An interesting thing I didn't know until today

[Amor de Cosmos]

Wow. Knowing that you can almost feel it. Kinda like The Drifters recording Under the Boardwalk the day after one of their members died.

[Satchmo Distel]

The Warmth Of The Sun by the Beach Boys was written that day and also has that feel.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Indeed, I'd forgotten that. Arguably the best song Mike Love was involved in writing.

[Patrick Thistle]

The Welsh word for cottage is bwthyn, which is very similar to the word bothy.

[Satchmo Distel]

Michael Keane, who was in Spinal Tap and also played Chuck in Better Call Saul, was in the baroque pop group Left Banke. Steven Tyler did backing vocals on two tracks on Left Banke's second album.

[Hot Pepsi]

The Welsh word for cottage is bwthyn, which is very similar to the word bothy.

I don’t know either word.

[ursus arctos]

A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge. It was also a term for basic accommodation, usually for gardeners or other workers on an estate. Bothies are found in remote mountainous areas of Scotland, Northern England, Ulster and Wales.

[Hot Pepsi]

Like a cabin, then.

[ursus arctos]

Yes, though I think of them as being virtually always made of stone, whereas cabins are generally made of wood.

There is a quite developed code around their use in Scotland

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothy

[Nocturnal Submission]

Like a cabin, then.

Pretty much. The facilities provided vary from limited to extremely basic.

The one I slept in when I was in the Scottish Highlands had walls and a roof but that was about it. Still very welcome though.

[caja-dglh]

The one I slept in when I was in the Scottish Highlands had walls and a roof but that was about it. Still very welcome though.

Walls and a roof? You were lucky...

[Satchmo Distel]

Another JFK: 22 Nov 63 was Billie Jean King's 20th birthday.

[Discordant Resonance]

That Brendan Grace originally recorded the Combine Harvester Song, a year before The Wurzels.

[Nocturnal Submission]

The Theme From The Deer Hunter, or Cavatina, was originally written for another, earlier film, The Walking Stick.

[Jobi1]

You can see the Humber Bridge from Sheffield

https://twitter.com/Pott_Shrigley_/status/1626194703338143747

[ad hoc]

And the comments suggest that from the same spot you can also see both York Minster and Lincoln Cathedral on a clear day. I had no idea.

[Hot Pepsi]

At first, I read that as "You can see the Humber Bridge in Seinfeld." Very disorienting.

[Sits]

That looks a lot like the view in the opening sequence of The Full Monty.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Roman Polanski spent part of his childhood in the Krakow Ghetto that so memorably featured in Schindler's List.

Actually, I didn't realise that his birth name was Raymond Liebling, but that's by the by.

[Amor de Cosmos]

He did. And — IIRC — while hiding on the streets he watched his father being led to the camps with their neighbours. By his account his father saw him and signaled to stay out of sight. That was their last communication.

[caja-dglh]

Alright OTF - I can't be the only one to have learned of a burger icon today / recently / never before?

[Gangster Octopus]

Qué?

[caja-dglh]

Qué?

It is a start, but I was hoping for someone younger...

[San Bernardhinault]

I think you probably are.

An interesting thing I learned yesterday... here they frequently tell of how the pineapple is a symbol of hospitality and are very proud of their pineapple fountain. I've known this for a little while.

I was told that an upside down pineapple is a rather different symbol of hospitality. It is, according to the source/urban myth, a statement that the owners are open to swinging. If you see an upside down pineapple print pillow on someone's porch, that may be an invitation.

[caja-dglh]

Here is a summary for (hopefully) everyone - the hamburger button