August 2012
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Portal:Japanese cars
Japan is the world’s second-third now and first at 1980-1993, 2006-2008 largest automobile manufacturer and exporter, and has six of the world’s ten largest automobile manufacturers.
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Action Park
Employees at the park used to like eating at a nearby snack bar with a good view of the attraction, since it was almost guaranteed that they could see some serious injuries, lost bikini tops, or both.
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Battle Cat
He has the appearance of a green, orange-striped tiger. In the episode “Teela’s Quest”, Queen Marlena says to Adam in regards to the planet Earth, “There are no talking green tigers on Earth.” It is not known if her referring to Cringer as a tiger means he is called a tiger on Eternia, or if she is simply using it as a comparison, but in the episode “A Beastly...
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It Happened One Night
In spite of its title the movie takes place over several nights.
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Ah! Leah!
The song has an infectious, hard-edged driving beat underscoring a passionate, all-out singing performance by Donnie Iris himself that well nigh reaches the highest notes attainable by a human male voice.
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Problem of mental causation
For example, one’s belief that water is wet has the semantic content of water is wet. The thought is about water and the fact that it is wet.
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The Baby-Sitters Club (film)
Reception
The movie had mostly positive reviews.[2][3][4][5]
Box Office
The movie was not a box office hit.[6]
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Moose & Molly
The titular character, Moose, is a stereotypically lazy, unemployed, fat middle-class American who can never seem to hold a job. He loves pizza and television, and is constantly struggling to find work, or to simply get off the couch, all the while being nagged by both his wife and his mother-in-law.
Weber based many of Moose’s adventures on his own family’s experiences.
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Kite-Eating Tree
Digestion of kites
Charlie Brown has told Linus that Kite-Eating Trees “eat the paper like it was fried chicken, and spit out the sticks like bones!” Charlie Brown may have, in his frustration, been exaggerating, for no sticks have been seen lying around the Kite-Eating Tree (possibly it moves around so it might be in a different place every time it eats).
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Stephanie Ashworth
Ashworth previously played in the bands Sandpit and Scared of Horses.[1] She married bandmate/frontman Paul Dempsey.[2] She was offered the place in Courtney Love’s Hole but declined.
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Hardstone carving
Stones typically used for buildings and large sculpture are not often used for small objects such as vessels, although this does occur. For example, in the Uruk period of Sumerian culture (4th millennium BCE) heavy vases, cups and ewers ofsandstone and limestone are found,[3] which must have been very inconvenient to use, especially as, unlike The Flintstones, the people ofUruk had...
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List of ethnic slurs
Cheese-eating surrender monkey(UK, USA) a Frenchman, from the defeat of the French against the German in 1940, and the huge variety of cheeses originating from France.
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Chicken with Plums (film)
As a young man violinist Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric) met Irâne (Golshifteh Farahani) and felt she was the one and only[clarification needed] for him.
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Armrest
In an automotive context, an armrest (or arm rest) is a feature found in many modern vehicles on which occupants can rest their arms. Armrests are also found on chairs in general.
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Defecation
Not to be confused with Deification (disambiguation) or Defection.
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Fuck
Holy fuck
An exclamation, similar to “holy shit!”, but more offensive, also used informally for sex within a religious context.[dubious – discuss]
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DJ Khaled
Many of DJ Khaled’s songs are known to entice the listener by hip hop chanting his name before the song starts.
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Pool noodle
The purpose of the hole in some noodles is unclear. Children often use this hole to blow water into the unsuspecting faces of their peers.
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Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
Through family counseling, the Robinson family learn how to get along better. Also, a trip to Ellis Island changes everything forever.
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Mexican Burrowing Toad
The Mexican Burrowing Toad is genetically unique in a number of ways. According to EDGE, Mexican Burrowing toads are:
“The only species, within the only genus of the family Rhinophrynidae, and with over 190 million years of independent evolution, the Mexican burrowing toad is the most evolutionarily distinct amphibian species on Earth today; a fruit bat, polar bear, killer whale, kangaroo...
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Pinky swear
It is also possible for a pinky swear to exist between 3 parties, known as a 3-way pinky promise. A pinky swear between 4 or more people is relatively unknown.
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Jonah Falcon
Jonah Adam Falcon (born July 29, 1970) is an American actor and writer from New York City, who is known for his large penis.
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Whac-a-Mole
This article is about the arcade game. For the House episode, see Whac-A-Mole (House). For the avocado-based dip, see Guacamole.
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Falsifiability
On hearing that a black swan has been observed in Australia, one might introduce the ad hoc hypothesis, ‘all swans are white except those found in Australia’; or one might adopt another, more cynical view about some observers, ‘Australian bird watchers are incompetent’.
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St. Bernard (dog)
In the book Rascal, the main character puts forth the myth that St. Bernards drool because they carried flasks of brandy for travellers for dozens of generations. Never were they allowed any, and to this day every St. Bernard is born drooling for brandy. The main character does not give his St. Bernard any brandy.
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Mathemagician
A mathemagician is a mathematician who is also a magician.
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Play It Again, Sam
Play it again, Sam is originally a misquotation from the 1942 film Casablanca. It may also refer to:
A misquotation from the 1942 film Casablanca
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Play It Again, Sam (1972 film)
The film is set in San Francisco but most scenes are indoors.
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Leaning Temple of Huma
The reason of the tilt can be due to some geological reason, may be the earth crust is uneven in structure.
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Hot chicken
Anecdotal evidence suggests that spicy fried chicken has been served in Nashville for generations.
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List of Family Matters characters
While Urkel was the resident nerd, Waldo was the resident idiot. Waldo has reached the point where he even annoys Urkel. Waldo was discovered to be a great chef. Waldo had also been afraid to walk, until he was 10. He dated Laura’s best friend Maxine for many seasons until breaking up with her after he left for culinary school. He is also mentioned to have a sister named Quesadilla. When...
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Hope Springs (2012 film)
Arnold finally takes the initiative to take Kay to a romantic dinner and a night at a luxury inn, where they attempt to make love in front of a fireplace, with it being a flop, so to speak. They fly home to Omaha. Kay is pet sitting for a fellow employee and packs her bag to leave and stay there while her friend is out of town; Arnold is not aware she packed her suitcase. She leaves it on the bed...
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Garfield (character)
Filling the role of actor Richard Harrison’s telephone, Garfield made a cameo appearance in the 1985 Godfrey Ho film, Ninja Terminator.
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Groin attack
Biblical reference
The Old Testament, (Deuteronomy 25:11-12) states the following:
When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one approaches to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, you shall sever her hand; you shall have no compassion.
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Olivet Discourse
Religious Tolerance.org[16] lists over 7 dozen past predictions of the end of the world, none of which has come true.
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Krush Groove
In the movie, [The Fat Boys] originally referred to itself as the Disco Three. It was not until a scene in an Italian Buffet, where the three boys took the phrase all you can eat to the next level by eating everything. When the grouped realized that it was really fat, it decided to give themselves the name Fat Boys.
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I Voted For Kodos
Although known for their tongue-in-cheek material (they have noted that celery is the band’s official vegetable), their song lyrics have also tackled serious issues such as murder and teenage depression.
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V-Nasty
Her stage name comes from her neighborhood nickname, so for the love and respect of where she’s from she kept the name. Reece had a child at the age of 15, but she never told her mother she’ll just where big sweaters. Her mother figure out she was pregnant but it was too late for an abortion and while she was pregnant with we daughter she was drinking and smoking (Marijuana) so it was...
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Clark Gable
Lewis finally confronted her mother about her true parentage when she was thirty-one years old, and Gable had been dead for five years. Loretta promptly threw up and confirmed that she was her biological mother and Gable was her father.
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Sega bass fishing
Gameplay
Bass Fishing is an arcade fishing game. Basically, someone choses a character then goes out on a boat to go and catch fish.
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Brian Hooks
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Vance Law
During the 1980s, a variation of the Chicago-style hot dog called the Vance Law Dog was sold at Wrigley Field. It featured a traditional Chicago-style hot dog topped with cole slaw andketchup. Some fans incorrectly referred to the dog as ‘The Vance Slaw Dog’ because of the inclusion of cole slaw. The dog was a personal favorite of the late broadcasting legend Harry Caray. It was not...
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Queso
Queso (Spanish for “cheese”) may refer to:
Cheese
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Beer in Serbia
Beer in Serbia (Serbian language: пиво / pivo) is not well known or famous outside of its national borders.
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Glossary of bicycling: hammer
“to put the hammer down” means to pedal hard, often with the purpose of trying to eliminate opponents in a road race. As in the phrase “We really put the hammer down and sprinted to the end”. Some commentators have been known to reference a wide range of workshop tools in their ongoing search for sporting metaphor.
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Welsh Corgi
Welsh folklore says the corgi is the preferred mount of fairy warriors.
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Massive open online course
Structure, direction, purpose seem sometime lost in the scattering of discussions and this messiness, although it also creates a buzz, can make following a line of discussion or creating meaning challenging.[citation needed]
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Anti-Barney humor
Other reasons cited for the hostility also include the purple dinosaur’s voice (described by many parents as “dopey”), lack of varied facial expressions other than a toothy smile (from both the dinosaurs and the kids they hang out with), the character’s personality (described as being “self-centered”), and how the child characters in the series interact with...
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St. Elmo's Fire (film)
Wendy moves into her own place, where Billy comes to visit. He says he has finally agreed to divorce his wife, and pays back some of the money he owed Wendy. He also announces he will be moving to New York to go for his dreams and pursue a full time career playing his saxophone. He explains that he’d spent so much time trying to “be like Alec” (meaning being a member of the 9-5...
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Last words in Star Trek media
Lieutenant! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Who: U.S.S. Kelvin Crewmember
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