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lol at that Loggins & Messina one, "An interesting side note" that tells us more about the editor's grasp of recorded music than of anything else. I think their producers were just stoned and/or starved for filler and consequently declined to double back and pick a good point to fade things out. Though I love the idea of anybody listening to their albums and going "these songs all just, like, end! Man, this is a distinctive sound... these guys are gonna be big, if people can handle it!"

At the wedding of Norman Cook to Zoe Ball in 1999, Mr Coogan, for reasons best known to himself, opted to dive into a shallow pool, breaking his nose in the process.

In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the phrase "I like to tiptoe through the tulips" is one of Geralt's speech options for the pass-phrase to enter the Putrid Grove in Novigrad (though not the correct one).[5]

In 2008, the song featured in a Coco Pops Coco Rocks commercial.

In 2012, the song featured in an episode of the BBC programme Rogue Traders on Watchdog.

this is pulitzer-worthy investigative work.

The Wizard of Oz

One song that was almost deleted was "Over the Rainbow". MGM had felt that it made the Kansas sequence too long, as well as being far over the heads of the target audience of children. The studio also thought that it was degrading for Judy Garland to sing in a barnyard. Producer Mervyn LeRoy, uncredited associate producer Arthur Freed, and director Victor Fleming fought to keep it in, and they all eventually won. The song went on to win the Academy Award for Best Song of the Year, and came to be identified so strongly with Garland herself that she made it her theme song. In 2004, the song was ranked no. 1 by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.

In April 2017, Cillizza began failing upwards for CNN, including writing and television appearances.

Meanwhile, the Tammys continued to play local shows and sing background tracks until later in the decade; but with three no-hit singles to their credit, their waxings became impossibly rare and the group became a footnote in music history.[citation needed]

Signs bearing the number "420" have been frequently stolen. In Colorado, the Colorado Department of Transportation replaced the Mile Marker 420 sign on I-70 east of Denver with one reading 419.99 in an attempt to stop the thievery.[42] The Idaho Department of Transportation (ITD) replaced the Mile Marker 420 sign on U.S. Highway 95, just south of Coeur d'Alene, with Mile Marker 419.9.[43] That marker was eventually stolen as well, leading ITD to just post the marker with spray paint on the pavement.[citation needed]

Texas apparently solved the problem by building a bridge in that exact spot.

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"Adultery has its own rewards"

Someone has been going to town on William Light's true reasons for designing the city of Adelaide. Mana pools, Cern, deliberately poorly managed tuberculosis? Section 3.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Light

The article for The Individualist by Todd Rundgren has some a uh..pretty strange paragraph

The lyrical content is largely political and spiritual, with Rundgren expressing his outspoken views against conservatism, particularly on "Family Values" with its slams against Dan Quayle. "Tables Will Turn" is a song about social inequity and how inevitably the situation will change. "If Not Now When" expresses anger against those claim they want positive change but are too apathetic to act. In accordance with the humanism which has always driven Rundgren's lyrics, in "The Ultimate Crime" he sings "the ultimate crime is not to care." The funky track "Espresso (All Jacked Up)" is a catchy song about travel and having fun in life which could well have scored airplay but didn't. "The Individualist" is a laid-back track utilising rapping, as on No World Order as Rundgren reflects on his desire to see the truth of things and not be subjected to other's views of reality. It includes a humorous jab at Prince (musician). "Cast the First Stone" is an example of Rundgren's heavier, more raucous electronic style. In it, Rundgren rails against moral hypocrites. It is similar in feel and sentiment to songs such as "Mammon" and "Liars" on his later Liars (Todd Rundgren album) album but also to "Fascist Christ" from No World Order. In "Beloved Infidel", a plaintive ballad, Rundgren sings sadly of how the "weak are vilified and wicked glorified"; he awaits the return of the beloved infidel, which seems a metaphor for truth, when the 'liberation bell' will be rung. "Temporary Sanity", which has a rapped middle-eight, is a protest against the insanity of the human race's obsessions with wars and vanity.

He has one brother, Steven, who makes olive loaves in a roadside shack

lol I read the Richard Edson page a while back but forgot to post that here

Dynamically entertaining heavyset US actor with piercing eyes, William Forsythe has a superb talent for playing some truly unlikeable and downright nasty characters that dominate the films in which he appears! If you're cast as the "hero" against Forsythe's "villain", then you have your work cut out for you, as Forsthye's raw energy and menace on screen is second to none. He started out in a couple of minor film roles and guest appearance's in high-rated TV shows including CHiPs (1977), Hill Street Blues (1981) and T.J. Hooker (1982). He quickly moved into high-quality feature films, including playing a small-time hoodlum in Once Upon a Time in America (1984), an hilariously funny performance as a bumbling jail escapee alongside John Goodman in the knockout Raising Arizona (1987) and as a renegade soldier in Extreme Prejudice.

love it when actors write their own Wiki articles

From the page of Gang Starr affiliate Big Shug:

Personal life
In 2012 and 2014, Big Shug led his Braintree Youth Basketball to two championships. In 2013, he was defeated in the semi-final which led him to saying "Damn, these kids sign up to hoop, but they can't hoop. They damn bad." This caused an uproar from parents of players in the Braintree Youth Basketball organization. The BYB committee later handed him a two-game suspension which was appealed. After a local court session, the suspension was overturned due to Shug's right to the first amendment. This led to Shug being "pissed off". This made him go into the 2013-14 season on fire. He coached his team led by his son, Trumayne "The Big Dawg" Guy to a second championship in three years. Due to his tremendous season, Shug was awarded "BYB Coach of the Year". In his winning speech, he said "What I said last year was totally disrespectful to all players trying to get better at basketball, a game I love. I'm not apologizing fam' because it was my freedom of speech to say that but I'm happy that I was able to win this year and help make a group of good basketball players, great."

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

honestly wasn't sure if this should go here or in the "wrote own wikipedia article" thread; it's possible this was written by, like, a family member and not Big Shug himself.

belongs on basketblolz as well

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During the 1950s, the mushroom clouds from atmospheric tests could be seen for almost 100 mi (160 km). The city of Las Vegas experienced noticeable seismic effects, and the distant mushroom clouds, which could be seen from the downtown hotels, became tourist attractions.

Interests
Matsumoto's hobbies include driving, billiards, and video games. He has played billiards against numerous musicians on the Downtown hosted music show, Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ, such as Gackt. His favorite video game is Tetris and says his nickname is "The Tetrist" (テトリスト).[11] He jokes he can play Tetris until the corners of the blocks wear out and become rounded.[12] However, in his televised Tetris battles with both Utada Hikaru (on Music Champ) and Shinya Arino of Yoiko (on LINCOLN),[12] he showed mediocre skills and lost.

from a reverted edit in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%AAt-%C3%A0-Porter_(film), the film summary (which is now empty) briefly read:

"The film is about porters who are having trouble pretting."

lol

Funassyi is neither a boy nor a girl, but a pear (梨 nashi) fairy. Its parents are ordinary pear trees. Funassyi is the fourth of their 274 children. Its birthday is July 4, and it is 1,876 years old as of 2014 (in a literal time frame, it was possibly born in the year AD 138). Its full name is Funadius IV (フナディウス4世 Funadiusu Yonsei),[3] and its favorite food is peaches. The character is fond of heavy metal music, revealing that it bought Deep Purple's Machine Head as its first album

I had no idea

Osamu Tezuka is a descendent of Hattori Hanzō, a famous ninja and samurai who faithfully served Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sengoku period in Japan

from the edits history on the Morro Bay High School page:

'''Morro Bay High School''' is located in the City of [[Morro Bay]] on the coast of [[San Luis Obispo County]], [[California]].We are not good at sports. literally the worst at every sport we play. basically useless. Students of the school are typically residents of [[Morro Bay]] and the neighboring town of [[Los Osos]] (6 miles away). The school consists of about 800 to 900 students a year. The school is only a 1/4 mile from the Pacific Ocean.

Sounds like my kind of school.

haha my niece lives behind that HS

The United States men historically dominated this event through the 20th century up until the gb squad did bits in London 2017 big up the Mandem, in other news the USA usa previously won 15 Olympic gold medals and 5 IAAF world championships. Carl Lewis ran the anchor leg on U.S relay teams that set 6 world records from 1983 to 1992, including the first team to break 38 seconds.

Stills has said that he intentionally made the final stanzas unexpected and difficult, even using a foreign language for the lyrics, "just to make sure nobody would understand it" (not even Spanish speaking people).[9]

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_About_Charlie

British newlywed Regina Lambert lives in Paris with her husband, Charlie. She returns home following a short vacation, determined to divorce Charlie, only to discover their apartment has been stripped bare and that her husband has been murdered. Regina is soon reunited with a mysterious stranger she met on her holiday. He helps her piece together the truth about the deceased Charlie and deal with three menacing people who are now following her. Never talking, he just keeps walking, working his magic. Riff, then harmonica.

hahaha

This fund was established in response to a lawsuit victory Yen won against Geng Weiguo (also known as Tan Bing), who intentionally slandered and defamed Yen to attack his reputation by fabricating lies in order to portray him as an evil and hideous person and hiring netizens to threaten Yen's family.

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazinethat provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews,crossword puzzles, and, in some issues,horoscopes. It ranked the PBS series Barney & Friends.

He died on July 3, 1971 at age 27.[86][87][88][excessive citations]

I really want there to be a [this "excessive citations" tag is just exacerbating the problem] tag

He died on July 3, 1971 at age 27.[86][87][88][excessive citations]

here is an official record of his death certificate, and a newspaper report confirming his death, and a statement by his mother who owned the waffle machine

Although she has never seen without shoes, the other Koopalings, who are barefooted, confirm that Wendy has three toes on each foot, and also has white pads on the plant of her feet.

Koopaling exclusive--Ludwig and Roy dish on Wendy's toe situation

It has been scientifically proved and waggishly reported that instruments can distinguish shit from Shinola.[10]

In August 2017, former NYPD officer Frank Serpico gave a speech live on Facebook and stood with police officers at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in support of Kaepernick.

He was involved in regrettable efforts to rubbish the inventions of John Richardson Wigham.[4]

Sobieski was spotted by a talent scout who noticed her while he was scouting the cafeteria of a New York City private school as part of a recreational visit.

In the late 1990s, the band's official website stated that their original name was Southern Whale Cult 1987, and that several albums had previously been released under that name. This was later admitted to have been a joke; the band had copied a presentation by the Cult and simply changed the name of the band in the text.[7]

William Willett (British builder and a tireless promoter of British Summer Time) is a great-great-grandfather of Coldplay singer Chris Martin.

Also in 1985, "Now That We've Found Love" was back in the UK charts again as Paul Hardcastle decided to release a club remix but as with the case of his D-Train remix [13] putting the Hardcastle signature sound of electronic keyboards on the track and reverbing the opening vocal. Whilst the remix was a UK hit, the remix had seemingly lost its reggae roots and the Hardcastle remix has since largely been forgotten in the decades that have followed. The result being that most DJs and radio stations have returned to the original reggae version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Mathews_(writer)

Linehan and Mathews also made a rare appearance in the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge as two Irishmen considering Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) for a contract. In the absence of a picture, Mathews is the fairer haired of the two in the scene mentioned (though according to the episode's commentary, this is a wig).

The phrase "and now we can all get some sleep!'" followed by laughter is used during the Wiggles Meet The Orchestra DVD when introducing the next song. A subtle parent joke.

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

It was built in 1996 in Nanjing, China. It is located by my grandparents' home and Caochangmen Dajie, next to the Da Ren Fa supermarket.