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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - retrolinkx - 05-20-2014
I remember there was an Irish Division who fought during a war that were fucking brutal in what they did.
One of them had his leg and arm blown off and was still fighting, and he was only evacuated after several of this other comrades had to tie him down/knock him out.
I can't remember the details exactly, but it was something like that.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 05-30-2014
Edit: Fixed
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 05-30-2014
Edit: To get back on topic. Did you know? That there was an unofficial Mickey Mouse underground comic called "Mickey Mouse and the air pirates''.
![[Image: _img151_5784_airpirates1013nw.md.jpg]](http://boingboing.net/filesroot/_img151_5784_airpirates1013nw.md.jpg)
It was one of the few unofficial products of the Disney character. And it contained things that would never be in any regular Mickey mouse comic and cartoon(e.g sex, curses, violence, and race jokes). Disney later caught wind of this and gave Dan O Neil(the artist who drew and wrote the air pirates comic) a warning not to do any more Mickey mouse comics in this style. He later made a second part of Air Pirates, and it led to the infamous lawsuit 'Air pirates and Disney'. O Neil later commented in later years that Disney was the worst when it came to using lawsuits to stifle parodies, spoofs, and satires at Disney in general. The Air Pirates comics are considered collectibles since they are very hard to come across by.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Hexadecimal - 06-01-2014
![[Image: tumblr_ms9wqzh1bN1rhavdko1_500.png]](http://37.media.tumblr.com/3308ad36ff4debe8f15ef345592dadd9/tumblr_ms9wqzh1bN1rhavdko1_500.png)
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - GameWizard001 - 06-01-2014
(06-01-2014, 08:49 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote:
That made me think of this article comparing Twilight to the TV show True Blood on HBO. Both started the show around the same time so it was impossible not to do a side-by-side comparison.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/06/04/why-true-blood-kicks-twilights-ass
Basically it came to the same conclusion I did before reading it: Twilight Sucks, True Blood is Awesome (although later seasons got weird or stupid but still better than a girl who laments over her normal okay life)
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 06-03-2014
http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Zilla
Due to legal disputes, the kaiju that you see in the 1998 Godzilla movie is not actually Godzilla anymore. It was later included in Godzilla: Final Wars and renamed Zilla, supposedly to take the "God" out of Zilla and prove which one was better.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CosmykTheDolfyn - 06-04-2014
Funny music story this time from 1971:
After the release of their successful "Aqualung" album, the band noted multiple critics who stated the songs one it were too long, the lyrics were just rambling words that didn't mean anything, and the entire thing just sounded too pompous and over the top, a prime example of the eccentricities of the progressive rock movement.
While many might brush that off, the band got together and decided to make sure their next album was an even more bombastic and utterly confusing concept album to drive the critics even battier.
So, their next album was "Thick as a Brick". Thick as a Brick consists of a single two part song (it was only two parts because one had to flip the record over to listen to the B side). Ian Anderson, the band's lead vocalist and flautist wrote all the lyrics, meant to confuse the listener with how over the top it was and how many big words it contained without actually conveying any message. He then credited the lyrics to a fictional 8 year old boy named Gerald Bostock.
When it came time to design the packaging, the band decided to create an entire 12 page small town newspaper, with Gerald Bostock's epic poem as the headline due to the uproar it caused in the school. The newspaper articles are all quite humorous and filled with subtle jokes at pop culture and music critics. Ian Anderson recalled that it actually took them longer to write all the fake articles and design the packaging than it took to write, record and produce all the music in the album.
Ironically, as it was meant to be perhaps the biggest joke in music history, the album became to be considered Jethro Tull's magnum opus, lauded as one of the best albums of all time by many critics and remains one of their best sellers. Sometimes that the way the cookie crumbles, I guess.
Take a listen to it in full:
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - gamemaster1991 - 06-04-2014
^ That reminds me of a different song.
John Lennon once received a letter from a child who said that his english teacher was making his class analyse Beatles' lyrics. Either to be a dick to the teacher or just to have a little fun with him, The Beatles started to make the most random song they would ever make. It was composed of lines from a mix of spit balling ideas around, sounds and ideas from taking walks around the block, and from acid trips. When the song was done, Lennon remarked, "Let the fuckers work that one out."
That song was "I am the Walrus."
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Newt - 06-04-2014
On that note, I read once that Lennon was notoriously a jerk. Is that true? I was never too into the Beatles so I couldn't give a valid opinion on the matter.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Hexadecimal - 06-04-2014
In the episode of Home Movies called Temporary Blindness the movie for that episode is about about a boy named Timmy. This very heavily parodies the rock opera Tommy written by The Who.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Hexadecimal - 06-08-2014
It's rumored that this imagine was the inspiration for Batman's Joker. I haven't read anything that confirms it 100%, but I'm going to believe it for obvious reasons:
![[Image: tumblr_mrci2v8fu11rdredko1_500.png]](http://37.media.tumblr.com/abdb14d78d258be952d2e5395fff36a0/tumblr_mrci2v8fu11rdredko1_500.png)
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 06-08-2014
^who is that?
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Hexadecimal - 06-08-2014
(06-08-2014, 09:10 AM)CLXcool Wrote: ^who is that?
I've been trying to find that out. I found it randomly last night before bed so I didn't have a whole lot of time to look more into it.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - GameWizard001 - 06-08-2014
^^You're welcome.
http://laughingsquid.com/the-original-inspiration-for-batmans-joker-german-actor-conrad-veidt/
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 06-08-2014
(06-08-2014, 04:16 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote: ^^You're welcome.Case closed. I can see how this was a major influence for the joker. Just look at that smile.
http://laughingsquid.com/the-original-inspiration-for-batmans-joker-german-actor-conrad-veidt/