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E. Normus Johnson, of Big Johnson t-shirts fame: "He is known for his nerdiness and his unconfirmed claims of gargantuan physical endowment."

After playing in 10 Minute Warning with Duff McKagan (The Fartz, Guns N' Roses), Steve Verwolf, Paul Dana, Bob Groves, and David Garrigues, Gilmore decided to join his friend Duff McKagan when he announced he was leaving Seattle for a new life in L.A, and accompanied him in his early auditions, as well as hanging with Guns N' Roses in the early days, and it is often wondered that after GN'R's first drummer left, why did Gilmore himself not offer to take the seat instead of Steven Adler

Among his students at Cornell was future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who later identified Nabokov as a major influence on her development as a writer.

woah

In his spare time, Hoover wrote. His lectures at Columbia and Stanford universities were published in 1909 as Principles of Mining,[45] which became a standard textbook. Hoover and his wife also published their English translation of the 1556 mining classic De re metallica in 1912. This translation from the Latin of Renaissance author Georgius Agricola is still the most important scholarly version and provides its historical context. It is still in print.

President Herbert Hoover is an important figure in the history of alchemy literature, who knew?

ha, wow! guy really wore a lot of hats. i wonder if anybody's ever read his last book, Fishing For Fun—And To Wash Your Soul.

Last room before the gift shop at his presidential library is an actual-size white statue of HH fly-fishing inside this little 6X10' rectangle.

Ok, maybe the white statue part I'm remembering from the Mark Twain exhibit at Mud Island.

http://i.imgur.com/J56G8SA.jpg

Reports on the size of the fish have been greatly exaggerated.

In 1980, actress Lynda Carter covered the song ("I Was Made For Lovin' You") for her second television special Encore!, in which she dressed as a female Kiss member and had Kiss look-alike dancers dance around her. Real Kiss member Gene Simmons later wore Lynda's original Kiss costume for his 1986 film Never Too Young to Die.

god i love this thread

This whole section is kind of surreal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28rapper%29#Tattoos

##There are no plans to re-issue The Tourists' debut album, and a vinyl copy is extremely rare to find and is prized among collectors.

http://www.discogs.com/Tourists-The-Tourists/release/893992

Marketplace 18 For Sale from £2.11

In 1917, he announced that he was retiring to become a Los Angeles-based playboy,[citation needed] and took a few years off from the money-making grind to enjoy spending his earnings on women.

In Holst's The Planets, ffff occurs twice in Mars and once in Uranus often punctuated by organ

braggin gustav

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It is postulated that the symbol with two strokes was an adapted design of the patriot Oliver Pollock in 1778. Oliver Pollock was such a zealous patriot – known as the "Financier of the Revolution in the West" – that conjecture does not overstep its bounds in purporting this theory as viable.

Hahahaha

much.

2009 veröffentlichte Knausgård die ersten drei seines sechs Bände umfassenden, autobiographisch angelegten Romanprojekts Min Kamp (übersetzt: Mein Kampf)

After an 11-year relationship, Vittorio Emanuele married Swiss biscuit heiress and world-ranked water skier Marina Ricolfi-Doria in Tehran on 7 October 1971,[2] at the occasion of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy.

After she changes, she tosses her bra atop a prickly pear cactus and walks towards the ocean. Later she is seen lying atop a well-made bed

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Dave Rivers, of the band Six to Midnight, regularly performs "The Jenkem Song", with lyrics written by The Cutt. One line is, "If you're feeling loopy, then you huffed some poopy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_passport The audio reading of the article sounds like William S. Burroughs on helium.

He last appeared onscreen in the 2002 Chinese movie Second Time Around alongside Ekin Cheng and Cecilia Cheung. 2005-2014 mutgash poison punk rock band. Currently studying to be a music teacher in Australia.

The first verses usually establish that the singer was initially a house slave. He is then charged with protecting the master out of doors—and his horse as well—from the "blue-tailed fly". This is possibly the blue-bottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria or Protophormia terraenovae), but probably the mourning horsefly (Tabanus atratus), a bloodsucking pest with a blue-black abdomen

awesome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshing#Physical_properties_of_emergent_behavior

The croquet tournament was notable as it marked the first appearance of women at Olympic level. Madame Despres, Madame Filleaul Brohy and Mademoiselle Ohnier were eliminated in the first round of competition along with Marcel Haentjens of Belgium, the only entrant from outside France. A single paying spectator attended the tournament, an elderly English gentleman who travelled from Nice for the early stages. An unofficial two-ball handicap competition was also held.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshing#Physical_properties_of_emergent_behavior

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In 2009, the city government of Seoul painted 4,929 parking spaces pink so that women do not have to walk as far to their destination and make the city more conducive to wearing high heels.[13]

I dunno, a car park with 4,929 spaces in it's gonna be a long walk whatever!

In September 2006, he formed a new British political party known as the Blah! Party.[9]

"But we believe that voting is an important part of the democratic process, and we want the Blah! Party to be the party of protest; a channel through which the people of the U.K. can vent their dissatisfaction at nonsensical everyday things, and protest against the government and the current crop of political parties."[10]

The party entered into a sponsorship deal with Seabrook Crisps in September 2006.[11]

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See also
List of films featuring drones

He has gained popularity during the last few years because he used powerful synths.[citation needed]

[Prairie Prince] collaborated with Ross Valory, bassist for and also a founding member of Journey, on a line of patented eco friendly, USA made hoodie shirts called MouthMan- where graphic designs of jaws and teeth on the sleeves form a mouth when the wearer "hugs themeslves"

Maxwell insists that he could not control the car. An alien spacecraft appears and the aliens tell Ralph and Bill (by way of the car radio) that they are to work together to save the world from its own destruction[clarification needed][citation needed] and Ralph will be given the power to change it.

Despite enjoying the experience initially, he left after a year; his arrogant ways made him unpopular with the other boys but they did enjoy beating him up.

Since 1939, guns have been divided into eight categories[citation needed]:

Category 1 : "Military" firearms.
........
Category 6 : Knives[clarification needed]

http://marveluni.angelfire.com/knifegun.JPG

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Khasneh_and_the_camel.JPG

The opening, middle, and end of the film are different from what Dante envisioned.

Operation Dumbo Drop is a 1995 American war comedy film directed by Simon Wincer that explores war, politics, and animal welfare.

Whitlock was Moroder's mechanic, fixing his Ferraris, before turning into a lyricist.

i guess that's more just "cool details" w/e

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Gregoire.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregoire_%28chimpanzee%29

that's an old chimp.

Hidden political message[edit]
According to Dave Mackey's Batfink site, there's a two-part political message hidden in two episodes, disguised as sped-up gibberish. He translates the message as follows:

Part 1 (in "Spin the Batfink"): "The most dangerous force in America today is Walter Reuther and his political machine. It’s time we realized that they intend to run this country. When the smut publishers put a..."[4]
Part 2 (in "Bride and Doom"): "...dirty cover on a clean book, let’s take it at face value and call it trash and dump it in the river."[5]