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dying re: ceiling fans. deserves a medal imo.

SEFPRODUCTIONS Promotion of the films of non-notable British filmmaker Paul Easter

might choose "the films of non-notable British filmmaker Paul Easter" as my specialist subject if I ever go on Mastermind

Disgruntled Farmer (2017)
Plot Summary

Based on a disgruntled farmer in Norway. The cruise liner comes in to dock at the fjord once a year, and he becomes aggravated by the unwelcome bombardment of tourists. Heavy footed on his land, he uses this to his advantage, Contains plenty of the usual Paul Easter's quirky, gritty with a few twists, and this time humor is added.

Walt Disney Pictures were planning to make a film version of "Carmen Sandiego", with Sandra Bullock as the title character in the late 1990s.

wow!

Carmen sandy ago

The best part of the movie is in the final credits when Ethan, one of the roommates, also finds success in his iStalkU app which allows you to trace someone's exact location by sending a text to their cell phone.

Before the age of 30, Silverberg was independently wealthy through his investments and once owned the former mansion of New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia

On April 29, 2011, a biographical film was announced to be in the works based on [Charlie] Pride's life and career. The film will be produced by and star actor and professional wrestler, Dwayne Johnson.

I dunno man, sounds dead-on to me.

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Throughout its history, Richard James has collaborated on a number of high-profile projects with a diverse number of companies and individuals, including SpongeBob SquarePants,[28]Elton John,[17]Spencer Tunick (picture, right),[29] Condor Cycles,[30]Umbro and Tretorn.[31]

The "cougar phenomenon",[15] as it is called, is frequently associated with present-day, glamorous celebrities such as Madonna, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Demi Moore.[16] However, it is documented that the trend of influential women dating younger men extends back a lot further through history to notable figures including Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Elizabeth I.[17]

From Richard B. Shull's page (a guy who was in that thing if there ever was one)

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In 1995, Shull co-founded the North American Araucanian Royalist Society (NAARS) with Daniel Paul Morrison. The NAARS studies the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia which was founded in 1860 by the Mapuche people of South America.

It was after the death of this beloved pet, that Margo and Graham started exploring the possibility of adopting a child. The adoption process took a year, during the recording of the Cowboy Junkies CD One Soul Now, but Margo and Graham were rewarded with a blond-haired, cherubic-cheeked son named Edward.

The music video for the title track features John Ritter as Dad. (Update): The music video for the title track does not feature John Ritter as Dad. There is no one in the video but Graham Nash and his band.

lol

Cumberland Farms offers a large assortment of food service items, candy, snacks, and chilled drinks, which it calls "The Chill Zone", along with Cumberland Farms branded chips, pastries, candy, and coffee, etc.[citation needed]

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rip Penguin Pete

She has never knowingly brought a round when frequenting a public house.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Livia_L%C3%B6wendahl-Atomic )

Their second album, The Mamas & the Papas, is sometimes referred to as Cass, John, Michelle, Dennie, whose names appear thus above the band's name on the cover, including the unexplained misspelling of Doherty's first name.

actually something about the Mamas and the Papas article is making me feel like someone in the band wrote all or most of the article

Ha, well the suspects have narrowed these days.

In 1984 he successfully toured art centres in the UK with his one-man stage version of the classic early seventies dystopian sci-fi movie, Rollerball

To twin with the James Bolam entry seven years ago, Rodney Bewes of The Likely Lads^^^

After having already released both colored vinyl singles and picture discs in the 1980s, Canadian rock artist Bryan Adams issued a 12" single of "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" in autumn 1991, which had the front cover photography etched onto side B. Copies in near mint condition are easy to get by today, usually for less than the actual retail value in 1991.

Enjoyed the long, embarrassed throat-clearing before this paragraph gets to its point:

Etymology
The name refers to the analogue and digital electronic music equipment James used to perform much of Analord, as well as being a double entendre. Since James has a penchant for anagrams, it is noteworthy that "Analord" is an anagram for "A Roland", perhaps referencing the manufacturers of de facto industry standard analogue synthesizers. It has also been speculated that the term "Analord" is a portmanteau of the words analogue and lord, referring to Richard James' previous analogue programming, and the talent and recognition he has in his industry. "Analord" is also the title of a Luke Vibert track from Lover's Acid on Planet Mu. It's also suspected that Analord is a portmanteau of the words "anal" and "lord".

[[citation needed]]

anal lord

analolled

Many[who?] observers thought Schumacher, a gay man, added possible homoerotic innuendo in the storyline.[8] James Berardinelli questioned the "random amount [sic] of rubber nipples and camera angle close-ups of the Dynamic Duo's butts and Bat-crotches."[40]

Those are kinda among the better shots in the movie tbh. Most of it alternates between lifeless talky scenes and flailing 'comic' action vomited up by the glow-in-the-dark action playset, which probably does play okay to eight-year-olds. It's at least more consistent in its ''the 60s show, but for the hyperactive 90s kid!'' vision than Batman Forever. Also I would rather watch Arnold hamming up dumb puns than Carrey sweating hard for a laugh that never comes.

Sorry, wrong thread.

In 2008, an iPhone app from Air-O-Matic called Pull My Finger was one of the most popular apps in Apple's App Store, purchased over 50,000 times in less than one week.[citation needed] It allowed users to pull a virtual finger, activating the sound. The phrase is now the focus of a legal battle between Pull My Finger and InfoMedia's iFart Mobile app over the use of the phrase.[1]

He [...] designed and built a paper house, which he hoped would be an affordable housing alternative. Although never successfully marketed, the paper house was widely regarded as a substantial improvement over his earlier plans for living inside a hollowed out ox carcass.

yes

lol

maybe "usual details"

"Menus vary in length and detail depending on the type of restaurant. The simplest hand-held menus are printed on a single sheet of paper, though menus with multiple pages or "views" are common. In some cafeteria-style restaurants and chain restaurants, a single-page menu may double as a disposable placemat. To protect a menu from spills and wear, it may be protected by heat-sealed vinyl page protectors, laminating or menu covers. Restaurants weigh their positioning in the marketplace (e.g. fine dining, fast food, informal) in deciding which style of menu to use.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife [Divorced][8] and two daughters.[9]

A source from the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod likewise states that, if the name was derived from the Latin mandatum, we would call the day Mandy Thursday, or Mandate Thursday, or even Mandatum Thursday; and that the term "Maundy" comes in fact from the Latin mendicare, Old French mendier, and English maund, which as a verb means to beg and as a noun refers to a small basket held out by maunders as they maunded.[49] Other sources reject this etymology.[50]

maunders gonna maund

Oh Maundy
You came and you begged with a basket
But I rejected this etymology

On 21 January, they performed in Amsterdam, at The Paradiso Theatre,[8] where the skull of Melissa was stolen from the altar on stage by a fan due to very incompetent local security.

Billy Mumy was likewise offered a cameo, but turned it down after being told he would not be considered for the part he wanted—the role of the older Will Robinson—because he was told that would "confuse the audience."

Music video[edit]
A computer animated music video was made for the song and was made by Darren Lee of Visualisation Services Ltd.[1] It features a little girl walking down a street where almost everything is made out of chocolate.

Music video re-release[edit]
A computer animated music video was made for the song and was made by Darren Lee of Visualisation Services Ltd.[2] It features a little girl walking down a street where almost everything is made out of chocolate in May 6, 2017.

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

A coal scuttle, sometimes spelled coalscuttle and also called a hod, "coal bucket", or "coal pail", is a bucket-like container for holding a small, intermediate supply of coal convenient to an indoor coal-fired stove or heater.

Contents [hide]
1 Description
2 Origin
3 Infamous use
4 References

Description[edit]
Coal scuttles are usually made of metal and shaped as a vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with the open top slanted for pouring coal on a fire. It may have one or two handles.[1] Homes that don't use coal sometimes use a coal scuttle decoratively.[2]

Origin[edit]
The word scuttler comes, via Middle English and Old English, from the Latin word Scutula, meaning a shallow pan.[3]

Infamous use[edit]
In 1917, the Swedish serial killer Hilda Nilsson used a coal scuttle, a large bucket, and a washboard to drown children that she had been hired to care for.[4]

References[edit]
Jump up ^ Runyan, W. R. "1001 Words and Phrases You Never Knew You Didn't Know". thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
Jump up ^ "Decorative Cast Iron Coal Scuttle and Shovel". ebth.com. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
Jump up ^ "Wiktionary: Scutula". Wiktionary.org. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
Jump up ^ "Änglamakerskan i Helsingborg dränkte åtta fosterbarn". Hemmets Journal. Retrieved 5 December 2015.

I really only came into this article to read about Postman Pat, but this was interesting as well:

Possible Railway Route[edit]
When the directors of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway were choosing its route in the 1840s, one possibility considered was a route through Kendal and along Longsleddale, with a 2-mile tunnel under the Gatescarth Pass into Mardale and thence towards Bampton. This route had the support of the Kendal Committee of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway; other alternatives under consideration included a line over a barrage across Morecambe Bay and round the Cumbrian coast, routes bypassing Shap to the east and west, and the Shap summit route finally chosen.

After a lengthy Parliamentary inquiry the longer and steeper route over Shap Fell was chosen. Thomas Bouch was approached to be an adviser on the Longsleddale route and if this route had been chosen, in all probabilities Thos. Bouch would have been appointed as the civil and railway engineer. Bouch was the engineer for the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway and rose to fame in later years, for it was his design of the Tay Railway Bridge that was destroyed in a severe storm.

The gradient of the Longsleddale route would have been somewhat less than the 1 in 70 gradient of the climb up and over Shap Fell, and the use of banking engines could have been reduced if not entirely eliminated. An interesting scenario emerges that if the route had been chosen and the railway passed through a tunnel under Gatesgarth Pass, emerging onto Mardale Common and passed alongside the lake of Haweswater; would the Mardale valley have been flooded to form Haweswater reservoir?

It has been said that the Longsleddale route, "had it ever been built, would have been as dramatic and awe-inspiring as any in Britain".[7]

Many tales, perhaps apocryphal, were told of him at MIT, especially concerning his absent-mindedness. It was said that he returned home once to find his house empty. He inquired of a neighborhood girl the reason, and she said that the family had moved elsewhere that day. He thanked her for the information and she replied, "That's why I stayed behind, Daddy!"[9]

"perhaps apocryphal"

In 1978, state of Maryland delegate Isaiah Dixon attempted to introduce legislation making it illegal to play "Short People" on the radio. He was advised by Assistant Attorney General Francis B. Burch that such a law would be a violation of the First Amendment.[6]

Further clicking reveals:

Isaiah was, by all accounts, a short person.[1] This affected him deeply.[2]

In 1980, Cousins made a guest appearance on a heavy metal album for British soon-to-be supergroup Def Leppard. On the band's debut album, On Through The Night, Cousins' voice can be heard at the beginning of the album's sixth track titled "When the Walls Came Tumblin' Down". Cousins does not lend any vocal harmonies, but simply reads a melancholy tale that serves as the track's intro. His voice lends itself well to the mood of the verse.

Reportedly, Def Leppard later admitted that they were not happy with this album, as it was their first real studio album from their teenage years. The band has never alluded to any unhappiness with Cousins' performance.[3]