Re: Breaking learning thread

[Nightjar]

Bucking the trend for budding superstars changing their dowdy, inelegant and occasionally silly real names to something spectacliar like Reginald Dwight to Elton John, Natalie Hershlag to Natalie Portman, Maurice Micklewhite to Michael Caine, Betty Joan Perske to Lauren Bacall etc etc...

Apparently Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino.

Probably a sign of the (even more) racist times in the US at that time, but by today's standards it's pretty much perfect.

[Fangirl Three]

The US has a National Battery Ingestion Hotline. Call 24 hours, toll-free on 800-498-8666.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Do they do car batteries?

[Butterfield]

Ironically, the phone you'll use to phone that number will contain a battery.

Although you might have already eaten it.

[Guest]

The existentialist Beatnik in The Rebel was played by Nanette Newman!

[Butterfield]

We all know about beats headphones by Dr. Dre - but I've just found out that Iron Maiden have a range of headphones too!

£49.99 at HMV.

[Guest]

The microwave transmitter in domestic microwave ovens is a form of vacuum toob, so even after the demise on CRT TVs the average home still has a form of ye olde valve on the house.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

[Nik]

I sawed open one those magnetrons once from an old microwave. Wasn't very exciting to be honest, far less than what you expect from something called a magnetron anyway.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Wasn't it radioactive?

[Guest]

It would explain a few things;

[Nik]

No radiation, although I later found out the ceramic endcaps are made out of a beryllium based material which is really, really bad for you if break it up and inhale any. I cut through the copper part thankfully.

[Guest]

There's a 22:55 minute version of the Communards cover of Don't Leave Me This Way

[Guest]

Floella Benjamin was in the nudie musical Hair!

[Guest]

Stan Boardman's Chippy really was bombed by the Jeermans.

And his brother was killed by German bombs.

[Butterfield]

The album version of Queen's "I Want to Break Free", on The Works, is pretty much the same as the single version other than it doesn't have the recognisable synth intro or ultra-long synth solo bit in the middle.

[Butterfield]

Sia Furler, of "Sia" fame, sang uncredited vocals on Zero 7's 2001 single "Destiny", the beginning of which has been used many a time on adverts and trailers.





Thinking about it, I may actually have learnt that fact some years ago, but it would have been before Sia became well known. I remember hearing that song on Radio 1 quite a lot at the time yet never knew who it was by.

[Guest]

Ade Edmunson was in the last Star Trek Wars film

[Guest]

Bring Me The Horizon weren't 'Merkin, but from Sheffield, UK!

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Sylvester McCoy's real name isn't Sylvester McCoy. He's literally not The Real McCoy.

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