Today I Learned #3: There's a wiki for everything!

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Prince Charles was born in 1948 and was on the leading edge of the culture and music changes of the 60s and 70s: Beatles, Stones, British Invasion, Hippies, Jefferson Airplane, etc. He was 20 in 1968.
Here is a list of his favorite songs:

The list includes:
  • "Givin' Up, Givin' In" - The Three Degrees
  • "Don't Rain On My Parade" - Barbra Streisand
  • "La Vie En Rose" - Edith Piaf
  • "Upside Down" - Diana Ross
  • "The Voice" - Eimear Quinn
  • "The Click Song" - Miriam Makeba
  • "You're A Lady" - Peter Skellern
  • "La Mer" - Charles Trenet
  • "Bennachie" - Old Blind Dogs
  • "Lulu's Back In Town" - Dick Powell
  • "They Can't Take That Away From Me" - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
  • "Tros Y Garreg/Crossing the Stone" - Catrin Finch
  • "Tydi a Roddaist" - Bryn Terfel
WTH

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/04/uk/prince-charles-song-choices-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
 
Before she became queen, Princess Elizabeth's favourite song was said to be People Will Say We're In Love from Oklahoma.
 
Isn't there a song in Oklahoma about how the peasants and the royals should be friends, or something like that?
 
Not literally Til, but learned of this a week or so ago.
The former youtuber known as "Mr. Anime" was planning to kill a number of strangers, but first decided to kill his family (which he apparently liked), thinking that it would be unbearable for them to learn of his killings. While it is already interesting that he regarded it as far worse for them to carry on living knowing he was a murderer, than just being dead, it is also notable that after killing his family he didn't commit any other murders.
Thus his family got obliterated literally for nothing. But if you look at it from another angle: they died believing that they were his primary, or rather sole target, a belief which Mr Anime would regard as false at the time, but ultimately would be correct.
Mr Anime seems to have said, when asked why he didn't go with his original plan (despite arriving at the place he was to attack, with his rifles) that "it all felt too real". It is also interesting that it likely would have already been "too real" after the first family member was killed, but naturally he couldn't leave the others, since then they'd have to live with knowing he was a murderer.

I like the "eye of god" element in this story. Only the conscience of a few people mattered, and while Mr Anime feared that they would reproach him for his actions to avenge society, it turned out the source of society's power over him was actually a projection of his views about his family. Sometimes you will get ruined whether you solve the riddle of the Sphinx or not :p
 
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Birdjaguar said:
Prince Charles was born in 1948 and was on the leading edge of the culture and music changes of the 60s and 70s: Beatles, Stones, British Invasion, Hippies, Jefferson Airplane, etc. He was 20 in 1968.
Here is a list of his favorite songs:

The list includes:
  • "Givin' Up, Givin' In" - The Three Degrees
  • "Don't Rain On My Parade" - Barbra Streisand
  • "La Vie En Rose" - Edith Piaf
  • "Upside Down" - Diana Ross
  • "The Voice" - Eimear Quinn
  • "The Click Song" - Miriam Makeba
  • "You're A Lady" - Peter Skellern
  • "La Mer" - Charles Trenet
  • "Bennachie" - Old Blind Dogs
  • "Lulu's Back In Town" - Dick Powell
  • "They Can't Take That Away From Me" - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
  • "Tros Y Garreg/Crossing the Stone" - Catrin Finch
  • "Tydi a Roddaist" - Bryn Terfel
WTH

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/04/uk/prince-charles-song-choices-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
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Prince Charles did not exactly live in the real world. Apparently it was his valet's job to squeeze the toothpaste onto his toothbrush for him (according to a couple of tell-all books written by said valet after he left royal service).

As for his taste in music... I recognize "La Vie En Rose" (awful song). I was a teenager in the '70s. I was taking a chance bringing a Shaun Cassidy record into the house (but it turns out that the records and tapes my grandfather objected to more were the soundtrack from Oliver! and some of the music from the Fame! TV series). My favorite music has always included the sort of things that a lot of people today would find stuffy or unrelatable, and I've been delighted to discover that some of it's been uploaded to YouTube.

At least it no longer includes Lawrence Welk. I caught a few minutes of Lawrence Welk a few months ago while waiting for my Britcoms to come on (Saturday night on PBS) and wondered what the hell I was thinking when I was younger. I guess I could offer the defense that it was a source of learning songs to play for my grandmother. This was before I started working in musical theatre and learning songs by attending rehearsals.

Out of curiosity, I just did a YT search for Don Messer's Jubilee. That was a regular part of Sunday night TV viewing, back in the '60s. I've just finished watching this... and so help me, I remember some of these songs. I remember that my grandmother loved to listen to Marg Osburne and Charlie Chamberlain, and my own favorite was the guy who played the accordion.

This stuff is really dated now, but I have fond memories of it (and consider that I never saw any of this show in color until I watched this video - we didn't get a color TV until over a year after this show was canceled):



My current go-to for music is more modern, but still very much in the folk genre. Prince Charles really missed out on some good stuff.

Arakhor said:
Before she became queen, Princess Elizabeth's favourite song was said to be People Will Say We're In Love from Oklahoma.
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:ack:

Oklahoma! is one of the musicals we studied in my Grade 7 music class. Five of us had to learn "I Cain't Say No" as one of the songs we were going to perform at one of the seniors' lodges.

The song you mention is one of my least-favorite. It feels like wading through glue to listen to it, and it's one that I've never had even the slightest inclination to learn to play.

There is one song in this musical that's given me a little bit of inspiration.

The original lyrics of "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" includes the chorus:

Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day,
I've got a wonderful feeling,
Everything's going my way.


One day I was having was not so beautiful, so this is what came out:

Oh what an awful morning,
Oh what a terrible day,
I've got a horrible feeling,
Nothing is going my way.

Hm. I should finish this anti-"good morning" filk. I see from a re-read of the lyrics that I mixed up a couple of verses I was working on, but whatever. A little shuffling around and it will work.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
Oh what an awful morning,
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Might I suggest "a mis'rable" in place of "an awful"?

Scans a little better, also alliteration is anti-awful :)
 
Ferocitus said:
Isn't there a song in Oklahoma about how the peasants and the royals should be friends, or something like that?
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The farmer and the cowhand should be friends. ;)
 
tjs282 said:
Might I suggest "a mis'rable" in place of "an awful"?

Scans a little better, also alliteration is anti-awful :)
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Thanks, I'll consider it. Whichever word gets used should have 3 syllables, so your word is better.


@Samson: I just don't like the song.

It's true that some songs are terrific if done by the right performer(s). For instance, there's a song in the Romeo and Juliet movie (the 1968 Zeffirelli one) that's slow, romantic, and a very appropriate piece of medieval court music. I've got that bookmarked, as there's a clip that includes both that one and the Moresca dance (fun fact: the actress who played Alice on The Brady Bunch is in that scene, as an extra).

So when I was browsing YT for Wuauquikuna videos (Ecuadorian musicians I whose music I got hooked on last year by a weird roundabout way) and found that they'd done a cover of this slow, romantic song, I was looking forward to their version (they play the panflute, quenacho, quena, and assorted other Andean instruments).

This is the only one of their songs I absolutely hate. It was horrible, like they'd never seen the movie and had no idea what the song was about. They basically galloped through the song in a completely inappropriate tempo, and I could not believe my ears. They messed it up in ways I wouldn't have thought possible to mess it up.

But they do decent covers of ABBA, Simon & Garfunkel, and the Beatles. It was their version of "Sound of Silence" that got me hooked, and later on when they started their weekend livestreams and posted some music videos shot in Ecuador, I realized that I prefer their original songs.
 
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Korean scientists claim a new desalination technique makes sea water fit to drink in minutes. The researchers used a membrane distillation process that resulted in 99.9 percent salt rejection for one month.
 
Berzerker said:
Korean scientists claim a new desalination technique makes sea water fit to drink in minutes. The researchers used a membrane distillation process that resulted in 99.9 percent salt rejection for one month.
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Not really. From your linked article:

So where do we go from here? Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any magic-bullet solution to desalination technology's growing pains; there is no revolutionary membrane technology just around the corner. Instead, the state of the art is likely to continue plodding along, making iterative improvement after iterative improvement, steadily driving costs down and efficiencies up as it has since the development of RO technology began.
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Nowhere in the article does it mention any new Korean tech or the numbers you state. Wrong link?
 
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Great news. I'm unclear how this avoids the brine issue. I'm not sure I understand how that's even possible. Does it produce dry salts?
 
Berzerker said:
https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-but-what-about-all-that-toxic-brine/

its too bad we cant use the brine as a salt source instead of dumping it into coastal waters and killing more critters
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I worked on the design of a major desalinaiton plant in Chile a few years back, and IIRC the legal requirements for the discharge of brine were that there was no detectable increase in salinity 20m away from the discharge point. And this was perfectly achievable with a well deisgned outfall diffuser. I can't say that every plant in the world will have be designed to the same standards, but claims of damage caused by brine pollution seem massively overblown.
 
well thats good to hear, the article seemed concerned with the coastal waters ringing the Arabian peninsula given their need for plants

now if we can figure out how to harness the sun and store the energy
 
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