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September 14

Rick: A Mort Well Lived

Rick: A Mort Well Lived, is the name of a Rick and Morty Season 6 episode. Does the episode just parody the first Die Hard movie or does the episode also parody some of the Die Hard sequels? (78.19.12.247 (talk) 13:11, 14 September 2022 (UTC))[reply]

Here's the transcript; note the explicit mention of "Die Hard 3" in the final credits gag. --M @r ē ino 20:25, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks (78.19.12.247 (talk) 22:53, 14 September 2022 (UTC))[reply]

September 15

Talking Heads

I would have sworn that Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" included the line "There is water on the moon", but I cannot find evidence of such. Am I mistaken? LP vs. single version, maybe? 136.56.52.157 (talk) 02:10, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The lyrics sites don't have any record of that line anywhere in any Talking Heads songs, so I think you must be mistaken. --Viennese Waltz 05:10, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly a Mondegreen? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:07, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly -- I checked some live recordings and noticed Byrne would sometimes play around with the lyrics, for example: "Water the zombie and water the moon" (instead of "Water dissolving and water removing"), or by adding "water on the move" (with distorted echoes). I might have actually first heard the song live in LA sometime before the record was released. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 07:49, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Melissa Gorman

The page contain both Melissa Anne Gorman and Melissa Ann Gorman. Which is the exact name? 93.34.229.60 (talk) 08:24, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Link: Melissa Gorman. --174.95.81.219 (talk) 10:40, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Her name is given as "GORMAN Melissa Anne" in a list of medal winners in the aquatic events of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The site of the link is blacklisted, but replace the middle dot by a plain period in [http://malappuraminfo·com/info/commonwealth-games-2010-delhi-aquatics-events-schedule-results-and-medal-holders] --Lambiam 12:17, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

September 20

Das Boot

I watched Das Boot (director's cut) and there are some things I didn't understand:

Light

Sometimes they turn the lights inside the sub to red. I guess that this is for adaptation (eye)#Applications and that the goggles some officers wear are dark adaptor goggles. Is that so?
If so, what is the blue light for?

--Error (talk) 08:59, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This answer confirms my understanding for the red light, but is not suitable to WWII blue light. --Error (talk) 17:52, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This forum says:

Blue light was emergency light to spare the batteries.

Other forums say it doesn't make sense because blue lights were white lights with filters. Although if the blue lights are connected to the emergency batteries, it could make sense.

--Error (talk) 18:53, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Torpedoes

The German cargo ship SS Weser at Vigo is said to be interned. I understand that means she wouldn't move around freely but stay at port. It is inspired by MV Bessel which was actually interned off Vigo. I understand that crew would have some freedom of movement in Axis-friendly Spain, enough to acquire fresh food and such, but what about the torpedoes? Were they the normal cargo of Weser, which happened to be seized by Spain? Was Weser sent to Vigo as a floating resupplying base? Were they transported to Weser while in Vigo? Are torpedoes easy to transfer discreetly into the sub? --Error (talk) 08:59, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is the film a fictional story? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:22, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Based in a novel based in Lothar-Günther Buchheim's wartime experiences in the German submarine U-96 (1940). Thanks for your cooperation. --Error (talk) 13:33, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

movie or TV still (science fiction)

[1] What show is this from? Thanks. 2601:648:8201:5DD0:0:0:0:5265 (talk) 17:46, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Orville. Maineartists (talk) 19:53, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. 2601:648:8201:5DD0:0:0:0:5265 (talk) 02:30, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fortnite stops working for no apparent reason

Any ideas why? Only works on Fridays and Saturdays. Only one of two weeks. It's getting on my nerve. I at least want to know why. A logical reason, not just "because it hates you". Thanks. -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 18:09, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fortnite Help Center might be a better options. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 20:43, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, my device is kinda crappy compared to a phone/computer and I cant acces that website, and I don't want to ask my parents as a first option to do it for me as the last time I did, they said "Fortnite is probably broken and epic games will fix it at some point", if so, "some point" is at least a century from now. -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 21:16, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... Only Fridays and Saturdays? Sounds like "parental control" settings. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 21:55, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My parents dont disable games like that. Oh, it shows a message "Checking for updates" when it does this. Even if I just updated. (also I don't really have "grades", I'm homeschooled and a young adult. I shouldn't be at school anyway I think.) -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 22:15, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There's probably a setting to change 'automatic' to 'manual' updates. I doubt that that will fix it, but maybe? 136.56.52.157 (talk) 01:17, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If there is, I'll need to wait until friday. Most likely next friday. (Oh, I'm on the Switch. Should have said that sooner) -- L10nM4st3r _(talk) 12:21, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Clowning at the White House

Hello! I started Skeeter Reece because his wife turned up at the Teahouse and asked for help. She says that he was in an "Easter performance at the White House (1982)." If someone could find a usable source for that, that would be great. There are mirrors of a deleted version of the WP-article like peoplepill.com, those don't count. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:18, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

All I've found on Newspapers.com (pay site) is that the Reagans spent 1982 Easter Sunday at Barbados. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, perhaps George H. W. Bush felt the need for some fun ;-) Thanks for the effort! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:48, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bush couldn't do that. It wouldn't be prudent. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:16, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The deleted version stated that he performed at the White House as an opening act for the Smothers Brothers. The Smothers Brothers visited the White House on November 12, 1987 as representatives of the American Lung Association to kick off the Christmas Seal campaign.^[2][3] They did not then stage a performance, though. There is also a ghit for "The Smothers Brothers at the White House in 1988 with Ronald Reagan" on a facebook page, presumably an image caption, but I cannot find the post. Other than much earlier animosity with LBJ, I don't find another White House connection. I suspect the claim about an opening act for the Smothers Brothers at the White House is mistaken. --Lambiam 13:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

September 21

Old French (?) educational comic book

Can anyone tell me the name of an old (mid-to-late 1980's) French (I think) educational comic book about robotics? Here's the plot (as far as I can remember): an independent inventor (possibly loosely based on Grey Walter) tinkers with animal-like robots in his living room and accidentally makes a mess when the boiler of his steam pelican springs a leak, and his wife (who is skeptical of his experiments in general) chews him out for this, so he makes a punch tape-controlled robot vacuum to clean the house automatically -- but, being rigidly programmed, it eventually has a run-in with the house cat and sucks in its tail, causing the cat to flail around the room and smash everything in the process and then run away from home, so the inventor turns the vacuum into a mouse-catching robot (now controlled by an infrared sensor to seek out rodents and catch them with its claw) -- until, being unable to discriminate among sources of heat, it mistakes a cup of coffee for a mouse and crushes it, which further prompts the inventor to add image recognition capabilities to its programming. At this point, as I remember, there was a bit of a slow part in the plot (or maybe it was just over my head at that time, I was just a preschooler then) and I lost track of it, but I do dimly remember it involved the robot (and other robots and computers) acquiring more and more sophisticated capabilities, until near the end something unexpected happens -- robots start running away to avoid having their software updated, software logic develops double binds causing it to crash, and eventually when the inventor's wife tries to request a solution to a complex mathematical problem from a mainframe computer, the latter refuses her request, calling it "absurd" (or some similar term) -- vindicating her intention to scrap the whole thing (on the last page she is pictured holding two sledgehammers and saying to her husband, "OK, let's go!" or some similar phrase). Oh, and the original robot the inventor made is named "Khodos" (Greek for "Turtle"), because it looks like one. So, can anyone tell me the name of this comic book, or at least its author? 2601:646:8A81:6070:41FF:240D:DE47:411C (talk) 12:22, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure about the robot's name? Khodos is not an Ancient Greek word; the word for turtle is khelus/khelys or khelōnē. --Lambiam 13:45, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why do many football helmets have a stripe splitting left from right?

(American football) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 13:07, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Decoration. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:01, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Because a racing stripe makes you faster. 41.246.128.131 (talk) 15:04, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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+: Because a [[racing stripe]] makes you faster. [[Special:Contributions/41.246.128.131|41.246.128.131]] ([[User talk:41.246.128.131|talk]]) 15:04, 21 September 2022 (UTC)