Friday Ephemera
I’m not sure there’s a name for this kind of thing. (h/t, Noah Carl) || Odd doggo. || Get you. || Good to know. || Access denied. || Hi, Toilet is an (almost) contactless public convenience. || The thrill of public transport, part 2,044. || Athletic ladies, 1940. || Squirrel feeder of note. || The thrill of pencil sharpening. || Possible pet. (h/t, Darleen) || Tiny monsters. || “Get with the times.” || A brief guide to medieval tennis. || “The root of all discrimination that we see in the world.” || The thrill of hair drying. || The thrill of Thames Television. || Today’s words are learning environment. || Scenes. || Bio-absorbable screws. || Hot bee sex. || This does this. || And finally, he’s taking it rather well, all things considered.
The Rockford Files
Thanks, now I’ll have that Mike Post theme song in my head all day.
In an age where House, Sherlock, and Sheldon Cooper were popular figures
Sherlock did not catch my interest, but how did you like the Jeremy Brett incarnation? I liked it enough to buy the entire series. A faithfully placed Sherlock Holmes is a somewhat damaged personality, but not so much that one cannot like him.
As somebody who took a degree in Physics in the 90s, I can with all candor say that the regular characters are all people I did socialize with.
The amount of time I was willing to spend with the terminally geeky/dorky decreased with each passing year. The physics majors that I knew back in the 70’s were not nearly as geeky as the cast of TBBT, unless the passage of time has degraded my memory.
I suppose the most likable character in TBBT was Penny, although her willingness to use sex to mooch off people grated.
Blame Smallville…Smallville’s core audience was teenage girls…
Was that its target audience? Maybe that explains in part why I found it uninteresting.
That’s what they say in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh is merely the center of mass for yinzish speech.
This week, I’ve been watching old episodes of Taxi, Rhoda, Soap, Newhart, and Sgt. Bilko.
Thanks to all who mention these old shows. Whenever someone mentions an old show that I’d forgotten, I add it to a list and then borrow a DVD from the library. If I still like it enough I buy a few DVD’s.
“Turned out they kidnapped the wrong elephant!”
Heh, I watched Tenet a few days ago and I was totally confused about 10 minutes in.
Pittsburgh is merely the center of mass for yinzish speech.
See also Yinzer.
Athletic ladies, 1940.
Those ladies are not athletes. They are being massaged by machines while wearing high heels.
“The human frame can be compressed
By intricate devices
Which ladies hie in droves to buy
At pre-Depression prices…”
— Ogden Nash.
(There are three women doing actual exercise: on a stationary bike, on a rowing machine, and with weight cables. But still in heels.)
See also Yinzer.
Akshually…back in the day, before multiple Super Bowl victories…or vixtries…and World Series wins were expected to occur about once each decade and the ‘Burgh wasn’t hip or cool like it awesomely is today..ahem…the word was yunz (sp?). Per you ones as Wikilink above refers. Though such uttered in our home was as acceptable as ain’t…which is to say not at all. Yet OTOH, “red up your room” and “gumbands” and pronounciations such as Sahth-side and tahl were still the norm. Until I learned how to read, I was very confused by why tile and towel were the same word. Similarly, sewer and sore.
Also, any episode of Rockford Files with Angel in it was epic.
Also, Clevelando delenda est.
This week, I’ve been watching old episodes of Taxi, Rhoda, Soap, Newhart, and Sgt. Bilko. It’s been like a breath of fresh air.
Barney Miller, WKRP in Cincinnati, Night Court — all programs that I remember fondly and that STILL hold up when viewing today.
Thanks, now I’ll have that Mike Post theme song in my head all day.
There are worst things … but you have to give vintage tv shows their due. Some really great theme songs, many by top composers (Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith). Many became pop hits on their own.
Burr is not afraid to skewer the pretentions of the surrounding culture.
Heh.
“You must absolutely.”
Being fine with it just won’t do, you see.
Those ladies are not athletes.
Well yes, obviously. That was a joke, but then most of David’s posts in these Ephemera are like that. It’s an important part of why I keep coming back. That and the fine drinks.
Genetic YouTube Algorithm?
Also @Giza. You’re spelling it wrong.
That and the fine drinks.
What about the furry, ambulatory sausage?
“Empress Kara” and “jakki” inform us that transwomen can have periods, and also jock itch, apparently.
“You must absolutely.”
That’s a neat (if somewhat inept) way of explaining to others why there’s so little traffic on your dating app.
“See also Yinzer.“
From the Scots-Irish, eh? Could be worse. Here in the urban west of Scotland it’s often “youse yins”.
“And factually wrong” quoth Empress Kara of the sore nips.
Wonder if she’s a SpAd for leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer?
Chappell is part of the problem himself. When the country was burning last summer and lockdowns and such, he did a show outdoors in the country, looked like North Carolina somewhere but just guessing, and all the white peoples gathered, staying 6 feet apart of course, to hear what turned out to be Chappell, lacking the full influence about George Floyd, ranting about the 8-9 minutes or whatever Chavin was holding Floyd down. It was nothing funny, nothing informative, nothing pushing back. Now Chavin can’t even get a lawyer to defend him. Its an absolute disgrace what has happened there. Neo has a post about it in which I said:
“Hmmm…wonder what Orlando Wonder Lawyer Cheney Mason is up to lately? He had no problem jumping into the Casey Anthony case. All in the name of justice and The Law and such, you understand. And IMNSHO he was right to do so but seems this is a much, much greater travesty of Justice. Where the Great Defender of Truth and Justice now? Someone turn on the Bat Signal.”
Back to blast Burr as soon as I have my already late breakfast…
“Pittsburgh is merely the center of mass for yinzish speech.”
*Grabs Terrible Towel and begins mopping up. Myron Cope rises from the beyond to haunt…*
(Hmm. Could be a script for a new show – The Walking Yunz)
“…lacking full information about George Floyd..” stupid, stupid spell check. Seems there should be a market for someone to produce a decent mechanism.
As for f***g, f**k Burr and his f**k**g brave f****ty f**ck routine….when I first heard him I though he had some good stuff but my God, the f-bombs. They weren’t even commas and they screwed up the comic timing. Now I’m not one to faint over foul language (obviously?) but wtf? I pointed this out once to a millennial co-worker and got the “OK boomer” routine. Whatever…but down to substance…he started to weed out some of those f-bombs and he was refreshingly funny but then came Trump, someone right up his alley, but even Burr had to make a few disparaging comments about Trump and his idiot supporters. He seems to have shut up about Trump now but I have seen nothing from him regarding this obvious f**ked up situation regarding the current administration of absolute imbeciles or the lockdowns or the vaccines or whatever. But boy, oh boy, isn’t he in the Lenny Bruce (whom I never found all that funny relative to how much he’s worshipped) or George Carlin? Heh. Carlin. Another one libertarians…”libertarians” and conservatives…”conservatives” go to today to try to get some cultural traction. Carlin would have led the anti-Trump brigade. Phony as they come. All he wanted out of life was to smoke dope. Everything else he said was in service to his need for a good buzz.
Myron Cope
Left the ‘Burgh before Cope came along. The guy Dad and I listened to was Bob “Kiss it goodbye” “Babushka power” Prince.
Also regarding yinz/yunz, I’m no expert but scotts-irish seems unlikely. Pittsburgh is heavily German, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Hungarian (as a kid I though Pittsburgh Hunkie was just another word for slob), with a smattering of Irish. Your neighborhood’s milage may vary…
I never lived in Pittsburgh, but I visited a couple of times.
The most memorable part was the Duquesne Incline.
You may be right, WTP, but it certainly sounds Scots-Irish. Variations on “you ones“ are very common, particularly on the Irish side.
And hey, don’t forget that your forefathers successfully retained the Scottish spelling of “burgh” (even if you can’t pronounce it properly 😛 ).
even if you can’t pronounce it properly
Indeed. See Edinburgh.
“Empress Kara” and “jakki” inform us that transwomen can have periods
Periods of greater and lesser hysteria? 😉
even if you can’t pronounce it properly
Do Scots get angry when Americans pronounce Edinburgh with a hard “g”?
Yinzer
I have never that word used in Ireland, so I doubt it originate here. Maybe it is a hybrid that occurred where Irish and other peoples mixed in Pittsburgh
“Ye” is (or was) commonly used as plural, especially outside Dublin. (Some words which have passed out of usage in standard English remain in use in Ireland, although are disappearing).
“Youse/ Yis” is also used but is regarded as a bit uncouth.
In Dublin, the “Your (plural) mother” would be “Yizzer Ma” (uncouth) or elsewhere “Yere Mammy”.
Do Scots get angry when Americans pronounce Edinburgh with a hard “g”?
Not as angry as when the English call it “Edinburrow”.
And hey, don’t forget that your forefathers successfully retained the Scottish spelling of “burgh” (even if you can’t pronounce it properly 😛 ).
Heh. The funny thing about that is that in the 19th century the spelling was inconsistent. You can find many references to the city without the ‘h’ on the end. Sometime in the early 20th the postal service or feds or some entity insisted on a standardized spelling and the ‘h’ was made official. I believe it ruffled some feathers at the time as Pittsburgh was one of the main industrial cities at the time and held considerably more influence than it does today.
“Not as angry as when the English call it “Edinburrow”.”
I was about to say, “Maybe, although that kind of thing doesn’t bother me”, but oooh, that does grate.
Mind you, the railways used to abbreviate burgh/borough to “boro’”. Edinburgh became “E-boro’”, and Middlesborough was “M-boro’”.
I think this is a satiric take on truthers. But sometimes it’s hard to tell. Found via.
“I think this is a satiric take on truthers.”
Yeah, “birds”. They came from “Belgium”* in the “seventh century”. Everyone knows that.
WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
*Oh man, Lyle Zapato. I remember running Mindguard on the Amiga back in the ’90s. That’s why the world’s in the state it is today, you know: it’s not available for Windows.
Karl, how IS Edinburgh to be pronounced? I always thought Edinburrow was correct?
—Lady Cutekitten
abbreviate burgh/borough to “boro’”
I am a self-admitted logophile.
The suffix “-boro” (without the apostrophe at the end) has appeared in the names of many places I have been (and where I live now).
I lived in Peterborough Canada for a while. Locals said “Peterbro”
Karl, how IS Edinburgh to be pronounced?
Apparently no one knows.
Guys, some guy has a case of the ass because the word guy is the core of the patriarchy.
If I said it appeared this guy was mansplaining I would have to denounce myself.
Gotcha.
Tranny Taliban
This morning I read an article in the New York Times, “Back in Lesbian Paradise, At Long Last,” about the Dinah Shore Festival in Palm Springs, an annual gathering of gay women. I noticed two things:
1. Not a single mention of transwomen in attendance. Instead, the article spoke of how important this event is for lesbians, especially since (and I have no way to verify this stat) there are about 21 lesbian bars in the US.
2. Comments were turned off for the article.
Now, that struck me because this is, after all, the NYT and I am wondering if the reporter was met with hostility if they asked about transwomen or if NYT realized that if it allowed comments, they could expect outrage at the “exclusion.”
Nonetheless, it was quite nice to read about lesbians – just the ladies, thank you – having fun.
“Do Scots get angry”
and if so, how might one tell?
“Apparently no one knows.”
Interesting that the fourth one down is the first in (what sounds to me) like an actual Edinburgh accent, and it only has seven votes.
If it helps, in Glasgow it’s often jokingly spelled “Embra”, in the vein of “’Straya” and “’Murica”.
“and if so, how might one tell?”
Awright… ootside! Square go, ya bunch o’ jessies.
“Nonetheless, it was quite nice to read about lesbians – just the ladies, thank you – having fun.“
There’s a wealth of videos on the subject if you’re interested.
Er. So I’m told.
Note the “I’m very pleased with myself” expression.
Awright… ootside! Square go, ya bunch o’ jessies.
Ah, *adopts puzzled expression* OK?
*looks around for dictionary*
Note the “I’m very pleased with myself” expression.
So… do they just sprout from the thing, like buds…?