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Now I have to figure out what to piss away that $140 savings on.;)

Liquor and fast women?

A slow woman at this point, or I'd never catch her. :crone:

This is a handy bit of knowledge...

This memorable opening theme ran every Saturday morning from 1986-1991.

The vocal bit kicks in at 1:03... after a really nice interlude written by DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh.

Now, who's the SINGER of that vocal?



Well it's Cyndi Lauper.


I Did Not Know That but it's one of those things where, once you know it.... oh sure! Hell it's so obvious!

I also had no idea, but Of Course it's Cyndi.


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Wasn't the singer the voice of chairy as well?

IMDB says Chairry was "Alison Mork" who has a bunch of other IMDB credits.

any ideas why I can only see a big black square, nothing clickable?

No, it's still working for me. Here's the YouTube link if you want to try that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=BKcYGOIJhqo

Try using Desktop site as opposed to mobile site.

:lol: I'm an old crone, I don't do none of that mobile app shit.... but thanks. I thought it was just the new computer the first time, but I'm back on the old one now (where I've never had problems with this sort of stuff before) and still nothing. However, while I wasn't playing with old computer, stupid windows updated to an even stupider version which I had also thought was just new computer, so I'mm'a blame that.

thanks, that worked. How times have changed, that so much time could be wasted on an opening theme! Did kids really have that long an attention span to wait through all of that when they'd seen it a zillion times before? must've been a good show!

I can see the UT's embedded video in Chrome but not in IE. I can see it in chrome and IE at sexo's link.
Kids love the repetitive lead in to the show because it's familiar and they can sing along.

UT's embedded video plays in Chrome but not IE. Sexo's link plays in both.
Kids love a repetitive intro because it's familiar and they can sing along.

that was kids of yesteryear.... today's kids like repetition and singalong too, but only for 30 seconds, then it needs to move on. boom boom boom. like their games.

Today I learned that Ben Sasse is a really thoughtful dude whose conservatism seems to be based in preserving the good but is caring enough to look at modern problems with fresh eyes. I remember Republicans like this...

Today I learned NOT to chase the black with white stripes.

- Bongo the stinky boxer

....I bet he didn't learn, though.....

My buddy's dog jumped up one night when we were sitting around the fire, and growled, then took off into the night. About three or four minutes later, in the field across the road, we heard her bark twice, mean-like, then she yelped.

A few minutes later we smelled the skunk that had sprayed her, and then she came up. Reeking.

Buddy hollered "Ginger! No! Get away!" before she got very close to us. That dog literally tucked her tail between her legs and went to the barn, while looking over her shoulder at us.

She stank for a month.

Tomato juice/sauce bath.

Then wash off the tomato juice/sauce.;)

I know about that. Junior got a skunk cornered under the porch once.

Now, just try that when you live in a semi and haven't laid eyes on a tub in a month of Sundays.

I know that works, and my dad buried my clothes. :o

The waitress brought the bill on a mini-clipboard and the total was $39.xx so I put three $20 under the clip and she came back and took it away. I assumed she would realize it was a tip.
We were engrossed is conversation when the waitress is suddenly standing there with the mini-clipboard with money on it. I waved her off but noticed the top of the money was a $1.
I questioned my companion why would she change the $20 and was informed that is standard procedure to bring back change, even an obvious overpayment, in smaller bills in hopes of getting a tip.
It was one of those forehead slapping moments. Evidently everybody in the fucking world was aware of this protocol except me. :smack:

I think there are many people who would do exactly what you did, but with the intention of leaving a $6 tip, and they want change back from the $20. Actually, I know one guy who would find a way to convince himself that a $5 tip is generous.

Yes, that's what I learned yesterday. Seems everybody knew the system but me. I suppose if she hadn't brought it back without me explicitly telling her not to she could be accused of theft or at least been hassled. My dining companion couldn't understand why I always over tip, unless they earned a lesser amount. Then one day a guy at her business gave her a $35 tip for a repair on a long leather duster that was particularly difficult. Her customers never tip. She said that $35 wasn't going to change her budget but made her warm and fuzzy for two days. That's exactly the point.

One may put a popsicle in a glass of champagne to celebrate Memorial Day.

2000 people tweeted she shouldn't fuck around on Memorial day while they BBQ, get drunk, while having lust in their hearts for the neighbor. They want her to show more support for the armed forces.
Hello... Memorial day is not about support for the armed forces. It's not about thanking vets for their service. It's about honoring those that had their lives taken from them by stupid governments quarreling. WW II in defense of the nation... WW I, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc, not so much. :rattat: [/rant]

Today I learned about Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the semi-Old West. She committed one of the last documented stagecoach robberies in America.

In learning about Ms. Hart, I also learned the words demimonde, and demimondaine.

Today I learned that Brits use a brand name as a generic term for PA system. I looked up its history in Wikipedia.

:lol: never even occurred to me it was a Brand Name -but I don't use it. I've forgotten if I ever used to. I think I just said "loud speakers" ...but I know what it means and wouldn't bat an eyelid if I heard it used

I've encountered 'tannoy' before. I stumbled over it, and had to learn what one was.

Today I learned about the toilet plume, a small feather used to stimu---hahahahaha:lol2:, nah, that ain't what it is, I couldn't even post that with a straight face.:p:

I knew about it, I just didn't know it had a name.

Jinx called them poop molecules.

Right there on ya teethbrush!!

Today I learned about the co-pilot that kept telling the passenger "It's going to be okay."

Kool.

He spent a month creating that story, one of his very best. :thumb::thumb:

Today I learned that if you click this little paper clip,

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it opens a page with nothing but the attachments from that thread.

Hovering over it tells you how many attachments are in that thread.

This could change how I view the Cellar.

Holly Fook, I just learned something.

Ya gotta be careful around here. They'll learn ya something when ya ain't looking.

Dogs are wolves with a developmental disability.

Today I Learned about the Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue, which occurred on Dec 22, 1978.

The Cessna 188 is a single seat "agricultural aircraft". It's a crop duster. And this one was being delivered (flown) to Australia from the U.S.

The pilot became lost over the Pacific ocean due to a malfunctioning Automatic Direction Finder. When he arrived in the vicinity of Norfolk Island, the island wasn't there.

Random note: Wikipedia gives the range of a Cessna 188 as 370 miles.

The only aircraft anywhere near the area was Air New Zealand Flight 103. When the pilot of the DC-10 learned of the predicament, he knew that if they (the crew) didn't do something to help the pilot of the Cessna he would almost certainly die.

How they helped the guy is a short, interesting read.

I saw the movie of the week they made of this story.

Wow, those guys really knew what they were doing. I wonder if today's pilots could figure that out?

Wow. Nice work.

We do have a lot of Hollywood ideas about college. Somehow we think people from the Wharton School or Yale have the life experience to run our country...

Yup.

We've done much the same thing.

Look at the resume of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer - architect and key drivin force of the austerity strategy still playing out, devastating whole sectors of the economy and big chunks of the population as it goes -

A second rate academic and (at the time) failed journalist whose entire working history prior to becoming Chancellor was as a political assistant/advisor and being a member of parliament. I think he also did a little internship at daddy's company.

He set in place the 1% cap on public sector pay - that is still in place and means nurses, for instance have effectively taken a 15% reduction in wages in real terms over the last 7 years. Told the nation to tighten our collective belts - and thought it would be a great idea for our economy if everybody tightened their belts so much that they had no room left for spending.

Cameron wasn't much more connected to the 'real world', as they say.

and you could pretty much see them getting hard when they stood there all statesmanlike delivering speeches about how they had to be brave enough to make the difficult decisions.



Pretty sure it wasn't always like this. I seem to recall a time when conservative leaders were people who'd had successful business and industry careers, or, if from a more academic background, had a serious grounding in economic theory.


Labour haven't been much better on that score in recent years (though Corbyn is certainly a different case).

Not anymore. :)

Not so sure Pete, looks like the Ottomans may be back. :lol:

Today I learned the Pats defense is a couple steps slow.

I'll have to check sources but, today I learned that 42% of Harvard's incoming Freshmen are legacy. Affirmative action for the down trodden rich white people.

What if 42% of applicants were legacy?

The result is the same.

The English commoner John Rolfe of Jamestown in Virginia took as his bride an Algonquin princess named Matoaka, whom we call Pocahontas. The literary critic Christopher Hodgkins reports that King James I was ‘at first perturbed when he learned of the marriage’. But this was not out of fear of miscegenation: James’s reluctance, Hodgkins explained, was because ‘Rolfe, a commoner, had without his sovereign’s permission wed the daughter of a foreign prince.’ King James was not worried about the pollution of Rolfe’s line; he was worried about the pollution of Matoaka’s…

Today I learned that some F-18 fighter jets have a false canopy painted on the bottom of the plane to confuse the enemy.

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There was an investigation by the New York Academy of Medicine into marijuana, signed in ink by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1945. It was the first American study to declare that the drug wasn’t addictive or dangerous.

TIL that hyraxes are incapable of regurgitation.

Dey don't be urrpin'.

TIL that hyraxes are small, thickset, herbivorous mammals. :)

TIL that some horses can grow a mustache.

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Living, as I do, in Kentucky, I've seen a horse or two...Never seen one with a mustache.