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October 2

nature video

I'm currently trying to find this classic Sesame Street video on YouTube. The video, set to a melancholy-sounding score by Joe Raposo, consists of a hawk flying. If anyone can help me, that would be great.72.229.129.53 (talk) 05:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I would rather not encourage copyright violation by giving you information on where to illegally view the clip. Anonymous101 (talk) 20:41, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't intending to violate any copyrights nor illegally view the clip. I only wanted to revisit a piece of my childhood days, that's all.72.229.129.53 (talk) 17:50, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

VGC

Suppose Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft bought one of the other two companies. What would happen to the console of the bought company? February 15, 2009 (talk) 06:16, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I imagine they would continue supporting the console for the remainder of its production life and then stop producing it and would not produce any further consoles with that brand although it depends on the strength of the brand they took over, they could do a Sega and keep the name but just produce games under that name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.25.96.244 (talk) 08:12, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

If Nintendo somehow merged with one of the other two, maybe we'd finally get decent online support for the Wii! APL (talk) 13:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Want to see one where I'm driving the Duesenberg?

Am I right every scene Eli shoots in "The Stunt Man" was a lift from a real film released around 1968 (about the year the film was set)? And what was the putative name of the project (if it had one...)? Alan Swann 08:13, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Sonatas and Partitas

What is the difference between a partita and a sonata, especially when referring to "Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (BWV 1001-1006)" by Johann Sebastian Bach? Also, what tempo shall I play BWV 1004 at?Leif edling (talk) 09:00, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

A partita is a suite of baroque dances (allemande, sarabande, gigue etc.), Bach's sonatas are examples of the sonata da chiesa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.171.56.13 (talk) 14:46, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Film recommendations - volleyball

There are plenty of films featuring soccer, football, baseball... however, I am having a hard time finding films with a good amount of volleyball in them. Do you have any recommendations? Beach or indoor, doesn't matter. — QuantumEleven 12:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

IMDB has a keyword search function. Here is the results page for "beach volleyball". No telling just how much volleyball is included in any of those. There was, of course, a slightly popular movie called Top Gun that had a volleyball scene. --LarryMac | Talk 13:13, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the IMBd idea, I hadn't thought of that. Of course I know the (infamous?) beach volleyball scene from Top Gun ;-) — QuantumEleven 14:48, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I think one of the Air Bud movies focused on that sport, too. Not one of the better ones, but I know kids who loved it.209.244.187.155 (talk) 22:09, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I've tried hard to forget the movie, but didn't Point Break have volleyball in it? -- kainaw™ 01:26, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

It may have, but it was mainly about surfing, just like Top Gun was mainly about overcompensating for a small penis, er, I mean flying big planes very fast. Its strange that there hasn't been one of those weird High School/College films where the main character is the star athlete in a fringe sport that inexplicably draws much larger crowds than I remember (ala Vision Quest and wrestling or Better Off Dead and skiing or Bring It On and cheerleading or Back to School and diving, or... you get the idea) I mean, if we can buy Michael J. Fox as a basketball star, there must be at least one film where there's some climatic volley ball game in a high school gym with a huge crowd... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Don't forget he'd been mooned, thereby proving white werewolves can jump. ;D TREKphiler ^{hit me ♠} 04:55, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

The cheerleaders in Bring it On were attending national cheerleading championship competitions. Those draw huge numbers of people, not the numbers that show up for national football competitions, but still large crowds as are correctly shown in the movie. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 22:26, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I seem to recall a movie back in the 80s called Side Out about beach volleyball.Tex (talk) 21:01, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

nigerian press

Same question cross posted on Humanities ref desk where it is more suited anyway. Astronaut (talk) 18:10, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Dass local government

Question moved to Humanities ref desk Astronaut (talk) 18:15, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

reverse gangbang question

Why there is so few reverse gangbang movies compared to gangbang movies??? Porn movies are made thinking in male, and a male would problaby would want to see many womans on screen with one guy instead of the reverse. 189.0.207.195 (talk) 16:47, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Most males cannot produce multiple "money shots" within a short space of time. Fifteen guys each with their own "money shot" is easy to arrange; but one guy doing it 15 times in an hour - very rare. -- JackofOz (talk) 20:09, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Also perhaps because a subplot of most porn movies is humiliation of the female. If having a male ejaculate onto the face of a waiting female (how most porn scenes end) is humiliating, having 15 men do it is even more so. By the way, as a point of advice, don't try that in real life. It will likely get you punched in the nuts. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:14, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Also I suspect cost is a factor. The female stars are, I understand, paid more highly than the male stars, so production would be more expensive. 194.221.133.226 (talk) 08:05, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

There is plenty of porn with no men at all. This entire concept was turned into a joke by Denis Leary (if I remember correctly). He called it the "one penis rule". For him, he wanted one penis in his porn fantasies - his own. He didn't want a bunch of other penises messing it up. So, he preferred lesbian porn. -- kainaw™ 14:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

He's welcome to it. To some people, penisless porn is a contradiction in terms. (In fact, it's such a confronting and frightening concept that I've never had occasion to use the word "penisless" before now, and I hope I never will again.) -- JackofOz (talk) 21:48, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Guitarist

Hi, which guitarist has written "HATE" on his nails? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atacamadesert12 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Just one? On the nails? The assumption that there is one answer is certainly way off. Even if it was limited to tattoos on the fingers, it wouldn't be just one. Writing "LOVE" on one hand and "HATE" on the other has been a cliche for many years (see the "Blues Brothers"). So, do you want a list of every guitarist who has ever written "HATE" on his nails? -- kainaw™ 01:24, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

The Blues Brothers, indeed. One might as well see Cape Feare, where Sideshow Bob (having only three fingers on each hand) has LUV and HĀT tatooed on them. :-) See, rather, The Night of the Hunter, though this still won't answer the OP's question. Deor (talk) 03:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Or, of course, Cape Fear (1991 film), which merged several plot and character elements of the original Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum and The Night of the Hunter, another Mitchum classic... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:09, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Slightly related, I know for a fact that guitarist Nate Albert, ex of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones used to have two amplifier stacks he wrote "LOVE" and "HATE" on. (having been to about 20 Bosstones shows you'd tend to notice something like that)... However, as noted, the Love and Hate on the fingers theme, which dates to Night of the Hunter, has been repeated so many times, that it is hard to determine who you are looking for without more info... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Goo Goo Dolls Information

After searching for about a day, the name of the girl on the cover of "Let Love In" by the Goo Goo Dolls has not been found. Could you please figure this out because I seem to be having some trouble. Thanks.

72.207.210.252 (talk)! —Preceding undated comment was added at 17:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC).

Well, according to this page, the photographer of the girl was an artist by the name of Josh Rothstein, and he has his own website with contact info. Now that you know the photographer's name, you could either contact him directly, or use it to help your research. Good luck, and there's a start... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:06, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

It's a girl named Danielle Fillmore see here: http://wfmz.com/cgi-bin/tt.cgi?action=viewstory&storyid=17414, more pictures here: http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/danielle_fillmore/photos/photos.htm?start=12. Greetings 84.138.127.70 (talk) 23:47, 9 July 2009 (UTC)