And "dark" complexion, as is obvious from the photo you posted.
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The Wiki is interesting on the evolution of those personae, including Groucho abandoning his original German character in reaction to WWI hysteria and the role of their uncle Al Shean (of Gallagher and Shean).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostI wonder if that was a factor in Chico's stage persona being Italian and Harpo not speaking? They were outside the mainstream definition of whiteness (which was essentially WASP) in their prime years.
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That's true, though it was a.so the case that it was also more or less impossible for a performer to make it big without distorting that identity in some way, be it Groucho's riffing on stereotypes or the scores of performers whose names and identities were "whitened".
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The term (and the existence of) psychopomps.
Which turn out to be spirits that guide the recently deceased to the afterlife.
I learned this after a friend said something like "I never would have guessed Paddington Bear would become this year's psychopomp" after the memes with him holding Coolio's hand.
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
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"Pretty good" is a very odd description for a mouth! What does it even mean? Not lopsided or permanently drooling?
TBF, he absolutely nailed his face shape and forehead.
Scope for an OTF thread, I reckon.
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- Mar 2008
- 17763
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
A number of recent posts have contained the term "gravy train," a phrase I know the meaning of but not the origin. So:
Easy money; the good life, obtained with little effort. This American slang term became current during the financial boom of the 1920s. It originated in railroad slang, where “gravy train” meant a run on which there was good pay and little work. (Gravy itself became slang for easy money, or an illicit profit obtained through graft, in the early 1900s. )
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
But so were a vast number of American entertainers. Entertainment was one of the few doors you could get through if you weren't WASP.
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Roman baths typically had three main pools, to be taken in order - the frigidarium or cold pool, the tepidarium or slightly warm pool, and the calderum or hot tub. That pretty much is the same today in spa type settings, in my limited experience of those, but I do love the word "tepidarium".
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Somehow I've spent the last 30 years or so that I've been into music failing to realise that the Clash's singer Joe Strummer did not sing one of the Clash's biggest songs – indeed, courtesy of an advertising-driven 1991 reissue, their only Number One or for that matter Top Ten single – Should I Stay Or Should I Go. The vocals on it are handled by Mick Jones.
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Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana were both direct descendents of Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne. Diana's two sons therefore have two direct lines of descent to Boleyn.
Of course this illustrates the fact that the aristocracy is a small club.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 06-10-2022, 00:22.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostQueen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana were both direct descendents of Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne. Diana's two sons therefore have two direct lines of descent to Boleyn.
Of course this illustrates the fact that the aristocracy is a small club.Last edited by Sam; 06-10-2022, 05:25.
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostRoman baths typically had three main pools, to be taken in order - the frigidarium or cold pool, the tepidarium or slightly warm pool, and the calderum or hot tub. That pretty much is the same today in spa type settings, in my limited experience of those, but I do love the word "tepidarium".
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Originally posted by Various Artist View PostSomehow I've spent the last 30 years or so that I've been into music failing to realise that the Clash's singer Joe Strummer did not sing one of the Clash's biggest songs – indeed, courtesy of an advertising-driven 1991 reissue, their only Number One or for that matter Top Ten single – Should I Stay Or Should I Go. The vocals on it are handled by Mick Jones.
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More of an "interesting thing I've known a few times but don't hold clearly in memory":
https://twitter.com/keeltyc/status/1577844622642012162?s=20&t=wFE2-g2pCdwlwpQqvZdQ9w
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