An interesting thing I didn't know until today

[Amor de Cosmos]

Yeah but she was really well known before she even made a movie. If you write, produce and perform a play called Sex on Broadway — for which you were thrown in jail — and another one called The Drag, your notoriety precedes you by some distance by the time you get to Hollywood.

[gt3]

The contract Charlie Chaplin signed with Mutual Film Corporation in 1916 earned him $670,000 a year. That’s in 1916dollars and equates to around $18m today.

As a child he’d lived in a Home for Pauper Children.

In Walworth. Near Elephant & Castle. There is/was a statue of him at The Castle

[Nocturnal Submission]

I was watching a documentary about Laurel & Hardy a few days ago and I think they said that when the former first went over to the States, Chaplin was on the same boat.

[Gangster Octopus]

Stan was an understudy to Charlie in Fred Karno's Army.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Stan was an understudy to Charlie in Fred Karno's Army.

Ah, yes. That rings a bell. I think they said that Chaplin left the troupe almost as soon as he'd arrived in the States and that Laurel did a fairly decent job of impersonating him in performances for a while.

[WOM]

$18 million - in today's dollars - sounds crazy, but it's Jim Carrey money. But Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in 10 shorts in 1916 alone to earn it.

[ursus arctos]

Those time series value of money calculators really don't work for the very top of the income scale.

[1974ddr]

We were watching an old episode of Porridge, and Mrs 1974ddr said 'that's Ronnie Barker' during the judge's sentencing speech at the start- you know the one, 'Norman Stanley Fletcher...'. Of course it is, but I'd honestly never registered the fact in the last 45 years or whatever.

[Gangster Octopus]

You didn't notice that the sentencing judge who got temporarily banged up had the wrong voice?

[Sits]

Mae West also had a military life jacket named after her.

[Sits]

I know that because when we got Action Men my Dad referred to their life vests as Mae Wests. I had not heard of the movie star at this point, so imagine my confusion etc.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Ha, that Ronnie Barker opening credits voice thing has just stunned me!

[1974ddr]

You didn't notice that the sentencing judge who got temporarily banged up had the wrong voice?

Nope, passed me by completely.

[Sporting]

Add me to the list.

[Satchmo Distel]

Jimi Hendrix suffered from sleep apnoea, which may have contributed to his death.

[Balderdasha]

The life cycle of a jellyfish:
https://www.google.com/search?q=medu...Gs7BBqLTwdi5wM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62291954

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig1_324902738

I guess if I had ever thought about it, I would have assumed that a baby jellyfish looked just like a tiny adult jellyfish. Not the case at all.

[Sporting]

The existence of the motte and bailey fallacy.

[Hot Pepsi]

If all of Taylor Swift's Instagram followers were a country, it would be the world's fifth largest.

[San Bernardhinault]

I actually learned this yesterday, rather than today:

There’s apparently a fairly large school of thought in the US that the 6 panel interior door (the standard, super-boring interior door into bedrooms in the US) is all about christian symbology - the top part representing a cross and the bottom two panels representing an open bible. A google search seems to be undecided on whether this is a real thing dating back to the 18th century or earlier; or whether it’s full-blown urban myth bullshit.

[caja-dglh]

I don't think I have lived in a house with a six panel interior door.

[ursus arctos]

Nor have I, but we favour heathen climes

[San Bernardhinault]

Apparently the witches can get in to your house and either kill or otherwise cast spells on you. Can I trust anything that either of you say ever again?

[ursus arctos]

Given that we primarily pay attention to you to mock your lifestyle, perhaps not.

[caja-dglh]

I am betting that San B is the second wave of six panel doors. Standard Fare Bernardhinault.

[San Bernardhinault]

Given that we primarily pay attention to you to mock your lifestyle, perhaps not.

I’d better not tell you how I learned about the god-bothering nature of these things.