TIL: Today I Learned

GasBandit

GasBandit

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Dei said:
I was just baffled, especially because the ISS/Chris Hadfield version has been around since 2013 and he keeps up on all things NASA.
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I have a hard time judging him about that, as I consider myself at least moderately musically literate, but I had not heard Space Oddity until the early 2000s when I was watching Friends on DVD (I was too cool a kid to watch it during its original run) and was able to turn to the internet to figure out what song Chandler recorded himself singing in "The one where Ross can't flirt."

 
Dei

Dei

Still heard it before him, since he didn't hear it until I played the Chris Hadfield version the other day because it was linked on Facebook. But I wasn't judging either, in fact the post you quoted says my feelings exactly. Bafflement! I remember that version going very viral when it first came out.
 
fade

fade

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I'll be completely honest. I had not even heard of Space Oddity before the Venture Bros episode. I could tell they were referencing something from they way they were practically looking at the camera and winking, so I googled it and found the song.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

fade said:
I'll be completely honest. I had not even heard of Space Oddity before the Venture Bros episode. I could tell they were referencing something from they way they were practically looking at the camera and winking, so I googled it and found the song.
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Hey, it happens to everyone sooner or later.

--Patrick
 
fade

fade

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Google tells me the release was 1969. Jeez I thought Dave was old. Still I guess it's nice to be referred to as a young person at 40.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

My dad liked David Bowie, so I've heard his stuff all my life. At one point, Dad played for a bar-league softball team called the Diamond Dogs. (Both a Bowie and baseball joke.)
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Also listened to it back in the 70's, courtesy of an uncle that was a part-time DJ and looked amazingly like the drummer for Cheap Trick.

No, he's not him, but dang you could pass them off as brothers.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

I'm 30 and I've been listening to Space Oddity since...I dunno, I was old enough to walk? It's one of the most iconic songs ever. I'm genuinely surprised at so many people not knowing it before this or that skit - it's like not knowing Thriller, or Like a Virgin, or Oops I did it again, if you want to go to what passes for a classic these days.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Bubble181 said:
I'm 30 and I've been listening to Space Oddity since...I dunno, I was old enough to walk? It's one of the most iconic songs ever. I'm genuinely surprised at so many people not knowing it before this or that skit - it's like not knowing Thriller, or Like a Virgin, or Oops I did it again, if you want to go to what passes for a classic these days.
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Or Tubthumping.
Or Turn Down for What.
Or Wonderwall.

--Patrick
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

My dad was into western swing and late 50's rock and Doo-Wop. My folks know next to nothing about late 60's, early 70's music. Actually, I think they stopped paying attention around 1964. My folks also played classical music records while we were growing up (well before baby einstein b.s.).
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

I grew up listening to all kinds of music. My mom introduced me to Space Oddity though she wasn't a David Bowie fan. She even had the name wrong, calling it Major Tom. The rock stations out of Philadelphia played the songs of his that I really liked.
 
evilmike

evilmike

Today's installment of "<country>, what is wrong with you?"

An ice cream float or soda (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and East Asia), coke float (United Kingdom), root beer float (Canada) or spider (Australia and New Zealand)



Of course, if the internet has taught me anything, if it's in Australia, it probably poisonous... and also contains a spider... which is also poisonous.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

But you really have to buy the name brand flying discs. The knockoffs completely suck. The fakes can only go about 10 feet and tip over and drop from the sky. The real ones fly straight and level for at least 70 feet. That makes training a dog to catch a flying disc much more simple.

I have not tried the disc golf discs. They seem too heavy to fly slow enough for a dog to catch up to.
 
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