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December 7

Unplugged in New York and Live in Reading by NIRVANA

2 Questions:

When these DVDs were origionally released they had PARENTAL ADVISORY stickers. Now they don't. I'm guessing because of the promised bonus content described on the back of each (even still), but is now somehow missing.
Will these be released on blu-ray, hopefully with all of the exed out bonus content promised, but not delivered, on the DVDs?

Unknown arabic language song

I'm trying to recall the name of this song I heard about 8ish years ago. I didn't understand a word being said; it was definitely middle-eastern and hence most probably Arabic. It was a catchy rousing tune with both a male and female singer. The cool part was the video, it transitioned from one scene to another like curtains being pulled across. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance. Hasanclk (talk) 02:32, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

About sports company fila.

Sir, Does sport company fila have any full form of its name? if yes,then what it is? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranjan2192 (talk • contribs) 04:26, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fila is a bunch of associated companies. The parent company Global Leading Brands House Holdings, a South Korean company, while the United States affiliate is Fila USA, Inc. There are other Fila associates in other contries, which all have names similar to the US one, usually Fila XXXX, where XXXX is the name of the country. Global Leading Brands House Holdings(GLBH) is not equivalent to Fila, it is a large holding company which owns many brands and companies; something like large multinationals such as Unilever or Bayer AG. Fila is just one of its brands; which it markets through individual national companies. You can get most of this information from Fila (company) and this official company history.--Jayron32 05:45, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the question was asking if "Fila" is an acronym, and if so, what does it stand for; but if that is the question, then no, it is not an acronym, it is the last name of the founders. Adam Bishop (talk) 06:47, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

USA Network Psych promos

How many hit singles were used as promos for Psych? I remember Ebony and Ivory and Private Eyes were two of them. Were there any others?24.90.204.234 (talk) 08:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever the answer might be, all I know is that the director is going straight to Hades for those. Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:25, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is that supposed to mean?24.90.202.42 (talk) 22:53, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See Hades for further info. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

budding youngster

a budding youngster with a lot of talent & potential may have one in the years to come in qatar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.130.100.226 (talk) 09:24, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you clarify the question? TomorrowTime (talk) 11:04, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is this another riddle? Something to do with the 2022 World Cup? Adam Bishop (talk) 17:02, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Qatar. As Mitch Albom said on Sunday, just one more reason for Americans not to care about soccer. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:29, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, wut? Because it's held in Qatar? I don't understand why that's a reason for Americans not to care about it. Am I missing something, or is it just that Americans aren't supposed to care about international events that take place in countries they don't know/like? Seems an unpatriotically low opinion of Americans for an American to hold... 86.161.208.185 (talk) 00:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, Bugs is just sour that in soccer, unlike baseball, a "world cup" really means a competition countries around the world participate and take interest in :) TomorrowTime (talk) 10:53, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Being held in a country which even soccer-manic countries are saying was the wrong choice. Corvus cornix_talk 19:36, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well yes, but soccer-manic countries always say it's the wrong choice if it isn't being held in their own country. Endlessly. 86.161.208.185 (talk) 20:40, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose that's what you get for accusing the organisers of corruption before they fail to vote for your country. Astronaut (talk) 21:20, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please Help Me In My Quest

Can anyone help me find a copy of "A Starry Night" sung by the 1960's Salvation Army group "The Joystrings" Not any other version will do, I would be very grateful as I want it to give a copy each to my Children to remind them of their younger days when they sang it with me at every Christmas.. Thank you Please you can reply to me at my [email address redacted]. Roger Houlden —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.28.160.199 (talk) 15:57, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have redacted your e-mail address to preserve you from spammers and scammers - any replies to your query will appear immediately below. I also removed the superfluous spaces from in front of your 'signature' to correct the display oddity they cause on this site (a big grey box). You should 'sign' by typing four tildes (a tilde is this '~') in a row. Regrettably, I can't help your search myself, but perhaps someone else will be able to. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 16:48, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That said, this website might be helpful. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 17:32, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nintendo DS as PDA?

Is there any sort of Nintendo DS cartridge I can use to turn my Nintendo DS into a PDA? I would like, at the least, a calculator feature and a notepad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.37.236.14 (talk) 17:03, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There appears to be a Hello Kitty themed PDA cartridge with rather limited funcionality. This forum discussion goes into some depth for homebrew solutions (in short, you'll need a flash card reader to run homebrew software on the DS, then you can use something like DragonMinded DSOrganize) -- Ferkelparade π 17:11, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum: read the last forum post where the user says his experiment failed miserably because the DS is just too cumbersome to be used effectively, plus Dragonminded DSO doesn't seem to be available for download any more. So I guess it's Hello Kitty Daily or nothing... -- Ferkelparade π 17:17, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree. I've used DragonMinded DSOrganize in the past. I was really hoping that that it would allow my DS to replace my old PalmPilot. The DSOrganize software is very well done, but ... I couldn't get "into" it. The DS is NOT a palm pilot, and it's just too awkward to become one for me.

However, if you have a flash cart (see Nintendo DS storage devices), it's worth a try! Maybe I'm just too picky! Here is RapidShare link that appears valid : [1]. Good luck. APL (talk) 03:07, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Album Info Status Quo

Hi I have an Album called status Quo, titled Status Quo - TATIONS on Marble Arch Records Album No MALS 1193 is it of any value —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.23.4 (talk) 19:35, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

While the album is listed at the Wikipedia article Status_Quo_discography#Compilation_albums Wikipedia does not have any article on the album itself. Information on record albums is often found at http://www.allmusic.com Researching there can give you basic information about an album and provide a basic review of it. As far as value, your best shot is to find someone who deals in antique record albums, and have it appraised. This website lists a number of collectors associations; I in no way can vouch for any of them, but it is a place to start your search. --Jayron32 20:03, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that there is at least one seller who is offering vinyl versions of the album on Amazon.com. The price ranges from $18.00 to $36.00 US dollars. See here: [2] 10draftsdeep (talk) 20:13, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to the 2010 Rare Record Price Guide published in the UK by Record Collector magazine, the album in Mint condition is worth £50 - that would equate to about £25 in Very Good condition, £15 for Good, £8 for Fair. The Marble Arch label, by the way, was an offshoot of Pye Records that specialised in releasing cheap compilation albums. Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:38, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 8

How much fan fiction exists?

Approximately how much fan fiction exists on the internet, in gigabytes, and how much space on servers does that take up in gigabytes (essentially, is it compressed on the servers)? 97.125.80.45 (talk) 01:46, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that anyone has ever made an attempt to calculate such a thing. I am willing to be proven wrong, but this seems like the sort of statistic which has not been ever computed; and may not even be computable. --Jayron32 04:09, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You could draw some conclusions by assessing the total number of stories on Fanfiction.net (the largest fanfiction community on the net), assigning some average length-per-story (maybe 25k?), assigning Fanfiction.net a percentage of the total fanfic on the net (say 50%?) and then using maths to arrive at a guesstimate. Horribly wobbly numbers but it might give you a starting point. Providing that all fanfiction is text, though, I think you might find that the entirety of all fanfiction on the net would probably fit on a commercially available hard drive, if sensibly compressed. To put it another way, if 10 million people in the world had each written an entire 300-page novel of fanfic, and that data wasn't compressed at all, it would still only be 10 terrabytes, and as you'd be aware the average fanfic is barely short-story length. - DustFormsWords (talk) 07:53, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A difficult question to answer. vast swathes of fanfiction are hosted on Livejournal and other similar sites (InsaneJournal etc.). If you measured all of this, you would have to deduct the kilobytes of comments and the bloated html used to prettify users' journals. Then there is EFiction, a content management system tailored for fiction which can be set up on almost any web hosting; any major fandom will likely have an automated or manual archive using this or another similar system. Individuals' own websites hold their own collections, and sometimes those of friends or co-writers; mailing lists have been used historically and some are still active today. Geocities hosted a lost of personal and multi-author archives - a percentage may have been lost when it closed. Some is still available through the Wayback machine and other similar sites. Additionally, fanfiction seems to suffer from a pernicious case of linkrot - hosting and domain names are not renewed, archives move constantly, sometimes [it seems] on the whim of the administrator, internal links are inconsistent or not updated. There has been no significant pan-fandom effort to curate and archive fiction: Archive of Our Own is the most recent multi-fandom archive to gain traction, but it's still in beta, and I would guess that large sub-sections of fandom are not represented. --Kateshortforbob _talk 14:38, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Late 1990s mini music players for kids

Sometime around the turn of the century, there were these devices, less than 2 inches high, that would play a short clip of a popular song (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, etc.) when you pressed a button. I know they were advertised to kids on American TV, and you could wear them on a necklace. I've tried to remember what they were called, with little success. Does anybody have any more information on these? 68.230.81.125 (talk) 05:41, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Try HitClips. --Jayron32 06:09, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

obscure music group

Sometime back in the 1980s, there was this pop music group called Jakata. I remember them doing their own Light at the End of the Tunnel. What's become of them nowadays? Anyone know?24.90.202.42 (talk) 06:49, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could it be that you have been searching for a mis-spelling, and mean either this band - Jakarta - or another of the same name? 87.81.230.195 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]

No, it's Jakata. They were an American band.24.90.204.234 (talk) 22:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jakata were a band formed by Jimmy Felber (born James Paul Foelber), who recorded for Motown in the 1980s. Band members were Jimmy Felber (vocals, keyboards), Steve Kragan (lead vocals, horns), Chuck Coffey (vocals, bass), and Chris Myers (drums, percussion, acoustic guitar). "Light at the End of the Tunnel" was the B-side of "Golden Girl", a single released in the UK in 1984 as Motown TMG 1379 - here, and on YouTube here. They also released an album, Light the Night, in 1984 on the Morocco label (Morocco 6060CL), a Motown subsidiary, on which "Light at the End of the Tunnel" is the opening track. More details of the album here - according to which they were a band from the Long Beach, California area. Felber also recorded with Bev Kelly, on whom there is more information here. But, as to what happened to them after 1984, I have no idea, sorry - though perhaps Felber could be here. Ghmyrtle (talk) 23:01, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's the band. But I hope they re-release Light the Night on CD soon.24.90.204.234 (talk) 03:09, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help me identify this singer

Please help me identify the pop singer who meets the following criteria:

Young (teens or 20s)
Female
East Asian features
Non-East-Asian name
Singing voice sounds a lot like Justin Bieber
Sings in English
Has a Christmas song out
Not Charice Pempengco

kthx, The Hero of This Nation (talk) 14:36, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Emmy the Great? 83.244.180.83 (talk) 09:51, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is this called?

In some songs a pianist will hit a high or low note then run their hand up or down the entire length of the keyboard, striking every white key in sequence. Is there a name for this maneuver? How does it look when a player reads sheet music? Hemoroid Agastordoff (talk) 17:43, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's called glissando. In notation, traditionally every separate key was written down, in small notes, but nowadays they often just write a sort of long stroke between the topmost and bottom-most (? sp) notes. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 17:48, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PS. While they obviously use their hand, as you say, specifically they use their thumbnail. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 18:07, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do any pianists nowadays "shoot" the keys, the way Chico Marx used to? (Here's an example of his technique,[3] and Chico also does the move discussed in this section.) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:48, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know of no-one apart from Chico who ever did that specific thing, and it seems to have been more for visual humour than for any special pianistic effect. I mean, I can't imagine him being bothered to do that if he were not being filmed. Along sort-of-similar-but-not-really-similar-at-all lines was Vladimir Horowitz, who "frequently played chords with straight fingers, and the little finger of his right hand was often curled up until it needed to play a note; to Harold C. Schonberg, it was like a strike of a cobra." -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 19:19, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On the page, it looks like the fourth symbol in the list here. --Thomprod (talk) 00:03, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Toblerone girl

Who is the girl in the UK toblerone adverts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.192.157.204 (talk) 22:50, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's Sophia Raafat Worm 10:10, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No Super Bowls

So far I know that Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans have not won Super Bowls. Is there any other NFL team who has never won a Super Bowl? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.148.67 (talk) 23:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I remember Vikings, Lions, Falcons, Panthers, Seahawks, Cardinals, Bills, Browns, Bengals, Jaguars, Texans, Titans, and Chargers have never won. Dayewalker (talk) 23:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Eagles haven't won one either. Eagles 24/7 (C) 23:17, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, Eagles is right. Sorry about that. I'm a Bills fan, I sympathize. Also the Lions, Browns, Jaguars, Texans, and Lions have never even played in a Super Bowl. Dayewalker (talk) 00:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of NFL champions and List of Super Bowl champions are a couple of useful articles on the subject. I don't see a List of AFL champions but that info is here.[4] The Bills, Chargers and Oilers (now Titans) won AFL championships prior to the merger. The Vikings won an NFL championship but lost the Super Bowl, the last one before the leagues completed the merger. The Eagles, Lions and Cardinals won NFL championships, a number of decades ago. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:38, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We (Seahawks) was robbed! Clarityfiend (talk) 23:54, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know more than one person who are convinced the games are fixed (I do not share that view). ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:58, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For an even more fun article on the subject: List of NFL franchise post-season droughts. We have one for the NHL, NBA, and baseball. Aaronite (talk) 01:04, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 9

lyrics to neon lights by max linnon

Can someone please help me find where to go to read the lyrics to Neon lights by Max Linnon? I tried and coulden't find them, help would be much appreciated. Thanks. N.I.M. (talk) 03:14, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Voice synthesis on kim possible for 3 robot characters

Can someone please describe the voice synth used on the voice recordings for the voice of the bebes (attack of the killer bebes and queen bebe), Blender (Car Trouble, A.K.A. Driver's Ed), and the security drones (A sich in time part 3 future) in kim possible? I just need a description of the sound of the effect done on their voices to make them sound the way they do. Thanks. N.I.M. (talk) 13:28, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have NO idea who these characters are, but in the absence of a better answer you might be assisted by our article on Robotic voice effects, or our Category:Audio effects. - DustFormsWords (talk) 01:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I won't know which one it is though, i just need a description of the sound on their voices. N.I.M. (talk) 22:35, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have I Got News For You, At Home With The Georgians clash

RadioTimes dot com says that both of these are on tonight at 9pm. Are they both being repeated later in the week, and if so when? Its like waiting all week for a bus, and then two of them come along at once. Thanks 92.15.30.71 (talk) 19:36, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The same website will tell you that Have I Got News For You will be repeated in an extended version on Saturday at 9.30. --Antiquary (talk) 20:36, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Although AHWTG was a disapointment, consisting of lengthy platitudes about wallpaper and description of pictures you could already see. 92.15.30.71 (talk) 20:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Identify tune ?

Can someone identify this tune (<1MB, wma format file hosted on Mediafire), which is used in the movie Two Family House ? I could not match it with any of the soundtrack pieces listed on IMDB, and it sounds irritatingly familiar. 98.227.73.59 (talk) 23:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

wordgirl stephanie sheh

What did the team for wordgirl have to do for the people vs ms question to get Stephanie Sheh to voice the bank teller for the rest of the series, when Jen Cohn voiced her for much of season 1 and 2? N.I.M. (talk) 23:18, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 10

Unable to place a list on a page

A pole that was taken can not be shared.— Preceding unsigned comment added by BingAndWiki (talk • contribs)

Is this a riddle or a koan of some sort, like the sound of one hand clapping? --Jayron32 01:22, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the OP's contributions, he or she is trying to add a section to Magic (illusion) about a poll of the best living magicians, and is getting repeatedly reverted for not supplying a source. No specific details are provided either. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:02, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also on Sleight of hand, where it appears to be a non-notable Internet poll. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:08, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I got that. But it was still a very odd sentance, taken out of context. Especially given his mispelling of "pole" and the juxtaposition of the words "taken" and "shared". Its actually quite a deep idea, the idea of things which are taken but not shared. Whatever, I need some sleep. --Jayron32 04:55, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I protected the pages last night because of the repeated attempts by IPs to add. And somehow I don't think the Microsoft, who supposedly did this poll, ever did it. Dougweller (talk) 07:06, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talking of misspellings, Jayron, it's "sentence". I hereby sentance (oops) you to your favourite punishment for consistantly (oops) spelling these types of words in your special way. :) -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 17:30, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As loung as my favourite punishment is having tou include those silly extraneouus "U"'s intou wourds where they are nout prounouunced like the british dou... --Jayron32 17:36, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

sitcom, 1981

In Thursday's New York Times crossword puzzle, 55 Across: "Site of a 1981 sitcom honeymoon" = OAK.

What was the show? —Tamfang (talk) 02:05, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From doing a couple of searches, I discovered that "Honeymoon" is the name of an episode of Mork and Mindy, and that episode was set on Mork's home planet of "Ork". I am going to guess that an "r" fits in the middle space in that word.

For those of you not old enough or not from the US or whatever, Mork and Mindy was a sitcom television show starring Robin Williams as Mork, a being from another planet who comes to visit Earth and ends up getting to live with Pam Dawber.

rc (talk) 04:02, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the puzzle again, I see I miswrote AGAR as AGAA! Else I need not have asked (I do remember the series). Thanks. —Tamfang (talk) 04:30, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, shazbot. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:35, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't get to finish that one today (yesterday, now) but I do recall thinking that was going to be a tough clue. Anyway, you can find the explanation here. I usually hit up that site after I finish the puzzle just to see what bit of trivia I haven't fully understood. Dismas|^(talk) 05:43, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Miscalls in World Series

So far, I know that in Game 6 of 1985 World Series, an umpire made a miscalled when a Cardinal caught the ball before a Royal reached the base and in 1992 World Series, Blue Jays' Kelly Gruber caught a Brave out when reaching second base. Is there any miscalls in the World Series we should know about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.42.226 (talk) 02:43, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For the first, you're thinking of Don Denkinger. --Jayron32 04:49, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For more recent blown calls, see 2009_World_Series#Game_2 or this article of said game at ESPN. --Jayron32 04:52, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In game 3 of the 1992 World Series, an umpire failed to notice the final out of a triple play. Matt Deres (talk) 14:49, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's the Gruber play the OP mentioned. (It started with an awesome catch and throw from Devon White in centre field, too.) Adam Bishop (talk) 18:35, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Denkinger call might be the most outrageous, as it turned the Series around. In the 1948 World Series, on a pickoff play, Indians' shortstop Lou Boudreau put the tag on a runner on second and the umpire called him safe, in what looked like an obvious out. The runner soon scored the only run of the game. It didn't affect the Series outcome (the Indians beat the Braves in 6) but the loss was pinned on Bob Feller, who never won a Series game. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 08:06, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is rated WHAT?

I didn't get to watch the first run of A Charlie Brown Christmas, so I watched it online at ABC's website. After the "limited commercial breaks", the TV content rating appeared in the upper corner, as it does with any other show. However, I was shocked to see the show was rated TV-PG! Seriously?!? I've tried Googling and can't find a site that describes why the show was rated that way. Any ideas, fellow Wikipedians? --McDoob AU 93 06:24, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good question - could be the speech in the finale, I suppose. Haven't seen that one in a long time. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 13:22, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

TV ratings are about as sensical as movie ratings or video game rating. That is, there is no objective measure of what the TV show is rated, it's just one persons (or sometimes a handful of people's) opinion of what it should be rated. It usually means next to nothing. --Jayron32 13:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Jayron about the inaccuracy of the ratings. As far as your question, the only thing I can think of is the possibility of Lucy calling Charlie Brown a blockhead and other demeaning things, which some people in current society would perceive as Bullying. 10draftsdeep (talk) 14:14, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For movies, the ratings often include content descriptors ("for mild peril", "for a scene of sexuality", etc.), especially on print ads and theatre posters. Video games have an entire website where people can look up a game and see why that game got the rating it did (such as this example for the just-released Disney Epic Mickey). But I haven't had luck finding a similar website explaining why TV shows get the ratings they do. I do agree with some of the comments thus far; I wonder if it has to do with the show's unashamed religious angle, or with the "violence" and "bullying." --McDoob AU 93 17:48, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And don't forget the lesbian relationship between Marcie and Peppermint Patty. :-) StuRat (talk) 05:49, 11 December 2010 (UTC) [reply]

I think you'll find that Peppermint Patty does not appear in this film. APL (talk) 06:28, 11 December 2010 (UTC) [reply]

Neither of them had appeared in the strip yet, at that point. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:05, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the final part of the opening scene (beginning from about 1:59 in this video), Snoopy grabs Linus' blanket and throws Linus and Charlie Brown across the pond. Charlie Brown slides across the ice and smashes headfirst into a tree. In the original Coca-Cola-sponsored airing, Linus also crashed into a Coca-Cola billboard, although this scene was cut in 1968 after Coca-Cola dropped its sponsorship. That violence was certainly permissible in children's shows in the 1960s, but the PG rating is given because parents these days don't want their children exposed to anything that doesn't involve fluffy bunnies and rainbows. (I watched Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry all the time when I was a kid, and I turned out all right...) It's quite sad, because I think every child should see the special and understand its message. Xenon54 (talk) 15:58, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There was actually a noticeable amount of verbal and physical violence in Peanuts. Lucy says "I oughta slug you" at some point in the special, and frequently did so in the strip. But the boys never hit the girls. Schulz said, "Girls hitting boys is funny. Boys hitting girls is not funny." If parents really want to protect their kids, they should prevent them from watching news programs and cop shows, which are about actual, real-life violence. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:25, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps all media including Charlie Brown should be rated PG for soul-crushing depression. Really, it's played for laughs, but it's a wonder that kid never jumped off a bridge. APL (talk) 00:23, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes, many parents do protect their little children from the news and aggressive shows. How is this related? PG is Parental Guidance, isn't it, as opposed to the lower rating which is suitable for everyone without checking? Which means parents know there's something to check before letting little children watch it, but, depending on the child, it will probably be okay for an older child. It doesn't at all equate to preventing a child ever seeing it, or imply that parents who don't show it to their children will let those same children watch the news that evening :/ Seriously, what is this? 86.161.208.185 (talk) 00:24, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously, it's probably Linus's speech. If you weren't bringing up your child to be Christian you might not be happy with the biblical Christmas story being presented in such a matter-of-fact way. Not a problem if the parent is there choosing to watch christmas shows, but enough that you might want your V-Chip to remove it from your kid's unattended viewing. APL (talk) 01:05, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Indian postal code

what is zip code & postel code of india ,madhay pradesh

and what importance of the zip code — Preceding unsigned comment added by 25prashant25 (talk • contribs) 07:28, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what this has to do with entertainment, but you will find the answer in our article on Indian Postal Index Numbers.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 11:42, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect prashant has been asked for his ZIP code while registering on some Internet site. ZIP codes only apply to the US, so I usually just enter random numbers when a registration procedure absolutely demands it, and I suggest you do the same. There is more information in our article: ZIP code. TomorrowTime (talk) 16:33, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As someone who works in an internet business, entering random numbers can confuse people/automated address systems. Very few countries don't have postcodes (ROI is one) - if you don't have one, it's best to enter NONE or N/A in the box. Exxolon (talk) 14:06, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, re-reading it for registration purposes random is fine, just not for when you're actually ordering online! Exxolon (talk) 14:09, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. I was talking about some few pages where the registration absolutely demands the ZIP code and you have no alternative - as if only Americans ever went on the Internet. TomorrowTime (talk) 20:15, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fanfare for the Common Man

Good day,

In your "Fanfare for the Common Man" article (reference page?), in the entertainment section (TV, etc.), I spotted an error (I am almost 100% sure).............you state that the TV Show CBS Sports Spectacular used this piece of music as its opening theme. If I recall correctly, "Fire on High", by Electric Ligt Orchestra (ELO) was the opening theme.

Could you please verify, and correct if necessary

Thanks

RAB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.119.75.11 (talk) 16:02, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to our article on CBS Sports Spectacular, both were used at different times. Arakunem^Talk 16:57, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

retro Toronto Blue jays jerseys

Do you know where I can find a website that showcase the jerseys that were worn by the Blue Jays from 1977 to present? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.40.41 (talk) 23:13, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The baseball hall of fame has a database of every uniform ever worn by every team. See this page to start your search. --Jayron32 00:23, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's helpful alright but it doesn't help me about the mysterious dark blue jersey they had before. When did they use it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.33.127 (talk) 16:33, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Marc Okkonen's book Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century, from which the Hall of Fame article is apparently derived, covers uniforms through 1991, and does not show any dark blue shirts. Home shirts were basically white, and road shirts were kind of a medium-light blue. The old minor league club, Toronto Maple Leafs (International League), appear to have used a dark blue, so perhaps the Jays had a one-use special "retro" shirt that referred to the Leafs? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 11

Tanya Chalkin, The Kiss

Does someone want to tell me why the heck there is no entry for 'The Kiss' by Tanya Chalkin? This is an iconic image in north america. There isn't even an entry for her either... prefix:Talk:Main Page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.144.18.31 (talk) 08:45, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because no-one has written one yet! If you think the poster or creator or both is notable enough for an article, register an account and start the articles. You may find the following links useful

Wikipedia:Starting an article - read this first!
Wikipedia:Article wizard - this will guide you through writing your first article.
Wikipedia:Requested articles - if you don't feel comfortable writing the article yourself, you can request one or both here

Exxolon (talk) 14:04, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An iconic image I had never heard of before, and now that I've looked it up, have never seen before. And yet, here I am in North America... Corvus cornix_talk 22:09, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen it before but wasn't aware that it was "iconic". Dismas|^(talk) 12:05, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

compilation with song

Can someone please try to help me find a compilation on cd with the song 'feel the love' by Marchi's flo? I tried searching myself, i found nothing. Can someone please help me? Remember, it;s a cd compilation with Feel the love by Marchi's Flo. N.I.M. (talk) 15:02, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discogs is a good site for this, it is apparently called Marchi's Flow meltBanana 15:58, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ARD Digital and ZDF Vision

Which audio bit rates are used by ARD Digital and ZDF Vision? --84.61.182.248 (talk) 18:49, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

queue on youtube

what's the most videos that can fit in a youtube queue? N.I.M. (talk) 21:05, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Who are these people?

Any idea who these folk are? I'm guessing they are celebrities of some kind, so I'm posting on Entertainment.

Oh yes, Tineye gets 0 finds for these 4 imagaes.

-- SGBailey (talk) 21:42, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seems certain to me that 1 is Martin Tyler. Nanonic (talk) 23:27, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One down, 3 to go. Thanks. -- SGBailey (talk) 00:35, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 12

Timing rules in 1972 NFL

There is a video on Youtube of the last bit of Super Bowl VII. The Redskins turned the ball over on downs to the Dolphins with 15 seconds left. The Dolphins offense and Redskins defense both came onto the field and huddled up. But before the Dolphins ran a play, the refs wound the clock and the game ended.

Nowadays, the Dolphins would have to take a knee before the clock would run. Were the timing rules different then? -- Mwalcoff (talk) 02:24, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that the final play was a sack of the quarterback on 4th down, and according to NFL rules, that does not stop the clock if it's in the final two minutes. My guess is that such a rule is to prevent a team from taking a sack on purpose. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:39, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A quarterback sack does not stop the clock within 2 minutes, but a change of possession does. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 14:48, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have an NFL rulebook from 2007 that states the following in Rule 4, Section 4: "Exception: After the two-minute warning of a half, the game clock shall not be stopped: ... (j) When a down is completed during which there is a change of possession."

My original comment was based on the 2002 reference on this site:[5] I wonder if they mis-stated themselves? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:30, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There used to be a rule that after a sack, the clock stops until the ball is respotted. This is still the rule, except in the last 2 minutes, when the clock does not stop after a sack. However, the clock still stops for a change of possession. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 15:33, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I looked in Google for a comprehensive history of NFL rules and wasn't able to find anything about it. This is where we need Jayron32, who's an NFL guru. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:47, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, the only such "comprehensive" rulebook I know of is David M. Nelson's The Anatomy of a Game, which only covers the history of the NCAA rules to 1991. I am not aware of any such comprehensive book for the NFL. The NFL Record and Fact Book only contains current rules, at least the copy I have (which is a few years old). --Jayron32 23:30, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This[6] might be the answer you're looking for. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:50, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, that answers the question. The NCAA experimented with running the clock after changes of possession a few years back but canceled the rule change after coaches complained. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 17:52, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if the play that ended the Super Bowl actually had something to do with that rule change. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:08, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cult classic films

How can I find Disney cult classic films on here(Wikipedia)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.176.141.172 (talk) 04:48, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Which ones are you looking for? You should be able to just search for the article using the film's name. --McDoob AU 93 05:11, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's List of Disney feature films, and Category:Disney films. There doesn't seem to be any way to automatically filter out the ones that aren't cult classics, but the category is only two pages long. (Why can't I link to a category in the same way as an article?) 81.131.22.149 (talk) 07:20, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you put a semicolon before Category it works; [[:Category:Disney films]] shows like Category:Disney films. Grsz 11 07:24, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The reason you can't is because typing them in normal link fashion is how we categorise articles. 90.195.179.14 (talk) 10:24, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Using a link without an extra semi-colon works fine in an edit summary. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 19:48, 12 December 2010 (UTC) [reply]

That's a colon not a semicolon. - Sussexonian (talk) 22:06, 12 December 2010 (UTC) [reply]

Right on. I semi-apologise for my half-error. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 22:56, 12 December 2010 (UTC) [reply]

Viva Las Vegas on LP

What LP did the Elvis Presley song "Viva Las Vegas" first appear on? This is surprisingly hard to find out.—Chowbok ☠ 06:18, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean worldwide, or in the US? Maybe Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol. 1? Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:11, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll bet that was it. Thanks!—Chowbok ☠ 19:20, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Movie progression

Speaking of film series, why does it seem that films in a series decline in quality as the series progresses? THe classic example is Jaws: Jaws original was good, the II was OK, they should have stopped at or before III, and IV was a complete blunder. I ask because the first few Harry Potter were excellent, but the most recent is not very good. I'm sure this happens with other series too. Thanks 24.92.70.160 (talk) 18:54, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The page called Jumping the shark might give some insight. In the creative arts in general, it seems like what happens is that someone gets an idea, presents it well, and inevitably others (as well its originator) attempt to copy its success. To my mind, the last worthwhile film in the Star Wars series was The Empire Strikes Back. Everything after that was top-heavy with special effects and a lack of original ideas. TV series often wear out their welcome, as the saying goes. One notable exception was The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was deliberately cancelled by its producersd after 5 seasons, while it was still at the top of its game. Many TV and film producers don't quit while they're ahead. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Where Harry Potter is concerned, is it also possible that the quality of the books has declined over time? I have to ask, because I've not read them. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:02, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, the content actually gets more interesting with each book, but in the movies they continuously cut out more and more of the book to fit the time limit of the film. It wasn't a problem for the first three films because the books were rather short, so nothing much is left out of the films, but from the fourth installment on, the films start have a rushed quality to them. I stopped watching after "Order of The Phoenix". I heard they didn't even include Dumbledore's funeral in the sixth film, so that pretty much ensured that I wouldn't pay to see it. I've yet to see "Deathly Hallows", but the fact that they're splitting the film in two at least gives me hope that the franchise will end on a high note by not leaving out the important aspects of the book. 24.189.87.160 (talk) 08:11, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are two different kinds of book and movie series. One kind is a planned series, where the author writes the first one with the plan that there will be exactly three (or some other number), and even though they tell independent stories, they fit together to make a harmonious whole. The second kind is the open-ended series, which has no such overall plan and continues until fresh ideas are exhausted or too few readers/moviegoers are interest. An open-ended series may start out as a single book/movie intended as a standalone work and later be developed into a series. Publishers like to call any series of three books a "trilogy", even if it's an open-ended series that just happens to have stopped at three (or even a single big novel published in three volumes), but the term trilogy is better reserved for the planned type. Similarly with "tetralogy" and the other terms for other numbers of works.

And the point of this is that planned series -- real trilogies and so on -- tend to be immune from the sort of rot we're talking about with open-ended ones. And according to Rowling, Harry Potter was a planned series -- a heptalogy. So it's not surprising that people who like the books tend to like all of them. The movies have been more uneven, both because the books got longer and the movies didn't (as mentioned above) and also because they have been made by four different directors. --Anonymous, 09:37 UTC, December 13, 2010.

You're right about the change in directors having an effect on the quality of the films. I know I'm in the minority with this opinion, but Chris Columbus was my favorite director for the films. I don't like David Yates' style. 24.189.87.160 (talk) 17:54, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Part of it has to do with Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud) and regression to the mean. Most books/movie scripts/tv pilots are crud, so either don't get made, or don't get attention. The ones that get attention are the ones that get made. Then when they go to make a sequel, you're back to hit-or-miss, "90% of everything is crud" territory. Given the basic concept behind the series has been proven to be sound, you might get slightly better odds (say 60%-70% being crud), but you're still rather unlikely to repeat the statistical fluke which made the original the standout that it was. -- 174.24.216.113 (talk) 19:55, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Partially, it's sheer probability. In general, Only better-than-average movies get sequels. So it makes sense that the general trend would be downwards. (If you only remake movies that are 99% awesome, you've only got a 1% chance of making a better movie, but a 99% chance of making a worse one.) This effect is even worse with remakes!

Specifically for the Harry Potter movies, though, a big factor might be the length of the books. The first movie was pretty much a direct translation of the book with only a few scenes removed. However, towards the end the books got huge, and had complicated plots that didn't really work in a two hour movie. They still had to make the movies though, because they were so hugely popular, so they did the best they could to cram all that plot into two hours. APL (talk) 19:53, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See Sequelitis. I'm not sure it offers much of an explanation, though. Still. 90.195.179.14 (talk) 20:50, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are a couple things in play here. The first is that Jaws and many other books and films are written as stand alone stories and not part of a larger story arc. They were never intended to be a series. So you have a completed story where all the ends are tied up and then to try to carry on that success, you have to dream up some reason for the same characters to get into a similar situation yet again.

The second thing is with the HP books. The first book could easily be converted into the film because, as with the first book of any series, a lot of it is taken up with describing the characters and setting up the overall world of the fiction. Whereas you can use 2-3 pages to describe a room or person, the same can be summed up in just a few seconds with film. With the later books, more of the book is taken up with the plot. Plot elements are harder to all fit into a film. And for the record, I liked all the books with the second and fifth being the weakest. And I feel the same about the films thus far as well. Dismas|^(talk) 00:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's one more thing to say, namely that when a sequel is as good as (or better than) the original, this creates a demand for more sequels. Once there are a couple of bad sequels, demand tends to drop and that tends to end the series. So you may get a series that begins with more than one good movie (or bok), then declines, then ends, and still the last ones are the weakest. Two examples: the four Superman movies with Christopher Reeve, where the first two are about equally good and the others are poor, and the six Thin Man movies, where the first two or three are excellent and the later ones still good but certainly not as good. I think many would say that the six Star Wars movies also follow this pattern. --Anonymous, 09:20 UTC, link fixed 09:39, December 13, 2010.

An exception to the norm may be the James Bond series. 92.29.117.8 (talk) 10:41, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That will very much depend on the viewer. Younger people whose first exposure to Bond was Pierce Brosnan or Roger Moore might see a Sean Connery film on TV and think "How quaint: the later ones were obviously so much better". Whereas, those who were there at the start know that there is only one James Bond - Sean Connery; all the others are cheap imitations. However, these were all made from different stories, and they're not "sequels" in the sense this question is asking about. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have to question the original assumption: "The first few Harry Potter [movies] were excellent". Hmmm, coulda fooled me. Same with the books. The first half or so were formulaic--following the same plot points and even structural outline rather rigidly. The later ones shift from the Importance of Sports and Teenage Hijinks That Are Never Really Dangerous to something a bit more serious--and even deep, what with the motif of the lust for immortality and how it twists people. Not that any of it holds a candle to the Lord of the Rings--considering alone immortality, lust for power, and salvation through the "small people". Okay, I'll stop. Suffice it to say the early books/movies are pulp, the latter ones verge on a bit of depth. Note, of course, there were three long movies for the Lord of the Rings, which as a whole can't be many more pages than the final Potter book. Faithfulness to the book in detail is out of the question. Pfly (talk) 11:34, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

At the movie studios, the rule of thumb they have always observed is that a sequel earns about 2/3rds of the revenue of the previous movie. There have been many exceptions, of course. Comet Tuttle (talk) 18:32, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One thing that's visually disturbing about a lot of these CGI-heavy films is how dark they look. I'm sure that makes it easier to do the CGI stuff, but it leaves the films nearly black-and-white in appearance. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:54, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redneck American trio sitting at table eating (comedy) seen on UK tv recently

I'd like to know what programme it was. I saw a snatch of it late at night (possibly Channel 4) recently, just before the programme ended. I was half asleep at the time. Three American redneck people were sitting at a table close to the camera. In the middle was a smallish mature man talking to the camera. On the right was his younger wife who kept wriggling her cleavage at the camera. On the left was a younger thickset man who appeared to be eating spare ribs with sauce. Behind them to the right was a large window. The mature man was talking about his wife, including something about sauce. When the dog (?) made a noise the woman and thickset man would rapidly say something, reflex-like.

Does anyone know what programme it was from please? Or if I can see it online anywhere? Thanks 92.28.249.229 (talk) 19:21, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wild guess, but you might be referring to Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and/or Larry the Cable Guy. They've done a number of things together. I remember they had a sketch comedy/variety show on US television, but I'm not remembering what it's called. -- 174.24.216.113 (talk) 19:47, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That was called Blue Collar TV. Adam Bishop (talk) 01:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Angels We Have Heard on High

I found at least two hymnals with a slightly different melody of "Angels We Have Heard on High" that looks like this:

Anyone know the origin of it? It sounds almost like a counterpoint to the more familiar French melody. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 19:26, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That looks to me like the opening of Angels from the Realms of Glory which is sung to a very similar tune (though apparently not in America). Here is a site which describes the two tunes it calls Gloria and Iris (read the 'About' tab for Iris). - Sussexonian (talk) 22:03, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This[7] site (on a page linked from "Angels from the Realms of Glory") says "French carol, 18th Century". In the Church of England, the tune "Regent's Square" is generally used for the hymn "Christ Is Made The Sure Foundation"[8]. Alansplodge (talk) 14:07, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Freaking Brits, why can't you use the same melodies as everyone else? :D Seriously, your excuse of a tune for Away in a Manger sounds like a cheap knockoff of James Murray's tune. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 22:10, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The alternate tune for "Away in a/the Manger" is good for those of us with a vocal range of about 3 notes. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:52, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

December 13

Trying to remember a Bruce Lee film

I recall a particular scene in a Bruce Lee film a long time ago (at least I'm pretty sure it was Bruce Lee, but it could have been someone else) where he sticks his fists in what looks like a bowl of steaming hot water and holds them there. Anyone know what film this was? -- œ ^™ 00:15, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not a film, but the television series Kung Fu showed the main character, Kwai Chang Caine (portrayed by David Carradine ) holding his forearms against a pot of burning coals to permanently brand himself. I believe the scene was shown quite often in the opening or closing credits 10draftsdeep (talk) 17:47, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In an ominous turn, he was then awarded a belt. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:50, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do it yourself tattooing for the frugal. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:18, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me find the Honda SUV parking garage commercial?

Years ago, I saw a commercial for a Honda SUV (Maybe the Honda Pilot?) A father was driving, and the family was trying to find a space to park at the parking garage. Even 72 levels later, he couldn't find a spot, so he kept going. Then the commercial flashed forward to 253, then level 2,000-something. The level below 2,000 showed something of a red cave, with a demonic-looking sentry watching the SUV roll past him.

I have been trying to find it for years now. Would you please help? --70.179.178.5 (talk) 10:36, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fomula One Racing

I need to find the color name or the color code for the yellow color the Belgium Racing Team uses on their cars.Porporpor (talk) 13:04, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wish to reproduce the color for my 58 Triumph TR3A...Belgium Racing Yellow. I have contacted Road and Track Magazine...They wrote an article in 1960...The Color in Racing...That has been over a month ago with no return at all. I found the article at www.miata.net/misc/racecolor.html and tried to get help there...No Reply...I tried all the auto paint companies...Strange thing...you ask for British Racing Green and they ask how much quantity...same with Italian Racing Red... but ask for Belgium Racing Yellow and they ask you what year, and model it came on, and the color code.

You may be my last pit stop. Seems that color codes also differ with paint manufacturers so that info is also needed.

I would appreciate any help or links you may be able to provide,

Thank you,

Scott Sater

First of all, have you already read the Wikipedia article List of international auto racing colors?

Secondly, you write "the yellow color the Belgium Racing Team uses . . . ." From my sketchy general knowledge of Formula One and from the above-linked article, when the 'national colours' went out of general use due to the rise of sponsors' liveries, there had not been a prominent Belgian-based team (there would be no such thing as The Belgian Team as opposed to, say, the current Belgian Racing) for a while (though I may well be wrong about this), so it may be that 'Belgian Yellow' was never formally standardized, and that various Belgian teams used slightly different hues and finishes at various times. (On a parallel note, I know from professionally researching railway locomotive liveries that finding historical data on exact historic paint specifications can be surprisingly difficult, often the 'tech specs' simply never made the transition from current working documents into permanent records because nobody at the time thought that anyone years later would care.)

Thirdly, have you tried directly contacting the FIA, their Belgian members the Royal Automobile Club de Belgique (RACB) or the Touring Club Belgium (TCB), or a current Belgian motor racing team such as Team Astromega or Marc VDS Racing Team - even if there is no single specification for 'Belgian Yellow', I'm sure someone in such organisations would have sufficent historical interest to be able to suggest an appropriate one for the period you're interested in. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 15:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Exhibition Stadium look

Is there a website of how the Exhibition Stadium look like before its demolition? Outside and inside? Baseball field and Football field? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.150.188 (talk) 19:30, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have you checked the external links given in the Exhibition Stadium article? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:48, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The book Take Me Out to the Ballpark by Josh Leventhal, which is on my bookshelf right now, has several pictures of it. --Jayron32 20:37, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. These external links in the article[9][10] have some pretty good illustrations, but they're all the baseball configuration. I google-imaged [exhibition stadium] and some interesting alternative views turned up, including a picture from when it was the CNE's racetrack,[11] and Andrew Clem's drawing of the ballpark configuration.[12] (His site is a good resource for ballpark outlines.) This one[13] shows the stadium getting prepped for some odd event that looks like it involves an artificial ski track. This one,[14] which is a companion to ballparks.com, shows the football configuration. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:03, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

song I heard

what's the song and the artist for a song with the lyrics: "I have trouble leaving when I can't find the door" it's preceded by a line about staying at parties till 4 and followed by something like "so far life's been good to me" 70.241.19.66 (talk) 21:40, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]