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[edit]song?
[edit]I heard a song with the lyrics "people living in competition, I don't mind if I fall behind" does anyone know what that was? 70.241.16.91 (talk) 02:15, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! 70.241.16.91 (talk) 02:43, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Song name
[edit]Hello,
I'm looking for a song from the early 90's that sounds like this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HRBU5ZHU thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.251.19.160 (talk) 03:01, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- It sounds a lot like "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones, though that's not from the early 90's. There was a cover version of it done by the early '90s band Belly that was on their EP titled Moon which sounds almost exactly like what you sang in your file, but honestly its a pretty obscure track, I don't believe it was ever a single of its own right, and it was only availible on the Moon EP or as the B-side of their single "Gepetto". See [1]. (I was a big Tanya Donelly fan back in HS/College and so I actually own this EP). --Jayron32 03:36, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
No it's not that. The song i'm looking for has a bassline that sounds like the recording i posted. 41.251.19.160 (talk) 05:01, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- Any particular genre? It would help narrow it down. --Jayron32 05:06, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- WARNING:I got a pop-up with a partypoker game in it from that site when I tried to download the file (even though I have pop-ups blocked on my computer). Not good. --TammyMoet (talk) 08:48, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Why isn't the Armchair Archivist geting new episodes on the D23 website
[edit]He was my favortie and there hasn't been an episode on the website since May or June and they haven't said anything about what happened to him and his show plz tell me what happened someone — Preceding unsigned comment added by FilmGuySuper8 (talk • contribs) 06:24, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
London theatre
[edit]Is there a website like ibdb.com that lists London theatre performances, who was in them, and when they ran? The Mark of the Beast (talk) 07:16, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Suite Life on Deck episode
[edit]Which episode of the Suite Life on Deck did a reference on Ferris Bueller's Day Off where Miss Tutweiller keep saying Bueller when she was doing the attendance? I forgot but I want to watch it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.31.21.162 (talk) 18:46, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
MLB (modern era) games completed.
[edit]Since the inception of MLB's modern era, approximately how many games (including post season) have been played through the 2011 All Star break? Many thanks, MoJoMLBFan — Preceding unsigned comment added by MoJoMLBFan (talk • contribs) 21:28, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- You can work this out using Major League Baseball schedule which has the number of games played in each league for each period of time. For example, the National league had 8 teams from 1900-1961. That means that there were 4 games among those 8 teams at any given time. 1900-1903+ 1919 (5 years) had 140 games, and that gives us 4*4*140= 2240. 1904-1918 and 1920-1961 (56 years) had 154 games, and that gives 4*56*154 = 34496 games. Add those two to get 36736 pre-expansion games in the NL. The AL had the same schedule with the same number of teams, but expanded its league and schedule one year earlier thnan the NL, so the AL would have had 2240 for the 140 game years, and 33880 for its 154 game years, and 810 games (5*162) for 1961. That's a total of 36930 AL games over the same time period; or 73666 major league games from 1900-1961. From 1962-1968 there were 20 teams playing 162 games each, thats 10*162*7 = 11340. From 1969-1976 there were 24 teams playing 162 games, 12*162*18 = 34992. From 1977-1992 there were 26 teams playing 162 games, 13*162*16 = 33696. From 1993-1997 there were 28 teams playing 162 games, 14*162*5 = 11340. Since 1998 we've had 30 teams playing 162 games, 15*162*13 (till the start of this season) = 31590. Those numbers don't include a) inseason single-game playoffs (which would give some teams 163 games) or b) the strike-shortened seasons or c) rained out games that don't get made up at the end of the year because they are inconsequential (there's always a few of those every year) but that does give a rough, ball-park (pun intended) estimate of 73666 + 11340 + 34992 + 33696 + 11340 + 31590 = 196,624 regular season games played by the start of the 2011 season. Given the approximations I have already mentioned, plus the games already played this year, you can say there have been roughly 200,000 games total played (including playoffs, allstar games, etc,) since MLB's modern era started. --Jayron32 00:13, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
- Confirming Jayron's calculations, MLB just issued a press release [3] on August 23rd stating it would celebrate the 200,000th major league game on or around September 24th of this year. The around is due to the fact there may be some rainouts over the next month, which could affect the date of the milestone context. Is the OP Bud Selig ? --Xuxl (talk) 15:50, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
The late actor Eric Fleming (died 1966), played the part of Gil Faber on the show "Rawhide" (1959 - 1966)
[edit]His filmographies do not list an uncredited appearance in the film "Stalag 17". He is seen in the background group of American Prisoners of War. Can this be verified by Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by HappyJack66 (talk • contribs) 23:43, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- Not really. None of the big three (IMDb, TCM, AllRovi) have him so credited, and they all have a long list of uncredited actors for the film. The Mark I eyeball constitutes WP:OR. We know nothing! Nothing!Clarityfiend (talk) 00:51, 22 August 2011 (UTC)