Whatever happened to this guy?
The Black Inventor Who Inspired The Phrase "The Real McCoy" historydefined.net/elijah-mc… (https://www.historydefined.net/elijah-mccoy/)
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Weird. I always thought it was from a Star Trek episode.
"Dammit Jim, I'M the real McCoy!"
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*sigh*
Another phrase I've tried to popularize, with absolutely no success is "go eat a bag of bananas." I don't know why but I just find the idea of cleaning up a phrase like "go eat a bag of dicks" amusing. I've said it around any number of people though and no one has ever laughed.
It's fun to mispronounce words or use malaprops around a certain type of person - you know, the type who are easily irritated by other people's mistakes. My favourite phrase for this purpose is "I beg my pardon" because you can easily argue aggressively that it's the proper expression if anyone tries to correct you ("Why would YOU need to be pardoned for something I did? That doesn't make any sense."). I've been saying it for so long now that it comes naturally to me and I have to remind myself that I'm being deliberately stupid.
I don't find "I mean" or "like" as offensive - they're just vocal tics. I did know a guy who said "et cetera" at the end of every sentence and I could feel my eye twitch every time he said it.
"It is what it is" is something someone says when they have absolutely nothing to say about a given subject but want to waste your time by making you listen to them speak.
I think we need to put a moratorium on the phrases "it is what it is" and "I know, right?"
It's doing my head in and surely it's only a matter of time before I hear someone respond to the first statement with the second and I have no idea what I'm going to do at that point.
This previous unreleased album by Gila, before Florian Fricke (later of the sublime Popul Vuh) joined, is an undiscovered masterpiece of Kosmische.
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I'd have many questions I'd like to ask him if he turned up.
Tim McVeigh certainly did get around.
Damn, I'm a day late again. I need to set a calendar reminder for #fusionfursday
The whole Tartaria mythos is of a similar mindset: our culture was never capable of such beauty so all those wonderful buildings must be the product of a lost civilization. The irony is that it's basically true; those civilizations are gone, but it wasn't a mud flood that destroyed them - it was modernism.
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We live in such a degraded era that not only are our finest craftsmen unable to replicate the great achievements of the past (carving marble is all but a lost art at this point) but people no longer believe such feats were ever possible.
