pauldrye

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

She might like Little Kitty, Big City. You're a cat, it's an open world, you explore, make friends, and wear hats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I checked the No Frills brand but it's "Product of USA".

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

According to the UK's Department For International Trade it's overwhelmingly "Non-ferrous metal products" at $8.5 billion in 2019. Financial services (credit and "miscellaneous financial services") are 2 & 3 on the list by value, but only a bit more than $200 million in total for both of them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

There's a part of Canada that's south of Crescent City, California.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Worst. Cryptid. Ever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm fond of the Imperial County of Reuss, which was semi-independent in the Holy Roman Empire. The madlads named all their rulers "Heinrich", resulting such personages as Heinrich LXXII ("Heinrich the 72nd").

More recently there's the Saar Protectorate, which the French encouraged to become a fully independent country after WWII. But the inhabitants wanted nothing to do with it and rejoined West Germany.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 months ago (8 children)

It would probably be faster to list the things he doesn't have a negative view about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

The Ash song also has Fu Manchu in its lyrics!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I almost connected this one to "Bittersweet Symphony" -- Simon Tong plays guitar on both.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To Jagger and Richards in particular. They ceded the song-writing credit back to Richard Ashcroft in 2019.

If you haven't heard the song he sampled it from it's pretty blatant (starts from 0:18 and just keeeeeps going). And I'm speaking as someone who loves "Bittersweet Symphony".

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Turned into a slurry and then administered as an enema.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I missed that, sorry -- it was making the rounds today and I assumed....

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The Records - Starry Eyes (www.youtube.com)
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Has the same producer, Mutt Lange.

 

Name-checking Jesus in the title.

 

The line "I can see for miles" shows up partway through the first verse.

 

As a supplement to yesterday's link to Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, here's an extended outtake of Frank Oz (as Ma) and Jerry Nelson (as Emmet) becoming ever more loopy and funny during take after take of a scene in the special.

(There's a few different bloopers at the start of the video but they're nothing special, so I linked directly to the good part.)

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A Henson Production Christmas special produced in Toronto for showing on the Canadian TV network CBC in 1977. It was recut for American TV in 1980 and was nominated for four Emmys in 1981.

 

This is film of Operation Sandy, the first sea launch of a large rocket. It took place on the deck of the USS Midway in 1947, with a captured V-2 setting off at a janky angle and then breaking up before making it to 5 kilometers high:

I've linked to the flight portion of a newsreel about the whole thing.

 

"In this one-hour Christmas special, Fozzie Bear surprises his mother Emily on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the Muppets in their holiday activities and preparations."

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