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Sham bam bamina! posted:I'm pretty sure that both take their nicknames from the WWI ace Eddie Rickenbacker, actually. Also, the nickname Fast Eddie became even more popular in the U.S. starting in the '60s because of the main character in "The Hustler" (played by Paul Newman in the 1961 movie and the 1986 followup "The Color of Money").
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HorseRenoir posted:What is it about metal that attracts sperglords? I've never seen punk or hip-hop fans as anal and dorky as metalheads. I sometimes feel kind of bad for metal bands that have been touring for decades and can remember playing for 1980s crowds of drunken rowdy rednecks and hairprayed libertine young women (you know, the Heavy Metal Parking Lot crowd) and now they look out from their stage and see a roomful of be-hatted tropers and scattered old people.
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quote:Darrin: I take it you have a map of this island? Imaginary misprints in imaginary quotes from imaginary books in an imaginary oversaturated media franchise.
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On the subject of terrible trope names, see if you can guess (before clicking the link) what Goldfish Poop Gang means.
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A much more understandable trope name is Encyclopaedic Knowledge, which is in fact about characters who seem to know something about everything, but then it has this example near the bottom:quote:Many (if not the vast majority of) tropers on this very wiki would almost certainly qualify, purely by virtue of spending so much time learning so many different trivial details about so many different things for the lulz of it.
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Annointed posted:
How fortuitously timed for Venn's birthday! Real talk though, there's a somewhat famous specialty bra store in NYC called Linda's. They say that their new employees have to go through a three-month training program before they are allowed to do custom bra fitting for customers. And even that place only advertises up to N cup.
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The Internet claims that this is what an N cup looks like
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Aug 5, 2014 02:38
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A trope page called "Bestiality Is Depraved" assures us: "Bestiality is also known as Zoophilia or Zoosexuality, and the Furry Fandom do look down upon it, just so you know."
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I must be some kind of weirdo since it makes me feel good when somebody who could very well be doing something else instead voluntarily chooses to spend time with me
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Aug 7, 2014 16:41
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From the TVTropes page on The Fifties:quote:"Square" - Someone dull, out of it or otherwise not "in". Usually used to refer to a nerd, since the Fifties were before Nerds Became Sexy and long before nerds were hardcore. Hahahaha you guys keep telling yourselves that
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Aug 8, 2014 01:47
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Supposedly, if you read the page for the Getting Crap Past the Radar trope, it's supposed to be about very subtly burying naughty jokes, particularly in stuff meant for children. But then I find supposed examples like this, from the page for Back to the Future:quote:Getting Crap Past the Radar While the third one might be an intentional subtle joke (watch the clip here and judge for yourself), the first one is blatant about what it means -- Lorraine reacts by angrily shouting "I'm not that kind of girl" and slapping him pretty hard -- and the second one is played as a really obvious joke, especially with Marty's reaction of grabbing the bra away from George and tossing it back in the laundry basket.
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quote:There are times when they would occasionally show the birds' (mainly Wade's)...anal holes... Hey hey hey hey hey it's a cloaca Also lol at that one about body paint sex
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Aug 9, 2014 02:27
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From the Older Than They Think index of "Settings":quote:Many people think that eating international cuisine is something that came about in the 1980's.
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Aug 10, 2014 06:52
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Wait, what? That's the later days of ancient Egypt, isn't it? Who's surprised by that? The same sort of people who think eating foreign food was invented more recently than the Atari 2600, I'd guess.
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Aug 10, 2014 08:55
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There's a trope called Eagleland Osmosis that refers to people outside the United States expecting things to work they way they do on American TV shows, such as referring to judges as "your honor" or expecting to be read their rights when arrested. The end of the introduction says, "Please note that while this trope is common in Real Life, examples here should only be from the media," but nonetheless there is a section of "Real Life" examples anyway.
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TvTropes: An obese male who may or may not have lizard-man boobs
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Because of this discussion, I went to see what TV Tropes had to say about a very highly regarded piece of fiction that makes use of pre-existing characters from another work and therefore could arguably be loosely described as fan fiction... We don't have an article named Main/WideSargassoSea. If you want to start this new page, just click the edit button above. Huh, how about that.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewerThanTheyThinkquote:Nachos, often thought of as a traditional Mexican food,
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From one of the Accidental Innuendo sub-pages:quote:Disney's Aladdin has a famous example of unintentional innuendo in the song "A Whole New World." Aww man get a load of all that innuendo. (Actually that whole page is troperiffic as hell)
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Aug 17, 2014 06:45
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Another entry on that Accidental Innuendo page indicates that at least one troper doesn't know what "accidental" means:quote:The Sylvester Stallone film Oscar gets two good in-film moments from linguist Dr. Poole (Tim Curry), both involving linguistic terms — the first comes when he comments on Lisa's (Marisa Tomei's) "nicely rounded diphthongs
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I was looking through another Accidental Innuendo page and learned that tropers think Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings are an example of accidental innuendo.
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From the We Win Because You Did Not trope page, under "Real Life (Other)":quote:This trope can explain the use of the term "white privilege" (and related privileges like those for men, heterosexuals, tall people, the rich, the middle-aged, etc.) by those who believe that such things exist. When the reason for the terms' usages isn't just plain old bigotry, at any rate.
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