| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 76446 views | colinallcars |
True ones please.
Samuel Goldwyn of Metro Goldwyn Mayer films is offically named Samuel Goldfish.
When he emigrated to the US from Poland, his actual name was Schmuel Goldfisz. The immigration officail misheard it as Samuel Goldfish which he remained for some years.
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:03 - Apr 25 with 3452 views | izlingtonhoop |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:54 - Apr 24 by PeterHucker |
You’re right you know. Sorry about that.
I accidentally told a lie lie lie lie tell me why tell me why, why’d you have to lie?
I knew about the 2 Elvis Costello albums, I got the list of other albums recorded there from the Air studios website which erroneously lists the Pistols album there.
To make up for it here’s some more trivia about another studio not far from Wessex …
Elvis Costello recorded his debut album My Aim Is True at the tiny Pathway Studios which is on Grovesnor Avenue in Islington (near the Snooty Fox pub if you know that)
Damned Damned Damned & Madness’ The Prince were also recorded there.
It’s no longer a studio, these days it’s just a flat and the current resident is ex Only Ones frontman Peter Perrett. |
I didn't know the last bit about the resident...
Thanks
I always think it's funny that My Aim Is True was recorded in there, with Huey Lewis and the News; although they didn't have Huey, and were called Clover.
Although you're right that The Pretenders was recorded at Air, some of it was recorded at Wessex too.
A mate of mine who worked for BT at the time once carried his bag into Wessex, pretending to be on a call out, so as to have a look at the piano John Lydon was sick into... [Post edited 25 Apr 12:14]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:14 - Apr 25 with 3420 views | GaryHaddock |
Ivan Toney’s (Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney) initials spell out ‘I bet’. [Post edited 25 Apr 12:14]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:20 - Apr 25 with 3278 views | elnombre |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:38 - Dec 18 by elnombre |
Barry Manilow didn't write the song 'I write the songs (that make the whole world sing)' |
Elvis Costello released 'Every Day I Write the Book' in 1983.
His only book was published in 2015.
Assuming he was telling the truth in 1983, that's only just over 5 words per day... |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:57 - Apr 25 with 3230 views | izlingtonhoop |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:03 - Apr 25 by izlingtonhoop |
I didn't know the last bit about the resident...
Thanks
I always think it's funny that My Aim Is True was recorded in there, with Huey Lewis and the News; although they didn't have Huey, and were called Clover.
Although you're right that The Pretenders was recorded at Air, some of it was recorded at Wessex too.
A mate of mine who worked for BT at the time once carried his bag into Wessex, pretending to be on a call out, so as to have a look at the piano John Lydon was sick into... [Post edited 25 Apr 12:14]
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I sent a screen shot of that post to my mate. His response: Had a right old root around in there.
Followed by: I Also got a job on BT in their old flat in Denmark St.
Ditto.
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:15 - May 2 with 2899 views | BrianMcCarthy |
The Irish term for a ladybird is Bóín Dé, pronounced Bow-een Day, which literally translates as God's little cow.
The Irish term for a ladybird is Bóín Dé, pronounced Bow-een Day, which literally translates as God's little cow. — John Creedon (@johncreedon.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T08:43:28.121Z
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:44 - May 2 with 2834 views | Pdog |
Unsure if already on thread, but the official Spanish word for Wife & Handcuff is the same: ESPOSA! |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:31 - May 9 with 2553 views | MrSheen |
Marcel Proust and Édouard Manet both fought duels. Not against each other though. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:41 - May 9 with 2535 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:31 - May 9 by MrSheen |
Marcel Proust and Édouard Manet both fought duels. Not against each other though. |
Shame.
It would very Monty Python if they had. | |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:08 - May 9 with 2471 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:41 - May 9 by BrianMcCarthy |
Shame.
It would very Monty Python if they had. |
Sponge fingers at dawn. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:16 - May 10 with 2284 views | MrSheen |
In 1962, the world’s largest exporter of wine, by a factor of three over second place, was…Algeria. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 02:15 - May 11 with 2225 views | VancouverHoop |
The 'Points/Picas' system of typographic measurement was based on the length of King Louis XV of France's feet. They were 24 picas (144 points) long. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:56 - May 12 with 2060 views | RangersDave |
Almost hidden in the film 'Those magnificant men in their flying machines" ' is my fathers truck as he parked it up by the finish line by the side of one of the wooden hangars while they were filming.
Somewhere, legend has it, that there is a Ferrari visible as Charlton's having a ride around in a chariot race in Cineccitta, Italy.
The model submarine that escapes the oil tanker at the end of the film........
2 things there.......... 1st it had the fin number 593 which was the same fin number as the Thresher that sank with all hands, and they put that on as a homage to those that died
2nd.... i owned that model (all 12 feet of) it for 4 years as i was given it during my time at Pinewood in the school holidays
Bonus round.........
I also owned one of the 14ft long model german ships that were blown up at the end of the film 'Sea Wolves'
I was given the original Dalek plaster very close up models (4 or 5 of them) after the second movie wrapped. They were designed to be operated by a man with a magnet on a stick under a false floor, very close to the camera or distance shots where their size made them look small, but were closer due to the perspective. [Post edited 12 May 21:35]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:10 - May 12 with 1972 views | DannyPaddox |
The Irish word for Jellyfish is smugairle róin which translates literally as ‘seal snot’ |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:16 - May 12 with 1946 views | johann28 |
Went to a pub in Leytonstone yesterday calling itself the Calamity Tank
Strange name for a pub, but as any fule no, most breweries in the past would have a calamity tank. It’s a wastewater tank, normally empty, that can be used for spills, bad beer, and maybe storage. Imagine a scenario where, during pump over, someone left a valve open and an entire brew just went down the drain. No problem, switch a few valves outside and your lift station can put this water in the calamity tank. If this brew were to just go down the drain, this would create a ‘slug load’ at the wastewater treatment plant. These are usually illegal, and can cause a lot of problems at the treatment plant ( whose operators could trace it to your brewery). I started telling someone all of this only to find him making his excuses and doubtless wishing he'd never asked. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:19 - May 13 with 1800 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:16 - May 12 by johann28 |
Went to a pub in Leytonstone yesterday calling itself the Calamity Tank
Strange name for a pub, but as any fule no, most breweries in the past would have a calamity tank. It’s a wastewater tank, normally empty, that can be used for spills, bad beer, and maybe storage. Imagine a scenario where, during pump over, someone left a valve open and an entire brew just went down the drain. No problem, switch a few valves outside and your lift station can put this water in the calamity tank. If this brew were to just go down the drain, this would create a ‘slug load’ at the wastewater treatment plant. These are usually illegal, and can cause a lot of problems at the treatment plant ( whose operators could trace it to your brewery). I started telling someone all of this only to find him making his excuses and doubtless wishing he'd never asked. |
Made me think of this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:09 - May 25 with 1533 views | 222gers |
I'm thinking this one has been aired before but Ebenezer Morley, credited with the formulation of modern football, the FA etc, is buried just a few miles away from Loftus Rd in Barnes cemetary. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:34 - May 26 with 1326 views | NewBee |
Europe is not actually a continent, rather it is a peninsula of Asia.
Not sure exactly how/why, but it's a technical thing, something to do with not having developed from its own tectonic plate back in the day.
Any geographers out there who can explain it better? | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:16 - May 26 with 1259 views | rocknroland |
31 October 2000 was the last time all of humanity was on the earth.
Every day since, at least one person has been in space. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:18 - May 26 with 1254 views | wombat |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:34 - May 26 by NewBee |
Europe is not actually a continent, rather it is a peninsula of Asia.
Not sure exactly how/why, but it's a technical thing, something to do with not having developed from its own tectonic plate back in the day.
Any geographers out there who can explain it better? |
The film Pearl Harbour Bruce Willis appears briefly in the background in one of the shots dressed as John Mcclane white vest and all . It’s the scene at the train station , seems the director inserted him after the final edit for some reason |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:19 - May 26 with 1251 views | DannyPaddox |
If everyone in China jumped up at the same time it would be an amazing coincidence. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:42 - May 29 with 1011 views | PeterHucker |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:19 - May 26 by DannyPaddox |
If everyone in China jumped up at the same time it would be an amazing coincidence. |
If you took all the blood vessels from your body and stretched them out in a straight line, it would be really painful. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:42 - May 29 with 944 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
I love the Irish language prevalence to have nice terms for native fauna (Ladybird: God's little cow) and horrible terms for Norman / British invaders like Hedgehog (gráinneog / ugly little thing). |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:44 - May 29 with 943 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
The guillotine was still being used in France at the same time as Star Wars was being shown. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:14 - May 29 with 884 views | johann28 |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:34 - May 26 by NewBee |
Europe is not actually a continent, rather it is a peninsula of Asia.
Not sure exactly how/why, but it's a technical thing, something to do with not having developed from its own tectonic plate back in the day.
Any geographers out there who can explain it better? |
Yeah, it's pretty simple really - Europe and Asia are on the same tectonic plate (there are seven major ones) and share no significant water boundary, making them a single landmass. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:21 - May 29 with 863 views | TheChef |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:14 - May 29 by johann28 |
Yeah, it's pretty simple really - Europe and Asia are on the same tectonic plate (there are seven major ones) and share no significant water boundary, making them a single landmass. |
Eurasia innit.
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