Keith Houchen Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 23 minutes ago, gmoney said: TIL Hi De Hi is a period piece set in 1959 -1960. I genuinely thought this was a portrait of early 80s Britain. As Simon price pointed out on Twitter, it makes no fucking sense for Paul Shane's character to be an ageing Teddy Boy. On the back of this, I've just learned that Shane didn't sing the theme tune, Postman Pat did. BABY BAAABBBYYYY! Quote
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted January 1, 2020 Paid Members Posted January 1, 2020 2 hours ago, gmoney said: TIL Hi De Hi is a period piece set in 1959 -1960. I genuinely thought this was a portrait of early 80s Britain. As Simon price pointed out on Twitter, it makes no fucking sense for Paul Shane's character to be an ageing Teddy Boy. It wasn't until I rewatched Hi-De-Hi as an adult that I realised that it was set in the 1950s and not in the current early 1980s. I put this down to holidaying at various Butlins and Pontins camps around the time that Hi-De-Hi was first shown, and that's how the camps looked. They were all pre-modernisation so still had the two storey blocks of chalets built in the 30s, the "formal" Redcoat/Bluecoat uniform, the ballroom, the dining halls, the timeless/classic/archaic entertainment (including a knobbly knees contest at Hemsby). On top of that, at Butlins (Bognor and Minehead) guests and redcoats were saying Hi-De-Hi to each other. Quote
Paid Members PJ Power Posted January 2, 2020 Paid Members Posted January 2, 2020 TIL that the infamous "Debbie Does Dallas" never had its copyright formally registered in the United States, and was recognised as such in a federal US court decision in 1987. As a result, the film is available in the public domain, and can even be watched or downloaded via a link of the film's Wikipedia page. Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 2, 2020 Paid Members Posted January 2, 2020 17 minutes ago, PJ Power said: TIL that the infamous "Debbie Does Dallas" never had its copyright formally registered in the United States, and was recognised as such in a federal US court decision in 1987. As a result, the film is available in the public domain, and can even be watched or downloaded via a link of the film's Wikipedia page. This is similar to what happened with Night of the Living Dead although that was more a cock-up over changing the titles on the original print. Quote
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted January 17, 2020 Paid Members Posted January 17, 2020 Probs more common knowledge than I realised, but TIL that when Harold swept up on the beach as ‘Ted’ in Neighbours, the name is a reference to his character Ted from Cell Block H. No idea how I never linked the two before now. Quote
MrK Posted January 26, 2020 Posted January 26, 2020 TIL that Nikolai Volkoff‘s brother played in the 1974 World Cup, the 1976 European Championship, won the UEFA Cup in 1983 and managed Tony Cascarino and Fabian Barthez at Marseille in 1995. Quote
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted January 27, 2020 Paid Members Posted January 27, 2020 2 hours ago, MrK said: TIL that Nikolai Volkoff‘s brother played in the 1974 World Cup, the 1976 European Championship, won the UEFA Cup in 1983 and managed Tony Cascarino and Fabian Barthez at Marseille in 1995. That’s one of the best TIL’s I’ve ever learned. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted January 27, 2020 Paid Members Posted January 27, 2020 TIL, well, at the weekend, that Toto, or at least several members of Toto, were the backing band on Michael Jackson's Thriller. Quote
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted January 31, 2020 Paid Members Posted January 31, 2020 On 1/27/2020 at 10:44 AM, jazzygeofferz said: TIL, well, at the weekend, that Toto, or at least several members of Toto, were the backing band on Michael Jackson's Thriller. Similarly, the backing band on Madonna's Like A Virgin album was basically Chic. Today I learned that Bob Dylan got so fed up with his fans being fanatical, that he deliberately released a crap album (and a double album at that) in the hope they'd go bother someone else. Quote
Guest Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 Must remember to try that one next time I fuck up at work. Quote
Paid Members chokeout Posted January 31, 2020 Paid Members Posted January 31, 2020 TIL that when recording Reach Out (I'll Be there) they specifically asked the lead singer to sing it like Bob Dylan.....and now I can't unhear it Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 4, 2020 Paid Members Posted February 4, 2020 I was a bit confused to see @Harvey Dent trending on Twitter only to discover it's someone from Batman. Quote
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted February 4, 2020 Paid Members Posted February 4, 2020 Peanuts grow underground. I thought they grew on trees. Fuck me. Quote
Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted February 4, 2020 Awards Moderator Posted February 4, 2020 On 1/31/2020 at 1:06 PM, chokeout said: TIL that when recording Reach Out (I'll Be there) they specifically asked the lead singer to sing it like Bob Dylan.....and now I can't unhear it Confuuuusion. Illuuuusion. Bloody hell, you’ve just broken my head. Quote
Paid Members hallicks Posted February 5, 2020 Paid Members Posted February 5, 2020 (edited) Today I learned about the pitch drop experiment, which measures the length of time a highly viscous liquid (so viscous that it appears solid) takes to form a drop. In the case of the experiment in Australia, the first drop took 8 years. Edited February 5, 2020 by hallicks Quote
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