Bonneville865
Bonneville865 t1_jdxixkv wrote
Reply to comment by DavoTB in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
Interesting.
I've seen him twice on his current tour, and he's just going by "Colin Hay."
Bonneville865 t1_jdx5rph wrote
Reply to comment by DavoTB in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
I’ve never heard anyone refer to Colin Hay using his middle name. Is there another famous Colin Hay?
Bonneville865 t1_jabfs2z wrote
Reply to comment by thirdeyefish in TIL that the labels on Angostura bitters bottles are intentionally annoying. The original brothers entered a competition and due to a miscommunication, wound up with wrong size labels. A friendly judge suggested the brothers make that label their signature. The advice stuck. by dmanlian
Does anyone other than OP find the labels annoying?
Bonneville865 t1_j8ovady wrote
Reply to comment by dylancatlow in TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow
I mean, it's a semicolon, so you could fairly easily replace that with a period and have the rest of the sentence play out.
And I'm not sure what you mean by giving it a different meaning. The rest of the sentence just further describes the storminess (and darkness) of the night.
Bonneville865 t1_j8oss3s wrote
Reply to TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow
Thanks to OP, I now know that the novel didn’t end after the opening phrase.
Bonneville865 t1_j6g4rxi wrote
Reply to comment by pierrekrahn in ELI5- what is the difference between a liquid and a fluid? by stinkybuttttt
That’s fluid as an adjective. OP was asking about fluid as a noun.
Bonneville865 t1_jefrwt9 wrote
Reply to comment by Alternative_Bar_6441 in ELI5 Why when we jump in the air the earth doesnt move by Alternative_Bar_6441
Not really, for the same reason that if you throw a baseball into the air inside a car, the baseball doesn’t land behind you, in the spot where it left your hand.
You, like the baseball, have forward momentum in the direction the earth is moving. You aren’t actually jumping straight up; you’re jumping forward at about 1,000 miles per hour. It just feels like straight up because everything else is also moving at the speed of the earth’s rotation.