I didn't realize this... thread

JerryR1verz
JerryR1verz Posts: 76
edited April 2014 in The Clubhouse
This might flounder like a dead fish but wanted to throw this out there.

Ever find something out and it blows your mind? Something maybe so obscure how would you know or maybe so mainstream and you were the last to know? I'll start with two things that I just found out in the last week.

The drummer for Nirvana is Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. I like Nirvana on occasion but I just didn't know.

Bob Dylan's song Hurricane is about Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - The former fierce middleweight prizefighter became an international symbol after he was convicted twice for a 1966 triple murder. Carter's conviction was eventually overturned by a federal judge. I heard the news that Rubin passed away yesterday. Story on npr.org.

I apologize in advance if this is lame but might just be mind blowing for the rest of us too if this has happened to you and you want to share.
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited April 2014
    Well Jerry , better late than never is what I say ..... that's ma story & Im stickin to it
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,005
    edited April 2014
    JerryR1verz wrote: »
    Ever find something out and it blows your mind? Something maybe so obscure how would you know or maybe so mainstream and you were the last to know? JR

    Cables...and what they can bring to the table.

    Women....earlier years obviously, never knew how easy they were.

    Nature- continues to blow my mind daily.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2014
    I didn't realize....

    that small dogs are stronger than they look
    that drinking alot of water when your sick really does help, alot!
    that I'd ever enjoy a monitor more than a floorstander
    that there's no such thing as "easy to take care of" landscaping
    that a male tarantula can live up to 12 yrs, and a female longer than that
    that roadrunners make 4 distinct/different sounds; one which is very similar to a dove coo
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    edited April 2014
    We trade special paper for...well, basically anything.

    Take my pieces of paper and give me a car.
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,221
    edited April 2014
    15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.
    Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2014
    I unfriend you.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,682
    edited April 2014
    steveinaz wrote: »
    I unfriend you.

    Good never liked you anyway:loneranger:































    that's not the way it works.....:lol:
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    edited April 2014
    PSOVLSK wrote: »
    15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.



    I never knew gecko's could talk either... Pinocchio being a bad motivational speaker however was as obvious and the nose on my face.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,604
    edited April 2014
    I just realized how strange (to me anyways) it is that for the Little Ceasar's pizza commercial there is a Mexican Mariachi band playing.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited April 2014
    I didnt know Marky Mark was Mark Wahlberg until about 3 years ago...
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited April 2014
    exalted512 wrote: »
    I didnt know Marky Mark was Mark Wahlberg until about 3 years ago...
    -Cody

    You were obviously missing out on the good vibrations then. Better late than never amigo.
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  • Jhayman
    Jhayman Posts: 1,548
    edited April 2014
    hochpt21 wrote: »
    We trade special paper for...well, basically anything.

    Take my pieces of paper and give me a car.

    On the money topic, I find it mind boggling that when you go to the bank for a loan ie for a car your loan is created as debt..
    They manufacture the money out of thin air, they just add it to their debt, and collect all the benefits of loaning you nothing..no risk to them..
    It still boggles my mind..
    It's like interest, it can never be paid back because it does not exist..
    If you loan someone a $100 and they have to pay back $107 where does the $7 come from when you only have $100..
    Damn I'm ranting someone pull the plug..on me..lol
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  • JerryR1verz
    JerryR1verz Posts: 76
    edited April 2014
    Until 2009 I thought all tequila was the same until someone introduced me to Don Julio 1942. Amazing in many ways.


    Wasn't too long ago I found out the Marky Mark reality too
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    edited April 2014
    JerryR1verz wrote: »
    Until 2009 I thought all tequila was the same until someone introduced me to Don Julio 1942. Amazing in many ways.


    Wasn't too long ago I found out the Marky Mark reality too

    I hope you weren't drunk and in a mini-skirt at the time.:lol:
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  • charley95
    charley95 Posts: 908
    edited April 2014
    I didn't realize swinging both ways meant men and boys.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,332
    edited April 2014
    I didn't realize I had a crush on Johnny Depp till I caught myself with my hand in my pants watching the Pirates trilogy.
    Then I realized I was old enough to not care what anyone else thought so I kept my hand in my pants..










    LOL!! Got to give it to him, he is damn sexy..
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,430
    edited April 2014
    Nice post, Larry! :lol:
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited April 2014
    JerryR1verz wrote: »
    Wasn't too long ago I found out the Marky Mark reality too

    Glad I'm not the only one...lol
    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,980
    edited April 2014
    well if you didn't know about Dave Grohl and you didn't know about Hurricane...
    perhaps you didn't know that Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama was an answer to Neil Young's Southern Man..,.

    ;-)

    PS The Walrus was Paul...
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  • nspindel
    nspindel Posts: 5,343
    edited April 2014
    Lucy had diamonds when she was in the sky.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    edited April 2014
    Now I know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    edited April 2014
    I never knew the "Old Testament" portion of the Christian Bible, is nearly the same as the Hebrew Bible. Depending on your particular flavor of Christianity, it's exactly the same.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited April 2014
    tonyb wrote: »
    Cables...and what they can bring to the table.

    In all seriousness, this has been a huge revelation for me over the last few years. Also, add clean power in the form of dedicated AC lines, power conditioners, and power cables. Who would have thought a power cable can make your stereo sound better.

    May as well mention vibration control as another audio revelation. The improvements are right up there with cable. Until I experienced it, I would never have believed it.
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  • scubalab
    scubalab Posts: 3,105
    edited April 2014
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
    I didn't realize I had a crush on Johnny Depp till I caught myself with my hand in my pants watching the Pirates trilogy.
    Then I realized I was old enough to not care what anyone else thought so I kept my hand in my pants..

    LOL!! Got to give it to him, he is damn sexy..

    That... Now, THAT made me LOL!
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  • oldmodman
    oldmodman Posts: 740
    edited April 2014
    I never knew that AC cords (OSHA cables) can cost thousands of dollars.

    But still plug into a $1.69 socket from Home Depot.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,980
    edited April 2014
    ... not to mention the gazillion miles of wire in the power grid that's the same no matter how much that last three feet cost...
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited April 2014
    JerryR1verz wrote: »
    The drummer for Nirvana is Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. I like Nirvana on occasion but I just didn't know.
    Just FYI he also plays drums for Queens of the Stoneage.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • 11tsteve
    11tsteve Posts: 1,166
    edited April 2014
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Just FYI he also plays drums for Queens of the Stoneage.
    just to be clear, he is not their drummer, he has guested with the band recording and live.
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,276
    edited April 2014
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Just FYI he also plays drums for Queens of the Stoneage.
    You're thinking of Them Crooked Vultures.

    Them Crooked Vultures is a rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by John Paul Jones (former member of Led Zeppelin), Dave Grohl (of Foo Fighters and formerly of Nirvana), and Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age and formerly of Kyuss).
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited April 2014
    Hermitism wrote: »
    You're thinking of Them Crooked Vultures.

    Them Crooked Vultures is a rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by John Paul Jones (former member of Led Zeppelin), Dave Grohl (of Foo Fighters and formerly of Nirvana), and Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age and formerly of Kyuss).
    Didn't he play on Songs for the Deaf? I know he's not still their drummer... Maybe I'm all confused here.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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