What did you learn today?

[Tom Bomb]

Conversing today, in a sense, with a fellow drummer — Invalid Link Removed — who taught me a great deal and can certainly bring it, in more ways than one. There should be more people in the world like Rob Hirst.

 

[paste]

TIL that Billy Joel never sells front row seats in order to see the real fans right in front of him. He gives them away to random people in the cheap seats so that front row isn't always just wealthy people.

 

[PWRL]

Today I learned about "roller pigeons", which actually do somersaults in the air.

 

[PWRL]

I also learned about the wholphin.

Wholphin - Wikipedia

 

[shadowtippy]

I also learned about the wholphin.

Wholphin - Wikipedia

You have strange reading habits or your mind works differently than mine. Now I know about the wholphin. I don't know how I will be able to work it into a conversation but I have it available should the opportunity arise.

 

[PWRL]

You have strange reading habits or your mind works differently than mine. Now I know about the wholphin. I don't know how I will be able to work it into a conversation but I have it available should the opportunity arise.

Can confirm the strange reading habits.

 

[Tom Bomb]

I also learned about the wholphin.

Wholphin - Wikipedia

That's amazing.

So the dolphin might say "Thanks for all the fish," whereas this bastardized, false wholphin creature would more likely give an ultimatum, "Gimme all the fish!" and probably wouldn't dream of ever saying thank you, if you obliged — on a bad day. On a good day … Well, he is part dolphin. Give 'im the benefit of the doubt, I guess, but give 'im a wide berth, just in case.

 

[catcauphonic]

TIL that the fine for doing 29mph in a flashing 20 school zone is hella excessive

I wanted to slap the first kid I saw after opening that

 

[shadowtippy]

I'm not sure what the cost is here but it is a mandatory court appearance, so you get the "court costs" adddd on.

 

[Son of Wobble]

TIL that the fine for doing 29mph in a flashing 20 school zone is hella excessive
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I wanted to slap the first kid I saw after opening that

That's extortionate. 50% of Americans don't have $500 to cover an emergency. So a charge like this drives citizens into greater credit card debt.
That's the REAL tender trap.

 

[PWRL]

TIL that the fine for doing 29mph in a flashing 20 school zone is hella excessive
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I wanted to slap the first kid I saw after opening that

That's pretty steep.

 

[D M C]

Don’t do the crime, etc.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Today I learned about "roller pigeons", which actually do somersaults in the air.

I've seen those trippy pigeons. Chaotic creatures I've also seen this behavior in our magpies. Not your everyday, run-o'-the-mill magpies —

The Australian magpie was first described by English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 as Coracias tibicen, the type collected in the Port Jackson region.[4][a] Its specific epithet derived from the Latin tibicen "flute-player" or "piper" in reference to the bird's melodious call.[6][7] An early recorded vernacular name is piping poller, written on a painting by Thomas Watling, one of a group known collectively as the Port Jackson Painter,[8] sometime between 1788 and 1792.[9] Tarra-won-nang,[8] or djarrawunang, wibung, and marriyang were names used by the local Eora and Darug inhabitants of the Sydney Basin.[10] Booroogong and garoogong were Wiradjuri words, and carrak was a Jardwadjali term from Victoria.[11] Among the Kamilaroi, it is burrugaabu,[12] galalu, or guluu.[13] It was known as Warndurla among the Yindjibarndi people of the central and western Pilbara.[14] Other names used include piping crow-shrike, piper, maggie, flute-bird and organ-bird.[7] The term bell-magpie was proposed to help distinguish it from the European magpie but failed to gain wide acceptance.[15]
Australian magpie - Wikipedia

They lived near me and we were acquainted so I always kept an eye on them. The tumbling was done when the kids were at a stage very close to maturity. The adult birds launched themselves and hit the heights, probably about two-hundred feet above me, and the fledgling 'post-teens' tagged along. An obvious lesson then ensued and the kids copied the behaviour. So, for about two minutes, the whole family was tumbling, swooping, climbing, and tumbling again. I honestly believe they were getting "advanced driver training" from some very wise parents. Unbelievable. But I saw it, none the less.

The one other time I've witnessed bird-brain aerobatics, it was being performed by one solitary sulpher-crested cockatoo —

The scientific name Cacatua galerita means ‘capped cockatoo’. Kakatua is the Indonesian word for a cockatoo, and the species name derives from the Latin galer meaning cap, referring to the bright yellow crest. Sulphur-crested Cockatoos are members of the Psittacidae family of birds, or the ‘true’ parrots.
Billabong Sanctuary - Australian Native Wildlife Park Townsville

— this character, also a local but she was so elevated I couldn't recognise her, was obviously coming off the escarpment, heading rimwards, and at a great height.

I have no doubt, she was just having some fun. There's no other explanation — I know, if I could fly, I'd be doing something similar, whenever the mood struck She'd probably been imbibing some fermented fruit, — they have a habit, just like us, of doing this — got herself well-and-truly pickled, and was engaging in some recreational, psychotropic thrill-seeking, just to pass the time.

Again I say, there's no other explanation Most incredible thing, I think, I've ever seen. But these majestic birds, in their element, are extraordinary, gregarious, comical creatures. Beyond our understanding. Funny thing is, I only saw her because I was standing on our balcony, in a slough of despond, looking for a sign, gazing expectantly skywards. I kid you not. And this is what I got: a pickled, skywriting parrot, screeching like a harpy, and doing loop de loops, on the way to New Zealand. Truly unforgettable.

Today though, I learnt naff all. Them's the breaks, I guess.

 

[dwm74]

TIL that no matter how delicately you tell somebody they need a breath mint, most do not take it too kindly.

Hours after eating pasta with garlic, I casually asked my wife if she had any Altoids in her purse. She said yes, then got them out and gave me one. When I said, "Oh, it's not for me", well, that's when my night took a turn for the worse.

 

[PWRL]

I've seen those trippy pigeons. Chaotic creatures I've also seen this behavior in our magpies. Not your everyday, run-o'-the-mill magpies — They lived near me and we were acquainted so I always kept an eye on them. The tumbling was done when the kids were at a stage very close to maturity. The adult birds launched themselves and hit the heights, probably about two-hundred feet above me, and the fledgling 'post-teens' tagged along. An obvious lesson then ensued and the kids copied the behaviour. So, for about two minutes, the whole family was tumbling, swooping, climbing, and tumbling again. I honestly believe they were getting "advanced driver training" from some very wise parents. Unbelievable. But I saw it, none the less.

The one other time I've witnessed bird-brain aerobatics, it was being performed by one solitary sulpher-crested cockatoo — — this character, also a local but she was so elevated I couldn't recognise her, was obviously coming off the escarpment, heading rimwards, and at a great height.

I have no doubt, she was just having some fun. There's no other explanation — I know, if I could fly, I'd be doing something similar, whenever the mood struck She'd probably been imbibing some fermented fruit, — they have a habit, just like us, of doing this — got herself well-and-truly pickled, and was engaging in some recreational, psychotropic thrill-seeking, just to pass the time.

Again I say, there's no other explanation Most incredible thing, I think, I've ever seen. But these majestic birds, in their element, are extraordinary, gregarious, comical creatures. Beyond our understanding. Funny thing is, I only saw her because I was standing on our balcony, in a slough of despond, looking for a sign, gazing expectantly skywards. I kid you not. And this is what I got: a pickled, skywriting parrot, screeching like a harpy, and doing loop de loops, on the way to New Zealand. Truly unforgettable.

Today though, I learnt naff all. Them's the breaks, I guess.

That's pretty cool. I wouldn't have expected to see that.

 

[bassdude51]

On Saturday (4-14-18), my wife and I watched Svengoolie. The movie was called, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. They actually don't go to Mars but to Venus. Hot babes on Venus, of course!

Today, I learned (4-16-18) from Wikipedia that Bud Abbott was born in 1897 (two years after my grandfather) and Lou Costello was born in 1906.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Beagles prefer pizza to kibble for breakfast!

 

[catcauphonic]

Don’t do the crime, etc.

This is horsepucky. $100 fine would have been sufficient to learn the lesson. This is highway robbery.

This section of road goes from 35 to the flashing 20 sign in an instant, and I was decelerating to it. Not a school (or one kid) in sight. In fact, I don't even think the dismissal bell has even rung when these signs start flashing.

 

[Oddly]

TIL that no matter how delicately you tell somebody they need a breath mint, most do not take it too kindly.

Hours after eating pasta with garlic, I casually asked my wife if she had any Altoids in her purse. She said yes, then got them out and gave me one. When I said, "Oh, it's not for me", well, that's when my night took a turn for the worse.

I can only hope you've got a comfy couch.

 

[MD]

Yeah, put on protective eye ware when potting yucca plants.