A thing I learned today

[firehazard]

The repository of all knowledge had lots of trivia:

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

"Waltzing" is/was slang for walking. "Matilda" is/was slang for a bundle of gear (ala a bag or backpack), etc.

I've always just figured the song the rambler was singing was just a little tune he was making up as he went. Just an improvisational thing to do to pass the time.

Absolutely, i also read all that. However, It's a song about song mentioned in another song

From what the Wiki says, it sounds as if the guy was maybe improvising words on a tune that already existed? And I just learned what a jumbuck actually is. So it appears that he put a whole sheep in his food carrier. Now that's some lunchbox.

But to find the answers, one of us probably needs to visit the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Queensland.

It's all what might be called pretty meta, anyway. Good spot, Fr McG my son.

[Fr. McGreer]

The repository of all knowledge had lots of trivia:

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

"Waltzing" is/was slang for walking. "Matilda" is/was slang for a bundle of gear (ala a bag or backpack), etc.

I've always just figured the song the rambler was singing was just a little tune he was making up as he went. Just an improvisational thing to do to pass the time.

Absolutely, i also read all that. However, It's a song about song mentioned in another song

From what the Wiki says, it sounds as if the guy was maybe improvising words on a tune that already existed? And I just learned what a jumbuck actually is. So it appears that he put a whole sheep in his food carrier. Now that's some lunchbox.

But to find the answers, one of us probably needs to visit the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Queensland.

It's all what might be called pretty meta, anyway. Good spot, Fr McG my son.

Cheers Pop

[left]

Purple Rain is about masturbation?

Or so said the senator here https://youtu.be/S0Vyr1TylTE?t=1201

Also, that full speech of Dee Snider is far less groundbreaking as is sometimes depicted...


Edit: not trying to diminish Dee's fight all over the years, but he was really defending himself trying to be "one of them"

[Frances]

Purple Rain is about masturbation?

I guess “Darling Nikki” was too obvious.

[Low D]

Purple Rain is about masturbation?

I guess “Darling Nikki” was too obvious.

So was Prince's ejaculate purple, or was his partner's?

[left]

Given Frances’ silence you obviously went too far there.



So, apparently this is a Canadian game: https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/ ?

[dave81]

I learned that I have really missed looking at this website daily. So much excitement and travel enthusiasm back in the day.

[DzM]

Hey dave81, good to see you. I hope you've been keeping well and that Florida Man hasn't been too embarrassing to you.

[Frances]

Given Frances’ silence you obviously went too far there.

I was busy living in Vegas rescheduling around travel bans to Boston and D.C. and didn’t see it, yo.

Read a UK article back in the day where a Brit slut said all Prince wanted to do was lick her but that’s neither here nor there.

They didn’t call him the Butterscotch Stallion though, did they?

[left]

Did I already mention that for a long, long time I thought that in Simon&Garfunkel, Simon was Garfunkel and Garfunkel was Simon?

Then one day I was like, “is Garfunkel sooo famous? Gosh he’s acting like the rockstar there, like...wait, oh...”



And if I could explain that with “not my generation” how can I explain that until few weeks ago to me Simonon was Jones and Jones was Simonon?

DOH.

At least I had Strummer right...

But he really looks like a “Paul Simonon” doesn’t he?

[Frances]

Did I already mention that for a long, long time I thought that in Simon&Garfunkel, Simon was Garfunkel and Garfunkel was Simon?

Then one day I was like, “is Garfunkel sooo famous? Gosh he’s acting like the rockstar there, like...wait, oh...”

I love them so much.



Not enough to pay $300 a ticket when I had the chance to see them live, but still...

Found a pile of Poland produced Simon & Garfunkel bootleg cassette tapes at a neighborhood thrift store once and was all... come to poppa.

[left]

Learned Spider was born in Eastbourne.

When I was up there trying to learn this damn language (that I still don't master) I took the train and totally randomly went to Eastbourne. Found a motorcycles convention there. Spent the day taking pics of old bikes I wasn't interested in and walking around.

Had I known it was Spider's birthplace I sure would have found better things to do!

[firehazard]

Learned Spider was born in Eastbourne.

When I was up there trying to learn this damn language (that I still don't master) I took the train and totally randomly went to Eastbourne. Found a motorcycles convention there. Spent the day taking pics of old bikes I wasn't interested in and walking around.

Had I known it was Spider's birthplace I sure would have found better things to do!

It's many years since I've been to Eastbourne, but from what I remember of the place, finding things to do was quite a challenge...

It's always vaguely amused me that according to the Bios page on Medusa, Eastbourne is in London. Erm...

[Frances]

Well a little in our family did the whole genealogy thing for school way back and we found out our Irish Granny was, in fact, British from Manchester. She was an orphan adopted by a Irish family who eventually made her way to becoming a nurse in Boston (and California) and then married into a Irish-American clan with a feisty pedigree. So we are descendants of a great Irish clan, Mancs and Massholes. Hmmm.

Figuring her birthday wasn’t really on St. Patrick’s Day now that I think about it. She was tiny, scary, had a terrifying little chihuahua named Pokey, drank grasshoppers and always gave me religious accoutrements that I hadn’t the faintest idea what one did with being an ill bred child.

[DzM]

Learned Spider was born in Eastbourne.

When I was up there trying to learn this damn language (that I still don't master) I took the train and totally randomly went to Eastbourne. Found a motorcycles convention there. Spent the day taking pics of old bikes I wasn't interested in and walking around.

Had I known it was Spider's birthplace I sure would have found better things to do!

It's many years since I've been to Eastbourne, but from what I remember of the place, finding things to do was quite a challenge...

It's always vaguely amused me that according to the Bios page on Medusa, Eastbourne is in London. Erm...

Corrections welcomed Mr. Editor-Guy.