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January 1

What movie is this from? "You stole my nut, you owe me a new nut."

Can't find what movie this is from. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.193.13.119 (talk) 01:20, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Emperor's New Groove I think... Dismas|^(talk) 02:57, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NHL 09

How is it possible to release players on NHL 09 for xbox 360. I can not seem to find the way to do that.--68.54.131.156 (talk) 08:03, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Silence

hi-tack's "Silence" and Delerium's ft. Sarah McLaughlin's "Silence" sound almost excatly the same, but the articles don't mention anything. What is up with that?96.53.149.117 (talk) 08:15, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What's there to mention? It's a cover version of the same song, or a remix of a cover version, perhaps; in any case, the vocals don't seem to be the same as in MaLachlan's version. That's not particularly noteworthy in itself; people do covers and/or remixes all the time. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 23:47, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism?96.53.149.117 (talk) 01:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, no. Why would it be plagiarism? It's just a cover version of the song. In theory, it could be that the author of the song isn't being paid the appropriate royalties, in which case Hi-Tack could end up in court, but there's no reason to assume that this is the case. (Even so, it still wouldn't be plagiarism -- that's a different thing.) -- Captain Disdain (talk) 02:18, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Valkyrie

For any of you who have seen Valkyrie, there was a part when the leader of the Reserve Army went to arrest Goebbels, who was on the phone with Hitler at the time. During that part, Goebbels put a small cylindrical item into his mouth, and then after the Reserve Army leader left, he took it out. What was it that he put in his mouth, and what was the significance of that? It confused me, and I feel like that was sort of important. Jared (t) 15:58, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably cyanide, the likely means of his suicide some 8 months later. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 16:39, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For visual comparison: here you can see a reproduction of a Nazi-manufactured capsule (casing and vial), and here you can see an authentic capsule from Dr. John Lattimer's collection of military oddities. Supposedly, it belonged to Göring (according to the New York Times). ---Sluzzelin talk 18:03, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To expand on this a little, suicide pills containing cyanide were pretty much standard fare among the Nazi higher-ups, who felt that death was preferable to the humiliation of capture and war crimes trial, which they knew would be almost certainly followed by execution anyway. (Allegedly, Hermann Göring managed to kill himself with a suicide pill in prison with the help of an unwitting young guard who foolishly delivered Göring what he was assured was "medicine", thus avoiding death by hanging.) -- Captain Disdain (talk) 23:37, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But he doesn't die right away here. At least I didn't think he did. That's why I'm a little confused. Did he only take a small dose leading toward a slow death? Jared (t) 23:59, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I haven't seen the movie, but from your description, I would assume that he put the capsule in his mouth in preparation to committing suicide, but he didn't bite down on it, which would be a requirement for releasing the poison. He then removed it, either because he didn't have the guts to do it, or because he changed his mind, or because he felt there might still be way out of the situation, or something else along those lines. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 00:18, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Right. Because events at that time wound up favorable to Goebbels, he didn't need to bite the cyanide pill, so he was able to remove it without committing suicide. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 03:57, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The scene may make more sense if you imaging substituting Claus von Stauffenberg with the guy who actually goes into the room. Goebbels doesn't know whether the officer arresting him is a loyalist following ("bad") orders, or one of the revolutionaries - a question to which one answer he would rejoin with popping the cyanide pill (or that is my interpretation), for reasons outlined above. And if I've spoiled the movie, well - Titanic sinks at the end, too. I still found the movie suspenseful. 98.169.163.20 (talk) 18:51, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]