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I am from London, England and would like to know how much of the company would you won after purchasing one share? I hear its about 0.001% but am unsure as to the accuracy of the information given to me. Can you help?
It may be a stupid question, but... I have Pokemon Yellow for Game Boy Color. In the game, I recieved the "cut" command from somebody. How do I use it? I cannot find it in my items list, so I cannot get past any of the bushes.
is there any way I could contact a person in Antarctica, especially Admunsen-Scott station?
I play alot of PC Video Games, (Half Life 2, Garry's Mod, etc.) and there way of driving is using WASD for movement of the vehicle, then you aim the gun with your mouse, and fire with left click. Now i have a Extreme 3d Pro by Logictec, and I would like to be able to bind W to forwards joystick, and S to back, etc. Mostly i would like an editable script, so i can say "Foward Joystick Numpad 2." Then when i pull the joystick back, it would be the equivilent of holding down 2. Is there a script or program that will let me do this? Thanks for any help.
One of my friends is convinced that Crocs, the popular footware made of foam-like material, are edible if boiled. Does anybody know if this is true or not? I tried looking at the Crocs website and randomly searching the internet, but to no avail. Any insight would be much appreciated! Thanks.
"That's an urban myth," Hanson answered, adding that, while the ingredients are inert and not harmful, the brightly colored shoes are meant for wearing, not chewing. Crocs co-founder Duke Hanson from this link: [1]
Does anyone know any songs, movies etc. which explains the things that make australia great. e.g. it describes australia being great because it is a free country and so on.
Thank you
Thank you for your help but i need a reference from a movie or song, not a phrase.
The fence was a good australian movie. And Land down under by men at work was a good song 193.115.175.247 15:30, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Surely Australia is great merely for being the nearest landmass to the greatest living nation in the known universe...New Zealand :) Oh alright then.Try Austen Tayshus' 'Australiana' song for some fun! 88.106.180.161 16:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC) Lemon (yes I'm a Kiwi)
"There are those who say that Australia was founded mainly by convicts. However, this is not the full story. Australia was also founded by prostitutes." StuRat 07:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
There's a scary-looking whirlpool that drains a manmade lake through a dam. Normally a concrete pipe pokes up above the water like this (X is rock and - is water; the dam is to the left):
| T T /XXXX |---------| |---------/XXXXX |---------| |--------/XXXXXX |---------| |-------/XXXXXXX |---------| |------/XXXXXXXX |---------/ |-----/XXXXXXXXX |----/XXXXXXXXXX /---/XXXXXXXXXXX |-------------------/XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX-------------XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
but when the lake fills up, the water rushes down through the pipe and it looks like Charybdis. I remember seeing an article about it, but I can't remember the name of the lake or of the dam. Does anyone remember? grendel| khan 07:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm inside a car. I have a gun. I shoot into the roof. Will the bullet ricochet, or go straight through? If it ricochet's, am I at risk? (I don't ACTUALLY have a gun in a car, i'm just hypothetising)
I suppose it might depend on wheather or not it goes through the sunroof. -- martianlostinspace 16:13, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
The angle of incidence is also critical; a bullet hitting the roof at a shallow angle is far more likely to ricochet, like skipping a stone on a lake, than one hitting the roof straight on. StuRat 03:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
I can think of plenty of television shows that have a husband who isn't very bright or some such similar thing and the wife is of at least average intelligence and doesn't do much of anything that would be considered "stupid". Such shows, off the top of my head, would include The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Home Improvement. There's even Married... with Children which has both the husband and wife being of average to below average intelligence. But I can't think of even one show that has a dumb or bungling wife with an intelligent, does everything right sort of husband. Is/was there even one show like this? If not, why not? Can women just not laugh at themselves as much as men? Would it just be too much heat from feminists? Dismas| (talk) 10:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Ah, the shortness of memory. Radio & television shows with "ditzy chicks" and reasonable men include The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched, I Married Joan, Three's Company, Dharma and Greg, Green Acres, Blondie, Easy Aces, My Friend Irma, My Favorite Husband, and probably countless others. - Nunh-huh 19:33, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I can't think of "even one show that has a dumb or bungling wife with an intelligent, does everything right sort of husband." The only programmes that I can think of are:
Blackadder - Although neither are the wives of a main character both Queenie & Nursie are quite stupid. Queenie is a main character so I suppose this counts.
The Royle Family - Both Husband and Wife in this one are if not stupid are certainly "dumb" and lazy.
Till Death Us Do Part - While the wife is "dumb" the husband a stupid racist not an "intelligent, does everything right sort of husband".
Absolutely Fabulous - No husbands or wives but the 2 main women are quite stupid with a intelligent daughter (The fact that Edina is divorced also implies her former husband had a bit of sense).
It looks like the stupid husband/no stupid wife plot stereotype runs through U.K. & U.S.A. TV sitcoms.
AllanHainey
15:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
The actress Georgia Engel has patterned herself after Gracie Allen and made a career out of dumb wife roles, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Coach, and Everybody Loves Raymond. StuRat 07:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, Balki's wife on Perfect Strangers (TV series) was at least as dumb as he was. StuRat 08:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
The "dumb husband, smart long suffering wife" was a pretty common staple a few years back (around the time Home Improvement, The Simpsons and in the UK One Foot in the Grave were at their peak (ie the mid-90s)). I suspect The Cosby Show may have started the trend, albeit with a mild version. Or it may trace its roots all the way back to The Flintstones (and by extention The Honeymooners). In any case, what was a trend became a cliche and then became something writers avoided so as not to seem hackneyed or lazy, so the "dumb husband, smart wife" scenario is much less common nowadays. As for the reason behind it, I don't think it has so much to do with feminism as a combination of the sort of phenomenon that's caused it to become less common nowadays, and the fact that most sitcom writers are male. Just as "dumb husband, smart wife" became a cliche in the 90s, so much older sitcoms had often followed the "well meaning but lacking in common sense wife gets into scrapes" formula for jokes (see I Love Lucy, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie). It's quite possible, then, that writers wanted to avoid following such a formula so as not to appear like a 50s/60s throwback. Also, because the writers were mainly men it's quite possible that they were more comfortable with writing stupid male characters (who would then become the central comic character) rather than stupid female characters, partly because that would make the male characters the main comic characters and partly because they'd probably feel more comfortable ripping into a male character than a female one. Comedies written by women, on the flip side, are much more likely to have stupid, unsypathetic female characters and perfectly nice, normal male characters (see Absolutely Fabulous, Smack the Pony or The Catherine Tate Show, and I'm sure there's American examples, too).
Anyway, to answer the main question, off the top of my head I can think of Keeping up Appearances and 'Allo 'Allo as examples of shows with stupid or otherwise flawed wives and generally clued up (though in the first case way too timid) husbands. Also, I now realise I spend far too much time reflecting on trends in TV comedy. -- Daduzi talk 09:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
my name is Thomas lillystone I live in England. there is a name of a lillystone drive in Maryland. bethsheda.I would like to know how it the was named? hope you can help. Thomas lillystoneto
My name is Julius KR I would like to know the meaning/technical definition of Result Oriented maintenance and its application.Also the word Total quality maintenance. Thanks
Does anyone know what platforms EA Sport's NCAA football is coming out on. I know that it didn't come out on Gamecube on 2006 and 2007, but does anyone know what platforms it will come out on in the future? -- Summonmaster13 16:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Its probably coming out on XBOX 360 ,PS3 and maybe the old ones such as XBOX and PS2. I'm not sure but it might also be coming out on the Wii
You know that Burger King commercial with the 2-inch-high people making burgers? They're midgets. If they were going to digitally make them tiny, why did they need them to be midgets? Son of a Peach 18:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
We're living here in Allentown, and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms and standing in line.
Can someone come up with a solution to this? 69.81.50.252 22:12, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
What are some games that I could use to play with a group of Senior Citizens, aside from the traditional Bingo, Shuffleboard, and Euchre?? I work for a seasonal lodge that caters mainly to senior groups so I'm looking for new and fun things to do with them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Bon Scott (dead lead singer of AC/DC is described in his bio as having done time for, among other things, 'having unlawful carnal knowledge'. The reference was a 1963 newspaper. What would it have meant? JackofOz?-- Anchoress 23:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I would like to know if jumping spiders are able to jump while on the ceiling, like they do on a wall. We have a debate going on over this. Thank you for your help.
-- Ck9054 23:52, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I checked that website and they address spiders jumping up a wall, but not on the ceiling...same concept I guess though. If gravity would make them fall when they let go from the ceiling, it should do the same on a wall I would assume.
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I am from London, England and would like to know how much of the company would you won after purchasing one share? I hear its about 0.001% but am unsure as to the accuracy of the information given to me. Can you help?
It may be a stupid question, but... I have Pokemon Yellow for Game Boy Color. In the game, I recieved the "cut" command from somebody. How do I use it? I cannot find it in my items list, so I cannot get past any of the bushes.
is there any way I could contact a person in Antarctica, especially Admunsen-Scott station?
I play alot of PC Video Games, (Half Life 2, Garry's Mod, etc.) and there way of driving is using WASD for movement of the vehicle, then you aim the gun with your mouse, and fire with left click. Now i have a Extreme 3d Pro by Logictec, and I would like to be able to bind W to forwards joystick, and S to back, etc. Mostly i would like an editable script, so i can say "Foward Joystick Numpad 2." Then when i pull the joystick back, it would be the equivilent of holding down 2. Is there a script or program that will let me do this? Thanks for any help.
One of my friends is convinced that Crocs, the popular footware made of foam-like material, are edible if boiled. Does anybody know if this is true or not? I tried looking at the Crocs website and randomly searching the internet, but to no avail. Any insight would be much appreciated! Thanks.
"That's an urban myth," Hanson answered, adding that, while the ingredients are inert and not harmful, the brightly colored shoes are meant for wearing, not chewing. Crocs co-founder Duke Hanson from this link: [1]
Does anyone know any songs, movies etc. which explains the things that make australia great. e.g. it describes australia being great because it is a free country and so on.
Thank you
Thank you for your help but i need a reference from a movie or song, not a phrase.
The fence was a good australian movie. And Land down under by men at work was a good song 193.115.175.247 15:30, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Surely Australia is great merely for being the nearest landmass to the greatest living nation in the known universe...New Zealand :) Oh alright then.Try Austen Tayshus' 'Australiana' song for some fun! 88.106.180.161 16:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC) Lemon (yes I'm a Kiwi)
"There are those who say that Australia was founded mainly by convicts. However, this is not the full story. Australia was also founded by prostitutes." StuRat 07:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
There's a scary-looking whirlpool that drains a manmade lake through a dam. Normally a concrete pipe pokes up above the water like this (X is rock and - is water; the dam is to the left):
| T T /XXXX |---------| |---------/XXXXX |---------| |--------/XXXXXX |---------| |-------/XXXXXXX |---------| |------/XXXXXXXX |---------/ |-----/XXXXXXXXX |----/XXXXXXXXXX /---/XXXXXXXXXXX |-------------------/XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX-------------XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
but when the lake fills up, the water rushes down through the pipe and it looks like Charybdis. I remember seeing an article about it, but I can't remember the name of the lake or of the dam. Does anyone remember? grendel| khan 07:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm inside a car. I have a gun. I shoot into the roof. Will the bullet ricochet, or go straight through? If it ricochet's, am I at risk? (I don't ACTUALLY have a gun in a car, i'm just hypothetising)
I suppose it might depend on wheather or not it goes through the sunroof. -- martianlostinspace 16:13, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
The angle of incidence is also critical; a bullet hitting the roof at a shallow angle is far more likely to ricochet, like skipping a stone on a lake, than one hitting the roof straight on. StuRat 03:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
I can think of plenty of television shows that have a husband who isn't very bright or some such similar thing and the wife is of at least average intelligence and doesn't do much of anything that would be considered "stupid". Such shows, off the top of my head, would include The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Home Improvement. There's even Married... with Children which has both the husband and wife being of average to below average intelligence. But I can't think of even one show that has a dumb or bungling wife with an intelligent, does everything right sort of husband. Is/was there even one show like this? If not, why not? Can women just not laugh at themselves as much as men? Would it just be too much heat from feminists? Dismas| (talk) 10:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Ah, the shortness of memory. Radio & television shows with "ditzy chicks" and reasonable men include The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched, I Married Joan, Three's Company, Dharma and Greg, Green Acres, Blondie, Easy Aces, My Friend Irma, My Favorite Husband, and probably countless others. - Nunh-huh 19:33, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
I can't think of "even one show that has a dumb or bungling wife with an intelligent, does everything right sort of husband." The only programmes that I can think of are:
Blackadder - Although neither are the wives of a main character both Queenie & Nursie are quite stupid. Queenie is a main character so I suppose this counts.
The Royle Family - Both Husband and Wife in this one are if not stupid are certainly "dumb" and lazy.
Till Death Us Do Part - While the wife is "dumb" the husband a stupid racist not an "intelligent, does everything right sort of husband".
Absolutely Fabulous - No husbands or wives but the 2 main women are quite stupid with a intelligent daughter (The fact that Edina is divorced also implies her former husband had a bit of sense).
It looks like the stupid husband/no stupid wife plot stereotype runs through U.K. & U.S.A. TV sitcoms.
AllanHainey
15:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
The actress Georgia Engel has patterned herself after Gracie Allen and made a career out of dumb wife roles, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Coach, and Everybody Loves Raymond. StuRat 07:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, Balki's wife on Perfect Strangers (TV series) was at least as dumb as he was. StuRat 08:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
The "dumb husband, smart long suffering wife" was a pretty common staple a few years back (around the time Home Improvement, The Simpsons and in the UK One Foot in the Grave were at their peak (ie the mid-90s)). I suspect The Cosby Show may have started the trend, albeit with a mild version. Or it may trace its roots all the way back to The Flintstones (and by extention The Honeymooners). In any case, what was a trend became a cliche and then became something writers avoided so as not to seem hackneyed or lazy, so the "dumb husband, smart wife" scenario is much less common nowadays. As for the reason behind it, I don't think it has so much to do with feminism as a combination of the sort of phenomenon that's caused it to become less common nowadays, and the fact that most sitcom writers are male. Just as "dumb husband, smart wife" became a cliche in the 90s, so much older sitcoms had often followed the "well meaning but lacking in common sense wife gets into scrapes" formula for jokes (see I Love Lucy, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie). It's quite possible, then, that writers wanted to avoid following such a formula so as not to appear like a 50s/60s throwback. Also, because the writers were mainly men it's quite possible that they were more comfortable with writing stupid male characters (who would then become the central comic character) rather than stupid female characters, partly because that would make the male characters the main comic characters and partly because they'd probably feel more comfortable ripping into a male character than a female one. Comedies written by women, on the flip side, are much more likely to have stupid, unsypathetic female characters and perfectly nice, normal male characters (see Absolutely Fabulous, Smack the Pony or The Catherine Tate Show, and I'm sure there's American examples, too).
Anyway, to answer the main question, off the top of my head I can think of Keeping up Appearances and 'Allo 'Allo as examples of shows with stupid or otherwise flawed wives and generally clued up (though in the first case way too timid) husbands. Also, I now realise I spend far too much time reflecting on trends in TV comedy. -- Daduzi talk 09:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
my name is Thomas lillystone I live in England. there is a name of a lillystone drive in Maryland. bethsheda.I would like to know how it the was named? hope you can help. Thomas lillystoneto
My name is Julius KR I would like to know the meaning/technical definition of Result Oriented maintenance and its application.Also the word Total quality maintenance. Thanks
Does anyone know what platforms EA Sport's NCAA football is coming out on. I know that it didn't come out on Gamecube on 2006 and 2007, but does anyone know what platforms it will come out on in the future? -- Summonmaster13 16:08, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Its probably coming out on XBOX 360 ,PS3 and maybe the old ones such as XBOX and PS2. I'm not sure but it might also be coming out on the Wii
You know that Burger King commercial with the 2-inch-high people making burgers? They're midgets. If they were going to digitally make them tiny, why did they need them to be midgets? Son of a Peach 18:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
We're living here in Allentown, and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms and standing in line.
Can someone come up with a solution to this? 69.81.50.252 22:12, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
What are some games that I could use to play with a group of Senior Citizens, aside from the traditional Bingo, Shuffleboard, and Euchre?? I work for a seasonal lodge that caters mainly to senior groups so I'm looking for new and fun things to do with them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Bon Scott (dead lead singer of AC/DC is described in his bio as having done time for, among other things, 'having unlawful carnal knowledge'. The reference was a 1963 newspaper. What would it have meant? JackofOz?-- Anchoress 23:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I would like to know if jumping spiders are able to jump while on the ceiling, like they do on a wall. We have a debate going on over this. Thank you for your help.
-- Ck9054 23:52, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I checked that website and they address spiders jumping up a wall, but not on the ceiling...same concept I guess though. If gravity would make them fall when they let go from the ceiling, it should do the same on a wall I would assume.