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And BLAp

Widow of Opportunity (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 August 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link

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

During the 1980s, Trevor Horn wore large nerd style glasses, which were then in fashion, when he performed. He stopped wearing such glasses in the 1990s, but still wears hard-framed glasses whenever he performs. One of his jokes, beyond wearing the large glasses, was that he was "a camera," consistent with his hits, "Video Killed the Radio Star" and "I Am A Camera".

YOUNG POLLY GERNO'S (Trayce), Monday, 30 August 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link

The album was even better than his previous album Brainstorm , had two classic club bangers, the title track 'Whats the flavor' and 'We can do this', and further cemented Young MC as a hit maker.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Flavor%3F .

funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Music career
Drenthe has recorded a rap song with his friend, Liverpool winger Ryan Babel. Their song is called "Tak Takie".[citation needed]

cajunsunday, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 12:11 (thirteen years ago) link

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

For a 2004 dinner prepared for London chefs, Blumenthal prepared a six-course meal of dishes composed of, or flavoured with, bodily fluids. The amuse-bouche was a sorbet of semen (his own), chili powder and guava.[12]

dylannn, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link

DJ Yella is the stage name of Antoine Carraby (born December 11, 1967), a DJ, drummer, music producer, film director and pornographer from Compton, California. He was a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru along with Dr. Dre. He later became a founding member of the pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A (composed of Yella, Dr. Dre, Arabian Prince, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and Eazy-E). Along with Dre, he produced Eazy-E's debut album Eazy-Duz-It and all three N.W.A albums. He is also the godfather of the 2nd son of Eazy-E Derrick Wright better known as Baby Eazy-E who appeared in his fathers video Only If You Want It and is mentioned on the song Eternal E and he has made a song called RIP Popz to his father.

dy (max) ia (crüt), Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif

In Colin Wheildon’s tests on the comprehensibility (rather than the legibility) of serif versus sans serif type, sans died a thousand deaths.

shorn_blond.avi (dayo), Sunday, 5 September 2010 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Music career
Drenthe has recorded a rap song with his friend, Liverpool winger Ryan Babel. Their song is called "Tak Takie".[citation needed]

― cajunsunday, dinsdag 31 augustus 2010 12:11 (5 days ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRn8k0HZb68

Siegbran, Sunday, 5 September 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Ryan Babel let himself go.

no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Sunday, 5 September 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link

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

While in prison Ferguson developed a keen interest in Bolivan handcrafts.

State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link

haha

no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link

misspelled handjobs imo

pissky in the jar (onimo), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link

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

his grandson Tommy Fraser is a professional footballer,[2] currently captain of League Two side Port Vale. According to legend, when he was at Brighton, Tommy was asked by a local reporter if his grandfather ever came to watch him play. "No," came the reply. "But he reads your reports and he was unhappy you only gave me six out of 10 last week." Tommy never got less than seven again.

pissky in the jar (onimo), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link

fuckin legernd

no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link

wonder if he gets 'the boys' to 'have a word' with opposition players before each game?

k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link

the edits on that ilm entry are hilarious

proprietor of gib (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link

from an entry about a stephen king short story

"Overwhelmed with incredulous fury, Steve loses interest in reconciliation; Diane's self-empowering harangue is interrupted by a much-deserved slap across the face."

proprietor of gib (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 September 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Grammer studied singing in high school, among other more academic topics.[4]

I brake for breaks (lpz), Friday, 10 September 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Motto RESPECT HARRY POTTER

pissky in the jar (onimo), Saturday, 11 September 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link

“It’s Tricky” was released to let people know that rap is not as simple as people think it is.

from RUN-D.M.C. article

Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Saturday, 11 September 2010 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link

lol

friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Saturday, 11 September 2010 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/KmrFI.png

LOL

Jesse, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link

RIP bass

friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Ian Stewart shows up quite a bit in the late 60s and early 70s. graph.fail.org

Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Buffalo wings were also mentioned fairly early on Bartles & James wine advertisements; the actor in the spots seemed confused, thinking that he had never seen a buffalo fly.

hypo ilxa/hermes ban (kkvgz), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link

In the episode "Calling All Customers", Mrs. Slocombe calls a lonely trucker on Mr. Humphries’ CB radio, setting up perhaps the most intricate "pussy" joke of the series. The trucker tells her he’s hauling dynamite, and proceeds to ask her about her interests. She notes gardening, but that her pussy is her favorite hobby. She exclaims that she has a mantel full of trophies and that it wins a medal every time she shows it. Then follows the sound of screeching tires and an explosion. Mr. Humphries laments, "He’s pulled off for a coffee".

Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Hurrah for youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtziMfnWME&feature=related

State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link

On March 8, 1983, Holland filed for divorce. Under California's community property laws, she was entitled to 50 percent of all the assets accumulated during the marriage, even though Carson earned virtually 100 percent of the couple's income. (Since, under the community property provisions of California law, each party legally earns half for themselves and half for their spouse.)

Not so much an unusual detail as an intriguing piece of redundance

Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Cyndi Lauper's mid-tempo ballad cover version of "When You Were Mine" is also synthesizer-based. Lauper did not change the pronoun gender in the song lyrics, which caused it to allude that the lost love to whom she is singing is a gay man who came out of the closet and is having a new affair with another man, or to a bisexual male lover.

subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link

From the entry on Chuck Clayton: "In stories where he plays sports, Chuck is usually seen with an afro, while in stories where he is focused on drawing he sports a flat top."

Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link

In 1921, Andrew Kanelos was inspired by the frosty majesty of the Andes Mountains. Dumbstruck with inventive genius, Andrew or Andy as he was known by his friends, decided to bring this same beauty to people's mouths everywhere when he yelled from the infamous Dead Man's peak "I'll put that magic in your mouth."

Cosmo's Factotum (los blue jeans), Thursday, 16 September 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link

hahaha

proprietor of gib (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 September 2010 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link

not really unusual but intersting - I had no idea this was why Lester retired.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kinnear)

On 19 September 1988, Kinnear fell from a horse during the filming of The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain, sustaining a broken pelvis. He was taken to hospital in Madrid, and died from a heart attack the following day. He was 54 years old. The film's director, Richard Lester, quit his own film career as a direct result of Kinnear's death.

pissky in the jar (onimo), Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link

it's the first picture's caption that's just killing me

Infant

aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 19 September 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link

also from the talk page on that one, an unusual detail that has tragically been edited out.

seven toes?

Babies have also been known to be born with seven toes.

is this really necessary? 24.234.170.197 20:45, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

True - but they have been born with many other deformities too - they don't need to be listed. Maustrauser 22:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC

aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 19 September 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link

LOL. "An infant".

Connect Four Tet (Trayce), Sunday, 19 September 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link

loled @ "an infant"

zorn wears orange camo pants ffs (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 September 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link

srsly lold so hard

p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Monday, 20 September 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link

From the page on Johnny Kidd & The Pirates:

The b-side to Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' 1964 single "Always and Ever" was a cover of "Dr Feel-Good", by the American blues pianist and singer Willie Perryman (also known as "Piano Red") who recorded the song as "Dr Feelgood & The Interns". The name of the song is slang for heroin. The band Dr. Feelgood took their name from the Johnny Kidd & The Pirates recording.[3]

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link

In 1998, Daniel Baldwin was found running naked through the halls of New York's Plaza Hotel shouting "Baldwin!" and was arrested for possession of cocaine.

p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Wonder where he kept it...

meta the devil you know (onimo), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:02 (thirteen years ago) link

In his baldwin?

Tuomas, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link

haha, was he pointing out that he was a baldwin?! like "baldwin approaching! baldwin on the loose!"

hoos wears orange camo pants ffs (roxymuzak), Thursday, 23 September 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link

baldwin, or bald fail?

harbl madness (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 September 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link

It was long reported that the final written words of Walt Disney were Kurt Russell's name scribbled on a piece of paper. Russell confirmed that he had seen the paper himself, but did not know what Disney was trying to convey.

Dan I., Thursday, 23 September 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link

hahaha you are making that up

"SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Thursday, 23 September 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link

its true actually

hoos wears orange camo pants ffs (roxymuzak), Thursday, 23 September 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link

As animals native to Europe, hedgehogs hold a rightful place in European folklore. Since the mammal did not possess any "righteous" qualities, it never made it to the court art; however, its relationships with fairy tales has been a long and fruitful one.

E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Friday, 24 September 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link


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