Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:09 am

There was a Boston area realtor named Aimee Mann which really bothered me.

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:12 am

I bet she doesn't even watch boxing

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:13 am

There's a "Contact Agent" link that would probably resolve this quickly.

Post by **Sabo** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 7:12 am

Lenny Montana, the actor who played Luca Brasi in The Godfather, was a professional wrestler who went by the name Len Crosby.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:52 pm

Johnnie Walker, originator of the whisky that bears his name, was a teetotaler.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:23 pm

Don't smoke your own supply!

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:46 am

Prior to casting Anthony Kiedis in "Point Break," Kathryn Bigelow offered the role to Henry Rollins.

Mr. C · Post by **Mr. C** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:26 am

If someone does a good job going along with something they are a "trouper," not a "trooper."

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:42 am

The guy who used to run my old apartment building was great at his job, but it took him awhile to find his niche. He started out fixing barrels, then making broth (he has a great seafood recipe), then applied to the state police academy. Despite all of those mistakes, he never gave up and became the excellent, if a little nosy, building manager he is today.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:48 am

Easter was originally Ishtar (pronounced Easter). She was the Babylonian Goddess of sex and fertility. This why we have eggs and rabbits...eggs for fertility and rabbits because they like to fuck a lot. Then when Constantine Christianized the Roman Empire, it stopped being about sex and fertility and became about child blood sacrifice and zombies. This is why we can't have nice things.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:01 pm

Party pooper.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:26 pm

Hey, I'm not the guy that killed an actual sex goddess.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:48 pm

Jerloma wrote:Hey, I'm not the guy that killed an actual sex goddess.

Scott Peterson?

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:38 pm

Jerloma wrote:Hey, I'm not the guy that killed an actual sex goddess.

Meant to be a joke. You're apparently out of the loop(er).

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:43 pm

Yeah, I found that whole conversation to be a bit sophomoric, frankly.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:48 pm

Jerloma wrote:Yeah, I found that whole conversation to be a bit sophomoric, frankly.

Thanks for the input, Mr. Super(ior).

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Wed May 06, 2015 5:09 pm

Gene Rye, who was 5-6 and 165 pounds, hit three home runs in a single inning in 1930 for the Waco Cubs, the only documented instance (that I can find) of such a thing happening in American professional baseball.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed May 06, 2015 5:30 pm

The fences were like 200 feet away.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed May 06, 2015 5:31 pm

I actually know that story from a random baseball book I read when I was a kid...I gotta find that book next time I go to PGH.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed May 06, 2015 5:36 pm

Waco in 1930 must have been a delight

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu May 07, 2015 6:23 am

I would have guessed black or British (or black and British) as Meghan Trainor's background before I would have guessed Masshole.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu May 07, 2015 8:58 am

Ryan wrote:Waco in 1930 must have been a delight

My Uncle Larry ran shit back then. Actually, he was 7.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:23 am

Giff wrote:
Ryan wrote:Waco in 1930 must have been a delight
My Uncle Larry ran shit back then. Actually, he was 7.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu May 07, 2015 1:19 pm

The division of a day into 24 hours came from the ancient Sumerians, who counted based on their knuckles (three on each non-thumb digit) rather than individual fingers.

cerrano · Post by **cerrano** » Thu May 07, 2015 9:31 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote:The division of a day into 24 hours came from the ancient Sumerians, who counted based on their knuckles (three on each non-thumb digit) rather than individual fingers.

gives a new meaning to "crack of dawn", amirite?

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Wed May 13, 2015 2:29 pm

The first non-white player in NBA history was not black, but a Japanese-American named Wataru Misaka.

He doesn't count for this week's Swampcrash by the way, due to the fine print.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:08 pm

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Cubs game depicted in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:30 pm

rass wrote:I would have guessed black or British (or black and British) as Meghan Trainor's background before I would have guessed Masshole.

Nantucket? She really couldn't get whiter.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:43 pm

What he said. You're in the 99th percentile of white if you vacation there. If your family decided to settle, you're basically a Hitler.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 1:25 pm

Yesterday, my wife came home from shopping, and gave me a bunch of free samples of high-end shave cream and after-shave balm she had been given at the cosmetics counter. Said, "the lady at the counter asked me if I was married, then offered me these for you."

They were made by the "Jack Black" skincare company. Their logo is a script signature of the name. So, I thought to myself, "what an unlikely guy to have his own line of men's toiletries." Because it seems so odd, I went to their website. Sure enough, they have nothing to do with the celebrity, even though he was already in movies when they were founded in 2000 (the year of his breakout film High Fidelity). And there is apparently no other Jack Black affiliated with the company. Seems odd that they didn't just choose a different name. But, there you go.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 1:54 pm

Well???

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 2:05 pm

I like the product, if that's what you mean. I just posted that because I thought it weird that there is a Jack Black shave cream, that has nothing to do with Jack Black.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:12 pm

Nail Yakupov's dad is Rail Yakupov.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:42 am

Via a Klaw tweet: The Dunning-Kruger Effect

I feel like I had this debate with someone once when I was high, about how stupid people are likely too stupid to understand they're stupid. Glad its a real thing.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:51 am

It's also the fuel of every religion. It's pretty vestigial now but well engrained into our DNA.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:55 am

Not just religion - explains a lot about politics.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:00 am

Pruitt wrote:Not just religion - explains a lot about politics.

And Deflategate!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:03 am

I don't think that's true at all about religion. If anything, its the opposite. Lots of people who aren't all that bright accepting they aren't that bright and just having faith because they're told to.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:06 am

The flip side is equally important--people who are intelligent and competent being more susceptible to self-doubt, and finding themselves on the losing end of battles of will against people who don't know what the fuck they are doing.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:10 am

mister d wrote:I don't think that's true at all about religion. If anything, its the opposite. Lots of people who aren't all that bright accepting they aren't that bright and just having faith because they're told to.

I took J-los comments more as "My religion is the right religion because I know best and you don't" more than a faith analogy.