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[Misc] I wouldn't have believed this was true if I didn't know it was actually true



FamilyGuy

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Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood moviestar of the 40's, came up with the idea for the technology that eventually became used for mobile phones, bluetooth and wifi.

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Did she also invent the torpedo? Or am I confusing her with another starlet?
 




lawros left foot

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President John Tyler, 1790 - 1862, U.S President from 1841 to 1845 has a grandchild who is still alive.(Harrison Ruffin Tyler)
 


schmunk

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Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood moviestar of the 40's, came up with the idea for the technology that eventually became used for mobile phones, bluetooth and wifi.

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BNthree

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Did she also invent the torpedo? Or am I confusing her with another starlet?


A quick google says the frequency hopping idea was originally meant to be used for radio controlled torpedos
 










seagullwedgee

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The longest word in English that can be created using just the letters on one row of a standard QWERTY keyboard is……….



TYPEWRITER
 




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I think it was 1970, I was in a sports shop in North St (can’t remember the the name) and an Iranian guy (probably Persian back then) asked if he could buy an aqualung. He didn’t want to go diving, but had been told that was where he could pick up his Jethro Tull album.
 




FamilyGuy

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The final bars of "Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding (his worst recording IMHO) are whistled.
This is because they laid down the track in the recording studio and used the whistling to figure out the length and cadence of the song, but didn't arrive at a finished product.
Otis then flew home for the weekend, the plane crashed and unfortunately Otis (and others) died.
So they released a version that included Otis whistling.

Or so I'm led to believe.
 




Stato

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The final bars of "Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding (his worst recording IMHO)

Ridiculous, after-timing musical snobbery. (Sitting on) The Dock Of The Bay is a great record. It may have be a change of direction, it may have since been over played and over-praised but it's a sublime piece of work. It would have been better had Otis lived and Steve Cropper not been forced to mix what they had and rush out a release, but even if you don't appreciate the different style, its heartfelt and delivered with conviction. Its certainly in a different class to some of the album fillers that Otis recorded. His hacky cover of 'Day Tripper' is better is it? His version of the Tenessee Waltz? None of his Sam Cooke covers come anywhere near the originals even with the Bar Kays backing him. Dock of A Bay was his, it was original and it was a tragedy that he never got to develop on the prototype of the country soul sound that it introduced.
 


severnside gull

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Ridiculous, after-timing musical snobbery. (Sitting on) The Dock Of The Bay is a great record. It may have be a change of direction, it may have since been over played and over-praised but it's a sublime piece of work. It would have been better had Otis lived and Steve Cropper not been forced to mix what they had and rush out a release, but even if you don't appreciate the different style, its heartfelt and delivered with conviction. Its certainly in a different class to some of the album fillers that Otis recorded. His hacky cover of 'Day Tripper' is better is it? His version of the Tenessee Waltz? None of his Sam Cooke covers come anywhere near the originals even with the Bar Kays backing him. Dock of A Bay was his, it was original and it was a tragedy that he never got to develop on the prototype of the country soul sound that it introduced.

What he said
 








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Gwylan

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Sadly not - it's actually meicrodon.

It is indeed. A more interesting question is where this idea that it's popity-ping comes from: was it some joke that's been mis-remembered?

But if you want a genuine Welsh word, butterfly in Welsh is pila pala, which I think sounds rather beautiful
 




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The final bars of "Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding (his worst recording IMHO) are whistled.
This is because they laid down the track in the recording studio and used the whistling to figure out the length and cadence of the song, but didn't arrive at a finished product.
Otis then flew home for the weekend, the plane crashed and unfortunately Otis (and others) died.
So they released a version that included Otis whistling.

Or so I'm led to believe.

Talking of figuring out the length, when it comes to vinyl the louder and more bass heavy a track is. the less it can fit, in terms of time, onto a cut record, as the grooves have to be bigger (or thicker if you prefer).

Thus a quiet piece of classical music can last for much longer than a badass techno or drum and bass (or heavy metal where the track must be played loudly) on the same 12" vinyl.
 


Blue3

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It is indeed. A more interesting question is where this idea that it's popity-ping comes from: was it some joke that's been mis-remembered?

But if you want a genuine Welsh word, butterfly in Welsh is pila pala, which I think sounds rather beautiful

When reading your reply it put Rob Brydons voice in my head:lolol:
 


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