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Defunct breakfast cereals are a fun topic. So many cartoon mascots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_consumer_brands#Breakfast_cereals

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no page for the lidsville-inspired general mills cereal Magic Puffs? wikipedia, you disappoint me.

mind you the entire wikipedia page on Lurvills Delight is good:

Lurvills Delight was a popular carbonated soft drink in Wales between 1896 and 1910. Invented by twin brother residents of Ynyshir Harold and Iolo Lewis in 1895, the carbonated mixture included stinging nettles, Dock leaves and was infused with Juniper berry extract. The profits made from the drink were used to pay for 150 coal miners and their families from the village to emigrate to Pittsburgh and Denver in the United States. The drink ceased production in 1910 due to a shortage of Dock leaves in the local area.

The Lewis twins eventually settled in Fochriw, where they started a successful leather upholstery company, which continues to this day.

In the late 1980s, due to a manufacturing error, side one of several cassette copies of Walls of Jericho accidentally contained the music of Celtic Frost's To Mega Therion, confusing many first-time Helloween listeners.

love everything about that

I'm imagining all these dudes showing up to a Helloween concert circa 1985 and wondering why they don't know any of the songs

Two WW.Girl members, Aprilyn "Congratulations" Gustillo and Monique "Pak" Natada, were suspended for five days from the show on November 2010 because of a fight over lipstick.[10][11] On January 12, 2011, the WW.Girls group was given a three-day suspension for fighting over each other in Twitter.[12][13]

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Hot August, to the queen, with the hetman diploma send to the capital of the Cossack. On the road he strikes up acquaintance to the loose Zaporozhets. On a halt the new friend told that sold soul to a devil and waits for payment. At night the Cossack didn't become goes to bed, decided to look that will be farther. As darkened, to the place of a halt the devil came, took away the horse, and with her and the imperial diploma. It was necessary to look for to the messenger loss in the wood overflowed with evil spirit. For the morning the Cossack said goodbye to the acquaintance and, already without stops, rushed off to St. Petersburg.

More importantly, however, "Puff" joined several other PP&M hits of the same era ("If I Had a Hammer", "Where Have All The Flowers Gone," and "Blowin' In the Wind" among them [the last composed and first recorded by Bob Dylan]) to become standards of American musical culture, the best-known and most widely loved examples of the folk-song genre that virtually all Americans know by heart and can sing along to.[citation needed]

Citation needed indeed, like a traffic citation though.

Regarding Rudy Vallee:

He toured with a one-man theater show into the 1980s, occasionally opening for The Village People.

I hope they jammed on "Sex Over The (Mega)Phone"

The lyrics consist of the narrator ruminating on places that he has never visited, but feels that he has some proxy experience of via the music or other features of those places, or from having gone to similar locations. In the final verse, he observes that while he has "never been to heaven", he has "been to Oklahoma", where he has been told he was born, thus implying a kinship between the two places. However, the singularity of this kinship is called into question when he then implies that he could just as easily have been born in Arizona (a lyrical turn that has led many semioticians to surmise that Axton was an early aficionado of the works of Jacques Derrida).

<3 <3 <3

Bolded emphasis mine, plot c+p-ed sans abridgement:

The Whore (Norwegian: Hora) is a Norwegian comedy-horror film directed by Reinert Kiil and starring Jørgen Langhelle.[1]

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Rikke is at work on a new novel. She leaves the city to visit her mother in Dokka in order to finish the book in peace and quiet,[2] but she is raped and brutalized by three local men.[3]

Hyperbolic colors: these are impossibly highly saturated. For example, to see "hyperbolic orange": staring at bright cyan causes an orange afterimage, then on looking at orange, the resulting orange afterimage seen against the orange background may cause an orange color purer than the purest orange color that can be made by any normally-seen light.

And then the face of God appears, your self dissolves into a celestial field of light, and all color — including that red/green color that only Brian, that guy from eighth grade, has claimed to see in natural light— becomes fully visible to your third eye.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/BurdockLeafInHand.gif

After attending a soccer game in Bucharest, between FC Steaua București and West Ham United, he became a well-known fan of the Romanian team.[34][35][36]

That would be Larry Hagman, of course

In the mythology of the 21st century North Yorkshire Moors it is believed that if you dance nine times widdershins around a fairy ring of toadstools you will come under the power of the fairy people. The story of Fairy Cross Plain (Fryup Dale) chronicles the fate of a young boy, Thomas Skelderskew, who did just that.[citation needed]

21st century??

The notion of the wild haggis is widely believed, though not always including the idea of mismatched legs.

from the Wikipedia Articles Written in Real Time department:

The Wacken show has started - against all further schedules and expectations - with a performance of Savatage on the Black Stage, featuring Gutter Ballet as first song. From the line-up only Pitrelli was missing, replaced by Circle II Circle guitarist Bill Hudson, and they also had a support by Vitalij Kuprij on keyboards. After seven songs the band has left the stage, and on the True Metal Stage TSO has begun to play with Pitrelli and its non-Sava members. Caffery, Middleton and Plate have replaced them on several songs, and Stevens had a duet with Andrew Ross in the song The Hourglass.

this is from the Keaton's Cop article:

"Keaton is a policeman that believes he is being followed by Abraham Lincoln. He has been lonely and wants to speak to Abe but his trusty sidekick, Jo Bracey, talks him out of it.

Little does Keaton know, Jo has a massive man crush on him and plans on seducing him later that night.

While Jo is seducing Keaton, an evil and robust, pastry eating man breaks into the house and kisses them.

Keaton and Jo begin a torrid love affair in which they have a love-child named Jake. Jake is kidnapped by Lt. Spencer and the original pastry eating man. They take Jake to Big Mama's house and they begin to play naked twister. They end up drinking too much and tell Jake about the time Jo dressed up as Dog the Bounty Hunter and played baseball for LSU.

Keaton and Jo, along with Rick Dante, Jimmy Gable and Abraham Lincoln, concoct the worst plan ever and try to rescue Jake from Big Mama's house. Jo uses his favorite purse to knock the door down and attacks Big Mama with an adult toy. Keaton prances into the residence and throws pastries at the evil, robust man and that soothes him to the point of a coma.

Jo grabs Jake and promises never to play baseball for LSU or wear women's clothing again. Abraham Lincoln then becomes a pirate and jumps off screen.

The end."

Check out the last edit. Someone removed half of the story for "obvious vandalism" but left that half?

Rendell's love of sports is well known. Rendell is a Philadelphia Eagles fan and is part of the panel on the Comcast Sportsnet show "Post Game Live", which airs after every Eagles regular and post-season game. Rendell was among the crowd in attendance for Bounty Bowl II in 1989, in which the unruly fans threw snow and ice at the field; Rendell wagered (and lost) $20 expecting that a fellow fan could not throw a snowball from the stands of the stadium to the field.[46]

has this twitter account been linked to itt? https://twitter.com/DeletedWiki

The Brooklyn Tip-Tops or "BrookFeds" of the Federal League, the only major league team ever named for a loaf of bread, acquired the ballpark property in 1914...

December 12 – The Archies' Sugar Sugar Jingle Jangle Christmas Show airs on CBS. It is not a success.

It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of its release. Inferno is now a major motion picture (movie).

from the article about infamous baseball play "Merkle's Boner":

Fred murkle this curse happend in 1908 what was sussposed to be a winning game some one triped fred and it somehow put a curse on the new york giants and this section is called boner

from later in same article:

Evers retrieved the ball and touched second base, although some reports stated that there was a second ball involved with this boner.

From Babe Ruth's called shot article, following four paragraphs that clearly say it was unclear what Babe's intentions were with his hand gesture, we get this gem

There is more footage that showed that Ruth's shot was called. The Hall of Fame and the Society for American Base-ball Research confirmed that the footage showed that Ruth did call the shot.

Woah woah, hey -- the "Thread for desperately grasping at straws in wikipedia articles" is that way, pal!

Trying to figure out Indian cinema from wikipedia is so often being presented with unknown names as if it's selfevident who it is.

'Kutty Srank (English: The Sailor of Hearts; Malayalam: കുട്ടിസ്രാങ്ക്) is a 2010 Indian Malayalam film directed by Shaji N. Karun. Mammootty played the title role for the film. The film was produced by Reliance Entertainment under the banner of Big Motion Pictures, the first ever production by Anil Ambani's newly launched entertainment concern in Malayalam.[1] The film was released at the theatres of Kerala on 23 July 2010. This film contains a nude scene.[2]'

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

all of the names in that paragraph are hyperlinked to other wiki articles explaining who they are?

Yeah, it's just the way it's written.

This film contains a nude scene.

Imagining thousands of Malayalam-speaking men thinking, "Oooh! This film is where the tittays at!"

according to google translate, the Malayalam for "Oooh! This film is where the tittays at!" is "വട്ട്! എവിടെ tittays ഈ ചിത്രമാണ്!".

With the ordeal over, Jennifer and the chimp[who?] embrace.

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The films sees some of the greatest martial arts action performed in a scene featuring Richard Norton, Cynthia Rothrock and a very youthful Andy Lau. Norton also shows off his great skill in using weapons, much to the annoyance of both Rothrock and Lau.

Locals favored the explanation that the meat was vomited up by buzzards (vultures), "who, as is their custom, seeing one of their companions disgorge himself, immediately followed suit."[5]

In 2014, the Mayor of New York performed a literal reverse ferret when he repealed a ban on owning domesticated ferrets within the city.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat#Notable_examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat#Notable_examples🔗

Unsinkable Sam ftw!

Note: there is fierce debate in the Gus fan community re the spelling of "Oyage." Some spell it "Oyatch!," while others give it a more Yugoslavian-sounding "Ojigdz!"

On Earth Run (1986) he used nine different guitars, most notably the SynthAxe ,whose power is Awesome

Thicknesse died on one such journey near Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France, and was buried in this town. In his later life he had become an "ornamental hermit".

In his will he stipulated that his right hand be cut off, and that it should be delivered to his son, George, who was inattentive. The will stated that the reason was "to remind him of his duty to God after having so long abandoned the duty he owed to a father, who once so affectionately loved him."

brutal

brimstead skipped the next sentence:

The album also featured long-time collaborator Phil Perry for the first time, on the track "If I'm Dreaming, Don't Wake Me", a song also featuring David Foster and Maurice White who played wicked good (prove it?) on the recording.

brb going to replace all instances of [citation needed] with (prove it?)

When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss Venus in detail, an adjective was needed. Based on Latin principles, the correct adjectival form of the name would be Venerean. However, this term has an unfortunate similarity to the word venereal as in venereal diseases (related to "Venerean" as martial is to "Martian"), and is not generally used by astronomers.[1] The term Venusian is etymologically messy (similar to saying "Earthian" or "Jupiterian"), and a "cleaner" version was desired.

A common theme in art, The Birth of Venus is shown in this 1879 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
It was suggested that since Venus had a Greek name, as well as a Roman one, this should be used; however, the adjectival form of Aphrodite was "aphrodisial", which again was felt to be unfortunately close to "aphrodisiac", again evoking matters not directly pertaining to astronomy.

A compromise was reached. In Greek mythology, the goddess Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, from which she emerged on a sea shell at the island of Cythera, and as such was sometimes known as Cytherea.[2] The adjective Cytherean was taken from this name and remained popular in scientific literature for some time. Its perhaps forgotten usage in 18th century erotica[3] did not interfere with this choice.

The term has since fallen out of common use. Venusian is the form most frequently used, with others, including Venerean appearing from time to time;[4] the term Cytherean is now mostly found in older scientific papers, but some scientists still stick to the "tasteful" naming.[5] In addition, the word "Cytherean" as an adjective referring to Venus is often found in science fiction of the early and mid 20th century.[citation needed]

related to the previous post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectivals_and_demonyms_of_astronomical_bodies

This is what I am doing on saturday night

I guess all this Venerean people were purposefully being Venusian Blind.

Amid all the disagreement resulting from differences within sources, two factors emerge from all sources pertaining to Socrates. It would seem, therefore, that he was ugly, and that Socrates had a brilliant intellect