Did you know Stephen Blum (of Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Shamploo, countless other anime/western cartoons/video games) has had more notable work than most VAs currently in the business?
The actress who played Moaning Myrtle was 37 years old when she portrayed the ghost of a pre-pubescent Hogwarts student in the second Harry Potter movie.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
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one of the most prolific contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary was a fella by the name of William Chester Minor
he contributed thousands of definitions to the dictionary's editorial staff, and eventually the editor (Dr. James Murray) decided to meet him
so he went out to the asylum which Minor gave as his address, thinking that Minor was a doctor on staff (Minor was, in fact, a trained physician)
turns out, Minor was a patient, and quite deliriously mad (but only at night); he had murdered a man on the streets of London in the middle of the night
he was convinced the Irish were out to murder him
despite this, the two struck up a friendship that continued well into their declining years
eventually, though, Minor's madness worsened, though his advanced age meant that he wasn't a real harm to anyone, and he was remanded to the care of his brother. minor died of natural causes, or close enough.
now, interestingly, there's a street in Seattle that some of you may be familiar with- Minor Avenue
William Minor had a half-brother, one Thomas T. Minor, who was mayor of Seattle in 1887
it's him the street was named after
his mayoral tenure was unremarkable, but for one fact: partway through his term, he went on a canoe trip with a friend and disappeared without a trace
probably, they drowned, but their bodies were never recovered
this has been bizarre history, brought to you by Shorty
I love historical coincidences. I like to believe they're true, even if many of them aren't.
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I didn't know this until recently (and I get the sense I'm in the minority here) but apparently the studio that produced the Terminator recommended OJ Simpson for the starring role but James Cameron couldn't see him as a convincing killer.
I didn't know this until recently (and I get the sense I'm in the minority here) but apparently the studio that produced the Terminator recommended OJ Simpson for the starring role but James Cameron couldn't see him as a convincing killer.
yuuuuuuuuuuup
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Thomas Midgley was a chemist working for General Motors in the early 1900's
he was also a sack of shit
he and his team developed the lead fuel additive tetraethyllead, which is demonstrably poisonous and ruinous to the environment
he maintained that this was untrue despite overwhelming evidence, going so far as to "demonstrate" its benign qualities to the media
he would inhale deeply from a beaker full of the stuff, and dump it all over his hands, all "Look, I'm fine."
apparently he convinced himself that the months of convalesence he needed immediately after this stunt were unrelated
later, he also invented the first CFCs, which we have to thank for the holes in our ozone layer
he died after contracting polio (somehow), though not directly due to the polio: he invented a machine that would help him get out of bed. he entagled himself in its various ropes and pulleys, and died of strangulation, proving that, at times, our universe is capable of some very delicious poetic justice.
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there is a city in Austria called Fucking.
they have a problem with people stealing their signs. shocking, I know.
when I first read about this place, I misread "austria" as "australia".
I didn't catch this mistake until after I'd told a few people that there was a city in Australia called Fucking.
I decided not to inform them; I liked the idea of maybe one of them going to Australia and asking about Fucking.
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As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko the gorilla for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off!
According to a TV Guide profile, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
In covering Rogers’ daily routine (waking up at 5; praying for a few hours for all of his friends and family; studying; writing, making calls and reaching out to every fan who took the time to write him; going for a morning swim; getting on a scale; then really starting his day), writer Tom Junod explained that Mr. Rogers weighed in at exactly 143 pounds every day for the last 30 years of his life. He didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, didn’t eat the flesh of any animals, and was extremely disciplined in his daily routine. And while I’m not sure if any of that was because he’d mostly grown up a chubby, single child, Junod points out that Rogers found beauty in the number 143. According to the piece, Rogers came “to see that number as a gift… because, as he says, “the number 143 means ‘I love you.’ It takes one letter to say ‘I’ and four letters to say ‘love’ and three letters to say ‘you.’ One hundred and forty-three.”
Mister Rogers seems to have been almost exactly the same off-screen as he was onscreen. As an ordained Presbyterian minister, and a man of tremendous faith, Mister Rogers preached tolerance first. Whenever he was asked to castigate non-Christians or gays for their differing beliefs, he would instead face them and say, with sincerity, “God loves you just the way you are.” Often this provoked ire from fundamentalists.
Literally. He couldn’t see the color blue. Of course, he was also figuratively color-blind, as you probably guessed. As were his parents who took in a black foster child when Rogers was growing up.
Once while rushing to a New York meeting, there were no cabs available, so Rogers and one of his colleagues hopped on the subway. Esquire reported that the car was filled with people, and they assumed they wouldn’t be noticed. But when the crowd spotted Rogers, they all simultaneously burst into song, chanting “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.” The result made Rogers smile wide.
Every one of the cardigans he wore on the show had been hand-knit by his mother.
Peter Falk, best known for playing Columbo (as well as the grandfather in The Princess Bride), had a glass age starting at the age of three.
There was some debate about whether or not the character of Columbo also had a glass eye or if the character was supposed to have two eyes. It wasn't until over a quarter of a century later in a Columbo TV movie when the answer was finally given when someone asks to accompany Columbo and he responds that "three eyes are better than one."
On a related note, the Nicholas Cage film "City of Angels" is a remake of a foreign film known as "Wings of Desire" or "The Sky Over Berlin." It is quite different from the Nick Cage version, and includes Peter Falk playing Peter Falk who is actually an angel who gave up his immortality to life a human life and get into the film business.
Speaking of actors missing body parts, Matthew Perry (Chandler from Friends) is missing a portion of one of his fingers. This is most easily noticed during the beginning of the "Whole Nine Yards" when he is brushing his teeth. Supposedly it was slammed in a door when he was a child.
*Despite his terrible reputation, the dread pirate Blackbeard is not known to have ever killed a single person prior to his final battle.
*The movie "Biodome" starring Paulie Shore was originally supposed to be the third Bill & Ted film.
*"The Wizard of Oz" is actually the first book in a series, first published in 1900. L. Frank Baum, the original author, wrote at least 14 novels before passing it on to someone else. New books still come out to this day, and there are quite a few of them now. Additionally, the book origin for the Tin Woodsman is severely fucked up (especially when he gets his memory back in a later book and goes looking for his lost love only to discover she is with a zombie made of his lost human body parts).
Lastly, Roger Rabbit was originally a book, "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" This book was drastically different from the popular film and featured no copyright characters like Mickey Mouse or Droopy.
For starters, Roger stars in comic strips, not cartoons. He also communicates via speech bubbles. There is also no Dip or Judge Doom. Toons can be killed just like anyone else, but they possess the ability to create temporary duplicates of themselves to get killed in stunts. Also, Roger Rabbit is killed near the beginning of the book. The rest of the book is Eddie Valiant teaming up with a duplicate of Roger's to solve Roger's murder before the duplicate expires and melts away (as well as trying to discover why prior to his death Roger had put so much effort into making a duplicate that could last days instead of hours).
When the movie rights got picked up, Steven Spielberg stepped in and used his magical powers to get Disney and WB to work together and produce the amazing movie we know today. Afterwords, the original author wrote a sequel book called "Who P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?" which is mostly a sequel to the movie with a few elements from the first book added in. The author claims to have also written a third book but is not having it published until a second movie is made. He's also written some short stories and such.
Disney at one time tried to make a Roger Rabbit cartoon series, but WB wouldn't give them to go ahead, so they retooled the cartoon and created Bonkers the Bobcat.
Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
edited December 2011
In 1859, the US almost went to war with Britain because of a pig.
One Lyman Cutlar found a pig eating his potatoes in the back yard of his home on San Juan Island (in what is now Washington), so he shot the pig. It belonged to an Irishman named Charles Griffin, who was understandably angry. Cutlar offered ten dollars in recompense, Griffin demanded one hundred, Cutlar declined, and was threatened with arrest by British troops from nearby Vancouver Island. The Americans asked for support from the Army, and things escalated (due in no small way to George Pickett, he of Pickett's Charge, who said of the affair that "We'll make a Bunker Hill of it.") until the British governor ordered his admiral, Robert Baynes, to land marines and engage the Americans on San Juan Island. However, Baynes, being (we must assume) the most reasonable man around, refused, saying that it was absurd for two countries to go to war over a pig. Eventually, the respective heads of state were informed of these events, and both sent delegates to resolve the situation. Unfortunately, the location could not have been more inconvenient; because of a poorly-worded treaty agreed upon in 1846, the border between the UK and the US was unclear in this region of the Sound, and the whole affair turned into a border dispute, with each side disagreeing on which strait through the San Juans would mark the national border.
It took twelve years for them to decide to have the situation arbitrated internationally.
Kaiser Wilhelm was chosen to arbitrate, and he delegated to a three-man panel which took another year to decide in favor of the US, which is why San Juan Island is part of Washington and not Canada.
During the twelve-year negotions, both Americans and British kept a token force of one hundred men on San Juan Island. The Union Jack is still flown over the British camp today.
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
The original terminator is such an under rated movie.
Sure two pretty much Defined the modern day action movie. But the first was such a cool amalgamation of sci fu, horror and action. It really is very unique.
The original terminator is such an under rated movie.
Sure two pretty much Defined the modern day action movie. But the first was such a cool amalgamation of sci fu, horror and action. It really is very unique.
My dad's two favorite movies are Terminator and True Lies.
He let me watch True Lies when I was nine or ten; at one point in the movie, Schwarzenegger is trying to convince Tom Arnold to help him mess with his wife
and Schwarzenegger is all, "you have to help me, I've got dirt on you" (or something to that effect)
Arnold says, "You've got nothing on me, I'm as clean as a preacher's sheets!"
"How about the time you blew a six-week operation because you were getting a blowjob?"
when I heard this line, I looked over to pops and said, "What's a blowjob?"
and he said, "All you need to know is, they're awesome."
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this isn't particularly surprising
and besides
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919798/
Also, you are a battery meant to keep Tom Servo happy or something.
he contributed thousands of definitions to the dictionary's editorial staff, and eventually the editor (Dr. James Murray) decided to meet him
so he went out to the asylum which Minor gave as his address, thinking that Minor was a doctor on staff (Minor was, in fact, a trained physician)
turns out, Minor was a patient, and quite deliriously mad (but only at night); he had murdered a man on the streets of London in the middle of the night
he was convinced the Irish were out to murder him
despite this, the two struck up a friendship that continued well into their declining years
eventually, though, Minor's madness worsened, though his advanced age meant that he wasn't a real harm to anyone, and he was remanded to the care of his brother. minor died of natural causes, or close enough.
now, interestingly, there's a street in Seattle that some of you may be familiar with- Minor Avenue
William Minor had a half-brother, one Thomas T. Minor, who was mayor of Seattle in 1887
it's him the street was named after
his mayoral tenure was unremarkable, but for one fact: partway through his term, he went on a canoe trip with a friend and disappeared without a trace
probably, they drowned, but their bodies were never recovered
this has been bizarre history, brought to you by Shorty
yuuuuuuuuuuup
he was also a sack of shit
he and his team developed the lead fuel additive tetraethyllead, which is demonstrably poisonous and ruinous to the environment
he maintained that this was untrue despite overwhelming evidence, going so far as to "demonstrate" its benign qualities to the media
he would inhale deeply from a beaker full of the stuff, and dump it all over his hands, all "Look, I'm fine."
apparently he convinced himself that the months of convalesence he needed immediately after this stunt were unrelated
later, he also invented the first CFCs, which we have to thank for the holes in our ozone layer
he died after contracting polio (somehow), though not directly due to the polio: he invented a machine that would help him get out of bed. he entagled himself in its various ropes and pulleys, and died of strangulation, proving that, at times, our universe is capable of some very delicious poetic justice.
they have a problem with people stealing their signs. shocking, I know.
when I first read about this place, I misread "austria" as "australia".
I didn't catch this mistake until after I'd told a few people that there was a city in Australia called Fucking.
I decided not to inform them; I liked the idea of maybe one of them going to Australia and asking about Fucking.
I assure you, it is because no one from that site has noticed any and not because we don't have any
The Clue: Now in season 23, its producer says it's the only show with "no script, no actors, no host and no re-enactments"
The answer was
There was some debate about whether or not the character of Columbo also had a glass eye or if the character was supposed to have two eyes. It wasn't until over a quarter of a century later in a Columbo TV movie when the answer was finally given when someone asks to accompany Columbo and he responds that "three eyes are better than one."
On a related note, the Nicholas Cage film "City of Angels" is a remake of a foreign film known as "Wings of Desire" or "The Sky Over Berlin." It is quite different from the Nick Cage version, and includes Peter Falk playing Peter Falk who is actually an angel who gave up his immortality to life a human life and get into the film business.
Speaking of actors missing body parts, Matthew Perry (Chandler from Friends) is missing a portion of one of his fingers. This is most easily noticed during the beginning of the "Whole Nine Yards" when he is brushing his teeth. Supposedly it was slammed in a door when he was a child.
And now for something completely different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case
Random other things:
*Despite his terrible reputation, the dread pirate Blackbeard is not known to have ever killed a single person prior to his final battle.
*The movie "Biodome" starring Paulie Shore was originally supposed to be the third Bill & Ted film.
*"The Wizard of Oz" is actually the first book in a series, first published in 1900. L. Frank Baum, the original author, wrote at least 14 novels before passing it on to someone else. New books still come out to this day, and there are quite a few of them now. Additionally, the book origin for the Tin Woodsman is severely fucked up (especially when he gets his memory back in a later book and goes looking for his lost love only to discover she is with a zombie made of his lost human body parts).
Lastly, Roger Rabbit was originally a book, "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" This book was drastically different from the popular film and featured no copyright characters like Mickey Mouse or Droopy.
When the movie rights got picked up, Steven Spielberg stepped in and used his magical powers to get Disney and WB to work together and produce the amazing movie we know today. Afterwords, the original author wrote a sequel book called "Who P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?" which is mostly a sequel to the movie with a few elements from the first book added in. The author claims to have also written a third book but is not having it published until a second movie is made. He's also written some short stories and such.
Disney at one time tried to make a Roger Rabbit cartoon series, but WB wouldn't give them to go ahead, so they retooled the cartoon and created Bonkers the Bobcat.
One Lyman Cutlar found a pig eating his potatoes in the back yard of his home on San Juan Island (in what is now Washington), so he shot the pig. It belonged to an Irishman named Charles Griffin, who was understandably angry. Cutlar offered ten dollars in recompense, Griffin demanded one hundred, Cutlar declined, and was threatened with arrest by British troops from nearby Vancouver Island. The Americans asked for support from the Army, and things escalated (due in no small way to George Pickett, he of Pickett's Charge, who said of the affair that "We'll make a Bunker Hill of it.") until the British governor ordered his admiral, Robert Baynes, to land marines and engage the Americans on San Juan Island. However, Baynes, being (we must assume) the most reasonable man around, refused, saying that it was absurd for two countries to go to war over a pig. Eventually, the respective heads of state were informed of these events, and both sent delegates to resolve the situation. Unfortunately, the location could not have been more inconvenient; because of a poorly-worded treaty agreed upon in 1846, the border between the UK and the US was unclear in this region of the Sound, and the whole affair turned into a border dispute, with each side disagreeing on which strait through the San Juans would mark the national border.
It took twelve years for them to decide to have the situation arbitrated internationally.
Kaiser Wilhelm was chosen to arbitrate, and he delegated to a three-man panel which took another year to decide in favor of the US, which is why San Juan Island is part of Washington and not Canada.
During the twelve-year negotions, both Americans and British kept a token force of one hundred men on San Juan Island. The Union Jack is still flown over the British camp today.
Sure two pretty much Defined the modern day action movie. But the first was such a cool amalgamation of sci fu, horror and action. It really is very unique.
Satans..... hints.....
Let's all have a SBBQ on my D*
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What year do you think it is set in?
It was released in 1991.
And there isn't anything explicit that makes you think otherwise.
However.
In the scene where the T-1000 looks up John Connor it has his birthdate listed in 1984 and his age as 11.
The movie is actually set in 1995.
James Cameron was such a vissionary he knew kids would always love guns n roses.
Satans..... hints.....
but the truth is that in nearly every one of his Cold War-era films, he's pitted against a villain who's aligned with no particular nation
the sole exception being For Your Eyes Only
and, arguably, Goldeneye, though Ourumov was a Soviet traitor and the film was made well after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
My dad's two favorite movies are Terminator and True Lies.
He let me watch True Lies when I was nine or ten; at one point in the movie, Schwarzenegger is trying to convince Tom Arnold to help him mess with his wife
and Schwarzenegger is all, "you have to help me, I've got dirt on you" (or something to that effect)
Arnold says, "You've got nothing on me, I'm as clean as a preacher's sheets!"
"How about the time you blew a six-week operation because you were getting a blowjob?"
when I heard this line, I looked over to pops and said, "What's a blowjob?"
and he said, "All you need to know is, they're awesome."
this parasite can grow up to 30ft long (it only lives in stingrays though)
You can buy a bag of mints from a discount store for like 60 cents
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Yeah if you can't afford mints for your dinner party, you probably don't have any friends anyway.
I'm terrified to see what you served as a main
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
goes from having a senator being insultingly dismissive to reading him the lyrics of a children's song
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I sure as hell hope so. It's truly inspiring that someone could be so fundamentally good.