Amazing Things I Learned Today!

[Nate the Great]

TATILT #16

There are actually Skeeball leagues! Skeeball has always been one of my favorite games in that category of arcade games.

http://unitedsocialsports.com/

[Nate the Great]

This one will take a little setup. I'm a fan of Hayley Mills' early Disney movies (Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, etc.), so I was delighted to discover someone had actually written a fan song about her...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csg9f0TXSK4

It's a relatively obscure song, so...

TATILT #17

Someone actually reworked it to be a fan song for the Beatles!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMAES4utqg

[Zeke]

Here's something amazing I learned today: I'm not the only one who's joked about illegal Klingon immigration. I do seem to be the only one who came up with it unprompted, though.

[Zeke]

The best way to get two hexagons out of a square is actually simpler than you might expect.

[Nate the Great]

TATILT #18

The actress Kaley Cuoco was in both 8 Simple Rules and The Big Bang Theory. Wow. Just wow.

[Zeke]

What's so "wow" about that?

I guess I'll start numbering mine. Here's ATZLT #3:

There's a show called The Thick of It which has a character named Malcolm Tucker. And there's another one named Reeder!

(On the off chance someone reading this doesn't get the point, Enterprise has a Tucker and a Malcolm Reed.)

[Nate the Great]

It's wow because I hadn't noticed it, and the two characters seem quite different from each other.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by Zeke

There's a show called The Thick of It which has a character named Malcolm Tucker. And there's another one named Reeder!

Malcolm from The Thick of It says "fuck" an awful lot more than the other one does. Peter Capaldi actually came to the island for an event a month or two back, it's was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the arts centre. I did not go, it was a fundraiser and thus the tickets were unfortunately quite expensive.

I don't think I've learned anything amazing recently, but I do think it's pretty neat that we've directly imaged the first exoplanet recently (as opposed to more indirect methods of detection). I also learned that the ancient Greeks really were not people you'd want to hang out with, Athenians especially. I probably could have guessed that before though, to be fair.

[DrWho42]

yesterday was the anniversary for the lost in space episode "war of the robots"!

source: file 770

[Nate the Great]

Why blocks of butter are different in the western and eastern US.


Eastern sticks are longer and narrower than western sticks.


Truly this is an issue that demands rioting in the streets.

While I have moved farther west, I still see "eastern" sticks of butter. The discovery that amazed me is the existence of half sticks of butter.



Of course when I was a young'n we didn't have money for such highfalutin' extravagances like butter instead of margarine. Butter was for special occasions, particularly to put on fresh corn on the cob.



How many of you know of the pink margarine debacle?

[Nate the Great]

As a child I was a fan of the Encyclopedia Brown mystery books. Today I was amazed to learn that the series continued until 2012.

[DrWho42]

apparently laurie anderson wanted to make an opera based on the thomas pynchon novel gravity's rainbow??

Mister Heartbreak

[Nate the Great]

For some reason Picard has two versions of a Shakespeare omnibus in his ready room.



And he gave one of them to Data only to get it back.

[DrWho42]

amanda palmer covered a momus song.

[Nate the Great]

So I'm a big fan of turn-of-the century alt rock, but today I learned that there's actually a distinct term for this: minivan rock. YouTube playlist.

[DrWho42]

i learned club penguin rewritten exists