The thread of learning something new every day
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@JC said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Today I was reading about the Bardney rock festival in 1972. Check this out for a lineup:
Promoters sure set themselves up for problems in those days. You'd have to ban performers from turning up more than a day out from their gig so they were capable of taking the stage.
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Craptastic doo-wop band Sha Na Na, who for some inexplicable reason had an annoying TV show on air here in NZ, had a guitarist called Vinnie Taylor. He died a rock-n-roll hero's death from a heroin overdose. But that's not the story. This bloke, escaped murderer Elmer Solly, assumed his identity, then when he was called out doubled down and said the Vinnie Taylor ID was actually a pseudonym for "Danny C" Catalano, had a whole lot of forged docs to "prove" it, and continued to perform as an ex She Na Na member for a couple of decades.
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First performances by Dragon and Split Ends (before they became Enz). Neither went down well with the crowd.
Black Sabbath and Fairport Convention were the headliners.
Had that poster on my bedroom wall until I went overseas. Would probably be worth a few bucks nowadays - Dick Frizzell design
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@Crucial said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@dogmeat you missed the best part in that it was in the days when attending females weren't shy in getting the girls out
I went to Ngaruawahia with my cousin. I don't remember much about the music apart from Blerta. But what I do remember, quite vividly, is that was where I saw my first pair of boobs in the wild. In my memory they remain awesome.
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Today I learned that in 1992 George Bush Sr was visiting Japan and at a banquet in his honour vomited into the Japanese Prime Minister’s lap.
25 Years Ago, President Bush Barfed on a World Leader
Let's revisit the grossest moment in presidential history.
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@Bones my best mate's brother has a doctorate in engineering and pointed that out to me when I remarked he had superhuman ability to do maths.
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@antipodean who knew it was that easy - I'm off to get a doctorate in engineering then.
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In 1838 Edgar Allan Poe wrote a book called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It was about four survivors of a shipwreck who, after days at sea, decide to kill and eat the cabin boy, whose name was Richard Parker (just like in Life of Pi). In 1884 a ship called Mignonette sank of Trinidad. Only 4 people survived. Eventually the crew who were adrift at sea decided to kill and eat the cabin boy, Richard Parker.
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Arizona entomologist Justin O Schmidt has ranked the sting of over 80 species of insect on his personal suffering, usually accidental, but occasionally induced.
My personal favourite is:
Maricopa Harvester Ant: After eight unrelenting hours of drilling into that ingrown toenail, you find the drill wedged into the toe.
The Natural History Museum has some of them:
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@antipodean who knew it was that easy - I'm off to get a doctorate in engineering then.
All Math is a trick
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@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@antipodean who knew it was that easy - I'm off to get a doctorate in engineering then.
All Math is
a trickracist and patriarchal.Fixed.
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@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@antipodean who knew it was that easy - I'm off to get a doctorate in engineering then.
All Math is a trick
Since when we're you Murkan? Where's your s?
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@antipodean who knew it was that easy - I'm off to get a doctorate in engineering then.
All Math is a trick
Since when we're you Murkan? Where's your s?
Don't you live in Little Murica/Oz?
The little lapdogs will do anything to be like big brother.
The z's instead of s are far too frequent over here.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Wikipedia
