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Nate the Great 01-03-2020 01:40 PM

Yesterday would have been Isaac Asimov's 100th birthday!

Nate the Great 01-20-2020 01:53 PM

Courtesy of the Straight Dope forum...


There's actually a word for what MacGyver does!


Bricolage

NAHTMMM 01-25-2020 08:22 PM

In the foreword to one of the 1970s volumes of the complete Peanuts, Billie Jean King talks about her friendship with Charles Schulz. He was a good tennis player and a supporter of women's sports, and they held each other in high regard. Anyway, whenever he wanted to talk to her, he'd mention her in Peanuts, knowing she'd see it and call him up.

Flying Gremlin 01-29-2020 07:44 PM

Billy West, in addition to being the voice of Fry (and others) in Futurama, has been the voice for the red M&M in commercials since 1994.

Nate the Great 01-30-2020 04:41 PM

I presume by now everyone knows of the Italian Titanic knockoff movies (if not, you can watch the Nostalgia Critic reviews here and here), but the amazing thing is that Italy went on to make a TV series about the characters living in the restored Titanic on Fantasy Island (which looks like the Isle of Namboombu).


Do the Italians really not know that the Titanic was a real disaster and think that it was a Cameron-created fairytale?

Nate the Great 02-02-2020 04:34 AM

When it comes to Dr. Seuss I will always have a fondness for And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street.



Well, today I discovered that back in the forties someone turned it into a stop-motion short.



In today's world of CG and digital paint I think fewer and fewer people appreciate a good stop-motion "cartoon."

Nate the Great 03-05-2020 03:17 PM

The soundtrack of "The Muppet Christmas Carol" has a few songs that were never filmed, but what I didn't know is that the extended version of "Marley and Marley" was actually filmed (without full effects, but still).


What I find great is that part of the cut footage includes a fourth wall-breaking line from Scrooge: "Please, can't we go back to being funny?" Of course the odd part is that the soundtrack version skips this line but includes the Marleys' response of "Funny?" "Funny?" which doesn't make much sense.

Nate the Great 03-18-2020 01:41 AM

Speaking of Isaac Asimov's 100th birthday, today I made an amazing discovery. Recently I acquired an Asimov book from 1968, and today I found within it a newspaper clipping about the independence of Belize (1981).



And the amazing thing I learned today #2 is that I was wrong and books aren't in fact "antique" at 50 years old. No, just like other things you need 100 years for "antique", books are merely "vintage" at 50 years. So I paid a couple bucks for a book that might be worth ten to the right buyer. Oh well...

Nate the Great 03-30-2020 01:24 PM

The fans of the cartoon 6teen have been waiting for a reunion show for years (it'll never happen, I know), but today I found out they made one in 2018 to encourage people to vote.


It's so weird seeing Jonesy in a MAGA hat, especially since I could swear 6teen took place in Canada...

NAHTMMM 07-22-2020 02:08 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ma...as_&_the_Papas

That weird "I saw her . . . I saw her again last night" in "I Saw Her Again" was just a mistake made when someone was mixing the recording. Paul McCartney's reaction was: "That has to be a mistake: nobody's that clever."

Nate the Great 08-17-2020 12:12 AM

The same guy voiced Alfred in Batman TAS and Doc Ock in Spider-Man TAS!

Nate the Great 08-21-2020 03:31 AM

Matt Jeffries lived until 2003!


I thought he died way earlier than that.



I found this fact on a YouTube white noise video of E-D background noise. Here's the TOS bridge version.

Nate the Great 09-07-2020 02:48 PM

When the Autobot Ark was redesigned for Beast Wars some elements of the U.S.S. Defiant were mixed in.

Nate the Great 09-22-2020 02:30 AM

Yahtzee Crowshaw is younger than me!


I find that incredibly depressing. "Amazing" doesn't always mean "good", after all.

Nate the Great 09-25-2020 01:38 AM

Dr. Demento is from Minnesota! He didn't live their long, but he is from Minneapolis.


A Dr. Demento playlist.



Of course Star Trekkin' and Star Drek are in there, but also more obscure Trek tracks like Spock Rap.

Nate the Great 10-02-2020 02:58 PM

The Star Wars Kinect song "Princess in a Battle" is actually a "cover" of Christina Aguilera's song "Genie in a Bottle."



Yikes. I don't pretend to be the biggest fan of Christina Aguilera, but I like her enough to think that I'd at least heard of her major singles. I guess not.

Nate the Great 11-02-2020 03:39 AM

The Barenaked Ladies once had their own day on Kids WB, only they had to be called BNL because of censorship!


That's just weird. I also question the point of it, because I doubt that the BNL fanbase and Kids WB fanbase really overlapped much.

Flying Gremlin 11-02-2020 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Nate the Great (Post 82125)
I also question the point of it, because I doubt that the BNL fanbase and Kids WB fanbase really overlapped much.

I was a fan of Barenaked Ladies since the release of Gordon, and I was 11 at the time. Not so much of a stretch, considering they've always been a fun band.

Nate the Great 11-25-2020 07:34 PM

Nontoxic sawdust is possible!


Some people altered the rice crispie recipe to gradually replace more and more rice crispies with sawdust to see what happened.



Just your daily dose of weirdness.

Nate the Great 12-01-2020 11:33 PM

You can make candy with saltine crackers!


I'd never heard of this "Christmas Crack" stuff. Then again, I'm not really a toffee fan anyway.


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