More Trivia

[willedoo]

The things you learn. I was reading a news article about actor Mark Wahlberg, and didn't know that he had a career as a rapper before he went into acting. He was the front man of a band called Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch. I think going into acting was a good move.

 

 

[facthunter]

ALL the WORLD is a stage.   Nev

[onetrack]

I was reading about Jimmy Buffet and I was quite surprised to find, that unlike a lot of singers, he's a shrewd investor, and worth around US$600M. He owns a casino and restaurants, and is a property developer, too.

 

Even though a lot of his songs are about dope smoking, partying, getting drunk, and having a good time, his persona is not like that at all, and I find him quite a likeable, easy-going bloke, who has never appeared to have seriously abused drink or drugs.

 

 

 

[willedoo]

He had a lot of good songs. One of my favourites was the one where he was looking after the still and him and the bear got drunk together.

[kgwilson]

Is he any relation to warren Buffet? He is worth over $US120 billion

[onetrack]

He's no relation, but apparently Warren occasionally cracks jokes, about "his cousin Jimmy".  

 

Here's another highly under-rated and probably largely forgotten muso who was a master lyric writer, as well as a good singer. In addition, he was instrumental in addressing world hunger, and often gave hunger benefit concerts for no fee.

He died at age 38 in 1981 as a result of being hit in the rear by a truck on the Long Island Expressway as he tried to change lanes. His VW Rabbit caught fire, but he wasn't seriously burnt in the crash, he died from severe internal injuries.

He's the only singer I know who received a Congressional Medal of Honour posthumously, for his humanitarian work.

 

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/07/17/Harry-Chapin-dies-at-38-in-car-crash/6319364190400/

 

His song, "I Wanna Learn a Love Song" is the true story of how he met his wife, Sandra Chapin, who was previously married, and 8 yrs older than him. They were happily married for 13 years and had 2 children, while he was stepfather to her 3 children from her earlier marriage. Sandra Chapin won a US$12M payout for Harrys death in a negligence lawsuit against the truck drivers company, and used the money to continue humanitarian work via the Harry Chapin Foundation.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Chapin

 

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Harry Chaplin is perhaps my favourite singer and songwriter. His ballads still move and amuse me.

[spacesailor]

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Any relation to CHARLEY. 

spacesailor

 

Edited April 12, 2022 by spacesailor
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[red750]

No 'L' in the surname, it's Chapin, not Chaplin. Pronounced Chay-pin.

[pmccarthy]

Bloody autocorrect.

[spacesailor]

I did see the two different names,

Could there be more than ONE charley Chaplin  film, with him singing.

It,s very hard to get the old fifties movies now.

I,m looking for : No Resting Place :  1951 , paul Rotha : starring,  michael Ghough, and my late bro-inlaw.

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[willedoo]

Another musician who's had an interesting career is Annie Lennox. Apart from the odd bit of music and her humanitarian and charity work, these days she's Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.

 

 

[red750]

How good is your eyesight? Spot the number that is not 803.

[old man emu]

Got six.

[kgwilson]

603, 903, 805, 809, 883, 808

[Yenn]

Took me about 5 seconds to see 808 2up from bottom and 3 from right, so I stopped looking then.

[facthunter]

Six.  It's just a matter of being methodical. I doubt it proves much. It IS a bit of an eyesight test. Nev

[old man emu]

How many stopped as soon as they found one number that was not 803?

[nomadpete]

I confess. I did

 

I hope that qualifies as trivial?

 

 

 

 

Edited April 22, 2022 by nomadpete

[spacesailor]

And l confess too !, lazy me. LoL

spacesailor

[onetrack]

I didn't get a chance to do the test before Kevin provided all the answers! I guess I would have stopped at the first number I found wrong, too.

[Marty_d]

4 hours ago, old man emu said:

How many stopped as soon as they found one number that was not 803?

If you go by the instruction, " Spot the number that is not 803.", everyone should have.

[nomadpete]

Now THAT is trivial, Marty.

Well done!

[old man emu]

8 hours ago, Marty_d said:

If you go by the instruction, " Spot the number that is not 803.", everyone should have.

Marty, you must be a defence barrister because that is the format of questions they put to Crown witnesses to cast doubt on the credibility of the witness' evidence. Say that in answer to that question, the witness said, "808". That's a truthful answer, but the next question from the barrister would be, "How did you miss the other five numbers?" Followed by, "Did you examine the evidence more completely?" By this time the witness is getting confused and if they try to expand on their answer the barrister will simply shut them down with, "Yes or no. Did you examine the evidence more completely?". The jury loses faith in the witness.

[red750]

The question was specifically worded to trap the unwary. There are lots of these on the web. On one test, I got 24 out of 10.