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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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http://mattbierbaum.github.io/moshpits.js/

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]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Dresden_Lancasters-900px.PNG

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]

According to Andie MacDowell, the director was stoned throughout filming.[4]

In 1979 he got devoriced from the then wife Jane Tucker, who later married their life long Friend Freddy Marks, during this period Rod penned the songs, "Janes got a new Sausage", "I'm a wolf, Freddy's a Tiger, Janes a Cow and always will be" and "It's good to share second hand goods".

Rod currently lives London and is semi retired, although still writes material mainly for his own amusement. Rod is also a naturist, after being introduced to the lifestyle by friend and colleague Freddy Marks in the late 1980s. The pair regularly holiday with their families at popular nudist spots across Europe. Burton himself has appeared in a charity calendar, completely naked, except for a tambourine covering his modesty.[citation needed]

also People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry, S/D C/D

In England

After Martin V was elected as the new pope in November 1417, Poggio, although not holding any office, accompanied his court to Mantua in late 1418, but, once there, decided to accept the invitation of Henry, Cardinal Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, to go to England. His five years spent in England, until returning to Rome in 1423, were the least productive and satisfactory of his life.[4]

During the band's performance of "Rocket Queen", the 15th song in the set (counting drum & guitar solos),

Kahoano later stated that he "did not respect the other members on a musical or personal level" and described the experience as "Wack".

Do we have a thread for "unusual diction in wikipedia articles"?

Self Portrait was Dylan's second double album, and features a lot of cover versions of well-known pop and folk songs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ajayi#Style_of_play

Hamlet is the most skilled of all at rhetoric.

okay the wikipedia article on Hamlet is a goldmine*

The Ghost demands that Hamlet avenge him. "Well said, old mole!" replies the prince, and he tells Horatio and the rest of his crew that he is going to "put on an antic disposition" from this point on and that if they run into him around the castle they should not say such things as "Well, we know," or "We could, an if we would," Or "If we list to speak," or "There be, an if they might,"[7] that would give him away. He is, however, uncertain of the Ghost's reliability.

*that potentially opens onto a secondary branch of comedy platinum via the talkpage which I have not yet dared click on

^lol

From "Tantrums"

Notable people

Tennis player Ilie Năstase is best remembered for being one of the best players never to win the singles title at Wimbledon, for his tantrums, and his good looks.[21]

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Brand was also an insatiable reader, who amassed a collection of 30,000 books over the years, many of which were destroyed in a 1978 fire at his Malibu home.

Pollution of the Hudson River is water pollution of the Hudson River and pollution of the parts of the Hudson River Valley affected by this water pollution.

apparently in the span of thirteen episodes:

Due to the negative critical and public reaction to the show, the producers made changes to Mrs. Columbo almost immediately. The spin-off was renamed Kate Columbo, followed by Kate the Detective, and finally Kate Loves a Mystery. The main character was likewise renamed "Kate Callahan"; all references to and ties with the original Columbo show were dropped. After this, a reference was made in the show to Kate's divorce: the character was no longer Mrs. Columbo nor was she meant to have any connection with him at all.

And that's how "Kate & Allie" became a staple of the CBS Monday lineup.

The picture looks terrible, but in a really strange way. Why do the 'RZ-1' and the screen look very sharp compared to everything else?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_RZ-1

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Casio_RZ-1_Digital_Sampling_Rhythm_Composer_%28lowreso%29.jpg

In the file history and rights information for that image it says it is a derivative work of this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stolmen%26samplers_@_bdu%27s_studio.jpg

In that photo, the RZ-1 is the lower of two machines to the left of the main rig. The photo is shot from a completely different angle and you cannot see the RZ-1's screen (it appears to be turned off) or the Casio logo (it is partially obscured by something). If that file information is correct, some incredibly heavy image manipulation must have been done to make it appear that it was photographed from directly overhead. In addition, the illuminated screen and Casio logo must surely be separate elements pasted in from another source image. Either that or the image of the keyboard rig is not the source for the RZ-1 image, contrary to what is stated.

Incidentally I used to have an RZ-1. I bought it new in 1987 and was excited by the idea you could sample sounds into it, but one problem I found was that the sampled sounds wouldn't line up with the onboard sounds. The sampler recorded a few milliseconds of noise or space at the front before the (for example) snare hit, making the sampled snare sound late compared to the onboard sounds when combined in a sequence. The Wikipedia page mentions this (with no citation). I had forgotten that I edited it about five years ago to add that information.

apparently in the span of thirteen episodes:

_Due to the negative critical and public reaction to the show, the producers made changes to Mrs. Columbo almost immediately. The spin-off was renamed Kate Columbo, followed by Kate the Detective, and finally Kate Loves a Mystery. The main character was likewise renamed "Kate Callahan"; all references to and ties with the original Columbo show were dropped. After this, a reference was made in the show to Kate's divorce: the character was no longer Mrs. Columbo nor was she meant to have any connection with him at all._

I can remember c&p-ing this exact paragraph somewhere a few years ago

some incredibly heavy image manipulation must have been done to make it appear that it was photographed from directly overhead

in photoshop an image can be stretched like this fairly easily. then, yes, they've pasted on the logos and screen, and touched up the edges and added fake depth.

I don't know why they bothered when the finished image looks like absolute shit. Admittedly the other RZ-1 images on Flickr are set to 'All Rights Reserved' but the owners might be willing to waive that if you bothered to ask them nicely for permission to use the image on Wikipedia. There are loads more on Google Images, as well.

i see a lot of weird image manipulation on wikipedia. for example, the current main photo for clint eastwood where the background has been removed for no good reason.

If you look at the original Clint Eastwood source image -- https://www.flickr.com/photos/gdcgraphics/5553144396/ -- you can see why they edited it.