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It’s Wiggle Time!

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 76 Comments › )
Filed under Art, History, Humor, OOT, Open thread, Technology at June 27th, 2012 - 11:00 pm


I don’t have the original source for that bitchin’ & twitchin’ lenticulation, but I can tell you that the first .gif was created by Steve Wilhite of CompuServe 25 years ago. He coined the phrase, “Choosy programmers choose GIF.”

Fun Facts to Know And Tell on The Overnight Open Thread.

Happy 117th Birthday Sam Horwitz

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 35 Comments › )
Filed under Entertainment, History, Humor, Movies, OOT, Open thread at March 5th, 2012 - 11:00 pm

4 March 1895 – 22 November 1955

Born Samuel Horwitz, he was called “Shemp” because “Sam” came out that way in his mother’s thick Litvak accent. [Wiki]

Shemp joined brother Moe Howard (Moses Horwitz) and Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg) to form the original Three Stooges, but quit the trio to make a name for himself. He was replaced by his younger brother Curly Howard (Jerome Horwitz). In 1952, Curly suffered a massive stroke that left him unable to speak. Shemp returned to help fulfill the Stooge’s contract with Columbia Pictures.


When Shemp died, the film directors cut and pasted clips from previous movies, again to complete the filming contract. They also used stand-ins, filmed from the back. In movie-speak, a body double is still referred to as a “Shemp.”

Guess that’s enough for now (h/t Jonco) because it’s time for
The Overnight Open Thread.

[Update: Bumped this post from last night due to breaking news and stuff. It’s almost a virgin thread. – Bunk]

 

For All The Yinzers

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 160 Comments › )
Filed under Entertainment, History, Humor, Links, Music, OOT, Open thread at July 26th, 2011 - 11:00 pm

For those of you that think the late 1960’s was all hippies and beads and tie-dye and bell bottoms and pot, check this out:
IT’S 1968 AND PITTSBURGH ROCKS!

The Dickies covered “Nobody Like Me” in 1983, George Thorogood covered it in 1982, and it was covered by the Human Beinz in 1967. It was originally recorded in 1962 by the Isley Brothers. from Blue Ash, Ohio,  as if you didn’t know.

But there’s some unfortunate misinformation in that vid: “Teen Time” was really filmed in Steubenville, Ohio, not P-burgh. Just like at Diary of Daedalus, we fact check everything, no matter how trivial, on The Overnight Open Thread.