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The show's array of guest stars included: June Allyson, Don Ameche, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Hoagy Carmichael, Rory Calhoun, John Cassavetes, Dick Clark, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Arlene Dahl, Sammy Davis, Jr., Linda Darnell, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Dan Duryea, Barbara Eden, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Anne Francis, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gloria Grahame, Jane Greer, Gypsy Rose Lee.

George Hamilton, Phil Harris, June Havoc, Celeste Holm, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr., Tab Hunter, Betty Hutton, Martha Hyer, Carolyn Jones, Buster Keaton, Eartha Kitt, Frankie Laine, Fernando Lamas, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Tina Louise, Ida Lupino, Paul Lynde, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel, Dina Merrill, Vera Miles, Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalban, Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Rita Moreno, Sheree North.

Janis Paige, Fess Parker, Suzy Parker, Bert Parks, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Juliet Prowse, Basil Rathbone, Edward Everett Horton, Aldo Ray, Martha Raye, Carl Reiner, Don Rickles, Ruth Roman, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Gena Rowlands, Janice Rule, Soupy Sales, Telly Savalas, William Shatner, Nancy Sinatra, Jan Sterling, Jill St. John, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Gloria Swanson, Terry-Thomas, Mamie van Doren, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Chill Wills, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn.

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 10 March 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link

In the novel the character Terese is a butch, soccer player, with cropped blonde hair. In the movie Terese is an edgier rocker chick, with shoulder length brunette hair.

Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 10 March 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link

Cledus and Dusty decide to stop at a hotel for the night, where there are people who are involved in "sexual" acts, several of which are quite deviant. Buford finds the Bandit's Trans Am and decides to make a search of the building to find the fish, which he eventually does. While searching in the steamroom, Buford handcuffs himself to a muscular nymphomaniac woman who will not take no for an answer.

pplains, Monday, 10 March 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/FZtQFcC.jpg

, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link

yes

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link

As of 2014, [the 53rd Academy Awards] is the earliest Oscars for which all five directing nominees are still living.

Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 March 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link

Some of the company's original logos include an elephant (after which some of its lagers are named) and the swastika. Use of the latter was discontinued in the 1930s because of its association with political parties in neighboring Germany.

1staethyr, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link

Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer play sexy Tri-Delta sorority pledges who are constantly being followed and spied on by three nerdy frat boys. In particular, they are watched during a long, erotic shower sequence as well as a secret hazing ritual where the girls receive a humiliating spanking with a sorority paddle. This proved to be one of the best spanking scenes in mainstream film and helped the film to become a cult favorite.[citation needed]

bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 March 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link

Original research?

Tuomas, Thursday, 20 March 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link

Regardless of these in-house machinations by corporate entertainment conglomerates, Dylan never attempted an original film soundtrack again.

Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Sunday, 23 March 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link

Some of the company's original logos include an elephant (after which some of its lagers are named) and the swastika. Use of the latter was discontinued in the 1930s because of its association with political parties in neighboring Germany.

― 1staethyr, 19. marts 2014 00:52 (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Carlsberg, right? They still have elephant-statues with swastikas on them at their brewery in Valby.

Frederik B, Sunday, 23 March 2014 09:49 (ten years ago) link

Vegetable Stew [2010] (Work in Progress – notes toward Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle TV Series 2)
Flickwerk 2011 [2011] (Work in Progress – notes toward Carpet Remnant World)
Carpet Remnant World [2011] – [2012]
Much A Stew About Nothing [2013] (Work in Progress – notes toward Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle TV Series 3)
A Room With A Stew [2014] (Work in Progress – notes toward Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle TV Series 4)

See also

List of people diagnosed with ulcerative colitis

nakhchivan, Monday, 24 March 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link

The "Menu" theme for the Game Boy Camera is a short instrumental loop of this song.[31][better source needed]

(from 58s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAsUdmIqSc4#t=0m58s

two bunny rabbits on mushrooms singing Proclaimers songs (onimo), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link

The B-Side contains her song "Ran Tan Waltz", her second non-album B-Side. This song is performed as a tragicomedy, where Bush portrays a man bemoaning his bad luck in life being married to a wayward mother. This song uses the word "dick" in the first verse as cacophemism for penis).[9]

robocop ELF (seandalai), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link

This article is about bear pits in general. For other uses, see Bear pit (disambiguation).

wat is teh waht (s.clover), Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/P8zUJSh.png

nakhchivan, Sunday, 6 April 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lilley#Satirist

Lilley often used the phrase 'We have to carry out a deep and far-reaching review' to the extent that it became something of a personal catchphrase. By his own estimate, Lilley has spoken this line in the region of 130 times in Commons debates. Often the line would be delivered whilst Lilley raised an eyebrow and gave a knowing grin. The salacious undertones thus conveyed would often provoke wry amusement from many of the Tory backbenchers.[11]

soref, Monday, 7 April 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link

Peter_Lilley#Douchebag

twistent consistent (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link

In 1992, as Secretary of State at the DSS, Lilley amused the Conservative Party conference with a plan to "close down the something for nothing society", delivered in the form of a parody of the Lord High Executioner's "little list" song from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan:

"I've got a little list / Of benefit offenders who I'll soon be rooting out / And who never would be missed / They never would be missed. / There's those who make up bogus claims / In half a dozen names / And councillors who draw the dole / To run left-wing campaigns / They never would be missed / They never would be missed. / There's young ladies who get pregnant just to jump the housing queue / And dads who won't support the kids / of ladies they have ... kissed / And I haven't even mentioned all those sponging socialists / I've got them on my list / And there's none of them be missed / There's none of them be missed."[8]

woah

there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Monday, 7 April 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOx8q3eGq3g

soref, Monday, 7 April 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link

And who never would be missed / They never would be missed seems hella sinister

there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Monday, 7 April 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link

the song he's quoting is about an execution list so yeah

twistent consistent (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 April 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link

He died on 14 August 1983, aged 52, from cirrhosis of the liver and chronic alcoholism.[10] As surely as town planners wrought havoc on his beloved landscape, Nairn destroyed himself. Consumed with a sense of failure, he sought refuge in drink and in his later years wrote almost nothing. He is buried in the Victorian Hanwell cemetery in west London.[11] Significantly perhaps, it is now in one of Ealing's conservation areas – a posthumous victory for the passionate and angry Nairn.

Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link

File:Strix_nebulosa_plumage.jpg is amazing

goole, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link

In 2005, Century published Straight, his second autobiographical book, this time written with author Paul Gorman. It was in The Sunday Times best-seller list for six weeks. This latter autobiography starts off where the former had stopped, though the two works are different in style, due to their different co-authors, and all of the chapters have a title in the 2005 book, while the 1995 autobiography only featured numbered sections.

fit and working again, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link

Ant, who does not own a television, enjoys reading, particularly historical novels. He has tattoos depicting Lord Nelson's last prayer before Battle of Trafalgar, an image of his grandfather, and a quote from Oscar Wilde "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."[102]

mookieproof, Saturday, 12 April 2014 01:52 (ten years ago) link

This article is about the entertainer. For Air Force General Emmett "Rosie" O'Donnell, Jr., see Emmett O'Donnell, Jr..

1staethyr, Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Phoenix

i have had this album in the unplayed for years .. decided to give it a go yesterday, and so, checked wiki ..

"The band were forced to split after a brief romantic relationship between bassist Luke Keyte and singer Nick Hill ended, leaving Keyte in rehab for a cocaine addiction and Nick Hill in hospital with a broken heart. Following the split Luke Keyte now spends his time sifting through Gordon Ramsay's bins."

amazingly i got to track 3 of the album.

mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link

that section was added with the edit summary "Spoke to the band last weekend."

fit and working again, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link

.. and that changes what ?

does that mean its true !!?

i just assumed it was a scorned lover revenge thing.

mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link

i just thought it funny that someone added that section and justified it that way.

fit and working again, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link

ha .. never thought of it like that.

mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link

As someone who can't read Hebrew, I just went to a page of Hebrew wikipedia and got weirded out by the mirrorworldiness of the RTL layout

(I was Googling a randomly-selected word to test that some Hebrew text was displaying the right way round in a work-related spreadsheet. It's always nice when you have no idea if any of the symbols on the screen you're working on are right or in the right order. What could possibly go wrong?)

the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link

Whereas the similarly plotted Junior (1994) explains how its male protagonist gets pregnant (injection of a fertilized embryo into the abdominal cavity), in Rabbit Test this area is never delved into; Lionel simply has sex (he's on the bottom) and becomes pregnant.

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link

(he's on the bottom)

there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 08:58 (ten years ago) link

As of December 2013, the Hell's Angels sells its branded merchandise at a retail store in Toronto, Canada.[41] Over seven years, it has defended its brand and label against use in clothes, jewelry, posters, and yo-yos.[41]

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link

Along with former Comptroller General David Walker, Rivlin danced the Harlem Shake in a video produced by The Can Kicks Back, a nonpartisan group that aims to organize millennials to pressure lawmakers to address the United States' $16.4 trillion debt.[7] The video concludes with her making an importuned plea to the twenty somethings seated around the room: "There's no dancing around the fact that more needs to be done quickly to put our future debt on a downward track. But our leaders need to hear from you."

balls, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link

"and yo-yos" could be productively added to so many Wikipedia paragraphs.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 April 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link

caption for image in the "easter customs" article:

Ritual whipping of girls in Moravia (1910).

wat is teh waht (s.clover), Friday, 18 April 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link

from Black Rob - "Life Story" article:

Life Story attempts to showcase Black Rob's struggle through hard beats and well constructed rhymes.

alternate reading of this evoked the image of Dave Chappelle in "Turn My Headphones Up"

getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link

Snoopy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Snuppy.

it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link

A few days before his death, Hasegawa had lunch with friend and American artist, John C. Goss. Jovial and witty as usual, he showed Goss photos of his latest paintings - a series depicting nude, Hindu-inspired male deities. These works would come to be exhibited at a memorial exhibition, along with a final series of starkly disembodied and erect phalluses unlike anything else Hasegawa ever created. Hasegawa's brother had cleaned out the artist's apartment and thrown out all of his works, unaware of their value, but rescued them after receiving a letter posted from Bangkok by Hasegawa asking that his works be sold at the Naruyama Gallery following his death. According to Toshie Urabe, who spoke with Hasegawa's brother, the only clues left at the scene of his death were a small piece of rope (he had asphixiated himself using rope tied around a door knob) and a small stone on which he had painted a portrait of Yukio Mishima (Hasegawa's death preceded the anniversary of Mishima's own suicide).

Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link

Sandy Richardson was injured in a car accident in 1972 and need to use a wheelchair, the first paraplegic regular character in British soap opera; by coincidence actor Roger Tonge himself later ended up in a wheelchair.

it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link

unusually for a glove puppet, Sweep wore wellingtons

pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link

probably well-known to ABBA fans, but

"King Kong Song" (originally "Mr. Sex")

Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 May 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link

Their acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company in 1964 is among the first significant leveraged buyout transactions. In the following years, the three Bear Stearns bankers would complete a series of buyouts including Stern Metals (1965), Incom (a division of Rockwood International, 1971), Cobblers Industries (1971) and Boren Clay (1973) as well as Thompson Wire, Eagle Motors and Barrows through their investment in Stern Metals. Although they had a number of highly successful investments, the $27 million investment in Cobblers ended in bankruptcy.]

mohel hell (Bob Six), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link

Marshall was remarried to a woman named Sarah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Marshall#Personal_life

franklin, Friday, 2 May 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link

Didn't feel up to creating a "The pathos of imdb bios" thread, so ...

Pamela Wiggins is an actress, known for Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide (1995), Hack (2002) and Law & Order (1990).

Øystein, Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link


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