Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:16 pm**

That sounds like when I learned several years ago Rooney Mara is related to both the Rooney family and Mara family. She's a Steeler/Giant

Edit: Then there's this

Rooney Mara's maternal grandfather, Timothy James "Tim" Rooney, has run Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino in Yonkers, New York since 1972.

Bridget is her aunt. Timothy's daughter Kathleen married Chris Mara, Senior Player Personnel Executive for the Giants and son of Wellington Mara. I guess he was the disliked child since his brother is the president, CEO, and face of the ownership group.

And yea, outside of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Rooney Mara kind of sucks and I would rather look at her sister anyways.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:39 pm**

Greta Garbo was a New York Rangers fan.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:59 pm**

Greta Garbo and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine

Grace Kelly, Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers, dance on air

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:59 pm**

Cole Hauser, who plays Rip in Yellowstone also played Benny in Dazed and Confused.

Posted: **Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:01 am**

Cole Hauser, who plays Rip in Yellowstone also played Benny in Dazed and Confused.

I thought I was in the RIP thread for a second. Whew

Posted: **Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:57 am**

Norm Macdonald created the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch on SNL and was its original principal writer. He was complaining about how easy the questions were on Jeopardy celebrity week, and it reminded him of an SCTV sketch called Half Wits. He thought it would be funny to combine the two.

Posted: **Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:59 am**

Norm Macdonald created the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch on SNL and was its original principal writer. He was complaining about how easy the questions were on Jeopardy celebrity week, and it reminded him of an SCTV sketch called Half Wits. He thought it would be funny to combine the two.

Good stuff. I watched a little bit of celebrity jeopardy with Mayam Bialik hosting...even more of a waste of time than before. Trebek wouldn't let them get away with half the nonsense she does.

Posted: **Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:02 pm**

Norm Macdonald created the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch on SNL and was its original principal writer. He was complaining about how easy the questions were on Jeopardy celebrity week, and it reminded him of an SCTV sketch called Half Wits. He thought it would be funny to combine the two.

Posted: **Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:44 am**

In 1879 Belgium, 37 cats were "trained" and hired to deliver mail. It was an unsuccess, as you'd expect.

Posted: **Wed Mar 22, 2023 11:39 am**

Although they remain legal tender in the United States, high-denomination bills were last printed on December 27, 1945, and were officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, by the Federal Reserve System due to "lack of use". The lower production $5,000 and $10,000 notes had effectively disappeared well before then.

Beginning in July, 1969, the Federal Reserve began removing high-denomination currency from circulation and destroying any large bills returned by banks. As of May 30, 2009, only 336 $10,000 bills were known to exist, along with 342 remaining $5,000 bills and 165,372 remaining $1,000 bills. Due to their rarity, collectors pay considerably more than the face value of the bills to acquire them, and some are in museums in other parts of the world.

Posted: **Wed Mar 22, 2023 4:40 pm**

the effect a vehicle has on how it stresses a road is calculated by taking the fourth power of its load per axle. Thus a 30 ton, 3 axle truck stresses a road 10,000 ((30/3)^4) times more than a 2 ton, 2 axle car ((2/2)^4=1)

a bicycle would need to cross a road 160,000 times to equal the stress of one drive from a car

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

Posted: **Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:47 pm**

TIL there was a Three's Company spinoff called Three's A Crowd that John Ritter starred in. Further, TC was a rehash of a British TV show. The British show had a spinoff, which formed the basis for the Three's Company spinoff. Turns out original ideas were hard to come by back then too. So that's four tv shows off of one pretty lame idea.
Five if you include The Ropers.

Posted: **Sat Apr 15, 2023 7:45 am**

TIL about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebe ... r_incident#

Posted: **Sat Apr 15, 2023 7:46 am**

The Sankebetsu brown bear incident, also known as the Rokusensawa bear attack or the Tomamae brown bear incident, was the most brutal bear attack in Japanese history. It took place from December 9-14, 1915, when a Ussuri brown bear woke from hibernation and repeatedly attacked several houses in Hokkaidō, Japan, killing seven settlers.

Posted: **Sat Apr 15, 2023 7:53 am**

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

Quite the read… what a guy.

Posted: **Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:14 am**

TIL about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebe ... r_incident#

huh, I had no idea they even had bears in Japan

last week I watched the bear attack scene of this movie and read the background of the true events that it chronicled: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backcountry_(film)

of course black bear attacks are super rare but man that had to be absolutely horrifying

Posted: **Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:32 am**

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

Quite the read… what a guy.

I always read things like this and think... Imagine if cell phones were around back then. Or, evidently in Rube's case, mental health diagnoses.

Posted: **Sat Apr 15, 2023 12:11 pm**

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

Quite the read… what a guy.

I always read things like this and think... Imagine if cell phones were around back then. Or, evidently in Rube's case, mental health diagnoses.

I'd like to see the box scores for that double header where he pitched 17 inning in the first game and a complete game shutout in the second game. That has tall take written all over it.

Posted: **Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:21 pm**

If anyone listens to the Dollop podcast, their episode on the Rube is an all time gr8

Posted: **Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:06 am**

British colonies post-emancipation made heavy use of indentured servitude (which, of course, approximated slavery anyway). Many of the indentured servants were of Indian ethnicity and this, in some countries like Trinidad and Tobago, the largest ethnic group is Indian

also there’s a significant population of mixed Indian-African people who are known as Dougla; Kamala Harris is one

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2023 9:43 am**

woah, TIL about pica: an eating disorder where a person will crave eating non-nutritious things like ice, clay, paper or dirt. There’s correlations between developmental disorders, being pregnant or iron deficient and pica but doctors aren’t sure why

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)

people buy/sell chunks of cornstarch on Etsy too: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1058334612 ... ck=1&bes=1

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2023 10:16 am**

Dude did you never watch My Strange Addiction?

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2023 2:06 pm**

Somebody else already made a diatomaceous earth joke in the last week, so it's probably too soon to bring that back up.

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2023 2:57 pm**

Unpossible.

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm**

...that my oven has an auto shutoff when the door is open. I was baking cookies and one of the pans was blocking the door from shutting completely. The only way I caught it was because the light wouldn't shut off. The pan was about 1/2" too long (some kickout at the back of the stove, probably the wiring for the range and controls). The oven never got above 225F, and that was why.