This also works with toddlers.
― mick signals, Friday, 3 July 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
While preparing to portray Wells, Malcolm McDowell obtained a copy of a 78 rpm recording of Wells speaking. McDowell was "absolutely horrified" to hear that Wells spoke in a high-pitched, squeaky voice with a pronounced Southeast London accent, which McDowell felt would have resulted in unintentional humor if McDowell tried to mimic it for the film.
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
A syntho-mop such as the Scooba is not considered a mop, because even though it performs the same function as a traditional mop, the lack of hand operation makes it ineligible for status as a mop.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
^That's blatant mopism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Blanco
he is openly proud of having been named after Richard Nixon
By the way, I just finished Richard Blanco's memoir, The Prince of Los Cocuyos, and I don't think the above claim is even true. He mentions that his dad was a Nixon fan and thus the name Richard, true, but nowhere does Blanco say he's proud of the association
― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Mash
In 1978 Finnish band Kontra made, for their second album Kontran Toinen Puoli, a cover of the song in Finnish called "Hirviömuhennos", describing a food, "salad in meat".[citation needed]
― JoeStork, Thursday, 9 July 2015 06:18 (nine years ago) link
This gesture is not unique to humans. A group of mandrills at the Colchester Zoo has adopted a similar gesture to signal the desire to avoid social interaction or to be left alone.[12]
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
It should be noted that this is the opening paragraph:
Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) See, (February 19, 1866 – July 4, 1962) was an American astronomer of high potential who ended a colorful life with no real accomplishment in astronomy or physics. He is known for a career dogged by plagiarism, being fired from two observatory staffs, grand egotistical claims, being 'exiled' to an isolated outpost, and his vitriolic attacks on relativity.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Kristiansand Dyrepark is the zoo that sells most giraffe in Europe.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
A son, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Jr., was born in Philadelphia in 1952, and was able to pronounce his surname by age three.[10]
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 08:54 (nine years ago) link
In the weeks before his death, he told friends and journalists that an unidentified American was following him, and that he feared his opposition to the auction could endanger his life. His behaviour became increasingly erratic, and once he insisted on speaking to a visitor in the garden because he said his apartment was bugged.During the night of his death, his sister, Priscilla West, telephoned his apartment, obtaining only his answering machine, which had a new message with an American voice (this was found later to be the standard message tape supplied with the machine). Her worries about this resulted in the discovery of Lancelyn Green's body, face down on his bed, garrotted with a shoelace that had been tightened with the handle of a wooden spoon.Murder was suspected, and there was some newspaper gossip. Because the CID was not called at the start, any evidence that might have been useful for a murder enquiry had been disturbed or removed during the course of dealing with the body. The Coroner returned an open verdict. Many of Richard Lancelyn Green's best friends thought it was not in his nature to commit suicide. However, some thought the death to have been an elaborate suicide, intended to seem like murder, to cast suspicion upon one of his rivals. This replicates the plot of one of the last Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The Problem of Thor Bridge, in which a woman commits suicide in a manner meant to implicate the woman with whom her husband had been flirting.
During the night of his death, his sister, Priscilla West, telephoned his apartment, obtaining only his answering machine, which had a new message with an American voice (this was found later to be the standard message tape supplied with the machine). Her worries about this resulted in the discovery of Lancelyn Green's body, face down on his bed, garrotted with a shoelace that had been tightened with the handle of a wooden spoon.
Murder was suspected, and there was some newspaper gossip. Because the CID was not called at the start, any evidence that might have been useful for a murder enquiry had been disturbed or removed during the course of dealing with the body. The Coroner returned an open verdict. Many of Richard Lancelyn Green's best friends thought it was not in his nature to commit suicide. However, some thought the death to have been an elaborate suicide, intended to seem like murder, to cast suspicion upon one of his rivals. This replicates the plot of one of the last Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The Problem of Thor Bridge, in which a woman commits suicide in a manner meant to implicate the woman with whom her husband had been flirting.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Dreadlock Pussy was started in August 1997, with the intention of writing good songs in a degrading music business.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
David Grann wrote a great article about Richard Lancelyn Green. It's in his collection The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (or the New Yorker archives if you've got a sub)
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
possibly common knowledge but not to me
Jeffrey Allen "Jeff Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant and chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense.
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Thursday, 16 July 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link
In 2006, the financial services company Visa used a Baker-produced track from Afrika Bambaataa's "Looking For the Perfect Beat" as the backing music of a Visa Check Card commercial. In the ad, an animated worm drawn on the pages of a checkbook does the 1980s dance known as the Worm.
― Neil S, Friday, 17 July 2015 11:31 (nine years ago) link
File:Some Wart Removers are Flammable (11981319563).jpgFrom Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
― mick signals, Friday, 17 July 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
On December 22, 2009 Lil B released his second digital album entitled 6 Kiss to critical reception.[6]
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Saturday, 18 July 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
The spiral track of a LaserDisc is 67 km (42 mi) long.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
What travels back to your brain's visual processing center, are thousands of parallel signals, each vibrating with information that has been pre-processed, by that eye-centric processor, to contain both color and shape and perhaps even an evaluation of emotional clarity. So not only is the color discerned by the interference of two colors, but the relationship between the cones themselves has further shaped the perception of both meaning and reaction, that either satisfies or revulses, and so alerts our reflexive reaction before ever being seen by our upper thinking centers at the back of our heads.[12]
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_DeWitt
Contrary to reports, she has never painted actor Abe Vigoda's garage doors, and has never met the man.
― Josefa, Thursday, 23 July 2015 04:37 (nine years ago) link
So not only is the color discerned by the interference of two colors, but the relationship between the cones themselves has further shaped the perception of both meaning and reaction, that either satisfies or revulses, and so alerts our reflexive reaction before ever being seen by our upper thinking centers at the back of our heads.
Good to see Oliver Sacks still well enough hand able to find the time to contribute.
― Plasmon, Thursday, 23 July 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_October
He briefly managed a club called Revolution No.9 and for many years worked as an A&R man for Miles Copeland III's IRS label. He currently works for Brighton & Hove Council in the recycling department.
― and she's baconing like she's never baconed before (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 July 2015 12:24 (nine years ago) link
While there is no rule on whom one should greet, tradition dictates that groups send greetings to other groups whom they consider their friends. Other groups, usually newcomers to the demo scene who don't have sufficient contacts, prefer to greet groups whose works they consider influential or high-quality. Some groups occasionally send greetings to individual people.
― mick signals, Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
Applause is always awarded for an entry after it was shown, even if it was a below-average quality entry by someone who never created a production before; it is usually the actual effort behind the production that's awarded. It is not uncommon to hear applause during the display of a demo or intro when a remarkable effect is shown; this type of display of respect is generally considered a huge achievement and is highly regarded by the creators.
― mick signals, Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Yakky Doodle is a fictional character created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Yakky's name is an obvious takeoff of Yankee Doodle.
Really taking my willpower to avoid adding a [CITATION NEEDED] to that second sentence.
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
This article possibly contains original research.
― mick signals, Friday, 24 July 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
if only Yankee Doodle was alive so he could sue for millions a la Yogi Berra
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
In recent years, Booji Boy's concert appearances have seen him dressed in modern "hip hop" attire (including a sideways ball cap and sporting "bling"), with Devo member Jerry Casale introducing him as "Boogie Boyyyyyy."
LOL
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Much of the movie was filmed in an old, long-empty Masonic temple in Glendale, California, owned by actor Rock Hudson. The nine-story building was a series of makeshift "sound stages" stacked floor after floor, some big enough to create the midway scenes indoors. This was the studio used that year for production of The Creeping Terror, another low-quality monster movie. The Film Center Studios were popular with non-union producers, because they could turn off the elevator to lock out IATSE union agents, who found it difficult to climb the stairs to the seventh floor main stage.[2]
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 30 July 2015 04:28 (nine years ago) link
A number of other constructions have been given.[11] [12] [13][14] [15]As a reviewer of one noted: "The details are all included, but as usual they are tedious and not too instructive."[16]
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Friday, 31 July 2015 03:42 (nine years ago) link
The song has remained a staple of Limp Bizkit's live shows, though its most famous performance occurred in Ohio in 2001, "sung" by Patrick Grannan after a heartbreaking defeat.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link
Unnecessary disambiguation:
Play-DohFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis article is about the children's modeling material. For the ancient Greek philosopher, see Plato.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 1 August 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
Play-Dohnic love
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Saturday, 1 August 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
hahaha, that's great. Aries Toddle - This article is about the Zodiac-themed baby walker. For the ancient Greek philosopher...
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 August 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
In 2009, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary of the release of Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz with a world tour of California, Arizona, Nevada, and Oklahoma.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Sunday, 2 August 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
[Tom Driberg] began a long association with the satirical magazine Private Eye, supplying it with political gossip and, under the pseudonym "Tiresias", compiling a regular, highly risqué prize cryptic crossword puzzle which on one occasion was won by the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Monday, 3 August 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
She is active on Facebook.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 6 August 2015 04:19 (nine years ago) link
Dobson spent nine years writing of the ups and downs of life with Black Lace. The book's writing was suddenly halted, with the death of his partner, Tricia, to an asthma attack in 2006
Anarchist band Chumbawamba recorded a version of "Agadoo" for the Peel Sessions. The producer of the Black Lace version, Neil Ferguson, was also Chumbawamba's regular producer at the time and later a full member of the band.
He was the lead singer on Smokie's revival of their hit, "Living Next Door To Alice", recorded with British comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown, as "Who The F**k is Alice?".
Barton died in March 1995, at the age of 41, from injuries incurred when Smokie's tour bus crashed during a hailstorm in Cologne, Germany.
In 1987, Colin Gibb released an alternative version of the song with explicit lyrics, entitled "Supercock"
― everything, Thursday, 6 August 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
Hemmings was offered the part of the protagonist after actor Sean Connery turned the role down because Antonioni wouldn't show him the full script but only a 7-page treatment stored in a cigarette packet.[6]
― drash, Monday, 10 August 2015 09:38 (nine years ago) link
The Irish Times described it as a "mildly diverting yarn" but was critical of the small scale of the film and the apparently limited budget.[7] Peter Bradshaw reviewed the film for The Guardian and said that it was "the worst film of the week, a dire British comedy, to which the only honest response is to soil and then set fire to the Union flag in the foyer of your local cinema."
― rushomancy, Monday, 10 August 2015 10:19 (nine years ago) link
In 2003, Purple Ronnie was dropped, and a new creative direction was adopted, revolving around the benefits of Shlurpling the Purple.
― passive aggressive DN (onimo), Monday, 10 August 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
hahahah
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 August 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
Serbia's best-known CPA Accountant and current President of Instant Technology, Mirjana Schultz was born in this region.
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Suggs
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.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 11:42 (nine years ago) link
In December 2007, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, appointed Eno – then aged 59 – as his youth affairs adviser.[57]
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Before this development, milk could only be kept fresh for a short while and was only available in the immediate vicinity of a cow.
― Number None, Sunday, 16 August 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Actor Bill Paxton appears in the videos for "Fish Heads", "Soak It Up", and "Love Tap".
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 20 August 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
Regarding Pepto-Bismol:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Bismuth_slag_from_pepto_bismol.jpg/220px-Bismuth_slag_from_pepto_bismol.jpg
Bismuth subsalicylate is the only active ingredient in an over-the-counter drug that can leave a shiny metal oxide slag behind after being completely burnt with a blow torch.[15]
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 August 2015 04:32 (nine years ago) link
"Character relationship diagram" for Steppenwolf:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Steppenwolf_en.JPG/800px-Steppenwolf_en.JPG
― ledge, Thursday, 20 August 2015 08:09 (nine years ago) link
Unknown (80s?) — Luis walks away from his computer briefly, and the Yip Yips visit during that time and experiment with pressing buttons on the computer. Luis comes back to find that his computer has been changed by someone. Later in the show, the Yip Yips come back and leave a flower on the keyboard, which Luis discovers (presumably early- to mid-1980s based on technological level of computer and those fuzzbuster outfits)
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 August 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
I'm all for Wikipedia entries being clear about what is fictional and what is RL (esp given fans' tendency to describe characters, plots etc as if they were real), but I still giggle a bit when I see an article starting like
Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) is a fictional superhero
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 22 August 2015 07:57 (nine years ago) link