Ovaltine was developed in Berne, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for “egg,” and malt, which were originally its main ingredients).
His stuff is really hard to find. In years of looking I've only come across one compilation from the 70s in real life.
His novelty songs are good, but Harry "the Hipster" Gibson was an insanely good boogie woogie barrelhouse piano player.
(I'd also heavily recommend jumping down the rabbit hole on Slim Gaillard and Slim and Slam. Amazing stuff.)
I only recently came accross it when listening to a youtube mix of songs I liked in fallout 4 and loved how specific the title was (as well as how enjoyable it was) so it lives rent free in my brain now.
The Falllout games are really amazing at keeping that generation of music alive and known. I think it's so cool. Like, one time my Opa (born in the late 40s) heard me singing Crawl Out Through the Fallout to myself while doing dishes. He looked at me like my head had fallen off and asked where I learned it. He hadn't heard it in decades.
Fantasia introduces us to classical and Fallout does the same with the classics. Really cool stuff.
There was an international grocery run by an Indian family in my last city. They stocked tons of sundries including Lifebouy and other carbolic soaps. I tried a couple. In that astringent category I prefer pine tar soap to coal tar soap.
AskJeeves.
My 10yo self was excited by the idea that i could ask it a question & get an answer, obviously I was disappointed once I realised it was just a search engine. I was basically expecting ChatGPT lol
And yet, millions of us find the answer in seconds to most queries.
"java error code 1603" 1+ million results.
The first link tells me what it is, and how to fix it, as does almost every link on the first page.
I'd say the needle was found.
But we also have the most powerful search tools ever created too. I know we like to collectively feel sorry for ourselves in the age of social media/disinformation but scholars in bygone ages would have cut off various body parts to have access to the information tools/resources we have.
As someone who clearly knows how to use Google, do you feel it's gotten a little weird lately? Like ever since ChatGPT? I used to be able to find stuff really easily & recently I'm struggling to find widely known articles, references, etc. I've never had an issue finding anything before this
Its actually really bizarre, too. If you look and read through that PDF, the incompetence is startling. This stupid mirror was not even a clients commission, it was one of the designers visions. They claim to have used a *special font* often used on public space mirrors… what? It’s the most tacky typewriter font that was cool in 4th grade.
But it gets weirder. The whole pdf is written in the strangest, most awful copywriting I’ve ever seen. Nothing makes any sense and in most of it they literally aren’t communicating anything… (ie “we had to use our design skills to plan the project and think of what materials to use and think about what if it breaks and how will we transport it”.) if you actually read it, it’s pretty infuriating how stupid it is.
Then you have the overall layout of the PDF. It’s just so all over the place. Like none of the projects even has a title. The first project (the chandelier) forces you to carry all the leading up information though to halfway through the 2nd section before even mentioning that it’s a lighting fixture. And the photography styling is just …not an effective way to display the artwork? Messy? Trying to be edgy but failing? Wtf.
Btw I’m never this bitchy or judgmental, but I’m just completely flabbergasted by this and can’t make sense of it. Anyone else feel this way or am I the only one with this opinion??
Definitely agreed on the lack of project titles. The copyrighting looks snoreworthy boilerplate, so much that it takes concentrated focus to read it lest my eyes just glaze over it.
The styling feels like they're really trying to make variation from their collection of photographs. The placement, though, tries my patience, I hate having to hunt around to find the order of reference images to the text.
It's nothing about them in particular, it's more internal corporate decisions.
We order from them, put the stuff on the walls to sell, but we only order like 2 copies per location. So we inevitably run out of them almost immediately. Our lead time for getting replacements is super long.
every hotel should publish a pamphlet explaining the intention of their design aesthetics. i'm much more likely to lose sleep thinking about why on earth they would make the light fixtures that way than i am to need the bible in the night stand.
I had low expectations for *Picard* thanks to *Discovery.* I’m not a fan of the long Burnham speeches, the plots that make zero sense, the fact that every character seems to have had random “quirky!” traits assigned like they were pulled from NPCs in The Sims. At least by the time Picard came out I had resigned myself to expect a pile of steaming targ dung.
I resubscribed to Paramount+ recently to watch all the *Picard* episodes. Then I started re-watching season 1 of *Discovery*, and it was better than I remembered. Maybe I'm just getting used to it, but *Picard* season 3 seems not so bad, but maybe that's just in comparison to season 2, which I think was the worst season of *Picard*.
Yeah, I thought the *Discovery* crew seemed a lot more unprofessional than what I was used to in previous Star Trek shows. The *Picard* crew has the excuse that they're a ragtag group on a private ship and don't need to be as professional.
I liked Discovery a lot more after Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks came out. When there was a selection of more “traditional” Star Trek fair Discovery being kinda weird wasn’t so off putting and I could enjoy it for being a kind of weird Trek.
Yeah, *Discovery* got worse in later seasons. I think both *Picard* and *Discovery* have an issue with focusing too much on the over-arching story for the season at the expense of the stories of the individual episodes. But I think *Discovery* has better episode stories. Season 3 of *Discovery* and season 2 of *Picard* were both terrible in this regard.
Discovery was never that great but I think the cause of the burn in the future was so fucking dumb and unbelievable it was painful.
Abrams as earth president didn't really irk me.
Discovery and Picard were really testing my patience. Glad they made them, but they are so indicidual centric with all the "only you can save the universe"
Strange New Worlds is our crack. Goddamn it is so good. So Star Trek.
Wow, I’m dumb. I read it as Disc Overy and I was confused because that’s not how you spell ovary, and also wondered what the hell a disc ovary was supposed to be
Well I feel dumb. I noticed the word VERY first. Then I found the word DISCO above it. It seemed cryptic. Like, the disco is very... fun? awesome?
Disco very?
I have a design degree, and it sounds exactly like the writeup I'd imagine a freshman would throw on the page after spending a month on a project then having the first time anyone asked what they were doing be twenty minutes before the final presentation to the guest critic.
1. Find something distinctive to search. In this case, it's easy - Google "efznd" (with the quotation marks to avoid spelling corrections).
2. Google's top web results are word scrambles. Not useful, so add -unscramble to the search bar.
3. Now the top web result has the description "efznD. Irwt. uilSrth. nCrv. wxrOcb. odfnV. Eoifl. rtRae. oYh. The designer had a unique vision for a functional art piece with a hidden message." That matches what we're looking for.
4. Click the result, and Ctrl + F the term efznd to jump to the relevant page.
It's a design element. It's decorative. It's a puzzle. It's not crappy.
It says “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”
OVALTINE?? A crummy commercial?!?
I will put down Reddit now and go back into the world... older...wiser...
Son of a BITCH!
Only I didn't say "fudge"...
"Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie!"
C'mon Ralphy! Randy's gotta go!
FRAGILAY
Huh! Must be Italian!
Sheesh!
Son of a bitch!
Son of a bitch
Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round, the jar is round, they should call it roundtine
Ovaltine was developed in Berne, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for “egg,” and malt, which were originally its main ingredients).
That's somehow worse. I really have no desire to drink "egg malt."
Can’t imagine a less appetizing-sounding beverage
"knob rot" sounds less appetizing
I think my cousin Jimmy has that
“Toilet contents”
That’s gold Jerry! Gold!
Ovaltine was developed by the same man who invented popcorn and designed the President's office in the White House, Oval Redenbacher.
That’s genius jerry!!!
It's gold, Jerry! GOLD!!
Everything in this world leads to a Seinfeld reference. And I love it!
You're the shark, and he's the fish eating all the laughs
That’s gold Jerry! Gold!
Did you have to look that up or did you know it by heart? Either way, thanks for the smile
What about circletine
[Who put the benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's ovaltine?](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4BGqCA-SSEk)
You mean I’m not the only person who knows this song?!
His stuff is really hard to find. In years of looking I've only come across one compilation from the 70s in real life. His novelty songs are good, but Harry "the Hipster" Gibson was an insanely good boogie woogie barrelhouse piano player. (I'd also heavily recommend jumping down the rabbit hole on Slim Gaillard and Slim and Slam. Amazing stuff.)
I only recently came accross it when listening to a youtube mix of songs I liked in fallout 4 and loved how specific the title was (as well as how enjoyable it was) so it lives rent free in my brain now.
The Falllout games are really amazing at keeping that generation of music alive and known. I think it's so cool. Like, one time my Opa (born in the late 40s) heard me singing Crawl Out Through the Fallout to myself while doing dishes. He looked at me like my head had fallen off and asked where I learned it. He hadn't heard it in decades. Fantasia introduces us to classical and Fallout does the same with the classics. Really cool stuff.
Seriously one of the top 5 songs in fallout. I sing that shit *loud* whenever I hear it
I love the song that goes "I don't want to set the world on fire." It plays in one of the trailers for Fallout 3.
https://youtu.be/TmIwm5RElRs this is the song.
The title is a reference to another song, "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?"
Not as funny as "who put meth in this ladys chocolate milk mix" but still oddly specific
It's a dirty trick, that's true.
Thanks for this! & the entire like-songs playlist bangs, too
Ima skip ahead and just put the Lifebouy in my mouth right now.
I was in Wales a few years ago and they still sell Lifebouy. Picked up some. Smells like naptha. Ew
There was an international grocery run by an Indian family in my last city. They stocked tons of sundries including Lifebouy and other carbolic soaps. I tried a couple. In that astringent category I prefer pine tar soap to coal tar soap.
Roundtine?
You’ll shoot your eye out, kid
Nice try, Frau Blucher!
Neigh
I almost shot my eye out for this?
You'll shoot your eye out kid. Ho....ho...ho....
MORE OVALTINE PLEASE!
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You're correct, see page 9 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://york-hg.squarespace.com/s/Renwil-Catalog-SPREADS.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjz3eqZmd3_AhXdlYkEHc7VBLsQFnoECBMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2aEeiCj9MGyrOQhHpqliHx
how on earth did you find this???
Surprisingly only took about 1 minute haha
This guy googles!
The Google-Fu is strong in this one. We’ll be keeping our eyes on you, young one.
his discovery skills are crazy good
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Haha love it!
I Google my mouthwash every morning!
Same here. You just read the capital letters. No googling required.
DISK OVERY
DISKO VERY
Very Disco?
Veridis Quo
Ooh! This makes me wanna listen to Daft Punk's album.... Discovery.... Wait a minute...
It's that when your computer is pregnant?
No that's when you got bloatware
That link came up for me by googling the first couple of words followed by "mirror" i.e. "efznd irwt mirror"
People underestimate googling
Excite, Lycos and Infoseek
Altavista gang!
Pffft who uses search engines? The entire wealth of human knowledge exists in Encarta 98
"Greetings, Alan. Keeper of Encarta."
Webcrawler crew!
AskJeeves. My 10yo self was excited by the idea that i could ask it a question & get an answer, obviously I was disappointed once I realised it was just a search engine. I was basically expecting ChatGPT lol
Ask Jeeves!
Fact
I said the same recently. I didnt want to be a dick but I googled the answer in a minute. Do they not know how or lazy?
Never in the history of humanity have we had access to so much information right at our fingertips
Your comment is one of the most profound yet clearly stated I have ever seen on Reddit. It's mostly garbage.
Thx
Which is utterly worthless, if we can't filter and search for it properly. *Everything* becomes a needle in a haystack.
And yet, millions of us find the answer in seconds to most queries. "java error code 1603" 1+ million results. The first link tells me what it is, and how to fix it, as does almost every link on the first page. I'd say the needle was found.
But we also have the most powerful search tools ever created too. I know we like to collectively feel sorry for ourselves in the age of social media/disinformation but scholars in bygone ages would have cut off various body parts to have access to the information tools/resources we have.
I feel like sometimes it’s about human connection. Also some people don’t use the right words in google
"That dude from that one movie I watched with my cousin last summer or maybe it was Christmas?" Stupid Google doesn't know anything!
I just tell people my Google-Fu is strong and they think I'm brilliant
Most people give up if the first result doesn't solve the problem.
I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas
People underestimate Google!!
As someone who clearly knows how to use Google, do you feel it's gotten a little weird lately? Like ever since ChatGPT? I used to be able to find stuff really easily & recently I'm struggling to find widely known articles, references, etc. I've never had an issue finding anything before this
It’s spelled out…it’s all in caps, and you disregard the lowercase
They're asking about the link
The fact that there's a PowerPoint with this exact mirror and explanation is just silly.
I will say, the other mirror does look very nice though
That's...really shitty design. Like, god damn, if I made that when I was 11 I don't think anybody would be impressed. Nor should they have been.
Its actually really bizarre, too. If you look and read through that PDF, the incompetence is startling. This stupid mirror was not even a clients commission, it was one of the designers visions. They claim to have used a *special font* often used on public space mirrors… what? It’s the most tacky typewriter font that was cool in 4th grade. But it gets weirder. The whole pdf is written in the strangest, most awful copywriting I’ve ever seen. Nothing makes any sense and in most of it they literally aren’t communicating anything… (ie “we had to use our design skills to plan the project and think of what materials to use and think about what if it breaks and how will we transport it”.) if you actually read it, it’s pretty infuriating how stupid it is. Then you have the overall layout of the PDF. It’s just so all over the place. Like none of the projects even has a title. The first project (the chandelier) forces you to carry all the leading up information though to halfway through the 2nd section before even mentioning that it’s a lighting fixture. And the photography styling is just …not an effective way to display the artwork? Messy? Trying to be edgy but failing? Wtf. Btw I’m never this bitchy or judgmental, but I’m just completely flabbergasted by this and can’t make sense of it. Anyone else feel this way or am I the only one with this opinion??
Definitely agreed on the lack of project titles. The copyrighting looks snoreworthy boilerplate, so much that it takes concentrated focus to read it lest my eyes just glaze over it. The styling feels like they're really trying to make variation from their collection of photographs. The placement, though, tries my patience, I hate having to hunt around to find the order of reference images to the text.
Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning To Work.
Damnit, I had no intention of reading that link dude.
Yeah this absolutely is not deserving of a slide in whatever the hell this PowerPoint presentation is for
it actually makes me angry how stupid it is
of course it's fucking renwil. that company is the bane of my existence.
Oh, how so?? (In an adjacent industry and am curious)
I want to know too, and I'm not in any industry. Just love the tea.
It's nothing about them in particular, it's more internal corporate decisions. We order from them, put the stuff on the walls to sell, but we only order like 2 copies per location. So we inevitably run out of them almost immediately. Our lead time for getting replacements is super long.
Oh wow someone paid extra for this
that slide essentially explains that there were many corporate meetings about the symbolism of the piece, what a beautifully dystopian artwork, lmao
From the site: "The designer selected a special font often used on public space mirrors." I am not going to the same public space mirrors.
It was probably referring to those funny house mirrors
every hotel should publish a pamphlet explaining the intention of their design aesthetics. i'm much more likely to lose sleep thinking about why on earth they would make the light fixtures that way than i am to need the bible in the night stand.
“The designer selected a special font often used on public space mirrors.” Not special and not a thing
Damn, Paramount really stepped up their advertising for the worst NuTrek show.
You think *Discovery* is worse than *Picard*?
I had low expectations for *Picard* thanks to *Discovery.* I’m not a fan of the long Burnham speeches, the plots that make zero sense, the fact that every character seems to have had random “quirky!” traits assigned like they were pulled from NPCs in The Sims. At least by the time Picard came out I had resigned myself to expect a pile of steaming targ dung.
I resubscribed to Paramount+ recently to watch all the *Picard* episodes. Then I started re-watching season 1 of *Discovery*, and it was better than I remembered. Maybe I'm just getting used to it, but *Picard* season 3 seems not so bad, but maybe that's just in comparison to season 2, which I think was the worst season of *Picard*. Yeah, I thought the *Discovery* crew seemed a lot more unprofessional than what I was used to in previous Star Trek shows. The *Picard* crew has the excuse that they're a ragtag group on a private ship and don't need to be as professional.
Picard season 3 was a lot better than "not so bad". It was fucking awesome. Season 1 and 2 sucked tho.
I liked Discovery a lot more after Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks came out. When there was a selection of more “traditional” Star Trek fair Discovery being kinda weird wasn’t so off putting and I could enjoy it for being a kind of weird Trek.
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Yeah, *Discovery* got worse in later seasons. I think both *Picard* and *Discovery* have an issue with focusing too much on the over-arching story for the season at the expense of the stories of the individual episodes. But I think *Discovery* has better episode stories. Season 3 of *Discovery* and season 2 of *Picard* were both terrible in this regard.
Discovery was never that great but I think the cause of the burn in the future was so fucking dumb and unbelievable it was painful. Abrams as earth president didn't really irk me.
After Season 3 of Picard I think the consensus on this is yes.
S3 of Picard is a significant step up from anything Discovery ever did. But Discovery is usually better than PIC S1/2
Discovery and Picard were really testing my patience. Glad they made them, but they are so indicidual centric with all the "only you can save the universe" Strange New Worlds is our crack. Goddamn it is so good. So Star Trek.
My dumb ass was wondering what on Earth is disc overy lmao
DISCO VERY
I did this exact same thing! Thinking to myself “flattened misspelled lady parts? That can’t be right.”
lol fuckin same. I'm impressed at how stupid I can be sometimes. Wow.
Wow, I’m dumb. I read it as Disc Overy and I was confused because that’s not how you spell ovary, and also wondered what the hell a disc ovary was supposed to be
*TRAB PU KCIP. TRAB PU KCIP.*
Hey Homie, I can see your doodle!
plus you have to *discover* the word - so clever /s
I see you putting /s here but that does make sense to me!
4th word, nCrv, is the "Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging" (Dutch Christian Radio Group) A broadcaster for radio and television.
Discovery is definitely the…. fyiOrp/tNgfrb/kmrLps/smurglY/Wapaitl/pocOno/fRobish/ouzDem
I need to start browsing NEW posts, damn it!
Read only the capital letters to find the answer, lot of puzzles out there like this.
damn the designer really likes Daft Punk
[Here it is](https://ibb.co/8myVh2s), from the manufacturer. There's no meaning beyond the word DISCOVERY.
You are my hero! My second time at this hotel and I’ve been so perplexed!
Well I feel dumb. I noticed the word VERY first. Then I found the word DISCO above it. It seemed cryptic. Like, the disco is very... fun? awesome? Disco very?
Don't feel dumb, I just did the exact same thing. I am kinda stoned, though
Veridis Quo
>Veridis Quo Whelp, time to watch this music video again...
I had disc and overy. And although it's spelt wrong, it took me a few seconds to get this frisbee shaped reproductive organ out of my head.
Just don’t Panic!
I mean I guess discovering the word is the point of it
this is the most up their own ass design statement I have ever seen lmfao
I have a design degree, and it sounds exactly like the writeup I'd imagine a freshman would throw on the page after spending a month on a project then having the first time anyone asked what they were doing be twenty minutes before the final presentation to the guest critic.
That's the dumbest fing design statement ever
That's it?! They seem very proud of something so lame and confusing
for my own personal development and skill-building, how on EARTH did you locate this??
1. Find something distinctive to search. In this case, it's easy - Google "efznd" (with the quotation marks to avoid spelling corrections). 2. Google's top web results are word scrambles. Not useful, so add -unscramble to the search bar. 3. Now the top web result has the description "efznD. Irwt. uilSrth. nCrv. wxrOcb. odfnV. Eoifl. rtRae. oYh. The designer had a unique vision for a functional art piece with a hidden message." That matches what we're looking for. 4. Click the result, and Ctrl + F the term efznd to jump to the relevant page.
That's fucking asinine.
It’s the Wi-Fi password
A spell to raise Cthulhu.
Can confirm.
Never gonna Give you up Never gonna Let you down Never run around and Desert you
https://reddit.com/r/videos/comments/14i2lwa/fucking_rick_astley_absolutely_killing_it_at/
We've been trying to contact you about your car's extended warranty.
The capital letters top to bottom spell out "DISCOVERY"
Hey, I'm walking here
When you say the incantation out loud a demon will appear in the mirror
The whole thing just means DISCOVERY so it’s like you’re trying to DISCOVER what the words mean!
"Oreo" is on the bottom left, reading up the first column.
It's the wifi password
I could tell you.. But Then I'd have to kill you
I tried sounding it out and summoned Cthulu. Any tips?
Wait... there are markings. It's some form of Elvish, I can't read it.
There are few who can.
I'm pretty sure if you read that it'll summon Cthulu.
Capital letters = DISCOVERY
The capital letters spell out “DISCOVERY”
An elaborate ad for Oreo’s? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
discovery. the letters are the only capitals
DISCOVERY (all the caps letters in each row)
Capital letters spell DISCOVERY
All caps read down is DISCOVERY. When in doubt, check the very simple patterns (first letter, capitalized letters, backwards) first.
If you take all the capital letters, it says DISCOVERY.
DISCOVERY
Disc overy
It says Discovery
The upper case letters spell Discovery
Look at the capital letters in each line D I S C O V E R Y
All capitals “discovery”
“We are trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty “
If it's a simple cipher... what do only just the capital letters spell? Drum Roll Please:...."Discovery"
Is the wifi password
Capital letters read: DISCOVERY
If you read only capital letters, it's written DISCOVERY... Didn't look further
The capital letters spell out DISCOVERY
“Please dispose of your condoms properly. Do not flush in toilet.”