(February 11, 2024 at 11:28 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(February 11, 2024 at 10:46 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Apparently, there's some big sport event in the US today.

Who knew?

My wife mentioned something about it this morning. I had thought that it was yesterday.  The only sports I used to watch were drag racing and stuff like NASCAR. After enough times of my wife plunking her ass down on the couch and complaining that they only have to turn left, in the case of NASCAR, I quit watching that, too. 

I have argued that same thing for over 30 years but still have to deal with NASCAR. I also think those guys should drive in the damn rain.  Since stock car racing came out of whiskey running, I argue that the weather didn't stop them.  Drag racing too.  Those guys don't even turn...intentionally.

Husband used to watch sprint cars and truck racing and everything else he could find.  I guess progress has been made.  *eyeroll*

(February 11, 2024 at 11:39 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(February 11, 2024 at 11:28 pm)Fireball Wrote: My wife mentioned something about it this morning. I had thought that it was yesterday.  The only sports I used to watch were drag racing and stuff like NASCAR. After enough times of my wife plunking her ass down on the couch and complaining that they only have to turn left, in the case of NASCAR, I quit watching that, too. 

I have argued that same thing for over 30 years but still have to deal with NASCAR. I also think those guys should drive in the damn rain.  Since stock car racing came out of whiskey running, I argue that the weather didn't stop them.  Drag racing too.  Those guys don't even turn...intentionally.

Husband used to watch spring cars and truck racing and everything else he could find.  I guess progress has been made.  *eyeroll*

I watch car and motorbike racing occasionally

Not hours-long, marathon-length races, though.

I'd rather be riding fast than watching, though.

(February 11, 2024 at 11:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(February 11, 2024 at 11:39 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I have argued that same thing for over 30 years but still have to deal with NASCAR. I also think those guys should drive in the damn rain.  Since stock car racing came out of whiskey running, I argue that the weather didn't stop them.  Drag racing too.  Those guys don't even turn...intentionally.

Husband used to watch spring cars and truck racing and everything else he could find.  I guess progress has been made.  *eyeroll*

I watch car and motorbike racing occasionally

Not hours-long, marathon-length races, though.

I'd rather be riding fast than watching, though.

I would happily sit through occasionally.

Endlessly is a bit much.

When racing isn't an option it's car building, souping up, restoring, and worst of all - the Barret-Jackson car auctions.

(February 11, 2024 at 11:53 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(February 11, 2024 at 11:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I watch car and motorbike racing occasionally

Not hours-long, marathon-length races, though.

I'd rather be riding fast than watching, though.

I would happily sit through occasionally.

Endlessly is a bit much.

When racing isn't an option it's car building, souping up, restoring, and worst of all - the Barret-Jackson car auctions.

Yeah, the last is a bit too far.

 There are THREE TVs in this house. Two of them are literally 50 feet from each other, with intervening doors. If one doesn't want to watch what is on in one room, there's always the other room. I'm probably not going to win this one. Whatever.

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(February 11, 2024 at 11:17 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: the custom that the bride stands on the left side of the groom goes back to the bronze age. It is meant to leave the groom’s sword hand, his right hand, free to fight off the bride’s relatives who are opposed to the marriage.

For a similar reason staircases in medieval castles are turning counterclockwise going down.

(February 12, 2024 at 4:08 am)Deesse23 Wrote:

(February 11, 2024 at 11:17 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: the custom that the bride stands on the left side of the groom goes back to the bronze age.   It is meant to leave the groom’s sword hand, his right hand, free to fight off the bride’s relatives who are opposed to the marriage.

For a similar reason staircases in medieval castles are turning counterclockwise going down.

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Evidently, Internet Historian isn’t the only person to face plagiarism accusations after making something about the Floyd Collins case.

Quote: After the [release of 1951’s Ace in the Hole], Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplay as well as directed and produced the film, was sued for plagiarism by actor and aspiring screenwriter Victor Desny, who claimed he had contacted Wilder’s secretary, Rosella Stewart, to propose a film based on the Collins story.

Wilder’s lawyers protested that this verbal summary did not make it a formal story submission and that the Collins story was historical and not governed by copyright laws.

In 1953, a judge ruled in favor of Wilder and Paramount, the distributor of the film, but in 1956 the California State Supreme Court overturned that decision, saying the oral submission had been legitimate. Wilder settled, paying roughly $15,000.

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