I did not know that... trivial stuff you just learned

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9 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Everybody and their dogs had one of these.  Now, 99% of them are in landfills. What a country.

I still have one in my foyer.  It's my dad's and I don't have the heart to get rid of it.

[Braff Zacklin 13573]

 

2 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

"Oh. Here's a 4 page thread on trivia I'm sure is probably full of interesting and strange facts. Let's just go ahead and click on this last page and see what's in here."

On 3/20/2024 at 2:48 PM, InkaUtexas said:

Anal insertion of a walnut?

Wait until you see the videos of him cracking the walnuts ...

[InkaUtexas 25942]

1 minute ago, Braff Zacklin said:

 

Wait until you see the videos of him cracking the walnuts ...

You mean @Brisketexan

[Braff Zacklin 13573]

1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

You mean @Brisketexan

I thought Brisket had moved on to coconuts?

[Grande Mart 514]

On 3/20/2024 at 12:37 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

Maybe these are all good album names for a single band. 

One of my proudest moments in life occurred when I was ~10-12 years old and on a family vacation. The hotel we were staying at had live bands in the bar area and a little chalkboard sandwich board thing in front of the entrance to advertise each night's act. 

"Cat Sass" was the name of the band one night, and I found their chalk and added an apostrophe so that it then appeared to proclaim that "Cat's ass" would be playing that evening. 

There was a Sirloin Stockade or something like that in my home town that once had "Try our smothered tips" on their sign in front of the resturant. I decided to get a t from somewhere and rearrange a few letters and change it to "Try our mother's tits" . Giggled for years when I would pass that spot.

[locodos 5387]

Fifth floor of the Supreme Court Building... didn't believe it...  but there it is in Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court_Building

The Supreme Court Building includes:

• The basement, which houses maintenance facilities, garage, and the on-site mailroom
• The first floor, which includes the public information office, the clerk's office, the publications unit, exhibit halls, the cafeteria, the gift shop, and administrative offices
• The second floor, which includes the Great Hall, the courtroom, the conference room, and all of the justices' chambers except Justice Sotomayor.
• The third floor includes the office of Justice Sotomayor, the office of the Reporter of Decisions, the legal office, the offices of the law clerk, and the justices' dining room and reference library
• The fourth floor includes the U.S. Supreme Court Library
• The fifth floor includes the U.S. Supreme Court gym, which includes a basketball court named the "Highest Court in the Land".^[23]

[jdhorn92 1549]

54 minutes ago, locodos said:

Fifth floor of the Supreme Court Building... didn't believe it...  but there it is in Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court_Building

The Supreme Court Building includes:

• The basement, which houses maintenance facilities, garage, and the on-site mailroom
• The first floor, which includes the public information office, the clerk's office, the publications unit, exhibit halls, the cafeteria, the gift shop, and administrative offices
• The second floor, which includes the Great Hall, the courtroom, the conference room, and all of the justices' chambers except Justice Sotomayor.
• The third floor includes the office of Justice Sotomayor, the office of the Reporter of Decisions, the legal office, the offices of the law clerk, and the justices' dining room and reference library
• The fourth floor includes the U.S. Supreme Court Library
• The fifth floor includes the U.S. Supreme Court gym, which includes a basketball court named the "Highest Court in the Land".^[23]

When i was at Texas in late 80's , we found a bball court in an old building on campus.  This building was an academic building, not one of the 6-pack or the Union, but it had to be of that era/age.  It was pretty cool, we had  a Tuesday night game going for a few months.  Had to be on the 3rd floor or so of a 4 story building, and the ceilings seem to stretch another floor high.  It was like finding an Easter Egg, that basketball court in the middle of campus in an old building.

[Dbeasy 15051]

I’ll put this in the category of embarrassing trivia. I just learned two weeks ago that the top ingredient in lemon pepper is not pepper. I’ve been using it my whole life. 

[Trey3216 15346]

On 3/23/2024 at 2:06 PM, RPM said:

You know how old WB was then?

We talkin about Wilford or Moesha reruns??  

[UTPhil2006 3807]

51 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:

When i was at Texas in late 80's , we found a bball court in an old building on campus.  This building was an academic building, not one of the 6-pack or the Union, but it had to be of that era/age.  It was pretty cool, we had  a Tuesday night game going for a few months.  Had to be on the 3rd floor or so of a 4 story building, and the ceilings seem to stretch another floor high.  It was like finding an Easter Egg, that basketball court in the middle of campus in an old building.

I was gonna say Anna Hiss until you said third floor. No clue 

[52-80 19159]

1 hour ago, jdhorn92 said:

When i was at Texas in late 80's , we found a bball court in an old building on campus.  This building was an academic building, not one of the 6-pack or the Union, but it had to be of that era/age.  It was pretty cool, we had  a Tuesday night game going for a few months.  Had to be on the 3rd floor or so of a 4 story building, and the ceilings seem to stretch another floor high.  It was like finding an Easter Egg, that basketball court in the middle of campus in an old building.

My memory is shot but early 2000s i played basketball at some smaller campus building that wasnt gregory. Couldve been Anna Hiss like UTPhil mentioned?

[52-80 19159]

This was the era of Air Jihad if anyone remembers (lol). Dude was actually Indian / South Asian, and played with a turban hence the nickname. He was pretty good

[jdhorn92 1549]

57 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

I was gonna say Anna Hiss until you said third floor. No clue 

I know it wasn't ground floor, so not 100% on 3rd floor, but i know the ceilings were very high

[jdhorn92 1549]

1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

My memory is shot but early 2000s i played basketball at some smaller campus building that wasnt gregory. Couldve been Anna Hiss like UTPhil mentioned?

Yeah just looked up some old pictures of AH, yeah that's it for sure.  Thank you, great memory of my time on the 40

[52-80 19159]

43 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:

I know it wasn't ground floor, so not 100% on 3rd floor, but i know the ceilings were very high

Yes, tall ceiling. I think I also watched UT women Volleyball there because of modest sized crowd

[WBT 20572]

We used to play ping pong at Anna Hiss between classes.

The basement also had plaques and awards for an archery club that were probably 20-30 years old.  The coolest were the mounted arrows that split arrows, disney robin hood style.

[locodos 5387]

 

[gsoda3 3262]

This was the era of Air Jihad if anyone remembers (lol). Dude was actually Indian / South Asian, and played with a turban hence the nickname. He was pretty good

Pritpal.

I want to know where this random basketball court is/was.

[troph 24798]

On 3/24/2024 at 6:08 PM, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

"Oh. Here's a 4 page thread on trivia I'm sure is probably full of interesting and strange facts. Let's just go ahead and click on this last page and see what's in here."

 

 

On 3/24/2024 at 8:07 PM, InkaUtexas said:

What do you expect? This is the Surly.

Same and I find out that Teddy Roosevelt is still alive and a semi successful B-list actor. Who knew ?

[locodos 5387]

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

That chart seems a little misleading to me as it seems to assume that the hacker knows the length and composition of your password

[gsoda3 3262]

i learned a couple days ago you could use the awl on your pocketknife to sew.  this is new information to me even though i was in boy scouts for a bit.  i guess they don't cover this before you get that arrow of light.

 

 

[Modessit 5601]

Platypuses/platypi (there is a debate over which term to use) provide milk to their pups, but they don't have nipples. They secrete the milk thru their skin and the babies lick it off.

[Frank Drebin 5639]

9 hours ago, Modessit said:

Platypuses/platypi (there is a debate over which term to use) provide milk to their pups, but they don't have nipples. They secrete the milk thru their skin and the babies lick it off.

[atomheartbevo 89670]

I didn’t t realize that Sorrell Brooke, the guy who played Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard, was fluent in French, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Greek and Italian, and knew a decent bit of  Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Persian, Polish, and Swedish. 

[Deej 76793]

14 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I didn’t t realize that Sorrell Brooke, the guy who played Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard, was fluent in French, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Greek and Italian, and knew a decent bit of  Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Persian, Polish, and Swedish. 

Now I want to hear Boss Hogg say "Rosco, that road better be shut down tighter than a tick's ass!" in every one of those languages. 

[PRONG HORN 3146]

 

Wow. Boss Hogg went to Columbia.  

[Not that Bob 737]

On 3/24/2024 at 9:26 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

You were probably high.

On a side note, I spent hours and hours and hours as a child sitting in front of our big stereo console that was like a piece of furniture, listening to the red and blue Beatles greatest hits albums, reading and singing along with the lyrics in the liner notes.

I could never find an exact match but the stereo console looked something like these:

It's the tubes, man. Nothing sounds as good as tubes. 

[YGIFS 19450]

14 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I didn’t t realize that Sorrell Brooke, the guy who played Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard, was fluent in French, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Greek and Italian, and knew a decent bit of  Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Persian, Polish, and Swedish. 

Another one of those old sdchool guys that just led an amazing life. Enrolled at Columbia at 16.  MFA from Yale after that.  Served as a counter-intel office in the Army during Korea.  Was chubby, but actually wore additional padding to make himself seem really rotund for the role of Boss Hogg.  

I forget the term, but there are many poly-lingual people.  I can speak English and Spanish fluently, and even a little German.  But I have to really stop and switch my brain around to reboot another language.  But I've seen some interviews of him and he's one of those rare people that can just seamlessly switch languages mid-sentence and you don't even notice it.  There was a Mexican Consulate a few years back here in Austin, she could do the same thing with about a half-dozen languages.  I know a bunch of languages when I hear them, despite not being able to speak them, having grown up in a very multi-nationality neighborhood.  But it blows me away when people can do that.  There's lots of folks that can speak more than one language, but almost nobody can do it on the fly like Boss Hogg. 

csb/ One other time I was blown away was this Indian gentleman and I were playing blackjack off the coast of Morocco.  The dealer and I were speaking Spanish, both with a Castellano accent.  He was speaking in Spanish as well but with a different accent.  He eventually asks me if I'm American and starts speaking in English perfectly, on the fly.  And a man from Sweden sits down between us and he effortlessly moved into Swedish and then took a call from his wife in Hindi.  But he could change accents on a dime.  It's very rare to see that in real time.  /csb

[safe sex 11727]

The term is "polyglot"

[YGIFS 19450]

I know that term.  But there’s a different SLP term for people that move between 3+ languages in a single sentence/breath.  It’s extremely rare.  Most us have to pause and ‘switch channels’, but there are a rare few (estimated to just be a Few hundred thousand) who can go seamlessly between languages in a literal instant and continue to same train of thought. I know I’m not explaining it correctly.  My mom can kinda do it a few words at a time between Spanish and English.  But I’ve seen people who can speak an article/pronoun in one language; and then conjugate a verb in another, then a noun or adverb in a third language all in an instant sentence.  It’s very rare but you know it when you hear it.  

[safe sex 11727]

I have a degree in linguistics and can't ever recall having a specific term for someone who can instantaneously move between languages in a sentence. Code-switching is the term I'm aware of that probably comes closest. Even though in America it usually refers someone changing their dialect depending on social context, it also applies to using more than one language within a singular discourse (sentence, conversation, whatever) 🤷‍♀️

Edited April 26 by safe sex

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Yeah, I guess code-switch would be the closest thing. My mom kinda does it in Spanish.  One accent/vocabulary with her relatives and then another for strangers/public who speak Spanish.  We all subconsciously do it in English as well.  
 

my wife is a multi-degreed SLP and has met a handful of clients who had articulation issues and would switch languages on a dime to avoid the struggle of trying to complete the sentence in the other language.  It’s a really interesting phenomenon when you get to 3+ languages.  These are people who are relatively “regular” intelligence wise.  But have this one particular skill that allows them to blend together languages that have no construct similarities.  The few encounters I’ve had and some her stories just boggle the mind.  

[Brisketexan 105142]

Yeah, I guess code-switch would be the closest thing. My mom kinda does it in Spanish.  One accent/vocabulary with her relatives and then another for strangers/public who speak Spanish.  We all subconsciously do it in English as well.  
 
my wife is a multi-degreed SLP and has met a handful of clients who had articulation issues and would switch languages on a dime to avoid the struggle of trying to complete the sentence in the other language.  It’s a really interesting phenomenon when you get to 3+ languages.  These are people who are relatively “regular” intelligence wise.  But have this one particular skill that allows them to blend together languages that have no construct similarities.  The few encounters I’ve had and some her stories just boggle the mind.  

My daughter’s gift is languages, it kinda humbles me. She was excited to tell us about an interview she had with a recruiter in London last week (the recruitment is for multi lingual jobs). During the interview, the recruiter shifted into German, and my daughter followed. Then she shifted into French, same thing. The recruiter commented on how she was impressed at how seamlessly she did so.
I speak mediocre Spanish, and my shift is awkward as hell. So, point to the daughter.

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That’s awesome.  I can kinda do it mid sentence with other Spanish speakers but it’s clunky.  But when can people can do it smoothly in more than 2 languages on the fly, it’s just nuts to me.  I mean, just think the basics of Spanish subjunctive and the English version of it.  It’s a tectonic shift.  Let along to move to German and its bizarre use of adjectives.  
 

holy shit.  Where’s the Tylenol?

[TheStoicPaisano 9922]

Tastes kinda like melted ice cream. 
 

[YGIFS 19450]

We don't have a cow.  We have a Tatooine Bull, though.  

[Mach 1 1677]

There really was a Johnny Appleseed. He had an actual business selling seed to settlers as they moved west into and beyond the Ohio valley. But the seed wasn’t for eating apples, but cider apples for drinking (alcohol).

When prohibition hit the government went out and removed all the cider apple trees his seeds had previously grown.

/stuffyoushouldknow

[CHIEF 5088]

I'm fair at English, Español is muy malo (can't remember how to conjugate verbs, I'm good with singular, but shit with we, they, us, them). But I can absolutely crush it in Pig Latin.

CHIEF

[YGIFS 19450]

A friend of mine, who is a completely different socio-economic stratosphere, bought a small vineyard outside Saint Helena in the Napa Valley years ago.  The family survived prohibition by growing grapes for Catholic Sacrament (which was allowed during prohibition).  Of course, some was left over and conveniently sold in alleys in town.  They have some great stories about some Assistant Bishop coming to pick it up for NoCal parishes and somehow ending with a bunch of extra that a "donation" to the church.  Apparently, same thing happened with some kosher wine for the Jewish Sabbath/holidays as well.  

On the topic of Spanish.  My mom never used Vosotros around me or anyone for that matter.  I didn't even know it was a thing, despite being somewhat fluent, until I got to junior high but we wouldn't use it either.  Same in college.  Then i moved to Spain for awhile, and they informed me that I'd need to brush up on Vosotros as I'd be there a long while.  Never got the hang of it, still don't have a fucking clue and I've back there for work multiple times.  And then I met my true enemy, Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo.  We fistfight once a week to this day.  

[Gil Bang 25959]

on the language, the BBC employs a reporter that gives reports, one-after-another, in a half-dozen or so languages.  

 

Found him

 

Secretary of Transportation Pete Butegieg (sp?) is also very gifted and speaks several. 

 

[ScottS 1062]

 

[YGIFS 19450]

What ever became of Sylvester's little brother?  You guessed it.   

That made for a great inspiration for one my favorite Seinfeld episodes.  "Could he hit two home runs for me, Mr. Kramer?" 

csb/ He wasn't my grandfather's direct C.O., but he served in the same USN destroyer/subsurface transport group as Lt. Sylvester before being moved to the Pacific Theater. 

 I know lots of people that still lead interesting and complex lives.  But shit like Boss Hogg and this guy, before you could just make shit up your instagram feed to look captivating.......you actually had to go out and live and seek adventure for real.  Sometimes having to lie to get access.  No youtube videos or Rosetta Stone CD's to guide you.  They just went out and navigated it, mostly by their lonesome.  I've gotten to live a chapter or two in my life that most men will never experience, but I'll never be able to tell a surrendering U-Boat Captain, "Because my life was saved by Babe 'Fucking' Ruth asshole, that's why I'm taking your ass to Nuremberg."    

Edited April 28 by YGIFS

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On 4/23/2024 at 1:36 PM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

That chart seems a little misleading to me as it seems to assume that the hacker knows the length and composition of your password

You don't need to know the length or password complexity of a password. When setting the parameters to crack passwords you set a minimum/maximum and define the character sets. The parameters should be set to fall within a reasonable time frame which is dependent on the resources of the system you are using. I would usually set it to a month since most organizations force resets every 60 to 90 days.

This isn't something you would do for a single account, normally it's a password hash pulled from a db. All of the low hanging fruit passwords will be cracked really fast, like within seconds. There isn't any point in setting parameters for something that will take years so those user accounts will remain safe. Granted, this is only one type of attack. Normally password attacks are done with a sequence of various attacks. You can have a lengthy password that will still get cracked easily.

Butterfly1988!! is technically a lengthy and complex password but a dictionary attack will crack it fairly quickly.

[mchookem 16336]

The Scorpions did a cover of Tainted Love. 

[Deej 76793]

Joe Ely is singing the Spanish bits on The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go".

https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2000-05-19/77249/

[Mole 4333]

On 4/26/2024 at 12:17 PM, YGIFS said:

I mean, just think the basics of Spanish subjunctive and the English version of it.  It’s a tectonic shift.  Let along to move to German and it’s a Teutonic shift.  
 

 

FIFY

[AUS-97HORN 11763]

On 4/26/2024 at 8:13 AM, YGIFS said:

I know that term.  But there’s a different SLP term for people that move between 3+ languages in a single sentence/breath.  It’s extremely rare.  Most us have to pause and ‘switch channels’, but there are a rare few (estimated to just be a Few hundred thousand) who can go seamlessly between languages in a literal instant and continue to same train of thought.

 

On 4/26/2024 at 8:27 AM, safe sex said:

I have a degree in linguistics and can't ever recall having a specific term for someone who can instantaneously move between languages in a sentence. Code-switching is the term I'm aware of that probably comes closest. Even though in America it usually refers someone changing their dialect depending on social context, it also applies to using more than one language within a singular discourse (sentence, conversation, whatever) 🤷‍♀️

 

This guy is beyond lunacy. He can study a language for something like 10 days and at the end of those, speak at a 8th grade level of the new language in that timeframe.

In the last year hes learned something like 6 obscure dialects and then goes into the places that use it and talks to the locals who are fucking stunned at his fluency almost everytime. 

The best ones are when hes learning a rare Chinese dialect and talking to the front shop owner in it, and the back of house owner comes out to see whose speaking this increadably rare dialect and then lose their mind when they see its a white boy. 

https://www.youtube.com/@xiaomanyc

[safe sex 11727]

Oh I've seen videos of him before but never knew his deal. Thanks for directing me to his stuff. I'm insanely jealous of people who are multi-lingual.

Edited April 29 by safe sex

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On 4/27/2024 at 6:41 PM, YGIFS said:

What ever became of Sylvester's little brother?  You guessed it.   

Was given the nickname Looney Tunes as was an OG in a gang that included Gerardo, AC Sanchez and Malachi.