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October 4

Why is "Romeo Must Die" called "Romeo Must Die"?

Does the film Romeo Must Die have a character in it called Romeo? The central male character (played by Jet Li) isn't called that, and nobody mentioned in Wikipedia's plot synopsis is.

If not, why (apart from the Shakespeare parallel) is it called Romeo Must Die?

Isn't the Shakespeare parallel a good enough reason? -- Captain Disdain (talk) 01:00, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't know, is it? AndyJones (talk) 08:07, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Yes, it is. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 14:21, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Bob Dylan song

Does anyone know which album, if any, the song "How Does It Feel" by Bob Dylan is on? Thanks, Judy Carmichael —Preceding unsigned comment added by Judy Carmichael (talk • contribs) 11:17, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean the song 'like a rolling stone' ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.111.103.130 (talk) 11:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's the main line in the chorus of "Like a Rolling Stone" off the album Highway 61 Revisited. I expect that's the song you're thinking of: it is one of, if not the, most famous of his songs. Regards, AllynJ (talk | contribs) 11:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much - that is it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.68.129.174 (talk) 23:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Rolling Stone magazine called it the best song of all time. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 01:43, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Santogold/Coldplay

I saw Coldplay in concert a few months ago, and they had two groups open for them. One was Juniper Lane, and my friends and I really liked them, as did pretty much everybody around us. But then, they brought out this band Santogold, and everybody around us, including us, hated it. I was just wondering why Coldplay would pick a band that had such an opposite sound from theirs to open for them. We came to hear beautiful music, so Juniper Lane was a good choice. But this band was an incomprehensible jumble of bad music, singing, and weird female dancers that just stood there most of the time. It was like going to go see Mozart and the opening act is Mushroomhead. Why would Coldplay think people who liked their music would like Santogold's as well? BioYu-Gi! (talk) 16:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Sadly, it does not matter what Coldplay thinks. Coldplay's record label might have wanted Santogold to get some attention, and then there's nothing more to it, even if it is a complete mismatch /Coffeeshivers (talk) 23:37, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Additionally you, and the people around you, make up a small percentage of the people at that gig (or series of gigs) and so perhaps you are projecting that opinion onto everyone else unfairly? From Coffeeshiver's perspective it is in the interest of the record-label to put up-coming bands out alongside other bands, I suspect there will be a statistical and/or musical reasoning for putting the two together. It could be that there is evidence the two bands have a similar demographic of fans. Sometimes hearing a band that sound too similar to the main-performance is equally as annoying because they just end up feeling like "a poor man's x", so perhaps the contrast was purposeful? I can see why you'd find it odd though. 194.221.133.226 (talk) 11:26, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Chris Martin has more varied musical tastes than many of his fans, and seems to be a fan of a contemporary R&B and pop-dance music. I can't find references to Santogold, but he's expressed admiration for Nelly and Girls Aloud and written a song for Jamelia. [1] [2] So the reason is probably that he likes Santogold. --Maltelauridsbrigge (talk) 17:03, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

KYW

The television station KYW in Philadelphia starts with a K even though it is east of the Mississippi. Shouldn't it start with W? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick4404 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

KRadio station KDKA in Pittsburgh (the first ever) also begins with a K because of its age, before the rules were in place. Since it began as a radio station in 1921 and only later expanded to TV, I suspect that it, too, was grandfathered in, and when the owners started the TV station, it just naturally was allowed to keep the letters, also.209.244.187.155 (talk) 01:31, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Our article on North American call signs is enlightening in this regard. It has a rather good section, and explains why some stations "break the rules" as it were. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 02:43, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Gun-toting foreign cops

In TV cop shows, a theme that crops up from time to time is the foreign cop visiting the UK in pursiuit of the killer. Quite often the foreign cop is allowed to continue carrying his firearm. In reality, would a foreign cop actually be allowed to do this? Astronaut (talk) 20:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Definitely not. The only exception I'm aware of are armed guards for diplomats and foreign leaders, and even the the Met likes to do that with its own diplomatic security guys, and only FO armtwisting will budge them. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

The theory of hot pursuit holds if you talk about, say, a cop crossing the border into Canada from a state like North Dakota, but that's dependent on the policeman in question not being able to stop and think, to put it very simply. C;early, the rule could not apply if the person must take his or her time to hop on an airplane to an island nation.209.244.187.155 (talk) 01:25, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

It would seem that for hot pursuit to be valid, there must be a prior mutual agreement between the neighbouring countries. With the exception of air and sea policing, the UK has a land border only with the Irish Republic and a special border (the Chunnel) with France. This story indicates that no such protocol exists with the Irish Republic. This note says "Since January 2005 the UK has participated in all Schengen police and judicial co-operation measures, except 'hot pursuit'", and the British Government earlier said it wouldn't agree to hot pursuit at the Gibraltar/Spain border (here). I don't know enough about how the Chunnel is policed. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:14, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the Chunnel, in this parliamentary question a member asks transport minister John Spellar what the hot pursuit arrangements are, in both directions. His answer is uninformative; from it one might infer that again there is no provision. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:24, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

City of Ember

What was the disaster that obliterated civilization?--Editor510 ^{drop us a line, mate} 20:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Noah's flood? Or perhaps one of the lost cities would help you. Astronaut (talk) 11:46, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

City of Ember is an upcoming film based on a novel of the same name. I'm afraid I don't know the book though. Sorry. APL (talk) 17:48, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

disabled

i was disabled in the year 2000 by changing channels.. who was this person. i bet he was an American but i read somewhere that a guy got disabled for changing channels anybody who can GET THIS ARTICLE I'D BE GREATFUL —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.1.26.35 (talk) 21:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you might like to think about giving us a comprehensible question, then we'd be happy to look into it for you. What does "changing channels" refer to - switching to a different TV channel, for example? How could that disable anyone, and in what way? -- JackofOz (talk) 21:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

LOL, that has the most confusion in the fewest words I've ever seen! Definitely takes the prize. And the fact it's in entertainment; I'm not even sure it belongs here (or anywhere).

Even the difference between "by" and "for" - "injured by something" implies in the process of doing it the person wa sinjured, "for doing it" implies to me he was disabled as some sort of consequence. (i.e.: "His license was suspended for wreckless driving.")

To the OP, did you place a bet that the person this happened to was an American? An odd thing to bet on, but knowing how London bookmakers bet on the Super Bowl I guess anything is fair game.

Also, why not just Google the terms, like "changing channels" and injury or something? I mean, I seriously doubt there can be *too* many articles about it. Unless you're totally uncertain about anything but the vague facts you have, and if that's the case, we can't know any more than you.209.244.187.155 (talk) 22:25, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

It seems clear that this is a sort of riddle -- the person answering is supposed to figure out what it is talking about, so complaints that the question is hard to understand are kind of irrelevant. This also means that web searching may well not produce anything useful. As for me, I have no idea what it means. --Anonymous, 04:41 UTC, October 5, 2008.

Could it be something like a radio or TV station after going digital or something?hotclaws 00:13, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy

I thought Jesse Michaels from Operation Ivy was from Pittsburgh, PA. In one article it says he graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1981, But in the Bio of Operation Ivy it says he's from Berkley, California. I have also heard Tim Armstrong from Operation Ivy say Jesse is from Pittsburgh. So which article is right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.14.180 (talk) 22:41, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

The band is definately from Berkeley, but that does not mean that Jesse was born there, or even went to high school there. The Wikipedia article also makes no mention of the individual members backgrounds, as far as I can tell, so it is not inconsitent or inaccurate. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 02:35, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

it's a riddle on shocking accidents...the guy was disabled for changing channels —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.1.26.35 (talk) 06:41, 5 October 2008 (UTC)