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March 28[edit]

How to find a complete list of an 80's band's TV appearances including musical guest, interviews, game shows, sponsored events, etc. from '80 to '89?[edit]

YouTube has clips of my favorite band and even better, just the lead singer on programs including Thicke of the Night, MV3 and TV-something with Richard Blade plus clips of the band's cameos in several movies and a commercial. I want to collect full appearances and full interviews but YouTube is mostly cluttered with concerts so I need a list of their TV appearances, sponsored events and cameos to know what to search for. I already tried IMDB by band name and by the lead singer's name but they don't have any of the programs I listed or even the famous American Bandstand on his filmography! I hope someone here can tell me what to do next. Gretchen174.65.24.110 (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2013 (UTC) (tildes edited 3-29)[reply]

You can probably ask at an internet forum dedicated to that band. What's the band, out of interest? --Viennese Waltz 08:15, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gretchen, you need to hold the Shift key down to convert those 4 ` marks to 4 ~ (tildes), assuming that's what they're there for. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 08:16, 28 March 2013 (UTC) [reply]

I was hoping someone knew an official site, like IMDB's Filmography section but for musicians. But your suggestion is a smart one, VW, and thanks for helping me with the tildes, Jack. Gretchen174.65.24.110 (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that there is a site like IMDB for musicians. And I agree that a dedicated forum is probably the best place to go. As a Pink Floyd fan, a lot of the information that I know came from sites and mailing lists dedicated to them. (As well as reading the more authoritative books on them) Dismas|^(talk) 20:16, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Dismas. Gretchen174.65.24.110 (talk) 20:31, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can animals play in the NFL?[edit]

Saw this and wondered about what would happen if you taught an elephant a route tree and when to stop for a TD. Is there any rule barring animals from playing in the NFL? Or is this such a bizarre idea that nothing exists to address it?

The official rules state that "Each team is permitted 11 men on the field at the snap" (emphasis added). While I assume that women are allowed to play, the term wouldn't generally extend to non-humans without an explicit statement that it does. Tevildo (talk) 16:15, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sports are assumed to be strictly humans unless there's some specific exception. Polo, for example, involves ponies - and some variations of it use elephants. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:37, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe but except for the Iditarod and auto racing, I don't see any women listed as having played in the highest levels of American pro sports.[1] Rules may not cover the situation. Rmhermen (talk) 17:27, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This story says the NFL's rule preventing women was removed in December 2011. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 17:29, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Women have not played in any regular season major league games in any of the 4-5 major American professional leagues. However, there have been women who have made the practice squads of teams and/or played in preseason or exhibition games. See Ann Meyers who was on the Indiana Pacers roster (but appeared in no games) or Manon Rhéaume who played goalkeeper for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a preseason game. --Jayron32 18:46, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your answers. But I don't think women are "animals"... :) Buggie111 (talk) 20:23, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The important point is they're not _men_, which is what the rules say. :) Tevildo (talk) 21:13, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, as my doctor friend often reminds me, there's a vas deferens between men and women. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 22:25, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Only if you're into that particular sort of thing. The U.S. Supreme Court is trying to decide if the government can legally recognize the vas deferens between two men, or even relationships without the involvement of vas deferenseses at all... --Jayron32 00:27, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

TANGENT Shadowjams (talk) 03:23, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

EQUALS SINE OVER COSINE. 72.128.82.131 (talk) 03:27, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The thing about tangents that most people conveniently forget is that they touch the curve. Depending on the shape of the curve, they can touch or intersect with it in many places. They've been given a bad rap and they deserve some damn respect ! -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 03:43, 30 March 2013 (UTC) [reply]

A circle with a parallel line attached to it stylistically resembles a lasso, and that's what nannies will try to do: Rope in the discussion. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:49, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes a rodeo needs a man on a horse. Shadowjams (talk) 04:16, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Or at least part of a horse. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:32, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And sometimes parts of a horse end up in food... not sure what the game is here but I thought I'd pitch in with a further very slightly connected observation... gazhiley 15:20, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can have the best fun when you have no idea what game it is you're playing or what the rules are or even whether there are any rules. Just come from a place of love and allow yourself to surrender to the infinite. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 22:16, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Any film about a German serviceman in an American POW camp?[edit]

I'd like to find and view a film taking place in either World War that centers around a German serviceman getting captured by American forces and living his new life in a POW Camp in the United States. So far, the search hasn't exactly been producing films just as described. Please point me to them; thanks. --129.130.236.199 (talk) 22:22, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Summer of My German Soldier is the closest I can get to your specs. I think I vaguely remember(?) a movie about Nazi POWs killing one of their own for voicing his opposition to Hitler, but can't recall the title. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:11, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That killing ~~may have been from The Mckenzie Break, set in Scotland.~~ was actually from Decision Before Dawn. However, there is The Incident, a 1990 TV movie set in Colorado. Further north, The Enemy Within is a 52-minute documentary about the German POW experience in Canada, watchable in its entirety here. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:56, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

When I got to watch The Enemy Within, it was such a heartwarming tale of how Germans were treated in Canadian POW camps. I wish we'd be as civilized now as we and they used to be in those days. Thanks a lot! --70.179.161.230 (talk) 09:33, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was an actual instance of German prisoners killing one of their own, but in a British POW camp. Feldwebel Wolfgang Rosterg - a known anti-Nazi - was sent by mistake to Cultybraggan Camp in Scotland with those considered to be strongly sympathetic to the Nazi Party. He was believed by the other prisoners to have informed on a planned escape attempt and after a severe beating was hanged in the latrine.[2] Alansplodge (talk) 21:36, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]