“This list of fictional ducks is subsidiary to the list of fictional birds. It is restricted to notable duck characters from the world of fiction.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_ducks
May 2013
3 posts
“Later on she sees Adam on the bleachers with his girlfriend. She tells Adam she doesn’t have any STDs and asks his girlfriend if she has any. The girlfriend states no and Pauline informs them that if the girlfriend doesn’t have anything neither will she. After she walks away the girlfriend deduces that Adam was unfaithful.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excision_%28film%29
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“Cowboy” is a single by Kid Rock from his album Devil Without a Cause.
He describes the song as “Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Run-D.M.C..” The song is a genre all to itself fusing elements of rap, folk and southern rock. The song samples of the piano break of the Doors “L.A. Woman”. The song was originally rejected by Atlantic Records, after Kid Rock told them it was the best song he had written to that point.
” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_%28song%29April 2013
1 post
“Farkas “Bulk” Bulkmeier (Paul Schrier) and Eugene “Skull” Skullovitch (Jason Narvy), from the very beginning, provided much of the comic relief in the series, usually through an over-the-top slapstick; they came with their own background music, which Jason Narvy has said was based on Skull’s laugh and “fat guy: tuba”.[1] This was highlighted by their physical appearances: Bulk was heavyset and Skull was lean, similar in style to the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. Bulk was the dominant member of the duo, and Skull would usually follow and attempt to emulate Bulk. Such is exemplified when Skull would repeat whatever Bulk had said, usually beginning with “yeah”.”
—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_and_Skull
March 2013
2 posts
“Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio, to 17-year-old Mary Robinson McConnell (an Episcopalian) and James Leigh Gish (who was of German Lutheran descent).”
— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gish
Of course we need to know the faith of her parents! The difficulties between Episcopalians and Lutherans is almost certainly the source of Gish’s art.
Of course we need to know the faith of her parents! The difficulties between Episcopalians and Lutherans is almost certainly the source of Gish’s art.
“Later in 1996 the group contributed to the Space Jam soundtrack, including the theme song. The theme song got frequent showing on MTV and charted fairly well, peaking at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100. Following the release of Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, the Space Jam theme has had an almost memetic surge in popularity on YouTube with numerous remixes and parodies.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_City_DJ%27s
Youtube remixes are important. They should all have separate articles.
February 2013
2 posts
“He displays an array of quirky mannerisms such as giving a ‘thumbs up’ when satisfied, sage-like sayings, and distinctive sense of humor along with his love for a good cherry pie (but, he also has a love for other pies or maybe all pies in general) and a “damn fine cup of coffee” (which he takes black).”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Cooper
Hey, we’re not certain about his pie love. We’re not going speculate on a man’s pastry preferences.
“River Song was introduced to the series as an experienced future companion of series protagonist the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time in his TARDIS.”
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Song_%28Doctor_Who%29
Because a TARDIS is self-explanatory
January 2013
1 post
“The P.E.A.R.L. (Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature) was a reader’s choice award, presented annually to the top voted paranormal romances by the ParaNormal Romance Groups naming the “best of year” in ten categories related to paranormal romance and romantic science fiction.”
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THIS IS THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN! YOU’RE ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN!
December 2012
3 posts
“When they arrive, they are monitored by the island’s supervisor, Dr. Victor Donovan (Eric Roberts), who, aided by egghead Weatherby (Steve Howey), is gathering data (using injected nano-sensors) from the fights for some mysterious project. To add to the situation, an assassin from Kasumi’s colony named Ayane (Natassia Malthe), has followed Kasumi to kill her and wipe away the disgrace the princess has caused to the clan.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOA:_Dead_or_Alive
“The recovery gets the boys recognized by the Park County PD, and they are made Junior Detectives. However, it’s not just honorary. Lieutenant Dawson, the department’s head lieutenant, flat-out hires them and then assigns them to bust a meth lab, something that should be reserved for actual detectives.”
—en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil’_Crime_Stoppers
“He mentally plans his fights using physics in a scientific calculating method. He knows how to break a man’s neck with one hand (Bad Luck and Trouble) and kill a villain with a single punch to the head (Running Blind and 61 Hours) or chest (Worth Dying For). In a fight against a 7 foot, 400 lb steroid-using thug (Persuader), Reacher was able to lift his opponent into the air and drop him on his head.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher
November 2012
1 post
“During their first episode, the pair receive a red 1972 Cadillac Eldorado convertible as a gift; they use it for transportation throughout the rest of the series while in the human world, with Tess doing the driving. As the series progresses, Monica continues gaining experience as a case worker and, during some cases having to learn lessons of her own.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touched_by_an_Angel
October 2012
6 posts
“In “Blind Date”, Jack Donaghy states that Kenneth’s Myers–Briggs Type Indicator “shows a rare combination of extroverted, intuitive, and aggressive” (which is the same as his own).”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Parcell
“Joad was also interested in the supernatural and partnered Harry Price on a number of ghost-hunting expeditions, also joining the Ghost Club of which Price became the president. He involved himself in psychical research, traveling to the Harz Mountains to help Price to test whether the ‘Bloksberg Tryst’ would turn a male goat into a handsome prince at the behest of a maiden pure in heart (it did not).”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._E._M._Joad
“List of lists of lists
On Wikipedia, many lists themselves contain lists.” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
On Wikipedia, many lists themselves contain lists.” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
“.cr is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) by Costa Rica.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cr
“Boody also has an old, non-functioning grain elevator in the center of town that is currently listed for sale at $125,000.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boody,_Illinois
“Heidegger, who took Kierkegaard’s philosophy further, comes even closer to describing the Punisher: ‘Since we can never hope to understand why we’re here, if there’s even anything to understand, the individual should choose a goal and pursue it wholeheartedly, despite the certainty of death and the meaninglessness of action.’ That’s sure the Punisher as I conceived him: a man who knows he’s going to die and who knows in the big picture his actions will count for nothing, but who pursues his course because this is what he has chosen to do.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher#Characterization
September 2012
3 posts
“As a consequence of the film, real bands and musicians started buying equipment whose knobs went up to 11, or even higher, with Eddie Van Halen reputedly being the first to do so. Marshall, the company that provided amplifiers for the film that the custom marked knobs were applied to, now sells amplifiers such as its JCM900 (first sold in 1990) whose knobs are marked from 0 to 20.
The BBC iPlayer has been created such that the volume goes up to 11.” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
The BBC iPlayer has been created such that the volume goes up to 11.” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
“The Proton Pack is a fictional energy weapon used for weakening ghosts and aiding in capturing them within the Ghostbusters universe. First depicted in the film Ghostbusters, it has a hand-held wand (“Neutrino Wand” or particle thrower) connected to a backpack-sized particle accelerator. It fires a positively charged stream of protons that attract the negatively charged energy of a ghost, allowing it to be held in the stream while active.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_pack
“The weapon fire on the set was considered dangerous, which led the crew to build a new bulletproof plexiglas shield that could be bolted to the camera. This shield was useful particularly for one sequence in Hard Target where Van Damme empties a magazine of ammo into the camera. These camera dollies were nicknamed by the crew as “the Woo-Woo Choo-Choo”.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Target
August 2012
2 posts
“…This happened when the Digi-Destined remembered small memories on what had happen four years ago when they were at Highten View Terrace watching a battle with their digimon and another digimon. In the movie Parrotmon was hatched by a giant egg in which seems like it was floating in the sky. It soon hatched into Parrotmon and it seemed like Greymon knew Parrotmon was near and chased after Parrotmon. Both Digimon battled and after the battle they both disappeared and nobody knew who really won the battle. All the Digi-Destined in Japan were watching the battle and soon became Digi-Destined about 4 years later.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalymon#Parrotmon
“List of multilingual Presidents of the United States”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilingual_Presidents_of_the_United_States
July 2012
7 posts
“In this duo of detectives, Twitch is mainly seen as the “brains” of the group. He is the one who usually solves or puts the pieces together in the rare crimes the detectives encounter. A brilliant mathematician who excelled at trigonometry, he has used his knowledge of angles to become an excellent marksman. A shooting prodigy, Twitch makes up for his small size with his ability to handle twin pistols with almost machine-like accuracy and efficiency.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_and_Twitch
“On the November 29, 2011 Live Holiday Edition of SmackDown, Hornswoggle won a battle royal eliminating Sheamus to receive a wish from Santa Claus (Mick Foley). With help from Sheamus, Hornswoggle wished for the ability to verbally communicate. For the first time since early 2008 Hornswoggle spoke, ending the segment with Hornswoggle calling Vickie Guerrero “grandma”.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornswoggle
Testicles are sometimes called kin-tama or "golden balls" in Japanese
“In 1977, Munro turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in Superman in favor of what would become her most celebrated film appearance, the ill-fated helicopter pilot Naomi in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, who seductively winks at Bond while trying to gun him down from her helicopter. In her role as Naomi, she holds the distinction of being the first woman ever undeniably killed by James Bond.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Munro
“Political and economic commentator David P. Goldman called this book “[t]he best book on the intelligence operations of the French state” during the Thirty Years’ War.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Eminence
“Aside from his career in music, Buffett is also a best-selling writer and is involved in two restaurant chains named after two of his best known songs, “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and “Margaritaville”. He owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain and co-developed the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant concept with OSI Restaurant Partners (parent of Outback Steakhouse), which operates the chain under a licensing agreement with Buffett.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett
“Grandpa “Steely” Phil Shortman (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) - Arnold’s fun-loving, wise-cracking grandfather. He is 81 years-old, as of the episode “Grandpa’s Birthday”. Arnold often comes to him for advice, to where he often tells Arnold stories about his past experiences, although he’s had the tendency to stretch the truth. He is a World War II veteran, in which he claims to have single-handedly won the Battle of the Bulge by tricking a large troupe of Nazi soldiers into eating numerous cans of spoiled CHAM, thereby poisoning them and creating a hole in the enemy line for the American troops to break through. Arnold didn’t believe his story at first, but it was later proven when Phil showed him a small monument of him hidden in some bushes in a park in Washington D.C. Phil was also a master at Chinese checkers, which earned him the nickname “Steely Phil”.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hey_Arnold!_characters
June 2012
22 posts
“Outkast (stylized as OutKast)”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outkast
“Like the majority of 19th-century Russian composers, Tchaikovsky possessed a penchant for melody. However, unlike Western themes, the ones that Russian composers wrote tended to be even more self-contained than those in Russian folk songs, even when they were written with broad, multi-phrase structures as Tchaikovsky tended to do. This, Brown says, was typical of Russian creativity, which functioned with a mindset of stasis and repetition rather than the one of progress and ongoing development that dominated Western creative thought.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky#Compositional_style
“The Monster almost eats the book Moby Dick, but Skeeter stops him and says, “Stop! You almost ate Herman Melville”, and the monster responded, so they name him Herman Melville.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%27s_First_Movie
“Althoughbad horizontal is common in daily life and language (see below), it is subject to many misconceptions.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_plane
“In the season 12 finale, Stabler was forced to shoot and kill a young woman who fires shots in the Special Victims squad room. Before dying in Stabler’s arms, she managed to kill two suspects involved in the rape and murder of her mother and injure a third. Also killed by her is recurring character Sister Peg (Charlayne Woodard), although it is unclear if this was intentional.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Stabler
“One critic describes the chorus as representative of “the G-funk tableau” emphasizing cruising culture, consumption of depressants, and materialism. The last line is an example of chiasmus, the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_and_Juice
“This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer’s mood or facial expression in the form of icons.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
.....φ(・∀・＊) Studying is good
In spoken form, the word may be used by street vendors to attract tourists or foreigners' attention. Because of the common misinterpretation by westerners that the word is insulting, the more cautious of the street vendors use the term Mister, which foreigners find more polite. Indonesians however, sometimes find the word humorous, as simply pointing from afar at a foreigner and saying "Look! A bule" might provoke laughter.
“Zack, Kelly, Slater, Screech, Leslie, and Alex’s dorm advisor was Mike Rogers (Bob Golic), an ex-football player. Although he looked and acted tough, he did have a softer side. In one episode, he took a liking to a laboratory mouse named X97, and also revealed some of his problems with women, including the fact that he never had a date in high school. One episode saw him – with Zack, Slater and Screech’s help – training to get back into football. Though he qualified, he chose to stay at college. (He also was really worn out by the whole thing.)”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saved_by_the_Bell:_The_College_Years
“For a number of individual birds, there exist collective nouns particular to the type of bird. Many of these collective nouns are fanciful and not in common use in English.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds
“According to actor and author Richard Belzer, the plot to kill Kennedy was a response to a postulated attempt by the President to shift power from the Federal Reserve to the U.S Treasury Department”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories#Federal_Reserve_conspiracy
“An unmarked gated studio entrance now stands at this address, but the exterior brick facing of the P.P.A.D. is still visible down the alley on the side of the building. The studio building complex has since been the home to various projects including the CBS series Jericho, which guest starred James Eckhouse in one episode. Until February, 2010 the CW series Melrose Place was also produced at the original 90210 Calvert studios. Post-production services for Beverly Hills, 90210 were provided by LaserPacific for all seasons.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_90210#Filming
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The Cuisine of North Dakota differs from average Midwestern cuisine in a number of ways. Though much of the Midwest has strong German influences, North Dakota also has strong influence from Norway as well as the many ethnic Germans from Russia who settled there.
As in the Midwest as a whole, meals are typically served in a smorgasbord format rather than in courses.
” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_North_Dakota
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Potter fan fiction also has a large following in the slash fiction genre, stories which feature sexual relationships that not exist in the books (shipping), often portraying homosexual pairings.[49][50] Famous pairings include Harry with Draco Malfoy or Cedric Diggory, and Remus Lupin with Sirius Black.[50][51] Harry Potter slash has eroded some of the antipathy towards underage sexuality in the wider slash fandom.[52]
In the fall of 2006, Jason Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Potter films, said that he had read fan fiction about his character and gets “a huge kick out of the more far-out stuff.”[53]
” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_Fandom
“In everyday parlance the term quay is common in the United Kingdom and many other Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, whereas the term wharf is more common in North America. In commercial/industrial usage wharf is typically avoided with quay being used to refer to the berthing areas, and port and terminal being used to refer to the overall structures and locations. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms quotes the New York Times as saying “a quay is a docking facility at which vessels lie parallel to the shoreline.”[3] In some contexts wharf and quay may be used to mean pier, berth, or jetty, though these uses are not addressed here.[3]”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharf
“The story begins with Scrooge McDuck swimming in his money bin, speaking his now-famous line, “I love to dive around in it like a porpoise, and burrow through it like a gopher, and toss it up and let it hit me on the head!” He is watched by his nephew Donald, and they discuss the relative merits of having so much money.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_a_Poor_Old_Man
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Today, the term “86”, and especially its past tense, “86’d” is widely used in American culture and beyond.
In 1947, the song “Boogie Woogie Blue Plate” by Louis Jordan, one line is “86 on the cherry pies” as one of many examples of short-order restaurant lingo.
” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_%28term%29
“A malapropism is the misuse of similar sounding words, especially with humorous results. An example is Yogi Berra’s statement: “Texas has a lot of electrical votes,”[1] rather than “electoral votes”. Jesus had a pet Walrus”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism
