Consider the time that DeForest Kelley (Bones in the original Star Trek) was on stage, playing a scene that had him stripping down to his boxers.
But in taking off his shirt he accidentally snapped the necklace chain he was wearing. And the charm that hung from it, an anniversary gift from his beloved wife Carolyn, fell off the stage and into the darkness below.
And he was so upset that he completely lost his focus. Peering into the darkness after his wife’s gift, he accidentally hooked his thumbs under the waste band of his shorts instead of just his trousers.
And pulled his underpants down.
On stage. In front of a full house.
And knowing that, I hope your day now seems just a little less bad.
Amnesiac Cordelia in season 4 of “Angel,” which aired 2002-3, on what she does and doesn’t remember: “I know who’s president, and I kinda wish I didn’t.”
According to Wikipedia, Joss Whedon wrote this episode (“Spin the Bottle”). I really like the framing, with Lorne telling the story and occasionally popping up to narrate inside it.
Amnesiac Cordelia in season 4 of “Angel,” which aired 2002-3, on what she does and doesn’t remember: “I know who’s president, and I kinda wish I didn’t.”
the lock jammed on the front door of my shitty prewar apartment building so i just spent twenty minutes forcing it open while my very drunk neighbor sat on the steps nodding at my efforts and going “this is fun. being locked out together. we should hang out more”
he’s like 6’2” and jacked at one point he was like “try a kick. try… kicking it” so i donkey kicked it as hard as i could and it did absolutely nothing but he was still like “wow. more torque…. than i expected. you’ve got a surprising, uh. torque to size ratio” and i think i’m putting it on my resume
Triggered by another post I didn’t want to hijack:
Excalibur.
In the legends, Excalibur comes out of a lake (although some versions have Excalibur as the sword in the stone, those are later…the sword Arthur pulls from the stone breaks and he goes to get a better one).
From the “Lady of the Lake.”
Here’s the thing.
In northern Europe in the Iron Age all the way through to the early Medieval period, most iron came from bog iron. It was hard to smelt, because it was a rather low grade ore, but you didn’t have to mine it and it was a renewable resource (in about twenty years you could just come back and get more, because it formed constantly).
Meaning that the iron used to make a sword came…out of water.
In most fairy stories, fairies don’t like iron. So the vision of the Lady as some kind of fairy or elf? Not likely.
The idea of her as a druid? Maybe.
But what’s far more likely is this: The Lady of the Lake was a smith.
But….but…
The Celtic deity in charge of smiths and ironworking was Bridget, a goddess. The mystical associations with the Lady would fit with her being a priestess of Bridget…and thus, a smith.
IOW, Arthurian people, maybe we should not be visualizing the Lady of the Lake as a slender, graceful woman in a gown…
Been thinking about this, and wikied bog iron and holy shit, I did not know bog iron was a thing, or that it was the primary source of iron for most of Northern European history. I knew anaerobic, iron-fixating bacteria lived in bogs because I knew they were responsible for a lot of the hydrocarbon production that makes the water shimmery and the air smell distinctively swampy. I did not know that they produced so much iron out of the water that they effectively made metal a renewable resource.
Next you’re going to tell me that Vikings had plastic from bogs, too.
I’m thinking it’s something a lot of Americans don’t know about because early Medieval history is not well taught here.
God forgot to give sins to the angels and thumbs to the goats, so that angels have more thumbs than they can handle, and goats have more sins. To this day goats and angels both adore and resent humankind for having BOTH thumbs AND a capacity to sin, in balanced and wieldy amounts. That’s a fact about the creation of the universe
……i can’t tell if this is shitposting or talmudic midrash
au where loki is a stuck-up, pretentious author who moves to an old fixer-upper in the country to get “perspective” and hires thor to do some repairs. cue loki thirsting over him for weeks and thor purposely taking his shirt off at the right moments, and loki doing embarrassingly domestic things like making him lemonade. and he gets so frustrated because his novel is supposed to be a moody drama but it’s turning into a cheesy harlequin romance & very obviously channeling his thirst for the handyman. so, naturally, they fuck to get it out of loki’s system. but then it happens again, and again, and again, and three months down the road thor still hasn’t fixed the back deck.
Maybe medieval people happened upon a T-Rex fossil and came to a relatively logical conclusion that dragons existed.
I’ve read a couple books on this actually, thats exactly what happened. Also cyclops are from looking at bones from a certain type of baby elephant. The giant note hole and tiny eyes made it look like a single eye.
Yep, can confirm! And what’s even funnier to me is that back in the dark ages, Greek people used to find a lot of prehistoric bear skeletons – and those look exactly like human skeletons, except they’re like eight feet tall or something – so they naturally assumed those were the heroes of legend, and made armour and clothes for them and reburied them with the most splendid and sacred religious ceremonies they could think of? Fast forward five centuries, Athens’ all modern and rational, philosophers and scientists aren’t taking any shit from anyone – but the problem is, people will randomly find graves containing giant-ass warriors, so that’s something that can’t be explained away and yeah, demigods were a thing and yeah, they used to be eight feet tall and sorry I don’t make the rules.
Some scientists suspect that the origin of the cyclops myths came about because of elephant skulls, which are vaguely human in shape but with a honking big hole in the middle for the trunk but easily mistakable for an eye socket without any flesh
Loki is the Philosopher King 