A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[hellymedic]

Today’s Facebook ‘Short Reel’ feed brought me a a jolly band, singing in ‘What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor’ in German.

I didn’t know of any FOREIGN provenance of this shanty.

Maybe it’s been adopted...

[SteveC]

Lots of shanties can be found with the same tune, but in different languages.
Seafaring was a multinational occupation and the shanties were work songs. Didn't really matter if you couldn't understand the words as long as the rhythm was there so the team could all work together.

[T42]

According to the radio, today is the 70th birthday of Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock.

[mrcharly-YHT]

They'll probably cut out all the physics. <sigh>

Did you mean the programming references? All the stuff about powerpoint presentations, excel; many of the jokes would pass straight over people's heads.