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official carrier confusion

American Airlines used to be the official carrier of The Oprah Winfrey Show guests. But for the farewell season of the show, United Airlines had one of their airplanes painted with some special markings. Then I got confused all of a sudden. What was going on between the two airlines and Oprah Winfrey?24.90.204.234 (talk) 03:36, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Just a WAG, but United's corporate headquarters is in Chicago (Oprah's base of operations as well), while American's is in Fort Worth. Having myself lived in Chicago in the late 1990's, at the height of Oprah's power, I note that the city does love itself some Oprah. So, United may have decorated its planes merely as a sign of civic pride. Just a guess tho. --Jayron32 05:33, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

I find myself wondering how they decorated their plane to honor Oprah. Did they paint it black and have it constantly balloon up, then slim back down ? :-) StuRat (talk) 05:50, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Take a look on YouTube to see how they decorated one airplane to honor Oprah.24.90.204.234 (talk) 06:03, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

"Tulip" bow tie

In the following Video (Kojak, 1978) at 21:04 min. (and following) the croupier wears a very special "bow tie". Did it have a special name in the 1970ies or was it known under todays name tulip tie or Tulip Bow Tie? Any other suggestions - in respect to this bow tie or the logo on it? Thanx Grey Geezer 07:42, 28 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grey Geezer (talk • contribs)

Bad Poet Gets Girlfriend!

In The Kids in the Hall, who played the Bad Poet's girlfriend? (The characters' names were respectively Bobby and Laura, iirc.) —Tamfang (talk) 08:52, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

The IMDB entry (linked at the bottom of the article) lists Nicole de Boer as playing Laura. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 10:26, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. —Tamfang (talk) 21:03, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

ipod shuffle?

I have what looks like a shuffle 4th generation. no charger, no headphones. but it is gold with white circle. any ideas please? Kittybrewster ☎ 17:05, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Is it the real deal, or a knockoff? There's lots of counterfeit Apple products out there, and there's also a lot of legit products that work very hard to look like Apple products. --Jayron32 17:17, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

how to tell? it has an apple on the back. Kittybrewster ☎ 17:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

this google search has some links to decent ways to tell. Some of it is outdated, but I am sure with some poking around, you can find good "tells" to spot a counterfeit. Well, spotting a bad counterfeit. There are some non-trivial number of really good counterfeits out there that the lay person can literally not tell the difference between. This article deals with the ability of the Chinese market to countefeit, with surprising accuracy, many of these kinds of things. --Jayron32 18:49, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

So, assuming it is genuine, you should be able to get headphones and a USB cable (for charging and add/delete music). Borrow a friend's headphone and USB cable at first, to see if it is broken/battery dead, but longer term, Amazon seems to sell suitable stuff and I imagine there are many other stores too. Astronaut (talk) 13:14, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Violin solo piece identification required

Please help me in finding a classical violin solo, called something like 'dance of the dwarfs' and by a composer that sounds something like 'Baccini'. The piece is very energetic and virtuosic, and contains a pizzicato section. Thanks, Gil_mo (talk) 20:08, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

There's a "Dance of the Pages & Dwarves" in The Maid of Orleans by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, but I am unfamiliar with the instrumentation. Tchaikovsky also has a "Dance of the Corps de Ballet and the Dwarves" in his Swan Lake, so he may have had a thing for dwarves. Just a few leads I could find. --Jayron32 20:15, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

There is also an italian composer of some note named Giacomo Puccini, who may or may not have written such a piece. Another thread for you to follow. --Jayron32 20:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

The composer is Antonio Bazzini and the piece is "The Dance Of The Goblins", but it's most often seen in its French translation "La Ronde des Lutins". We don't have an article on the piece itself, but it's all over Youtube. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 20:52, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Indeed again, Thank you! Gil_mo (talk) 21:01, 28 March 2012 (UTC)