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While there is no rule on whom one should greet, tradition dictates that groups send greetings to other groups whom they consider their friends. Other groups, usually newcomers to the demo scene who don't have sufficient contacts, prefer to greet groups whose works they consider influential or high-quality. Some groups occasionally send greetings to individual people.

Applause is always awarded for an entry after it was shown, even if it was a below-average quality entry by someone who never created a production before; it is usually the actual effort behind the production that's awarded. It is not uncommon to hear applause during the display of a demo or intro when a remarkable effect is shown; this type of display of respect is generally considered a huge achievement and is highly regarded by the creators.

Yakky Doodle is a fictional character created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Yakky's name is an obvious takeoff of Yankee Doodle.

Really taking my willpower to avoid adding a [CITATION NEEDED] to that second sentence.

This article possibly contains original research.

if only Yankee Doodle was alive so he could sue for millions a la Yogi Berra

In recent years, Booji Boy's concert appearances have seen him dressed in modern "hip hop" attire (including a sideways ball cap and sporting "bling"), with Devo member Jerry Casale introducing him as "Boogie Boyyyyyy."

LOL

Much of the movie was filmed in an old, long-empty Masonic temple in Glendale, California, owned by actor Rock Hudson. The nine-story building was a series of makeshift "sound stages" stacked floor after floor, some big enough to create the midway scenes indoors. This was the studio used that year for production of The Creeping Terror, another low-quality monster movie. The Film Center Studios were popular with non-union producers, because they could turn off the elevator to lock out IATSE union agents, who found it difficult to climb the stairs to the seventh floor main stage.[2]

A number of other constructions have been given.[11] [12] [13][14] [15]
As a reviewer of one noted: "The details are all included, but as usual they are tedious and not too instructive."[16]

The song has remained a staple of Limp Bizkit's live shows, though its most famous performance occurred in Ohio in 2001, "sung" by Patrick Grannan after a heartbreaking defeat.

Unnecessary disambiguation:

Play-Doh
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the children's modeling material. For the ancient Greek philosopher, see Plato.

Play-Dohnic love

hahaha, that's great. Aries Toddle - This article is about the Zodiac-themed baby walker. For the ancient Greek philosopher...

In 2009, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary of the release of Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz with a world tour of California, Arizona, Nevada, and Oklahoma.

[Tom Driberg] began a long association with the satirical magazine Private Eye, supplying it with political gossip and, under the pseudonym "Tiresias", compiling a regular, highly risqué prize cryptic crossword puzzle which on one occasion was won by the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

She is active on Facebook.

Dobson spent nine years writing of the ups and downs of life with Black Lace. The book's writing was suddenly halted, with the death of his partner, Tricia, to an asthma attack in 2006

Anarchist band Chumbawamba recorded a version of "Agadoo" for the Peel Sessions. The producer of the Black Lace version, Neil Ferguson, was also Chumbawamba's regular producer at the time and later a full member of the band.

He was the lead singer on Smokie's revival of their hit, "Living Next Door To Alice", recorded with British comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown, as "Who The F**k is Alice?".

Barton died in March 1995, at the age of 41, from injuries incurred when Smokie's tour bus crashed during a hailstorm in Cologne, Germany.

In 1987, Colin Gibb released an alternative version of the song with explicit lyrics, entitled "Supercock"

Hemmings was offered the part of the protagonist after actor Sean Connery turned the role down because Antonioni wouldn't show him the full script but only a 7-page treatment stored in a cigarette packet.[6]

The Irish Times described it as a "mildly diverting yarn" but was critical of the small scale of the film and the apparently limited budget.[7] Peter Bradshaw reviewed the film for The Guardian and said that it was "the worst film of the week, a dire British comedy, to which the only honest response is to soil and then set fire to the Union flag in the foyer of your local cinema."

In 2003, Purple Ronnie was dropped, and a new creative direction was adopted, revolving around the benefits of Shlurpling the Purple.

hahahah

Serbia's best-known CPA Accountant and current President of Instant Technology, Mirjana Schultz was born in this region.

Suggs

Graham McPherson was born in Hastings in Sussex, the son of William Rutherford McPherson (1935–1975)[2] and Edith Gower, who married in Paddington in 1960. Suggs was raised in Hastings by his mother, a jazz singer;[3] his father had left by age three. In a 2009 interview he was asked about what happened to his father:

I don't know, but what I've heard hasn't been good: [being addicted to] heroin, injecting his eyeballs with paraffin, and being sectioned. He must be dead now. I mean, he would have got in touch if he was alive, wouldn't he? Yeah, he must be dead, poor bugger.[4]

In fact, ironically, he would only learn of his father's passing three years after that interview, through reading this very Wikipedia entry.

In December 2007, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, appointed Eno – then aged 59 – as his youth affairs adviser.[57]

Before this development, milk could only be kept fresh for a short while and was only available in the immediate vicinity of a cow.

Actor Bill Paxton appears in the videos for "Fish Heads", "Soak It Up", and "Love Tap".

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS.

Regarding Pepto-Bismol:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Bismuth_slag_from_pepto_bismol.jpg/220px-Bismuth_slag_from_pepto_bismol.jpg

Bismuth subsalicylate is the only active ingredient in an over-the-counter drug that can leave a shiny metal oxide slag behind after being completely burnt with a blow torch.[15]

"Character relationship diagram" for Steppenwolf:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Steppenwolf_en.JPG/800px-Steppenwolf_en.JPG

Unknown (80s?) — Luis walks away from his computer briefly, and the Yip Yips visit during that time and experiment with pressing buttons on the computer. Luis comes back to find that his computer has been changed by someone. Later in the show, the Yip Yips come back and leave a flower on the keyboard, which Luis discovers (presumably early- to mid-1980s based on technological level of computer and those fuzzbuster outfits)

I'm all for Wikipedia entries being clear about what is fictional and what is RL (esp given fans' tendency to describe characters, plots etc as if they were real), but I still giggle a bit when I see an article starting like

Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) is a fictional superhero

On the beetle species Julodimorpha bakewelli:

The males of this species have the habit to aggregate on and attempting to copulate with discarded brown "stubbies" (a type of beer bottles). The males are apparently attracted by the refraction of light produced by the glass bumps of the bottles, resembling giant females with a very similar colour and surface. Consequently to this behaviour the species is actually threatened.

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Graham McPherson was born in Hastings in Sussex, the son of William Rutherford McPherson (1935–1975)[2] and Edith Gower, who married in Paddington in 1960. Suggs was raised in Hastings by his mother, a jazz singer;[3] his father had left by age three. In a 2009 interview he was asked about what happened to his father:

I don't know, but what I've heard hasn't been good: [being addicted to] heroin, injecting his eyeballs with paraffin, [and] being sectioned. He must be dead now. I mean, he would have got in touch if he was alive, wouldn't he? Yeah, he must be dead, poor bugger.[4]

In fact, ironically, he would only learn of his father's passing three years after that interview, through reading this very Wikipedia entry.

Why is everyone looking up Graham McPherson lately?

Lol sorry that is weird!

Since everyone can see that the sun is not attacked by a giant snake during the day, every day

citation needed

this just sounds insane to me, from Survival skills article:

If you have a black powder firearm along, you can sometimes start a fire by ramming tinder down the barrel against the powder charge. Use charred cloth if available. Fire the gun up in the air, run and pick up the cloth and blow it into flame. Have a supply of tinder at hand so the cloth can be placed against it to start the fire.[3]

i guess that's more than just a detail

The song is told from the first-person perspective of a 16-year-old boy , who is desperately wanting to be seen as cool and popular with his friends but lamenting that his parents are out-of-touch, overbearing shrews and actively working against said stated goals. Two such examples are given:

Verse 1: The boy and his mother go shopping for clothing for the upcoming school year. Instead of the mother giving in to demands that he be allowed to wear hip-hop and grunge style clothing, he instead is made to try on (and ultimately accept) more conservative styles, to which the boy complains are more appropriate for 1963 and The Brady Bunch and would hurt his reputation for being cool. The mother counters that "You're only sixteen, you don't have a rep yet" and (as he begs her to reconsider her purchases) "No, you go to school to learn, not for a fashion show." As feared, on the first day of school, the boy is laughed at and scorned, while he worries that he will need to go through the same process for the rest of the school year, while complaining that his parents don't understand what it takes to be popular.

Verse 2: The protagonist is left home alone while his parents go on an out-of-the-country vacation. Despite being told that the cars are off-limits, the boy decides that his father "wouldn't mind" if he took his Porsche out for a drive. While driving along a city street, the boy sees an attractive girl and picks her up to go for a drive. At one point, the girl unbuttons several buttons from her blouse, begins acting suggestive toward him and encourages him to drive faster ... to which he agrees. However, a police officer patrolling the area spots the car being driven 90 mph and pulls the young driver over ... to which he is forced to admit he does not have a driver's license. He then learns that his female passenger is not a teenager but 12 years old and a runaway. The boy is taken into custody and the car impounded, forcing him to call his parents and explain. The parents are outraged and make sure he understands that what he is chalking up as a mistake were serious crimes.

Palmers's follow up record, 1975's "Pressure Drop" was produced by Steve Smith, with Lowell, and Little Feat as the core band on the sessions. The previous information displayed here, that Robert Palmer kept the producer's credit because of a dispute between his label, Island, and Warners, is totally incorrect. This reporter personally asked Lowell George who produced "Pressure Drop" in November 1975 and he replied it was Steve Smith. So any later information that calls into question this fact, i.e: "Later CDs list Steve Smith as producer (Joe Smith was chairman of WB)" are simply incorrect after the fact. Upon the record's release, the band and Palmer embarked on the tour that resulted in the recordings that made Feat famous.

Garriott bought the Luna 21 lander and the Lunokhod 2 rover (both currently on lunar surface) from the Lavochkin Association for $68,500 in December 1993 at a Sotheby's auction in New York[53] (although the catalog incorrectly lists lot 68A as Luna 17/Lunokhod 1).[54] Garriott notes that while UN treaties ban governmental ownership of property off earth, corporations and private citizens retain such rights. Lunokhod 2 is still in use with mirrors aligned to bounce lasers such that precise earth moon distances can be measured. With his vehicle "still in use", Garriott claims property rights to the territory surveyed by Lunokhod 2. This may be the first valid claim for private ownership of extraterrestrial territory.[55]

In the song's chorus, an elephant trumpeting is heard to hide a sexual reference ("If you got a big [elephant trumpet], let me search it"). There is no version of the song that replaces the elephant sound with a word it is meant to hide; there is no word to hide, as it is meant to be left to the listener's imagination. In both the explicit and edited versions, the song uses onomatopoeia such as "ra-ta-ta-ta" and "buboomp buboomp boomp" to refer to sexual bodily moves.[6]

I've always thought that was brilliant, the way our brains just automatically know to replace it with "trunk." Kind of like the audio equivalent of seeing a heart and knowing it means "love."

... you replace that with "trunk"?

Yeah, what else would it be? Elephant noise=trunk. Elephants make noise with their trunks. You search trunks. Also, trunks visually are phallic. So it works on all sorts of punny levels.

And it's quite popular in the Haribo packets.

Well that completely changes my perception of "junk in the trunk".

yeah i was gonna say! "trunk" = butt. no reason she couldn't be talking about that, but then the phallic connection falls away. i think i always basically subbed in "dick" but it's not a song that necessarily requires subbing things in... part of the fun of this as a hit was all the weird sounds and backwards stuff and so on, sonic novelty for its own sake.

The storyline has been characterised as "short and strange".[3] The film received mixed reviews yet it has been said "Kamikaze" had a "cool vibe".[4] The film has been called "impressive".[5] It has also been stated "Kamikaze" delivered "evidence of style and flair" and was "stylish fun".[6][7]

Derek Roddy (born August 28, 1972) is an American drummer and snake breeder, originally from South Carolina.[1] His ability to record entire drum tracks in one or two takes earned him the nickname "One Take".[2]

Number (disambiguation)
A number describes and assess quantity.
Number and numbers may also refer to:
In cryptic crosswords, a synonym for anaesthetic