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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 10-13-2013
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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 10-15-2013
The animated sequences in the first Child's play film was done by Ruby Spears. And one of the original concepts on the film had the child giving a bit of his blood to the chucky doll. This idea was scrapped. Possibly to avoid children to repeat the actions in the film if they ever saw it.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - gamemaster1991 - 10-16-2013
To continue on with CLX's post, famous unscripted scenes.
Number 20 is my favorite.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CosmykTheDolfyn - 10-17-2013
There is a Japanese (of course!) scroll from the Edo period created by an unknown artist as a political statement against the increasing amount of Europeans coming to Japan for business at the time. The scroll is a large painting featuring a group of mostly naked people farting at people so hard it is knocking other people (mostly foreigners) down. Mind you, this was painted around the 1600s. It is known now as He-gassen (which roughly translates to Fart Battle).
Google it, I dare you.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - gamemaster1991 - 10-18-2013
Let me tell you about this man:
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His name is Herman Webster Mudgett, otherwise known as Dr. H. H. Holmes, the first documented American serial killer. His death count is around 200, most (if not all) were done with one thing.
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This "Murder Hotel," or "Murder Castle" as I also heard it called, was made for...... well, murder. The upper two floors of the three floor building contained a maze of over 100 windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly-angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, doors openable only from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions. Holmes repeatedly changed builders during the construction of the building, so only he fully understood the design of the house.
The strange thing is that the bodies of the victims were sold to medical schools. Not sure what they did with them but I'm sure it was helpful in some way.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CosmykTheDolfyn - 10-19-2013
(10-18-2013, 08:35 PM)gamemaster1991 Wrote: The strange thing is that the bodies of the victims were sold to medical schools. Not sure what they did with them but I'm sure it was helpful in some way.
Medical schools use human cadavers for dissection and to practice surgery so they know what the inside of you body really looks like and how to make the cuts before they try on a real person.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - gamemaster1991 - 10-19-2013
(10-19-2013, 05:58 AM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote:(10-18-2013, 08:35 PM)gamemaster1991 Wrote: The strange thing is that the bodies of the victims were sold to medical schools. Not sure what they did with them but I'm sure it was helpful in some way.
Medical schools use human cadavers for dissection and to practice surgery so they know what the inside of you body really looks like and how to make the cuts before they try on a real person.
That makes sense. I never knew exactly why people donated bodies to medical schools.
I'm not sure if it was the whole body that were donated or just the skeleton or both. I like to think it was both, just to be helpful.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Hexadecimal - 10-19-2013
(10-18-2013, 08:35 PM)gamemaster1991 Wrote: Let me tell you about this man:
His name is Herman Webster Mudgett, otherwise known as Dr. H. H. Holmes, the first documented American serial killer. His death count is around 200, most (if not all) were done with one thing.
This "Murder Hotel," or "Murder Castle" as I also heard it called, was made for...... well, murder. The upper two floors of the three floor building contained a maze of over 100 windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly-angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, doors openable only from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions. Holmes repeatedly changed builders during the construction of the building, so only he fully understood the design of the house.
The strange thing is that the bodies of the victims were sold to medical schools. Not sure what they did with them but I'm sure it was helpful in some way.
Oh my gosh... That place was totally the inspiration for an episode of Gargoyles. Goliath escapes a hotel just like that.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 10-19-2013
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That little syringe/raygun in the artwork of this card has CRUSH in it, crush card virus.
and a body
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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Hexadecimal - 10-21-2013
This is an apartment building in Germany called the Waldspiral. I think it roughly translates to "Forest Spiral". You'll see why:
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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 08:49 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote: This is an apartment building in Germany called the Waldspiral. I think it roughly translates to "Forest Spiral". You'll see why:
The fancy Russian tops?
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Hexadecimal - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 09:14 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: The fancy Russian tops?
Onion domes. Yeah, the fellow that made the building liked them and used them in his building designs sometimes.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 09:18 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote:(10-21-2013, 09:14 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: The fancy Russian tops?
Onion domes. Yeah, the fellow that made the building liked them and used them in his building designs sometimes.
Rather impractical really. They are designed to deflect snow, though considering Germany, I may have spoken too soon.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Hexadecimal - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 09:25 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote:(10-21-2013, 09:18 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote:(10-21-2013, 09:14 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: The fancy Russian tops?
Onion domes. Yeah, the fellow that made the building liked them and used them in his building designs sometimes.
Rather impractical really. They are designed to deflect snow, though considering Germany, I may have spoken too soon.
Nothing is really practical about the buildings he made. They're just awesome to look at.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 09:30 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote:Eh, I'll give you that.(10-21-2013, 09:25 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote:(10-21-2013, 09:18 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote:(10-21-2013, 09:14 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: The fancy Russian tops?
Onion domes. Yeah, the fellow that made the building liked them and used them in his building designs sometimes.
Rather impractical really. They are designed to deflect snow, though considering Germany, I may have spoken too soon.
Nothing is really practical about the buildings he made. They're just awesome to look at.