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But his finest performance is still in The Van
The Little House on the Prairie (and all the other books about the Ingalls family) were ghostwritten by Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, Rose Wilder - a professional author who supported her family through the Great Depression (despite having to deal with the more personal kind of depression herself).
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A shoggoth (Bestiary 1) is a monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being was mentioned in passing in sonnet XX ("Night-Gaunts") of H. P. Lovecraft's sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth, written in 1929–30, and were expounded upon in his novella At the Mountains of Madness (1931).
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Cleavon Little won the lead role of Sheriff Bart in Blazing Saddles (1974) over Richard Pryor, who co-wrote the script intending to play the role himself. Studio execs were apparently nervous over Pryor's reputation as a racy comedian and thought Cleavon would be a safer choice.
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In the movie The Fifth Element, the hero Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) and the villain Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) never actually meet, nor do they communicate in any way. They are, in fact, completely unaware of each other's degree of involvement in events of the story.
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Cleavon Little won the lead role of Sheriff Bart in Blazing Saddles (1974) over Richard Pryor
Cleavon Little also played "Super Soul" in the 1971 classic Vanishing Point, one of my all-time favorite movies (and obviously one of Quentin Tarantino's as well, if you've seen Death Proof).
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Well supposedly, "the role of Bart was intended for Richard Pryor, but due to the controversial nature of Pryor's stand-up routines of the day and his background, Mel Brooks couldn't secure financing for the project with Pryor in that role. So Pryor was made a co-writer of the script, and Cleavon Little played Bart. Pryor later got to star in a different western comedy - Adiós Amigo (1976)."
We'll never know if he'd have been better in the role. As it stands, Cleavon Little was perfectly cast, with a script co-written by Pryor helping to make him that way.
According to Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor wrote ALL of the Mongo bits (many of which were cut from the theatrical release) and wrote many of the Looney Tunes-esque bits.
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... that my eldest son's last day of his first year of school is today?
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The origins of the Little Red Riding Hood story can be traced to versions from various European countries and more than likely preceding the 17th century, of which several exist, some significantly different from the currently known, Grimms-inspired version. It was told by French peasants in the 10th century. In Italy, the Little Red Riding Hood was told by peasants in fourteenth century, where a number of versions exist, including La finta nonna (The False Grandmother). It has also been called "The Story of Grandmother". It is also possible that this early tale has roots in very similar Oriental tales (e.g. "Grandaunt Tiger").
These early variations of the tale differ from the currently known version in several ways. The antagonist is not always a wolf, but sometimes an ogre or a 'bzou' (werewolf), making these tales relevant to the werewolf-trials (similar to witch trials) of the time (e.g. the trial of Peter Stumpp). The wolf usually leaves the grandmother’s blood and meat for the girl to eat, who then unwittingly cannibalizes her own grandmother. Furthermore, the wolf was also known to ask her to remove her clothing and toss it into the fire. In some versions, the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him, and the story ends there. In others, she sees through his disguise and tries to escape, complaining to her "grandmother" that she needs to defecate and would not wish to do so in the bed. The wolf reluctantly lets her go, tied to a piece of string so she does not get away. However, the girl slips the string over something else and runs off.
In these stories she escapes with no help from any male or older female figure, instead using her own cunning. Sometimes, though more rarely, the red hood is even non-existent.
In other tellings of the story, the wolf chases after Little Red Ridinghood. She escapes with the help of some laundresses, who spread a sheet taut over a river so she may escape. When the wolf follows Red over the bridge of cloth, the sheet is released and the wolf drowns in the river.
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Following the film Platoon (1986), Charlie Sheen - who starred in the film - did a TV interview and credits Keith David with saving his life. While shooting in an open-doored Huey gunship, the helicopter banked too hard, and Sheen was thrown towards - and would have gone through - the open door. David grabbed Sheen by the back and pulled him back in.
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Vertigo (from the Latin vertō "a whirling or spinning movement") is a subtype of dizziness in which a patient inappropriately experiences the perception of motion (usually a spinning motion) due to dysfunction of the vestibular system. It is often associated with nausea and vomiting as well as a balance disorder, causing difficulties with standing or walking. There are three types of vertigo. The first is known as objective and describes when the person has the sensation that stationary objects in the environment are moving. The second type of vertigo is known as subjective and refers to when the patient feels as if they are moving. The third type is known as pseudovertigo, an intensive sensation of rotation inside the patient's head. While this classification appears in textbooks, it has little to do with the pathophysiology or treatment of vertigo.
Dizziness and vertigo are common medical issues and affect approximately 20%-30% of the general population. Vertigo can occur in people of all ages. The prevalence of vertigo rises with age and is about two to three times higher in women than in men. It accounts for about 2-3% of emergency department visits. The main causes of vertigo are benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, Ménière's disease, vestibular neuritis, and labyrinthitis, but may also be caused by a concussion, a vestibular migraine or vertiginous epilepsy. Excessive drinking of alcohol can also cause symptoms of vertigo. Repetitive spinning, as in familiar childhood games, can induce short-lived vertigo by disrupting the inertia of the fluid in the vestibular system; this is known as physiologic vertigo.
Apparently, its National Donut Day (mmmmmm...donuts....) in the U.S., so in light of that:
Doughnuts have a disputed history. One theory suggests they were invented in North America by Dutch settlers, Indeed, in the 19th century, doughnuts were sometimes referred to as one kind of oliekoek (a Dutch word literally meaning "oil cake"), a "sweetened cake fried in fat."
Hanson Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was only 16 years old. Gregory was dissatisfied with the greasiness of doughnuts twisted into various shapes and with the raw center of regular doughnuts. He claimed to have punched a hole in the center of dough with the ship's tin pepper box, and later taught the technique to his mother.
According to anthropologist Paul R. Mullins, the first cookbook mentioning doughnuts was an 1803 English volume which included doughnuts in an appendix of American recipes. By the mid-19th century, the doughnut looked and tasted like today’s doughnut, and was viewed as a thoroughly American food.
A fourth theory on their origin came to light in 2013, appearing to predate all previous claims, when a recipe for "dow nuts" was found in a book of recipes and domestic tips written in 1800 by the wife of Baron Thomas Dimsdale, the recipe being given to the dowager Baroness by an acquaintance who transcribed for her the cooking instructions of a local delicacy, the "Hertfordshire nut".
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Here's a little hagiographical did you know.
In the Catholic Church, Saint Lawrence is considered the patron saint of cooks. Why?
According to legends, St. Lawrence was a deacon responsible for distributing monies to the widows and orphans amongst the faithful. At one point the prefect of Rome, assuming that the charitable givings of Lawrence and the church were indicative of a deep treasury, had his men drag Lawrence before him and demanded he surrender the wealth of the church to him.
He was given three days to do so, and St. Lawrence complied, returning three days later a crowd of blind, lame, maimed, leprous, orphaned and widowed persons. He told the prefect 'these are the wealth of the church.'
The prefect then took him out to execute him by searing him on a metal grate.
Supposedly, before expiring, Lawrence cheerfully called out, "Turn me over, I'm done on this side."
And thus.
Patron saint of cooks.
In the movie Ghostbusters (1984), while investigating the strange happenings at the New York Public Library, the part where the bookcase falls over and Venkman asks Ray "Has this ever happened to you before?" was not part of the original script. The bookcase actually fell over of its own accord (possibly from been disturbed by various crew members) and the subsequent lines were ad-libbed. It was decided to leave this material in as it added an extra element of mystery to the atmosphere as to whether it was a natural occurrence, or a malicious act on the part of the ghost that the soon-to-be ghost busters were looking for.
A black dog is the name given to a being found primarily in the folklores of the British Isles. The black dog is essentially a nocturnal apparition, often said to be associated with the Devil or a Hellhound. Its appearance was regarded as a portent of death. It is generally supposed to be larger than a normal dog, and often has large, glowing eyes. It is often associated with electrical storms (such as Black Shuck's appearance at Bungay, Suffolk), and also with crossroads, places of execution and ancient pathways. Which leads us to...
The yeth hound [Bestiary 1], also called the yell hound, is a black dog found in Devon folklore. According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the yeth hound is a headless dog, said to be the spirit of an unbaptised child, which rambles through the woods at night making wailing noises. The yeth hound is also mentioned in The Denham Tracts. It may have been one inspiration for the ghost dog in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, described as "an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen" - with fire in his eyes and breath (Hausman 1997:47).
Up until Justice League:Gods and Monsters, The Martian Manhunter is the only superhero who's been in every incarnation of the Justice League?
Apparently, that would be incorrect. This is just one example:
One year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman reunite in the Batcave to re-form the League in Justice League of America #0, the kick-off for a new series by Brad Meltzer and Ed Benes. The series featured a roster which included Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Black Canary, Red Arrow (Green Arrow's former sidekick), Red Tornado, Vixen, Black Lightning, and Hawkgirl.
This was 61 issues, running from September 2006 – October 2011.
Normally I'm the party pooper who fact-checks the urban legends posted here -- it's nice to have someone helping!
Since its a comic book thing Kirth, it matters to me, and I like J'onn J'onzz.
And I'm glad to help.
The Sumerian Kings List goes back 241,000 years.
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Which is kind of interesting. One of the theories advanced to attempt to explain that was that a king might be using more than one name.
As a potential example of the sort of thing they would be talking about, the Japanese Emperor would have whatever name he was born with, would choose a name for the period of his reign, and possibly modify what name he would personally go by on his ascension to the throne. Government bureaucrats keeping records on this sort of thing could then end up generating 3 different sets of "King's lists" that were actually covering the same people over the same period of time but looked wildly different.
In an archeological context with no people from that time able to explain what was going on, one wouldn't know how to integrate the lists. Thus while one could argue that the Sumerian Kings lists are actually recording 241,000 years of civilization, the more likely explanation may be that we're actually looking at several parallel lists covering a shorter period of time. Which could still work out to be a pretty impressive length of time even if it was only a relatively small fraction of the 241,000 year time span that it looked like it might be.
......and I like J'onn J'onzz.I knew there must be something I might eventually like about you. The old 4 issue miniseries by DeMatteis is still my favorite Martian Manhunter story.
"...might eventually like....?
Wow. I must have made a horrible impression if this was the first thing.
In Alpine folklore, the Tatzelwurm (Bestiary 3) is a stubby, lizard-like creature. It takes the appearance of a cat with the hind-end of a serpent with no hind legs. It is rumored to live in several areas of Europe, including the Austrian, Bavarian, Italian and Swiss Alps. It has several regional names including Stollenwurm, Springwurm, Arassas and Praatzelwurm. In 1934 a Swiss photographer named Balkin allegedly saw a strange creature near a log and photographed it. The resulting interest in the creature inspired the Berliner Illustrierte to sponsor an expedition in search of the Tatzelwurm, but the expedition was a failure and interest quickly faded. Some scientists and cryptozoologists agree that the 1934 Tatzelwurm photograph was a hoax, but reports of Tatzelwurm sightings have continued to the present day, and German cryptozoological researcher Ulrich Magin has published several articles in Fortean Times and his own magazine Bilk documenting them.
According to my Snapple cap: Wild camels once roamed Arizona's deserts.
According to my Snapple cap: Wild camels once roamed Arizona's deserts.
The US Cavalry imported them for use in the desert areas of the Southwest. Many were set free or escaped and became feral.
Also, camels evolved in North America.
Up until Justice League:Gods and Monsters, The Martian Manhunter is the only superhero who's been in every incarnation of the Justice League?He wasn't in the cartoon, so 99% of the movie going public probably has no idea who he is.
he was in the cartoon on Netflix... He was one of the main characters first season.
he was in the cartoon on Netflix... He was one of the main characters first season.Up until Justice League:Gods and Monsters, The Martian Manhunter is the only superhero who's been in every incarnation of the Justice League?He wasn't in the cartoon, so 99% of the movie going public probably has no idea who he is.
He was in both the Justice League cartoon and Justice League Unlimited (played by actor Carl Lumbly). Heck, in the cartoon, he's part of the reason that they gather together.
Contrary to popular belief, Christopher Lee did not have a vast library of occult books. When giving a speech at the University College Dublin on 8 November 2011, he said: "Somebody wrote I have 20,000 books. I'd have to live in a bath! I have maybe four or five [occult books]." He further admonished the students against baneful occult practices, warning them that he had met "people who claimed to be Satanists. Who claimed to be involved with black magic. Who claimed that they not only knew a lot about it," however he himself had certainly never been involved: "I warn all of you: never, never, never. You will not only lose your mind, you'll lose your soul".
Christopher Lee, 1922-2015. R.I.P.
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he was in the cartoon on Netflix... He was one of the main characters first season.Up until Justice League:Gods and Monsters, The Martian Manhunter is the only superhero who's been in every incarnation of the Justice League?He wasn't in the cartoon, so 99% of the movie going public probably has no idea who he is.
I mean the Saturday morning '70s show that even non-geeks watched. Space Monkey Gleek and all that ;-)
I mean the Saturday morning '70s show that even non-geeks watched. Space Monkey Gleek and all that ;-)he was in the cartoon on Netflix... He was one of the main characters first season.Up until Justice League:Gods and Monsters, The Martian Manhunter is the only superhero who's been in every incarnation of the Justice League?He wasn't in the cartoon, so 99% of the movie going public probably has no idea who he is.