The thread of learning something new every day
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Learned Bluetooth is named after a viking King, Harald Bluetooth, even the Bluetooth symbol is just the viking H and B.
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Learned Bluetooth is named after a viking King, Harald Bluetooth, even the Bluetooth symbol is just the viking H and B.
Lol a bit slow on that one! Then I'm an ICT nerd
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for the decade 2010-19 Australia was the worlds 4th largest importer of arms at $US12.27 Billion - behind only India, Saudi Arabia and China.
There's a lot of capital replacement in that. Some of it long overdue.
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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:
Love Monty python being in there.
Brewers Droop is a classic name for a band.
I also learnt that The Average White Band are still performing even in our modern PC world with Black Lives Mattering. Worth noting that they did have a darker skinned guy at times, probably should have gone with Average Mostly White Band. -
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@Snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@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:
Love Monty python being in there.
Brewers Droop is a classic name for a band.
I also learnt that The Average White Band are still performing even in our modern PC world with Black Lives Mattering. Worth noting that they did have a darker skinned guy at times, probably should have gone with Average Mostly White Band.Or just 'Jocks pretending they aren't'
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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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