Today I learned +

[Cadence]

Posted something on pineapple, and @TiQuinn noted it would fit here!

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Just read the following and couldn't think of a place to post it. From a John McAleer interview of Rex Stout:

Q: Why do you invent names for cars, liquors, rugs, guns, locks, fishing tackle rather than using brand names?

A: A character's liking for a Heron car or Ten-Mile Creek bourbon cannot be impugned.

Note that the Heron car was used in the Wolfe novels well before the New Zealand kit cars and the Tenmile Distillery in NY was founded decades after Stout wrote. And the interview might not give all the truth. Wikipedia notes that:

"Stout initially used many real brands: Archie drives a Ford, carries a Colt Pistol or revolver, and uses an Underwood typewriter. Stout was bothered when his stationer mentioned that, every time Stout mentioned Underwood's in a story, sales of that brand went up – and so switched to fictional brands. Ian Fleming, a fan of Stout, borrowed the technique for the James Bond novels, both fictional and real."

I haven't found confirmation of the part about the stationer.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

TIL Indiana Jones actually did change the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

OMG I was not ready for this being heavily Outgunned Adventure-based!

But I was under the (apparently wrong) impression this "Indy unfortunately maybe prevented Hitler opening the Ark" thing was pretty well-known as an idea - like I know when I was a teenager this was something that came up - I don't think we ever really thought about the timing (1936) or that all the Nazi high command would likely have been there (this video points those out), but the not-very-examined idea that Hitler would have potentially been killed by it was certainly floating around at some point in the 1990s in my friend group in London (we might have got it off the early internet of course!). I guess it probably got pushed out of broader consciousness by the "Indy didn't impact the plot" meme. Indeed, when I saw the title of the video, my immediate thought was "Yeah he did, by saving Hitler!".

Still, enjoyed!

 

[Ryujin]

OMG I was not ready for this being heavily Outgunned Adventure-based!

But I was under the (apparently wrong) impression this "Indy unfortunately maybe prevented Hitler opening the Ark" thing was pretty well-known as an idea - like I know when I was a teenager this was something that came up - I don't think we ever really thought about the timing (1936) or that all the Nazi high command would likely have been there (this video points those out), but the not-very-examined idea that Hitler would have potentially been killed by it was certainly floating around at some point in the 1990s in my friend group in London (we might have got it off the early internet of course!). I guess it probably got pushed out of broader consciousness by the "Indy didn't impact the plot" meme. Indeed, when I saw the title of the video, my immediate thought was "Yeah he did, by saving Hitler!".

Still, enjoyed!

But he did succeed at the time traveler test of, "Would you kill Hitler?"