Random Thought of the Day
July 14th, 2020 at 6:53:54 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | It's so easy to find information today as opposed to years ago. I'm watching a movie with Sammy Davis Sr. listed as one of the actors, so I was trying to figure out which one of the black actors he might be. Ha.* I picked up the information somewhere along the way in life that Sammy Davis Jr. had a black father and a white Jewish mother. Quite erroneous information as it turns out; back in the day you seldom had a chance to easily check out what people were telling you, instead you just sized up who you could trust for the most part. This kind of thing might not even be in an encyclopedia, and to go deeper than that was a big deal. In fact Sammy Davis Jr. spread some misinformation himself about his parentage, saying his mother was Puerto Rican Turns out his father was white and* His mother, Elvera Sanchez, was Afro-Cuban, according to her Wikipedia page, which also relates the S.D. Jr. tall tale. He became Jewish by conversion as an adult [see his page]. She was a beauty in her day I'd say. *see further posts downthread I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
July 14th, 2020 at 7:14:15 AM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 |
The little research I just did says his father was Sammy Davis Sr. a black man, and his mother was Elvera Sanchez. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
July 14th, 2020 at 8:23:11 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | this is a very misleading photo [?] on Sr's page at IMDB.com . In case the photo ever gets fixed, I should say it got cropped so that Sammy Davis Sr. is mostly out of the photo and it shows a white man and two women. still trying to get to the bottom of this, no photo at wikipedia page https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204119/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8 I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
July 14th, 2020 at 8:31:47 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | Turns out that it was very unfortunate photo-cropping And I am showing that misinformation is still quite possible in the age of the internet. Thanks for pointing it out, I've crossed it out in the OP This is the full photo, also from that site I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
July 14th, 2020 at 8:50:42 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | And for a final tidbit that I can say I personally verified, Sammy Davis Senior plays Fletcher Henderson in the movie "The Benny Goodman Story". I might review that in the movie thread later Henderson is well known to fans of Big Band Music of that age I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
July 14th, 2020 at 10:46:39 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Are you fricking KIDDING me? Talk about the understatement of the century. It's the polar opposite of what it was just 25 years ago. I'm an info junkie and I kept lists of things I wanted to look up. Every couple of weeks I would trek my ass to the library and Barnes and Noble and spend a WHOLE AFTERNOON looking stuff up. Now I get it all instantaneously. All day long I ask my phone questions. 2 min age I wanted to know which fish had the most Omega 3, sardines of mackeral. In 1993 I would have the answer in a week, maybe. If I could find the right source to look it up in. Today I get it in 10 seconds. I can only imagine how this has boosted the productivity of scientists and researchers. It has to be mind boggling. I constantly feel like I'm living in a 60's Star Trek episode where Kirk just says 'computer' and gets an answer to any question. It's glorious. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 15th, 2020 at 8:07:01 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | Apparently Biden speeches will be accompanied by a someone interpreting it in sign language This makes me look at that person the whole time even though I don't know sign language. It occurs to me it would be interesting to have someone there who knows sign language and have them interpret the interpretation! With the sound off and not having heard the speech already, in other words. And see just exactly what the signing person has been able to say in sign language. I have a feeling it's quite hard to do, and necessarily abridged. Could even be funny at times. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
July 15th, 2020 at 9:22:04 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Better than looking at Biden. He uses 2 teleprompters know and he looks like he's at a tennis match as his head goes left and right like a robot. That and the ton of H-wood makeup they slap on him to hide he age spots and wrinkles. He's the epitome of that 'old white guy' minorities are always complaining about. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 15th, 2020 at 9:32:26 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
There’s an old snl skit where the guy off to the side of the screen is yelling for the hard of hearing. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
July 15th, 2020 at 10:48:50 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | I think most everybody knows this, but I didn't know it at one time: I'll make it into a trivia question but will put the answer in a spoiler. You can give the answer before you look if you want. *Now that closed-caption is often done instantly and can be done automatically, a politician's speech has closed-caption going on at the same time. Let's say they improved it so it's nearly perfect, which is probably coming soon. They could just have that instead of a person doing sign language, but why would that generally not work for deaf people? The deaf-from-birth do not grow up learning a spoken language at all. They learn sign language instead and if they want to learn written English they go to special schools to learn it, and this I believe means college level work usually, something I learned from contact with students at Gallaudet when I lived in the DC area. For the vast majority of the Deaf, closed-caption doesn't help I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |