mike_e_mcgee
mike_e_mcgee t1_jbt1h6a wrote
Reply to comment by Tballz9 in TIL the best selling book of 1981 was a guide on how to solve the Rubik's cube, selling over 6 million copies. by lightsdevil
The Rubik's Cube was the top selling toy in the UK in 1980, and 1981. For a few it was a puzzle to be solved. To many it was a fidget spinner. We'd just aimlessly spin hoping we'd randomly get somewhere with it.
mike_e_mcgee t1_ix84c64 wrote
Reply to comment by B-in-Va in TIL singer songwriter Leonard Cohen claimed to have written approximately 150 draft verses of his most famous song "Hallelujah", a claim substantiated by his notebooks containing manifold revisions and additions, and by contemporary interviews. by big_macaroons
He uses religious imagery to describe a sexual relationship gone bad. That is about as profane as you can get. The opening line is one of the most hurtful things I've ever heard. This is a song from the perspective of a hurt, broken man lashing out.
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My favorite version is the 8 year old girl singing it to the pope.
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It's the most misused song I can think of. Because it is melancholy, and has religious references, we hear it at Christmas, at funerals, at all manor of places it's inappropriate. I bet Cohen would be laughing his ass off hearing it the way it's played.
mike_e_mcgee t1_jc4whcm wrote
Reply to comment by -Wicked- in Threat on United Airlines plane shuts down Vermont airport by Thetimmybaby
On the local Burlington subreddit yesterday they said graffiti at the airport implied there was a bomb on the plane. Local reddit is always right, so take that to the bank.