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Post by crissdee on Aug 25, 2024 14:47:46 GMT
Perhaps not so much learned, as come to realise. There are three types of singers. There are those with truly powerful voices, like Tom Jones or Whitney Houston, there are those who can just sing loudly without straining like The Boss, or Meatloaf, and there are those who just shout with music playing. The guy performing in the nearby pub (thankfully not the one next door) is of the third type. I expect that when he gets older, he might find he has no voice at all, due to straining his vocal cords now. It is like cars. There are some properly powerful fast cars, Bugattis etc, there are less powerful cars tuned for speed, like BMWs, and there are little hatchbacks that get thrashed to pieces and end up blowing their engines up.
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Post by jenny on Aug 25, 2024 15:58:27 GMT
I don't know if you've seen the streaming series about Jon BonJovi but he went through a lot of vocal problems and had to have surgery. And he really can sing well.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 25, 2024 20:48:41 GMT
I had heard something about that, but I don't really watch TV other than "Young Sheldon" on catch up.
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Post by amanda on Aug 25, 2024 23:14:14 GMT
Sadly Julie Andrews, known for her original role in 'The Sound of music' movie' from the 1960's, ended up damaging her voice permanently after surgery in an attempt to fix it.
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Post by emily on Aug 26, 2024 7:31:52 GMT
Today I learned that olfactory is to do with the sense of smell.
Yes, I have been waiting all night to post that
lol
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 26, 2024 8:07:58 GMT
Yesterday I learned that I've been pronouncing the name of the lady in one of the portraits at "work" slightly wrong. It's of Margaret Ermintrude Chandos-Pole-Gell (Mrs Robert Wynter Blathwayt). A visitor who asked which portrait was of her used to know Margaret Ermintrude's niece and, apparently, the family pronounced the Pole bit as "Poole".
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Post by Bondee on Aug 26, 2024 10:34:13 GMT
Today I learned that olfactory is to do with the sense of smell.
It's also where I used to work.
The ol' factory, geddit!
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Post by suze on Aug 26, 2024 12:47:04 GMT
Margaret Ermintrude Chandos-Pole-Gell ... apparently, the family pronounced the Pole bit as "Poole". Aristos ...
I haven't encountered the Chandos-Pole-Gells before, but I did once come across another family of the minor aristocracy with the surname Pole-Carew (later Carew-Pole, I'm sure there was a reason). Pole-Carew is of course pronounced Poole-Carey.
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Post by jenny on Aug 26, 2024 19:25:13 GMT
The De la Pole family used to have an estate not far from Hull, where I grew up, but that was always pronounced Pole like the North Pole. And the house became a hospital for mentally ill people (no idea if it still is).
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Post by barbados on Aug 26, 2024 19:58:39 GMT
more a Today I had it confirmed..... Everton Football Club have more than one club shop (as do a lot of Premier League football teams) The primary shop is at Goodison Park, the smaller outlet is in the shopping district - Liverpool One, so they called it Everton 2. The address of the shop is Everton 2 Liverpool One.
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Post by suze on Aug 26, 2024 22:15:42 GMT
The De la Pole family used to have an estate not far from Hull, where I grew up, but that was always pronounced Pole like the North Pole. And the house became a hospital for mentally ill people (no idea if it still is).
The hospital closed in 1998, and the site has been redeveloped. The hospital's chapel is a listed building and hence was not demolished, and it is now used as a crematorium chapel.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 27, 2024 10:21:47 GMT
It has been suggested that, when the astronauts come back from the ISS after their extended stay, everyone they encounter should be wearing an ape suit. Should we part-bury the Statue of Liberty?
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Post by efros on Aug 27, 2024 19:18:43 GMT
"When Vincent Price agreed to do the voice in Michael Jackson's "Thriller," he was given a choice between taking a percentage of the album proceeds or being paid a flat fee of $20,000. He chose the $20,000"
From the app formerly known as twitter.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 28, 2024 9:13:16 GMT
I can not find any direct info on this, but when the original Jesus Christ Superstar album was being recorded, Ian Gillan was the only performer to take a percentage rather than a fee. Shrewd move! But quite a few of the others were young and upcoming performers, so it would be quite understandable that a good one-off payment would pay the rent for a couple of months and so forth.
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Post by celebaelin on Aug 30, 2024 0:07:20 GMT
TIL that the only H.G. Wells book of reasonable Sci-Fi acclaim written in the 20th century was The First Men in the Moon (1901).
There are one or two others but they don't generally register with people's understanding of Wells' work. Probably the only reason that one does is because of the 1964 movie starring Lionel Jeffries (and no-one else you are likely to have heard of).
Anyone who's read The Shape of Things to Come (1933) would not, I assume, argue with that.
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Post by amanda on Aug 30, 2024 10:24:23 GMT
Watching the local Gardening Australia show and there's a feature on a local daffodil grower here (in the hills just outside Melbourne) and there are 13 different ways of classifying a daffodil - by things like shape, colour/shade, side, single or multi flower etc.
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Post by jenny on Aug 30, 2024 18:15:15 GMT
That makes me think of Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird". Perhaps I ought to write a poem about daffodils!
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 30, 2024 19:43:57 GMT
That makes me think of Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird". Perhaps I ought to write a poem about daffodils! I think someone beat you to it.... 😉
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Post by jenny on Aug 31, 2024 18:26:02 GMT
Thirteen ways of looking at a daffodil?
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Post by amanda on Sept 1, 2024 11:17:55 GMT
Now I might write a poem based on that!
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Post by ali on Sept 1, 2024 11:35:43 GMT
That makes me think of Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird". Perhaps I ought to write a poem about daffodils! I think someone beat you to it.... 😉 Me, I think :-)
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Post by jenny on Sept 1, 2024 15:32:02 GMT
I love the way you integrated the rhymes in that, ali.
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Post by amanda on Sept 1, 2024 22:37:53 GMT
Yes, it's great. The first two verses of mine:
Are there thirteen ways of looking at a daffodil? The first one is by colour. Most are bright, sun-like yellow, While others are orange and duller.
Are there thirteen ways of looking at a daffodil? Another one is by size. Big single flower, or smaller ones, A pleasure for the eyes.
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Post by amanda on Sept 2, 2024 0:23:24 GMT
Apparently the Melbourne Racing Club (horseracing) has or is going to introduce the word 'pineapple' for people to use in board meetings when they feel bullied etc.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 2, 2024 10:53:34 GMT
Or perhaps they could say..."I am feeling bullied", rather than go round the houses like that. Just get it out in the open and deal with it when it happens. If the bully realised that their actions were going to be examined on the spot, in front of other people, perhaps they would not be so quick to act in that way. Several times in the past, people have complained to me about something I did months, or even years ago, and I always ask "Why didn't you say something at the time?" I would much rather hear it right away, so I can do something to address the problem, rather than them let it fester while I sail on unaware, not realising I have offended/hurt somebody.
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Post by efros on Sept 2, 2024 11:26:54 GMT
That Sorrell Booke, the actor who played Boss Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard on TV, was a polyglot. He was fluent in 5 languages and messed around with 6 others. He also served as a counterintelligence officer in the US Army during the Korean war.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 2, 2024 16:24:58 GMT
Apparently the Melbourne Racing Club (horseracing) has or is going to introduce the word 'pineapple' for people to use in board meetings when they feel bullied etc. I thought pineapple had taken on some significance in relation to dogging or similar....😉
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Post by jenny on Sept 2, 2024 18:39:19 GMT
Today I read in the Telegraph that researchers in Melbourne have learned how to grow blood stem cells in a laboratory. They have carried this out successfully in animals and hope to have the process ready for trials in humans within five years. The process involves taking mature cells from a patient and reprogramming them to grow pluripotent stem cells in a dish. These can be differentiated into blood stem cells, which would then become the therapy given back to the patient, perfectly matched because they have originally come from the patient's own cells. They created the stem cells by placing blank stem cells in a chemical soup which mirrors conditions in the body where blood stem cells develop. University of Birmingham researchers had discovered that an important growth factor needed to be added and then withdrawn at specific times. I think this is a magnificent piece of work. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/02/blood-stem-cells-grown-lab-end-need-bone-marrow-donors/?WT.mc_id=e_DM397069&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_FPM_New&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_FPM_New20240902&utm_campaign=DM397069
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Post by alexanderhoward on Sept 6, 2024 20:02:07 GMT
That Sorrell Booke, the actor who played Boss Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard on TV, was a polyglot. He was fluent in 5 languages and messed around with 6 others. He also served as a counterintelligence officer in the US Army during the Korean war. The main star of The Dukes of Hazzard was changed for a lookalike several times during its run, and no one noticed. The star was of course the General Lee.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 6, 2024 21:48:15 GMT
I have heard it said that the programme had a direct and measurable influence on the price and availability of 1968 Dodge Chargers, due to the number of them they wrecked beyond repair.
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