Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2023 2:50 pm**

How do you know if they are sharp or flat?

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2023 2:50 pm**

(That's a little bit of free music theory comedy there for ya)

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2023 2:55 pm**

of all the possible meanings of "accident(al)" and you hamfist a musical joke?? no wonder it was free...

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:22 pm**

TIL that one of the announcers on the Bobby Knight chair toss game was former Pirates announcer Lanny Frattare.

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:27 pm**

The MLB Braves in their early years in Boston had various nicknames other than Braves:

Red Stockings
Red Caps
Rustlers
Bees

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:33 pm**

TIL that one of the announcers on the Bobby Knight chair toss game was former Pirates announcer Lanny Frattare.

There’s noooo doubt about it.

Posted: **Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:44 pm**

The Aaron Burr milk commercial turned 30 this year

I mention this because TIL that Michael Bay's first job was directing this commercial, fresh out of film school and two years before Bad Boys came out and he quickly became famous.

Posted: **Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:02 pm**

Good TIL imo

Posted: **Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:18 pm**

Posted: **Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:02 am**

uhhh…apparently edible figs contain wasps

Wasps pollinate the majority of commercially grown figs. Yes, edible figs do include at least one dead female wasp. However, it is not quite the urban legend that fruits contain insect meat. When a female wasp dies within an edible fig, an enzyme known as ficin in the fig breaks down her carcass into protein.

Posted: **Wed Aug 09, 2023 4:09 pm**

The Royal Family keeps bees.

The bees were notified of the death of Queen Elizabeth.

Apparently notifying bees of their keeper's death is an old beekeeper tradition, too?

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:50 pm**

the melody for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the ABCs was created in about 1761 (those lyrics were applied in the mid 1800s)

also, Mozart was a god damn genius (I knew that, but still). At 25 he wrote “12 variations” of the original melody and it’s sad that something that’s just a little piano warm up for his pupils is greater than anything I’ll ever even dream about composing

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:13 pm**

The Royal Family keeps bees.

The bees were notified of the death of Queen Elizabeth.

Apparently notifying bees of their keeper's death is an old beekeeper tradition, too?

Correct. The custom is to also tell of births, marriages, etc. but death seems to get the most notice. I believe to tell the bees of a keeper's death is to put them in mourning but also to let them know of a new keeper who will be good to them - so they don't fly away and/or they have a good honey harvest. Old Celtic custom.

Posted: **Mon Aug 28, 2023 12:08 pm**

Posted: **Fri Sep 01, 2023 12:44 am**

the countries either the most deaths in WW2 are Russia, China, Germany, Poland and…Indonesia, who had about 4 million deaths due to Japanese occupation

never knew that. Obviously you learn about the brutality of the Nazis but holy **** the imperial Japanese were insane

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:03 am**

I am ashamed to admit I didn't know who Rick Rescorla was recently. Shameful.

Rescorla was from Cornwall in the UK, left home and joined the British army when he was 16 and fought against Communist insurgents in Rhodesia and other British colonies in Africa before coming to the US and joining the US Army. He fought in the Ia Drang valley alongside Colonel Hal Moore of "We Were Soldiers" once fame.

He became a US citizen, got a BA and JD from the University of Oklahoma and ended up as the VP of Security of Morgan Stanley, whose offices were in the World Trade Center. He predicted the 1993 attack and began drilling Morgan Stanley employees on evacuating the WTC years before 2001. He managed to get all but six employees out on 9/11. He died that day trying to get more people out. Fascinating life, cut way too short:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002 ... s-are-dead

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:12 am**

This forum needs a like button.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 12:47 pm**

This forum needs a like button.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 12:48 pm**

This forum needs a like button.

i'd settle for quotes that say who made the post

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 12:49 pm**

This forum needs a like button.
i'd settle for quotes that say who made the post
It works in prosilver...

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 12:53 pm**

It does, indeed, work in ProSilver.

One of the other forums I go to has a like button. It's nice but it's not like I'm scrolling back to make sure a post got recognition so maybe they're not that useful.

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 12:53 pm**

This forum needs a like button.
i'd settle for quotes that say who made the post
It works in prosilver...

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 12:55 pm**

what is the point of a like button?

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 12:58 pm**

So you can see just how unpopular your opinions are...

Posted: **Wed Sep 13, 2023 1:01 pm**

He already knows.