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Today is the feast of St Gerard Majella, patron of

Children (and unborn children in particular); childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular); motherhood; falsely accused people; good confessions; lay brothers; tennis ball football, head boys and Muro Lucano, Italy

She was an avid tennis player, and once played with Milton Friedman despite the fact that it was snowing.[1]

people you wish had beaten each other to death with tennis rackets

I thougt that said St. Gerard Malanga there for a second, who'd be a perfectly fine patron saint of good confessions and lay brothers

kickstarter to canonise every one of pope andy's superstars

1979 saw his first major film soundtrack commission (Alexandro Jodorowsky's Tusk), but he had been releasing solo records at least a decade earlier, including at least four for the Chappell Music Library, as well as his album Chez Jean-Claude Petit, released in the early 1970s. In 1976 he collaborated with Pierre Delanoë, Toto Cutugno, Vito Pallavicini in a very popular and funky music for Mireille Mathieu called Ciao Bambino, Sorry.

In 1950, while living in the U.K., he fathered future Average White Band drummer, Robbie McIntosh. Colleano was not married to McIntosh's mother.

The band's name came from a sugar packet Mould noticed while eating at a diner with the other two members.

For much longer than was reasonable, I was imagining 'Hüsker Dü sügar'

what a run-on sentence:

On October 16th 2019, in an interview with Loudwire and Consequence of Sound, Necrobutcher revealed that he also had had plans to kill Euronymous [who was killed first by Varg Vikernes] since he was disgusted by Euronymous's treatment of Dead, and in that same interview he spoke about the Lords of Chaos movie, saying that the movie saddened him, expressing that he did not like it, although he was surprised that Hollywood cared about Mayhem enough to make the movie, and he also objected to the movie because it was based on the Lords of Chaos book, which he described as "the worst book ever".

Whatever position is adopted, care must be taken (e.g. by having the recipient's legs kept together) not to strike the back of the genitals.

From the Murry Wilson article

The original Megatron was the leader and warlord of the Decepticons, a fictional faction of sentient self-configuring modular extraterrestrial robotic lifeforms from the planet Cybertron.

Yeah, what a needless modifier, everyone knows the real-life Decepticons are lead by Shockwave.

Vocalist Dan Wigley stands at 6 feet 8 inches tall. Making him the tallest member of any punk band until the 6'10" Tobin Balwinkel formed Flatfoot 56 in 2000.

Significant others: Agent Wayne Rigsby (coworker; husband), Agent Craig O'Laughlin (fiance, person that almost killed her; deceased)

Takes place in a dystopian future where music, television and video games are banned, and the rock band Aerosmith is kidnapped.

When James Hetfield sings it, he does not sing in a falsetto like King Diamond, but in 2008 (and again in 2011, with Hank Shermann, Michael Denner and Timi Hansen)[17] King Diamond performed "Mercyful Fate" with Metallica, and put the screams in where necessary.

Being completely deaf in one ear and barely hearing in the other, Edison would listen to a music player or piano by chomping into the wood to absorb the sound waves into his skull. The waves would then pass through the cochlea and into the auditory nerve and finally into his brain. Due to this method of listening, he could not stand vocal vibrato nor hear at the highest frequencies.

Man what Diamanda Galas would do to that poor man

I could swear I've heard the same thing about Beethoven biting his piano! Maybe they both did it

Maybe it was the same piano

Santa with Muscles is a 1996 American Christmas comedy film starring Hulk Hogan, produced by the Shuster brothers, co-produced executively by The Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort and directed by John Murlowski.

In August 1999, MGM board member Francis Ford Coppola was brought in by MGM to supervise another re-editing of the film costing $1 million at his American Zoetrope facility in Northern California. This work included digitally placing Bassett's and Spader's faces on the bodies of (a computer-tinted) Tunney and Facinelli, so that their characters could enjoy a love scene.

What movie is that?

Supernova - a very dire "we picked up this creepy guy marooned on a creepy planet" movie, rendered barely coherent due to the above-cited shenanigans and more, at least from the half of it that i've seen.

Mr. McNabb, a retired police officer, related that in his opinion the murder was carried out by a somnambulist who was therefore unaware of the deed. He had never ventured this opinion officially for fear of being laughed out of the force.[4]

Mangling presses the fiber ends back onto the fiber, so that the clothes remain clean longer. This could potentially reduce dust approximately 10 to 60 times however this is not confirmed.

Can we get some confirmation on that please

'Kim Jong-il was frustrated with his films in the early 1970s. He could tell that in contrast to the other films being released globally, his were stiff and lifeless. His diagnosis was a lack of enthusiasm from his actors and crew.'

At the height of the country and western boom in the UK in 1976, he had top forty pop chart hits with "You're My Best Friend" and "I Recall a Gypsy Woman".[10]

Was there a country & western boom in the UK in 1976? I don't have any stats to back it up but I think it is true that country artists stopped having hits in the UK in the 80s/90s and have never sold much since?

Development was directed by Tez Okano, who developed the game in secret for two years before presenting it to Sega. The company misconstrued the game as a joke at first and dismissed it, however a second presentation impressed them and allowed development to continue. Okano marketed the game himself with a small budget of $200, half of which he spent on a wrestling mask to conceal his identity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Aardvark?wprov=sfti1

The cartoon follows attempts of a blue aardvark named Aardvark (sometimes he claims he's an anteater) (voiced by John Byner,[1][2][3] impersonating comedian Jackie Mason), to catch and eat a red ant named Charlie (also voiced by John Byner,[1][2][3] but impersonating Dean Martin)

Cosmic Psychos guitarist Robbie Watts died from 1. a heart attack (beginning of the page), 2. a heroin overdose (middle of the page) and 3. a heart attack (end of the page).

His daughter is a teacher in New York City and his son is a very successful business man. His Irish talents are passed on to the rest of his family. His very successful son plays a guitar and his other daughter sings. The successful son’s son is a Boston University graduate and plays piano. Then his daughters kids play Gaelic Football and the girls play tin whistle and guitar. The son also plays the button accordion. Needless to say, the Irish culture has been passed down to another generation.

Cast

Suliane Brahim: Laurène Weiss
Hubert Delattre: Martial Ferrandis
Laurent Capelluto: Franck Siriani
Samuel Jouy: Bertrand Steiner
Renaud Rutten: Louis Hermann
Tiphaine Daviot: Camille Laugier (season 1)
Anne Suarez: Lea Steiner
Naidra Ayadi: Leila Barami
Camille Aguilar: Cora Weiss
Brigitte Sy: Sabine Hennequin
Dan Herzberg: Gaspard Bellan
Cyrielle Debreuil: Anna Delambre
Thomas Doret: Rudy Guerin
Olivier Bonjour: Gerald Steiner (season 1-2)
Théo Costa-Marini: Roman Barthélémy
Samir Boitard: Paul Méric
Jean-Michel Balthazar: Maître Caubere
Pascal Elso: Pierre Winkler (Season 1)
Serge Riaboukine (Season 2)
Marina Hands: Delphine Garnier (season 2)
Guinea pig - Peanut. In both seasons

If Peanut's not in it, I ain't watching.

The soundtrack album was intended to be released on multicolored liquid-filled vinyl, but problems with the manufacturing process prevented it.

Butts later[when?] invented another game titled simply Alfred's Other Game; it never achieved the commercial success of Scrabble.[citation needed]

Players are called upon to pelt mutant artificial Christmas trees with snowballs, while avoiding the elves interspersed between the garishly colored mutant trees.[2][3] Mutant trees emerge from boxes that are marked "100% Fake" or "Made in China".[4] The trees, as the game says, have "mutated and are sucking the spirit out of Christmas".[2] The game features an "Xmas Spirit Meter" light which dims for every mutant tree missed or elf hit by mistake.[5] Between rounds the game provides "facts" about Christmas trees,[6] or, depending on your point of view, "didactic little warnings about the evils of fake trees".[1]

The one armed Wampa is seen again in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). It tries to get its revenge on Luke, but it gets cut in half and dies.

Hahaha

Not recognized among the bands of their day, they are still a charming reminder of the New Wave era.

The fist on the album cover would originally be Tate's own fist, but a different hand model was used because Tate wanted a more masculine-looking fist with hair on the knuckles.[25]

Barenboim worked to keep his relationship with Bashkirova hidden from du Pré, and believed he had succeeded.

Peter Gabriel initially wanted Dolly Parton to duet with him on "Don't Give Up"

Got here by looking up the drummer on Jagged Little Pill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Laug

Matt appeared briefly as the drummer on the debut album of Michael Michael in high school. With hits White Guys and Dear Mr. Santa, cassette sales pushed the album to Double Plastic status.

The waste hot water from the Dungeness nuclear power stations is pumped into the sea through two outfall pipes, enriching the biological productivity of the sea bed and attracting seabirds from miles around.[citation needed]

gosh wonder which power stations' administrator could possibly be the source

that enriched biological productivity in full

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