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During 2011, Jentina was the judging panel for "Travellers Got Talent"[8], she also appeared in the 8 part documentary "A Gypsy's Life For Me" which aired on Bio in November 2011[9].

Currently Jentina is keeping a low profile, and raising a family.

Fair use rationale for inclusion in Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell

• Low resolution copy of the album cover.
• Does not limit the value of the text.
• No free alternative available or could be created.
• The cover is critically discussed in the article: Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell#Cover
• Words cannot fully express the complexity and symbolism of the image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McCall

Personal life

McCall was married with a son until his wife left him due to lesbianism. McCall is currently writing an autobiography titled "Water way to live"

oh, that lesbianism

presumably this one will get corrected by an editor as some point, but it gave me a lol when I ran across it

When the Savoy Ballroom opened in November 2,000 B.C, one of the worst attractions was the Savoy Big Five, a basketball team that played exhibitions before dances.

ok i just thought of a thread i am too bored to start.. pages on wikipedia that are unexpectedly (unusually) short

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wyatt

i really expected a prog marathon of words there

Apparently there's no thread for absurdly over-detailed wiki pages either. That amazing page about toilet paper orientation would be on it. I also like the entries on the different seasons of Top Chef, each with a color-coded chart indicating "contestant progress" and descriptions of every single dish prepared in each round.

xpost it's not that short...

hmm looked shorter yesterday

j/k (you're right)

i dunno, i expected someone to have put in a LOT of work in that page, some Wyatt-uberfan, while this looks like a lot of 'recent activities' stuff and a copy and paste list from collabs and so on

Apparently there's no thread for absurdly over-detailed wiki pages either. That amazing page about toilet paper orientation would be on it. I also like the entries on the different seasons of Top Chef, each with a color-coded chart indicating "contestant progress" and descriptions of every single dish prepared in each round.

fwiw, I think all contestant elimination driven reality show wiki pages are like this now

You'd be surprised how many people still don't get where the content of Wikipedia comes from. One of my friends runs a very good fan site for a famous illustrator he's close to and several people told *him* that the Wikipedia article should link to his site or use some of its material, then he asked someone he knew who works at Wikimedia if they could get it onto the page.

Slutsky's playing career was ended at just 19. He retired due to a knee injury, an injury sustained after falling out of a tree to rescue a neighbour's cat, Fluffy.[1]

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats_By_the_Pound:

Beats by the Pound were so anonymous that if you Google or Yahoo Image search them, you can barely find a photo of KLC, Mo B. Dick, Craig B, Odell posing together.[citation needed] Master P knew this. The less fame you accrue, the less you have to be paid. So he created the first rap assembly line. Granted, Diddy had his northern men The Hitmen (production team), but The Medicine Men from New Orleans cranked out beats so fast that there was barely time to call Dave Mays to take out ads.[citation needed] I mean, who do you think produced Down South Hustlers: Bouncin' and Swingin', Ice Cream Man, Tru 2 da Game, Ghetto D, West Coast Bad Boyz II, There's One in Every Family, Gangsta Harmony?.[citation needed] Also because of Voodoo & Blacklisting from Master P, The Medicine Men aka Beats By The Pound never got recognize real well after leaving No Limit Records back in 1999!.[citation needed]

lol

ha that is classic

lol[citation needed]

The "Boo-Yaa" in their name signifies the sound of a shotgun being discharged, while the "T.R.I.B.E." stands for "Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire."

Dennis Haskins page: "In his personal life, Dennis' attire frequently consist of wearing a scarf as a fashion accessory.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lewis_(comedian)

Lewis is noted for always wearing an all-black outfit.[10] During his routines, he commonly places his right hand on his forehead, then stretches it outward as he makes his point. He also performs with long pieces of paper with notes on them, refers to the notes, then extemporaneously delivers his material. He has also performed drinking out of a New York Jets mug instead of a plain water bottle.

Slutsky's playing career was ended at just 19. He retired due to a knee injury, an injury sustained after falling out of a tree to rescue a neighbour's cat, Fluffy.[1]

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:12 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*spits out drink*

In 1990, the original line-up wrote and recorded the song "Free" for the soundtrack to the movie Flashback. This would be the final song written with the original lineup, as the band would dissolve shortly after. Interesting note... "Bottom Line" from the first lp was remixed and used as the title track for "Flashback." However this track was not included on the soundtrack. It can be found on the 12" or by possible download.

somewhere a BAD I fan is crying with joy

The city has a local music scene dominated by hip hop, blues, rock and roll, punk, Deathcore. horrorcore, and indie groups.

Jonathan Brandis wore baseball jerseys during the first season, including one for the Florida Marlins that noted they had won the World Series in 2010. The Marlins were an expansion team that played for the first time in 1993, the same year that seaQuest DSV began production. Florida did go on to win the 1997 and 2003 World Series, but the real-life 2010 World Series was eventually won by the San Francisco Giants.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/Marilyn_Manson_-_Mechanical_Animals_cover_%281998%29.jpg/220px-Marilyn_Manson_-_Mechanical_Animals_cover_%281998%29.jpg

Manson has stated in interviews that his friend, actor Johnny Depp, is the current owner of these prosthetic breasts which Manson traded for Depp's strawberry-blonde wig worn in the film Blow.

Manson otm

By October 22, 2009 most publications were indicating that a final decision had been reached and, barring a last minute pardon from Governor Paterson, Shyne would be deported back to Belize.[52] Shyne was deported back to Belize on Wednesday October 28, 2009 though he continued to fight for residency in the United States.
He is now living in Jerusalem as an Orthodox Jew under his new name, Moses Levi. He reportedly spends his time learning the Torah and is planning a comeback of biblical proportions .[53][54][55]

hahahhaahahaha

Lil Scrappy was performing at a concert in a high school gym in Orlando. During the concert, the crowd were really getting pumped and excited by the music, then the local police stepped in. They gave Scrappy a warning, because he took his shirt off (which made female fans even more aggressive).

from the Hal Sparks wiki:

In 2010 Sparks became a real-life hero when, for the third time in his life, his life-saving CPR skills helped resuscitate an unconscious, elderly man at the Los Angeles International Airport.

Either this is horribly written, or Sparks spends a worrying amount of time hanging out with the elderly at the Los Angeles International Airport.

Sometime in 2006, Bloodhound Gang launched a campaign to have the Pennsylvania state anthem changed to their song, "Pennsylvania". The outcome is unknown.

In "Can The Subaltern Speak", Spivak discusses the race and power dynamics involved in the banning of sati. Spivak writes that all we hear about sati are accounts (by British colonizers or Hindu leaders) of what sati meant to, or how it oppressed, women, but we never hear from the sati-performing women themselves -- thus the subaltern cannot speak.[citation needed] Some critics,[who?] however, say that the sati-performing women cannot speak because they die in the practice of ritual suicide.[citation needed]

I always like scrolling through the articles for each day, like 'March 14', to see famous events, births, deaths. Anyway, it appears that this day back in 1985 was big for giving birth to future female porn stars. These are all the famous birthdays from March 14, 1985:

1985 – Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
1985 – Idaira, Spanish singer
1985 – Brianna Love, American pornographic actress
1985 – Ariel Rebel, Canadian pornographic actress

In a room full of 23 people having an orgy, what is the probability of two people having the same birthday?

This caption in the article on "more popular than Jesus" is killing me:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/JohnLennon2.jpg/160px-JohnLennon2.jpg
John Lennon on the tarmac at JFK Airport, New York in February 1964, two years before the controversy

Little did he know, two years later...he would say something dumb in a teen magazine.

tbf, the reaction said more about the public than it did about John Lennon

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/JohnLennon2.jpg/160px-JohnLennon2.jpg

John Lennon on the tarmac at JFK Airport, New York in February 1964, 10 years before recording a song with Elton John.

awesome:

Mark Twain is a notoriously harsh critic of his contemporaries. His style of critical analysis is humorous, but altogether not too different from any sort of stand-up comedy burns we see today.

ha!

Future Hollywood producer Armand Deutsch later claimed he might have been the intended victim of Loeb or Leopold. But on the day of the murder, as the 11-year-old grandson of Julius Rosenwald, he was picked up by his family's chauffeur after school because he had a prior dental appointment. Deutsch died aged 92 on August 13, 2005.[9][10]

man the "history" function of Wikipedia is incredible

Internet Gambling Ban

In September 2006, working with Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, Frist was a major Senate supporter of H.R. 4411 - The Unlawful Internet Gambling and Enforcement Act. This amendment to the Safe Port Act was passed at midnight the day Congress adjourned before the 2006 elections. Prior to it being added to the bill, the gambling provisions had not been debated by any Congressional committee. Just another example of a Senator trying to bypass the political process in favor of a company or foundation that would line his/her pockets. A further degredation of the United States political system.

During the recording of the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach, Humperdinck was asked by Damon Albarn to perform on a selection. However, after listening to the proposed selection, his manager declined the offer without Humperdinck knowing. Humperdinck later stated in an interview that his manager declining the collaboration offer was: "the most grievous sin ever committed".

Elk Grove Village is home to the largest red light camera traps in the U.S. Over 3,600 camera traps are located in its 5.4-square-mile (14 km2) business park adjacent to O'Hare International Airport.

...

Top employers

According to the Village's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[3] the top employers in the village are:

1. Red Light Camera Traps

...

Because of red light camera traps the town has seen a great decline in business. People are going to surounding towns to conduct business. Elk Grove Village is installing more red light camera traps to counter the decline in business.

hahahaha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bob_Newhart_Show

As is often the case with location filming, Bob's commute journey was geographically inconsistent. For example, he leaves his office building by heading west toward Michigan Avenue, only to then be seen from below walking east from Michigan Avenue, before strolling south over the Michigan Avenue bridge. Bob boards a pair of Chicago Transit Authority 6001-6200 class PCC rapid transit cars at a Loop Elevated station, with the train moving from left to right on screen. The next shot shows Bob sitting down and removing his hat on a 2000-class car, moving from right to left. After that is seen a long shot of a pair of 6000-class cars crossing the Wells Street bridge northbound (screen left to right). Finally, Bob leaves the train at Isabella station (now demolished) on the Evanston line—several miles from his condo building in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago.

In 1996, the AMAs instituted a new award, Favorite Artist of the Year, which was awarded to Garth Brooks. Brooks left the award on the podium because he didn't believe in the concept of picking an artist of the year.[5] The category was discontinued.

from the Kris Kross entry:

Not to be confused with Christopher Cross.