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December 17

Kate Bush video

Can anyone identify the two male dancers who appear in the video of Kate Bush's song Them Heavy People? Here is the link to the video in question which is from YouTube. I hope it works: [1]. Thanks.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 07:43, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Minions

Why do some minions have 2 eyes and others only 1?

Thank you

Cathy Hemmelstein —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.5.177.170 (talk) 14:47, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Because that is the way that the animators who created the movie drew them. --Jayron32 15:14, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Do you know what Cathy is talking about specifically? 90.195.179.14 (talk) 17:18, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Despicable Me for those who have not heard of it. --Jayron32 17:24, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

"It is because it is" doesn't really cut it. Cathy already knows that the creators drew them that way. She wants to know why they did this (see the first word of her post). I doubt anyone but the creators knows why, but maybe there's some info out there. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:29, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm guessing it's for variety. There's only so many ways to draw a green jellybean in overalls, and if you don't want them to all be identical (i.e. clones), you need some way to introduce differences for crowd scenes. -- 174.24.216.113 (talk) 05:03, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Australian Cricket Scores

Why do Australians score cricket backwards - e.g. 5 for 198 instead of 198 for 5? DuncanHill (talk) 15:16, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

The article Scoring (cricket) does not say why Australians report cricket scores the opposite of other systems, it just says that they do. To be fair, the actual reporting is arbitrary; it ultimately doesn't matter whether runs or wickets are mentioned first, since it is vanishingly rare that the number of wickets would exceed the number of runs. The obvious companion question is "Why does everyone outside of Australia report the scores the other way", the answer being "They just do". --Jayron32 15:24, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Gets a bit confusing when Australia are 2 for 3 (or 3 for 2 in Aussie speak) as happened in the Second Test. Just gloating really - but eating humble pie today. Alansplodge (talk) 16:33, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

I've often wondered this myself. I grew up with the "wickets for runs" paradigm, and the first time I ever heard the reverse order, I thought "What do those stupid foreigners know?". But now, I realise Australia's the odd man out. Both versions have their merits. Horses for courses (to mix my sporting metaphors). -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:21, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Not that you asked, but in North America, the away team is listed first in scores, not second as in other countries (a reflection of visiting teams' batting first in baseball), and a team with 4 wins, 3 losses and 1 tie (draw) has a record of 4-3-1, not 4-1-3. Also, in Japanese baseball, they usually read the strikes before the balls, so a full count is 2-3 instead of 3-2. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 01:49, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

We aussies also drive on the wrong side of the road ;) Vespine (talk) 01:05, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

No, the English drive on the wrong side of the road. Being ALSO on the wrong side of the earth, you drive on the correct side of the road under the "two wrongs make a right" lemma. --Jayron32 01:30, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Not to be confused with this Iemma. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 18:24, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Title of a Western - Please.

I am trying to remember the title of a western film. The plot is basically that a nasty gunslinger holds a competition for gunmen. They draw lots for who fights whom. In the (final?) fight the boss gunslinger draws to fight his own son. Oh yes, and there is a female fighter who has some historic grudge against the tournament organiser (the nasty boss gunman). Can anyone help please?

Thanks. Gurumaister (talk) 17:20, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

The Quick and the Dead (1995 film). --Jayron32 17:24, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Jayron, you are a star!! Thank you so much. Gurumaister (talk) 17:24, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

(OR incoming) An example of a movie that would have benefited by staying simple with its camera work. Decent story. Distracting zoom. --Onorem♠Dil 17:30, 17 December 2010 (UTC)