SavageComic
SavageComic t1_j21ewk8 wrote
Reply to comment by bugaosuni in TIL Betty White was nominated in the 1st Emmy category for female performers in 1950, 1 of the first women to have full creative control of her own TV show, while she was still living at home with her parents, the1st woman to host her own talk show and 1st woman to win an Emmy for game show hosting by 54_actual
Come on, the order obviously goes
4: The Betty White Show 3: The Betty White Show 2: The Betty White Show 1: (and this is where it gets controversial) The Betty White Show
SavageComic t1_j1y0ts6 wrote
Reply to TIL Betty White was nominated in the 1st Emmy category for female performers in 1950, 1 of the first women to have full creative control of her own TV show, while she was still living at home with her parents, the1st woman to host her own talk show and 1st woman to win an Emmy for game show hosting by 54_actual
She was in the industry so long she had 4 shows called "The Betty White Show" and no one was confused as to which was which because they all happened so far apart
SavageComic t1_j1g7k23 wrote
Reply to comment by p38-lightning in TIL that Vidal Sassoon (his real name) started styling women's hair in wartime London as a teenager, but he took a hiatus at age twenty to join the elite Israeli commando force known as the Palmach. by p38-lightning
When you stick it on eBay, let me know. Or I can just give you 20 bucks for it now?
SavageComic t1_j1g6lyx wrote
Reply to TIL that Vidal Sassoon (his real name) started styling women's hair in wartime London as a teenager, but he took a hiatus at age twenty to join the elite Israeli commando force known as the Palmach. by p38-lightning
Fought Nazis on the streets of London. With boots and fists and so on. Incredibly cool guy
SavageComic t1_ixb5bcv wrote
Reply to comment by TooSmalley in TIL of Friendly Floatees, an armada of 28,000 rubber ducks that were accidentally spilled into the Pacific Ocean in 1992 by a container ship. Researchers then used them to track ocean currents until 2007. by oscillathor
There's a twitter account called "Lego lost at sea" that does beach litter picks on a beach in Cornwall. A Japanese freighter lost a cargo of Lego and they still find things washing up there.
The cargo was lost in 1987
SavageComic t1_iug6l3q wrote
Reply to comment by BlazinAzn38 in TIL about the "Raines sandwich;" an inedible piece of "food" that served as a way to bypass prohibition laws. by Alabussy
My favourite legal workaround was that when the smoking ban came in you could do it if you were an actor in a play. So this bar owner turned the back room into a black box theatre, and people would smoke in there. Said it was an improvised piece
SavageComic t1_j9tittk wrote
Reply to comment by backupKDC6794 in TIL that the reason Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it 'macaroni' was because at one time macaroni was slang for something very fashionable or trendy by elephantsgraveyard
This is basically Hamilton. You'll have white theatre people jizzing forever.