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Watched this movie long-long back, so back that even I (who has a very sharp memory of everything)forgot almost everything about it! Now I am trying hard to guess that film's name so that I could watch it again. Please help me remember it. Only things I can recall are : It stars Saeed Jaffery who plays the role of an Indian living in the west along with other such fellows and (it's about that usual cultural clash of India-west) It is something of a satire about young Indians trying to fit in westren soceity among their other friends, there has the usual arranged marriage issue. One scence I distinctly remember is Saeed Jaffery saying "..mein usse yahaan kaam karvaroga - uske chutron pe joota rakh ke...( मैं उससे काम करवाउंगा - उसके चूतरों पे जूता रख के )" etc... and other scence I can never forget is when a Punjabi looking girl (wearing T-shirt) suddenly raises her shirt to bare her breast while standing by a window to seduce her cousin or maybe boy friend...kindly tell me what film it was...no it is not Chicken Tikka Masala....
My Beautiful Laundrette? I think I remember a girl baring her breast in order to attract her cousin, whom we already know (or soon find out) to be gay and involved with a white guy played by Daniel Day Lewis in one of his earliest film roles. Catrionak ( talk) 20:19, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Jon Ascton
(talk) 19:30, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
There's a lot of things I can't stand in some fictional subjects in the encyclopedia. Mostly, I'll live with them until I figure out how to fix them.
But I've run into a "blocking" problem with the word "run" used in the context, "the show's run".
While I buy that this is acceptable in informal English usage, it does not "sound" right to me in an encyclopedia article; it just sounds too informal in an article. I see it a lot on English Wikipedia, and I just shrug, because I don't know the fix.
Mostly, this is no big deal. But now I'm working on an article (page) at Commons, and I want to translate the text for speakers of other languages for whom the page may be relevant (I plan to use Google Translate because that's the best I know how to do).
Before I do that I want the paragraph "perfect" (ahem). I've got it that way (yes, my own subjective standard), except this one word, "run".
Here's the paragraph:
Babylon 5 (1993–1998 plus spin-offs) is an epic American science fiction television series and fictional universe created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers around the Babylon 5 space station, a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and wars. The series is noted for its heavy reliance on pre-planned story arcs over its five-year run, sometimes described as a "novel for television".
The equivalent sentence to the problem one on English Wikipedia is:
The regular series aired from January 26, 1994 and ran for five full seasons, winning two Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation and two Emmy Awards—for visual effects and makeup.
While the verb form "ran" seems less annoying, the sentence is too long and detailed for Commons, I feel. It's not really an improvement if I just chop off the awards sub-clause, though.
On Wikipedia we have the luxury of rambling on about what we mean; on Commons we do not; even a three sentence paragraph seems to be pushing it (the German version only uses two), so I'm trying to write concisely ( WP:TLDR and all that).
Can anybody think of a better word to use than "run" without getting all wordy and verbose about what we mean by it? — Aladdin Sane ( talk) 02:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks to all who helped. I and another editor have put the translation into action at commons:Babylon 5. If you happen to know any Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Hindustani, Mandarin Chinese, or Spanish, you can help clean up the machine translation (German and Russian have already been fixed). — Aladdin Sane ( talk) 17:08, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Thereminist Pamelia Kurstin has a piece on her myspace page here that is simply titled "Purcell," and sounds very much like the style of Henry Purcell. It is presumably from a live performance and features a backing track of harpsichord ground bass and several layers of theremin textures presumably emulating strings.
What composition is this performance based on? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.62.112.57 ( talk) 16:37, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I swear I'm not making this up, I distinctly remember there being a movie about a male football player or someone being diagnosed with breast cancer, or at least running the risk of getting it. What could I possibly be thinking of?! Jared (t) 16:43, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I have no idea why, but iv been thinking about a zombie outbreak, or infected outbreak alot latly. i want to know, if even possible, what the best plan would be in general. weather it is to make a stronghold, keep moving, or head to a remote place and hide out. i'd like to hear some creative stuff, if anyone doesnt just think this is a stupid question lol. after all this is mostly for entertainment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielTrox ( talk • contribs) 19:03, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
ah, well thank you all
Dude! I've been thinking about Zombie Attacks to! You can use the movie "
I Am Legend (film)" as a great example of what to do.
I for one, plan to get a lot of Amo, guns, supplies, and head up to the Mountains. My idea is mostly based around the movie "Red Dawn", but that's about World War 3 in America, but that's also a good example. Video games like "Left 4 Dead" are good examples on how to kill zombies. Um, if you do plan to run, and people in the Government become Zombies, throw away your cell phones and GPS's, because they can track you that way. Ha. Play "Polka Music" to see if that'll kill zombies like how it killed Aliens in "Mars Attacks."
Ha, ha. Hope that helped. Moptopstyle1 01:00, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
well my plan so far, is to get about 7 of the best people i know that can use a gun and know a lil millitary tactics as i do. we'll head to walmart super center (which has guns, ammo, food, and entertainment. as well as lighterfluid and fun zombie killing stuff) post up there for a wile then dicide what to do from there.-- Talk Shugoːː 18:23, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Oh, yeah, I forgot the creatures in "I Am Legend" don't come out in the day time. My bad. Ha. The Wal-Mart idea is brilliant. Honestly, when Zombies are on the prowl, you pretty much have to break the law and steal. So, stores like "Wal-Mart" "Big 5", and more sports stores, are great for packing up on ammo and guns. Also look into getting supplies (ex. food, bottled water) at local gas stations if you immediately started running. You should most likely drive a pick up truck so you can carry people and stuff in the back. " Red Dawn" is a great example of the survival techniques to use, but again, the movie is about World War 3, NOT zombies. Moptopstyle1 ("I Feel Fine.") ( talk) 03:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
well, see me and 7 of my friends that i picked out only know about the wal-mart idea. and as for the doors and windows, there not a problem. you see the interece after has a steel cage door that comes down and locks. the only thing i have to realy worry about is the back. the truck loading area, but its not likly that alot of zombies would go to the back of the building. and this wal-mart has a garage, for fixing cars and maybe even gas if im lucky. but i would stay up in the security room when i sleep anyway. and im sure i know what your thinking... only 7 of your friends? but tomany heads that dont know what thee doing just makes more responcipilty -- Talk Shugoːː 18:55, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
What does NPC stand for? Accdude92 ( talk to me!) ( sign) 20:26, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
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Watched this movie long-long back, so back that even I (who has a very sharp memory of everything)forgot almost everything about it! Now I am trying hard to guess that film's name so that I could watch it again. Please help me remember it. Only things I can recall are : It stars Saeed Jaffery who plays the role of an Indian living in the west along with other such fellows and (it's about that usual cultural clash of India-west) It is something of a satire about young Indians trying to fit in westren soceity among their other friends, there has the usual arranged marriage issue. One scence I distinctly remember is Saeed Jaffery saying "..mein usse yahaan kaam karvaroga - uske chutron pe joota rakh ke...( मैं उससे काम करवाउंगा - उसके चूतरों पे जूता रख के )" etc... and other scence I can never forget is when a Punjabi looking girl (wearing T-shirt) suddenly raises her shirt to bare her breast while standing by a window to seduce her cousin or maybe boy friend...kindly tell me what film it was...no it is not Chicken Tikka Masala....
My Beautiful Laundrette? I think I remember a girl baring her breast in order to attract her cousin, whom we already know (or soon find out) to be gay and involved with a white guy played by Daniel Day Lewis in one of his earliest film roles. Catrionak ( talk) 20:19, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Jon Ascton
(talk) 19:30, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
There's a lot of things I can't stand in some fictional subjects in the encyclopedia. Mostly, I'll live with them until I figure out how to fix them.
But I've run into a "blocking" problem with the word "run" used in the context, "the show's run".
While I buy that this is acceptable in informal English usage, it does not "sound" right to me in an encyclopedia article; it just sounds too informal in an article. I see it a lot on English Wikipedia, and I just shrug, because I don't know the fix.
Mostly, this is no big deal. But now I'm working on an article (page) at Commons, and I want to translate the text for speakers of other languages for whom the page may be relevant (I plan to use Google Translate because that's the best I know how to do).
Before I do that I want the paragraph "perfect" (ahem). I've got it that way (yes, my own subjective standard), except this one word, "run".
Here's the paragraph:
Babylon 5 (1993–1998 plus spin-offs) is an epic American science fiction television series and fictional universe created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers around the Babylon 5 space station, a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and wars. The series is noted for its heavy reliance on pre-planned story arcs over its five-year run, sometimes described as a "novel for television".
The equivalent sentence to the problem one on English Wikipedia is:
The regular series aired from January 26, 1994 and ran for five full seasons, winning two Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation and two Emmy Awards—for visual effects and makeup.
While the verb form "ran" seems less annoying, the sentence is too long and detailed for Commons, I feel. It's not really an improvement if I just chop off the awards sub-clause, though.
On Wikipedia we have the luxury of rambling on about what we mean; on Commons we do not; even a three sentence paragraph seems to be pushing it (the German version only uses two), so I'm trying to write concisely ( WP:TLDR and all that).
Can anybody think of a better word to use than "run" without getting all wordy and verbose about what we mean by it? — Aladdin Sane ( talk) 02:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks to all who helped. I and another editor have put the translation into action at commons:Babylon 5. If you happen to know any Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Hindustani, Mandarin Chinese, or Spanish, you can help clean up the machine translation (German and Russian have already been fixed). — Aladdin Sane ( talk) 17:08, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Thereminist Pamelia Kurstin has a piece on her myspace page here that is simply titled "Purcell," and sounds very much like the style of Henry Purcell. It is presumably from a live performance and features a backing track of harpsichord ground bass and several layers of theremin textures presumably emulating strings.
What composition is this performance based on? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.62.112.57 ( talk) 16:37, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I swear I'm not making this up, I distinctly remember there being a movie about a male football player or someone being diagnosed with breast cancer, or at least running the risk of getting it. What could I possibly be thinking of?! Jared (t) 16:43, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I have no idea why, but iv been thinking about a zombie outbreak, or infected outbreak alot latly. i want to know, if even possible, what the best plan would be in general. weather it is to make a stronghold, keep moving, or head to a remote place and hide out. i'd like to hear some creative stuff, if anyone doesnt just think this is a stupid question lol. after all this is mostly for entertainment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielTrox ( talk • contribs) 19:03, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
ah, well thank you all
Dude! I've been thinking about Zombie Attacks to! You can use the movie "
I Am Legend (film)" as a great example of what to do.
I for one, plan to get a lot of Amo, guns, supplies, and head up to the Mountains. My idea is mostly based around the movie "Red Dawn", but that's about World War 3 in America, but that's also a good example. Video games like "Left 4 Dead" are good examples on how to kill zombies. Um, if you do plan to run, and people in the Government become Zombies, throw away your cell phones and GPS's, because they can track you that way. Ha. Play "Polka Music" to see if that'll kill zombies like how it killed Aliens in "Mars Attacks."
Ha, ha. Hope that helped. Moptopstyle1 01:00, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
well my plan so far, is to get about 7 of the best people i know that can use a gun and know a lil millitary tactics as i do. we'll head to walmart super center (which has guns, ammo, food, and entertainment. as well as lighterfluid and fun zombie killing stuff) post up there for a wile then dicide what to do from there.-- Talk Shugoːː 18:23, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Oh, yeah, I forgot the creatures in "I Am Legend" don't come out in the day time. My bad. Ha. The Wal-Mart idea is brilliant. Honestly, when Zombies are on the prowl, you pretty much have to break the law and steal. So, stores like "Wal-Mart" "Big 5", and more sports stores, are great for packing up on ammo and guns. Also look into getting supplies (ex. food, bottled water) at local gas stations if you immediately started running. You should most likely drive a pick up truck so you can carry people and stuff in the back. " Red Dawn" is a great example of the survival techniques to use, but again, the movie is about World War 3, NOT zombies. Moptopstyle1 ("I Feel Fine.") ( talk) 03:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
well, see me and 7 of my friends that i picked out only know about the wal-mart idea. and as for the doors and windows, there not a problem. you see the interece after has a steel cage door that comes down and locks. the only thing i have to realy worry about is the back. the truck loading area, but its not likly that alot of zombies would go to the back of the building. and this wal-mart has a garage, for fixing cars and maybe even gas if im lucky. but i would stay up in the security room when i sleep anyway. and im sure i know what your thinking... only 7 of your friends? but tomany heads that dont know what thee doing just makes more responcipilty -- Talk Shugoːː 18:55, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
What does NPC stand for? Accdude92 ( talk to me!) ( sign) 20:26, 9 December 2009 (UTC)