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April 29

Musical Style I.D.

I'd like to know what tradition/s (or simply style) of music Elliott Smith is drawing on for his little morose piano ditty "Bye". It sounds familiar. (I'd post a link here, but I'm not sure if that constitutes a copyright violation...the song is short and shouldn't be difficult to find—and a legal thirty second clip should give you enough of an idea). Alfonse Stompanato (talk) 04:14, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To me, it sounds like a cross between Philip Glass (minimalist) and Johann Sebastian Bach (baroque). -- JackofOz (talk) 04:27, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2004-2005

During Winter 2004-2005 (northern hemisphere), there was a fad, (maybe they are called norwegian hats, or that they came from norway, or the style) and the hats had like a puff at the central top with a little base, and there are, if I remember correctly, ear side flaps (to protect the ears from the cold, I guess I reckon), and from these ear side flaps hang braided (if I remember correctly) hangings/(dress-like) tassels, that start (if I remember correctly) and end (if I remember correctly) with a base. They are still worn today (I believe). These hats look onepiece (as in altogether, all in one) woven. What are these hats called?

What is that brand of these hats? What is the pattern of these hats?

What is the style of these hats? What is the color of these hats?68.148.149.184 (talk) 18:57, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Check out our articles for Ushanka and Chullo. There are variations of these available through many retailers worldwide. cheers, 10draftsdeep (talk) 20:16, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to the alpaca hat fad? -- kainaw ™ 20:18, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How ironic, yes if the fad includes Chullos. Definitely not the Ushanka. The hat I have in mid (in desgin, not necessarily pattern or color) is [1] but ~~were~~where the braids are longer and the poofy at the top has a base (unless I'm somehow mistaken, I can't be sure, I guess).68.148.149.184 (talk) 23:00, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Or Jayne's Hat from the TV Show Firefly? Saudade7 03:19, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not quite.68.148.149.184 (talk) 07:39, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

April 30

Arab artist

Which Arab artist of Egypt had a music video where he keep saying "Ma salama". In the video, he was injured and went to the hospital and at the end of the video, he was a police officer taking care of the traffic. It was shot in Egypt, like cairo. Does anybody know the video or the singer? I want to find it on the youtube. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.226.95.73 (talk) 01:33, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hip-hop

Can anyone recommend a website specifically dedicated to indie and underground hip-hop that you can listen to? Thanks. Whip it! ^{Now whip it good!} 02:10, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Will And Grace

In one of the episodes, the camera cuts to Karen sitting in a chair while Jack is singing in a bar, I think a gay bar, and sitting down in he seat next to her. They are at a bar table. The hit is sound originally by a female, probably around 1970's. What is this song and artist?68.148.149.184 (talk) 03:09, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barring a surprise entrance by a hardcore Will and Grace fan -- certainly a possibility! -- I think your odds of getting an answer to this one aren't too good. If you could name the episode or quote some of the lyrics, you would probably have better luck. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 19:51, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Locate the song and ask again :) Saudade7 03:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

HOly crap/how ironic. I never new they had that (database). It'll take me some time to watch it, which i won't do anytime soon, i'm a fraide.68.148.149.184 (talk) 07:44, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Star Wars: A New Hope

Near the end of the movie, as they are flying away from the soon to be exploding Death Star, there is 1)the Millennium Falcon, 2)Luke's X-Wing, 3)Wedge's X-Wing, and 4)UYW (Unidentified Y-Wing). Who the heck is this???

--MrE1 (talk) 06:44, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. Looks like it was someone who is only named in the 'expanded universe'. According to this site it looks like it might be someone called Keyan Farlander, who was proably made up just to answer this question.Popcorn II (talk) 07:25, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd second that analysis. The extra Y-Wing was likely added for non-plot reasons (for example, to make the shot more visually appealing, for balance or something like that) and the extra Y-Wing was later retconned to create a story-based reason for it. There are TONS of things like that in Star Wars; like aliens in the backgrounds of shots which Lucas likely had no reason to put in the film except as background visual interest, out of which entire storylines were created by later authors. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 19:04, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note, humor follows...

I believe that the pilot is credited in the film as "Lucky guy #2" 65.121.141.34 (talk) 20:06, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Menusha & The Girls

Their song "You boys (can boogie too)" seem to be fairly popular, and is widely used in b-boy videos. However, I have been unable to locate any information at all about the ensemble. Would anyone happen to know anything about them? decltype (talk) 06:52, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

oddly enough I couldn't find anything even at http://www.allmusic.com which is pretty canonical, but Google was of some help. You may find something using Google. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:59, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. Yes, I have plowed through a huge number of google hits, without finding anything substantial. Which I find very odd, considering the (relative) popularity of the song. decltype (talk) 22:28, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I actually was looking for informations about this song too. Try Barry Künzel, Menusha and The Girls. There is a mp3-download on amazon.com.

Hey! Type in Menusha And the Girls, that should get you started

What is Fox News Channel's archival policy?

Now, I don't watch Fox News, but I am curious what their archival policy is, such as what programming they preserve, what stuff they erase, and what method of archiving do they use (tape, hard drives, DVD-R, ect). Also, I'm curious if any outside archives make copies of their programming (I've already checked, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, plus the Paley Center for Media). Retro Agnostic (talk) 09:07, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report must. Tempshill (talk) 17:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fanboys release date in UK

I've looked on IMDb and the official site but can't find a release date for Fanboys for the UK. It's coming out in other European countries around now, and it's out on DVD in the states soon. Anyone know if it's going to get a UK release?Popcorn II (talk) 20:44, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I dunno man, but i downloaded it this morning so it's out on the web at least —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.54.169 (talk) 13:12, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

According to this page Fanboys has so far taken in a bit over half a million dollars, on an outlay of around $4m. The producers may be intending to cut their losses and not release it anywhere else. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 1

Skateboarding c. 1982 1983 : Mark "Gator" Rogowski

In either 1982 or 1983 Mark "Gator" Rogowski was on the cover of a magazine -- In the photo he was standing, directly facing the viewer full-on, holding his skateboard horizontally against his chest with his arms crossed over it. I think he was looking tough, and I think he was wearing a special forces type beret.

I always thought it was the cover of Thrasher Skateboard mag, but now that they have posted all their covers online I see that it must not be them...Maybe it was "Skateboarder Magazine" or "Skateboarding Magazine" or some short-lived mag of the time?

Anyway, any ideas as to the Mag or date? Thanks. Saudade7 03:14, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Music in Sandrine Voillet's Paris-City of Dreams final episode

If anyone caught Sandrine Voillet's Paris on BBC 2 at 9pm on July 10th,, does anyone remember the name of the pianist she spoke about, and the song he played, is was a very simple piece, sounded familiar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.23.129.49 (talk) 05:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I can't really help but here are the transmission details and program summary from the BBC website in case they jog someone's memory; they don't mention a composer or pianist though. --Maltelauridsbrigge (talk) 16:32, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

indoor shooting vs outdoor shooting

Was there a particular moment in the history of cinema when outdoor shooting became preferred over indoor shooting? I read somebody write that with the advent of cinema vérité there was a trend in Europe to move out of the studios to shoot realistically in real settings. Any truth in it?--117.204.84.249 (talk) 13:08, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there may be some truth in it, but your premise may be a little faulty here: I'm not at all sure that outdoor shooting is necessarily preferred over indoor shooting even today. Particularly for larger productions, it tends to be more expensive and complicated, because you need to worry about transport, and nature just isn't as cooperative as a studio environment, and if you need to go and re-shoot something, it's a hassle. Certainly, outdoor shooting has many advantages, too, but I'd imagine that people make the call on a case-by-case basis rather than based on some principle. Especially with the advent of modern special effects, a shot in a studio can look just as real as a shot outdoors. (The fact that they at times don't has more to do with crappy execution than the limits of the technology.) -- Captain Disdain (talk) 16:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Disdain is correct, you shoot in a studio because everything is under your control. I thought that in the very early days of cinema, everything was outdoors because, well, the Sun is freakishly bright, and lighting wasn't that good or reliable in the early days. Tempshill (talk) 17:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the laugh. that's the first time I've ever seen the sun referred to as "freakishly bright"! Dismas|^(talk) 06:53, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps Tempshill is from a country where they don't see it very often. :-) Temps is French for weather, after all! --Anonymous, 15:57 UTC, May 2, 2009.

And Tempshill is correct. In the early days of silents, even "interior" scenes were usually shot on a set with walls but no ceiling (or a translucent covering), so that they were lit by sunlight. Deor (talk) 18:53, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Music in performance

I want to know where i can find copyright information as to whether a video of a performer, say, a dancer performing publicly (non-profit) to copyrighted music is violating copyright law, and use of copyrighted music recordings as background for another performance (E.g. a figure-skater using a piece of copyrighted music)

Thanks! Xcmer (talk) 17:37, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't say where you want this information from. US law will differ from UK law which will differ from Brazilian law... etc. Dismas|^(talk) 06:49, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, US law please. Xcmer (talk) 09:48, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 2

Resemblance of actors portraying famous people

(I realize this is a subjective question, but it's more about perception than opinion, so I'm asking it). I am looking for examples of actors who played famous people in movies and whose bare facial features actually resemble those of the person they're portraying. A lot has been written about Benicio del Toro's resemblance with Che, though of course the black beret and beard helped. On the other hand, it was difficult for me to suspend my disbelief, though I was willing, when watching Anthony Hopkins play clean-shaven, unbespectacled, bare-headed Nixon. Apart from the hairline, he just didn't resemble Nixon's characteristic face at all. So, anyway, I'm looking for compelling examples of resemblance, I don't care how well they acted or how famous the actors are, but the portrayed character should be famous, obviously. Thanks in advance. ---Sluzzelin talk 07:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Raymond Massey and Abraham Lincoln? Clarityfiend (talk) 07:12, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Geraldine Chaplin portrayed her own grandmother in Chaplin (1992). Pepso2 (talk) 11:06, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I always thought that Val Kilmer made a convincing Jim Morrison and Gary Oldman did look rather like Sid Vicious. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 12:04, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, Meryl Streep will portray Julia Child in the upcoming film Julie & Julia. Streep is hardly six feet, two inches tall. 216.93.214.233 (talk) 19:11, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rod Steiger as Benito Mussolini. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:09, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Herbert Lom did a passing impersonation of Napoleon in War and Peace (1956). He'd previously played Napoleon in The Young Mr Pitt (1942).

I always thought Ken Russell erred grievously when he chose Richard Chamberlain to play Tchaikovsky in The Music Lovers. Donald Sutherland would have been a much better choice. It's probably too late for Sutherland to play Tchaikovsky now, because he's 20 years older than Tchaikovsky was when he died. -- JackofOz (talk) 23:36, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Sheen as Tony Blair is usually given as one of the best portrayals. Adam Bishop (talk) 05:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

M. E. Clifton James had an uncanny resemblance to Field Marshal Montgomery, and he was used in real life to impersonate him. The film I Was Monty's Double was based on James's book of the same name, and James played both himself and Monty in the film. Ed Flanders played Harry S. Truman in a number of films, more than any other actor, because of their resemblance. -- JackofOz (talk) 06:27, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And then there was Larry Parks, who played Al Jolson in The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again. The second movie depicted how Parks was discovered and used as Jolson's look-alike in the first movie. In different scenes he played either Jolson, or himself, or himself playing Jolson. They weren't actually very close in looks, but Jolson Sings Again made them out to be dead ringers. -- JackofOz (talk) 06:35, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, all ye film buffs. I just did a lot of comparing with the help of google images, and those are all great examples (including a great hypothetical example)! My list still needs some actresses resembling the women they portrayed. Thinking about this, I came up with nothing convincing but realized that sometimes even bare faces get enhanced for the part. I remember my curious anticipation of seeing Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours and then experiencing the same irritation Richard Schickel described when he wrote "one finds oneself focusing excessively on the unfortunate prosthetic nose Kidman affects in order to look more like the novelist." (Though unlike Schickel I liked the movie). Can anyone add some women to the list? ---Sluzzelin talk 11:46, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, Nicole Kidman in To Die For portrayed a character based on Pamela Smart, and there is a resemblance of Smart and Kidman in some photos. Pepso2 (talk) 12:56, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cate Blanchett wasn't a particularly close match to Katharine Hepburn, but she did a good enough job to score an Oscar in The Aviator. -- JackofOz (talk) 20:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

White Belts

Is there a particular brand of white belts males wear? (Not karate belts etc.)68.148.149.184 (talk) 07:56, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ray-Ban Ink

On Ray-Ban glasses, on the top righthand corner of the right lens (probably on the outside), it's logo (Ray-Ban™) can be found. Considering there is no contact info on the website, when ordering from the website, do the glasses ship with this "logo"?68.148.149.184 (talk) 08:03, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. The logo is etched right onto the lens. (For some reason many Ray-Ban customers seem to think this is a good thing.)

This only applies to non-prescription Ray-Bans. Most prescription Ray-Bans will not carry the logo because very few optical shops are authorized to etch the logo into a lens. APL (talk) 22:54, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

JL

What stores in Greater Edmonton Area are JLJL items found?68.148.149.184 (talk) 09:27, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to remember a PSONE game..

Hi, Im trying to remember a PSONE game I had played years ago. From what I can remember is that the title screen had a Dragon hovering up and down and when getting to the actual gameplay it consisted of flying around a globe like how you go around populous the beginning and fighting other dragons and attack villages. If anyone knows what the game is it would be much appreiciated. Thanks in advance.92.8.108.202 (talk) 20:26, 2 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.108.202 (talk) 20:26, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spyro??? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 01:40, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No not that it was a relasitic looking dragon not a purple one, thanks for trying anyway.92.23.10.112 (talk) 16:02, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Aziza mustafa zadeh

Hi! I'm a found of Aziza's music, does somebody knows where can I get sheets of her music? I tried in so many libraries and stuff. If you know, PLEASE tell me!!!! It is urgent... Please, please!!! Thank you, dinahas@walla.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.180.10.59 (talk) 22:10, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Song about kisses

Moved from Miscellaneous Desk

There is a song about kisses, where a little 4-year-old sings and half way through says 'muckemschmuckem' and a load of other stuff which is hilarious. Anyone know what the name of the song is?--KageTora (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 20:13, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is it missy elliott Gossip Folks?68.148.149.184 (talk) 03:28, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The song is "Cuppycake", and all things Cuppycake are available at cuppycake.com. — Lomn 12:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Model

Who is the guy (model) in this picture?68.148.149.184 (talk) 23:11, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ben. I went to the site and kept clicking next 'til he appeared. He's on page 8. --71.247.139.146 (talk) 06:23, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 3

Sun

Who is the man directly to Michael Jeter's left in the sunglasses?68.148.149.184 (talk) 03:14, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Green Mile

In The_Green_Mile_(film), there is a scene were a uniformed officer (I presume) is helped up by his coworkers. The scene after shows Paul Edgecomb falling down to the floor of the prison, clutching his penis; The scene before it seems Paul and his coworker got into a fight with one of the inmates, and this coworker seemed to be bleeding. Afterwards, they throw the inmate back into his cell on his bed, with one college holding his legs, the other holding his hands. Who is this uniformed officer that was helped up by his coworkers?68.148.149.184 (talk) 03:26, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

When escorting 'Wild Bill' into the mile, he (Wild Bill, that is) gets his cuffs around the neck of Dean Stanton. Percy is then sent on a make-work errand while Brutus and Harry escort Dean to the infirmary. Paul then drops to the floor of the mile, having been kicked in the groin by Wild Bill, and not helped by the fact that he has a nasty UTI. Taggart.BBS (talk) 01:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Frames

What are the glasses Pitbull (rapper) wears such as in Krazy (song) and Go Girl (Pitbull song)?68.148.149.184 (talk) 03:56, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

online game

there's an online game featuring elves, dwarves, humans and orcs. you had to choose one race and then play. it's a sort of fantasy game. i can't remember its name. will someone help me??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.50.142.12 (talk) 06:02, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

World Of Warcraft?--KageTora (영호 (影虎)) (talk) 13:30, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are lots of games like like, World of Warcraft is probably the most popular/well known. --Tango (talk) 13:54, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This question was already asked at the miscellaneous desk. Lets keep the threads in one place, shall we? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 17:14, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You'll need much more detail than that; almost every fantasy role-playing game, and almost every MMO descended from that genre, uses elves, dwarves, humans, and orcs. Was it text based? 2D? 3D? What do you remember doing in the game? Tempshill (talk) 04:22, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tiny table tennis

I saw something on TV once. Two table tennis players played a game using smaller and smaller tables, much to the amusement of the observer and the annoyance of the referee. It ended with a tiny table no more than a few inches across, with two doll-like figures automatically swinging a bat back and forth, rallying the ball. Anyone know where I saw this and where I might find it again? Cheers. Vimescarrot (talk) 19:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Guiding Light's first day on YouTube

On September 21 2009 when Guiding Light is on YouTube, will the series start from scratch or just pick up where CBS left off? Ericthebrainiac (talk) 21:15, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where did you read that this is going to happen? That source should explain it. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 21:32, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why would YouTube go and do something it has never done before, when CBS, with lots of experience, can't make enough money off of the soap? Clarityfiend (talk) 22:38, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Guiding Light... may be saved. Pepso2 (talk) 23:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 4

NBC Medium episode

There was an episode of Medium that I need. It had a cold opening in which there was a video montage of scenes from a normal morning wakeup for a mother that would get dressed, cool breakfast for her children, and drive them to school in her SUV. When they were in the garage and she turned the car key for the ignition it switched to a quiet low angle shot from outside and the garage exploded in huge flames. Which episode was this? Thank you! I would very much appreciate if anyone could help me figure out which episode this was. Mac Davis (talk) 01:38, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried Hulu or other similar services? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 02:10, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I found this: Here ? Saudade7 09:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much Saudade7! That's it! :D Mac Davis (talk) 18:34, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bootmakers to Kings

In The_Good_Shepherd_(film), Fredericks mentions "bootmakers to kings" before he is killed. What's he talking about? Black Carrot (talk) 02:21, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't seen the film, but this review implies that the phrase is used to refer to underlings who have no real authority but act at the whim of those who wield power. Apparently, it's repeated elsewhere in the film, so that its use by Fredericks would be a reference to the previous use or uses. Deor (talk) 13:48, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A standard in pornographic movies

Why is it that, in pornographic movies, the straight scenes invariably end with the man ejaculating on the woman's face and/or into her open mouth? How did this become standard? (or is this standard only in American porn? I have seen Japanese porn in which the women were treated much more respectfully, and the scenes did not end in this way.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.35.186.173 (talk) 07:18, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You can still find some that are this way but the older standard was to have the man pull out and ejaculate on the woman's pubic hair/stomach/thigh/etc. It is basically the finale of the scene. It's called the "money shot" after all. It has to happen otherwise it was just some thrusting that took place on screen. People want to see that something actually happened and the ejaculation is the way that this is presented. As time went on, the sex acts in the movies got more and more... extreme, for lack of a better word. Anal used to be rare and now it's rather common-place. The cum shot follows this logic. The location got more extreme. It moved up the body to the face/mouth. Additionally, having the guy cum on the woman's face or in her mouth, has a psychological effect (no, I don't have a source... Playboy, maybe?) in that it shows that the woman wants him and his cum so much that she wants it on her face or in her mouth and not just down around her genitals somewhere. Another example of this is that in the older movies the ejaculate was hardly ever touched by the woman and now it's not uncommon to see women "play" with it by getting their fingers in it or by having a second woman lick it off the first woman. Dismas|^(talk) 09:58, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For more details see cum shot, which I can't access from work. I would also suggest that there may be a misogynistic aspect to the increasing prevalence of the cum shot, involving some desire for humiliation. As for Japanese porn, presumably you've never seen bukkake (another NSFW link). --Richardrj ^talk ^email 10:43, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would posit that this phenomenon is not particular to straight porn: in gay porn, but not excluding other categories, facials are common as well. Although some people would argue that they are not that common, I would suspect that the risk of STI is higher among gays, or men who have sex with other men. Notwithstanding, it is possible that straight porn models have the same statistics of disease as gay porn models, although I haven't done any research in that area.

I believe another reason the Money Shot exists is because it is because it actually more erotic to see it. From a gay point of view anyhow. Also, if the man ejaculated in the bottom (both female and male), you could not definitively verify if the man truly ejaculated or not. He could be acting. And frankly, if your acting, that's not that real and it doesn't get you off. And if your acting, it's spoiling the movie, and it's a turn off.68.148.149.184 (talk) 23:17, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah, like every time I have sex, I pull out so that I can cum on the woman's face. If anything, it looks less realistic to have the man pull out and cum on her face. To me, it looks like the man is "marking his territory" more than anything else. It's clearly not for the woman's pleasure, and even strictly in terms of the man's pleasure, why would he want to pull out of such a warm, inviting spot in order to cum? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.27.151.91 (talk) 00:53, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kiss (band)

The costumes in the band Kiss, are the spikes actually metal, and has anyone gotten hurt from them? 65.121.141.34 (talk) 19:43, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. They are metal (likely aluminum). I have never heard of any record of serious injury from the costumes. I'm sure they caused minor irritations. I remember recently seeing Gene Simmons on some reality show where he put his costume back on and complained about the weight of it and how sore he would be the following day. -- kainaw ™ 19:56, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Villain from a Wolverine comic

I used to have a Wolverine comic book a while ago. It took place in a very snowy environment (Alaska, I think) and it had Wolverine fighting a vampire-like bad guy. I've been trying to find that guy's name but I can't figure it out. His skin was all white, he had long white hair and sunglasses and his jaw would extend all the way down to his knees and he'd have hundreds of big sharp teeth. Very creepy dude. At the end of the comic, Wolverine killed him by cutting him down on a motorcycle with a samurai-esque sword. I'd appreciate any help. TravisAF (talk) 23:37, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A few possibilities: Morbius, the Living Vampire and Batwing both seem to be Spider-man villains, but could have easily crossed to a Wolverine comic. Brickbat once fought Colossus. Wikipedia also has an article featuring known vampires in the Marvel universe, so if I have not stumbled across it, you might have better luck through that link. Taggart.BBS (talk) 01:32, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I found it. It was Bloodscream. That guy gave me nightmares when I was a kid. Thanks for your help. TravisAF (talk) 01:52, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 5

Show

In my boys, one of the episodes has a scene where they are playing poker (all males) with I presume the main cast with a few older men. Which episode is this?68.148.149.184 (talk) 01:51, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]