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Is it atom heart mother?

chang.eng partition (wins), Thursday, 10 February 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link

Blonde on Blonde?

Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 February 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link

Sandanista!

Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 February 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link

Ugh
Sandinista!

Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 February 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link

Mittelhäusern railway station (German: Bahnhof Mittelhäusern) is a railway station in the municipality of Köniz, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Bern–Schwarzenburg line of BLS AG. He cannot be avoided.

Mittelhäusern railway station

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 12 February 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link

RE Firesign Theater: Dwarf marked a high point in the Firesign's use of blue comedy: Porgie has explicit sex with a Negro housemaid as creaking bedsprings are heard.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 17 February 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link

The band was so excited that, according to Corabi, "At the end of each day we'd walk around the studio carrying our huge cocks in our hands because the music rocked so hard."

(via some dude)

mookieproof, Thursday, 17 February 2022 21:59 (two years ago) link

I wish it was Carrabba instead of Corabi and he was talking about Dashboard Confessional.

JRN, Thursday, 17 February 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link

In its first five days in 15 theaters in Utah, Idaho, Iowa and Nebraska it grossed $108,622.[4]

Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 17 February 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link

they were holding their dicks at Carraba’s.

Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 17 February 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link

From the entry on Disney's EPCOT, specifically the Evrettland, U.S.A. pavillion:

Other parts feature happy drawings of Donald Duck and T-shirts that feature Donald Duck says "Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!"

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 24 February 2022 02:05 (two years ago) link

the Magic Kingdom has a jokesy brown stream painted on the sidewalk in Frontierland which is meant to represent the rivers of shit that flowed prior to indoor plumbing

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 February 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link

In the Gumball 3000 2007 rally, Xzibit drove a black Jaguar XJ220. During the first day of the rally, Dutch police seized his driver's license for doing 160 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. After the penalty, his co-driver, producer Fredwreck Nassar took over the wheel and they were allowed to continue.[17] In an interview with Dutch radio personality Reinout "Q-Bah" van Gendt,[18] Xzibit says that he mistook the kilometers for miles (100 mph = 160 km/h).

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link

A number of incidents occurred during the construction and operation of the railway:

Multiple derailments.[4]
Train Ferry capsizing while traversing the first lock at Neptune's Staircase.
Widespread midge attack due to 49 billion more midges above normal near Lochaber[19]

Coming, to be fair, from an article whose entire premise is kind of an "unusual detail": The Biggest Little Railway in the World.

The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link

I can well believe that story midge attack story but how did they count the little bastards?

Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link

It has been described as a crackpot project to run a model train the length of the Great Glen Way by an army of madcap enthusiasts, geeks, and engineers in the best spirit of eccentric Britishness.

peace, man, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 13:56 (two years ago) link

We finished watching the TV show last night... it was cute, and a nice document of the madcap enthusiasts and how they got along. But the mastermind guy, who I strongly suspect wrote most of the article, really started to get on our nerves.

The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link

The navvies found an efficient method of track construction at this site by getting quad bikes to drop bundles of track at the top of a slope allowing the navvy to simply join lengths of track at the top in a sitting position and gravity feed the track down the slope.

jmm, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 14:19 (two years ago) link

The song is an uptempo pop tune similar to many hits produced by SAW during this time period. The surreal lyrics, composed by Siobhan Fahey and built upon by SAW and Bananarama members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, describes a dream in which they find themselves being tried in court for love. The musical structure could be compared to that of Pachelbel's Canon.

visiting, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link

Additionally, while serving as stunt coordinator for Out for Justice, LeBell allegedly got into an on-set altercation with Seagal over his mistreatment of some of the film's stunt performers. After the actor claimed that, due to his aikido training, he was "immune" to being choked unconscious, LeBell offered Seagal the opportunity to prove it. LeBell is said to have placed his arms around Seagal's neck, and once Seagal said "go", proceeded to choke him unconscious, with Seagal losing control of his bowels.[99]

sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 March 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link

…an incident that was presciently immortalized in Robert Palmer’s only US number one hit:

You can't sleep, you can't eat
There's no doubt, you're in deep
Your throat is tight, you can't breathe
Another kick is all you need

You like to think that you're immune to the stuff (oh yeah)
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough

Might as well fæces, you're aikidoed to love

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 4 March 2022 08:03 (two years ago) link

vg+

Mark G, Friday, 4 March 2022 08:22 (two years ago) link

from Frank Grillo's Wikipedia page:

Initially signed on to appear in seven Marvel Studios films, but had his contract abruptly terminated by the studio after the script for 'Captain America: Civil War' killed off his character of Brock Rumlow/Crossbones.

Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 March 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link

sorry i mean IMDB page!

Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 March 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link

I mean that's like......... just watching it all slip away

Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 March 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link

The group used the central theme in radio communication, which had become enhanced on their last tour of the United States.

not sure where to post impenetrable details in wikipedia articles. but this one has me staring at the screen wondering if i'm just reading it wrong.

The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 5 March 2022 03:15 (two years ago) link

although i guess there's every likelihood this section, being in the Kraftwerk page, might be by someone whose first language is German and not English. n/m.

The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 5 March 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link

She has been married twice, and dated Anton Fig and Paul Stanley in the 1980s.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link

I feel like we should start guessing these.... (although I have no idea who that could refer to)

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link

He was able to sing in 21 different languages, including Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, French, medieval Spanish, Zulu, and English.

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link

Topol?

i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link

Lol

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link

Oh lol it was Theodore Bikel! I was in the neighborhood

i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 01:15 (two years ago) link

The one I just posted was songwriter Holly Knight.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 01:19 (two years ago) link

Grover filed his plans at the San Luis Obispo County Court House and eventually founded what was to be known as City of Grover City. There was a popular vote that allowed incorporating on December 21, 1959, as City of Grover City. However, the name seemed redundant so some people sought better names, especially ocean-oriented names. In 1992, there was another popular vote, in which the town's name was officially changed from "City of Grover City" to "Grover Beach" to emphasize the seaside location.[12]

Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link

Oh lol it was Theodore Bikel! I was in the neighborhood

Ha, I was gonna guess Theodore Bikel

Mark G, Sunday, 13 March 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link

The most notable sight of the evening was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau escorting starlet Kim Cattrall;[2] the moment received renewed media attention in March 2016, when the American newsmagazine 60 Minutes, in a profile of Justin Trudeau, ran a photo of the appearance while misidentifying Cattrall as Margaret Trudeau.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 21 March 2022 04:24 (two years ago) link

this account is basically the twitter equivalent of this thread:

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki

some good stuff like this:

adapt, evolve pic.twitter.com/UfwodQ9U1G

— depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) March 29, 2022

I feel like I should start a poll

silverfish, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link

According to Billboard, the song is about sex.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 31 March 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link

Some same his nickname Muff was from all the Muff he got.

visiting, Saturday, 2 April 2022 22:53 (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.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link

haha WHAT

scientific method man (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 18:23 (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 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still there then.

Rick O'Shea (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link

I can think of quite a lot of things that have not happened in France.

So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link

Hahah great minds think alike there, Tom D. (This is about French musician Gérard Manset.)

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link

unusual wikipedia categories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_pregnancy_films

(currently watching Xtro)

koogs, Thursday, 14 April 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link

wish they had subcategories there, be more helpful

British horror pregnancy
British comedy pregnancy

et al

scientific method man (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 April 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link

The horror of British pregnancy

jmm, Thursday, 14 April 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link

i am intrigued by The Pumpkin Eater. that's your first problem, lay off those pumpkins!

Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link


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