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In Japan, Lord Voldermorts middle name is Elvis.
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The Swollen Goiter of God wrote:Didn't know the name, but I looked her up, and I've heard the song she's famous for. It sounds like the kind of song that would have played in an American Eagle Outfitters store in the early aughts.

I don't mean that as a slight or as a compliment. For some reason, it just transports me back to 2002. I'm in the mall with an ex-girlfriend. She's looking through stacks of overpriced shirts for something that'll fit her. She's scolding me for poking a mannequin's boob. She wants me to stay close, but for God's sake, not that close. Go to the other side of the store. Stop touching everything. Jesus, Goiter. You know what? Just go to the food court.

I think American Eagle Outfitters used to sell CDs full of the songs they played in the stores. I wonder if getting on an American Eagle Outfitters CD was a big deal for a band. I bet it was.

I knew Abby Elliott was Chris Elliott's daughter, but I guess the name makes that a little more obvious.
The rawness of her vocals in parts of that "Exes and Ohs" song kind of reminds me of this:

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I think the fuzzy guitars and all the processing and reverb applied to her voice are what reminded me of the American Eagle Outfitters tracks from the early aughts.
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I remember when American Eagle Outfitters was just American Eagle and a great place to get your preppie gear.
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Yes, I know I'm old.
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Dalty wrote:In Japan, Lord Voldermorts middle name is Elvis.
It is in France, but not in Japan.

トム・マールヴォロ・リドル
tomu ma-ruboro ridoru
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Ma-ruboro looks like the Japanese transcription of Marlboro.
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Jubbers wrote:
Dalty wrote:In Japan, Lord Voldermorts middle name is Elvis.
It is in France, but not in Japan.

トム・マールヴォロ・リドル
tomu ma-ruboro ridoru

I thought it has to be in order to make the "I am Tom Marvello Riddle" anagram from Chamber Of Secrets work due to the vagueries of the Japanese language?
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They didn't try. They present the anagram in English, with the literal Japanese in parentheses.
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I have the first, second, and fourth books in Japanese.
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Mal Shot First wrote:Ma-ruboro looks like the Japanese transcription of Marlboro.
I was actually only slightly off:

マールボロ (Marlboro)
マールヴォロ (Marvello)

But then again, I guess I was about as much off as Marlboro and Marvello are in their English spellings.
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It appears you were less slightly off than Dalty, at least.
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Jubbers wrote:They didn't try. They present the anagram in English, with the literal Japanese in parentheses.
Jubbers is my go to Japan SME on all things that don't involve being crazily Japanese. So her word is basically Japanese Law from where I am standing.

So...... FACT DENIED!
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I was going to ask if you studied Japanese at the Sorbonne, but I waited too long.
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Why would I study Japanese at a small, ice-cream like, iced dessert?
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Because it's such a sure bet.
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:wall:
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I knew you wouldn't let me down.
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The flag of Hawaii includes the flag of the United Kingdom.
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In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
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Dalty wrote:In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
I had one of those! No matter how much I spun my arms, it never worked in real life.
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Welsh for microwave is "pop-di-ping".
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Johnny Depp was in Platoon.
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That synth-whistling sound you hear in a lot of West Coast rap from the 90s is called G-funk whine.

An example:

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Well I never!
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