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Yorkshire or Nova Scotia?

Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link

I’m now imagining this Cat Marnell character there, spraypainting away

#onethread

Running up that hill but fleeting (a deal with Gop) (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 06:43 (three years ago) link

Deans died of congestive heart failure in Cleveland, Ohio on July 11, 2003 at the age of 68. Rather than being interred with Garland, his body was cremated and his ashes were sent to an unidentified person in Florida.[citation needed]

budo jeru, Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:22 (three years ago) link

Wilfred Brimley:

Prior to a career in acting, he dropped out of high school at age 14 and worked as a cowboy in Idaho, Nevada and Arizona. He joined the Marines during the Korean War and served in the Aleutian Islands for three years. He also worked as a bodyguard for businessman Howard Hughes

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link

It sold at auction in 2004 for £744,800, which was the record at the time for any Scottish painting, and for any painting ever sold in Scotland.

is right unfortunately (silby), Monday, 7 December 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link

Just so we're clear

Walter died on August 21, 2020, at the age of 71, from complications arising from liver and lung cancer. Despite some publications incorrectly reporting Walter's death as the 22nd, he actually died on August 21st, 2020.

Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 06:35 (three years ago) link

between 1970 and 1972, Li worked at an army horse farm; from 1972 to 1978, was a trumpet player in a forest police unit in Jilin Province

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link

The album was almost titled "Pink Champagne" with cover art of a pink galaxy, but they thought it sounded too much like Drake.

ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 11 December 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link

David was also active in extreme blues maniacs[citation needed] Dubplate Connection

jmm, Friday, 11 December 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link

I removed the anagrams of her name, which were neither relevant, remarkable, nor deliberate. There are endless anagrams of people's names, and there are websites dedicated to such anagrams should anyone really be interested. --Shantavira 17:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

And the anagrams in question:

Allegra Coleman anagrams include "real gal, lame con", "a lamer clone gal", and "gal all a mere con".

handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link

Don Henley of the Eagles played drums for the band during the 1989 AMA show while Adler was in rehab.

by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link

Welcome to the jungle
We got fun
Well, yeah

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link

Lonely Hend
Needy Lohn
“En”holy End
need LY, hon?

When SSB discovered that semen made a good invisible ink, his agents adopted the motto "Every man his own stylo". However, the use of semen as invisible ink was ceased because of the smell it produced for the eventual receiver. It also raised questions over the masturbatory habits of the agents.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link

^from State Street Bank article - hope u didn't cash any checks from them

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link

"I'm going to need to void this."

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link

Towers of London are an English punk rock band, who formed in 2004. Their music mixes elements of rock and glam metal music with 1977 style British punk. The band have divided the opinions of the British music press since their emergence in early 2004, gaining positive reviews from some music news media[citation needed] and extremely negative from others.[1]

Mark G, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link

Seemingly generated from a Mad Libs.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link

Hmm, I love that nobody could find any positive reviews in all those years...

Mark G, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link

The 2010 United States Census[4] reported that Little Grass Valley had a population of 2. The population density was 0.2 people per square mile (0.1/km2). The racial makeup of Little Grass Valley was 2 (100.0%) White, 0 (0.0%) African American, 0 (0.0%) Native American, 0 (0.0%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 0 (0.0%) from other races, and 0 (0.0%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0 persons (0.0%).
The Census reported that 2 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 1 households, out of which 0 (0%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1 (100%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 0 (0%) had a female householder with no husband present, 0 (0%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 0 (0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 0 (0%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 0 households (0%) were made up of individuals, and 0 (0%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.00. There were 1 families (100% of all households); the average family size was 2.00.
The population was spread out, with 0 people (0%) under the age of 18, 0 people (0%) aged 18 to 24, 0 people (0%) aged 25 to 44, 2 people (100%) aged 45 to 64, and 0 people (0%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 55.5 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males.
There were 159 housing units at an average density of 15.9 per square mile (6.1/km2), of which 1 (100%) were owner-occupied, and 0 (0%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0%; the rental vacancy rate was 0%. 2 people (100% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 0 people (0%) lived in rental housing units.

timber euros (seandalai), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link

finally the kind of finely graded individual building meter data wikipedia has been sorely lacking

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link

Resident #1: Bosko Balaban

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link

the Sexart article is surprisingly detailed for a band whose only claim to fame was having Jonathan Davis in it at one point. hell, they didn't ever get signed to a record label, and only had 15 songs!

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

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link

(MacLean's late-in-life claims that he was captured by the Japanese after blowing up bridges, and tortured by having his teeth pulled out, have been dismissed by both his son and his biographer as drunken ravings)

mark s, Saturday, 2 January 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link

Sexart was never signed to a record label, although creating around 15 songs.

damn that should have been enough for a record deal.

Ludo, Saturday, 2 January 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link

one short if I remember the rules correctly

timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link

Stephen Hayward, the original Music Man, performs this song doing a tremendous 17 hour version for which he won the world record for longest song in 1997, including instruments in this rendition including the Timpani, The Fluba, The Theramin and The Cross Grainger Kangaroo Pouch Tone Tool, without repeating a single instrument in this extravagant 1432 instrument long version of the song.[citation needed]

Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link

McGiver was married to Ruth Schmigelsky from 1947 until his death; they had ten children: Brigit, Maria, Terry, Basil, Clare, Oliver, Ian, Clemens, Boris, and Cornelia.[8] Boris, the eighth child in the McGivers' large family, followed in his father's footsteps, working as a professional actor in films and on television since 1987.[9]

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 January 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link

McGiver was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Irish immigrants

Number None, Saturday, 9 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link

He remembers playing "Let It Be" with his friend Mike Jordan, during which Dickinson discovered his singing voice while encouraging Jordan to sing the high-notes.[14] Shortly afterwards Dickinson was expelled from Oundle for participating in a prank in which he urinated in the headmaster's dinner.[14]

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 January 2021 05:55 (three years ago) link

George Currie (born 1950) is a Scottish musician and amateur archaeologist. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Currie was the lead guitarist with the band Darts, and as an amateur archaeologist has discovered some 680 of the 3,000 known prehistoric rock carvings in Scotland.

Dan Worsley, Sunday, 10 January 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link

Good one.

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 January 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link

McGiver was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Irish immigrants

lol

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 January 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link

While playing football with his brother in the park, he was discovered by theatrical agent June Collins, mother of Phil Collins. Collins enrolled both Jack and Arthur at the Barbara Speake Stage School, an independent school in Acton, west London.

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 January 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link

She last appeared in public "fasting in a barrel" at a fun-fair in Tottenham Court Road, in the same barrel once occupied by the defrocked Rector of Stiffkey, who was in a similar desperate financial situation. She graduated to a small raised dais where she would strike artistic poses when a sufficient crowd had gathered.

by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 14 January 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link

Iseult's mother Maud Gonne had conceived a child, Georges, with her French Boulangist lover Lucien Millevoye. When the baby died, possibly by meningitis, Gonne was distraught, and buried him in a large memorial chapel built for him with money she had inherited. Gonne separated from Millevoye after Georges' death, but in late 1893 she arranged to meet him at the mausoleum in Samois-sur-Seine and, next to the coffin, they had sexual intercourse. Her purpose was to conceive a baby with the same father, to whom the soul of Georges would transmigrate in metempsychosis.[2]

timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link

No Promises...No Debts is an album by Dutch hard rock band Golden Earring, released in 1979. In the U.S. the album was released with a different cover photo showing the group standing around.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link

lol

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link

"As she was raised in the United States, Wang was exposed to many classic pop music acts, including but not limited to: The Beatles, Queen, and Oingo Boingo."

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link

"including but not limited to"

I like how legalistically this is put.

jmm, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link

what is coming out that guys butt

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link

a thing that’s called radar love
a wave in the air
a line in the sky

Not that it isnt strange enough to merit inclusion itt but that maud gonne stuff would be so well known as to have been a strange omission from any wiki rly

Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link

The song, which is about having sex in a car, received positive reviews from critics.

shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 07:13 (three years ago) link

Amazing Grace is a 1974 comedy film directed by Stan Lathan and starring Moms Mabley.[1] The film's title is a play on words based on the name of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace".

Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 January 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link

appreciation for that

timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link

a gold ole play on words where the words are exactly the same

if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 January 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link

One is in title case, one has a proper noun

shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 23 January 2021 00:46 (three years ago) link

The group is known for their unique combination of musical talent and Christian lifestyle, as evidenced in their songs.

unintentionally insulting

if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 January 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link


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