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May 11

Male rappers wearing a dress in one of their clips

Does anyone know any more examples of male rappers who wore a dress in one of their videos though they do not normally wear dresses? Mr. Key wore one in Future Posse Cut One Thousand and Promoe wore a dress in the videoclip for Don´t Hate The Player but I don't know any other examples. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 07:07, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Snoop Dogg (although this may be more of a kilt), Young Thug, Kanye West, Pitbull, and P-Diddy, ASAP Rocky, Cee-Lo (although Cee-Lo is more of a singer than a rapper). This article discusses the recent trend of males wearing clothing traditionally tagged for women, and also specifically cites Kanye and Young Thug. This article specifically names 11 rappers known to wear dresses or skirts in public. --Jayron 32 16:24, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Jayron32: Awesome, thank you, there were many more than I expected! Interesting stuff. I especially like this picture of Mos Def. Cee-Lo is a singer, but he raps too (albeit badly), for example here on the Wake Up Show, so I would consider him both a singer and a rapper. Some of them seem to be making fashion statements, but with others the only explanation why they wore a dress is because they simply wanted to. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:28, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(I must have messed something up but I found this gallery of (mostly) men proving theorems while wearing sarongs [1] :) SemanticMantis (talk) 14:27, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think Google has been tracking your browsing habits, and is trying to give results that are relevant to you.

The Quixotic Potato (talk) 12:13, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly that was a blatant lie in the service of humor - I've known about the proofs-in-sarongs thing since way back in my undergrad days, and somehow the rappers in dresses question reminded me of it :) SemanticMantis (talk) 17:43, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Doctor Who - Rose's frustration of the TARDIS translation circuit

In the Doctor Who episode The End of the World, why was Rose Tyler angry about the TARDIS translation circuit? When she says that the aliens speak English, the 9th Doctor explains that the TARDIS puts a telepathic field into her head and translates languages. However, she got furious and asks why he didn't ask? What did she mean? Ask what? I thought she'd be happy or pleased. Because it makes her understand what they're saying. Then she ask questions that he refused to answer, making him defensive and very angry. How very surprising. 86.169.72.176 (talk) 15:57, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Because the TARDIS changed her body without asking for her permission. Many people would feel that this would be an intrusion when they have not given explicit permission. Dismas|^(talk) 16:50, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[EC] One possible explanation is that this particular (fictional) character regarded direct manipulation of her brain/mind without warning or permission to be an intrusion into her privacy and/or physical integrity.

However, on a broader note, questions like this betray a misunderstanding about the nature of art. A piece of fiction (like this) is a work of art, which means it may not have a definite cut-and-dried explanation for everything: rather, it may present deliberately ambiguous or inconclusive ideas so that the viewer can, by contributing their own interpretations, in effect collaborate with the artists (the scriptwriters, etc.) to produce a unique piece of art that may be different from the one in any other viewers' heads. In short, art is not passive, the viewer (reader, listener, etc.) needs to do some work as well, so you, 86.169.72.176, should be deciding the answer to questions like this for yourself. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 17:00, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt if this was the reason, but any translation should absolutely be identified as such, because all translations are subject to error. For example, if you said you just ate a burrito, and it was translated as "I just ate a baby burro", you could see why that might cause some anger. StuRat (talk) 17:22, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 12

Question about Marlee Matlin

Through which family members if she of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent? Parents? Grandparents? Great grandparents? 50.68.120.49 (talk) 04:51, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article contains excerpts from her memoir I'll Scream Later. She says her paternal grandfather, Edward Matlin, was a Russian from "Gomel... in what is now Belarus"; and her maternal grandmother, Rose Hammer, was from Bledow (apparently either this one or this one), Poland. Both families were Jewish. As I read the article, her other grandparents were already living in the US when those two moved there. --69.159.61.172 (talk) 07:25, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 14

Five songs to compare the history of

Alouette
Down by the Station
Eensy Weensy Spider
Little Bunny Foo Foo
Sweetly Sings the Donkey

All 5 of these songs start with the same group of notes. Is there any real relationship among the songs' tunes?? (Feel free to add a sixth song if possible.) Georgia guy (talk) 15:15, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

They're all more or less the same tune, a fairly simple one based on the major scale. Here's a piano tutorial showing how to play "Sweetly Sings the Donkey", which you'll see only uses the white notes, since it's being played in C major. --Nicknack009 (talk) 16:18, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here's some sheet music: Alouette Down by the Station, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Sweetly Sings the Donkey. They look more rhythmically different than they really are, because of notes inégales.

They are similar enough that it seems unlikely to be coincidence, but I can't find any discussion of it. Borrowing of folk tunes is common, but that doesn't prove it happened here. Alouette (song) mentions another song with that tune named "If You Love Me", but there is no citation and I can't find it online. Itsy Bitsy Spider says "The song is sung by and for children in countless languages and cultures", and mentions de:Spannenlanger Hansel. -- BenRG (talk) 20:31, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I first heard Little Bunny Foo Foo as a Scout campfire song in the 1980s, so if I'm right, it's a comparatively recent entry to the list. Our article states: "The poem is sung to the tune of "Down by the Station" (1948), and melodically similar to the popular French Canadian children's song "Alouette" (1879)". Alansplodge (talk) 08:33, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW "Underneath the Spreading Chestnut Tree" is also very similar.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:04, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am not particularly surprised. There are only so many permutations of the notes of the tonic triad (that help to establish the key) that it would seem that such a resemblance would be quite likely, and the simple sequential treatment of the third outlined by the first bar is also not hard to reinvent. Why, Mozart did something quite similar in the String Quartet in C, KV 157:

$\relative c' { \tempo "Allegro" \key c \major \time 4/4 c4.\p (d8) e4-. e-. | e8 (d f e d4) r | d4. (e8) f4-. f-. | f8 (e g f e4) r | a4. (b8 c4) c-. | c (b) a-. g-. | g (f) e-. d-. | c-. r r2 }$

Double sharp (talk) 09:29, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 15

Roop Kumar Rathod tv show old is gold songs

What was the name of the show that Ghazal singer Roop Kumar Rathod where he showcases the songs from old movies that were from 1940s to 1980s and what was the name of the tv network whose logo resemble a bee with two speakers as its eyes? Donmust90 (talk) 03:46, 15 May 2016 (UTC)Donmust90Donmust90 (talk) 03:46, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The channel with the bee logo is Mastiii. Tevildo (talk) 09:30, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rathod presented a radio show called Shaam-E-Ghazal in 2006, and appeared in a concert called Old Is Gold in Rotterdam in 2013, but I've not yet found any references to him presenting a TV show. Tevildo (talk) 11:04, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Call of Duty characters

Are the wiki articles on Captain Price and Soap MacTavish the only ones there are about characters in Call of Duty, or are there also articles about other characters in that game (Major Ingram, Sergeant Moody, etc.)? 2601:646:8E01:515D:F88D:DE34:7772:8E5B (talk) 07:53, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, those are the only two articles in the English Wikipedia on individual Call of Duty characters. The main issue with creating articles on other characters is notability, as we define it. See WP:GNG for the relevant guideline (basically, there must be significant coverage of the characters (not just the games) in independent sources), and WP:FAN for an appropriate essay. The Captain Price article comfortably survived an AFD in 2011 - if other characters have the same level of independent coverage, they should be eligible for articles. Tevildo (talk) 21:51, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Football Laws - Offside

The IFAB has issued updated the laws of football to come into effect on 1st June 2016. PDF version at theifab.com. For offside, it now states that the free kick resulting from offside is taken where the offence occurs (even in player's own half). Can anybody explain how it could be taken in the player's own half, as,by definition, you can't be offside in your own half? Or have I misinterpreted it? Widneymanor (talk) 20:32, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You checked the Powerpoint - but perhaps did not read the actual new rule, which has this explanation attached: "The Law and the interpretation were contradictory. Throughout the Laws, the general principle is that a Free Kick is awarded where an offence occurs so this now applies to offside. A Free Kick can be awarded in a player’s own half if the player moves from being in an offside position in the opponents’ half to commit an offside offence in the player’s own other half." 81.132.106.10 (talk) 21:02, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but how can the player commit an "offside offence" without being offside? If you're in your own half, by definition, you're not offside. Tevildo (talk) 21:32, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a footballist, but I think it works like this. You get yourself into an offside position, and from that point on are barred from involving yourself in the flow of the game until ... I'm not sure what; presumably, until you have well and truly made yourself onsite without interfereing with play. If you do start to involve yourself in the game, you commit an offside offence. So, the offence is separate from the fact that you may be ahead of all other other teams players: which is to say, you can get yourself into an offside position without triggering an offence. To trigger an offence you must be (or have been) offside and then involve yourself in play. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:50, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 16

1966 songs

In this catagory there's no information yet about the then hit song "Oh oh What A Kiss" by Will Andy.

Also the singer is not mentioned in catagory "American pop singers"

This is the song: [2]

It's very hard to find info elsewhere. But because it supposingly concerns an American song and singer, pop music insiders there probably know (where to find) more about this subject.

Thanks in advance.

VKing (talk) 02:46, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Now what; through You Tube this could be found: [3];

It's another name, but the song sounds exactly the same; and it seems to be of German origine.

VKing (talk) 03:20, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And then this: [4];

Which raises the question whether song and singer are or have ever been known at all in the US or in GB.

VKing (talk) 03:42, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a set of English words set to the tune of "The Loveliest Night of the Year" to me. As a GB 60s pop fan I've never heard it, and I reckon it was probably only a hit in Germany. --TammyMoet (talk) 09:55, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing I can find (so far) is Billboard listing it in the Dutch charts around September 1966 as a new entry at #8 - I phrased that vaguely as I am not sure of the lag in publishing. (link here. I'll keep looking to see if I can find more. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 22:07, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[5] This listing for the best selling singles from 65-89 in Holland gives his nationality as Belgian, and I am seeing snippets suggesting he charted in Belgium (and Norway and Germany). But I can find nothing substative from English language sources, so I'm inclined to think that he was a Continental European phenomenon.FlowerpotmaN·(t) 22:23, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oddly enough, I didn't see this in previous searches, but there is an entry on rateyourmusic.com here that also says he was Belgian and gives a discography. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 22:29, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See also discogs - song & discography --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:33, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Before I rush to the doctor to have him check my Google-Fu, as I can't believe I missed Discogs :), apparently the song was also released (at any rate) in Australia link FlowerpotmaN·(t) 22:40, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I (Central European) actually do remember the song. What I don´t know is if the my memory recollects the Will Andy, Andy Williams versions (I have no idea if these two are identical), the version by an obscure (?, sorry) Austrian Jazz musician named Johnny Fischer (referenced above) or even the Maria Lanza version from 1951.

In the latter case, I would be somewhat amazed if I remembered irrelevant soundbites stored at an age of 5 but I seem to recollect infantile images which seem to have had no significance then and puzzle me now at an advanced Biblical age. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 19:59, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall Andy Williams doing the tune, but here it is in a cartoon, just after the 2:30 mark.[6] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:24, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 17

Buzzer beater

In basketball, if you release a shot before the buzzer sounds to end the period but the ball goes in after the buzzer, the shot counts. Is the same true in lacrosse? ice hockey? field hockey? soccer? Loraof (talk) 00:36, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lacrosse rules (NCAA, as of 2015-2016): Yes, Ice Hockey (NHL, 2014-2015 rulebook): No. Field Hockey (FIH, 2015 rules): Doesn't say. Soccer (FIFA, 2015/2016 Laws of the Game): doesn't say, though I think the game ends the moment the whistle is blown. --Jayron 32 01:28, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For football ('soccer'), the game doesn't end as long as the ball is in play. There is no buzzer to beat. 213.105.166.119 (talk) 07:36, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, 213, that simply isn't true. The end of a football (soccer) game can occur with the ball in play (unlike in Rugby Union), although the referee often waits until the team in possession loses the ball. There was a case in a World Cup a number of years ago where the referee blew the final whistle between a player taking a shot and it going into the net; the goal did not count, and it caused a lot of controversy at the time. I'll see if I can find a ref for this. BbBrock (talk) 11:20, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]