HA!
I’ve heard of 'em! Read about ‘em in Pamela des Barres’ book - Michael was friends w/'em, and their son adored them as a toddler.
Having said that, I don’t know if I’ve ever heard their music. Such is the way in my life.
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speaking of, I haven’t been watching the olympics much, but yesterday I landed on it and it was wrestling, I stopped to check it out.
one leotard said USA. ok, great, it’s my nation versus… ROC. ok, cool. us against Taiwan…
why is the Taiwanese wrestler a round-eye honky with a slavic name? there’s some kinda diaspora settled in Taiwan, I guess?
so, a few internet searches explained that the Russian team was being punished for state-sponsored doping in 2018. the athletes compete as the Russian Olympic Committee, no flag, no anthem.
so, what happens when they compete against the Republic of China (Taiwan, as opposed to the People’s Republic of China i.e. Mainland China)?
that was a bit harder to track down. turns out, Taiwan wants people to refer to them politically as the Republic of China, but in the olympics they have been going by “Chinese Taipei” since 1984, which is because they used to compete as “China” and the PRC was not recognized by the Olympic Committee. but in 79 the OC flip-flopped and recognized the PRC as China and the PRC had enough clout to also demand that the OC no longer recognize Taiwan as any type of China; “Republic Of” or otherwise. the best they get is “Chinese Taipei” and they have to use a special olympics-only flag and if they win they have to play the anthem of the PRC (!) which is just rubbing salt in the wound.
so anyway, if you see ROC on olympic jerseys now or in the future, that’s because Russia cheated and are being punished. it is never the actual political entity known as the ROC and never was or will be at the olympics because reasons.
so my question is: couldn’t they have called the Russian athletes the Olympic Committee of Russia/the OCR (or something else) and saved us all the confusion?
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Yes.
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No. You’re talking bureaucracy here; confusion for outsiders is one of their main products.
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The origin of Batman’s hometown:
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Yep.
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Thank you. Stop trying to claim Batman, Chicago!
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I believe that before DC bought up a bunch of characters, Metropolis represented NYC, as well.
Chicago is Central City, which became famous as the home of Barry Allen, the Silver-Age Flash. The rest of this may help:
Uh, Wonder Woman was based in Washington, DC after leaving Paradise Island when she was first published. And they aren’t listing Chicago for the Flash…Gateway City sounds like it would be St. Louis, wouldn’t it? Coast City…I don’t remember me & my bro ever discussing that one. Weird.
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…and the flick makes me think of this song, and the song the flick.
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He portrayed Ho-Joh, the Korean "Swamp"boy on the TV series “MAS*H”.
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Just because it communicates the scale of a Wedgie better than most still images:
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Wait, this is 2 years old?
Had a bit of a double take early on.
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NO, it’s not radiation what does it!
Okay, picture this as a movie for the SyFy channel: Humankind somehow figures out how to improve air quality and oxygen in the atmosphere is increased; unfortunately this makes bugs get bigger. Hilarity ensues.
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Then there’s this guy:
According to Guinness, the largest one on record
measured 38.7 cm (15.2 in) in length, 6.7 cm (2.6 in) in circumference and had 256 legs.
The average length for this type of millipede is between 16–28 cm (6–11 in).
I saw one at a zoo once. Eek.
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Better yet, pair it with the “insects on Mars” pareidolia.
“The thin Martian gravity can’t support a thick Earthlike atmosphere and won’t hold lighter gases like … Nitrogen … But thanks to the elemental transmuter, we can give our Martian colonies 0.4 bars of pure Oxygen.”
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