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Delmore Schwartz had the rock star, Lou Reed, as one of his students at Syracuse University and reportedly told Reed at one point, "You can write—and if you ever sell out and there's a Heaven from which you can be haunted, I'll haunt you," and Reed never forgot..[citation needed]

In November 2006, Furtado revealed that she once turned down US$ 500,000 to pose fully-clothed in Playboy.[35]

from the reference:

And although the singer turned it down - she says she still wouldn't rule it out.

"I (was) offered half a million dollars to pose fully clothed," she said. "(To do it would be a) vanity thing, an egotistical thing Its not to say that I would never do it. Its intriguing, its very tempting. Its got to be under the right terms. We will see what happens."

Nelly Retardo never more aptly mocked

Gay Dad were one of the last UK Britpop bands to be launched in the late 1990s. They generated massive news media interest and had moderate chart success, but they failed to sustain their popularity and broke up in 2002. The best-known line-up of the band (during their most successful period) was Cliff Jones (guitarist/vocalist), James Riseboro (keyboardist), Nigel Hoyle (bassist), Charley Stone (guitarist) and Nicholas "Baz" Crowe (drummer).

lol!

Seeing the reference in the Low thread about Travis from Days of the New being on A&E's Intervention ended up leading me to this nugget from the Tantric wiki page:

On March 9th 2009, Tantric announced through MySpace that their new album will be entitled Mind Control and that the band were in the process of recording the album. Produced by Brett Hestla (Creed), they have announced a tentative release date of August 4th, released exclusively through Arby's store locations, with the title track released to radio in June.

Really? Arby's?

that needs placement on the LOL thread

Do we have those anymore?

LOL threads or Arby's?

cause I haven't had Arby's in over a decade

huh gigantomastia, never heard of it.

An early case study dates to 1670. The initial patient died four months after the onset of enlargement. One breast removed after a woman's death weighed 64 lb.

what the

Black Lace also appeared as themselves in the 1986 Film "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" performing the song "Gang Bang"

The Arby's thing is actually making me giggle, I don't know why!

it is without question the most giggle-worthy music-distribution scheme I have ever heard of

"Yeah, I'd like a Beef n' Cheddar, with curly fries, a coke... and say, is that the new Tantric album? I'll have one of those too."

"the blazing new album Mind Control, available exclusively at ... you like roast beef, right?"

Black Lace also appeared as themselves in the 1986 Film "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" performing the song "Gang Bang"

Anybody who's never heard that should get right on it btw.

An early case study dates to 1670. The initial patient died four months after the onset of enlargement. One breast removed after a woman's death weighed 64 lb.

― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 19, 2009 4:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've heard of this, it was 1/3 of her body weight i think???

I did some googling on the Arby's thing and apparently some members of Tantric used to work at Arby's before they started the band, so I think this is a pretty fun (and I guess meaningful, for them) joke.

Exhumator had an industrial thrash metal sound, but its members weren't into the style.[8]

This is the first Cage album ever that contains no misogyny in the form of the word "bitch". It is not said once.

Also recently Red Stripe began sponsoring the International Festival of Thumb Wrestling held annually in Mason City, Iowa. Red Stripe Vice President of Marketing Randolph Samuelson III was the first black man to win this festival, and it has held a special place in his heart since he broke the color barrier and won the championship in 1971.

lol @ tantric w/horsey sauce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disambiguation_(disambiguation)

damn you, ) .

In Utero is featured article, it lists its chart positions, and then 2 years later it finally hits the charts in Wallonia. (that probably happens a lot, but i still found it amusing)

The chicken fingers are often diced and stuffed in a baked potato topped with butter, Cheddar cheese, and cream gravy.

^^^ have never heard of this, but think it sounds kind of delicious???

The Jackson 5's influence on later performers has been profound, inspiring a number of performers from diverse fields, including pop emo band Dashboard Confessional,[3]

Notable posters have included Momus,[2] Simon Reynolds, PappaWheelie, Philip Sherburne, Drew Daniel of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth,[3] John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats,[4] Frank Kogan, Ned Raggett,[5] former The Wire editor Mark Sinker, former Village Voice music editor Chuck Eddy, Peter Chung (creator of Æon Flux) and Fluxblog author Fatthew Perpetua. (citation needed)

A++

Cartoon Network showing

When Cartoon Network aired the film, a mild profanity was left uncensored during the scene where the robot first appears, only three inches tall, and Walter orders it to "Get me a juice box, Biotch" The word was censored, however, for the second showing.

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

He is best known for playing villains, "tough guy" heroes and amputees

As the Crimson Tide do not have a logo on their helmets or uniforms, Big Al's likeness appears on much team merchandise and such.

Mung bean, also known as green bean, mung, moong, moog dal (in bangla), mash bean, munggo or monggo, green gram, golden gram, and green soy, is the seed of Vigna radiata which is native to Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The split bean is known as moong dal, which is green with the husk, and yellow when dehusked. The beans are small, ovoid in shape, and green in color. The English word "mung" derives from the Hindi moong.

The mung bean is one of many species recently moved from the genus Phaseolus to Vigna and is still often seen cited as Phaseolus aureus or Phaseolus radiatus. These are all the same plant.

It is also known by a select few that Mr Aiden Tinney dances like a mung bean. He is the only human being maybe even primate that can do this and though it is said to be embarrassing, scary and some what retarded, it does attract the affection of kuwaiti girls.

hahaha

Rickman was chosen by Empire as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (No 34) in 1995 and ranked No 59 in Empire's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list in October 1997. Rickman became Vice-Chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2003. He was voted No 19 in Empire magazine's Greatest Living Movie Stars over the age of 50 and was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Play): in 1987 for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and in 2002 for a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives.

Alan Rickman was recently set up by BBC Radio 4's Dead Ringers programme. The programme satirised Rickman's distinctive inflection when playing 'baddies.'

The episode "Peter's Progress" of the television cartoon Family Guy included a scene mocking Rickman's voice, by portraying him repeatedly calling his own answering machine.

Research to find 'the perfect voice' has indicated that Rickman's voice is one of the best.[15] The combination of his voice along with Jeremy Irons' voice was deemed the best voice based on intonation, trustworthiness, and soothingness.

Deep in the San Pedro article in re: notable residents:

The Couches, nautical post-apocalyptic death rock band consisting of three nautical post-apocalyptic death rock dudes.

Real-life parallels

-- During the 2007 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers added an infielder named Chin-Lung Hu. After Hu singled in a game against the San Diego Padres, Dodgers announcer Vin Scully remarked "And Hu's on first."

-- In 1920, Allie Watt played one game at second base for the Washington Senators.

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C major
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C major

Relative key A minor
Parallel key C minor
Component pitches
C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
See also: C minor and C-sharp minor
C major (often just C or key of C) is a musical major scale based on C, with pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature has no flats/sharps.
Its relative minor is A minor, and its parallel minor is C minor. Many instruments, such as the piano, are tuned in C.
C major is one of the most commonly used key signatures in music. Most transposing instruments playing in their home key are notated in C major; for example, a clarinet in B-flat sounding a B-flat major scale is notated as playing a C major scale. The white keys of the piano correspond to the C major scale (however, some electronic keyboards are in B-flat). The Western concert flute and piccolo both have C major as their home key. A harp tuned to C major has all its pedals in the middle position.
C major is often thought of as the simplest key, owing to its lack of either sharps or flats, and beginning piano students' very first pieces are usually very simple ones in this key, and the first scales and arpeggios that students learn are usually C-major ones. However, going against this common practice, the composer Frédéric Chopin regarded this scale as the most difficult one to play with complete evenness, and he tended to give it last to his students. He regarded B major as the easiest scale to play on the piano, because the position of the black and white notes best fitted the natural positions of the fingers, and so he often had students start with this scale. A C-major scale lacks black keys, and thus does not fit the natural positions of the fingers very well.

A one-octave C major scale.
Nineteen of Joseph Haydn's 104 symphonies are in C major, making it his second most often used main key, second only to D major. Of the 134 symphonies mistakenly attributed to Haydn that H. C. Robbins Landon lists in his catalog, 33 of them are in C major, more than any other key. Before the invention of the valve trumpet, Haydn did not write trumpet and timpani parts in his symphonies, except those in C major. H. C. Robbins Landon writes that it wasn't "until 1774 that Haydn uses trumpets and timpani in a key other than C major ... and then only sparingly." Most of Haydn's symphonies in C major are labelled "festive" and are of a primarily celebratory mood.[1] (See also List of symphonies in C major).
Many Masses and settings of Te Deum in the Classical era were in C major. Mozart wrote most of his Masses in C major, and so did Haydn.[2]
Of Franz Schubert's two symphonies in the key, the first is nicknamed the "Little C major" and the second the "Great C major."
Although not that difficult for a guitar, C major is not considered ideal for the instrument. The three notes of the dominant chord (G, B & D) are available as open strings, but the root of the tonic chord is not.
French composers such as Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Rameau generally thought of C major as a key for happy music, but Hector Berlioz in 1856 described it as "serious but deaf and dull." Ralph Vaughan Williams was impressed by Sibelius's Symphony No. 7 in C major and remarked that only Sibelius could make the key sound fresh. However, C major was a key of great importance in Sibelius's previous symphonies.[3] Claude Debussy, noted for composing music that avoided a particular key center, once said, "I do not believe in the supremacy of the C major scale."
In musical catalogs that sort the musical pieces by key, whether they go by semitones or along the circle of fifths, they almost always begin with those pieces in C major.
A notable modern use of the key is Terry Riley's In C.
Most slot machines sounds are in C major to avoid sounding dark or sinister.[4]
Whereas traditionally key signatures were cancelled whenever the new key signature had fewer sharps or flats than the old key signature, in modern popular and commercial music, cancellation is only done when C major or A minor replaces another key.[5]

Most slot machines sounds are in C major to avoid sounding dark or sinister.[4]

Another version is that Cordet was in the booth next door doing the photo shoot for the cover and was on top of fibre glass, when she poured the honey on herself the honey fused with the fibre glass and her legs sticking her to the floor, as she tried to get up the skin got ripped off her legs, thus the scream, this put an end to her modeling career she then said that she would sue the band for everything they had, at this point the band manager stabbed her to death. This, however, is highly improbable as Ester Cordet is still alive

In 2009, Hufty will be appearing in the new Lowri Turner tv vehicle, Lowri Turns'er! in which Turner attempts to convert straight women to lesbianism, with the aide of Hufty's lesbian charms. The show will be broadcast on Bravo in the Summer.

Peter Jackman became England's best-known gurner, winning the world championship four times, beginning in 1998 with a face called the "Bela Lugosi."[3] He had his teeth removed in 2000 to make his features easier to manoeuvre. Three years later, he died playing golf in Spain when a cliff face collapsed underneath him.[4]

Revolution

In the year of 2008, West Memphis started to get vast Economic Development. The city began building its largest hotel by floors, the city's second skyscraper. During this time land developers started to invest in West Memphis' land. At the end of 2008 West Memphis' population doubled, getting to be the 14th largest city in Arkansas. In 2009 the city bought seven acres of land near the city's airport, making the city a little bigger. Later in 2009, West Memphis council members voted to get a kitchen incubator.

good to know!!

The city began building its largest hotel by floors, the city's second skyscraper.

Prime would appear in the U.K. Marvel comic issue #234, "Prime's Rib!" This story is set in the near future, 1995, where Optimus Prime, Jazz and Hot Rod introduce the latest Autobot, Arcee, to the human feminists. She was met with displeasure by the humans, being called a token female and disliked for her pink color. They were then attacked by Shockwave, Fangry, Horri-Bull and Squeezeplay, who thought the Autobot would be unveiling a new weapon. The Autobots fought off the Decepticons, who escaped, but nothing seemed to please the human feminists.

Umm here are some things Wikipedia just taught me about Alicia Witt:

- "was discovered by David Lynch when she appeared on the television show That's Incredible! in 1980; she had recited Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" *

- was home schooled by her parents and earned her high school diploma at age 14

- her mother "was noted from 1988–93 in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest hair"

- "On June 14, 2004, Witt modeled what is believed to be the most expensive hat ever made"

* this is not so unusual until you start imagining David Lynch kicking back watching That's Incredible!

https://www.atomicavenue.com/Covers/Medium/M/Marvel%20UK/Transformers,%20The%20(Marvel%20UK)/287545.jpg
someone please track this down and scan!

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

Fluxblog is a street stall selling crepes created and updated by Matthew Perpetua.

The street stall selling crepes began in 2002 and began to differentiate between crepes and pancakes at the end of that year. Two crepes are commonly posted every weekday along with toppings such as whipped cream and Nutella and a separate savoury menu where a crepe containing shredded cheddar or bolognese sauce can be purchased.