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Post by wildojinx on May 17, 2021 10:50:41 GMT -5
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Post by Casey Jones on May 17, 2021 10:54:15 GMT -5
Richard Gere - Gerbil
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Post by Casey Jones on May 17, 2021 11:02:39 GMT -5
Mark Wahlberg was not a member of New Kids on the Block. Linkara thoroughly debunked this. Yes and no. When he was 13 he joined a group called Nynuk which his brother Donnie was already in. Mark became bored after a few months and was replaced by Joey. They then changed their name to New Kids On The Block.
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dav
Hank Scorpio
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Post by dav on May 17, 2021 11:05:08 GMT -5
Napoleon having a French accent. He was born and raised in Corsica. His accent from there was so thick that the Tsar mocked it by saying his French was better than the Emperor's.
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 17, 2021 11:26:43 GMT -5
An actor who played one of the Munchkins committed suicide in the woods when the "Wizard of Oz" was being filmed & his body can be seen hanging from a tree in the movie. First of all the film was shot on the MGM lot in Culver City, not anywhere on location & even if it had been the amount of cast & crew on set would have made such a tragic event going unnoticed impossible.
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J. Hova
Don Corleone
Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt
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Post by J. Hova on May 17, 2021 11:29:07 GMT -5
Napoleon being short. He was of average height at the time.
World being flat. During this pandemic, I've gotten really into debunking videos on YouTube (Sciman Dan, Professor Dave, etc.) and just love the point by point debunking of these fools.
Wet hair in cold weather causes a cold. While it probably isn't the greatest idea in the world, it has no bearing on the germs and their transmission to your body.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on May 17, 2021 12:33:52 GMT -5
Speaking of allegedly frivolous lawsuits, remember the one supposedly about a thief getting injured breaking into a house and suing the homeowner? The real story of that was a family leaving a second home basically abandoned for 10 years, but rigging one of the bedroom doors to fire a shotgun at whoever opened it. And no, that only counts as valid self defence if you're actually still living there. Also noone has ever killed a stranger's kids with poisoned Halloween candy, one guy killed his own kid with cyanide laced Pixy Stix to collect life insurance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan (he also got some to neighbors kids, but none actually ate them) so the media that spread that story is conflating it with the Chicago Tylenol murders and turning it into a hysteria.
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
Unique and Special Snowflake, and a pants-less heathen.
Perpetually Constipated
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Post by Push R Truth on May 17, 2021 12:38:25 GMT -5
Speaking of the American Revolution, I distinctly remember being taught in school that the British were stupid for fighting in formation and wearing bright red coats, whereas the Americans were smart for not wearing uniforms and using guerrilla tactics. At a time when weapons were really inaccurate and battles still often came down to a calvary charge, fighting in formation was the smartest way to maximize the effectiveness of ballistic weapons, and wearing bright clothing helped the guy next to you tell if you were friend or foe. It's telling that as soon as they had the resources the Americans started doing exactly the same thing. Speaking of that, in my high school the American Revolution was taught as "The Colonies beat the British Empire 1 on 1 in the center of the ring". Massive piles of bullshit. Almost as bad as Green Apple Skittles replacing Lime but the bag still says ORIGINAL SKITTLES
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Post by WoodStoner1 on May 17, 2021 12:52:00 GMT -5
Here's some game show-related entries:
Chuck Henry banned his version of Now You See It (from 1989) from being re-aired because he felt being a game show host would harm his reputation in the news. According to one person in the know, Game Show Network just simply didn't want to use it. Why, then, has Buzzr not attempted to rerun it, moreso considering their forbidden door passing powers. Which similarly reminds me....
Gene Rayburn and his estate banned the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour from reruns. Well obviously it's been back on Buzzr for 2+ years now. The issue was that the show had dual ownership due to the two formats. Fans probably mixed this with Rayburn really banning another show, the 1985 Break the Bank.
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 17, 2021 18:53:40 GMT -5
I did not tame the legendary buffalo, it was already tame. I merely killed it.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
Better have my money when I come-a collect!
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Post by chazraps on May 17, 2021 19:04:03 GMT -5
Pee isn't sterile.
RUN-DMC were never at any point signed to Def Jam Records.
DVD does NOT stand for "Digital Video Disc."
The "70% of hip-hop album sales go to white listeners" is completely false and comes from a massively misquoted 1990 Newsweek article. The attribution is often falsely cited to Soundscan, which has absolutely no way to track the race of consumers. I'm glad this one has died in recent years, but there was a time 2000-2008 where it would frequently pop up unsourced in music writing from the casual to tabloid to academia and absolutely drove me nuts.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on May 17, 2021 19:23:53 GMT -5
Scientists predicted a global cooling phase in the 70s!
No they didn't. It was REPORTED that they did, and to this day this belief is parroted by the dumb and those with a particular agenda that is strengthened by diminishing the credibility of the scientific community.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 17, 2021 19:33:50 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan was NOT Mr. America.
Sick of people spreading that falsehood.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 17, 2021 19:47:24 GMT -5
Yes, this is a misconception based on for the most part your OWN won't have adverse reactions against you... it won't do anything positive either but... still >_> Sorta? Digital Versatile Disc is more accepted... but Digital Video Disc has been used as well. Toshiba blatantly advertised them that way for a while...
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Post by Alexander The So-so on May 17, 2021 20:57:06 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan was NOT Mr. America. Sick of people spreading that falsehood. He passed a lie detector test and everything. What more do people want?
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Post by Casey Jones on May 17, 2021 21:04:52 GMT -5
An actor who played one of the Munchkins committed suicide in the woods when the "Wizard of Oz" was being filmed & his body can be seen hanging from a tree in the movie. First of all the film was shot on the MGM lot in Culver City, not anywhere on location & even if it had been the amount of cast & crew on set would have made such a tragic event going unnoticed impossible. If you close up on "the body" it looks like a crane. Which is still kinda weird to be on a lot.
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 17, 2021 21:12:18 GMT -5
An actor who played one of the Munchkins committed suicide in the woods when the "Wizard of Oz" was being filmed & his body can be seen hanging from a tree in the movie. First of all the film was shot on the MGM lot in Culver City, not anywhere on location & even if it had been the amount of cast & crew on set would have made such a tragic event going unnoticed impossible. If you close up on "the body" it looks like a crane. Which is still kinda weird to be on a lot. It was a crane, the shoot was a mess with the film cobbled together between segments directed by 3 people, Victor Fleming, who end up with the credit but left to shoot Gone With the Wind, King Vidor & George Cuckor. One of the many segments that was shot & then edited out was one that featured exotic birds... except they really weren't edited out. Watch the "If Only Had The Nerve" number, there are Emu's & Ostriches and other large birds all around the set. Edit: Apparently Cuckor was involved late in pre production & not the actual filming of the movie.
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bob
Backup Wench
The "other" Bob. FOC COURSE!
started the Madness Wars, Proudly the #1 Nana Hater on FAN
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Post by bob on May 17, 2021 22:44:42 GMT -5
The Midnight Rider was not Dusty Rhodes
carrots do not help eye sight
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
Surviving
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Post by Sephiroth on May 18, 2021 0:45:05 GMT -5
Elvis did not die sitting on a toilet.
The Roman Salute. There actually aren’t any records from the ancient times of soldiers saluting with an upraised arm. The image comes from artwork, much of it made long after the fact.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
Better have my money when I come-a collect!
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Post by chazraps on May 18, 2021 11:54:34 GMT -5
I feel Toshiba going to bat for the term is further evidence it's incorrect. ;-)
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