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Jesus how many Judases accidentally hung themselves

It's the "Omen/Theater of Blood" crossover I never knew I needed!

Hideous Lump, Monday, 15 January 2024 20:24 (three months ago) link

xxxp to Matt #2 also horrifying is that most people did not know that the best way to react is to "stop, drop, and roll" if you are on fire until very recently

https://www.aarbf.org/the-origins-of-stop-drop-and-roll/

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 15 January 2024 23:50 (three months ago) link

According to Vincenzoni, Richard Harris had begun to drink heavily on set after reading a tabloid magazine and seeing a photograph of his wife Ann Turkel on a beach with a younger man. He reportedly intended to stop performing and fly to Malibu in order to kill them, relenting only after getting into a brawl which resulted in Vincenzoni getting a black eye.[9] The 46-year-old Harris insisted on performing his own stunts in the polar sequences and was nearly killed on several occasions.[3]

mookieproof, Thursday, 18 January 2024 01:36 (three months ago) link

the young men are described as "short, and blond, and full of creme",[10] with creme being a euphemism for semen.

Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2024 08:13 (three months ago) link

That's one fancy Twinkie.

peace, man, Thursday, 18 January 2024 12:45 (three months ago) link

Might skip crème brûlée for my dessert.

Dan Worsley, Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:07 (three months ago) link

In 2018 the Elevator Repair Service premiered a sequel written by Kate Scelsa, titled Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf. This play introduces new plot elements such as vampirism.[36]

a hoy hoy, Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:24 (three months ago) link

Horrible story and very sad but this detail caught my eye:

Detmar Blow went on to have an affair with Stephanie Theobald, the society editor of British Harper's Bazaar,[19] while his estranged wife entered into a liaison with a gondolier she met in Venice.

Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 January 2024 10:59 (three months ago) link

From the wiki page of Neil Buchanan, presenter of Art Attack et al:

Buchanan was in a heavy metal band called Marseille which formed in 1976: they were part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, releasing four albums and six singles, touring America and performing with Judas Priest, Nazareth and Whitesnake.

It was either this or the 'shockingly old" thread.

Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 13:41 (three months ago) link

In November 1933, Donenfeld drafted Armer to form a company called Super Magazines which ended up specializing in the mixed girlie/genre pulps, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective, Spicy Mystery and Spicy Western. After getting charged with obscenity, and narrowly escaping jail, Donenfeld changed the name of Super Magazines to Culture Publications.

Ward Fowler, Monday, 29 January 2024 14:12 (three months ago) link

This was the first album by the Raspberries to feature songs with profanity. Those songs were "Starting Over", which featured the word "fucking" once, and the song "Party’s Over", which featured the word "shit" twice.

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:24 (three months ago) link

Those songs were "Starting Over", which featured the word "fucking" once,

Have I been listening to a different song all these years?

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:44 (three months ago) link

Same

Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 23:06 (three months ago) link

It's in the first line. Tho he kind of mumbles it.

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link

Wow, there goes it's chances of being used as the theme tune for a 70s sitcom about a recently divorced couple slowly falling back in love.

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:47 (three months ago) link

Now I'm wondering why I never noticed it before.

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 February 2024 19:52 (three months ago) link

I went down a rabbit hole earlier reading about ancient eastern European tribes and ended up learning about an Iranic nomadic group called the Alans, who got about quite a bit but the last vestiges of are in modern-day Ossetia. couldn't stop thinking "a-ha!" the whole time though

Colonel Poo, Thursday, 1 February 2024 21:20 (three months ago) link

(Factually inaccurate) Horrible Histories sketch which plays on the name of that tribe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9osicYsucjs

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 February 2024 22:15 (three months ago) link

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

Career Sidelights

In his 1968 book Vibrations, he describes making an omelette for Charlie Parker with "fried onions, marmalade, maple syrup, bacon, tomatoes, covered with hot mayonnaise with some garlic fried in it and a little cheese sauce", saying they "wolfed down portions of it" with borscht and orange soda.[23]

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:10 (three months ago) link

thread delivers

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:48 (two months ago) link

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

The title was taken out of print after a business dispute between Sonic Youth and SST led to the deletion of all Sonic Youth titles from the SST catalog, although the title did remain on SST catalog inserts for a few years afterward; as of the spring of 2007, no new edition of From Here to Infinity is planned, although used/leftover copies of the CD trade for an average of $14 to $28 on such sites as Half.com.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 05:21 (two months ago) link

Jimi Haha started a band in 2002 called Jarflys. They put out a record called Anonymous. They continue to play in Annapolis. They have never had a band practice.

About a week after, Roscoe Dillon takes possession of another comatose body and begins wreaking havoc on anyone Barry Allen knew. The final straw comes when he digs up the grave of Iris Allen (who was dead at the time).

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:32 (two months ago) link

On the 1994 in Music page, Patti Labelle's album "Gems" is listed as "Germs"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_music

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 12 February 2024 17:34 (two months ago) link

Jimi Haha started a band in 2002 called Jarflys. They put out a record called Anonymous. They continue to play in Annapolis. They have never had a band practice.

This is a Shellac lyric

a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:29 (two months ago) link

lol, i started reading that Wikipedia page and got distracted by something but that part definitely jumped out at me

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:40 (two months ago) link

In October 2019, Banks announced that she would perform under the name Azilka (Russian: Азилька) during her tour in the former Soviet Union.[1]

On August 8, 2020, Banks announced that she intended to end her life by euthanasia and document the process on film.[107]

In February 2021, Banks publicly announced her engagement to American artist Ryder Ripps.[108] They made an audio sex tape and sold it using NFT, which was then up for resale for $260 million.[109] In March, Banks announced the end of the relationship.[110]

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:43 (two months ago) link

like...an audio sex tape? is that what they did in the 1940s

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:44 (two months ago) link

Pretty sure that's what "Louie Louie" was

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:50 (two months ago) link

ok that whole page is unusual details:

In January 2021, she received criticism after posting a video on Instagram of her digging up and cooking her dead pet cat. She later said in an interview that she did not eat the cat and exhumed it for taxidermizing purposes.[145][146][147]

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:52 (two months ago) link

these are all completely normal details for Azealia

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 12 February 2024 19:49 (two months ago) link

the Anti-Grimes

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:49 (two months ago) link

the Anti-Grimes

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:50 (two months ago) link

20Ten received mixed reviews from most music critics. Columnist Tony Parsons reviewed the album for the Daily Mirror, the newspaper marketing the album.[21] He wrote that it was "as good as [Prince's] all-time classics like Purple Rain and 1999 " and that it's "his best record since Sign o' the Times 23 years ago."[22]

you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 17 February 2024 13:46 (two months ago) link

a rare moment of spouting shit from Parshole

wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 February 2024 16:17 (two months ago) link

the video features busta in a post apocalyptic future...fighting a genetically engineered warrior and also uniting his people against "the man".

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 18 February 2024 16:40 (two months ago) link

Stolt and his wife Lilian have two sons, Johan Sebastian and Peter Gabriel, named after two of his all-time musical idols.

Maresn3st, Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:42 (two months ago) link

Saw this Parsehole quote on the tube, the man has been a professional writer for nearly half a century, jfc

https://i.imgur.com/bkMMV9M.png

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:54 (two months ago) link

novel use for 4dx that

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 19 February 2024 10:28 (two months ago) link

In 1990, at the age of 38, Kramer co-founded Total Multimedia Inc. with Randy Jackson (brother of Michael Jackson) to develop data compression techniques for CD-ROMs.[5][6] The firm claims it developed the first video compression capable of producing full motion video from a single speed CD-ROM in 1992. In 1994 the company was reorganized under bankruptcy and hired new leadership. Kramer continued working there until his disappearance, though he was profoundly affected by the bankruptcy and reorganization.[4][6] Kramer co-developed SoftVideo based on fractal compression and he also claimed to work on a transmission project that would result in faster-than-light speed communications. The latter related to his father Ray's long-running family effort to discredit Albert Einstein's theories.[6]

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 05:40 (two months ago) link

For the band, see Angkor Wat (band). For the Yes song, see Union (Yes album).

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:52 (two months ago) link

Tony Shepherd (who'd played with jazz bands and drummed for Cambridge bands The Wobbly Jellies and Somewhere in the Foreign Office, the latter of which had featured future satirist Chris Morris on bass)

Maresn3st, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:24 (two months ago) link

[Tippi Hedren] was also instrumental in the development of Vietnamese-American nail salons.[1][2][3]

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:56 (two months ago) link

wut

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:59 (two months ago) link

Yep! She figures large in a documentary a few years ago about the refugee diaspora, let me see me if it's online...

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:16 (two months ago) link

Ok, found it. The whole thing is worth a watch but ffwd to ~5m25s:

https://vimeo.com/277733437

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:18 (two months ago) link

Woah this puts a new spin on James Nguyen’s friendship with Hedren may not be based entirely on his line of Hitchcock.

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:46 (two months ago) link

Knew about that but always good to be reminded.

The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 February 2024 20:08 (two months ago) link

Tippi had a pet lion that lived with her

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 22 February 2024 20:28 (two months ago) link

She did a movie with Melanie G where they lived with lions for a while while shooting called roar - it did not go well! Hang on ...

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 22 February 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link


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