You Learn Something New Every Day (cont.)

[small h]

Unfrozen ice is very unstable, and if you whip the ice cube tray out of the fridge, the unfrozen ice will fly all over the place.

[Wilfrid]

2 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

It turns out that if you don't put coffee into your coffeemaker's bin, you end up with a cup of heated water.

As I have said over and over again that  is much better than putting in the coffee but not the water.

[StephanieL]

John Lennon provided backing vocals on David Bowie's "Fame".

[Wilfrid]

I assume everyone knows that's Mick Jagger singing backup on "You're So Vain"?

[mongo]

yes.

[MitchW]

I bet he thought the song was about him.

[Sneakeater]

Walter Benjamin was a direct descendant of Heinrich Heine. 

[Wilfrid]

Not sure about that one…

[Orik]

Metaphorically, at least. 

[backyardchef]

On 8/28/2024 at 6:51 PM, MitchW said:

I bet he thought the song was about him.

Don't you? 

[Wilfrid]

On 9/22/2024 at 11:07 PM, Wilfrid said:

Not sure about that one…

Okay looked it up; was looking for something more than an aside by Cynthia Ozick.

Quote

“related at some (not very great) distance” through Benjamin’s maternal grandmother, Brunella Benjamin (née Mayer, 1827-1919). Benjamin retold his grandmother’s stories of Heine rocking her as a little girl upon “his knees” (Brodersen 15).

Miller, "Articulating a Radical and a Secular Jewish Poetics"

[Wilfrid]

The billionaire co-creator of Fiji Water and Pom was the young woman who let Ellsberg photocopy the Pentagon papers in her government office.

Lydia Resnick. It is no secret so I guess I just didn’t know. Reading Francine Prose’s “1974”.

[Wilfrid]

Allen Toussaint wrote “Working in a Coal Mine.” I just associate with Lee Dorsey.

Listening to a pianist working through New Orleans composers.

[StephanieL]

I can't believe I never knew that a vibraphone is essentially an electrified marimba.

Edited November 14, 2024 by StephanieL

[small h]

Reindeer = caribou

[Orik]

But in the old country!

[StephanieL]

Devo recorded a cover of Lee Dorsey's "Working in a Coal Mine".

[small h]

I used to hear that song at the roller rink. Dunno who DJ'd there, but they had some interesting ideas about what would be fun to skate to.

[StephanieL]

The Crock-Pot was invented by an American Jew of Lithuanian heritage to help his relatives with their Shabbat cooking.

Edited January 12, 2025 by StephanieL

[maison rustique]

10 hours ago, StephanieL said:

The Crock-Pot was invented by an American Jew of Lithuanian heritage to help his relatives with their Shabbat cooking.

In Kansas City, if I'm not mistaken.

 

EDITED: Not invented here. Invented in Chicago, but launched in KC.

Edited January 12, 2025 by maison rustique
Correction

[Steve R.]

Too much spare time on my hands, I decided to see if I could track down some old MF stuff using the Wayback Machine in Archive.org.  Although in no order and absolutely arbitrary, I came up with the following:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mouthfulsfood.com/forums/*

[voyager]

I nominate you to open and relabel all of these.

[Steve R.]

And, additionally, I went in to an arbitrary thread on one of the links then pressed the Members button and it opened up to a full list of the members that were current at that time.  In fact, it looks like it may well be possible to take any random link and open up any part of the site from that time.

(I will disregard voyager's post)

Edited April 2, 2025 by Steve R.

[relbbaddoof]

11 minutes ago, Steve R. said:

I will disregard voyager's post

I nominate you too.

After the hardship we endured years apart on Long Island surely you cannot disregard me?

[AaronS]

an acquaintance of mine, who was charged with running a ponzi scheme that defrauded his investors of nine figures, has another finance job.