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The return of tracksuits can largely be credited to music, most notably Rapper Jay Z and fellow Spice Girl Sporty Spice.

While some people find not wearing underwear to be sexually exciting, and some people regard knowing that their sex partner is not wearing underwear to be erotic, most that go commando do so for their own comfort, or other reasons such as a medical condition or how they were raised.

and yet, some, like Lady Gaga, were born that way.

very few of us were born wearing underwear tbf

ttj

Actinoform clouds seen as from Space photo caption totally slaying me by making outer space a proper noun

I worry my ugly formatting choices dilute the impact so maybe just check out the page for yourself before it gets merged into "marine stratocumulus"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinoform_cloud

they look pretty cool too
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Actinoform_cloud.jpg/696px-Actinoform_cloud.jpg

remind me too much of xrays tbfh

Along with the limited premiere sessions that happened in the previous week to the national release, the film was watched by a total of 31,209 people.

He would later come up with a more cost-effective method of confronting the Hulk when he is in his childlike stage: active non-resistance. He and his men simply do not fire on or engage the Hulk in any way. The Hulk, confused, does not smash and leaps away

On the November 13, 2008, episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, during the "Late Night Sausage Party" skit, the announcer (Brian McCann) makes phallic double entendres about every guest, and says of Boz Scaggs, "That hit singer of 'Lido'... he can sure fill a speedo!" Conan tells him that the song's name is actually "Lido Shuffle," and after the announcer is audibly trying to figure out a rhyme, he tells Conan to shut up.

^this is beautiful

Ed Stone
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Zoo has been reviewed on a number of websites. Two rate the novel somewhat positively and one rates it very positively. The review on the Hutchinson Leader website says, in part, "It's a page turner that's for sure. The ending is sort of lame, but overall I enjoyed it."[6] A review of a CD version, by Publishers Weekly, states that, "While the book’s conclusion may strain credulity…Oz presents his case so positively and persuasively that it’s not until the final disc plays that anyone is likely to care."[7]

The Bookreporter.com website rates Zoo as very positive, saying, "What is really chilling about ZOO is its plausibility. You may not agree with all of the points of view presented here, but at the very least it will keep you reading—and thinking—from first page to last."[8]

Present-day descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage not as Kool-Aid but as Flavor Aid,[7] a less-expensive product reportedly found at the site.[8] Kraft Foods, the maker of Kool-Aid, has stated the same.[9][10] Implied by this accounting of events is that the reference to the Kool-Aid brand owes exclusively to its being better-known among Americans. Others are less categorical.[11] Both brands are known to have been among the commune's supplies: Film footage shot inside the compound prior to the events of November shows Jones opening a large chest in which boxes of both Flavor Aid and Kool-Aid are visible.[12] Criminal investigators testifying at the Jonestown inquest spoke of finding packets of "cool aid" (sic), and eyewitnesses to the incident are also recorded as speaking of "cool aid" or "Cool Aid."[13] 

More detail available on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid#In_popular_culture page.

Present-day descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage not as Kool-Aid but as Flavor Aid,[14] a less-expensive product from Jel Sert reportedly found at the site.[15] Kraft Foods, the maker of Kool-Aid, has stated the same.

Jel Sert’s awareness campaign also includes the sale of Pop-Ice Patriot Pops, a newly created patriotic themed and Operation Homefront branded freezer bar item.

btw just wanted to say that the track suits one, Ed Stone and "The Hulk, confused, does not smash" are all cracking me up right now.

The first freezer was presented to University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital to start the program. To date, over 85 centers and the thousands of children being treated there have been able to enjoy delicious freezer bars and flash smiles on their faces.

A fast zoom-in to the top balcony of the Ilikai Hotel followed, showing McGarrett turning to face the camera, followed by many quick-cuts and freeze-frames of Hawaiian scenery, and Hawaiian-Chinese-Caucasian model Elizabeth Malamalamaokalani Logue turning to face the camera.

Daryl Hall is infamous for being heard asking the crowd at the end of the song "Sara Smile," "How come you didn't like me as a teenager?"

As of May 2015 the Dunkin' Donuts website claimed "there are countless steps involved in producing coffee."[25]

(particularly noteworthy as a one-sentence paragraph with no preliminaries or followup)

lol

but a citation, tho.

wikipedia editors just in an endless quest to add referenced factoids to wikipedia pages and delete anything interesting

"countless steps" oh man that coffee sounds so dank rn

I just love the phrasing, "As of May 2015..." which suggests one is reading about the middle stages of an unfolding controversy. As of April 25th, no official explanation had been offered for the failure of the north percolator, or a confirmed death toll, even as highly-caffeinated waste runoff continued to flow from the plant. [23][24] As of May 2015...

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BurdockLeafInHand [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], by Nwbeeson (Own work), from Wikimedia Commons

Per the 2011 DC continuity reboot, Aquaman's telepathy has been greatly downplayed: acknowledging that most marine life doesn't possess enough intelligence to carry a meaningful telepathic communication, Aquaman is now stated to simply add compulsions and needs in the mindset of aquatic life, compelling them to do his bidding by a subtle altering of their cerebellum.

The original screenplay was titled Hot Lunch and this was the title for the film until part-way through shooting when director Alan Parker noted a pornographic film showing on 42nd Street with the same title. For the rest of the shooting schedule of 14 weeks the script was just labeled "title".[5] David De Silva noted that the porno film starred Al Parker so that confusion might ensue if the original title remained.[6]

love "acknowledging" in the aquaman entry, like this was a hard truth that they finally had to come out and admit, under intense public pressure.

this is not really an 'unusual detail', but the wikipedia article for Phil Collins has a bizarrely long section about Collins' status as a hate figure, subdivided into three parts (Critical and public perceptions, Criticism from other artists + Collins's stance and defenders). I wonder if it built up gradually as pro and anti Collins partisans each added more and more quotes and references in retaliation against each other?

Away from baseball Todd is a fanatical Taylor Swift fan. He is constantly posting updates about his previous encounters, album collection and future concerts (whilst publicly asking his mother to purchase him tickets).

I wonder if it built up gradually as pro and anti Collins partisans each added more and more quotes and references in retaliation against each other?

According to a comment on the article talk page, a lot of anti-Collins material was added by a user called 'The abominable Wiki troll' in part using a large number of sockpuppet accounts. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Phil_Collins and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/The_abominable_Wiki_troll/Archive (search 'Phil Collins').

Schünzel's work was very popular in Germany and the Nazi regime gave him the title of Ehrenarier or Honorary Aryan and allowed him to continue to direct and act despite he was a Jew ( A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the process of conversion to Judaism). Aryan comes from the Sanskrit aria, which means noble, and according to the Nazi ideology an Aryan is a Caucasian of non- Jewish descent

The Offspring and Rancid have also played ska-punk songs.

In August 2013 several people died in Siorapaluk from eating kiviak that was made from eider rather than auk, which do not ferment as well and gave those that ate it botulism.[2]

In 2002 the band was featured on the Scooby Doo soundtrack, and that was the end of the band's career.

They shared a cheeseburger and carrot cake, at a restaurant called the Apple Jack, on 19 August (two years to the day since Tennant and Lowe had met) and, after hearing a demo tape that Tennant had brought along with him, Orlando suggested making a record with the Pet Shop Boys.

hahaha. clearly it was the carrot cake that did it.

Bathrooms[edit]

Leave It to Beaver is unique in 1950s television sitcom history for its extraordinary number of bathroom scenes. Beaver and Wally have an en-suite bathroom, and many scenes are set in it. One early episode, "Child Care," is set almost entirely in their bathroom.[53] Other episodes include major scenes set in the boys' bathroom.[54][55] Additionally, in almost every scene set in the boys' bedroom, the bathtub, shower curtain, or vanity can be seen through the open bathroom door. Beaver uses the bathroom several times to escape his brother when angry, slamming the door to express his emotions. At such times, June and Ward are called upon to order Beaver to vacate his refuge. In "Beaver's Good Deed,"[45] a scene is set in Ward and June's bathroom. A tramp takes a bath in their tub and slips away wearing one of Ward's suits and a pair of his shoes. In the "Captain Jack" episode, Wally and Beaver try to hide a baby alligator they bought by keeping it in their bathroom's toilet tank.

Leave It To Iguana[edit]

I read that in the Philippines they call the show "Leave It To Iguana," because a beaver isn't common there. Any truth to that? 99.180.245.100 (talk) 22:11, 15 January 2010 (UTC)Lauralei

The bathroom paragraph suggests either (a) a fetishist whose familiarity with the show is limited solely to this topic, (b) a crackpot fan with a theory no one believes in, or (c) a sorta garbled gloss of someone's graduate thesis in the humanities, the latter also possibly written by A or B.

i assume it's related to this: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/firsttoilet.asp

Was Leave It to Beaver the first prime-time network program to show a toilet? Not quite. It can lay claim to being the first series to show a toilet tank, however, and to be among the earliest programs to show a bathroom in any form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Blanco

he is openly proud of having been named after Richard Nixon

Flatulence
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I probably should have figured this out before looking it up, but this is what Breaking Wind the 2012 comedy film is:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Breaking_Wind_film_poster.jpg