Word has it that Pink Floyd member, Roger Waters, didn't write "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" just as part of their concept album The Wall. It was meant as an actual critique of his elementary school teachers.
He hated his grammar school teachers and felt they were more interested in keeping the kids quiet than in teaching them. The wall refers to the emotional barrier Waters built around himself because he wasn't in touch with reality. The bricks in the wall are the events in his life that propelled him to build this proverbial wall around himself - his school teacher was just another brick in the wall.
What a different tale would have been told had it been written about my elementary education in a rural school, just wanting to get through the day . . .
We don't need no tours of bakeries
Time ill-spent away from home
No dark rooms to yawn through filmstrips
Teacher, throw them kids a bone
Hey, teacher, throw them kids a bone
All in all it's just like sitting out in the hall
Try to crawl to just another grade in the fall
When you're tall, you'll get to go and shop at the mall
You'd never know I had a crush on my 2nd-grade teacher, Mrs. Hunter.
Clarence Odbody, the angel who saves George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, appears on screen for only 15 minutes.
It irritates me when people on medical shows say things like “You have to save my child! Please save my child!” As if the medical staff wasn’t going to do anything until the parent told them to.
The voice of Betty Rubble, Bea Benaderet, was also Kate Bradley, the owner of The Shady Rest, on Petticoat Junction.
Two spoons of Swiss Miss plus one spoon of Tang makes for a tasty, orangey mug of hot chocolate.
Ice is not slippery. The tiny bit of water (i.e., melted ice) between your boot and the ice is what's slippery.
The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling was only 5'4" tall...if tall is the right word to use in this instance.
I'd be terminal, too, if I had an arrow through my head.
The founder of Hormel Foods, maker of Spam® and other fine delicacies, was George A. Hormel, who pronounced his name HORmel, not HorMEL.
It's not the lavender flower that smells so good; it's the leaf.
Mary Tyler Moore was only 24 when she started playing Laura Petrie, wife of the 35‑year‑old Dick Van Dyke, on The Dick Van Dyke Show.
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They say curiosity killed the cat, so I really should have known better than to conduct this little experiment, but hey...I have never been accused of being significantly wiser than a cat.
For no reason in particular, I got to wondering what the major artificial intelligence entities "knew" about me. So I got to asking them.
I started with the algorithm that seems to have started the whole A.I. trend, ChatGPT:
It seems I have chatted with ChatGPT almost exclusively about my other blog, Truth Is..., and my personal blog (where book reviews have happened), DewDrops. That's fair enough, and this is a kind enough overview of what happens in those spaces.
Then I turned to the A.I. engine I use the most, CoPilot:
Very straightforward and factual. Little to no editorializing or sucking up. Well-played, CoPilot.
Finally, I went to X's A.I. entity, Grok:
Grok certainly did more research to provide its answer, but what a self-serving twit. "Your primary online presence is on X," my foot! With over 14-hundred friends on Facebook and fewer than 200 followers on X?
This isn't so much facts about me that Grok is reporting. It's more about what Grok thinks of itself and wants me to believe. (Oops. Did I just get political?)
It's always interesting when one of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" is something I've never heard of.
It either means the magazine doesn't know what the definition of the word great is, or I am hopelessly out of touch with any music produced after the 1980s.
I'll give you a few facts about Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees," then let you form your own conclusion.
Released in March of 1995, the song spent four weeks on the charts, reaching only as high as Number 65.
Thom Yorke said the song began as "A very nice melody which I had no idea what to do with; then you wake up and find your head singing some words to it."
Thom Yorke apparently has no idea what constitutes "a very nice melody."
An acoustic version was featured in the 1995 film Clueless: Cher (Alicia Silverstone) criticizes her stepbrother's taste in music when she overhears him listening to the tune, calling it "crybaby music."
The video for the song is so boring that several members of the cast and crew went comatose during its filming.
My lack of enthusiasm for this song knows no limits.
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