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penster1 t1_j9mnfmj wrote
penster1 t1_j9mnb75 wrote
Reply to comment by AdvonKoulthar 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
You will have fun
chaseinger t1_j9mn14q wrote
Reply to comment by squeevey in TIL about Jamaican Ginger AKA "Jake" which was popular during Prohibition for its high alcohol content. Unfortunately it caused paralysis leading to a distinctive walk called the Jake Walk or the Jake Dance. by HeavyMetalOverbite
> neurotoxin
this was a triumph
FemmandelionII t1_j9mmvmq wrote
Reply to TIL about Jamaican Ginger AKA "Jake" which was popular during Prohibition for its high alcohol content. Unfortunately it caused paralysis leading to a distinctive walk called the Jake Walk or the Jake Dance. by HeavyMetalOverbite
I learned of this from reading Water for Elephants
LimpingOne t1_j9mmb9c wrote
Reply to TIL the worst snowstorm in the history of Los Angeles occurred in 1949 when up to two feet of snow covered the city for three days as it reached its lowest temperature ever recorded, 28 degrees Fahrenheit by SappyGilmore
My father, who died at 92, mentioned that snowstorm more than once. He made snowmen.
zincdeclercq t1_j9mllep wrote
Reply to comment by schoolme_straying in TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis. by NYstate
Dirk “Doktor Deepthrust” Harder
Cyberpunkapostle t1_j9mlfcq wrote
Reply to comment by DividedState in TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657. by jeremyjava
I thought that was Abraham Lincoln!
JeffRSmall t1_j9mlbgx 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
I’m going to see it this Friday!
schoolme_straying t1_j9mlbcn wrote
Reply to comment by zincdeclercq in TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis. by NYstate
He was German - he was hardly going to be called Gerald Frobisher..
He was great too in Chitty Chitty bang bang.
I knew a German man called Dirk Harder. So you know Germans are different
franktopus t1_j9mko4s 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
Sorry but I've never understood the appeal of this movie or the culture behind it.
Additional-Top-8199 t1_j9mki77 wrote
Reply to comment by Poor_old_Rich_Young in TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657. by jeremyjava
Abe Lincoln
jcd1974 t1_j9mju5p wrote
Reply to comment by TheAmericanQ 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
Have you ever been to Key West?
DepthC t1_j9mjtmc wrote
Reply to TIL lemurs get high on millipedes by belledujourr
And while Elon Musk made an electric car, lemurs MADAGASCAR
opiate_lifer t1_j9mjhxv wrote
Reply to TIL about Jamaican Ginger AKA "Jake" which was popular during Prohibition for its high alcohol content. Unfortunately it caused paralysis leading to a distinctive walk called the Jake Walk or the Jake Dance. by HeavyMetalOverbite
Bay rum was also used, its basically ethanol bay leaf oil which is slightly toxic to your kidneys.
rapiertwit t1_j9mje0u wrote
johnsgrove t1_j9mjdk9 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
What about ‘The Mousetrap’ St Martin’s Theatre London which is in its 69th year of production?
TheAmericanQ t1_j9mj81g wrote
Reply to comment by jcd1974 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
The movie is very gay and a lot of the shadow casts that act along with the movie at midnight showings have at least a few people in drag.
All of which are a big no no in Florida these days.
RabidMortal t1_j9mibmr wrote
Reply to TIL about Jamaican Ginger AKA "Jake" which was popular during Prohibition for its high alcohol content. Unfortunately it caused paralysis leading to a distinctive walk called the Jake Walk or the Jake Dance. by HeavyMetalOverbite
>To make their products more palatable, manufacturers of Jamaica ginger began to illegally replace the ginger oleoresin with cheaper ingredients like molasses, glycerin, and castor oil, cutting costs and significantly diminishing the unpleasant ginger flavor.
>When the price of castor oil increased in the latter portion of the 1920s, Harry Gross, president of Hub Products Corporation, sought an alternative additive for his Jamaica ginger formula. He discarded ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol as being too volatile, eventually selecting a mixture containing triorthocresyl phosphate (TOCP), a plasticizer used in lacquers and paint finishing.
>...
>TOCP was originally thought to be non-toxic; however, it was later determined to be a neurotoxin that causes axonal damage to the nerve cells in the nervous system of human beings, especially those located in the spinal cord.
>...
>TOCP-adulterated Jake was identified as the cause of the paralysis,[10] and the contaminated Jake was recovered. But by that time, it was too late for many victims. Some did recover full, or partial, use of their limbs. But for most, the loss was permanent.
Nothing could go wrong using a lacquer plasticizer , right?
squeevey t1_j9mi1cz wrote
Reply to TIL about Jamaican Ginger AKA "Jake" which was popular during Prohibition for its high alcohol content. Unfortunately it caused paralysis leading to a distinctive walk called the Jake Walk or the Jake Dance. by HeavyMetalOverbite
> When the price of castor oil increased in the latter portion of the 1920s, Harry Gross, president of Hub Products Corporation, sought an alternative additive for his Jamaica ginger formula. He discarded ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol as being too volatile, eventually selecting a mixture containing triorthocresyl phosphate (TOCP), a plasticizer used in lacquers and paint finishing. Gross was advised by the manufacturer of the mixture, Celluloid Corporation, that it was non-toxic.[3][6]
> TOCP was originally thought to be non-toxic; however, it was later determined to be a neurotoxin that causes axonal damage to the nerve cells in the nervous system of human beings, especially those located in the spinal cord. The resulting type of paralysis is now referred to as organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy, or OPIDN.[7]
0OO0OO00O t1_j9mfnc9 wrote
Reply to comment by keetojm 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
Hijacking the comment, anyone know a good Dosto biography thats not Joseph Frank's? it's prohibitively expensive here
SlimRidge t1_j9mnlyu wrote
Reply to comment by cgmcav 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
It's really bad. I will get downvoted, but I don't care: it's absolutely horrific.