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(07-24-2013, 06:24 AM)retrolinkx Wrote: Acme. The name used in Looney Toons, and many more cartoons alike is not made up, and is an actual company that was around during the beginnings of the telephone, and the yellow pages.
Because the yellow pages were alphabetized. It would show A first so companies wanted their products to be the first to be seen, meaning that people would call their products "ACME "Product"" so it would be the first one people would see in a phone book.
So, if you were looking for Anvils. Acme Anvils would be the first thing you would see by looking at it in the phone book.
Very few of these companies still exist today, but you could probably find them in the phone book. AAA would be one of them wouldn't it?
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When Captain Lou Albano got the part of Mario on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, since he had shaved his face for the part, the executives asked him to ware a fake mustache. He declined and said he would grow his own..... which he did. Nice stache Captain Lou. Still one of the best.
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In the 1980's. Brad Bird wanted to do an animated feature of Will Eisner's The Spirit. Being a fan of the comics, Brad wrote a script that was very faithful to the comic's source material. Will Eisner loved it and claimed it to be 'very faithful' to his creation. However. The project didn't get made since the executives couldn't envision it working out as an animated feature. The project was later scrapped and the idea of a film based off of Will Eisner's comic wouldn't hit the screen until Frank Miller stepped in and did a movie of the comic in 2008.
Doug Tennapel's favorite graphic novel series is Hellboy.
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Don't remember where this is from so I can't confirm if its legit, but the "Democratic Republic" of Congo has a village that their government renamed USA so that they could make cheap american flags that say made in USA.
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Okay, time to go old school on all ya'll.
For the people that used to/still watch I Dream of Jeannie, you might remember a controversy about actress, Barbara Eden, showing her belly button when in costume, as she was suppose to cover it up, making it look like she did not have one. Most people think that it was because seeing a navel on TV was pornographic, and seeing as how married couples could not even sleep in the same bed together, you could see where they were coming from.
No the real reason is kinda sillier depending on who you are. The real reason is because of an injoke between Barbara and a reporter:
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Watching cartoons with your brother leads to funny results. There is a Johnny Bravo episode where he is strapped to Shaq O'Niel's back, in a basketball match versus Seth Green with Huckleberry Hound strapped to his back.
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The note that most toilets flush in is E flat.
The most covered song by other artists of all time is "Yesterday" by The Beatles, with well over 2,000 different artists having covered it.
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Sometimes, censorship leads to some unexpected results.
Did you watch the 90s music video and get washed over by nostalgia? Good. The video caused a lot of controversy because of the ending where Jeremy comes into class and shoots them all. However, that was the censored version.
The original, uncensored, makes more sense. Jeremy walks into class, pulls out the gun, puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The class is left shocked, and the front row is covered in his blood. The blood spray is then left all over his shocked classmates. By censoring the violent shooting and skipping to the shocked, blood covered front row, it made the video appear as he shot the rest of his class.
The song was actually about a real event where a boy named Jeremy Wade Delle shot himself in front of his English class.
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(09-09-2013, 01:20 PM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote: Sometimes, censorship leads to some unexpected results.
Did you watch the 90s music video and get washed over by nostalgia? Good. The video caused a lot of controversy because of the ending where Jeremy comes into class and shoots them all. However, that was the censored version.
The original, uncensored, makes more sense. Jeremy walks into class, pulls out the gun, puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The class is left shocked, and the front row is covered in his blood. The blood spray is then left all over his shocked classmates. By censoring the violent shooting and skipping to the shocked, blood covered front row, it made the video appear as he shot the rest of his class.
The song was actually about a real event where a boy named Jeremy Wade Delle shot himself in front of his English class.
I have to say that I do not like songs like this. It's a good song, don't get me wrong, but I just don't like songs that are based on real stories how someone killed themselves or how someone killed another person. Don't get me wrong I love songs like "Who You'd Be Today" by Kenny Chesney, "Lucy" by Skillet, or even "Over You" by Miranda Lambert, as these are about personal stories. Songs like this and "Cassie" by Flyleaf are worse to me knowing that they are based on real stories of other people. For those who have never heard Cassie, it's a song about Cassie Bernall, a student at Columbine High School who was killed in the massacre that occurred there. Before she was killed, she was asked "Do you believe in God?", and when she said yes, she was shot. When I hear that people make these songs, it's does not sound like a tribute to the kid. To me it sounds like they want to tell how the kid died. I would not want to be known as the guy who got shot for believing in god.
On the other hand, It's kinda funny (as well as bleak). You can even see the singer (have no idea who he is or what his name is) put his hand up to his head in a "shot-yourself" motion. I have never seen the video before and I saw that on the first viewing. Some better editing or some re-filmed scenes would have made the video better censor wise.
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I'm not sure if this counts as a "Video Game Did You Know" but it's still really cool to know.
Back in the early 1940's to the mid 1970's, pinball was banned in most of the big citys. This was due to 2 resons. The first was due to them thinking it "a game of chance, not skill, and so it was a form of gambling." This was becuse of the early designs of the pinball games.
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As you can see, the flippers are missing. Early pinball games had the player hit the sides of the machine to make the ball go the way they wanted. The first game to have flippers was Gottlieb's Humpty Dumpty, introduced in 1947 (5-7 years (depending on who you ask) after the ban). The second reason was that many lawmakers believed the games to be a time- and dime-waster for impressionable youth as the machines robbed the "pockets of schoolchildren in the form of nickels and dimes given them as lunch money."
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(09-18-2013, 03:50 PM)gamemaster1991 Wrote: I'm not sure if this counts as a "Video Game Did You Know" but it's still really cool to know.
Back in the early 1940's to the mid 1970's, pinball was banned in most of the big citys. This was due to 2 resons. The first was due to them thinking it "a game of chance, not skill, and so it was a form of gambling." This was becuse of the early designs of the pinball games.
As you can see, the flippers are missing. Early pinball games had the player hit the sides of the machine to make the ball go the way they wanted. The first game to have flippers was Gottlieb's Humpty Dumpty, introduced in 1947 (5-7 years (depending on who you ask) after the ban). The second reason was that many lawmakers believed the games to be a time- and dime-waster for impressionable youth as the machines robbed the "pockets of schoolchildren in the form of nickels and dimes given them as lunch money."
I love pinball machines. My dad often mentions how he used to go down to the local bistro with his school-friends. They would take turns to play while the others would watch. Kind of like a precursor to our video-games.
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(09-19-2013, 04:44 AM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote: (09-18-2013, 03:50 PM)gamemaster1991 Wrote: I'm not sure if this counts as a "Video Game Did You Know" but it's still really cool to know.
Back in the early 1940's to the mid 1970's, pinball was banned in most of the big citys. This was due to 2 resons. The first was due to them thinking it "a game of chance, not skill, and so it was a form of gambling." This was becuse of the early designs of the pinball games.
As you can see, the flippers are missing. Early pinball games had the player hit the sides of the machine to make the ball go the way they wanted. The first game to have flippers was Gottlieb's Humpty Dumpty, introduced in 1947 (5-7 years (depending on who you ask) after the ban). The second reason was that many lawmakers believed the games to be a time- and dime-waster for impressionable youth as the machines robbed the "pockets of schoolchildren in the form of nickels and dimes given them as lunch money."
I love pinball machines. My dad often mentions how he used to go down to the local bistro with his school-friends. They would take turns to play while the others would watch. Kind of like a precursor to our video-games.
"Back in my day, our video games weren't video games! They were Analog Games!"
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I have a pinball machine in my basement. And an air hockey table. And a pool table...
Awesome parties is all I can say.
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(09-19-2013, 07:58 AM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote: I have a pinball machine in my basement. And an air hockey table. And a pool table...
Awesome parties is all I can say.
I may have to drop by soon. Keep your window unlocked.
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