JaiDee Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Ok, I have one for you guys who are hardcore music fans. The Clash did a great version of "Police and Thieves", a reggae song, on their first album. Who did the original version just a few years earlier? Not Bob Marley or Peter Tosh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuijW5t3zjk Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 My goodness Rte, you are unstoppable! Junior Murvin it was. Cheers Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Ok, now we will go in the other direction; Bob Marley wrote and performed a great reggae song called "Johnny Was" back in 1974. It was then covered really well [and slightly faster] by a band from, of all places, Ulster in 1979. Name of that band? Jimslim would know! Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Possibly his character in the the film with Mr. Grimsdale but cannot recall it. Close BB,youre on the right lines....Pitkin was his name in Albania,after a character of his in his early films ie Mr Pitkin..........Why can't I remember anything that is useful to me? Ok, now we will go in the other direction; Bob Marley wrote and performed a great reggae song called "Johnny Was" back in 1974. It was then covered really well [and slightly faster] by a band from, of all places, Ulster in 1979. Name of that band? Jimslim would know! The Waterboys? Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 My guess would be Stiff Little Fingers. SLF would be correct! And, IMO, their version was much better than the original. Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 What connects cosmetics tycoon Elizabeth Arden, actor Sean Connery, Nazi-hunter Simon Weisenthal, former US President Ulysses S Grant, footballing legend Zinedine Zidane, & author J K Rowling? Looks like this one has hit a brick wall RT67. Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 they all hail from a common ancestor called mary who lived around 1.2 million years ago 1 Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 What connects cosmetics tycoon Elizabeth Arden, actor Sean Connery, Nazi-hunter Simon Weisenthal, former US President Ulysses S Grant, footballing legend Zinedine Zidane, & author J K Rowling? What connects cosmetics tycoon Elizabeth Arden, actor Sean Connery, Nazi-hunter Simon Weisenthal, former US President Ulysses S Grant, footballing legend Zinedine Zidane, & author J K Rowling? They all had the same birthday? Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 Wouldn't that be cheetahs, tomcat? & nope, pdogg - that was another question! Sounds like several nights may pass before I have the honour of revealing the answer... Could it be they had honoury knighthoods or something along those lines. Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Wouldn't that be cheetahs, tomcat? & nope, pdogg - that was another question! Sounds like several nights may pass before I have the honour of revealing the answer... the clue is in the honour....i didnt know it so i googled it.....its a good question,.......mon ami Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 You are in the neighbourhood, mon ami! From the French government or some other body in France. Quote Link to comment
Hefe Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 What is the connection between one of the most popular Hollywood actresses in the 1940s & today's cell/moble phones & wifi? Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 What is the connection between one of the most popular Hollywood actresses in the 1940s & today's cell/moble phones & wifi? I'll take a guess that perhaps a descent of hers was involved in developing them? Quote Link to comment
Hefe Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Nope, good try tho. I will give her name out: Hedy Lamar. She first became famous early on for a scene in which she had a close-up during a orgasm scene, first one (for non porn films anyway). She was a MGM A-list star during the 40s. No googling! Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 What is the connection between one of the most popular Hollywood actresses in the 1940s & today's cell/moble phones & wifi? Thanks for telling us it was Hedy Lamarr. If you had asked who it was who developed some technology used in cell phones I could not have remembered. But when you mention Hollywood actress & today's mobiles, I was as surprised as anyone that an "actress" dreamt up something technical. I have no idea what it was, it was a long time ago I came across that bit of trivia but it was fairly important from memory. Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I have no idea what it was, I was just thinking, I haven't actually answered the question so keep trying. I'm sure Hefe will reward whoever gets it with a free bar fine & a week's worth of beer... Quote Link to comment
Hefe Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 OK, due to lack of popular demand I'll spill. Although I wouldn't have expected a precise answer to Hedy Lamar's involvement with cell phone tech, it is pretty interesting. During down time on films she came up with a system of frequency "skipping", along with a composer friend who used it for robotic musical performances. The US Government grabbed it when, I believe, she suggested it might have uses for defense (this was during WW2) & so it was officially classified secret info but then never used much & the patent expired over time. Years later it became declassified & someone read it & realized it's potential & it became a basis for spread spectrum cellular phone commuications, wifi & other tech. Meanwhile she recieved no money or recognition until years later, the late 90s. According to her wiki (an interesting read) she was at different times a Hollywood millionaire, broke, arrested for shoplifting, did full frontal nudity in a movie in the 30s, attended the same parties as Hitler & "according to her autobiography, Ecstasy and Me (1966), while attempting to flee her husband, Friedrich Mandl, she reputedly slipped into a brothel and hid in an empty room. While her husband searched the brothel, a man entered the room and she had sex with him so she could remain hidden. She was finally successful in escaping when she hired a new maid who resembled her; she drugged the maid and used her uniform as a disguise to escape." Interesting gal 2 Quote Link to comment
deepthroat Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 WOW! I remember reading about Hedy Lamar when i was but a wee sprout, and have always remembered her as being the first Hollywood actress to have done frontal nudity. I think Mel Brooks used a play on her name for one of the roles in Blazing Saddles... wasn't the Harvey Korman character called Headly (sic) Lamar? Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 WOW! I remember reading about Hedy Lamar when i was but a wee sprout, and have always remembered her as being the first Hollywood actress to have done frontal nudity. I think Mel Brooks used a play on her name for one of the roles in Blazing Saddles... wasn't the Harvey Korman character called Headly (sic) Lamar? You answered the next quiz question I was going to ask DT! Like on Jeopardy, buzzing in before the question ( I'll take 20th Century Ladyboys for $200 Alex) Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Benjamin Franklin had a son named William, who, believe it or not, was a Tory. He was also the Royal Governor of a future US state before the war for independence; which US state? Quote Link to comment
SiamSam Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 William was illegitimate. He was a loyalist and as a result at odds with his Dad. I believe he was Colonial (Royal) Governor for New Jersey. I am a big Ben Franklin fan. Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I believe he was Colonial (Royal) Governor for New Jersey. Jersey it is! Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 The Gall-Peters projection is what, and which projection does it seek to correct? If no one else gets this one I will go with the way we see, images come in 'backwards' and our eyes need to correct them so we can see the images properly. Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 If a Spanish speaker said buen provecho to you, what would a French one say to mean the same thing? Quote Link to comment
williethepimp Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 If a Spanish speaker said buen provecho to you, what would a French one say to mean the same thing? bon chance? Quote Link to comment
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