goblin week posted:

dude your posts are so short

StrixNebulosa posted:

The film is perhaps most famous for a scene in which Mrs. Hammond opens the door to a room filled with dogs that are apparently being experimented on. The dogs are cut open with their hearts and guts still pulsating. The scene was so graphic and realistic that several crew members were forced to testify in court to disprove the accusation that real dogs were used in the film.[3] Carlo Rambaldi, a special effects artist, saved Fulci from a two-year prison sentence by presenting the fake dog props in court to a seemingly unconvinced judiciary.[3] This was the first time in film history that an effects artist had to prove his work was not real in a court of law.

matti posted:

Pello railway station is located in the municipality of Pello in the Lapland Province of Finland. The station is basic, with one solitary unpaved platform, though there is a small wooden bench with a roof

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In popular culture
The activity rose high enough in the zeitgeist to land an appearance on the long-running soap opera EastEnders. The 2 August 2004 episode featured a reference to the then-current altitude record holders the Hot Plate Brothers. As the party-loving Kat and Zoe Slater are preparing to go out, they are invited to the launch party at Angie's Den where celebrities—including the brothers—are supposed to appear.

It is also mentioned in Netflix’s show Dino Girl Gauko Season 1 Episode 6. [20]

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

In social media, a wife guy is a man whose fame is owed to the content he posts about his wife.[1]

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In 2013, a Reddit post of a garage tagged in red spray-paint with "Don't e-mail my wife!!!" emerged on the Internet. The ambiguity of the wife and what she may have thought about the situation was noted as being similar to the wife guy trope in retrospect.[5]

prefect posted:

i want to find a way to outlaw the word "trope"

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The following notable men have been described as wife guys:

Borat[4]

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I was called a "clownboat" on IRC at least a year before Jeff K. was supposedly created. I was trading insults with another chatter when he began calling me nonsense phrases consisting of two seemingly random words put together. I decided to mock him by changing my nick to each ridiculous insult that was thrown at me, and thus gained the handle "Clownboat" (his first insult, which was followed by the less-attractive "fagmelon"), which I've used ever since that fateful day. However, the term was undoubtedly in use some time before that incident. This occurred sometime in 1997 or 1998, but since I cannot speficy an exact date or provide written evidence, I'll leave the article as-is. If further information surfaces confirming the existence of the term before Jeff K. used it, it should be removed from the article for brevity.

See also the Urban Dictionary definitions.--Clownboat 07:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

well why not posted:

ColTim posted:

A carpet beater or carpetbeater (also referred to as a rug beater or rugbeater, carpet whip, rug whip, clothes-beater, dust beater or dustbeater, carpet duster, wicker slapper, rug duster, or pillow fluffer, and formerly also as a carpet cleaner or rug cleaner)

alexandriao posted:

view the original, it's animated

alexandriao posted:

view the original, it's animated

alexandriao posted:

view the original, it's animated

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The Space Poop Challenge was a 2016 contest sponsored by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for new designs for space toilet systems for use in space suits.

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Coffman knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: “This is, of course, nonsense.”

Sham bam bamina! posted:

The agents were William Colepaugh, an American-born defector to Germany, and Erich Gimpel, an experienced German intelligence operative. They spent nearly a month living in New York City, expending large amounts of cash on entertainment, but accomplishing none of their mission goals.

duz posted:

articles about nazis that are strangely positive

peacemaker67 posted:

“Will we apply the same censorship to military history articles on units of the Khmer Rouge? Turkish military units involved in the Armenian Genocide? Rwandan military units involved in the genocide in that country? US cavalry units that massacred Native Americans? Arkan’s Tigers? Where does that end?”