Dyson. So was our last one for the record, but every single thing I ended up hating about that one is now gone.
Hahaha used it once and it wouldnt charge and I just had the absolute worst customer service experience of my life
We got the Ryobi one because we're already committed to those batteries. It works well, even when your wife would rather keep using it with a full container rather than empty it herself!
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:37 pm
by Rush2112
The fourth all-time highest-grossing film actor is John Ratzenberger (Pixar riches.)
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:18 am
by A_B
Rush2112 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:37 pm
The fourth all-time highest-grossing film actor is John Ratzenberger (Pixar riches.)
Ryan sadly marks a question off his swampcrash master.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:00 pm
by Jerloma
The “minutes” of “meeting minutes” don’t refer to the minute measurement of time, but to the “minute” (my-newt) notes taken during meetings.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:15 pm
by Steve of phpBB
Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:00 pm
The “minutes” of “meeting minutes” don’t refer to the minute measurement of time, but to the “minute” (my-newt) notes taken during meetings.
Holy shit.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:09 pm
by bfj
CTRL-K inserts a hyperlink into a block of text.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:47 am
by mister d
Youngest is 9 today and if a (translated) fact she wrote down is correct, I learned that one time a Taylor Swift event was so loud it registered as seismic activity ("caused a erthcwake in a city").
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:56 am
by Giff
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:47 am
Youngest is 9 today and if a (translated) fact she wrote down is correct, I learned that one time a Taylor Swift event was so loud it registered as seismic activity ("caused a erthcwake in a city").
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:47 am
Youngest is 9 today and if a (translated) fact she wrote down is correct, I learned that one time a Taylor Swift event was so loud it registered as seismic activity ("caused a erthcwake in a city").
My youngest is 10 today. He did nothing that cute.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:47 pm
by mister d
Realized yesterday this is our last single digit birthday and that there’s strong odds the oldest has only five more at home.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:12 pm
by govmentchedda
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:47 pm
Realized yesterday this is our last single digit birthday and that there’s strong odds the oldest has only five more at home.
My oldest is flying the coop (sort of) in a few months. Shit goes fast, my friend.
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:47 pm
Realized yesterday this is our last single digit birthday and that there’s strong odds the oldest has only five more at home.
My oldest is flying the coop (sort of) in a few months. Shit goes fast, my friend.
No shit. Everyone tells you it goes by fast, and you get annoyed at constantly hearing that when you are looking at an 18-year commitment. But I've had to stop myself from saying it to new parents a few times. I feel for my parents, I can't imagine the emotions of realizing your grandchildren are becoming adults.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:31 pm
by rass
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:47 pm
Realized yesterday this is our last single digit birthday and that there’s strong odds the oldest has only five more at home.
Trying to get a week at a shore house scheduled before the oldest goes to college, or more specifically to cross country training camp, which means we have to book earlier in the season since we usually go the last two weeks before Labor Day, and I had to go back to the realtor and tell him we couldn't sign the lease he worked up because my youngest has something going on that week. Shouldn't have to check schedules with the kids, they're supposed to be little and do whatever we say.
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:47 pm
Realized yesterday this is our last single digit birthday and that there’s strong odds the oldest has only five more at home.
Trying to get a week at a shore house scheduled before the oldest goes to college, or more specifically to cross country training camp, which means we have to book earlier in the season since we usually go the last two weeks before Labor Day, and I had to go back to the realtor and tell him we couldn't sign the lease he worked up because my youngest has something going on that week. Shouldn't have to check schedules with the kids, they're supposed to be little and do whatever we say.
A couple weeks ago my youngest started planning on who hosts which holidays after she and my son get married. She is trying to claim Thanksgiving, which was always our holiday to host. Apparently, her future husband and my son's future wife get no say in the matter, but she did factor in holidays for their sides of the family.
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:47 pm
Realized yesterday this is our last single digit birthday and that there’s strong odds the oldest has only five more at home.
Trying to get a week at a shore house scheduled before the oldest goes to college, or more specifically to cross country training camp, which means we have to book earlier in the season since we usually go the last two weeks before Labor Day, and I had to go back to the realtor and tell him we couldn't sign the lease he worked up because my youngest has something going on that week. Shouldn't have to check schedules with the kids, they're supposed to be little and do whatever we say.
A couple weeks ago my youngest started planning on who hosts which holidays after she and my son get married. She is trying to claim Thanksgiving, which was always our holiday to host. Apparently, her future husband and my son's future wife get no say in the matter, but she did factor in holidays for their sides of the family.
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:47 pm
Realized yesterday this is our last single digit birthday and that there’s strong odds the oldest has only five more at home.
Trying to get a week at a shore house scheduled before the oldest goes to college, or more specifically to cross country training camp, which means we have to book earlier in the season since we usually go the last two weeks before Labor Day, and I had to go back to the realtor and tell him we couldn't sign the lease he worked up because my youngest has something going on that week. Shouldn't have to check schedules with the kids, they're supposed to be little and do whatever we say.
A couple weeks ago my youngest started planning on who hosts which holidays after she and my son get married. She is trying to claim Thanksgiving, which was always our holiday to host. Apparently, her future husband and my son's future wife get no say in the matter, but she did factor in holidays for their sides of the family.
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:47 pm
Realized yesterday this is our last single digit birthday and that there’s strong odds the oldest has only five more at home.
Trying to get a week at a shore house scheduled before the oldest goes to college, or more specifically to cross country training camp, which means we have to book earlier in the season since we usually go the last two weeks before Labor Day, and I had to go back to the realtor and tell him we couldn't sign the lease he worked up because my youngest has something going on that week. Shouldn't have to check schedules with the kids, they're supposed to be little and do whatever we say.
A couple weeks ago my youngest started planning on who hosts which holidays after she and my son get married. She is trying to claim Thanksgiving, which was always our holiday to host. Apparently, her future husband and my son's future wife get no say in the matter, but she did factor in holidays for their sides of the family.
I thought you lived in Jersey, not Alabama.
Godamnit, I need to start proof reading.
Yeah me to
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:35 pm
by Johnnie
If you long press the space bar on your cell phone's texting keyboard you can move the cursor.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:10 am
by L-Jam3
Maybe this is common knowledge, but apparently a 12-year-old Willem Dafoe attended the Ice Bowl in Lambeau.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:47 pm
by sancarlos
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:10 am
Maybe this is common knowledge, but apparently a 12-year-old Willem Dafoe attended the Ice Bowl in Lambeau.
He’s got me beat, but I bet I’m the only swamper who watched it live on tv.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:31 pm
by The Sybian
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:10 am
Maybe this is common knowledge, but apparently a 12-year-old Willem Dafoe attended the Ice Bowl in Lambeau.
I'm sure most of us can name specific games actors attended as children.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:09 pm
Otis Redding was 26 when he died.
Huh, I always pictured him as an old man.
Same!
I recently asked my Alexa to play Otis Redding, and it plays some strange Japanese video game style music (Otatari?..old Atari? I don't know), She can tell me who Otis Redding is when I ask, but messes up the music every time.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:42 am
by Ryan
Yeah, wow. Your average bay-dock-sitter has to be like 63.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:09 pm
Otis Redding was 26 when he died.
Huh, I always pictured him as an old man.
Same!
I recently asked my Alexa to play Otis Redding, and it plays some strange Japanese video game style music (Otatari?..old Atari? I don't know), She can tell me who Otis Redding is when I ask, but messes up the music every time.
I think I have posted about this before. The dad of my best friend growing up played guitar in Otis Redding's road band. The Upsetters...based out of Baltimore. He never spoke about that. In fact growing up I never saw him touch a guitar or a guitar in his house. My mom once mentioned that for some reason he opted out of the tour/gig right before the plane crash. He is the guy on Otis' left.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:53 am
by Nonlinear FC
Wait 'til Otis sees us... HE LOVES US!!
I had no business seeing Animal House as young as I did... But it sure made quite an impression on me as a tween. (Must've been on HBO or something, because even growing up in a hippy-dippy household and town, I don't think they'd let an 8 year old into the theater for that movie.)
That album was on pretty constant repeat for many many months.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:57 am
by wlu_lax6
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:53 am
Wait 'til Otis sees us... HE LOVES US!!
I had no business seeing Animal House as young as I did... But it sure made quite an impression on me as a tween. (Must've been on HBO or something, because even growing up in a hippy-dippy household and town, I don't think they'd let an 8 year old into the theater for that movie.)
That album was on pretty constant repeat for many many months.
IMDB wrote:DeWayne Jessie's performance as "Otis Day" was so successful that he legally changed his name to Otis Day and subsequently toured and recorded with "Otis Day and the Knights.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:09 am
by mister d
Floatin’ in that Wisconsin lake
I has no idea he died in a plane crash in Madison. So while I was all excited I was outside a bar mentioned in an Okkervil River song, I was like a quarter mile from the lake Redding crashed in.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:30 am
by L-Jam3
There's a fragment from his plane on the wall of the casino floor at the Las Vegas Hard Rock.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:50 am
by MaxWebster
this is some seriously cool "brushes with..." material
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:43 am
I think I have posted about this before. The dad of my best friend growing up played guitar in Otis Redding's road band. The Upsetters...based out of Baltimore. He never spoke about that. In fact growing up I never saw him touch a guitar or a guitar in his house. My mom once mentioned that for some reason he opted out of the tour/gig right before the plane crash. He is the guy on Otis' left.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:15 pm
by govmentchedda
Y'all know we're talking about two different Oti here, right?
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:19 pm
by sancarlos
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:15 pm
Y'all know we're talking about two different Oti here, right?
Yeah, I was gonna say, one was one of the greatest R&B singers ever, and one was a fictional character in a movie (with a different last name).
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:25 pm
by L-Jam3
I will not stand for this Otis Birdsong erasure.
Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:50 pm
by Pruitt IV
A little shout out to a great and unheralded soul singer...
Floatin’ in that Wisconsin lake