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Also: "Harasses sheep, but is impaired by his stiff peg-legs."

ticket to rmde (seandalai), Monday, 15 December 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link

I love Yule Cat.

tokyo rosemary, Monday, 15 December 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link

another important paper with a joke name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher–Bethe–Gamow_paper

poxy fülvous (abanana), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link

Darth Maul, after his supposed demise in the film The Phantom Menace, reappears in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and goes through several sets of mechanical legs.

ledge, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:50 (nine years ago) link

Maul was striving to survive by any means and ended up on the junk planet Lotho Minor in the Outer Rim and turned into a cyborg with an arachnid-like lower half

!

Amazing - like "we should never have killed off that cool looking marketing opportunity... let's turn him into a robot spider!"

Just Googled and it looks very much inspired by The Rock Scorpion King.

give rob da bank a gun... (onimo), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:02 (nine years ago) link

Klaus Meine?

Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link

The primary goal of testicle removal is not culinary.

mick signals, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link

Well, there goes my entire epistemological foundation.

Simply The Bessed! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link

The inclusion of Scooby-Dum was considered one of the first missteps in Scooby-Doo cartoons.[8]

I don't even OWN a Television album (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 19 December 2014 06:28 (nine years ago) link

[8] otm

give rob da bank a gun... (onimo), Friday, 19 December 2014 09:41 (nine years ago) link

henny youngman wikipedia entry

Henny had a grandson of note: Lawrence ["Larry"] Michael Kelly. Kelly spent much of his youth with Henny on the road following the death of Larry's father at an early age. While Kelly tried for many years to follow in his grandfather's footsteps he never managed to attain a following. Kelly struggled with a severe weight problem for his entire life regularly fluctuating between 250 to over 500 pounds. Despite not achieving fame for himself, he was a very astute judge of talent in others, and through his connections in Henny's world, Kelly was able to help promote the early careers of Sam Kinison, Louie Anderson, Roseanne Barr and several other notable personalities.[citation needed] Larry's numerous and ever changing enterprises included the running of one of the first computer bulletin boards in the world ("Modem Over Manhattan", a/k/a "M*O*M"),[citation needed] as well as obtaining Henny's partnership with the nascent [owner-profit shared] "Dial-A-Joke" telephone service.[citation needed] Kelly's last venture was a small banana bread business in Woodstock called "Top Banana". From 1992 until his death, Kelly co-hosted a local public-access television show called The Village Green, with then future Woodstock councilman Gordon Wemp. The cause of Kelly's death remains unknown today.[citation needed]

Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Saturday, 27 December 2014 11:01 (nine years ago) link

One of the biggest thrills I had the first time I visited NYC as a kid was looking up Henny Youngman's telephone number in the phone book.

pplains, Saturday, 27 December 2014 11:09 (nine years ago) link

Disappointed to note that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red no longer leads off Red is the colour of strawberries and blood.

♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 27 December 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link

so happy there's a doodles weaver entry itt

Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Saturday, 27 December 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link

Disappointed to note that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red no longer leads off Red is the colour of strawberries and blood.

otm!

Yellow /ˈjɛloʊ/ is the color of gold, butter, and ripe lemons.

(still good!)

Ludo, Saturday, 27 December 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link

According to the CIA Factbook, the five countries with the largest number of Catholics are, in decreasing order of population, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States, and Italy.

The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City at 100%.

Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link

Greg Burson (voiceover artist who did Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear and others during the 1990s) :(

Arrest
His career came to an end in May 2004 when Burson was arrested by detectives after barricading himself inside his home in Tujunga for six hours before surrendering. Initial reports have claimed that an armed S.W.A.T. team had responded to a call from two of his female roommates that he was inebriated, armed and holding a third female roommate hostage.[2] Burson also screamed a stream of nonsensical words at the police when they were alerted to his home. Officers had later discovered that Burson had a collection of guns in his home. One officer says "He was so drunk, we couldn't tell if he was trying to do one of his voices or was just slurring his words." Officer Rudy Villarreal has confirmed all three women were involved in the incident lived with Burson, but none of them were harmed.

painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 1 January 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link

In 1986, [Lady Miss Kier] met Ukrainian-born Dmitry Brill ("Supa DJ Dmitry") in New York, when she made him silver platform boots and a glitter blue spacesuit for his band, Shazork.

Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Saturday, 3 January 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link

^ why is this not a movie of the week

breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Sunday, 4 January 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link

shazork: behind the music

Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Sunday, 4 January 2015 07:12 (nine years ago) link

Album reception

- It was included in Q Magazine's 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.

- In a 1997 interview between journalist Liz Jones and Prince, Jones tells Prince he should listen to Tricky, because Tricky reminds her of Prince in his early career. Intrigued, Prince asks her the name of Tricky's latest album, she says "Pre-Millennium Tension" and Prince spontaneously answers "well, isn't that another way to say ‘1999’" (1999 being Prince's breakthrough album released in 1982.) This interview is featured in Liz Jones' book "Slave to the Rhythm."

These are the only two facts in the section.

bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Sunday, 4 January 2015 09:29 (nine years ago) link

More recently, the re-released works of English toilet humour specialist Ivor Biggun include "Southern Breeze", a song about a "Famous French Farteur" who describes in rhyme a stroll through a farmyard, accompanied by appropriate farting noises.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 January 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link

"Ivor Biggun"

fleekwood mat (get bent), Monday, 5 January 2015 09:52 (nine years ago) link

His big hit was, of course, "The Winker's Song (Misprint)".

He was also 'Doc' Cox on That's Life at one point, brought in to replace Cyril Fletcher iirc.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 5 January 2015 10:16 (nine years ago) link

yup, ydrc

Mark G, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link

iastr that John Lydon was credited with the chart success of The Winker's Song, after he made it SotW. Was it in the NME, maybe?

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 5 January 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link

tidnr

Mark G, Monday, 5 January 2015 12:05 (nine years ago) link

Naima Kradjian, former Republican candidate for Mayor of Binghamton is an actress in this movie in which she gets poked on a bus and gets angry.

MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:18 (nine years ago) link

The video (directed by Gavin Bowden) features the band sitting on sides of a street next to some telephone booths. A supermarket is also shown. The video switches from color video images to black-and-white images. During the introduction and the third verse of the song, Thomas walks in the middle of the street with some construction signs and lights. During the third verse, a car stops with a bare-chested man and a woman inside. The man walks out, revealing a catheter in his chest, and is handed three cigarettes by Thomas. Finally, during the last two choruses, the band is shown playing their instruments ending with an image of Thomas standing next to the telephone booths.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link

Description
I like this grave marker for a couple of reasons. The statue has an enigmatic look, and the profile is a sexy dishabille. Even an inanimate object can be an aphrodisiac.

Source
I took this photograph of an enigmatic statue in Woodawn Cemetey

hyggeligt, Monday, 12 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link

click 'listen to this article'

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

poop will eat itself (S-), Friday, 16 January 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link

Bo usually wears a cream-yellow shirt; it is a stronger yellow in the first and second season, a lighter cream color from the third season, and in the sixth and seventh season has more of a grey hue to it. (The only break from this norm is in the second episode produced and broadcast, "Daisy's Song", where Bo wears a red shirt for much of the story, and a sequence in the fifth episode, "High Octane", where he wears a light blue shirt. Many early publicity shots show the character to be wearing a dark blue denim shirt.) For the first two seasons he wears a blue T-shirt underneath (brown in the first episode); this was slowly phased out during the third season.

pplains, Friday, 16 January 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link

lmao S-

goole, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link

That is incredible, S-

polyphonic, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link

Am actually crying.

emil.y, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link

voted racist, funny.

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example (crüt), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link

Counterpoint

The sound file is a Bhutanese national treasure and we will not have you committing this erasure of their culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.126.145.133 (talk) 20:41, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

goole, Friday, 16 January 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link

luc sante just retweeted a wfmu tweet about this. culture, man

goole, Friday, 16 January 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link

Cheestrings became a popular snack in the UK and Republic of Ireland in the early 1990s. They are made from processed cheese by Kerry Group and the mascot is a cartoon character called Mr Strings.[9] The original advert had a theme tune based on the popular song "Bend Me, Shape Me" but with different lyrics ("You got a cheese string day or night, you got a cheese string you're all right").[10] Originally Mr Strings was a wild cartoon character who pulled himself apart[11] but by the late 1990s the packaging had been redesigned with a more simplified mascot.[12] On television the original Mr Strings was phased out and replaced by an unseen character who played creepy practical jokes on teenage consumers. In the late 2000s the design of Mr Strings was changed for a third time[13] to appear more child-friendly and was given a new catchphrase ("Hey, I'm just cheese").[14]

mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:08 (nine years ago) link

Another single entitled Green Tambourine also did not chart despite the fact that Leka had stripped away the vocals of The Lemon Pipers' hit from the previous year and given the backing track to the group to record their own cover.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link

Reception

Movie critic for The Commercial Appeal, John Beifuss, reviewed the film, stating;"while robust Wikipedia entries can be found for the other Arnold and Alland science-ficton films, "The Space Children" rates only these two sentences: 'The Space Children' is a 1958 film directed by Jack Arnold. The movie was featured on 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' in 1998 during season 9.".[12]

Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 January 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/gZGp5Vg.png

mick signals, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 03:19 (nine years ago) link

Taraji P. Henson as April
Adam Rodriguez as Sandino New York City New York April 2
Brian White as Randy
Mary J. Blige as Tanya
Gladys Knight as Wilma
Marvin Winans as Pastor Brian
Hope Olaidé Wilson as Jennifer London United Kingdom August 16
Kwesi Boakye as Manny Los Angeles California April 6
Freddy Siglar as Byron
Tyler Perry as Madea and Joe Simmons

1staethyr, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link

1 Buller, Erin (2008-07-11). "Capturing the wind". Uinta County Herald. Retrieved 2008-12-04. "The animals don't care at all. We find cows and antelope napping in the shade of the turbines. – Mike Cadieux, site manager, Wyoming Wind Farm"

No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link

The following is a chronological list of carcasses that have been described as globsters or blobs in the literature.[1][6][7]

unidentified carcass from Santa Maria del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico (1648)
Stronsay Beast (1808)
New River Inlet Carcass (1885)
St. Augustine Monster (1896)
Trunko (1924)
Dunk Island Carcass (1948)
Gulf of Alaska Carcass (1956)
Melbourne-Hobart Carcass (1958)
Tasmanian Globster (1960)
Hamai Beast (1963)
New Zealand Globster (1968)
Tecoluta Carcass (1969)
Tasmanian Globster 2 (1970)
Mann Hill Beach Globster (1970)
Gambo (1983)
Bermuda Blob (1988)
Godthaab Globster (1989)
Hebrides Blob (1990)
North Carolina Globster (1996)
Nantucket Blob (1996)
Bermuda Blob 2 (1997)
Four Mile Globster (1997)
Newfoundland Blob (2001)
Chilean Blob (2003)

⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link

quite the wiki binge there
apropos the other one i have about four articles related to cantabria open

anima corrective (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link

do share

⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Friday, 6 February 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link

Gandalf, a major force in the Yserbius community, disappeared in early 1999. With his going, all information regarding his project was lost.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 8 February 2015 05:50 (nine years ago) link


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