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Due_Platypus_3913 t1_j9m5v97 wrote

Reply to TIL The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still in limited release after 47 years making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history by shakeyjake

My mom was one of the first gen”Rocky Horror” nuts.Went to midnight showings every weekend from’76 till ‘79.I grew up on the soundtrack.Might get to sing”Sweet Transvestite” on a big live stage at Burning Man this year.Been to a riotously fun showing out there!🎶❤️

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Akegata t1_j9m42zy wrote

Reply to comment by perfcon2 in TIL to finish writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame within an impossible deadline of 6 months, Victor Hugo locked his clothes away, making him unable to go outside and procrastinate which forced him to do anything but finish writing his book. by Old_Sport7920

Yeah it's weird. I voluntarily procrastrinated by staying at home for months on end during the first parts of covid.
But then again Victor Hugo didn't have Reddit and a PS5.

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esgrove2 t1_j9m3i1w wrote

Reply to comment by almighty_smiley in TIL The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still in limited release after 47 years making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history by shakeyjake

She got a lot of fame from it. Which is the usual reason actors sign on for low paycheck projects. So she got exactly everything she could have hoped for from the movie. You can't renegotiate a contract retroactively if something takes off.

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RamboSixVegas t1_j9m391r wrote

Reply to comment by monkeypox_69 in TIL Titanic’s Tender (Ship to Shore Ferry), SS Nomadic is the only surviving White Star Line Ship; it has been restored to its original livery (ship’s paint scheme) and serves as a museum. by theAusterityClinic

It's also pretty easy to do. You walk right into the mens' toilets the way you would any modern public bathroom, so you might expect the women's bathroom to be the same. To get to the ladies' toilets, you first enter from the 1st Class area into a lounge exclusive to women that anyone can explore as they would the rest of the ship. Then, you turn left to enter the bathroom proper, which is a room with a sink in the middle with a bench to the left and two toilets to the right.

Men and women alike often went into the lounge then, in "tourist mode," continued walking into the bathroom. Keep in mind the Trust used the recovered original fittings and used recreations when the originals weren't recoverable. The bathrooms really are an attraction in and of themselves. It wasn't uncommon for unintentional voyeurs to be wowed by the decor and belatedly realize they were in a fully functional ladies' bathroom.

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Taleya t1_j9lyagv wrote

Reply to comment by Mindheave in TIL to finish writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame within an impossible deadline of 6 months, Victor Hugo locked his clothes away, making him unable to go outside and procrastinate which forced him to do anything but finish writing his book. by Old_Sport7920

I find it impossible to believe Hugo - the man so horny they literally had to close the cities brothels when he died because all the workers were at the funeral - did not do this.

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Vainpaix t1_j9ly911 wrote

Reply to comment by BigEd369 in TIL about Saint Josaphat (aka Būdhasaf), a legendary Christian saint whose life is based on Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. His life story tells of how Josaphat, a son of an Indian kind that persecuted the Christian Church in his kingdom, converted to Christianity. by kweenllama

> 2- Please provide some sort of explanation for you statement that Mithras wasn’t a human, I’m not accepting “No he wasn’t” as a valid answer.

Mithras was literally the incarnation of the light of the Sun, a living attribute of his father's power as the Sun. He slays the bull that becomes the moon, like the sun's rays slays the darkness of night.

> 3- You left off the part where I talked about old stories and myths informing new ones, so if you need everything to line up perfectly before you’ll consider it as possible, we’ll that’s not going to happen for anything that happened prior to about 1300 CE in Europe, and can’t happen for most of European history until the 1600s.

Worship of Christ is older than Roman Mithraism.

> 4- Christianity was also a mystery cult at that time, one of the theories on its rise in popularity was that the Christians didn’t charge an admission fee or the like, unlike most other mystery cults at the time.

Christianity was and is a proselytising religion, the mystery cults meanwhile were akin to Freemasonry in how only a limited number of initiates were allowed and how they were forbidden from sharing with outsiders wtf they were up to.

> 5- As for your statements that the seven sacraments were just a coincidence, you’re stating that two religions being practiced in the same place at the same time (place meaning not just Rome but also the Roman underground caves and public works, time meaning the 1st century CE) independently had similarities going on but that there was no crossover or common source for any of the commonalities, so that’s a claim that needs some backup.

The seven levels of initiatien in Mithraism corresponds to the number of planets, thereby the attributes of the levels; the number of Sacraments within the Chrstian Church varies, the definition of what a Sacrament is varies, but that there are seven was only pegged down within the Catholic Church in 1215, nearly 900-years after Mithraism started its decline. It is coincidental.

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