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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

Puff Dick was the next elected, an expert at cheating with loaded dice, and excelled in "all manner of vice". He repeated Cowdiddle's requirement for thieves and beggars to spend their ill-gotten gains and not save them. Rid says he ruled for 8 years before dying of "the pox and Neapolitan scurf".

Laurence Crossbiter (aka Long Laurence) was the next elected leader, a serving man aged 50–60. His art was "crossbiting"; theft from the customers of whores. He is also reported to have died "his bowels . . . eaten out with the pox while he was yet alive". Rid described him as cowardly and slavish for failing to come to the aid of the rebel Perkin Warbeck.

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

never heard of this before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(Pink_Floyd_album)#Critical_reception

The band played much of Wish You Were Here on 5 July 1975 at an open-air music festival at Knebworth. Roy Harper, performing at the same event, on discovering that his stage costume was missing, proceeded to destroy one of Pink Floyd's vans, injuring himself in the process. This delayed the normal setup procedure of the band's sound system. As a pair of World War II Spitfire aircraft had been booked to fly over the crowd during their entrance, the band were not able to delay their set. The result was that a power supply problem pushed Wright's keyboards completely out of tune, damaging the band's performance. At one point he left the stage, but the band were able to continue with a less sensitive keyboard, a piano and a simpler light show. Following a brief intermission, they returned to perform The Dark Side of the Moon, but critics displeased about being denied access backstage savaged the performance.

I read that as:

At one point he left the stage, but the band were able to continue with a less sensitive keyboard player.

On February 16, 2015, [Patty] Hearst's Shih Tzu, Rocket, won the "Toy" category at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden.[74]

Throughout his career as an executioner, Franz Schmidt also had a side job as a healer. According to Joel Harrington who authored an account of his life, Schmidt's own estimate of patients seeking medical advice amounted to some 15,000 consultations.[3]

https://youtu.be/ek922pOajRQ

Dude interviews metal guys to fact check wikipedia entries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_University,_Twickenham

Notable staff[edit]

Monsignor Thomas Capel (Vice-Principal, 1854–58)
Seán Ó Faoláin (Lecturer, 1929–33) – Irish short story writer who wrote his first two books while working at the College.
Reginald C. Fuller (Lecturer, 1968–1972) – Previous Canon (hon.) of Westminster Cathedral
Right Reverend Monsignor Roderick Strange (Visiting Professor)[15]
Albus Dumbledore Order of Merlin, First Class; Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, OWLs, NEWTs (Visiting Professor in Philosophy)
Mary McAleese ( Distinguished Professor in Irish Studies ) Previously President of Ireland. [16]
Cherie Blair CBE QC ( Visiting Professor in Law)[17]
Ruth Kelly (Pro Vice-Chancellor) [18]

The gopnik stereotype is known for his predominant use of underworld Mat slang, his flagrant disrespect for the laws (such as mugging and beating passers-by up; public consumption of alcoholic beverages, most usually — the least obvious "Jaguar" cocktail) and his love for snacking on roasted sunflower seeds while remaining squatted.

On August 2, 2007, after much independent investigation, it was revealed that discredited South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk unknowingly produced the first human embryos resulting from parthenogenesis. Initially, Hwang claimed he and his team had extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos, a result later found to be fabricated. Further examination of the chromosomes of these cells show indicators of parthenogenesis in those extracted stem cells, similar to those found in the mice created by Tokyo scientists in 2004. Although Hwang deceived the world about being the first to create artificially cloned human embryos, he did contribute a major breakthrough to stem cell research by creating human embryos using parthenogenesis.[85] The truth was discovered in 2007, long after the embryos were created by him and his team in February 2004. This made Hwang the first, unknowingly, to successfully perform the process of parthenogenesis to create a human embryon and, ultimately, a human parthenogenetic stem cell line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_people_of_Walloon_descent

This single had more promo releases than most bands have releases, and across this myriad of 12" and CD singles the band released more than twenty distinct remixes and edits of "White Lines", many of which were crafted by DJ Junior Vasquez.

unusual details in woflram alpha:

J. Mosely is leading an effort to construct a large Menger sponge out of old business cards.

Slightly off-topic, but Jesus Christ how badly written is the 'Challenges and Barriers' section in this artictle? -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partnership

When there are too many tasks they seem to all fall short of the hoped perfection.

Brutally Pessimistic Quotes By Anguished Wikipedia Contributors

One of the largest issues that can be discussed, communication can be a huge downfall

Deep, man, deep.

These recordings eventually landed in the hands of Island/Def Jam Records, which led to Andrew W.K.'s record deal. Subsequently the release on Bulb was canceled. Many of these songs were eventually re-recorded or altered and released on other albums. An unreleased album could be considered ambiguous by its very nature. This is especially true for this album due to the fact of it taking form in various shapes over time. It is best understood when considering all of its contexts.

Two songs on the album, "Let's Get Fucked Up" (which contains profanities) and "Baby Got Back" (which contains sexual references), gave it a parental advisory warning. The rest of songs contain no explicit content. A clean version of the album, which removes the profanities in "Let's Get Fucked Up", was also released. The song is censored by blanking and the use of a sound of a record scratching.

During his last years, his conversations became repetitive, to the disappointment of friends who had known him earlier as a witty and wide-ranging conversationalist.[10][37]

ouch

(re: W. H. Auden)

Boris Karloff (1887-1969) His famous last words were: "Walter Pidgeon" Why the actor most famous for his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster mentioned the Canadian actor is unknown.

Dillon was the shortest cast member in Saturday Night Live history at 4'11" (150 cm).

A pipe organ that has been properly maintained has no finite lifespan

Not all Catholics were executed, however. Some 199 were exiled and were both ridiculed and watched closely for the remainder of their lives.

It is a pop[13][14] and pop rock[15][16][17] song, with a rock edge and a electronic arrangement[18][17] running through a synthesizer beat[13][10] and electric guitar riffs.[9]

Saw this referenced elsewhere so:

Caroyln Griffey, Jeffrey Daniel and Howard Hewett performed a series of eight UK tour dates in April 2015 and another tour of four UK dates in July 2015.[14][15] Meanwhile, original member Jody Watley registered the trademark Shalamar in an effort to stop misuse of her likeness, reformed for American audiences and proceeded to introduce new members Nate Smith and Rosero McCoy [16] Because of the continued shady practices evidenced with the vandalism of this page, this information will be deleted or slandered upon by people associated with Griffey Daniels and Hewett and you can take that to the bank.

Alan Moore's Neonomicon utilises Nyarlathotep in the form of Johnny Carcosa, a masked drug dealer who frequents Cthulhu-themed clubs and occult shops. His manner of converting new followers is to place them in a vegetative state, subsceptible to "Aklo" - words related to Lovecraft's work, which alter the consciousness of those who listen to them. In Moore's story, he serves the allegorical role of the Archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation, informing the protagonist that she has been impregnated and will soon give birth to Cthulhu.

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[cartoonist Justin] Green is first cousins with film director William Friedkin (Green's father and Friedkin's mother are siblings)

The first three EPs, plus live material, were reissued in 1997 by Grand Royal (US) and Mo' Wax (UK). After the collapse of both these labels as well as their entire lives, Domino Records released the music from all three original 12"s plus extra tracks and early live recordings as Slip In And Out Of Phenomenon in 2008.

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