You Learn Something New Every Day (cont.)

[StephanieL]

Is that like that Cake Failures website?

[small h]

There was (maybe still is, but I can't find it) a site devoted to re-posting pictures by ladies extolling their boyfriends' cooking chops. And the pictures were as a whole...not appetizing. I feel like it was called "Your Boyfriend Can't Cook" or something similar. Anyway, it was vastly entertaining.

[Wilfrid]

I am sure there’s a food fail TikTok.

[Sneakeater]

Wait Larry Graham is Drake's uncle?  How did I not know this?  I'm sure everybody else did.

[Wilfrid]

Everybody else knows who Larry Graham is. Okay, know the face would not have known the name. 

[rozrapp]

@Wilfrid No, everyone else does not know who Larry Graham is! I’ve never heard of him or his Uncle Drake referred to by @Sneakeater.

[Wilfrid]

Oh I know Uncle Drake. 😂

[Sneakeater]

Nephew Drake.  Please. 

[Sneakeater]

(Uncle Larry is much better and more significant, of course.)

[splinky]

Drake should really be so much better than he actually is if DNA rules these things. 

[Sneakeater]

Wow he really IS related to all these really talented people.

[backyardchef]

15 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

Wow he really IS related to all these really talented people.

Now do Kendrick Lamar

[splinky]

34 minutes ago, backyardchef said:

Now do Kendrick Lamar

Swaggy P

[Sneakeater]

Kendrick Lamar doesn’t NEED talented connections. 

[backyardchef]

2 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

Kendrick Lamar doesn’t NEED talented connections. 

Just some talent, then? 

[rozrapp]

Bruce Morrow, aka “Cousin Brucie,” is still alive. 88 years old. Went to the same high school as Michael, James Madison H.S., in Brooklyn. 

[Steve R.]

And RBG & Bernie.  In the same neighborhood at the time was Matilda Cuomo (wife of Mario, mother of Andrew) & Woody Allen, both at Midwood HS next door.  And Meir Kahane (oy veh).  It was an interesting neighborhood.  How old is Michael?

Edited June 21, 2024 by Steve R.

[rozrapp]

2 hours ago, Steve R. said:

And RBG & Bernie.  In the same neighborhood at the time was Matilda Cuomo (wife of Mario, mother of Andrew) & Woody Allen, both at Midwood HS next door.  And Meir Kahane (oy veh).  It was an interesting neighborhood.  How old is Michael?

Chuck Schumer also went to James Madison.

Michael is 83.

[Sneakeater]

4 hours ago, Steve R. said:

And RBG & Bernie.

I kept thinking, RBG and Bernie:  what disc jockeys are THEY (I kept thinking, does @Steve R. mean "BMR")?  Then I realized there were other areas of endeavour in which Midwoodites have excelled.

Edited June 21, 2024 by Sneakeater

[small h]

I would be zero percent surprised to learn that Bernie hosted a late-night jazz program at this college radio station.

[StephanieL]

2 hours ago, rozrapp said:

Chuck Schumer also went to James Madison.

Michael is 83.

My mother taught at James Madison for a couple of years in the late 1960s.

[Sneakeater]

1 hour ago, small h said:

I would be zero percent surprised to learn that Bernie hosted a late-night jazz program at this college radio station.

Was radio invented yet when Bernie was in college?

[small h]

6 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

Was radio invented yet when Bernie was in college?

Oh, good point. Maybe he drove around in a horse-drawn wagon with a band in the back.

[Steve R.]

4 hours ago, rozrapp said:

Chuck Schumer also went to James Madison.

Michael is 83.

Yeah, I was only listing those of that same age range (approx. 88).  Michael is too young to have gone to school at the same time as any of those.  There are many more notables at his age and younger, like Schumer.

[rozrapp]

1 hour ago, Steve R. said:

Yeah, I was only listing those of that same age range (approx. 88).  Michael is too young to have gone to school at the same time as any of those.  There are many more notables at his age and younger, like Schumer.

Not quite true. RBG was 10 years older (b. 1933) and Schumer is 10 years younger (b. 1950). However, Sanders is 82 (b. 1941), so he was at James Madison when Michael was there. Michael told me he didn’t know him then. He thinks Sanders was  a year behind him because, though they were both born in 1941), Michael’s birthday is in January while Sanders’ is in September.