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Simon & Garfunkel - So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright (www.youtube.com)
 

Three members of Pink Floyd studied architecture, as did Art Garfunkel. Bonus: Frank Lloyd Wright is an architect.

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Erran Baron Cohen - Dreidl (www.youtube.com)
 

Borat's favourite son is called Huey Lewis. Erran is the brother of Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen.

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Huey Lewis and the News - Stuck With You (www.youtube.com)
 

ZZ Top and Huey Lewis had cameos in the Back to the Future films.

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Bad Manners - Can Can (www.youtube.com)
 

Can? Can can.

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Eagles - Take it Easy (www.youtube.com)
 

Stevie Nicks, vocalist of Fleetwood Mac, has dated Don Henley and Joe Walsh of the Eagles.

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Class of '99 - Another Brick in the Wall (www.youtube.com)
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Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, etc) has appeared twice in the Star Trek universe.

Class of '99 was his one-off supergroup with members of Alice in Chains, Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction, and Matchbox Twenty.

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Leonard Nimoy: The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (www.youtube.com)
 

Nimoy and Shatner were on Star Trek together.

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Captured! By Robots - Suffer (www.youtube.com)
 

The Sisters of Mercy have a non-human band member, a drum machine -> Captured! By Robots are a band with just one human member

Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (1981) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

James Brown, James Brown

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Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (1981) (www.youtube.com)
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Billy Idol - Rebel Yell (www.youtube.com)
 

Billy Idol played Jim Morrison's drinking buddy in the 1991 film, The Doors.

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Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al (www.youtube.com)
 

Elvis Presley's house was called Graceland -> This song was the first single off the album Graceland by Paul Simon.

The Welsh disagree. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's Welsh for moron?

Carrot

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Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence (www.youtube.com)
 

Frank Sinatra was married to actress Mia Farrow for a short while. The Beatles wrote this song about her sister, Prudence Farrow.

Have you noticed how movies are getting longer? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Netflix has a 90-minute movie category. Search for it a few times, and it'll show up on your home page.

Let’s play Roulette Obscura — getting to know random interesting places in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

be mindful of the large banners to know when to get off

Heh

It is not Lemmy or kbin, it is the fediverse. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My silly -verse suggestion: palaverse, from palaver + universe.

I wonder if there's a parallel universe where children are called "childs" and adults are called "adultren" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not what you asked for, but Welsh has irregular plurals for adults and children, too:

Adult: oedolyn
Adults: oedolion

Child: plentyn
Children: plant

(Still learning, so I'm not too sure why or how)

How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

The country of Mali has little to do with lemmy.ml, apart from an annual transaction worth 10 USD.

How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I was uncomfortable with the fact that .ml was hosted in Malaysia

Not to discount your other points, but lemmy.ml isn't hosted in Malaysia. The .ml TLD is for Mali, a country in Africa. And the site is hosted by OVH, on servers in France.

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