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Post by Reba on May 15, 2017 18:57:34 GMT -5
On March 30, 1999, a goose hit Fabio and died when he was on a roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, located in James City County, Virginia. Fabio rode in the first car of Apollo's Chariot, a roller coaster, during its inaugural ride. During the rapid descent on the 64 meter drop after the lift hill, a goose collided with Fabio, leaving his nose covered in blood. Fabio received a one-inch cut but no one else on the roller coaster was hurt. He was later treated at a local hospital for the cut. That same year, he started his website.
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Post by Reba on May 17, 2017 12:34:08 GMT -5
In 1997, Carvey underwent heart bypass surgery for a blocked coronary artery, but the surgeon operated on the wrong artery. The blocked artery was deeply buried in muscle and thus hard to find; another artery, though not blocked, was clearly accessible, so the surgeon bypassed it. Carvey, later suffering from angina pectoris, sued for medical malpractice and was awarded $8 million in damages. He donated the money to charity. He has had to undergo additional surgery to correct his heart problems. He told Newsday that, while he was in the hospital for his final angioplasty, Frank Sinatra died in the room adjacent to his.
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Post by Reba on May 18, 2017 20:37:25 GMT -5
Playwright Samuel Beckett, a neighbor who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, bought some land in 1953 near a hamlet around 60 km (40 mi) northeast of Paris. He built a cottage for himself with the help of André's father Boris Roussimoff. When Beckett found out that Roussimoff was having trouble getting his son to school, Beckett offered to drive André to school in his truck, as he did not fit on the bus. When André recounted the drives with Beckett, he revealed that they rarely talked about anything other than cricket.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on May 18, 2017 22:00:57 GMT -5
On March 30, 1999, a goose hit Fabio and died when he was on a roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, located in James City County, Virginia. Fabio rode in the first car of Apollo's Chariot, a roller coaster, during its inaugural ride. During the rapid descent on the 64 meter drop after the lift hill, a goose collided with Fabio, leaving his nose covered in blood. Fabio received a one-inch cut but no one else on the roller coaster was hurt. He was later treated at a local hospital for the cut. That same year, he started his website. Haha, a uni professor actually told that bit of trivia once in class. I think there's even pictures of Fabio with a bleeding nose.
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Post by Teleram on May 19, 2017 12:50:40 GMT -5
In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as "friends of Dorothy." Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive "Dorothy," hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay service members.
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Post by Reba on May 20, 2017 0:38:11 GMT -5
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Post by Reba on Sept 24, 2017 21:29:51 GMT -5
Thirst is the first mainstream Korean film to feature full-frontal adult male nudity. To accomplish this, Park Chan-wook and his production staff directed the actor to remove his clothing, and then proceeded to film him naked from a position to his front.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 25, 2017 17:40:56 GMT -5
lol. btw I can recommend the movie; it's gory, lurid and operatic.
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Post by Charlie on Sept 26, 2017 4:44:20 GMT -5
Poe's Coats Host Toast I rly liked the handmaiden and have been planning on checking out some of his others, which do u reckon is the best?
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 26, 2017 12:59:58 GMT -5
Probably Oldboy is his best. If you liked The Handmaiden you should probably like Thirst, too, though. Only other film of his I've seen is Lady Vengeance, which was cool, but not quite as good as Kill Bill, which it feels similar to (not in plot, but in its revenge theme and kinetic energy). (I also heard really good things about Joint Security Area, so that's the next of his I'll see. Tarantino is a fan of that flick.)
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Post by Charlie on Sept 27, 2017 4:15:32 GMT -5
Thank you so much for this list man, exactly what I was looking for! Kill Bill is like my favourite movie, so I might give Lady Vengeance a go first .
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Post by pepper on Oct 2, 2017 20:35:00 GMT -5
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Post by Teleram on Oct 2, 2017 20:42:34 GMT -5
Racists could also use it to refer to anyone Asian they see, regardless of whether or not they're from China. Do you think they would check with an Asian which country they're from before calling them that? It also cracks me up that two white people are trying to educate me on what the meaning of a slur is.
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Post by Reba on Oct 2, 2017 21:06:40 GMT -5
i can't believe this is a discussion, but of course a racist might mistake another asian race for chinese. his mistake doesn't mean the word is actually intended to be a slur toward all asians. if an anti-semite calls somebody a kike because he has a big nose, even though he turns out not to be jewish, that doesn't mean the word kike is definitionally applied to everyone with a big nose.
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Post by Teleram on Oct 2, 2017 21:50:16 GMT -5
The fact that you would actually go as far as to equate being a non-Chinese Asian with something like having a big nose... astounding.
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