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July 1

Sales numbers or estimates for the Ouya

Are there any known sales numbers or estimates for the Ouya? During a 2013 interview, the company's CEO mentioned that they had sold "a lot" but declined to give actual numbers, while the NPD only said that the launch was "relatively light" but didn't seem to actually give any numbers. There do seem to be sales numbers for the games (for example, the console's best selling game Towerfall sold 7,000, not including those who downloaded the free version, and it was estimated that very few Ouya owners actually bought any games), but not for the console, at least according to the article. But do any estimates exist out there? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 01:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

July 3

Lang Leav poem

(Copied from Humanities desk) Does anyone out there know if the poem 'All Love' by Lang Leav appears in any of her books? The first line is, 'It's time to do what you've always wanted.' I've tried looking at previews of her books on Google Books and Amazon but can't see the contents pages. If anyone has access to her books and can find it, can you tell me the book title and page number please?

Many thanks Turner Street (talk) 14:34, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Have you tried contacting her directly at https://www.langleav.com ? Rojomoke (talk) 18:28, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

I tried searching, but the best I can say is that its not listed in the table of contents for Love & Misadventure or Lullabies -- preview on Goodreads (here) & (here). —107.15.157.44 (talk) 22:36, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

July 4

Fly Me to the Moon

I remember the song Fly Me to the Moon has appeared in a movie of the 1990s. One scene was probably like they were driving around a circle while playing this song. What's the title of this movie? -- Toytoy (talk) 16:08, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

This lists Wall Street and Space Cowboys though I suspect there are others. MarnetteD|Talk 17:36, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Once Around (1991) maybe? It's been a long time since I saw it, so I'm not certain about the circling bit, but IMDb says the song is in there. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:35, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

The synopsis mentions "Renata's father directs the funeral procession through several rotations on a traffic round-about", which may have been accompanied by the song. (Probably why my subconscious dredged up this movie.) Clarityfiend (talk) 19:38, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Yes! Once Around! Thank you all! -- Toytoy (talk) 00:13, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Mangani language

I was reading the article Mangani and saw a section about the "ape language", which Burroughs developed. Now this whole "ape language" seems to be an enormous plot hole. Where could this language have come from? As far as I know, apes are incapable of human-like speech. JIP | Talk 21:59, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

It's fiction. Burroughs can do whatever he wants in his Tarzan universe. Plus it makes things a little less implausible: How else is Tarzan going to learn to talk? Clarityfiend (talk) 09:09, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

The 'apes' in question cannot be equated to any known living species. Burroughs was writing before a great deal of human and pre-human primate evolution was elucidated (to the extent it is): one can if one wishes assume these 'apes' to be a relict population of an otherwise extinct known, or as-yet-unknown, Hominin sufficiently close to Homo sapiens (also an ape) as to have developed a primitive language – after all, we are not at all sure when 'human' speech in our direct line first developed, and whether or not, and if so, to what extent, non-sapiens species such as Neanderthals and Denisovans (probably?), heidelbergensis (possibly?), erectus/ergaster (probably not?), habilis (most likely not?), floresiensis (maybe?) and naledi (surely not?) could talk either verbally and/or with gestures. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.185} 2.122.177.55 (talk) 18:01, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

I enjoy pursuing rational explanations within fiction as much as the next guy, but the Mangani are pretty clearly MacGuffins to explain how Tarzan learned language, etc. Forget Denisovans; at the time the Tarzan stories were begun, gorillas were scarcely understood as non-fictional creatures themselves. The odd artifact got snuck out of Africa prior, but it wasn't until the 1920s that they really got any scientific scrutiny - and Tarzan stories had been published for nearly a decade by then. To say, in 1912, that you'd been raised by gorillas and they taught you to speak as well, wasn't as ludicrous sounding as it is today. Matt Deres (talk) 19:26, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

I broadly agree, but although Burroughs knew of gorillas, and probably neanderthals and erectus ('Java man') to the limited extent they were known at the time (though not the other extinct species mentioned above), he explicitly differentiated the Mangani from gorillas (called 'Bolgani' by Tarzan and the other Mangani), so we are entitled to rationalise them as something else. Of course, Tarzan got much more than just language from the Mangani, having been raised as one of them. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.177.55 (talk) 15:31, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

That's how you separate the Bols from the Mans. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:30, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

July 5

Song to ID

This is driving me nuts. It's a country song, probably released in the late 70s or early 80s, with a male singer. I've tried Googling variations on bits of the lyrics with no success. The words (as I recall them) were something like this:

Stuck down here in Texas, a million miles from home
And it ain't ri-ight, I'm on my own
Saturday night, headed for a fight
At a bar in San Anton'.

Which seems like it ought to be enough - I've identified songs with a lot less - but maybe old country/western songs don't have the same footprint on the intertubes? It wouldn't surprise me if I've got the lines out of order or something, but I'm pretty sure of the words themselves and that oughta be enough. I heard it again and again on the radio as a youngster, so it's probably not too obscure, but I don't listen to country, so I'm completely lost as to who it might be. Any help? Matt Deres (talk) 17:08, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

There is this info Matt Deres though it looks like it might take awhile to find your song as you wade through all the "San Antonio Rose" mentions. Hopefully someone else will know the song you are looking for. MarnetteD|Talk 17:26, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

July 6

Giovanni Lo Celso transfer?

Has Giovanni Lo Celso's move to Tottenham Hotspur F.C. been confirmed ? 182.66.58.131 (talk) 07:04, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Not yet announced on the fairly reliable BBC website up to this point.

(I've added a title to your query to preserve the standard page layout.){The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.177.55 (talk) 15:39, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Logistics of making the film "Crazy Rich Asians"

I want to know the logistics of making the film Crazy Rich Asians. What does it take for a U.S. based/registered film studio to produce a film that has the Southeast Asian nations Malaysia and Singapore as the locations/themes? Does it take more the one company to produce such a film? Do they used local companies based overseas to produce content? I understand legal and immigration/visa questions can not be answered here. I also want to know why this film is so overrated. Where can I find resources about how such a film is produced? WJetChao (talk) 07:42, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Crazy Rich Asians#Production has a good bit of information. Useful quote - “US-based Asian film investment group Ivanhoe Pictures”. Hope that helps, Willbb234 (talk) 09:08, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

More (sorry for brief answer): I think that the U.S based company uses another company (Ivanhoe Pictures) which specialiases in producing films abroad to carry out the filming and logistics process in that foreign country. Willbb234 (talk) 11:06, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

July 7

Identify this Winnie the Pooh film/scene

I remember seeing a scene from a particular film involving Winnie the Pooh where Tigger is grabbed by a (possibly predatory) bird and dragged for some distance before being freed from the bird's grasp. In which film did this scene come from? 67.83.118.216 (talk) 02:04, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

This poorly written synopsis seems to suggest it's The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh TV episode "Piglet's Poohetry". Clarityfiend (talk) 19:17, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

July 8

Identify this other actress

I saw this image [1] of Sarah Jeffery with another actress in a black dress. Could you identify who the actress is, please? Thank you.2604:2000:7104:2F00:64E4:1BBE:6E3F:3894 (talk) 08:34, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Link doesn't work for me. --Viennese Waltz 09:14, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Nor for me. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:36, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Let's try this link [2].142.255.69.73 (talk) 23:31, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Roman society during the time of Spartacus

I have been watching the TV series Spartacus. While I know it is not intended to accurately reflect actual historical fact, I am wondering if the Roman society was as blatantly and overtly sexual as portrayed on Spartacus. Is there any historical references to how "sexualized" the society was at the time? 76.71.158.123 (talk) 01:26, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Some accounts from the era do portray a fair degree of 'depravity', most notably The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius (which was a principal source for Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God, along with works by Tacitus and Plutarch). However, I have read suggestions that Suetonius, for one, was not recording only reliable historical facts, but also the gamut of rumours about prominent persons' behaviour that were circulated during or shortly after their time, and which may have been in part malicious falsehoods invented for political purposes, in a milieu where politics routinely involved both character and actual assassination. Objective, unbiased contemporary and recent historical accounts were probably thin on the ground. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.177.55 (talk) 02:07, 9 July 2019 (UTC)