is set in 1912. Professor Hill is a time traveller!
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Feb 4, 2021 21:13
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It's legit pretty dirty, it was intended for soldiers/sailors returning from WWI, so it's reasonable you wouldn't want your 10-year-old son reading it. quote:A doughboy who’d just come from France, 
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Feb 4, 2021 21:35
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i like nice words
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:It dates back to the 60s, as far as I know. My husband used to carry Rapidograph technical pens in his pocket. They are not meant to be carried in a pocket, because they have pointy pointy tips full of liquid ink (ball-point pens use gel) You need a pocket protector for those puppies, and if you carried Rapidographs, you were an engineer or an architect. I thought of a fairly obscure one. This was from a standup video in the '80s, maybe Carlin? The setup was that a guy made his sandals out of old car tires (huh? one). The punchline was that he died because he was running around a curve on the mountain, and his tires were made by Goodrich, and they blew up (huh? two). e: In the US, there are actually two meanings for isinglass. One of them is the fish stuff, one of them is sheets of mica. Isinglass windows are the latter. .Ebay seller selling off NOS isinglass. ee: Xiahou Dun posted:For my sins I once went to theater school and a class made me watch the whole of Oklahoma! 3 times so it's burned into my brain and I basically have the Great American Songbook version of PTSD and can never forget a single line. There are worse things, of course, but it's not fun. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Feb 4, 2021 21:48
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Xiahou Dun posted:
My parents were theater buffs (we lived about 20 minutes from NYC) and used to listen to show tunes all the time. I have my own version of PTSD.
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Feb 5, 2021 14:14
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Oklahoma is so bad and boring and only makes sense to be almost 3 hours if you have literally nothing else to distract you. It needs to stop being done. loving boomers won't ever let that happen tho.
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Feb 5, 2021 17:19
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My kids heard a lot of Sondheim in the car. My son now refuses to go to musicals. Linked? I think not.
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Feb 5, 2021 17:24
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Arsenic Lupin posted:My kids heard a lot of Sondheim in the car. My son now refuses to go to musicals. Linked? I think not.
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Source4Leko posted:Oklahoma is so bad and boring and only makes sense to be almost 3 hours if you have literally nothing else to distract you. It needs to stop being done. loving boomers won't ever let that happen tho. On the flipside, try and find a theatre putting on a Brecht play in this day and age.
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Feb 6, 2021 09:58
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Just you wait for my Brechtian production of Oklahoma.
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Feb 6, 2021 14:38
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Source4Leko posted:Oklahoma is so bad and boring and only makes sense to be almost 3 hours if you have literally nothing else to distract you. It needs to stop being done. loving boomers won't ever let that happen tho. At first I thought you meant the state and yeah p. much.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:On the flipside, try and find a theatre putting on a Brecht play in this day and age. i mean, plenty in germany
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Feb 8, 2021 06:33
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Although sure not at the moment or for the past year or so! (if you're reading this in a future where the reference is lost on you: congrats)
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Feb 8, 2021 07:04
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Yeah up until COVID I was going to see Ionescu plays and stuff.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Just you wait for my Brechtian production of Oklahoma. The recent Broadway revival was essentially that, and it was legitimately amazing.
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Feb 9, 2021 22:35
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Have been lurking this thread and am caught up to p20, but wanted to pop in to say that I’m reading Player Piano by Vonnegut and there’s a reference to Who’s Who that I wouldn’t have gotten if it want for this thread. Someone earlier mentioned Bugs Bunny’s carrot as a reference to a cigar [edit: saw the clip 2 pages back and I guess I was thinking about something else] in some other work, but [here’s where the carrot munchin’ comes from]: https://youtu.be/Wcrth90C3D4 The North Tower fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 01:49
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I'm rewatching The Wire from the beginning, and just thinking about explaining to a kid how beepers worked and yes payphones were a thing makes me think I have a nosebleed.
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The North Tower posted:Have been lurking this thread and am caught up to p20, but wanted to pop in to say that I’m reading Player Piano by Vonnegut and there’s a reference to Who’s Who that I wouldn’t have gotten if it want for this thread. I also imagine there are a lot of people who don't even realise that a 'player piano' is an actual thing and not just some weird English litty title.
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Feb 17, 2021 12:27
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Jeza posted:I also imagine there are a lot of people who don't even realise that a 'player piano' is an actual thing and not just some weird English litty title. He more or less explains what one is in the book, so it wouldn’t be too confusing for those who pick it up, but if one were browsing, I’d imagine so.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:57
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I'm 28 and I don't know how they worked, I just remember my mom had one because she was a nurse. Isn't it sort of like a text message but the only thing you can do is send a one-way text saying "call me/come here"?
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Feb 17, 2021 19:00
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm 28 and I don't know how they worked, I just remember my mom had one because she was a nurse. Exactly. There were also pager codes like early net speak, so you could send someone 07734 and it’s hello (upside down). E: on more expensive models \/ didn’t know that some couldn’t receive messages
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Feb 17, 2021 19:02
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On the basic models, the pager displays the number of anyone who's called. So you don't get an indication of what the message is about, but you know who's trying to reach you.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:02
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I know pagers are still used by some doctors. I found an article from 2020 saying it's still a thing. Drug dealers don't have to work in places where cell reception can be absolutely terrible.
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Feb 18, 2021 00:52
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One thing I'm always reminded of when I catch old commercial breaks from the 90s is what a huge deal long distance calling cards were. There's like 4 nested concepts you'd have to explain to any kid born this century before they got it.
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Feb 18, 2021 16:57
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"Talking into a phone? You mean Siri, grandpa?"
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Imagined posted:One thing I'm always reminded of when I catch old commercial breaks from the 90s is what a huge deal long distance calling cards were. There's like 4 nested concepts you'd have to explain to any kid born this century before they got it. "Okay, first off...long distance isn't free. Wait, what's long distance? It's when you paid extra to call someone a long way away. Yeah. Over the phone. Facetime? No, just voice. But anyway, if you wanted to pay less you could buy these plastic cards..." I don't even know how I'd explain 10-10-220 to a Zoomer. Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 17:16
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Krispy Wafer posted:"Okay, first off...long distance isn't free. Wait, what's long distance? It's when you paid extra to call someone a long way away. Yeah. Over the phone. Facetime? No, just voice. But anyway, if you wanted to pay less you could buy these plastic cards..." It's like an old-timey VPN.
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Feb 18, 2021 17:38
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Make sure to start your old timey stories with ‘it sucked and was really inconvenient’ to fight the nostalgia-based ‘kids don’t know what it was like’ brain worms.
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Feb 18, 2021 23:03
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You know how there's always been that joke about, "If you remember Woodstock, you weren't there?" I think I would almost say, "If you think the past was better, you don't remember it." Almost everything that sucks about today was true then, too, we just didn't know about it because we were young and weren't terminally online, and so many other things are so much loving better it's unreal.
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Feb 18, 2021 23:15
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Can confirm. Went to Beastie Boys concert in Summer of '98. Got high as gently caress, barely remember anything of the show. A+++ Would go again.
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Krispy Wafer posted:"Okay, first off...long distance isn't free. Wait, what's long distance? It's when you paid extra to call someone a long way away. Yeah. Over the phone. Facetime? No, just voice. But anyway, if you wanted to pay less you could buy these plastic cards..." Worse, there's the 1959 Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie, Pillow Talk with a plot line involving party lines. Wikipedia posted:It tells the story of Jan Morrow (Day), an interior decorator and Brad Allen (Hudson), a womanizing composer/bachelor, who share a telephone party line. When she unsuccessfully files a complaint on him for constantly using the line to woo his conquests, Brad decides to take a chance on Jan by masquerading as a Texas rancher, resulting in the two falling in love. The scheme seems to work until Brad's mutual friend and Jan's client Jonathan Forbes (Randall) finds out about this, causing a love triangle in the process. Well, sonny, your great-grandpa didn't have his own phone. No, it wasn't that his parents thought he was too young. They didn't have their own phone. They shared a number with several families on their street. For his parents to know someone called them, they had to listen for two rings and a buzz.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Worse, there's the 1959 Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie, Pillow Talk with a plot line involving party lines. O god drat it now I have the song from that movie stuck in my head. "Rolly polly, polly. Rolly polly, polly." (My mom loves all the old Doris Day movies so I was required to study them like they were the Bible. This might be related to why I'm the only 30-whatever man who liked Down With Love and thinks it's a masterpiece.)
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Feb 19, 2021 05:33
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Just realized this: The last time I hit "Rewind" on a device that actually spooled tape was 20 years ago.
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I've bought two VCRs in the past 3 years.
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