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10 November 2022, 08:05 PM
ShiroKuro
Things that everyone knows but you…
Or, things that you thought you knew but were actually totally wrong about.

I’ll start.

So, you know the novel (and movie?) “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?

I always thought it was “pictures” plural, and I thought Dorian was a woman.

Huh.


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10 November 2022, 08:19 PM
dolmansaxlil
I made this sketchnote back in 2016 after visiting Berlin.



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10 November 2022, 08:43 PM
ShiroKuro
Ok, yours is better than mine.

ROTFLMAO


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10 November 2022, 08:59 PM
AdagioM
thanks, Sharon; I didn’t know that!

SK: I always thought it was the PORTRAIT of Dorian Gray, up til this very moment. Oops.


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10 November 2022, 09:51 PM
Steve Miller
“There’s a bathroom on the right”.


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11 November 2022, 06:45 AM
ShiroKuro
Adagio, at least I’m not the only one, I guess!

Steve, Confused


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11 November 2022, 09:52 AM
big al
quote:
Steve, Confused


SK, think misunderstood song lyrics/CCR.

Big Al


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11 November 2022, 11:32 AM
ShiroKuro
quote:
Originally posted by big al:
quote:
Steve, Confused


SK, think misunderstood song lyrics/CCR.

Big Al


OMG now I get it! ROTFLMAO


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11 November 2022, 12:20 PM
Nina
I always thought it was rack and ruin. Turns out it's wrack and ruin.

Huh.
11 November 2022, 12:39 PM
ShiroKuro
quote:
wrack and ruin

I don't think I knew that was a set expression...


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11 November 2022, 01:11 PM
CHAS
I am with dol.

Only politicians would create West Berlin and put it in the east.
I did figure it out before I embarrassed myself.


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14 November 2022, 01:21 AM
pianojuggler
That a lot of the songs I grew up with carry a lot of racist baggage. Either they were written for the blackface minstrel stage, or new lyrics were written for old songs that were horribly racist. Most of the overtly racist lyrics have been left behind, but for some people, the songs still carry the racist stink.

I got a quick education on this when I asked my banjo teacher about Turkey in the Straw. She said that it should not be played in public. One version of it was called "the most racist song ever written". I had no idea.

Even the most popular American song ever, Oh! Susannah, originally had the N-word in the lyrics.

I'm kinda re-thinking this whole banjo thing. Even the instrument itself has a fraught history.


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14 November 2022, 02:07 AM
RealPlayer
Sometimes when I told people my name is Joe, they’d reply, “Hey Joe, where ya going with that gun in your hand?” I had no idea what they were talking about. Until quite recently.

I think that happened once on this very forum.


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14 November 2022, 07:52 AM
CHAS
quote:
Originally posted by RealPlayer:
Sometimes when I told people my name is Joe, they’d reply, “Hey Joe, where ya going with that gun in your hand?” I had no idea what they were talking about. Until quite recently.

I think that happened once on this very forum.


HAHAHA


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14 November 2022, 07:54 AM
CHAS
quote:
Originally posted by pianojuggler:
That a lot of the songs I grew up with carry a lot of racist baggage. Either they were written for the blackface minstrel stage, or new lyrics were written for old songs that were horribly racist. Most of the overtly racist lyrics have been left behind, but for some people, the songs still carry the racist stink.

I got a quick education on this when I asked my banjo teacher about Turkey in the Straw. She said that it should not be played in public. One version of it was called "the most racist song ever written". I had no idea.

Even the most popular American song ever, Oh! Susannah, originally had the N-word in the lyrics.

I'm kinda re-thinking this whole banjo thing. Even the instrument itself has a fraught history.


Saxophone?


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