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Each simulated citizen has their teeth rendered in full detail, even though characters never open their mouths hence those teeth are never visible.

pplains, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:07 (two months ago) link

In 2005, the band released a mixtape called Audio-Bio, which was one of their first CDs and contained many of their earliest songs and many songs not available anywhere else.

bae (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:32 (two months ago) link

Bassist Marcus Miller is a cousin of Wynton Kelly's, as are rapper Foxy Brown, and pianist Randy Weston.

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:05 (one month ago) link

In addition, with the advent of the steak cube, an era of luxury street food has begun.[1]

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:42 (one month ago) link

In July 1975, Amin staged a £2 million wedding to 19-year-old Sarah Kyolaba, a go-go dancer with the Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band, nicknamed "Suicide Sarah".

Mostly for the name of the band, the rest was par for the course for this lunatic

help me I am in hull (Matt #2), Monday, 4 March 2024 00:36 (one month ago) link

Each simulated citizen has their teeth rendered in full detail, even though characters never open their mouths hence those teeth are never visible.

This is about Cities Skylines 2 right? What a shitshow that release has been.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 4 March 2024 04:51 (one month ago) link

While performing a conjuring trick for the amusement of his children in 1843 Brunel accidentally inhaled a half-sovereign coin, which became lodged in his windpipe. A special pair of forceps failed to remove it, as did a machine devised by Brunel to shake it loose. At the suggestion of his father, Brunel was strapped to a board and turned upside-down, and the coin was jerked free.

blatherskite, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link

In 1816, a tooth said to have belonged to Newton was sold for £730[164] in London to an aristocrat who had it set in a ring.[165] Guinness World Records 2002 classified it as the most valuable tooth in the world, which would value approximately £25,000 (US$35,700) in late 2001.[165] Who bought it and who currently has it has not been disclosed.

jmm, Friday, 8 March 2024 13:46 (one month ago) link

Lacking financial stability to continue from their records, label, or merchandise sales, the band split up on 2 November 2016.

The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Saturday, 9 March 2024 22:03 (one month ago) link

Species Parrot
Died 26 January 1913
Pontevedra, Spain
Resting place Mourente, Pontevedra
Occupation Pharmacist's pet
Years active 22
Known for Intelligent and sarcastic conversation

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:31 (one month ago) link

Somehow I never heard this bit of trivia (from the Bearsville Studios wiki entry)

In 1988, The Replacements had a 10-day recording session at Bearsville during which they trashed the recording studio and living quarters and played a game they called "dodge knife" that was like dodgeball but using knives.

The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Sunday, 10 March 2024 02:41 (one month ago) link

In August 1969, a collection of poems penned by the seven members of the Association was released as the book Crank Your Spreaders.

i didn't know much about them, honestly - just like a couple of their songs. i knew tandyn almer and curt boettcher were involved, i knew about "along comes mary" and "cherish" and "never my love" and "requiem for the masses". but i didn't know about terry kirkman at all. like, he met frank zappa when he was going to community college in cucamonga and they played coffeehouses together between '59 and '61. the whole la music scene is just wild that way.

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 March 2024 16:05 (one month ago) link

Born in Maceió, Alagoas, Pepe was named Kepler Laveran by his father in honour to scientists Johannes Kepler and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran.

Pepe, who is playing for Porto in the Champions League right now at the age of 41!

man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link

Went down a pretty grim rabbithole reading about conversion therapy and anti-queer movements, but at least I did find this:

Pliny the Elder attempted to heal alcoholism in the first century Rome by putting putrid spiders in alcohol abusers' drinking glasses.[10]

Now I'm wondering if Russian River knows about this.

Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 16 March 2024 13:38 (one month ago) link

Jerome Benton's wikipedia:

Jerome continues his hosting duties of The Purple Paisley Brunch.[8] This annual event series features the DJs spinning the best of the Minneapolis Sound with an unlimited brunch. This event is cultivated by Tonya Giddens[9] of BklynGurl Productions in New York.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 17 March 2024 00:04 (one month ago) link

On October 19, 1982, Paul America was struck by a motorist and killed while walking home from a dental appointment in Ormond Beach, Florida.[16]

man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 March 2024 01:03 (one month ago) link

re: _nudist colony of the dead_:

Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said, "This amateur summer-camp slasher spoof isn't as wacky as it thinks it is".[3]

only the all-time sickest of burns

theme song is all-time. lyrics present every possible permutation of "they're dead, and they're also naked". what are the odds that mark pirro originally wanted to call this movie "the naked and the dead"?

Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:30 (one month ago) link

Jerome Benton's wikipedia:

Jerome continues his hosting duties of The Purple Paisley Brunch.[8] This annual event series features the DJs spinning the best of the Minneapolis Sound with an unlimited brunch. This event is cultivated by Tonya Giddens[9] of BklynGurl Productions in New York.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, March 16, 2024 8:04 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Looks like the Purple Paisley Brunch ended last summer. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=543449007976253&set=a.483956800592141

peace, man, Monday, 18 March 2024 12:45 (one month ago) link

It's a story
Of a man named Benton

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 March 2024 13:21 (one month ago) link

Jerry Jeff Walker changing music biz history:

It was Walker who first drove Jimmy Buffett to Key West (from Coconut Grove, Florida in a Packard).[28] The two musicians also co-wrote the song "Railroad Lady" while riding the last run of the Panama Limited.[28][29]

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 March 2024 18:15 (one month ago) link

Since the mid-1980s Danova has developed an instrumental project General Lafayette, a series of albums and singles featuring some of his own compositions through the sound of the trumpet.[9][10][11]

Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Monday, 18 March 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link

In February 2017, the BBC broadcast an episode of the genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are? about Davis.[41] In the episode Davis learned that in his family tree he had an ancestor that had been married to two women at the same time, another who had died in an asylum from syphilis and another who performed at minstrel shows in blackface.[42]

you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:08 (one month ago) link

In 1745, aged 57, Swedenborg was dining in a private room at a tavern in London. By the end of the meal, a darkness fell upon his eyes, and the room shifted character. Suddenly, he saw a person sitting at a corner of the room, telling him: "Do not eat too much!". Swedenborg, scared, hurried home.

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:31 (one month ago) link

"Incubus Succubus" featured in Snowpiercer season 2 episode 9, where the subtitles described it as "upbeat music".

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:38 (one month ago) link

I'm enjoying this article on the reincarnated King Arthur/Druid King of Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Uther_Pendragon

Becoming Arthur Pendragon: 1986–1991
In 1986 he bought a sword called Excalibur in a Farnborough shop; its seller stated that it had been the prop in the 1981 film Excalibur.[1]

jmm, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:22 (one month ago) link

Dug out a CD tonight I forgot I owned, Black Sun Ensemble’s Tragic Magic.

Infamous circumstances surrounding their Geffen Records showcase in Los Angeles lead to the quiet intervention of Paul McCartney to get certain members and their entourage out of custody- a tarot card was involved, but any more detail may arouse the attorneys! (Based on statements from Jesus Acedo & Duane Norman.)[citation needed]

Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 22 March 2024 03:09 (one month ago) link

Around age 5, his mother gave him a book of paintings by Hieronymous Bosch. Also obsessed with comics, especially EC Comics, he began drawing his own. He has said his first collector was Lady Bird Johnson, who bought a painting he made of garbage in 1965 for a children's art collection, as part of her ‘beautification’ campaign.[7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Coleman_(painter)

walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:17 (one month ago) link

Follow-up:

When police and fireman arrived on the scene, they arrested Coleman, Pivar and BF/VF manager, Jeri Rossi. Coleman was charged under an arcane statute, which had not been used since the 1800s, citing him for "possession of an infernal machine". He was fined $5000 for possessing and exploding fireworks and a further $300 for eating mice. The terms of his probation stipulated that he "not eat any Massachusetts mice for a year".[2][15][33][36][37]

walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Friday, 22 March 2024 12:23 (one month ago) link

Writing and inspiration
The song is about feeling the urge to kill, but not literally doing it.

The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 22 March 2024 16:10 (one month ago) link

^Ace of Base's "Don't Turn Around"

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 March 2024 16:56 (one month ago) link

"Thong Song" placed first in a St. Paul Pioneer Press reader poll to determine the worst song in history.[128] It has also been labelled as sexist.[129]

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 25 March 2024 04:55 (one month ago) link

massive monograph of Coleman’s paintings coming out in a couple of months

bae (sic), Monday, 25 March 2024 06:24 (one month ago) link

wtf St. Paul

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 25 March 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link

Horses do not need lengthy times to raise steam in the boiler

gene besserit (ledge), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 10:49 (one month ago) link

It was the only album by the Doors to be nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Spoken Word" category.[7][8]

you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 29 March 2024 21:49 (four weeks ago) link

Claude Lemieux has four children between two marriages: three sons and a daughter. One of his sons, Brendan, is a forward for the Carolina Hurricanes. They are the only father-son duo to be punished by the NHL for biting other players.[8][9]

Mule, Friday, 5 April 2024 15:13 (three weeks ago) link

Galaxy Records was closed down for good around 1990's due to conflict problems.

Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 14:38 (two weeks ago) link

Conflict problems, who's got 'em?
I've got 'em too

President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 14:45 (two weeks ago) link

A solar eclipse took place on January 27, 632 over Arabia during Muhammad's lifetime. Muhammad denied the eclipse had anything to do with his son dying earlier that day...

pplains, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:50 (two weeks ago) link

Ironwood is the only known place in the Upper Peninsula to ever host a professional sports team, with Ironwood hosting the Northwest Football League's Gogebic Panthers in 1935 and 1936. Their 1935 campaign was immensely successful as the Panthers finished with a 6–1 record, their only loss coming to the eventual league champion La Crosse Old Style Lagers. Their 1936 campaign featured a 6–0 victory over the Madison Cardinals, who folded a few days after the Lagers defeated them 100–0 in an effort to kick them out of the league

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 19:40 (two weeks ago) link

Demi-relatedly, I appreciate this section on Bessemer, Michigan:

This section was made by somebody who lives in bessemer. However because of that, this part does not currently have citations.

Logging and fishing is a large part of the culture of Bessemer, Logging because people use wood stoves to heat their homes in the winter, And fishing for the reason of sport & as an hobby.

In vehicles, Electric cars are completely out of the question. As there are no electric car charging stations. And also there are a large portion of pickup trucks, they are good as they are easy to throw wood onto without damaging the truck, while also not being a hefty semi truck. So in that way it is perfect for logging. And its also not as small as a SUV which also has an roof in the way.

Hunting is also another part of the culture, both for sport and for the food that comes out of it.

Another part of the culture is how Bessemer is more attached to its locacllity to the UP rather then the state of michigan. Also see the Superior (proposed U.S. state) article. The citizens take pride in how they are locals and how the town is not a corporatized city, As they like the towns overall atmosphere.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 19:48 (two weeks ago) link

was looking up the fall's peel sessions, couldn't remember how many they did. the wiki article on the Peel Sessions 1978-2004 is very nearly baroque. someone actually put in a table:

Among the 97 total tracks on The Complete Peel Sessions, the following were cited as highlights of the set by at least one critic from the aforementioned reviews:
Tracks cited by one or more critics as highlights of The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004:

my favorite thing is that this table _includes the number of critics who named the track as a highlight_

there's also this in-line parenthetical note:

"Jingle Bell Rock" (Bobby Helms cover; with substantially different lyrics to the original 1957 song)

my favorite of all has to be the editorial note added to rob fitzpatrick's review of the release:

In France, John Peel would have surely have been hung [sic?] in the town square long before he, or his favourite-ever band, the Fall

it's that little question mark that does it for me. like yes, wiki editor, perhaps fitzpatrick _was_ indeed suggesting that john peel would have had a monster cock were he french.

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 12 April 2024 19:59 (two weeks ago) link

unusual details, Eli Roth being a dick:

Roth originally wanted Cerina Vincent to show her naked buttocks during her sex scene with Rider Strong. Vincent, who had previously played a nude foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie (2001), was afraid that exposing too much of herself would lead to being typecast as a nudity actress and vehemently refused to bare her buttocks.[citation needed] At the peak of this conflict between the two, Vincent told Roth that if he wanted the shot so badly, he would need to re-cast the role with another actress. But they managed to reach a compromise, in which Vincent showed one inch of her buttocks on camera before Roth measured it for it to be precise. Bedsheets were then taped to her backside at the designated level and the scene was filmed.[15]

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 April 2024 01:21 (two weeks ago) link

After the song reached 500,000 sales in the UK, the Nottinghamshire County Council honoured KWS with a civic reception.[60]

you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 13 April 2024 14:46 (two weeks ago) link

The Leader revolves around the life of German philosopher Karl Marx, focusing on his political and economic theories, his romance with Jenny von Westphalen, vorarephilia fantasies and his friendship with Friedrich Engels.[3]

i'm gonna be honest, i _suspect_ that third bit is a troll, but i've seen enough anime that i'm _not actually sure_.

does wikipedia have an official editorial stance on the oxford comma?

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 15 April 2024 00:35 (one week ago) link

Rainer Zitelmann, a real estate expert, argues that language like "Eat the Rich" is prejudicial, perpetuating stereotypes, and engaging in classism.[14] He also says that it can serve to dehumanize people wealthier than the speaker and poses risks of inciting violence.[15]

guys guys guess what

this dude is also a wehraboo

no fucking way, right?

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 15 April 2024 00:42 (one week ago) link


Year: 1933
Song: "Rapaz Folgado"
Artist: Noel Rosa
Target: Wilson Batista
In response to: "Lenço no pescoço"

This samba was sung in Brazil, by Noel Rosa, as a critic for the singer Wilson Batista, in the context of the golden age of Malandragem culture. The song started a musical dispute between artists that is probably the first diss track recorded in history.

paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 15 April 2024 00:54 (one week ago) link

He described it as "an out-and-out Hitler camp" and was also concerned about the quantity of poison ivy on the campgrounds.[5]

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 18 April 2024 02:57 (one week ago) link

According to Schaffer's attorney, while Schaffer was held at an Indiana jail, other inmates made death threats against him, and threw feces at him.

ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:48 (one week ago) link

This was the second film in the series to contain slow-motion; as Littlefoot jumps off the falling tree, he is very slow until he lands on the cliff.

jmm, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:26 (one week ago) link


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