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This is a quote from TV show Bones; the character has got a nice car and her publisher (who gave it to her) told her to park it at an angle. Her friend told her it looks silly. Towards the end of the show we find she's taken her friend's advice and parked it straight, resulting in this damage. Why would a car get damaged just for being parked straight? Would someone damage it deliberately just because it's a nice car? I don't live in America and don't drive, and I know nothing about cars...I get the feeling this is something most people would understand, but I don't get it. 90.193.232.165 ( talk) 09:59, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
If I had a really expensive nice car, I'd pay for my own parking space, or get a bike :p Chevy monte carlo 16:50, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I must confess that I have done exactly what Bugs describes. I parked my small, cheap, heavily dinged car next to a large expensive car straddling a line, in such a way that they could not open their driver door. It gave me such satisfaction. Marco polo ( talk) 20:22, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
looking for an efficient agent to asist me me in my book publication. Can you connect me with one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilyndi ( talk • contribs) 11:29, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Is the Double Stuf Oreos cream filling now the same thickness, on average, as the original Oreo cookie was 15 or more years ago? Regular Oreos' filling seems to be nearly paper thin now. Is there a name for this form of consumer product attrition? I seem to recall someone telling me a very convincing argument about Starbucks shrinking their cup sizes over a period of years, but keeping the "size" names the same; and she had the cups to prove it. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ galaxies 11:37, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I saw some incredibly cheap and incredibly large rechargeable batteries on eBay, such as 1700 1800 mAh AAA and 3000 mAh AA NiMH batteries. Are they really so ... well ... juicy? --
Toytoy (
talk) 15:12, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Recently I saw her being accused of lying, but concretely, which are her last lies?-- Quest09 ( talk) 17:32, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Can an American citizen obtain a tourist visa for Syria from the Syrian Consulate in Istanbul? - Vikramkr ( talk) 21:35, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
What are these references to, and where in the Pokémon games do they show up?
-- 75.25.103.109 ( talk) 22:27, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I took this from Bulbapedia:
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl contain many references to Internet memes and chatspeak. The lead translator, Nob Ogasawara, is a member of the Something Awful Forums, leading to numerous internet references. There are also multiple references to the Something Awful website and community scattered throughout the game, such as one Pokémon Trainer announcing "My Pokémon is Fight!". "Noob" is also used several times, "Owned" is said by a Galactic grunt and Buck, and ROFL is available as a speech option. Also, in the player's first encounter with Team Galactic, they tell Professor Rowan to "hand over his research so that they would refrain from causing massive damage to his assistant". The receptionist in the Team Galactic HQ and a Fisherman on Route 212 use the phrase "For the Win". In Veilstone City, a girl tells a man asked her in a strange language "if she liked Pokémon or something", and a clown tells the player "A winner is you". Perhaps coincidentally, Twinleaf Town shares its Japanese name with that of the original *chan imageboard, 2chan.
In-game dialogue makes reference to popular internet memes, such as Silver saying "why so serious?" in one of the battles against him, and after winning the Bug-Catching Contest, a contestant saying "You won? The winner is you!?"
During the Gym battle in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Fantina exclaims "Never give up, never surrender!", the catchphrase from the 1999 science fiction comedy Galaxy Quest.
Earl is notable for changing the order of the words in his sentences, somewhat like Yoda from Star Wars, although his grammar is generally incorrect. For example, when asking a potential student if they want to learn from him, he will ask, "What you want to know? Want to be a winner is you?" This may be a reference to Engrish. He does not talk like this in Pokémon Stadium 2, which may be due to the quite extensive scope of the Pokémon Academy in this game. This could be a reference to the NES game Pro Wrestling, where the phrase "A WINNER IS YOU" is shown at the end of a winning match.
In the past, they were known as Gamblers, but this was changed due to ethical reasons to Gamer in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. This occasionally caused slight problems, such as in FireRed and LeafGreen when a Gamer describes himself as a "rambling, gaming dude" instead of a "rambling, gambling dude." In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and Pokémon Platinum, they are called PIs, implying that they are detectives rather than gamblers, but their dialog is all still based around gambling.
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151.51.51.194 (
talk) 22:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Probably a reference to the "do u liek mudkipz" meme —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.167.165.2 ( talk) 05:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
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This is a quote from TV show Bones; the character has got a nice car and her publisher (who gave it to her) told her to park it at an angle. Her friend told her it looks silly. Towards the end of the show we find she's taken her friend's advice and parked it straight, resulting in this damage. Why would a car get damaged just for being parked straight? Would someone damage it deliberately just because it's a nice car? I don't live in America and don't drive, and I know nothing about cars...I get the feeling this is something most people would understand, but I don't get it. 90.193.232.165 ( talk) 09:59, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
If I had a really expensive nice car, I'd pay for my own parking space, or get a bike :p Chevy monte carlo 16:50, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I must confess that I have done exactly what Bugs describes. I parked my small, cheap, heavily dinged car next to a large expensive car straddling a line, in such a way that they could not open their driver door. It gave me such satisfaction. Marco polo ( talk) 20:22, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
looking for an efficient agent to asist me me in my book publication. Can you connect me with one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilyndi ( talk • contribs) 11:29, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Is the Double Stuf Oreos cream filling now the same thickness, on average, as the original Oreo cookie was 15 or more years ago? Regular Oreos' filling seems to be nearly paper thin now. Is there a name for this form of consumer product attrition? I seem to recall someone telling me a very convincing argument about Starbucks shrinking their cup sizes over a period of years, but keeping the "size" names the same; and she had the cups to prove it. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ galaxies 11:37, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I saw some incredibly cheap and incredibly large rechargeable batteries on eBay, such as 1700 1800 mAh AAA and 3000 mAh AA NiMH batteries. Are they really so ... well ... juicy? --
Toytoy (
talk) 15:12, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Recently I saw her being accused of lying, but concretely, which are her last lies?-- Quest09 ( talk) 17:32, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Can an American citizen obtain a tourist visa for Syria from the Syrian Consulate in Istanbul? - Vikramkr ( talk) 21:35, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
What are these references to, and where in the Pokémon games do they show up?
-- 75.25.103.109 ( talk) 22:27, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I took this from Bulbapedia:
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl contain many references to Internet memes and chatspeak. The lead translator, Nob Ogasawara, is a member of the Something Awful Forums, leading to numerous internet references. There are also multiple references to the Something Awful website and community scattered throughout the game, such as one Pokémon Trainer announcing "My Pokémon is Fight!". "Noob" is also used several times, "Owned" is said by a Galactic grunt and Buck, and ROFL is available as a speech option. Also, in the player's first encounter with Team Galactic, they tell Professor Rowan to "hand over his research so that they would refrain from causing massive damage to his assistant". The receptionist in the Team Galactic HQ and a Fisherman on Route 212 use the phrase "For the Win". In Veilstone City, a girl tells a man asked her in a strange language "if she liked Pokémon or something", and a clown tells the player "A winner is you". Perhaps coincidentally, Twinleaf Town shares its Japanese name with that of the original *chan imageboard, 2chan.
In-game dialogue makes reference to popular internet memes, such as Silver saying "why so serious?" in one of the battles against him, and after winning the Bug-Catching Contest, a contestant saying "You won? The winner is you!?"
During the Gym battle in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Fantina exclaims "Never give up, never surrender!", the catchphrase from the 1999 science fiction comedy Galaxy Quest.
Earl is notable for changing the order of the words in his sentences, somewhat like Yoda from Star Wars, although his grammar is generally incorrect. For example, when asking a potential student if they want to learn from him, he will ask, "What you want to know? Want to be a winner is you?" This may be a reference to Engrish. He does not talk like this in Pokémon Stadium 2, which may be due to the quite extensive scope of the Pokémon Academy in this game. This could be a reference to the NES game Pro Wrestling, where the phrase "A WINNER IS YOU" is shown at the end of a winning match.
In the past, they were known as Gamblers, but this was changed due to ethical reasons to Gamer in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. This occasionally caused slight problems, such as in FireRed and LeafGreen when a Gamer describes himself as a "rambling, gaming dude" instead of a "rambling, gambling dude." In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and Pokémon Platinum, they are called PIs, implying that they are detectives rather than gamblers, but their dialog is all still based around gambling.
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151.51.51.194 (
talk) 22:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Probably a reference to the "do u liek mudkipz" meme —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.167.165.2 ( talk) 05:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)