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Starving Autist
Oct 20, 2007

by Ralp
The cover art of the album depicts a plate of fried eggs between a fork, knife and glass, while the inside booklet depicts a rooster which was specifically brought into the studio for the photo shooting. Several eggs had to be fried before the designers could settle on the correct shape.

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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Ableist Kinkshamer posted:

The cover art of the album depicts a plate of fried eggs between a fork, knife and glass, while the inside booklet depicts a rooster which was specifically brought into the studio for the photo shooting. Several eggs had to be fried before the designers could settle on the correct shape.
as if the article itself didn't qualify for this thread :allears:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

reading about the diablo canyon nuclear power plant

quote:

In October 2008, Unit 2 was taken offline for approximately two days due to a rapid influx of jellyfish at the intake.[17]

:3:

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
nuclear mutant jellyfishes. loving awesome.

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010
speaking of jellyfish, not wikipedia and not worthless but
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/sep/26/jellyfish-theyre-taking-over/

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

i'd heard about this; it's kinda scary


From the Arctic to the equator and on to the Antarctic, jellyfish plagues (or blooms, as they’re technically known) are on the increase. Even sober scientists are now talking of the jellification of the oceans. And the term is more than a mere turn of phrase. Off southern Africa, jellyfish have become so abundant that they have formed a sort of curtain of death, “a stingy-slimy killing field,” as Gershwin puts it, that covers over 30,000 square miles. The curtain is formed of jelly extruded by the creatures, and it includes stinging cells. The region once supported a fabulously rich fishery yielding a million tons annually of fish, mainly anchovies. In 2006 the total fish biomass was estimated at just 3.9 million tons, while the jellyfish biomass was 13 million tons. So great is their density that jellyfish are now blocking vacuum pumps used by local diamond miners to suck up sediments from the sea floor.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

prefect posted:

Even sober scientists are now talking of the jellification of the oceans.
drunk scientists on the other hand have been on that poo poo for years

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
Music critic Robert Christgau's only comments were "Aww-shuck! heck."[2]

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
An early use of the phrase occurs in Gene Wilder's 1975 comedy The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Sigerson Holmes (Gene Wilder) grills Jenny Hill (Madeline Kahn), the supposed daughter of the British Minister of External Affairs, in a rather unusual interrogation process. While sitting over her almost naked and rather responsive body lying on a couch, he massages her breasts and repeatedly asks her Who's Your Father?.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

PleasingFungus posted:

Who's Your Father?
my least-favorite game show

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
that quote is fukken awful by the way, good job

that awful man
Feb 18, 2007

YOSPOS, bitch

Sham bam bamina! posted:

my least-favorite game show

i can't find the post, but somebody already linked it keywords: smooth yet spontaneous dance routine

that awful man
Feb 18, 2007

YOSPOS, bitch

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

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

Due to the lack of a Major League Baseball Players' Association license, Griffey is the only player in the game to use his actual name. However, one of the fun and largely unknown parts of this game is identifying other MLB players based on the phony and sometimes pun-laden names given to them by developers. For example, the prolific and temperamental Albert Belle is transformed into "Frank Liberty", Frank Thomas who is nicknamed the Big Hurt is named "Big Magoo", left-handed slugger Tino Martinez is called Viper Ramirez, athletically talented and muscular slugger Barry Bonds is named a similarly alliterate "Muscles McFee", Cal Ripken, Jr. is named "Lou Junior", and hard throwing then-Mariners ace Randy Johnson is called "Bolt Lightning" and the twirling Japanese import Hideo Nomo, nicknamed "Tatsumaki" (The Tornado), is aptly changed to "Typhoon Kuroi."

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmQpZ7iYDo4

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
would watch

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

and now from our friends at Wiktionary

Wiktionary posted:

twerk

English

Etymology 1

Found primarily in the 1930s-era works of Walter Dumaux Edmonds.

Noun

twerk (plural twerks)

(slang, dated, US) A puny or insignificant person, generally male; a twerp.

Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

The Remote Viewer posted:


Click here for the full 1491x807 image.


Someone made a detailed chart of which characters appear in which Police Academy movies.

https://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/OP

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

RZApublican posted:

and now from our friends at Wiktionary

Twerk it! *sells newspapers on the streetcorner during the depression*

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
Rosemary Black, a New York Daily News writer describes a staff member at the New York location as a "helpful, very knowledgeable salesperson." [3]

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
On television, Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a humorous parody named "Ozymandias, King of Ants", and the Beauty and the Beast episode titled "Ozymandias" included a reading of the entire poem. In July 2013, the American television series Breaking Bad debuted a trailer that featured Bryan Cranston reading the entire poem.[16] The fourteenth episode of the fifth season of that series is entitled "Ozymandias".

ANIME MONSTROSITY
Jun 1, 2012

by XyloJW

quote:

The museum claims that its collection includes the penises of elves and trolls, though, as Icelandic folklore portrays such creatures as being invisible, they cannot be seen.
come see my invisible elf dick

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Call Now posted:

invisible elf dick

mods

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_with_nonsensical_lyrics

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
today's featured article:



Hit & Run (top) and Grand Theft Auto III (bottom). Hit & Run, inspired by the Grand Theft Auto series, shares some similarities with the games, including the radar, and a strong focus on their driving aspect.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reptilian_humanoids

bu$h's and klinton's conspicuously absent

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
Concept[edit source | editbeta]

The cartoon was the only one at the time produced entirely in the United States. It used a combination of Macromedia Flash and traditional cel animation.[3] Each program was 30 minutes long (with commercials) and featured three seven-minute segments that borrow inspiration from Japanese animation.[4]

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Improbable Lobster posted:

Concept[edit source | editbeta]

The cartoon was the only one at the time produced entirely in the United States. It used a combination of Macromedia Flash and traditional cel animation.[3] Each program was 30 minutes long (with commercials) and featured three seven-minute segments that borrow inspiration from Japanese animation.[4]

ban this sick anime filth

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast
TurboTron[1] better known as MegaKiller[2] is the anime equivalent of Darth Vader having anal sex with Satan[3] portrayed in anime form. The true beauty of this film has been noted[4] as being in the complex "gently caress you dads" during the epic saga.[5][6] This anime is renowned for it's fine vintage use of artisan Japano centric memes which portray animes in the true american fashion.[7][8][9][10]

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast
can we stop talking about animes now

birdlaw
Dec 25, 2006

only you can prevent animechat

Otaku Alpha Male
Nov 11, 2012

bitches get ~tsundere~ when I pull out my katana
Does anyone know if it is pronounced /ɛtʃi/ or /ɛktʃi/? In other words, is that first c pronounced as /k/ or is it silent?
— trlkly 01:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
  • Dear anime-lovers, please use serious dictionaries (Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary) and Japanese handbooks and follow the rules that are obligatory in our Hepburn transcription. Write properly: ETCHI. --Seibun (talk) 18:39, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE
Disclaimer: Since BMIII appears in a fictional anime work, the actual science involved in the following explanation is not to be taken seriously. However, the creators of Gunbuster did their best to maintain a sense of scientific verisimilitude, even including "science lessons" at the end of each episode to explain the various scientific phenomena featured in the OVA. Thus, an explanation for the BMIII detonation process would not be so far-fetched.

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE

Sniep posted:

can we stop talking about animes now

never

Meat Beat Agent
Aug 5, 2007

felonious assault with a sproinging boner

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Robert Christgau

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Instant Grat posted:

Disclaimer: Since BMIII appears in a fictional anime work, the actual science involved in the following explanation is not to be taken seriously. However, the creators of Gunbuster did their best to maintain a sense of scientific verisimilitude, even including "science lessons" at the end of each episode to explain the various scientific phenomena featured in the OVA. Thus, an explanation for the BMIII detonation process would not be so far-fetched.

the gunbuster science lessons own because they're clearly done in hypercard

trap sprung, don't care

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
HyperCard was the poo poo

also apparently in the iPhone autocorrect

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
This article needs to be given a thorough once-through to remove the incorrect of "they", "them", "their", etc. that can't apply to an un-living object. Unless ZIP disks start to get together and develop awareness like The Terminator or Agent Smith, I must criticize this article as inaccurate and hard-to-read, or also unable to be read and understood from a proper perspective. Japanimation station (talk) 05:10, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
Plot

I hate to nitpick a children's story, but where it mentions Rex is forcefed "280 portions" of Brain Grain Cereal, is there a source for that? Because I don't remember it anywhere in the movie, all I remember is a ton of it falls into his mouth.--97.97.231.148 (talk) 01:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Vorb says it took "280 portions to jump start that brain of yours". My timer reads 6 minutes and 40 seconds into the movie. TeigeRyan (talk) 00:10, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell
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Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell, a British girl, received a score of 162 (the maximum) on the Cattell B scale in a Mensa IQ test in July 2013 at the age of eleven, a feat which brought her international notice.[1][2][3][4] This makes her IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.[5] Her score of 162 is also the top score in Britain (as of when she received it).[6] Cerys sat the Mensa test to try and beat her dad who has been a member of Mensa for 10 years with an IQ score of 142. She hopes to someday become Prime Minister or governor of the Bank of England.[7]
References

Jump up ^ http://www.nigeriaintel.com/2013/08/08/schoolgirl-has-higher-iq-than-albert-einstein/
Jump up ^ http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/united-kingdom/130807/cerys-cooksammy-parnell-11-year-old-british-girl-
Jump up ^ http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/08/09/smarter-than-einstein-could-11-year-old-become-first-boe-chief/
Jump up ^ http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/northampton-11-year-old-achieves-top-mensa-intelligence-score-1-5363884
Jump up ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/08/cerys-cooksammy-parnell-higher-iq-einstein-mensa_n_3724189.html
Jump up ^ http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/united-kingdom/130807/cerys-cooksammy-parnell-11-year-old-british-girl-
Jump up ^ http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2013/aug/08/eleven-year-old-schoolgirl-iq-einstein-video


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