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Bill Murray voiced Garfield, who is an orange cat like Healthcliff. Heathcliff is a character in Wuthering Heights
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I just found out that "Bananas in Pyjamas" isn't an ancient children's nursery rhyme. It was written in 1969, it was actually the Australian ABC who popularised it, and they actually tried to screw the composer out of royalties when the TV show based on the lyrics became a mega hit. https://careyblyton.com/??=Bananas
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May 4, 2021 04:59
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christmas boots posted:Bill Murray voiced Garfield, who is an orange cat like Healthcliff. Heathcliff is a character in Wuthering Heights More importantly Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield. And Bill Murray followed in his footsteps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYh8ZvgnFJo Music is vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
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May 4, 2021 05:17
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christmas boots posted:Bill Murray voiced Garfield, who is an orange cat like Healthcliff. Heathcliff is a character in Wuthering Heights Bill Murray played Garfield in the "live action" Garfield movies, while Lorenzo Music originated the role in the animated version. Lorenzo Music played Peter Venkman in the animated Ghostbusters show, while Bill Murray originated the role in the live action movies.
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May 4, 2021 05:20
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And Bill Murray voiced Garfield because he mistakenly thought it was going to be a Coen Bros movie.
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May 4, 2021 06:57
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Baron von Eevl posted:Bill Murray played Garfield in the "live action" Garfield movies, while Lorenzo Music originated the role in the animated version. Only in seasons 1 and 2. Supposedly Bill Murray is the reason for that quote:Bill Murray is said to be the main reason that Lorenzo Music was fired in the first place. Murray complained to the studio that the character sounded too much like Garfield, then later took on the live action role of Garfield. [citation needed]
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May 4, 2021 11:10
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JGdmn posted:Maybe it has some thing to do with the way your streets are oriented where you grow up? This is it. I grew up in a mid-size city in the central US — very flat, and most streets were oriented entirely on a N-S-E-W grid, with the main arteries exactly one mile apart. Everybody grew up instinctively understanding cardinal directions.
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May 4, 2021 15:06
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Lincoln posted:This is it. I grew up in a mid-size city in the central US — very flat, and most streets were oriented entirely on a N-S-E-W grid, with the main arteries exactly one mile apart. Everybody grew up instinctively understanding cardinal directions. I grew up in a city oriented that way (Phoenix) and the problem is my sense of cardinal directions only works when I'm there.  Now I live in New England and I don't know what the gently caress anymore.
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May 4, 2021 16:00
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Knowing that numbered streets run north south and the streets named after confederate generals run east west is cheating because you can't dead reckon based on confederate general streets in the middle of the woods.
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May 4, 2021 16:51
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Len posted:Only in seasons 1 and 2. Supposedly Bill Murray is the reason for that And he was replaced by Dave Coulier doing a Carl Spackler impression.
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May 4, 2021 17:03
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You'd figure the confederate generals would be the ones running south
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May 4, 2021 17:06
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zedprime posted:numbered streets run north south and [named streets] run east west holy loving poo poo
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May 4, 2021 23:46
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:holy loving poo poo I mean it's a thing in certain southern towns.
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May 5, 2021 01:17
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It's a thing in cities too I guess, or at least the one I live in  how did I never notice thise: numbers running north/south and letters/names running east/west, I mean, not Confederate general names LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 01:40 on May 5, 2021 |
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May 5, 2021 01:37
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:It's a thing in cities too I guess, or at least the one I live in That's not universal. Lots of towns do different arrangements. Manhattan, for example, has numbered streets running cross town and numbered avenues running uptown/downtown. Chicago has numbered east/west streets and named north/south streets.
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May 5, 2021 01:44
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Weembles posted:Manhattan, for example, has numbered streets running cross town and numbered avenues running uptown/downtown. Now this is the true of street design. Like, I already knew that was the case, but seriously,  at that design philosophy.
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May 5, 2021 01:47
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And then there's Washington DC where you need to be a free mason to understand the intersections of numbered, lettered, and state streets.
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May 5, 2021 01:47
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You guys know Chevy Chase and Gene Wilder are different dudes?
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May 5, 2021 01:53
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Captain Hygiene posted:Now this is the true Manhattan's street grid has few good features for something so superficially simple.Each block is a little over three times as wide as it is tall. They did it originally to service the wharfs that used to line this island. Now that the wharves are all gone, the arrangement mostly just lets pedestrians know that they can go gently caress themselves.
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May 5, 2021 01:56
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Roads going only by numbers is exceptionally rare in Australia. However, the major ones all have actual numbers, which will appear in street directories as well. Nobody uses these except for GPSes. Eg, nobody calls it "State Route 56", it's Alexander Drive which becomes Fitzgerald Street. (I had to go look up what the number is).
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May 5, 2021 02:09
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Weembles posted:That's not universal. Lots of towns do different arrangements. I am relieved to hear I am not as completely unobservant as I had briefly believed myself to be, thank you
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May 5, 2021 02:17
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Weembles posted:That's not universal. Lots of towns do different arrangements. Or you could head out to Queens and visit Astoria Coffee, on the corner of 30th st and 30th ave, right around the corner from 30th dr.
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May 5, 2021 02:19
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The town I lived in for the first ten years of my life had a Johnson Street, a Johnston Street, and a Johnson Avenue, which was fun. Next town I lived in had streets named Earl, Burl, and Merle, but that's a slightly different problem.
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May 5, 2021 02:40
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Baron von Eevl posted:Or you could head out to Queens and visit Astoria Coffee, on the corner of 30th st and 30th ave, right around the corner from 30th dr. Only in New York, baby. Go Mets.
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May 5, 2021 03:03
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Hyperlynx posted:Roads going only by numbers is exceptionally rare in Australia. Yeah, you could make a question in pub trivia trying to work out the numbers to main roads here and you could definitely use it as a tiebreaker. Hell, outside the major motorways I would be hard-pressed naming more than five.
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May 5, 2021 04:18
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JGdmn posted:Maybe it has some thing to do with the way your streets are oriented where you grow up? Here in Melbourne Australia all the streets in the CBD run N/NW then immediately once you get out of the CBD they all run N/NE, none of the streets point on a true cardinal direction 
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May 5, 2021 04:51
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Melbourne Australia all the streets in the CBD run N/NW then immediately once you get out of the CBD they all run N/NE, none of the streets point on a true cardinal direction It might have actually been that the compasses they used to lay out those streets back then were pointing directly to north, but they didn't have the magnetic declination set up, which in Victoria is about 11° east. Also, Brighton is even worse for that, because the streets around the area are reasonably fine based on what I said above (New Street, Hampton Street) but the big area in the middle that's offset was surveyed by a guy who went "nahh, I'm going to align it with where the sun comes up on Winter Solstice, because Reasons" or something equally stupid. 
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Memento posted:It might have actually been that the compasses they used to lay out those streets back then were pointing directly to north, but they didn't have the magnetic declination set up, which in Victoria is about 11° east. Well, not the CBD. I just looked it up, and it was so that it would be parallel to the river. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoddle_Grid
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May 5, 2021 06:51
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Y'all should try living in a city built by successive groups of Vikings and Normans over a millennium. Not a single straight or wide road, nothing is numbered, streets turns into other streets or circle back on themselves. Also in the city I grew up in you could be north or south of the river, but the river also forked in two at some point to make a central island that was maybe north or south depending on the vibe
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May 5, 2021 08:41
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Today I found out that the Black Keys aren't the Kings of Leon and neither of them are Cage the Elephant. I'm bad at music.
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May 5, 2021 13:54
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Was talking to my wife the other night about slang terms for penis and it came up that roger used to be (and maybe still is in Britain?) a much more widespread euphemism before being largely replaced by dick. I just realized what Roger De Bris' name in the Producers was a joke about 
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May 5, 2021 13:57
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fizzymercury posted:Today I found out that the Black Keys aren't the Kings of Leon and neither of them are Cage the Elephant. Finally found the guy in charge of labeling songs on Kazaa
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May 5, 2021 13:59
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Minister of education Li Andersson (Left Alliance) is not related to the late former minister of education Claes Andersson (Left Alliance), and is definitely not his daughter.
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May 5, 2021 14:49
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They're both sons of Anders though.
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May 5, 2021 15:12
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FreudianSlippers posted:They're both sons of Anders though. It's possible  
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Failed Imagineer posted:Y'all should try living in a city built by successive groups of Vikings and Normans over a millennium. Not a single straight or wide road, nothing is numbered, streets turns into other streets or circle back on themselves. Oh yeah, we have viking towns too - lots and lots of roads just about wide enough for a single cart. For example here, the middle of Wexford town Head up Selskar street and boggle at all the winding, 6 foot wide roads.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Y'all should try living in a city built by successive groups of Vikings and Normans over a millennium. Not a single straight or wide road, nothing is numbered, streets turns into other streets or circle back on themselves. Hell, same, but for Muslims for a few centuries and then Christians. Old city streets here barely fit cars and sidewalks are at a premium. But you get to walk into five diffent small, old churches in a 500m walk.
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Dip Viscous posted:The town I lived in for the first ten years of my life had a Johnson Street, a Johnston Street, and a Johnson Avenue, which was fun. Oh yeah, gotta love older cities with no naming scheme whatsoever. My town has a Colchester Ave...it does not go to the town of Colchester. It goes to the town of Winooski. Also, Colchester Ave randomly changes it's name halfway to Pearl St. No rhyme or reason.  There is also a Winooksi Ave (north and south version)...that never goes to Winooski. It starts and ends in Burlington. And related to similar street names, we have a Hayward and a Howard Streets...and they even intersect with each other!  And same with a North Ave and North St. I feel like numbered streets and aves intersecting with each other is ok, cause, like...it's a number, start at one corner and increment them up as you go in each direction. But a directional street? North is a cardinal direction, they can't both go north and also intersect!  FTR, north is sort of between them, though closer to North Ave, as the red arrow shows. ALSO, unrelated, but the PC version of Google Maps has no way to put a compass overlay? WTF? I had to go to street view, then sort of eyeball where it was pointing me on the top-down view.
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May 5, 2021 16:21
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So when you get kicked out of one church for too many bread samples you can just go to the other one
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Milo and POTUS posted:So when you get kicked out of one church for too many bread samples you can just go to the other one Related to churches, it wasn't until a few years ago I found out that most protestant and protestant-adjacent churches use grape juice in place of wine. WTF? That was, like, the one little "fun" thing about going to church as a kid, feeling you're sticking it to "the man" by having a sip of wine.
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