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uh oh, enbb's dad has found wikipedia

Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 13:03 (ten years ago)

Paper Lace did send the song to Mayor Richard J. Daley, who was not impressed with the song and greatly disliked it.[2]

Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:40 (ten years ago)

There were three different covers to Who Needs Guitars Anyway? when the album was released. The first was of Judith Pronk sitting on a record needle naked with only a cowboy hat on in a blur. The second was of Judith pointing a glowing finger and smiling. The third was much like the first but with Judith clothed. There was much controversy over the original cover, with some of its defenders slating the release of the other two covers. The original cover was briefly used to promote the album – promo posters and flats were produced but quickly removed.

George W. Lucas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:19 (ten years ago)

Before finding success with Violent Femmes in the 1980s, band members Brian Ritchie and Victor DeLorenzo were members of a group called "Hitler's Missing Testis".[11] During the 1980s, the Brisbane anarcho-punk scene included the band "Hitler's Other Testicle". They regularly played songs on the subject of Hitler's possible monorchism, including "Where Did It Go?" and "The Sadness of Autumn".

scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Monday, 16 November 2015 01:08 (ten years ago)

Many between 2 and 12 years of age find the index finger particularly useful for "picking" their nose. This is done when the index finger is thrust upward into the nasal passage.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 November 2015 01:01 (ten years ago)

The book On the Warrior's Path quotes Feyerabend, highlighting the similarities between his epistemology and Bruce Lee's worldview.

Ludo, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 14:43 (ten years ago)

i generally avoid behind-the-scenes wiki meta-pages for this thread but sometimes i'll find myself on one and be just gobsmacked, as with:

The question on whether a poor but improvable article ought to be deleted has been a major point of contention, and has given rise to the wiki-philosophies immediatism and eventualism.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 23:35 (ten years ago)

Hmmmmm that's pretty interesting. Seems like there would be some parallels with existing anthropological theories.

brimstead, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 02:05 (ten years ago)

Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan (Armenian: Արտավազդ (Արթուր) Փելեշյան; born February 22, 1938, Leninakan) is an Armenian director of film-essays, a documentarian in the history of film art, and a film theorist. However, his work, unlike Maya Deren's, is not avant-garde, nor does it try to explore the absurd. It is also not really art for art's sake, like the work of Stan Brakhage, for instance, but is generally acknowledged, rather, as a poetic view of life transferred onto film.

Frederik B, Monday, 30 November 2015 12:44 (ten years ago)

Waynesville is classified a 3rd Class City with an elected mayor and city council.

As of the April 2014 election, the mayor is Luge Hardman.

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Monday, 30 November 2015 19:03 (ten years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AUday_Hussein#Uday_Hussein.2C_lover_of_Air_Bud

So, we are trying to alert the world to the fact that Uday Hussein owned three copies of the American family/comedy film Air Bud, and apparently other people are as well, since some other anonymous user has re-inserted our edit, but a certain editor keeps removing it as non-notable information. We feel that this fact, the owning of three copies of Air Bud speaks to a certain aspect of Mr. Hussein's character that might otherwise remain obscured by his crimes. At the present, the impression this article makes is that Uday Hussein was a monster, but perhaps his love of Air Bud speaks to a childish simplicity or even a small spot of innocence within an otherwise dark soul. As such, we believe that the fact that Uday Hussein owned three copies of Air Bud is definitely notable and should, nay, must be included in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.118.190.135 (talk) 01:25, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Monday, 30 November 2015 21:54 (ten years ago)

As well as his television appearances he has had many notable stage and film roles since 1980. In 2015 he revealed he is unable to feel physical pain and considers himself "a shadow of his former self".

1staethyr, Monday, 30 November 2015 23:04 (ten years ago)

oh man, the unsigned uday hussein air bud commenter had it all perfect up until the "should, nay must."

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 01:36 (ten years ago)

Iron Chef
Takata was a commentator and judge on the show. She has no culinary training.

the fiest p (onimo), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)

In February 2007, he began a tour of the UK with the Donald Churchill play The Decorator. In April 2007 it was announced that he would play Private Walker in a stage production of Dad's Army, leading the Daily Mail to comment that "At least there'll be one member of the cast who has actually shot a German"[citation needed] – in reference to Grantham's killing of the West German taxi driver some 40 years earlier.

Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 22:05 (ten years ago)

2002: Seven deadly sins (Lust (vanilla ice cream and strawberry chocolate), Sloth (caramel swirl ice cream and chocolate), Greed (tiramisu, amaretti and chocolate), Gluttony (chocolate ice cream and white chocolate), Jealousy (pistachio ice cream and chocolate), Revenge (raspberry ripple ice cream and chocolate), Vanity (champagne ice cream and white chocolate)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_(ice_cream)#Flavours

the fiest p (onimo), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 15:59 (ten years ago)

that air bud thing is amazing

A Platonist or Neoplatonist would find any description of the material world trivial. A humanist or Ciceronian would likely find the indepth descriptions of animals and physics to be trivial (as Petrarch finds the study of natural philosophy to be in On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others). So does that give those individuals the right (on Wikipedia) to delete what they find to be trivial?

big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 17:39 (ten years ago)

that air bud thing is hilarious

im also amazed that i never knew that dirty den was a convicted murderer

Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 17:45 (ten years ago)

While working on "Swing Street" at night, Gibson was a fellow at the Juilliard Graduate School during the day.[6][7] At the time, Juilliard was strictly a classical music academy, and Gibson excelled there, which partly explains the richness of the music he brought to the jazz world (citation needed). ( if anything he brought a richness to classical music, with his boogie WOOGIE training). The other part of the explanation is, his own inventiveness, and Gibson was almost always billed and promoted as a musical genius.

tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 4 December 2015 18:57 (ten years ago)

excellent twitterbot work here https://twitter.com/DeletedWiki

big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Friday, 4 December 2015 19:45 (ten years ago)

President Obama has not attended a Washington Capitals game.

bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 13:18 (ten years ago)

This article is about the type of Italian leader. For the meme, see Doge (meme). For other uses, see Doge (disambiguation).

ilxors ananimus (onimo), Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:33 (ten years ago)

In American slang, a "lounge lizard" is typically depicted as a well-dressed man who frequents the establishments in which the rich gather with the intention of seducing a wealthy woman with his flattery and deceptive charm.[1]

mookieproof, Thursday, 10 December 2015 02:26 (ten years ago)

The sessions were filmed, with a small audience, and released as Frank Sinatra: Portrait of an Album (1985). The documentary shows Sinatra meeting Michael Jackson for the first time, with [Quincy] Jones affectionately calling Jackson "Smelly".

Οὖτις, Monday, 14 December 2015 17:25 (ten years ago)

That was his nickname! He would habitually touch his nose bcz he was nervous! I read it in a John Jeremiah Sullivan article.

lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:27 (ten years ago)

Personal life

At the age of eleven, Hammett was left traumatized after he witnessed his pet dog Tippy being raped by his next door neighbor.[37][38] On the subject, Hammett recalled:

I went to my neighbor's. The guy took down his pants and started having sex with the dog! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. When he got up, I just took the dog and left. She was still wagging her tail.[37]

lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 03:23 (ten years ago)

From the page about the town of Staines:

Notable residents

All Alone, important war pigeon

Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 08:22 (ten years ago)

From Barbara Follett (former UK MP) entry:

In 1957 after an unfortunate incident involving her alcoholic father, a toast and a drinks trolley,the family were asked to leave the country and went to Cape Town in South Africa.

Apparently true - on her own webpage she says:

In 1957, at a banquet given by the Emperor for Yugoslavia's President Tito, Mr Hubbard fell into a drinks trolley during the loyal toast. This was deemed an insult to the emperor and Hubbard was asked to leave the country.

quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 12:20 (ten years ago)

Glenelg was officially twinned with Glenelg, Mars on 20 October 2012.

koogs, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:57 (ten years ago)

thank you GG

Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 15:03 (ten years ago)

The band's name was taken from two Black Sabbath songs: "Electric Funeral" and "The Wizard". Oborn remarked, "Is the name Electric Wizard made out of two Black Sabbath song titles? (smokes a big bud of weed through a can) Hahahaha, yeah it is!"[4]

JoeStork, Thursday, 17 December 2015 05:32 (ten years ago)

hahahaha

Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 December 2015 10:16 (ten years ago)

i have just edited this page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkie_%28pigeon%29

who is another important war pigeon.

(there were two references called 'bbc' and it was showing a warning. i renamed one of them)

koogs, Thursday, 17 December 2015 13:16 (ten years ago)

In 1999, Harris introduced a website Ron's Angels that, according to the BBC, offered "the eggs of eight models for auction over the internet" with bids starting "between US$15,000 and US$150,000, depending on the model". Harris describes his idea as, "Darwin's natural selection at its very best". Critics have stated that this equates to profit-based eugenics.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Harris_(photographer)

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:06 (ten years ago)

Emelio Gassibe plays bass, is married and has a beautiful daughter.

mick signals, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 13:53 (ten years ago)

Jones has eight hobbies: singing, dancing, politics, philanthropy, spending time with her family, swimming, exercising and traveling.

Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Monday, 28 December 2015 02:53 (ten years ago)

On the hereditary system in the House of Lords – "The hereditary peers, the real Lords, have the genetic knowledge so they know what to pass and what not to let through. I believe the gene carries more than physical characteristics. It's more than just education that makes the Lords better at making these kind of decisions than leaving it with the Commons. It's like an animal instinct. The aristocracy may act foolish, but in times of war and riots they have the knowledge and a belief and strength of leadership and instinct that coal miners just haven't got...".[20]

Daniels is a climate change denier.[21]

The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Sunday, 3 January 2016 11:48 (ten years ago)

Gilmore struggled to gain any traction in the 2016 presidential race as shown by his absolutely tragic poll numbers

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 4 January 2016 17:59 (ten years ago)

Production[edit]
On June 1, 2015, it was reported that The Garden and Half Past Dead director Don Michael Paul will direct the film. Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be reprise his role as Detective John Kimble. Arnold Schwarzenegger's character Detective John Kimble is now officially retired from kindergarten teacher and police officer. Schwarzenegger was replaced by Dolph Lundgren as a new character Agent Reed.

German dictators and their loving coombes (wins), Friday, 8 January 2016 21:30 (ten years ago)

Have we talked about how too many films are synopsized IN FULL on Wikipedia?

Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 10 January 2016 23:11 (ten years ago)

Steve Thompson was recently anointed the Emperor of Darlington.

soref, Monday, 11 January 2016 03:16 (ten years ago)

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

He signed with the Japanese Hanshin Tigers in 1997.[4] His career in the major leagues heightened expectations from Japanese fans, but Greenwell left the team's spring training camp and returned to the United States, stating that he had an injury. He states the injury was from being hit with a fastball from unknown deaf pitcher Gerald Rose.[citation needed]

nomar, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 06:39 (ten years ago)

At a State Dinner, November 12, 1974, Don Penny was dancing with Mrs. Ford while President Gerald Ford was dancing with Vikki Carr. Ms. Carr innocently said to him, “What’s your favorite Mexican dish?” And he said, “You are.” Mrs. Ford was not amused.[5]

Josefa, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 06:22 (ten years ago)

Last two posts are so good

JRN, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 06:55 (ten years ago)

haw

http://i.imgur.com/Dnjk1W0.jpg

pplains, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 16:52 (ten years ago)

Can't blame him really

Josefa, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 17:05 (ten years ago)

Or Mrs. Ford.

pplains, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 17:20 (ten years ago)

The term Squaire is a portmanteau of the words square and air. The name was announced in June 2010. The project's original name was Airrail Center Frankfurt. The term Airrail is a compound of the words air and rail.

mick signals, Friday, 22 January 2016 16:11 (ten years ago)

https://deadon.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/mono-rail.jpg

jmm, Friday, 22 January 2016 16:42 (ten years ago)

In addition to Vertigo the shot has also been used in such films as Jaws, Body Double and Josie and the Pussycats.

Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 24 January 2016 12:18 (ten years ago)


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