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nm i guess one can

mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link

DID SOMEBODY SAY BRIAN BENBEN?

https://i.imgur.com/hrjWvHA.gif

pplains, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link

The 1976 hit song "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band was inspired by the spicy happy hour menu at Clyde's of Georgetown. Writer Bill Danoff ate at Clyde's one afternoon, then came home and told his wife that "afternoon delight" should really refer to sexual intercourse. (The song only vaguely hints at sex.)[4]

peace, man, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link

The show became a hit, being broadcast by Anglia, Border Television, Grampian Television, Tyne Tees and UTV, and resulted in the pair appearing at the opening of many British Relay TV rental shops.

BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link

Personal life
On March 8, 2020, a police report was filed against Brian Ortega for alleged slapping [Jay] Park who serves as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight fighter Chan Sung Jung's (Korean Zombie) translator and a good friend of Jung while Jung went to the bathroom at UFC 248.[221][222]

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link

a good friend of Jung while Jung went to the bathroom

Were they friends even when Jung *wasn't* going to the bathroom?

I mean, I guess it's good to have friends when you're in the bathroom but I prefer people who are my friends all the time.

Gin and Juice Newton (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link

Attila was an American rock band, most notable for having featured a young Billy Joel as a member. Joel was a member of a band called The Hassles;[1] he and the drummer, Jon Small, broke away from the Hassles and formed Attila in 1969.[1] The instrumentation was organ and drums,[1] with Joel also handling the bass lines with a keyboard, similar to the Doors' Ray Manzarek. Their creative partnership ended in 1970 when Joel ran off with Small's wife, Elizabeth,[2] although this did not end their collaborations, as Small produced Joel's Концерт video as well as the Live at Shea Stadium performance.

Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link

Small's son appears on the album cover of Turnstiles.

It was ... very complicated (and also the 1970s.)

pplains, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link

the son had a receding hairline, and a tendency to flip over keyboards at a moment's notice

I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link

Jack attended Glasgow University?

The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link

not a detail per se, but the prudishness so uptight that it explains the film title twice

Julian Kaye (Richard Gere) is a male escort in Los Angeles, whose job is to sell his body to upper-class women. His job supports and requires an expensive taste in cars and clothes and affords him a luxury Westwood apartment. He is blatantly materialistic, narcissistic and superficial. He takes pleasure in his work from being able to sexually satisfy women, offering and selling his body to women.

Steppin' RZA (sic), Sunday, 19 July 2020 07:35 (three years ago) link

Unusual designs Edit
Several models of propane gas powered coffee machines are also available.

handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link

Just Our Luck attempted to recover from the bad publicity and brought in Roy Orbison, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Wink Martindale as guest stars.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link

well if that can't fix the problem, nothing can

Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 23 July 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link

Aerial footage of the scene, including a large spread consisting of laundry hanging on lines, was shot for the movie but was not used in it, and later turned up in a number of other productions, including the Republic serials Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945) and Radar Patrol vs. Spy King (1949), along with the Allied Artists movie The Cyclops (1957).

オニモ (onimo), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link

when your cyclops movie goes over budget and you're faced with having to cut that crucial laundry scene, having footage like that already in the can is a real lifesaver.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link

THIS WIKIPEDIA PAGE IS POORLY MAINTAINED.

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

First sentence:

This is a list of notable ice cream flavors.

Later on down:

Black Sabbath

BLACK SABBATH IS NOT A FUCKING NOTABLE ICE CREAM FLAVOR.

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/QGhoTQn.png

pplains, Sunday, 26 July 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link

ALRIGHT NOW

Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 July 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link

There are architectural representations of each of the original 13 colonies.
The state flags of each of the original 13 states, as well as the American flag, fly in a plaza in the center of Liberty Square.
The brown pavement is meant to represent human waste (urine and excrement) since there was no indoor plumbing in colonial times.[7]

Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link

R. Bruce Hyde (September 14, 1941 – October 13, 2015) was an American educator and actor. He was professor of communication studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. His academic work mainly focused on ontology, specifically ontological approach to education,[1] Martin Heidegger's contribution to communication studies,[2][3] and the study of ontological rhetoric.[4]

During his acting career Hyde played Lt. Kevin Riley in the original Star Trek series, having appeared in two episodes, "The Naked Time" and "The Conscience of the King".[5]

... one of the more irritating characters in Star Trek history.

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 3 August 2020 09:22 (three years ago) link

... he's just been serenaded by Uhuru.

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 3 August 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link

TS: R. Bruce Hyde on Star Trek vs. Melvin Belli on Star Trek

Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Monday, 3 August 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link

vs. anthony call on star trek

mookieproof, Monday, 3 August 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link

Cool James and Black Teacher (sometimes Cool James and the Black Teacher) were Swedish Eurodance band consisting of Cool James and Black Teacher.

Tuomas, Monday, 3 August 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link

lol

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 3 August 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link

Jawga Boyz is an American country rap group formed in Athens, Georgia in 2003.[1] The current lineup is "D Thrash, . "BoonDock" "Cornbread" , Dez, Chris Hood, "Sloppy Jones" , "Dreadneck" .

(that is the punctuation exactly as it appears in the article)

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link

While ostensibly an adaptation of the 1987 computer game, Maniac Mansion shares several superficial similarities with its source material, though is vastly different in terms of plot, tone and characterization.

The premise of the game, an homage to horror and science fiction B movies, follows a group of teenagers who venture into a dilapidated mansion to rescue their kidnapped friend. The mansion is inhabited by the homicidal Edison family, consisting of Dr. Fred, a deranged scientist who is possessed by an evil meteorite, his wife Edna, a sex-starved sadomasochistic nurse, their son Weird Ed, a paranoid paramilitary survivalist, and their pets Green Tentacle and Purple Tentacle, a pair of sentient, ambulatory tentacles.

Whereas the television series was produced for family television, the tone of the game was decidedly more adult, featuring much risqué black comedy and surreal violence amid LucasArts' traditional style of offbeat humor and slapstick which was entirely omitted from the television adaptation. The game's original characters are also completely absent from the series with the exception of Dr. Fred Edison, whose character was drastically changed from an insane antagonist with a balding, elderly appearance in the game to a clumsy but good-natured family man in his forties in the television show.

Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link

Lol i loved Day of the Tentacle and Maniac Mansion

XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link

Personal life
N'Guémo is a keen falconer and keeps a modest collection of bird of prey, with his favourite, a white-tailed eagle named Mr George after George Weah.

オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link

In 2005, he fought off bankruptcy but was arrested after police were called by bailiffs who went to his home in Glossop, Derbyshire. He poured petrol on the bonnet of a bailiff's car and set it alight with the bailiff still inside.[7][8] Fontana was remanded in custody on 25 May 2007. He later appeared at Derby Crown Court dressed as Lady Justice, complete with a sword, scales, crown, cape and dark glasses, and claiming "justice is blind".[9] He dismissed his lawyers.[10] On 10 November 2007 he was sentenced to 11 months for setting fire to the car but was released because he had already served the equivalent of the term, having been held under the Mental Health Act 1983.[11]

Udo Starmer (Tom D.), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link

... beat you to it on the Wikipedia Unusual Details thread.

Udo Starmer (Tom D.), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link

Fuck, wrong thread.

Udo Starmer (Tom D.), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link

David has two daughters: The eldest - Lucy Lowe - is an actress having co-starred in a stage play with Dirk Benedict and director, having made the feature-length documentary, Uncle Art. The younger is Holly Jazz Kotzé (née Lowe), singer and songwriter. He has a son: Adam. His wife Victoria Lowe was formerly a reserve member of Pan's People, and studied under Arlene Phillips.

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link

The Early Days of Guns N' Roses was what the first series of concerts by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses are referred to as.

mise róna (seandalai), Sunday, 9 August 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link

In 1980, Ray Stevens recorded a novelty song titled "The Watch Song," in which his character, in a bar, is approached by a cowboy whose wife he's been seeing and who challenges him to a fight. Outside, in the course of the fight, the cowboy stomps on the watch and busts it beyond repair. In the refrain, Ray's character calls out to John Cameron Swayze (who, in a series of 1960s commercials, would subject a Timex watch to a grueling physical test, then show it still to be ticking away) to tell him how crazy it sounds to say that the cowboy had busted a watch that had been shot at, dipped in beer, and tied to a motorboat and dragged on a beach. At the sight of his busted watch, Ray's character freaks out and beats the cowboy to death.

trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, 9 August 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link

In 1977, Benson starred in One on One[6] (which he co-wrote with his father and needed no double for the authentic looking college basketball scenes due to his prowess at the game)

A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Monday, 10 August 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link

Quiz question! What is this a list of?

Henry Kissinger (1976)
Bob Hope (1977)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1989)
Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
Nelson Mandela (1996)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1999)
Pope John Paul II (2000)
Jesse Jackson (2001)
Pope Francis (2015)
Robin Roberts (2015)

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link

No googling!

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link

Dick Cavett guests?

A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link

No, a clue might be that this is a complete list.

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link

Did they get keys to a city or something similar?

Dan Worsley, Friday, 14 August 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link

They have all been given a particular honor, so you're kind of on the right path

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link

Rear of the year award.

Dan Worsley, Friday, 14 August 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link

No, but equally unlikely

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link

Haha, this is bugging me.

Some kind of US presidential honor?

jmm, Friday, 14 August 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link

You could say it's kind of an honor from an unoffical American national institution

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link

i googled and haha what?

Defund the indefensible (NickB), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link

Googled too, because I had nothing and, nope, never would have gotten there.

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link

Ok then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Globetrotters#Honorary_members

I would pay a lot of money to see an exhibition match featuring the surviving members.

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 August 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link


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