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so happy there's a doodles weaver entry itt

Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Saturday, 27 December 2014 11:25 (eleven years ago)

Disappointed to note that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red no longer leads off Red is the colour of strawberries and blood.

otm!

Yellow /ˈjɛloʊ/ is the color of gold, butter, and ripe lemons.

(still good!)

Ludo, Saturday, 27 December 2014 20:50 (eleven years ago)

According to the CIA Factbook, the five countries with the largest number of Catholics are, in decreasing order of population, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States, and Italy.

The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City at 100%.

Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:06 (eleven years ago)

Greg Burson (voiceover artist who did Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear and others during the 1990s) :(

Arrest
His career came to an end in May 2004 when Burson was arrested by detectives after barricading himself inside his home in Tujunga for six hours before surrendering. Initial reports have claimed that an armed S.W.A.T. team had responded to a call from two of his female roommates that he was inebriated, armed and holding a third female roommate hostage.[2] Burson also screamed a stream of nonsensical words at the police when they were alerted to his home. Officers had later discovered that Burson had a collection of guns in his home. One officer says "He was so drunk, we couldn't tell if he was trying to do one of his voices or was just slurring his words." Officer Rudy Villarreal has confirmed all three women were involved in the incident lived with Burson, but none of them were harmed.

painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 1 January 2015 20:39 (eleven years ago)

In 1986, [Lady Miss Kier] met Ukrainian-born Dmitry Brill ("Supa DJ Dmitry") in New York, when she made him silver platform boots and a glitter blue spacesuit for his band, Shazork.

Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Saturday, 3 January 2015 05:02 (eleven years ago)

^ why is this not a movie of the week

breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Sunday, 4 January 2015 02:03 (eleven years ago)

shazork: behind the music

Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Sunday, 4 January 2015 07:12 (eleven years ago)

Album reception

- It was included in Q Magazine's 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.

- In a 1997 interview between journalist Liz Jones and Prince, Jones tells Prince he should listen to Tricky, because Tricky reminds her of Prince in his early career. Intrigued, Prince asks her the name of Tricky's latest album, she says "Pre-Millennium Tension" and Prince spontaneously answers "well, isn't that another way to say ‘1999’" (1999 being Prince's breakthrough album released in 1982.) This interview is featured in Liz Jones' book "Slave to the Rhythm."

These are the only two facts in the section.

bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Sunday, 4 January 2015 09:29 (eleven years ago)

More recently, the re-released works of English toilet humour specialist Ivor Biggun include "Southern Breeze", a song about a "Famous French Farteur" who describes in rhyme a stroll through a farmyard, accompanied by appropriate farting noises.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 January 2015 01:49 (eleven years ago)

"Ivor Biggun"

fleekwood mat (get bent), Monday, 5 January 2015 09:52 (eleven years ago)

His big hit was, of course, "The Winker's Song (Misprint)".

He was also 'Doc' Cox on That's Life at one point, brought in to replace Cyril Fletcher iirc.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 5 January 2015 10:16 (eleven years ago)

yup, ydrc

Mark G, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:43 (eleven years ago)

iastr that John Lydon was credited with the chart success of The Winker's Song, after he made it SotW. Was it in the NME, maybe?

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 5 January 2015 11:51 (eleven years ago)

tidnr

Mark G, Monday, 5 January 2015 12:05 (eleven years ago)

Naima Kradjian, former Republican candidate for Mayor of Binghamton is an actress in this movie in which she gets poked on a bus and gets angry.

MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:18 (eleven years ago)

The video (directed by Gavin Bowden) features the band sitting on sides of a street next to some telephone booths. A supermarket is also shown. The video switches from color video images to black-and-white images. During the introduction and the third verse of the song, Thomas walks in the middle of the street with some construction signs and lights. During the third verse, a car stops with a bare-chested man and a woman inside. The man walks out, revealing a catheter in his chest, and is handed three cigarettes by Thomas. Finally, during the last two choruses, the band is shown playing their instruments ending with an image of Thomas standing next to the telephone booths.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 January 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)

Description
I like this grave marker for a couple of reasons. The statue has an enigmatic look, and the profile is a sexy dishabille. Even an inanimate object can be an aphrodisiac.

Source
I took this photograph of an enigmatic statue in Woodawn Cemetey

hyggeligt, Monday, 12 January 2015 20:50 (eleven years ago)

click 'listen to this article'

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

poop will eat itself (S-), Friday, 16 January 2015 00:28 (eleven years ago)

Bo usually wears a cream-yellow shirt; it is a stronger yellow in the first and second season, a lighter cream color from the third season, and in the sixth and seventh season has more of a grey hue to it. (The only break from this norm is in the second episode produced and broadcast, "Daisy's Song", where Bo wears a red shirt for much of the story, and a sequence in the fifth episode, "High Octane", where he wears a light blue shirt. Many early publicity shots show the character to be wearing a dark blue denim shirt.) For the first two seasons he wears a blue T-shirt underneath (brown in the first episode); this was slowly phased out during the third season.

pplains, Friday, 16 January 2015 01:02 (eleven years ago)

lmao S-

goole, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:22 (eleven years ago)

That is incredible, S-

polyphonic, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:25 (eleven years ago)

Am actually crying.

emil.y, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:38 (eleven years ago)

voted racist, funny.

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example (crüt), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:45 (eleven years ago)

Counterpoint

The sound file is a Bhutanese national treasure and we will not have you committing this erasure of their culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.126.145.133 (talk) 20:41, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

goole, Friday, 16 January 2015 22:20 (eleven years ago)

luc sante just retweeted a wfmu tweet about this. culture, man

goole, Friday, 16 January 2015 23:02 (eleven years ago)

Cheestrings became a popular snack in the UK and Republic of Ireland in the early 1990s. They are made from processed cheese by Kerry Group and the mascot is a cartoon character called Mr Strings.[9] The original advert had a theme tune based on the popular song "Bend Me, Shape Me" but with different lyrics ("You got a cheese string day or night, you got a cheese string you're all right").[10] Originally Mr Strings was a wild cartoon character who pulled himself apart[11] but by the late 1990s the packaging had been redesigned with a more simplified mascot.[12] On television the original Mr Strings was phased out and replaced by an unseen character who played creepy practical jokes on teenage consumers. In the late 2000s the design of Mr Strings was changed for a third time[13] to appear more child-friendly and was given a new catchphrase ("Hey, I'm just cheese").[14]

mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:08 (eleven years ago)

Another single entitled Green Tambourine also did not chart despite the fact that Leka had stripped away the vocals of The Lemon Pipers' hit from the previous year and given the backing track to the group to record their own cover.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:24 (eleven years ago)

Reception

Movie critic for The Commercial Appeal, John Beifuss, reviewed the film, stating;"while robust Wikipedia entries can be found for the other Arnold and Alland science-ficton films, "The Space Children" rates only these two sentences: 'The Space Children' is a 1958 film directed by Jack Arnold. The movie was featured on 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' in 1998 during season 9.".[12]

Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 January 2015 04:44 (eleven years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/gZGp5Vg.png

mick signals, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 03:19 (eleven years ago)

Taraji P. Henson as April
Adam Rodriguez as Sandino New York City New York April 2
Brian White as Randy
Mary J. Blige as Tanya
Gladys Knight as Wilma
Marvin Winans as Pastor Brian
Hope Olaidé Wilson as Jennifer London United Kingdom August 16
Kwesi Boakye as Manny Los Angeles California April 6
Freddy Siglar as Byron
Tyler Perry as Madea and Joe Simmons

1staethyr, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:13 (eleven years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Wb_deichh_drei_kuhs.jpg/640px-Wb_deichh_drei_kuhs.jpg

Livestock grazing near a wind turbine.[1]

No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:21 (eleven years ago)

1 Buller, Erin (2008-07-11). "Capturing the wind". Uinta County Herald. Retrieved 2008-12-04. "The animals don't care at all. We find cows and antelope napping in the shade of the turbines. – Mike Cadieux, site manager, Wyoming Wind Farm"

No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:22 (eleven years ago)

The following is a chronological list of carcasses that have been described as globsters or blobs in the literature.[1][6][7]

unidentified carcass from Santa Maria del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico (1648)
Stronsay Beast (1808)
New River Inlet Carcass (1885)
St. Augustine Monster (1896)
Trunko (1924)
Dunk Island Carcass (1948)
Gulf of Alaska Carcass (1956)
Melbourne-Hobart Carcass (1958)
Tasmanian Globster (1960)
Hamai Beast (1963)
New Zealand Globster (1968)
Tecoluta Carcass (1969)
Tasmanian Globster 2 (1970)
Mann Hill Beach Globster (1970)
Gambo (1983)
Bermuda Blob (1988)
Godthaab Globster (1989)
Hebrides Blob (1990)
North Carolina Globster (1996)
Nantucket Blob (1996)
Bermuda Blob 2 (1997)
Four Mile Globster (1997)
Newfoundland Blob (2001)
Chilean Blob (2003)

⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:39 (eleven years ago)

quite the wiki binge there
apropos the other one i have about four articles related to cantabria open

anima corrective (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:48 (eleven years ago)

do share

⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Friday, 6 February 2015 01:13 (eleven years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales#mediaviewer/File:SLNSW_logo.jpg

⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Friday, 6 February 2015 01:13 (eleven years ago)

Gandalf, a major force in the Yserbius community, disappeared in early 1999. With his going, all information regarding his project was lost.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 8 February 2015 05:50 (eleven years ago)

Triangle of Death (Algeria), an area south of Algiers during the Algerian Civil War
Triangle of Death (Iraq), a term applied by American and coalition forces, during the Iraq War, to a region situated just to the south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad
Triangle of death (Italy), an area in southern Italy with an unusual high number of deaths caused by cancer and other diseases, suspected to be caused by illegal dumping of toxic waste
Triangle of Death, an area in Manchester, United Kingdom, notorious for its gang crime and violence; see Gun crime in south Manchester

nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 February 2015 19:30 (eleven years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Napoli_2010-by-RaBoe-40.jpg

nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 February 2015 19:31 (eleven years ago)

The guilty verdicts were upheld, though his sentence was halved after medical evidence was produced to suggest he was suffering from a mental illness. Saunders was suggested by doctors at Ford Open Prison possibly to be suffering from premature Alzheimer's disease, a common form of dementia; if this was a correct diagnosis, he made a recovery unique in medical history. Alzheimer's, like all dementias, is usually incurable, being a progressive degenerative disease of the brain. Saunders has since maintained that he must have been depressed.

⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Monday, 9 February 2015 15:38 (eleven years ago)

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

Plasmon, Monday, 9 February 2015 19:15 (eleven years ago)

This process of trial and torture was known as "taking a shirt from Charlie", because of Charlie Richardson's habit of giving each victim a clean shirt in which to return home since the victim's original shirt was usually covered in blood.[citation needed]

there can be only (onimo), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 15:03 (eleven years ago)

Just mentioned on FB by Rhodri Marsden -- from Supertramp's page:

In 1969 Stanley 'Sam' August Miesegaes, a Dutch millionaire, ceased financial support to a band called The Joint as he was disappointed with them.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:31 (eleven years ago)

beautiful

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:33 (eleven years ago)

Other speakers believe the avoidance of the term to be offensive and deliberately use the term so as not to cause offense.

1staethyr, Saturday, 14 February 2015 00:12 (eleven years ago)

Akabusi is also credited with designing the Welsh flag.

kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Saturday, 14 February 2015 19:08 (eleven years ago)

February 1 is Baked Alaska Day in the United States.[3]

franklin, Sunday, 15 February 2015 23:05 (eleven years ago)

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

has a link to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Raining_Men

In the 'See Also' section

écorché (S-), Monday, 16 February 2015 01:21 (eleven years ago)

A+

oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 16 February 2015 02:21 (eleven years ago)

Some people believe that Candy Land inspired Dylan Lauren (daughter of Ralph Lauren) to create the Dylan's Candy Bar store, but it was in fact the popular movie Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory that inspired her.

mick signals, Monday, 16 February 2015 21:27 (eleven years ago)


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