bloodyrosemccoy | The Life Experience ~ Winter '11

What I Learned Since The Winter Solstice:

Clarence “Ducky” Nash not only voiced Donald Duck in English; he also did the voice on all the dubbed shorts Disney made so that the voice would remain consistent~~ly unintelligible~~ across all languages.
Before she became a TV cook show hostess, Julia Child INVENTED SHARK REPELLENT.
Shakira sings very differently in English than she does in Spanish—to an amazing degree. In English, she sounds like so many other Madonna clones; in Spanish she’s got that rich and confident voice. I’d never listened to one of her songs’ English and Spanish versions back-to-back before, but it’s amazing how different it is.
Drawing something that looks like text without being legible is called “Greeking”—the written equivalent of “rhubarb.”
Generally speaking, the human brain can only really count up to 4 at a glance. Numbers beyond that slow us down.
Cookie Monster’s name in ~~Hindu~~ Hindi is Biscuit Badsha.
BONUS EDIT WITH NEW LEARNED THING: Hindi is the language; Hindu is the religion. I never was really sure of the difference in the terms. Thanks, sriti !
It’s incredibly convenient to have a portable musical instrument to carry around and practice when you’ve got a few minutes, instead of having something too huge to lug around.
There is an explanation for my complete inability to ever adhere to the crazy raw food diet so many of our library patrons seem to be interested in starting up: Oral Allergy Syndrome. (I’m sure those raw food books would assure me that I wouldn’t have this syndrome if I just ate enough raw food to detox, but fuck ’em.)
You can get hives ON YOUR GOD DAMN EYEBALL.
There are a few drawbacks to nuclear power. [/understatement]
Mushrooms grow fast.
Calendars generally follow three main types: lunar, solar, and lunisolar. A great deal of work goes into keeping calendars on track, especially the lunisolar ones. Some calendars also have a really complex way to make the weekdays dependent on the date and even more complex astrological positions.
The term for the shaved head, or part of the head, of a monk is tonsure.
It is possible for me to find stars in the sky if I concentrate!
Also, Betelgeuse really does look orange.
The effectiveness of toilet paper follows a bell curve along its price range. Too cheap and it’s painful and thin; too expensive and it’s so pumped with lotions, layers, and moisturizers that it forgets its function as, well, toilet paper, and winds up just waving at your butt as it goes by.
There are Geno fans on the internet. I should have known.
Pizza sauce is a lot simpler than I thought, but crust is still a bit tough to work out.

Toilet paper in the US contains lotions and moisturisers?

I mean, what? Why? What's wrong with plain ol' paper?

I really don't know. I think it's crazy capitalist competition, trying to get an edge over one's competitors with Added Features. Thing is, there is not a whole lot you can do with just toilet paper, so they get creative.

There was one commercial where they claimed they went across the country and interviewed a bunch of women about what they wanted from a toilet paper, and I was thinking, "Probably something that gets your ass clean." (I was also thinking, "Why did they feel the need to only interview women? Do men not use toilet paper? Yuck.")

And the result is MOAR CHEMICALS being - literally! - flushed down the drains, for no good reason. *headdesk* As if those utterly pointless thingies that make your toilet smell like artificial freesia or ocean breeze* weren't bad enough.

*By the way, how come nothing labelled ocean/sea breeze ever smells like actual ocean/sea breeze? In my experience, ocean breezes smell like salt, rotting sea weed, dead fish, sea floor sludge, and - on one memorable occasion - dead porpoise. No sea I've ever been near has smelt like the vaguely pleasant and almost criminally inoffensive scent you get from products with an "ocean breeze" label.

The Life Experience ~ Winter '11

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