The Buckwheat Boyz were an American novelty group founded by Marcus Bowens and Jermaine Fuller, with the later addition of J.J. O'Neal and Dougy Williams. The Buckwheat Boyz were signed by Koch Records, and recorded their first and only full-length record. The song "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" from this self-titled debut album became a popular internet meme after a Flash-animated music video featuring a dancing banana garnered attention online. The popularity of the song increased as it was featured on television series such as The Proud Family and Family Guy, and fellow Flash-animated series including Super Mario Bros. Z.
DisbandmentOn August 13, 2002, founding member and vocalist Jermaine Fuller shot a police officer non-fatally in the head and chest, then barricaded himself in a Las Vegas apartment, taking two men hostage. The hostages escaped unharmed. A recording was played over the phone of Fuller's brother-in-law, Snoop Dogg, attempting to convince him to surrender to no avail. After an 11-hour standoff, Fuller was found dead in the apartment's bathroom, holding a handgun in his right hand, with a gunshot wound to his right temple. The police stated that no officer had fired. Fuller's death directly led to the disbandment of the group.
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 March 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
wow
― nothing (Left), Thursday, 18 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
not sure if this is a bombshell or a smear
Douglas Smith (writer)
Language Watch Edit
CIA stooge
Douglas Smith is an American writer, historian and translator best known for his books about the history of Russia.
― nothing (Left), Thursday, 18 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
In 2008, an anonymous employee of the stricken financial company Anglo Irish Bank made lewd comments about *Dickie Rock on this Wikipedia page. The bank launched an investigation into how this had happened and the incident was reported in the Irish media some months later. Rock himself commented on the incident.[5]
(*great real names)
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link
I posted this in the Jethro Tull thread re: the prog-flamenco band Carmen:
David Clark Allen continued to pursue a music career after Carmen disbanded. He played guitar on Michelle Phillip's solo album produced by Jack Nitzsche and was managed by Herb Cohen during the late 70s. He wrote two songs (Shame and Stay) for Agnetha's solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me - produced by Mike Chapman and a single release by Swedish band Katz - Heart Beats Stronger. David was diagnosed with thyroid/throat cancer in the early 80s. After a successful operation and radioactive therapy, he changed his name to Housk Randall - and became a sexual anthropologist/photographer. As Housk he had 5 books published in 4 languages: Revelations, Rituals of Love, The Customised Body, Piercing, Radical Desire and Bizarre Rubber - a photographic fantasy catalogue for fetish designers DeMask. In 1996 he married, changed his name to David Randall-Goddard and established a successful family photographic studio Family Portraits.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 March 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, (Jackie) Gleason enjoyed a prominent secondary music career, producing a series of best-selling "mood music" albums. His first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
Didn’t he help break some color line by hiring jazz musicians?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
I actually had no previous knowledge of his (apparently extensive) musical career, let alone the fact that he still holds a Billboard longevity record.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
he has a track on some christmas lounge comp i own, i always assumed 'surely its not THAT jackie gleason'
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I came across one of his songs and thought first that it must've been some ill-advised one-off single of an actor trying his hand at crooning and then there was no crooning to speak of and assumed that some other dude with the same name must've been a band leader back in the day. And then the wiki research commenced.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Gleason marketed lots of records to horny bachelors in the 50s.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U5mCc5sa7sY/XMpXGaJJ5iI/AAAAAAAAcls/JKCgc6nvBbcWynZ6L-FcJ2iZXHpibLO2wCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-05-01%2Bat%2B10.33.35%2BPM.png
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
Eurgh
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
Apparently the origin of the idiom "the whole nine yards" is one of "the most prominent etymological riddle of our time"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_nine_yards
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 March 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
"There once was a man from Nantucket" is the opening line for many limericks, in which the name of the island of Nantucket creates often ribald rhymes and puns. The protagonist in the obscene versions is typically portrayed as well-endowed and hypersexualized."
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 2 April 2021 01:36 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn
https://i.imgur.com/wbsNZFy.png
― jmm, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
Waddell's career wound through a number of teams. He was notably unpredictable; early in his career, he would often leave in the middle of a game to go fishing.[2] He also had a longstanding fascination with fire trucks, and had run off the field to chase after them during games on multiple occasions.[3] He would disappear for months at a time during the offseason, and it was not known where he went until it was discovered that he was wrestling alligators in a circus.[4] He was easily distracted by opposing fans who held up puppies, which caused him to run over to play with them, and shiny objects, which seemed to put him in a trance.[5]
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 April 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
That can't be real.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 April 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link
In July 2017, Onitsuka Tiger launched the what it publicized as the first augmented reality sneakers, but was merely an app animating the shoe's logo on a phone screen.[9]
― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
hahahahha
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
Image caption: "Lee Ho Fook in London—the werewolf goes here to get beef chow mein."
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
Sanders had grown increasingly reclusive and depressed due to a string of tragedies including the deaths of his third wife, his mother, and his brother Tom in the space of a year, followed by a failed sausage investment, which cost him millions
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 9 April 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
The singles "Guérilla" and "Dalida" were certified Platinum :)
― Bignefs Proportionable (seandalai), Sunday, 11 April 2021 03:08 (two years ago) link
In the fall of 1976, vandals opened and desecrated 12 coffins and 10 urns. One crypt was completely opened and the coffin removed. The vandals opened the coffin, and placed a copy of Circus (a heavy metal music magazine) on the chest of the skeleton. The vandals also broke into a funeral niche, poured the human ashes on the floor, and drew a smiley face in them.
Would really like to know which issue of Circus that was.
― pplains, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
In 1978 he released an album, titled 2870, equivalent to an album of Pink Floyd. Which never happened in France and will never happen again.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
Sisyphus was hired to provide accompaniment for Galt MacDermot's new play, Who the Murderer Was, at the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill Gate, serving as the pit band.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
The wikipedia page for the 1904 Olympics Men’s Marathon might be my favourite Wikipedia page ever pic.twitter.com/4s6zJYqk1U— Sophia (@0ldoini) April 14, 2021
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 16 April 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link
our office is about 20 metres from the end point of the 1908 marathon. there's a metal line embedded in the pavement outside.
― koogs, Friday, 16 April 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
For many years, Everett co-hosted the Labor Day Jerry Lewis Telethon, which raises money and awareness for and about the affliction of muscular dystrophy.
― Bewlay Brothers & Sister Rrose (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 April 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
"In 2004, Wakeman revealed that he had had an extramarital affair with American-born designer Denise Gandrup, who first met Wakeman in 1972 and made several of his capes."
― mark s, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/z1H7OHU.jpg
Wouldn't surprise me to learn that the cape was a third partner in the relationship as well.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
That was before marriage-advice columns warned people to be suspicious if their spouse seemed to be spending an unusual amount of time with their cape-designer.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
Till death do you hem
― Ezra Kleina Nachtmusik (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)#ADR/post-sync
Other examples include:"Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, dubbed for Hercules in New York"
oh, THAT Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thanks.
― StanM, Monday, 3 May 2021 08:10 (two years ago) link
non-English-speaking and non-actor seem like helpful and relevant details in context there tbf, especially for the 80% of the world's population born after those stopped being biographical details about him. applause to that editor.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 3 May 2021 08:47 (two years ago) link
it felt weird to me but ok
― StanM, Monday, 3 May 2021 09:31 (two years ago) link
Dave Coulier dubbed replacement of swear words for Richard Pryor in multiple TV versions of his movies
This is Pryor's "Peckerhead" routine come to life.
― pplains, Monday, 3 May 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
I'm tired of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane.
― Frumious Cumberbatch (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 May 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link
He was virtually retired from the entertainment world and was treated like he never existed. From here on, the media would refer to him as the "former entertainer", and all the recordings and pictures taken when he was a Chanels/Rats & Star member were almost never broadcast anymore, and if they were, Tashiro's voice would be lowered to a hush or removed entirely, and no part of his body would show. Newspapers and magazines tacitly agreed not to talk about him at all.
From earlier in the wiki page:
Tashiro made his debut as a member of the group in 1980 and they came to be widely known for adopting rhythm and blues style. 4 members of the front singers including Tashiro wore blackface using shoe polish and they became famous and popular
Those crazy Japanese racists!
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
In 2015, Fuji TV canceled a Music Fair segment featuring Rats & Star and Momoiro Clover Z, after a photograph was circulated showing the groups in blackface.[1]
― visiting, Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
Weirdly *not* in his wiki entry, but:
Over the next 60 years, the moka pot would conquer the world. As of 2016, the New York Times notes that over 90 percent of Italian homes had one. It became so iconic that Renato Bialetti, when he died in early 2016, was actually buried in a large replica of the moka pot.
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160218151356-moka-urn-exlarge-169.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
baller
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
In 2015, Fred Durst stated his interest in obtaining a Russian passport and spending half of the year in Crimea. He wrote a letter in which he stated that Vladimir Putin is "a great guy with clear moral principles and a nice person." Following that, Durst was banned by the Security Service of Ukraine from entering Ukraine for five years "in the interests of guaranteeing the security" of the country. Soon thereafter, all Limp Bizkit sales on the territory of Ukraine were prohibited.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 May 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
Soon thereafter, all Limp Bizkit sales on the territory of Ukraine were prohibited.
Wow, I bet that hurt
― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link
my guy fred has always been passionate about clear moral principles
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
I did it all for the Putin
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
It's all about the he-said, Kyiv.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
The song "Allentown", which brought attention to the plight of America's declining steel industry, spent an unprecedented six weeks at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1983.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 28 May 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
no easy task - already by week three or four, it was getting very hard to stay.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 May 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Well played Dr. I just wonder who held the record for most consecutive weeks at #17 prior, and exactly what their emotional process was when they found out they’d been usurped by Allentown
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 28 May 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
Don't know about #17 but around that time "Jack and Diane" held on to #16 as long as it could
― Josefa, Friday, 28 May 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link