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bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:

As a parent of a six-year old with a stationary kink, what I do is find the oldest tupperware in the kitchen and ta-da! Now you have a box for your markers!

That's marker chaos, not marker organization!

Yes, but it's organized chaos. Anyone needs a marker, we know where to find one!

Jonman wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:

As a parent of a six-year old with a stationary kink, what I do is find the oldest tupperware in the kitchen and ta-da! Now you have a box for your markers!

That's marker chaos, not marker organization!

Yes, but it's organized chaos. Anyone needs a marker, we know where to find one!

Hah, yes, but do you know how to reliably find...let's say...cornflower blue in just a second or two?

bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:

As a parent of a six-year old with a stationary kink, what I do is find the oldest tupperware in the kitchen and ta-da! Now you have a box for your markers!

That's marker chaos, not marker organization!

Yes, but it's organized chaos. Anyone needs a marker, we know where to find one!

Hah, yes, but do you know how to reliably find...let's say...cornflower blue in just a second or two?

I do know how - "Olive, can you please find me the cornflower blue?" - it doubles up as reading practice for her!

Jonman wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:

As a parent of a six-year old with a stationary kink, what I do is find the oldest tupperware in the kitchen and ta-da! Now you have a box for your markers!

That's marker chaos, not marker organization!

Yes, but it's organized chaos. Anyone needs a marker, we know where to find one!

Hah, yes, but do you know how to reliably find...let's say...cornflower blue in just a second or two?

I do know how - "Olive, can you please find me the cornflower blue?" - it doubles up as reading practice for her!

:)

I'm astounded she manages to find it for you in only two seconds!

Jonman wrote:

I do know how - "Olive, can you please find me the cornflower blue?" - it doubles up as reading practice for her!

:)

We were considering Olive as a name for a while, but eventually decided "Olive Grey" was a cruel thing to do to a child.

Mixolyde wrote:
Jonman wrote:

I do know how - "Olive, can you please find me the cornflower blue?" - it doubles up as reading practice for her!

:)

We were considering Olive as a name for a while, but eventually decided "Olive Grey" was a cruel thing to do to a child.

I had a bunch of rules about names:
No cars
No foods
No colors

I ended up with Olive Tesla, which basically broke every single rule.

I don't know why people think naming kids is so hard. You figure out who you want free babysitting from and name the kid after them. What are they going to say?

"Oh, gee, sorry, I didn't realize you had concert tickets. I guess YOUR NAMESAKE will have raw macaroni and cheese out of the box tonight, it's cool."

That's the thing, you never realize how many people you don't actually like that much when them mistakenly thinking you named their child after them becomes a possibility.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Then you get into definitions of "successful" and whether or not some of the indie music supergroups or collectives count. There have been a lot of successful groups to emerge from the Elephant 6 collective, or indie groups like The New Pornographers, but they're successful-for-an-indie not successful-for-a-Phil-Collins.

I agree. Several other members of Genesis have had solo careers that weren't as popular as Phil Collins, but were still successful in the sense that they've still been putting out albums, making money, and (presumably) doing a job they don't hate. Steve Hackett has released over a dozen rock albums over the years, but I think only one has cracked the top 10 in the UK. Tony Banks initially released a few prog rock albums, then worked on a few soundtracks, and most recently has released several classical music albums.

But arguably the most successful aside from Collins and Gabriel was Mike Rutherford, who went on to form Mike + the Mechanics. They had the hits "All I Need is a Miracle" and "The Living Years". That's gotta count.

pandasuit wrote:

Which artist (or combination of artists) has been in the most number of separately successful bands? Not including rebranding of existing bands.

Well, if you count session musicians....

pandasuit wrote:

I guess we shouldn't count session musicians. The Wrecking Crew collective of session musicians contributed to several hundred top 40 hits but don’t count as band members. Definitely you should know and appreciate them but I’m purposely not including them.

Awww.... I was gonna say, I think Hal Blaine of The Wrecking Crew is the in the Guiness Book of World Records at something like 35,000 sessions. But it also seems like a lot of famous rock band members started off as session musicians. I suppose it's a good way to earn a living and network if you're waiting to be "discovered".

Clapton is the only person to be inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame three times (so far), as part of Cream, the Yardbirds, and solo. It's an interesting bit of trivia, although I'm not sure it's a very good measure, given the controversy that comes up every year around the nominations.

Does GWJ have a voice discord server/channel/clubhouse?

Yes: deets in this thread.

Strangeblades wrote:

Does GWJ have a voice discord server/channel/clubhouse?

Yes.

GWJ Community Voice Comms (stickied post in the Games section, for future reference) has a link to join our Discord in the OP.

Edit: hbi2khausered!

Important tip for naming children: don't forget to make sure that their initials don't spell anything. We fell completely in love with a name for our daughter until we realized that her initials would be VAG.

I had a friend in high school named Michael Hunt. I was always intensely curious to meet his parents and try to get a sense for whether they were cruel or just oblivious. You can't win an argument in high school with a name like that. At least one substitute teacher thought someone was messing with their role sheet.

I admit I just had to google that because I didn't get it! There are actually quite a number of Michael Hunts listed.

hbi2k wrote:

I had a friend in high school named Michael Hunt. I was always intensely curious to meet his parents and try to get a sense for whether they were cruel or just oblivious. You can't win an argument in high school with a name like that. At least one substitute teacher thought someone was messing with their role sheet.

I have a last name that looks and sounds very similar to the C word. When I was young I was oblivious but by high school I owned that name and could easily handle any situation when it came up. I can’t blame my parents because they didn’t choose our last name. I’m glad I realized early on how not to be bullied about it but I have cousins who weren’t so successful.

See, that's why you always give kids a middle name that's functional as a first name. That way there's a fallback option when it turns out you named them the 2030 version of Mike Hunt. You don't know what tomorrow's slang is gonna be!

Classmate's mother was named Holly Wood. A former coworker of mine took his wife's last name so she wouldn't be Ivana Dyck.

Not a first name, but I'd love to know the story behind this middle name:

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"Dutch and North German: from a personal name given to a child born after the death of his father, from Latin postumus 'after death', from post 'after' + humus 'grave'."

Her married last name is Posthumus Lyons. Her father's name is Dick Posthumus (former Lieutenant Governor of Michigan).

Robear wrote:

"Dutch and North German: from a personal name given to a child born after the death of his father, from Latin postumus 'after death', from post 'after' + humus 'grave'."

Thank you! Feels like one of those names you might have seen used 100 years ago, but not these days.

Sounds like one of the ancestors got the name and just held onto it.

Robear wrote:

Sounds like one of the ancestors got the name and just held onto it.

Even in death, they held it posthumously.

Gremlin wrote:

Her married last name is Posthumus Lyons. Her father's name is Dick Posthumus (former Lieutenant Governor of Michigan).

Good ol' Dead Dick

Not sure if this translates, but I have a friend whose given name uses the kanji for "castle", whish isn't itself unusual, but whose family name happens to also be the name of a well-known historic castle.

So it's the equivalent of the Castle family naming their son Windsor. Always wondered what his parents had in mind there.

All I'm saying is that if my name was Jon Dogg, you know that I'm not only naming my firstborn Hott, but am also mad at my parents for not naming me that.

I went around to friends who had a new bady and they were struggling to find a name for her. I was telling them about a science fiction story I was writing, as you do, and about a very dispassionate ships AI called Amy. When I said the name you could practically see a lightbulb appear over each of their heads. Sure enough their first born was named Amy.

She’s now at university.

Our former neighbour didn't know whether her baby would be a boy or a girl, and she was still trying to think of a boy's name. She got her eureka moment while taking a dump, by looking at the light switch.

Luckily, that did not become the actual origin story as she got a girl, whom she named Kelly

Are Pelotons or similar worth 4 times more than any other exercise bike?