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in the 1980s, Buster passed into the ownership of Egmont UK Ltd, who thereafter published it under the Fleetway imprint. There were a few missing months and weeks worth of issues due to strikes so there would have been more produced no doubt.

karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link

"about 45 minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana" (which, at the rate of a mile per minute, would be near Galliano, Louisiana).

Pretty much think a mile per minute is too generous for Bayou Country. Proceeding southeast from Thibodaux for 45 minutes will likely only get you as far as Larose, if you're lucky.

pplains, Thursday, 21 June 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link

Larose is really east-southeast. Take 316 toward Montegut and you can reach gator territory in a comfortable three-quarters of an hour, but definitely leave Thibodaux before 3 pm (2:30 pm on Friday) so you don't hit rush hour outside Houma

mick signals, Thursday, 21 June 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link

You're probably right. There's a detour anyway on LA 1 for maintenance on the Valentine Bridge, so that's going to add some time.

pplains, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link

This article is about Dutch pancakes. For the scientist and political theoretician, see Antonie Pannekoek. For the Super Mario 64 analyst, see pannenkoek2012.

koogs, Saturday, 23 June 2018 08:22 (five years ago) link

that is amazing

noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 23 June 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link

"Theodore Roosevelt V (born November 27, 1942), commonly known as Theodore Roosevelt IV,"

devops mom (silby), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link

cracking me up for some reason

This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link

Missing Persons appeared at a three-day Southern California concert known as the US Festival, Monday, May 30, 1983, along with Berlin, David Bowie, The Pretenders, U2, Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul, Quarterflash, Joe Walsh, Los Lobos (side stage only), and Stevie Nicks.

mick signals, Thursday, 5 July 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link

The bridge was named for Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, the first chairman of the then–Port of New York Authority and a resident of Staten Island.[1][4][5] Rather than call it the "Outerbridge Bridge", the span was labeled a "crossing", but many New Yorkers and others mistakenly assume the name comes from the fact that it is the most remote bridge in New York City and the southernmost crossing in New York state.[5][6]

pplains, Thursday, 5 July 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link

Also, no Google Street View for some reason.

https://i.imgur.com/e5u3hgi.jpg

pplains, Thursday, 5 July 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link

Whorrey Potter and the Sorcerer's Balls is a magic themed gay pornographic film produced by Dominic Ford. The film is a parody of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and was released in 3D technology, being considered by some the most innovative product of the new technology since Avatar.

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link

A little more about Eugenius:

Eugenius was born on March 8, 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Bermudians Alexander Ewing Outerbridge I and Laura Catherine Harvey.[1] His sister, Mary Ewing Outerbridge, was the founder, in 1874, of American lawn tennis which was the progenitor of modern tennis. His other siblings include: Albert Albany Outerbridge; Joseph Outerbridge; August Emelio Outerbridge (1846-1921) who died on January 14, 1921; Harriett Harvey Outerbridge; Alexander Ewing Outerbridge II; Laura Catharine Outerbridge; and Adolph John Harvey Outerbridge (1858-1928) who died on May 29, 1928.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link

On John Cale's album 'Caribbean Sunset':

The album features contributions from Brian Eno and an otherwise "young unknown" band.

(a reference shows that this is derived from the allmusic article on the album which contains the bit: "(...) as "Experiment Number 1" features Cale calling out the chord changes to the band (which features three young unknowns and Brian Eno, (...)" )

Valentijn, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 07:32 (five years ago) link

I knew two brothers who both had their father's first name as their middle name, but I don't know if I've seen three siblings share the same middle name - much less two brothers and a sister.

pplains, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link

If you count confirmation names my sisters and I all share a middle name.

From the Mayo GAA subsection of the sports curses page (and really you could quote the whole thing):

It remains unbroken—despite the team reaching the final on nine[47] occasions since then, they have either completely collapsed on the day or been undone by a series of other unfortunate events.[48]

This makes it sound like natural disasters or non-bed shitting came into play, but this was the closest thing:

the "Kafkaesque black farce"[51] continued from where it had left off—with Donegal allowed bridge a 20-year gap between titles, helped in no small part by a nightmare opening quarter for Mayo as Michael Murphy—whose father is from Mayo—launched a rocket of a shot into the goal after three minutes.

And on a related page:

Peter Quinn (1925 – 30 January 2016), also credited as Peter Quinlan (to avoid the ban on clerics playing inter county football)

gyac, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link

The piece can be heard in the Tom and Jerry episode "Snowbody Loves Me", as well as in The King of Fighters 2003 when players face Adelheid Bernstein, in the Abbott and Costello short The Music Lovers where Lou fakes playing the piano while Bud hides behind the piano with a phonograph, in the Scooby-Doo television movie Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, when the character Shreako plays a piano with a broken key, and also in Power Rangers Zeo in an episode where a character named Skull plays it in a contest. A cover version of this piece is used as the opening sequence music for the UK game show Interceptor.[4] The piece can be heard in Deadly Premonition only by driving the car of Diane Ames, which can be purchased alongside the cars of several other characters. It also plays in the video game Catherine, in the final battle against Dumizid. In Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck, Daffy Duck plays an exploding piano and, in The Amanda Show, the mad teacher plays a piano. It can also be heard twice in Eternal Sonata – once during a brief interlude in the second chapter and an arrangement can be heard in the game's final battle. The opening can be heard in Same Time, Next Year (1978) when, in the scene when George is ready for romance and Doris enters in the final stage of her pregnancy, George sits down at the piano and plays it to try to dissipate his excess energy. In Kamen Rider Kuuga, it can be heard several times during episodes 27 and 28, during which a villain bases her murders around a portion of the piece's notes. The Dance Dance Revolution song "Kakumei," from the game DDR Max 2, is based on this étude. The song Sonido Bestial[5] from the album El Bestial Sonido de Ricardo Ray y Bobby Cruz by Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz released in 1971 incorporates a rendition of this étude. This étude is also featured in the manga Your Lie in April, with one of the main characters performing it. This étude is also remixed by the artist xi, named Revoluxionist,[6] which was also featured as a purchasable content in the iOS & Android Game, Cytus.

As an intro, the étude can also be heard in part being played by John Tout of the English band Renaissance on the title song of their 3rd album (first album of the classic lineup), Prologue.

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 July 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link

i won't front, i'm listening to "sonido bestial" right now and it's a fucking monster

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 July 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link

Putting the tude in étude

mick signals, Monday, 16 July 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link

"Kerry committed suicide via a .44 caliber gunshot to the heart on February 18, 1993 on his father's ranch in Van Zandt County, Texas due to popular belief the actual ranch is not in Denton County but in fact it is located in Chandler Texas."

that's a strange reason to commit suicide

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Monday, 16 July 2018 00:44 (five years ago) link

This lead got deleted from the page for "Do You Know What I Mean?" by Lee Michaels right after I immortalized it over on the most recent Have A Nice Day thread.

Donna Wiest won a round of drinks for her table knowing the title and artist of this song at "Cheers" S.Hackensack N.J 05/28/1988

Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 July 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link

not so much "unusual" as "jfc, nerds," but a dude who wrote over 175 episodes of TV in a 3-decade career has this as his wikipedia entry:

Career

Anthony Steven began his career as a reporter on the Oxford Mail. Later, he was discovered by John Grierson, the founder of the Crown Film Unit, who hired him as a writer.

In 1957 Steven joined the BBC. A prolific writer, he wrote many television serials over a period of thirty years. Some of his scripts were original but many were adaptations of classic novels, including several episodes of The Forsyte Saga (1967). In 1984, he wrote the script for the Doctor Who story The Twin Dilemma, the first to star Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.[1]. A 1998 poll by Doctor Who Magazine ranked the serial the second worst of all time (the Children in Need special Dimensions in Time was ranked lowest), while a 2003 poll by fansite Outpost Gallifrey ranked it worst of all, below even Dimensions in Time. In 2009, another Doctor Who Magazine poll of the 200 stories produced up to that point saw the serial finish in last place again, along with finishing last in every single age group that voted (although Dimensions in Time technically scored lower, it was no longer included in the main poll due to its lack of canonicity within the series and was instead placed in a spin-off section). A similar poll in 2014 placed the story in last place once again.

kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Monday, 16 July 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link

Kick a man while he's down

lefal junglist platton (wtev), Monday, 16 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link

Dr Who nerds ftw

lefal junglist platton (wtev), Monday, 16 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link

In 1976, he voted for Communist Party USA candidate Gus Hall in the presidential election; he later said that he viewed it as a way "of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change."

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link

Clearly written by her mother

The song's title applies a French spelling to the slang word "hoe" (meaning whore). The -eaux suffix is the plural form of nouns ending in -eau in the French language[12] and is also a common ending for historically Cajun surnames like Boudreaux and Thibodeaux.[13] This combination of letters is pronounced with a long "O" sound, and is not followed by an "S" sound, as it is erroneously pronounced in the song.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link

This might not be that unusual, but as pitches go, it’s kind of amazing that this turned into a huge hit instead of the TV executive’s post to the “your terrible ideas” thread.

Brandon Tartikoff pitched the series to Cannell as a combination of The Dirty Dozen, Mission Impossible, The Magnificent Seven, Mad Max and Hill Street Blues, with "Mr. T driving the car".

El Tomboto, Friday, 20 July 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link

His image was to appear on the cover of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but he requested a fee and was painted out. Ironically, he died on the second anniversary of the album's US release.

All together now, "it's like raaaiin on your wedding day..."

lana del boy (ledge), Saturday, 21 July 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link

Shark Bay was the former name of Safety beach. The scent from cattle farms nestled in the area attracted many sharks to the site. Mornington Peninsula Shire later changed the name to Safety Beach. Many tourists feared swimming in ‘shark bay’ for obvious reasons even after the farms were shut down and shark sightings had decreased which now as we know it is named Safety Beach, an attempt to draw tourists to the area, and it worked. Now there are over 100 beach/bathing boxes located on the beach, accommodating thousands of tourists a year.

Reading that Stanley Kubrick used special lenses on Barry Lybdon so he could shoot in "natural candlelight."

Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Sunday, 22 July 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link

*Lyndon

Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Sunday, 22 July 2018 12:19 (five years ago) link

Bowie felt he had to continue to pander to the new mass audience he acquired with the album, which led to him releasing two further solo albums in 1984 and 1987 which, despite their relative commercial success, did not sell as well as Let's Dance, were poorly received by critics at the time and subsequently dismissed by Bowie himself as his "Phil Collins years".

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link

2 Career

2.1 1958 to 1968: Military service, Martial Art champion, Bruce Lee friendship, and training celebrities.
2.1.1 Military service and introduction to martial arts
2.1.2 Martial arts career and competition champion
2.1.3 Martial Arts instructor for celebrities
2.1.4 Meeting Bruce Lee
2.2 1969-1976: Early roles, First major film role. Steve McQueen friendship.
2.2.1 First major film role: Way of the Dragon. Supporting role: The Wrecking Crew, Yellow Faced Tiger, and The Student Teachers.
2.2.2 Steve McQueen encouragement.
2.2.3 First book: Winning Tournament Karate
2.3 1977 to 1983: First Starring role, breakthrough and subsequent success.
2.3.1 First Starring role: Breaker! Breaker!
2.3.2 Breakthrough: Good Guys Wear Black
2.3.3 Subsequent films: A Force of One, The Octagon, An Eye for an Eye, Silent Rage, and Lone Wolf McQuade.
2.3.4 First Video Game: Chuck Norris Superkicks
2.4 1984 to 1988: Mainstream success, critical breakthrough, and becoming Cannon Film's most prominent star.
2.4.1 Mainstream success and becoming Cannon Film's most prominent star
2.4.2 Subsequent films: Missing in Action 2: The Beginning and Invasion U.S.A.
2.4.3 Critical breakthrough: Code of Silence
2.4.4 Subsequent films: The Delta Force, and Firewalker. Cartoon: Karate Kommandos. Book: The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story
2.4.5 First film directed by Aaron Norris: Braddock: Missing in Action III Subsequent film: Hero and the Terror
2.5 1990s: Subsequent films, and television success.
2.5.1 Second, third and fourth films directed by Aaron Norris: Delta Force 2, The Hitman, and Sidekicks
2.5.2 Television success: Walker, Texas Ranger
2.5.3 Fifth film directed by Aaron Norris: Hellbound. Supporting role: Wind in the Wire. World Wrestling Federation: Survivor Series event
2.5.4 Sixth, and seventh films directed by Aaron Norris: Top Dog, and Forest Warrior.
2.5.5 Subsequent film: Logan's War: Bound by Honor. Book: The Secret Power Within: Zen Solutions to Real Problems. Total Gym TV infomercials
2.6 2000s: Subsequent films, and internet phenomenon.
2.6.1 Subsequent films: The President's Man, The President's Man: A Line in the Sand, and Bells of Innocence. Television role: Yes, Dear
2.6.2 Subsequent films: DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, and Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire. Book: Against All Odds: My Story. Founding the World Combat League.
2.6.3 Internet phenomenon: Chuck Norris facts
2.6.4 Subsequent film: The Cutter. Columnist for the news website WorldNetDaily, western novels and commercial.
2.6.5 Book series based on Chuck Norris facts
2.6.6 Books: Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America and The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories. Video Game: Chuck Norris: Bring On the Pain
2.7 2010s: Return to screen and commercials for major products
2.7.1 Commercials: World of Warcraft, T-Mobile, and BZ WBK.
2.7.2 Return to screen: The Expendables 2
2.7.3 Commercials: Hoegaarden, Fiat, United Healthcare. Video game: Non Stop Chuck Norris

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link

Section headings are a nightmare

Someone please revert the disastrously long section headings that make the table of contents unreadable. 142.167.242.182 (talk) 21:06, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

I have no problem reading them, that's why I made them. Honestly I don't get you go on all the pages I worked on instead of addressing that properly on my talk page. Filmman3000 (talk) 17:58, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 27 July 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link

lol the very first thing on his personal talk page is his justifying himself for Gamergate related stuff. we also learn that his attempt to create an article for Non Stop Chuck Norris because "Plot section reads like and advertisement. Gameplay section appears to be copied from (online review)." the problems with the norris article are extensively discussed but he's stubbornly refusing to get it.

This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 27 July 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link

Filmman3000

devops mom (silby), Friday, 27 July 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link

Games such as Revelation 7 and Xibalba, for instance, have attempted to avoid claims of violence by using "off the wall" absurdist humor with enemies such as flying, bat-winged clown heads (modeled after the biblical Jezebel) that shoot rays out of their nose

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 July 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link

"When he died his computer was found logged on to a pornographic website." - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Donaldson

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 July 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link

Ben Schwartz is an American actor best known for voicing Dewey from the 2017 reboot of DuckTales. He will voice Leonardo in the next Nickelodeon series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 30 July 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link

…ok

devops mom (silby), Monday, 30 July 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link

idgi (the detail or the meme)

This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Monday, 30 July 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link

DuckTales may well have a larger audience than House Of Lies or Parks & Recreation, but he's far more likely to be known for shows that his face and body appeared in for 5-6 years than a voice job that started last year.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 30 July 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link

especially since I think even in this day and age relatively few young cartoon watchers are all that interested in who the voice actors are

devops mom (silby), Monday, 30 July 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link

ahhhh okay. had never heard of him for any reason so it went over my head.

This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 08:00 (five years ago) link

(also but less relevantly

is an American actor


I suspect a larger proportion of his income is from screenwriting than acting.)

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 08:33 (five years ago) link

what has he screenwritten that would give him all of this income?

challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link

freelance Letterman jokes

devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link

Attack (disambiguation)

Attack may refer to:
* In newspaper headlines, to save space, sometimes "criticise"

mick signals, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link


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