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(the image used to show the 16-color capability of the Commodore Vic 20)

Definitely got trump's skin tones

Is the Hartford Circus Fire about Charles Nelson Reilly or Hal Blaine?

I immediately assumed Blaine.

Thanks a bunch, Johnny Crawford.

Crawford had a key role in the early career of entertainer Victoria Jackson, of Saturday Night Live fame. After the two appeared together in a summer stock production of Meet Me in St. Louis, he presented her with a one-way ticket to California and encouraged her to pursue a Hollywood career.

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft:

The aircraft was extensively modified for NASA by Boeing in 1976.[2] While first-class seats were kept for NASA passengers, its main cabin and insulation were stripped,[3] mounting struts were added, and the fuselage was strengthened. Vertical stabilizers were added to the tail to aid stability when the Orbiter was being carried. The avionics and engines were also upgraded, and an escape tunnel system similar to that used on Boeing's first 747 test flights was added. The flight crew escape tunnel system was later removed following the completion of the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) because of concerns over possible engine ingestion of an escaping crew member.

(emphasis added)

Today I learned that Sheb Wooley, who wrote and performed "Purple People Eater," is also the origin of the Wilhelm scream. Wooley also taught Roger Miller how to play guitar.

xps Charles Nelson Reilly.

Among the survivors were renowned circus clown Emmett Kelly and three future notables: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame drummer Hal Blaine, actor Charles Nelson Reilly and former Connecticut Lt. Gov. Eunice Groark.

Eunice Groark is stretching the notion of notable just a bit.

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Categories: African-American male rappers | African-American record producers | American hip hop record producers | American real estate brokers | Bloods | People from El Dorado, Arkansas | Gangsta rappers | Outsider artists | Outsider musicians | Rappers from Houston | Southern hip hop musicians | Self-declared messiahs | Underground rappers | University of Houston alumni | Record producers from Texas | 1971 births | Living people | Record producers from California

from Youth in Revolt (film) - haven't seen the movie, is this accurate?

Nick steals his father's car to escape the police. He then removes his clothes and drives the car into a shallow lake in front of the police station. He buys a wig and a dress and impersonates one of Sheeni's "friends". He fools Mr. and Mrs. Saunders and goes up to Sheeni's room. Upstairs, Nick tells Sheeni that he understands what loneliness is like, and that everything he has done, including burning down Berkeley, destroying his parents' cars and having her sedated were all so that they wouldn't have to be alone anymore. Sheeni forgives Nick, and the two have slugs, finally achieving Nick's dream of losing his butt hair.

This proved to be the poorest received of all the Farthing Wood series, possibly because it is only resolved in the end by a deus ex machina – unlike the other books where the animals work together to overcome their problems.[citation needed]

From "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." I have made no attempt to verify.

The song "Puberty Love" was sung by the then-teenaged Matt Cameron, who later became the drummer for Soundgarden and since 1998 has been the drummer for Pearl Jam.

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yes, this diagram should appear in all wikipedia entries and no longer be unusual

Other survival tactics include replying to Kuchisake-onna's question by describing her appearance as "average", giving the individual enough time to run away;[2][6] distracting her by giving or throwing money or hard candies (particularly the kind of candy known as bekko ame) in her direction;[1][2][7] or by saying the word "pomade" three times.[2][8]

xpost Holy shit, that Attack of the Killer Tomatoes trivia is true! Matt Cameron is the singer!

Super Gran

Many guest stars appeared on the programme, including George Best, Spike Milligan, Eric Bristow, Roy Kinnear and Geoff Capes.[18] It was Patrick Troughton and Charles Hawtrey's final screen appearances.

Rock star Newcastle Brown (Gary Glitter) arrives to enter his pigeon in a race.

As the band began to play, some of the audience began fighting with Ice-T. Body Count escaped the crowd mid-song, and the promoter immediately shut the concert down.[1]

Outside the venue, angry audience members trashed the band's tour bus. The band hailed a taxicab, but its driver abandoned the cab when the mob surrounded the taxi, leading the promoter representing Body Count to steal the taxi in order to escape, abandoning it and their tour coats a mile away from the venue.[1] They hailed another cab, and the driver attempted to take them back to the venue until the band screamed at the driver to take them to the hotel.[1]

Italian film critic Marco Giusti writes that Rampling undresses as much as she can, but that it is Fabio Testi's physique that is imposing: Always naked and often framed at the height of his buttocks, it is causing the spectators some embarrassment.[1] Giusti perfectly remembers the sight of Testi's big hairy buttocks on the screen of the cinema Verdi in Genoa.[1]

One anonymous Oscar voter told The Hollywood Reporter that the film's Oscar campaign turned them off. "What bothered me ... was that instead of focusing on the fact that this was an entertaining little horror movie that made quite a bit of money, they started trying to suggest it had deeper meaning than it does, and, as far as I'm concerned, they played the race card, and that really turned me off. In fact, at one of the luncheons, the lead actor (Daniel Kaluuya), who is not from the United States (he's British), was giving us a lecture on racism in America and how black lives matter, and I thought, 'What does this have to do with Get Out? They're trying to make me think that if I don't vote for this movie, I'm a racist.' I was really offended. That sealed it for me."

Just out of jail, Ben (Giuliano Gemma) finds his old buddy Charlie (George Eastman), an adventurer from peanuts who ekes out a living doing the cheater.

same

On August 6, 1973, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour in North Carolina, when a car in which he was riding hit the back of a truck. This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a partial loss of his sense of smell and a temporary loss of sense of taste.

guy can't catch a break

Shouldn't have been driving IMO

Ne And Er Thal!

Thanks so excited to be here on Star Search

Genre Alternative rock[1]

References
1. ^Frutkin, Alan (November 1, 1994). "Luscious Lesbians". The Advocate: 57.

I was feeling dubious about that designation until I noticed that they cited their source.

(also called a scratch off, scratch ticket, scratcher, scratchum, scratchie, scritchies, scratch-it, scratch game, scratch-and-win, instant game or instant lottery in different places)

In November of 2017, drummer Mike Fuentes was accused of soliciting nude photos and statutory rape by a young woman. The incidents were have alleged to have occurred roughly a decade prior over the course of several years. The pair allegedly initiated contact on MySpace before meeting for the first time at a Pierce the Veil concert. Fuentes was 24 at the time, while the girl was 16, a legal minor.[where?] The woman stated they had sex after meeting again at a concert during Warped Tour. The relationship was said to have lasted until she turned 18.[39] No formal charges were brought publicly against Mike Fuentes for this allegation.

On July 31, 2010, an advertisement containing words "Zimny Lech" (Cold Lech) was placed near Wawel. The controversy was that in Polish, "zimny Lech" means both cold Lech (beer), as well as cold (body of) Lech (Kaczyński), the former president of Poland, who was buried in Wawel on April 18, 2010.[4] On August 2, 2010, it was announced that the advertisement would be removed from near Wawel, as well as from other cities.[

big fan of this billionaire brained lead

Griffith Rutherford Harsh IV (born July 25, 1953) is an American neurosurgeon. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC Davis Health. He is married to Quibi President and CEO, Meg Whitman. He is a direct descendant of Revolutionary War General and North Carolina State Senator Griffith Rutherford (1721-1805).

bonus excellent sentence:

In 2010, Meg Whitman ran for Governor of California with the support of her husband, which she lost.[8]

Where’d she lose him!? Is he still missing?

you can read it that way, you can read it as "she lost the support of her husband"

the one thing you can't read it as is "she lost the race"

1 History
1.1 Fast Success
1.2 First Dark Age
1.3 From Lenny Kuhr to Teach-In
1.4 Multiple hostings
1.5 Before the Dublin sinking
1.6 The Changing Era
1.7 The Modern Dark Age
1.8 The Dutch Renaissance

ha, someone loves their Eurovision drama

from MC Hammer article:

"It's All Good" was the second single released, which would become a pop culture phrase as a result of its success.

I'm...pretty sure that song was heard by 300 people and had nothing to do with the explosion of the term?

Early life and education
Spiegelhalter was born on 16 August 1953.[7] He attended Barnstaple Grammar School from 1963 to 1970 then studied at the University of Oxford (Bachelor of Arts 1974) and University College London. He gained his Master of Science 1975 and Doctor of Philosophy 1978, supervised by Adrian Smith.[2][8][9]

In 2014 he played Samba drums with Luke Humphry.

later in the verse, he sings "And if you ask me how I'm feeling" and then shouts "I'm feeling bloody marvellous!"
In some countries, Astley will say things like "I'm doing pretty good!" or "I'm feeling fantastic, thank you very much!" instead of the usual 'bloody marvellous' comment.

Brian Levant was hired as director, knowing he was the right person because of his love for the original series. They knew he was an avid fan of the series because of his Flintstones items collection and the knowledge he had from the series.

She was diagnosed with manic depression in 1997, after becoming obsessed with the then prime minister's chief press secretary.

What a story, I'm suprised I hadn't heard about it before:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/madly-in-love-how-nicola-pagetts-infatuation-tipped-over-into-obsession-1233638.html

Baseball cards garnered national media attention again in early 2007, when it was found that Topps' new Derek Jeter card had allegedly been altered just prior to final printing. A reported prankster inside the company had inserted a photo of Mickey Mantle into the Yankees' dugout and another showing a smiling President George W. Bush waving from the stands. Topps Spokesman Clay Luraschi later admitted that it was done on purpose by the Topps creative department.

O'Shea has been appearing on the stage since 1998. She is one of the most popular folk-rock singers on the Russian scene and cult author-performer in the youth (and especially in student) midst of Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and other cities. Also she is a very popular singer for the players of role-playing game movement.

The exact extent of the injury is disputed and controversial. Some suggest there was a cut; others say a removal. "Then, in the 1940s, during one of the many courthouse remodels, Clyde Arbuckle was called to inspect what someone called a “dungeon” in the basement area. While there, Clyde was shown a cupboard containing exhibits of past trials. Listed as exhibit A was a glass jar with a shriveled-up organ the size of an old prune preserved in formaldehyde—all that remained of Frank Baronda and the famous trial."

Although Vikernes has condemned Breivik’s views, the two men share a fondness for the Norwegian candies «krokodiller» and «Heksehyl».

They refilled the bottle to inoculate him and the other man as well. By mistake they loaded a pure culture of typhoid. The other man died immediately, and Bentine was in a coma for six weeks.