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Falkor: Having a luck dragon with you is the only way to go on a Quest. Things will work out fine Atreyu. Never give up hope and good luck will find you.

Øystein, Thursday, 4 February 2010 10:52 (sixteen years ago)

The movie is okay, but the book it's based on is awesome. I was kinda disappointed that they changed Fuhhuur, who is a Chinese dragon in the book, into that dog thing in the pic above.

^^ Yes! I loved the beautiful lettering and the change of fontcolour when he switches from the story to the school and vv. Very captivating book.

willem, Thursday, 4 February 2010 14:35 (sixteen years ago)

In August 1979 The French Minister of the Interior had had enough and forced police departments to unify their efforts to track Mesrine down. They found out where he lived on October 31, and waited for him to come out. Three days later on November 2nd, he left his apartment with his girlfriend. At Porte de Clignancourt, on the outskirts of Paris, a truck loaded with armed policemen veered in front of his BMW and police sharpshooters shot 19 rounds through the windshield, killing Mesrine and seriously injuring his girlfriend. The ultimate fate of their small fluffy poodle is still to this day unknown.7

MPx4A, Friday, 5 February 2010 10:56 (sixteen years ago)

English-speaking media commentators and journalists will sometimes refer to celebrities as A-List, B-List, C-List, D-List or Z-List. These informal rankings indicate a placing within the hierarchy. However, due to differing levels of celebrity in different regions, it is difficult to place people within one bracket. A Nicaraguan actor might be a B-list action film actor in the US, but be an A-list star in the Czech Republic. An objective method of placing celebrities from any country into categories from A-List to H-List based on their number of Google hits has been proposed[1], but while this method is quantitative, it only works for individuals with distinctive names, e.g., Jason Mewes, not Kevin Smith.

DJ Cinema (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 February 2010 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

Heheh. Actually, the number of languages in which Wikipedia has articles on a person is pretty much the best heuristic I've ever found in this respect.

anatol_merklich, Saturday, 6 February 2010 22:10 (sixteen years ago)

Regarding his career, Seagal has stated, "I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol."[10]

bee hand luke (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 February 2010 06:56 (sixteen years ago)

Half of it came true, that's not bad.

Tuomas, Sunday, 7 February 2010 09:56 (sixteen years ago)

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE (born July 19, 1965 in Aberdeen), is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.

with hidden noise, Sunday, 7 February 2010 15:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture

One must also realize the importance of ASL to the Deaf community. ASL represents the liberation of language minority, oppressed for many years by the turmoil of oralist teachings. That is why the language is so precious to the identity of the Deaf community.

99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 05:11 (sixteen years ago)

hmm not so unusual after wikipediaing 'oralism'

99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 05:15 (sixteen years ago)

More than 50 percent of the world fish oil production is fed to farmed salmon.[3]

Joint Custody (ian), Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:21 (sixteen years ago)

Toro Y Moi is often popular among employees of "The Shack" (Radio Shack), do to the fact that they often listen to the Sirius station: XM U in the store.

we like the cars. the cars that go burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb. (los blue jeans), Friday, 12 February 2010 03:41 (sixteen years ago)

Hmm:

The name 'Band-Aid' was chosen as a pun on the name of a well known brand of adhesive bandage, also referring to musicians working as a band to provide aid and alluding to the fact that any help stemming from their efforts is likened to a band-aid on a very serious wound.

The group has formed on three occasions, each time from the most successful British and Irish pop music performers of the time, to record the same song at the same time of year. fvcjhndgcwdfhgfcvherivkr4tgx2kut2xcructwxcgjkyfjkl;'l;'l; lmjcgl;g;loi

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 February 2010 02:50 (sixteen years ago)

Julian Rios may refer to:

* Julián Ríos (b. 1941), Spanish postmodernist writer
* Julian (pornographic actor) (b. 1970), U.S. pornstar (8")

Øystein, Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

looooooooooooooool

80085 (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:28 (sixteen years ago)

The black and white video featured a young, 20-year-old Marky Mark working out and boxing with his nude torso, and making out with a girl on a bed. The video made famous his sexy, well-toned body, which impressed many and was considered the main attribute that made Mark one of the sex symbols of the early Nineties.

It was included in the 1992 hit Disney movie, The Mighty Ducks, as well as the 1999 movie Analyze This.

Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 February 2010 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

Seriously loving that one so much.

Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 February 2010 10:14 (sixteen years ago)

Feel that Uncyclopedia deserves a mention in this thread somehow.

There's gold in them thar Beatles related pages......

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/John_Lennon

Humphrey Plugg, Monday, 15 February 2010 23:17 (sixteen years ago)

oh, by coincidence...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band

Year Chart Position
1967 US Billboard 200 1
1967 UK Albums Chart 1
1967 Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1
1967 Norwegian Album Chart 1
2009 Finnish Albums Chart 9

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:07 (sixteen years ago)

This morning I was thinking about Marky Mark's nude torso in the Mighty Ducks.

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:12 (sixteen years ago)

It was included in the 1992 hit Disney movie, The Mighty Ducks, as well as the 1999 movie Analyze This, and in Tracer Hand's thoughts in 2010

take me to your lemur (ledge), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:20 (sixteen years ago)

That uncyclopaedia: slight smile, followed by much giggling, and then:

In the album Magical Mystery Tour Lennon wanted to succeed his famous "I am the Walrus" with "I has a Bukkit," a joyous scherzo. Sadly, the idea was shot down by the other members of the group. He described the incident later in his solo tune "Nooooo They be Stealin' Mah Bukkit!"

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:24 (sixteen years ago)

thumbs down

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 11:01 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, the Lennon page had some lafs, but the rest of uncyclo is poor.

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 11:15 (sixteen years ago)

Suggs got his nickname from randomly sticking a pin in an encyclopedia of jazz musicians while he was still in school, to avoid being labelled as the member of an ethnic minority owing to his Scottish name.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 19:23 (sixteen years ago)

That's c&p from a Word article, pretty much.

Mark G, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 20:12 (sixteen years ago)

It is a double entendre for dessert and sex, with a party attitude and a rouding backbeat. A cowbell can be heard during some parts of the song's bridge and solo (it is unclear if this is played by Sammy Hagar or Alex Van halen).

etsyban buttez (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 01:30 (sixteen years ago)

Dental Work

In September 2009 Eubank revealed his new dental work which he had undertaken to correct his famous lisp- at a cost of £31,000. The use of crowns, veneers, implants and a bridge had removed the gaps in his teeth and reduced the lisp to a mild whistle. He also claimed he wanted to win back his wife with his new smile.

MPx4A, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

On his return, he lived in Stoke Newington, Dalston, Hackney and then Peckham; largely poverished.

nakhchivan, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:23 (sixteen years ago)

that's a fairly common trajectory for a poverished artist these days i suppose

nakhchivan, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

The Government of Hong Kong has extended Unicode and the Big-5 character set with the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS), which includes Chinese characters only used in Cantonese, including the Five Great Profanities. The government explained that the reason for these characters being included is to allow for the Hong Kong Police to record criminal suspects' statements. Consequently, these characters are now also in Unicode.

←→ + P = ☽☽☽☽☽☽☽ (dyao), Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:05 (sixteen years ago)

You are to tell us what the Five Great Profanities are this instant.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:14 (sixteen years ago)

they are so Great ilx won't let me post them :>

←→ + P = ☽☽☽☽☽☽☽ (dyao), Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

In the Land Before Time series, two wise and philosophical Troodon make an appearance as mysterious, possibly space-faring dinosaurs called Rainbow-Faces.

nitzer ENBB (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 February 2010 09:29 (sixteen years ago)

Bryan Adams was approached to allow his song "Only the Strong Survive" on the soundtrack. He refused because he felt the film glorified war and he didn't want any of his work linked to it.

sharter the unstoppable ilx machine (history mayne), Sunday, 21 February 2010 22:08 (sixteen years ago)

Aaron Lennon family is a Irish, English and Jamacian decent. But mainly English.

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:12 (sixteen years ago)

Because BC is the English abbreviation for Before Christ, it is sometimes incorrectly concluded that AD means After Death,[4] i.e., after the death of Jesus. If that were true, the thirty-three or so years of his life would not be in any era.[5][6]

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:15 (sixteen years ago)

sometimes that's what the 28 years of my life feel like tbh.....

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:34 (sixteen years ago)

The story goes that the Buryats did not know how to use firearms, so they decided to burn the muskets along with the dead Cossacks. The fire caused the guns to go off, killing a few people which made the Buryats think that the Russians were still fighting after they were dead.

nakhchivan, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:59 (sixteen years ago)

A parable based on the life of Christ, it is full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.

on in the b.g. while you're grouting (stevie), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

wait, waht

ABBAcab (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

In 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill customer who thought the ads were a personal attack on him, held two employees of an Atlanta, Georgia Domino's restaurant hostage for over five hours. After forcing them to make him a pizza and making demands for $100,000, getaway transportation, and a copy of The Widow's Son, Noid surrendered to the police.[3] Noid was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion, and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Fetchboy, Sunday, 28 February 2010 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

A dedicated oenophile, Kyle is partners with vintner Eric Dunham in Pursued By Bear, a winery in Washington's Columbia Valley. The name, suggested over dinner by Fred Savage, comes from a stage direction ("Exit, pursued by a bear") in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.[12]

ILX's Dopiest Poster (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 March 2010 07:20 (sixteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_MacLachlan

ILX's Dopiest Poster (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 March 2010 07:20 (sixteen years ago)

{Ulrike} Ottinger developed her own bizarre surrealist film-style, which among other things, was marked by widespread abandonment of a linear plot and instead linger long in individual scenes, which in turn make überstarke and extravagant costumes of the imagination mostly female cast artfully to own collages were designed.

nakhchivan, Thursday, 11 March 2010 08:45 (sixteen years ago)

That looks like a bad Google Translation from German.

Mark G, Thursday, 11 March 2010 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

Bolam lives in Wisborough Green, West Sussex with his wife, the actress Susan Jameson (who co-starred with him in the TV series When the Boat Comes In and the current series New Tricks). They have a daughter. Bolam plays the violin with a local amateur orchestra, is a member of a barber shop choir singing baritone and is a playing member of West Sussex Golf Club at Pulborough. Apart from music, his other passion is ignoring actor Rodney Bewes (see above).

fit and working again, Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:47 (sixteen years ago)

Barkley is well known for his fondness of golf. However, his swing is often regarded as one of the most bizarre and broken swings in the sport.[79] Barkley's swing unravels after he brings his club back. He starts to take it forward then jerks to a stop, throwing his body off balance, before wildly striking at the ball.[80] Once a 10-handicap golfer who could break 80, Barkley can no longer break 100 and finished last at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in July 2008.[80]

guapism rules (The Reverend), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s50K65PNeBU

Dan I., Friday, 12 March 2010 07:17 (sixteen years ago)

wow that's the most retarded thing i've ever seen

hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 March 2010 07:25 (sixteen years ago)


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