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A 2005 study in the British Medical Journal found that learning and practicing the didgeridoo helped reduce snoring and sleep apnea as well as daytime sleepiness.

― emilys., Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was just telling someone abt this at dinner tonight!

"Excuse Me Miss" is a song written and performed by American rapper Jay-Z. It released as a single for his seventh studio album The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse (2002). It was also co-written and produced by The Neptunes, whose Pharrell sings the hook in falsetto voice. The lyrics refer to love at first sight. It contains a more mature sound in comparison of his previous songs about women such as "Girls, Girls, Girls" and "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)". Jay-Z sampled the 2001 hit, "Take You Out" by the late musician Luther Vandross. "Mista Hova" as he called himself also loaned a Notorious B.I.G hook from his song "Big Poppa" for this song own hook.

'For the 2010 movie, which was sponsored by British Airways, B.A.'s initials were jokingly changed to "British Airways" in some marketing. This was considered cynical by fans, as it is well known that B.A. refuses to travel on aircraft.'

From the page on Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes:

The song "Puberty Love" was sung by the then-teenage Matt Cameron, drummer for Soundgarden and since 1998 the drummer for Pearl Jam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_%28Bottom%29#Continuity_and_production_errors

There is a scene where Richie asks Eddie if it is so good to get his feet up. Eddie responds with "No, I'm not that pervy", with Richie saying "Are you not?". In an out-take (seen on the Bottom Fluff video), Edmondson says "No. Do you know... I've forgotten my next line...!". In the next take, he forgets to say "no", and it looks as if Eddie ignored Richie's question.
Eddie says that he is going to write to his MP, Tony Blair. Blair was MP for the constituency of Sedgefield, County Durham. Since Bottom is set in Hammersmith, London, it is impossible that he is their MP so this might be a play on their ignorance of life.
When Richie is enacting the introduction to his daytime discussion programme, he trips on trailing cables and falls down the stairs. However, although he is wearing an navy blue jeans coupled with a navy suit jacket at the time, the stunt double is clearly wearing light blue jeans. Once Richie is stuck in the toilet, he is wearing the correct colour jeans again.
Whilst setting up the VCR, Eddie announces that he will be connecting the scart socket to the lank connector. However, neither of these wires are actually attached to the VCR, rendering the action useless.

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

Arthur Chase died unexpectedly at the age of 53. Throughout his life, he had been known to be energetic and to resolve problems quickly, never resting until a job was completed. Chase never enjoyed the greatest health and often exhausted himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekla_B%C4%85darzewska-Baranowska

The American musician Bob Wills arranged the piece in the Western swing style and wrote lyrics for it. He first recorded it in 1935 as "Maiden's Prayer." Later, it became a standard recorded by many country artists. It is also played on certain garbage trucks in Taiwan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXKBQeA1ko

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Famous Visitors / Residents of Zandvoort

-- William Merritt Chase 1884-1885. American Impressionist Painter (1849–1916) Painted one of his masterpieces here entitled "Sunlight and Shadow" which hangs in the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.

-- On 7 August 2007, a 2.5 m (8 ft) tall Lego Minifigure was found in the sea at Zandvoort. It was fished out and placed on the beach. It is wearing a blue shirt with the slogan "No Real Than You Are" and red trousers. Its origins are unknown.

this dude:

http://sarah.untoyou.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/giant-lego-man-found-in-dutch-sea.jpg

Hungryalists and Krittibas

There is a misconception that the Hungryalists and the Krittibas group were the same and that the KRITTIBAS magazine was a Hungryalist platform. This is incorrect. KRITTIBAS was a group from the fifties. The Hungryalist movement was a sixties decade phenomenon. Krittibas magazine in its editorial had openly declared that they have no relations with the movement and that they do not approve of the philosophy of the movement. Hungryalist platforms were ZEBRA, CHINHO, PRATIDWANDI, UNMARGO and WASTE PAPER.

One of his poems, 'Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes', is now a poem studied at GCSE level in England and Wales, as part of the collection of poems in the AQA Anthology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner_(Pet_Shop_Boys_song)

Reception

"Winner" received generally well reception.

not really details so much as the page's existence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_universe

This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may only interest a specific audience. (March 2012)

fuck u wikipedia

I didn't know until just now how much I wanted to know about the duck verse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_(postcolonialism)

See also
* Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), directed by J. Lee Thompson
* Subaltern studies
* Post-colonialism
* Post-colonial literature

In the lyrics, the singer asks listeners if they have "been close to tragedy" necessitating "a strength most don't possess". The singer says while he has not faced such a daunting situation himself, he "know(s) someone who has" and makes the understatement that he is "sure it isn't good." The singer also expresses doubts about his own mettle and wonders how he would perform in such a situation himself. While stating "I like to think that if I was I would pass" he confesses "I'm afraid of what I might find out."

The opening line of the chorus states "I never had to knock on wood," and it may be more accurately rendered as "I never had to...(knock on wood)" referring to something that the singer has never had to do (i.e. face a huge crisis) and utilizing the superstitious phrase "knock on wood" which is said in the hopes that a good thing will continue to occur after it has been acknowledged.

Similarly, the mid-chorus lyrics "It makes me wonder if I never had to knock on wood" are more easily understood with the insertion of ellipsis and other punctuation, i.e. "it makes me wonder if I...? Never had to... (knock on wood)."

The lyrics have been interpreted by some to be in reference to AIDS, and the anticipation of blood results, but the group's official website denies this.

Similarly, the mid-chorus lyrics "It makes me wonder if I never had to knock on wood" are more easily understood with the insertion of ellipsis and other punctuation, i.e. "it makes me wonder if I...? Never had to... (knock on wood)."

Similarly the song is more easily heard with the violent insertion of a screwdriver into both ears.

awww... it's one of the few 3rd gen ska-punk songs i actually like. give it some slack.

more a comment on the strange opinion expressed re: punctuation tbh.

They should have had the drummer hit a wood block on three beats after he says that, like that Tony Orlando song kinda.

The album contained the Dr. Dre diss track "Real Muthaphuckkin G's". Eazy-E released music videos for "Any Last Werdz" and "Real Muthaphuckkin G's". It went multi-platinum and became one of Eazy-E's most popular recordings. Eazy-E was originally intending to release a follow up to Eazy-Duz-It named Temporary Insanity. However, after the several insults Dr. Dre made in The Chronic, Eazy-E decided to release this album. Dr. Dre is mentioned on every track except "Gimmie That Nutt" and "Boyz N Tha Hood (G-Mix)".The album went success and was in the charts for 500 weeks.

hahahaha

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

Another significant and popular addition to the marketplace has been flavored milks – for example, as mentioned above, Farmers Union Iced Coffee outsells Coca-Cola in South Australia.

I find that hard to believe tbqh

sales down since RIP Richard Marsland

citation needed

White Americans of all European backgrounds are present in all areas of the state. Those of English and Irish ancestry are present in large numbers in all the urban/suburban areas across the state. Native white Floridians, especially those who have descended from long-time Florida families, affectionately refer to themselves as "Florida crackers". Like whites in most of the other Southern states, they descend mainly from English and Scots-Irish settlers, as well as some other British settlers.[87]

There is another remix featuring Los Angeles Lakers player-rapper Kobe Bryant.

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

cF: Brighton, Forest of Dean, Gillingham, Guernsey, Ipswich, Manchester

One chain e-mail claimed incorrectly that President Obama's middle name is Mohammed or Muhammed. His actual middle name is Hussein.[20][21]

"Le Bracelet" was also sampled by worshipped producer J Dilla for a beat named "Dammit I Know That Sample" from one of his beat tapes.

everyone samples fantastic planet

It was the word WORSHIPPED
with two p's no less

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

cF: Brighton, Forest of Dean, Gillingham, Guernsey, Ipswich, Manchester

― Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:03 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the 12 toes are what you have up north in norfolk, due to inbreeding afaict. as someone born in ipswich i can vouch for this, but as i have 12 fingers i can't do the necessary wiki amendments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Post-dubstep_musicians

Self-deprecation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For self-defecation, see Fecal incontinence.

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

POST DUBSTEP. What in the feck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality)

no need to look at the page, i just like the url.

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

The band toured successfully in 1997 and played a final gig at the Reading Festival, after which Dando promptly disappeared from view—due in no small part to his addiction to Mountain Dew.

from the article about "suicide blonde":

Ferguson Darling is heard singing the title of this song on the Clarissa Explains It All episode Clarissa News Network.

http://imgur.com/a/vbO0F

wat.

Jamais vu is more commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognise a word, person, or place that he or she already knows.[1]

The phenomenon is often grouped with déjà vu and presque vu.

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Jamais vu can be caused by MIKE.

The Lemonheads then toured throughout 1994; Dando famously befriended Oasis and appeared at the band's live shows. He also spent time "hanging out" with Courtney Love.

At this stage they played punk rock, and were briefly known as the Whelps, until a name change in 1987 led to the birth of the Lemonheads, after a candy which Dando noted was sweet on the outside, and sour on the inside, possibly a metaphor for the band's sound.