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May 2

Name request

Asking for a third time. I watched this movie quite long time ago (in the late 1990s or most probably early 2000s). I can't remember clearly because I was a child at the time I saw it. Plot revolves around the relationship between a wife and husband. The wife's boss asked her (most probably inside an airplane as far I remember) to sleep with him, which she accepted. Later the wife admitted to her husband that she slept with her boss. After she told him that she was approached by her boss, the husband tells: "What did you say?" and repeating the question again and again, and the wife replies that she accepted the offer. The husband then expresses sorrow.

In a later scene, the husband accidentally hit the wife and laments, and the wife says I love you. I clearly remember this scene. I want to watch the movie again. PLEASE HELP!!! --Voulgdoerle (talk) 01:30, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Indecent Proposal? --TammyMoet (talk) 08:52, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I suggested that the last time that this was asked and was told that it wasn't the film in question. Dismas|^(talk) 09:16, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

If you could more closely pinpoint the year, then a look at that year's films might ring a bell or turn on a lightbulb or activate some related cliche. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:40, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Voulgdoerle (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

The user's apparent unwillingness to engage us in dialogue makes me wonder how important this really is to him. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:41, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

What unwillingness? I do not remember the exact year. But is more likely during the early 2000s when I saw it in my home in a TV channel, not in theater. But it is not soap opera, it is a feature film. --Voulgdoerle (talk) 07:30, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

OK, welcome back. Do you recall anything about any of the actors? What they looked like, how they talked? The point being, you've asked this three times and no one can figure it out. You need to stick around here and discuss it, if you have a hope of finding an answer here. However, it occurs to me that there may well be website forums that are specifically about movies and TV shows. Have you asked at any of those places? Your odds might be better there, especially if this is a fairly obscure TV movie. Folks frequenting those places might be Leonard Maltin types who have literally seen every movie made in the last 40 or 50 years, and might better be able to help. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:08, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Well then please suggest some good movie forums. Also is there any forum where there is special provision for name request like this? --Voulgdoerle (talk) 10:18, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't know any specifically, but you have to start somewhere, so I googled [movie forums] and one of the first things that came up was movieforums.com. That's where I would start if I were you. If nobody there knows, I bet they'll have some good ideas of where to look. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 10:38, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Action comics #900

Superman renounces US citizenship. Where does that leave Clark Kent? 76.27.175.80 (talk) 01:48, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

What, if anything, did the comic have to say about it? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I'd like to know if the question is addressed in the comic. 20.137.18.50 (talk) 12:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I was not able to find anything about it. I've got a hunch this is some kind of sales hype, and that it's a cliffhanger to the next story, in which Superman will reveal that it was just a ruse (to catch Osama bin Laden or something), or that he was under the influence of Globalist Kryptonite or something. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:36, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Did Superman provide a long form birth certificate from Krypton? Googlemeister (talk) 19:23, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Sure. It had been filled out by the Krypton Kounty Klerk's office. However, it was hard to read. It had been digitized and enKrypted. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:44, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Ah, so that's the origin of the KKK. I always thought their attitudes and opinions were alien to those of humanity. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 19:54, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Clark Kent is technically an illegal resident of the U.S....being a true-to-god alien and all that. Now, whether his Superman personae received some sort of exemption or pardon for this in the DC Universe, I don't know. That may have happened in the course of Superman's continuity (and I'd be interested to know of such happenings from any comics aficionado out there), but on the face of it, Clark Kent wouldn't have any official papers, like a U.S. b-certificate or other papers. I do recall a storyline in the Armageddon 2001 series where a future Superman was elected President, and they got around the whole citizenship loophole by claiming that "baby" superman was actually "born" from the space pod that brought him to Earth, therefore technically making him a U.S. (Kansas) citizen. Though whether that is main-continuity or not, I have no idea. Quinn ^{✩ STARRY NIGHT} 03:32, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

At the time Superman was created, in 1938, there was not nearly as much concern about record-keeping, especially among ordinary citizens. The farther back you go, the less concern there was. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Chief Bender can't be proven as to which year he was born, or wasn't the last time I checked. There has been debate about public figures more recent than that. It seems to be the influx of Latinos, primarily, that has made this such a big deal in recent years. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:36, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

I seem to recall a series of Election issues in late 2008 that involved a presidential election. The relevance here? Clark Kent, if I recall correctly, did indeed go to vote in the election - which implies that he's officially a citizen. If he needed a long form birth cirtificate, or whatever, I'm sure Bruce Wayne could handwave something together that would pass muster. But turn it around, though - Superman renounces his American Citizenship, and then Clark Kent does the same thing right then? Surely someone in some office somewhere would notice. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 14:02, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Clark wouldn't necessarily renounce his citizenship. He's the only one who knows that he's Superman, right? He even might write an editorial questioning or denouncing Superman for it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:41, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Surely, whatever prevents everyone from realizing Superman and Clark Kent look exactly the same would also prevent them from noticing if they both renounced citizenship. Adam Bishop (talk) 22:04, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes. That fictional universe apparently lacks modern identification methods such as DNA testing, retinal scanning, computerized face recognition, and probably even fingerprinting. And don't call me Surely. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:13, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

I suspect it is because Lex Luther stole everything in those technological gaps. Googlemeister (talk) 16:44, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Inventor/manufacturer of the Silver Screen

I read an article in Wikipedia that suggests that a man named Williams, from Kenmore, Ohio ( a part of Akron, Ohio now) invented and marketed the motion picture Silver Screen. I believe that is incorrect. My father, Richard L. Walker and is brother, Robert, began producing the silver screen in 1926 (company failed) and started again in 1928. His company, the Walker American Corporation, was in business until the 1970's and produced more motion picture screens than any other company of which I have knowledge. I have visited many cities in the US and gone to several theaters (large and small and only found screens made by Walker American. They are easy to recognize by their border framing and grommeting technique.

He was on a first name basis with the executives of Warner Brothers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and (I think) Republic Pictures. As a small boy I accompanied him to Los Angeles on some of his business trips.

Walker American was located at 800 Beaumont Street, St. Louis, Missouri, where production continued from 1928 through (I believe) 1976. My father was primarily an inventor and creator. He was self taught in calculus and chemistry without the advantage of formal schooling. He built the mammoth machinery needed to build screens having 70 and 80 foot dimensions. The screens were made of four foot strips of special canvas prepared by 3M (again, I think)and marked with a duck in flight (his Canvasback logo). In order to sew the material together, he built a sewing machine about 40 feet long constructed from a bowling alley lane that was salvaged during demolition.

While abandoned, the factory burned down in the 80's as a reult of homeless people using the basement for shelter. They acidentally ignited barrels of higly flammable paint and base material. The fire raged for (I believe) three days. You can check the St. Louis Post Dispatch for information on the fire.

I have saved copies of the bond and stock certificates as memorabilia of the company and my father.

Richard L. walker,<redact address and email> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teachndick (talk • contribs) 02:20, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I've removed your address and email to protect your privacy. That article needs some work - can you give us any links or information on reliable sources to substantiate your claim? Exxolon (talk) 13:35, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

When an individual volunteers information like this for an article, Wikipedia almost always can't use it, because of our policy No Original Research. Every single sentence in every Wikipedia article is supposed to be attributable to a reliable published source, because this is an encyclopedia. What your information can provide is a starting point for yourself, or possibly some other interested editor, to go and look up published information and correct the article with that published information, including references so that future editors don't just delete the additions as "unreferenced". Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:27, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Children's series

When I was a youngin', I remember watching these videos that my parents would always get from the library. It was a series (not unlike things like Timmy the Tooth) of videos that (I think) were educational. The cast was a team of puppets that I distinctly remember being ducks or looked like ducks, but their true species is a bit hazy in my mind. I remember the main duck was like a professor or teacher or something and would instruct the other ducks on different subjects. Also, I remember there being a large talking couch or maybe a birthday cake that was also friends with the ducks.

I could be all wrong about this but its seriously keeping me up at night trying to remember these videos. Please, for the love of God, someone know what this is!!--92.251.212.221 (talk) 16:19, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

The above editor's IP address geolocates to Dublin, Ireland, if that helps any editors. Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:28, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

If it's Irish, it wouldn't be The Den (television) would it? Bob talk 23:29, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

It's not Irish it's American.--178.167.200.101 (talk) 00:39, 8 May 2011 (UTC)