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

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Sadly not - it's actually meicrodon.

It has Crodo in it, which is a marvel in itself.

Many years ago, my girlfriend at the time dumped me, telling me I was no good in the trouser department.

The next day I was sacked from my Saturday job at Marks and Spencer, in the trouser department.

 

[SuperFurrySeagull]

Sadly not - it's actually meicrodon.

That's a shame. Gullible English man here..

 

[Whitechapel]

Scatmans World by Scatman John is the 9th highest selling overseas album of all time in Japan, outselling every Queen album combined

 

[Brighton & Love]

Bexhill was the home to a pre-war Nazi girls school.

https://www.bexhillmuseum.org.uk/news/six-minutes-to-midnight/

The Royal Pavilion was going to be Hitler's personal HQ had the Nazi's invaded Britain.

https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/placeland/royal_pavilion/royal-pavilion

 

[Barham's tash]

The tunnels under London that follow the Northern Line are a story in themselves. Originally built as air raid shelters, they were built in a way to convert them later (after the war) into a new tube network but it never happened.

They've been used for storage for years, but underground Clapham High Street are now being used to grow salad with LED lighting.

https://londonist.com/2015/06/growing-underground-a-visit-to-claphams-deep-level-farm.

https://growing-underground.com/

The Londonist has excellent factoids. A great read. Are you still in the Clapham vicinity, wonder if they’ll do tours?

 

[clapham_gull]

Bexhill was the home to a pre-war Nazi girls school.

https://www.bexhillmuseum.org.uk/news/six-minutes-to-midnight/

The Royal Pavilion was going to be Hitler's personal HQ had the Nazi's invaded Britain.

https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/placeland/royal_pavilion/royal-pavilion

The Londonist has excellent factoids. A great read. Are you still in the Clapham vicinity, wonder if they’ll do tours?

I don't live in Clapham, but am nearer Clapham Common than when I lived in Clapham.. work that one out.

Yes they do (did) tours, but stopped due to Covid. Don't know whether they have opened again.

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[PeterOut]

Bexhill was the home to a pre-war Nazi girls school.

https://www.bexhillmuseum.org.uk/news/six-minutes-to-midnight/

The Royal Pavilion was going to be Hitler's personal HQ had the Nazi's invaded Britain.

https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/placeland/royal_pavilion/royal-pavilion

There was a pretty decent film released recently based (loosely, I presume) on the Bexhill Nazi school - 6 Minutes to Midnight, I think.
I thought that, as ever, Judi dench was excellent in it.

 

[Bodian]

We were a goal away from being top of the Premier League just a few weeks ago.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Cornflakes were invented by brothers, one of whom was a surgeon who believed in eugenics to stop 'race degeneracy' and also hoped that Cornflakes would somehow lead to people masturbating less.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fo...john-harvey-kellogg-invented-corn-flakes/amp/

Although Dr. Kellogg attempted to protect his invention with a patent, businessmen quickly realized that they could produce cereal without infringing upon it. Hundreds of companies sprung up near Kellogg’s Michigan health facility—a fact that Dr. Kellogg took personally. After all, of the two most successful cereal companies, one was created by a former patient and the other was founded by Dr. Kellogg’s brother William.

William Kellogg founded the Kellogg Company, and the former patient, C.W. Post, created and sold Grape Nuts.

They succeeded by doing something that Dr. Kellogg despised: adding sugar. The idea had long been a point of contention between Dr. Kellogg and William Kellogg. William believed they needed to make corn flakes taste better, while Dr. Kellogg saw sugar as corrupting his health food. But by the 1940s, all the major cereal companies pre-coated their cereals with sugar.

The other reason cereal succeeded had nothing to do with health. It was the ultimate convenience food, and as Abigail Carroll, author of Three Square Meals, notes, this made it especially appealing across the world as the Industrial Revolution led more and more people to leave farms and take work as employees. They had less time and less access to a kitchen, which made cereal and “ready to eat” breakfasts appealing.

Cereal left a huge mark on the food industry. William Kellogg and C.W. Post were advertising pioneers, spending unheard of sums to advertise their cereal brands and creating some of the first cartoon mascots for their cereals. When C.W. Post died, he had a net worth (in 2016 dollars) of around $800 million.

 

[Albion my Albion]

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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https://nationswell.com/hedy-lamarr-bombshell-inventor-wifi/


"It became the backbone of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and a range of wireless communication mechanisms we rely on today. By the time the technology was implemented, Lamarr’s patent had expired, and she never received a single payment for her revolutionary invention."

 

[FamilyGuy]

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.

I didn't like it when it was released and I don't like it today, but that's not what this thread is about. Besides which just because we disagree doesn't make either of us right or wrong.

I'll admit to exaggeration when I said "worst recording", perhaps I should have said "most overplayed recording", I do object to being accused of "musical snobbery".

TBH I didn't know he'd recorded Tennessee Waltz and you're right about Day Tripper.

"Take Time To Hold Her" and "Try a Little Tenderness" are wonderful.