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December 22

Puss in Boots movie reference help

I just saw Puss_in_Boots_(2011_film), which was good fun, and some of the shots and music were obvious references to spaghetti westerns, but there was a scene near the end that seemed very familiar.

[SPOILER ALERT!]

Humpty Dumpty admits that he had planned everything, and was there all along, and it cuts to flashbacks of previous scenes, where Humpty appears, (including dressed as an unconvincing cat in the kitty club scene), staring at Puss, who never noticed him at the time. This really reminds me of something else that I can't quite place my finger on, so can anyone here tell me what scene in which film or tv show they were alluding to? Snorgle (talk) 00:23, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Usual Suspects? Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 00:27, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers, that seems the most likely.Snorgle (talk) 00:48, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Why is time going backwards? Snorgle (talk) 10:59, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Does this help? --TammyMoet (talk) 13:10, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The hole in the temporal continuum has been stitched up. Apparently, Scsbot had not completed its Christmas shopping and was making a puerile and ultimately futile attempt to gain time. Deor (talk) 13:12, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

jazz version of song

Is there a jazz version of, "Gravity," by Michael Sembello? The reason I'm asking this is, because I heard a musical riff in which it sounds like the first ABC primetime musical promo I'm trying to figure out. Anyone know?24.90.204.234 (talk) 09:25, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Draughts solved

Did the solving of draughts have a major impact on the draughts playing scene? I'm asking because I wonder what would happen to chess should it ever get solved as well. --46.5.249.219 (talk) 19:41, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Being solved simply means you don't want to play someone online because they probably have a "perfect play" program running. Chess already suffers from this (as does online poker). You cannot trust that the person you are playing against is skilled. They probably just have a program telling them what to do. If they are geeky enough, they have the program submit their moves and they go off and do something else all together. -- kainaw ™ 19:46, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That explains a lot. When I first learnt English draughts as a child, capturing opposing pieces was not mandatory. Roll on many years later and suddenly almost everyone is playing online and insisting on the mandatory capture rule, for which I don't have time to revise my strategy. Perhaps my opponents have been cheating and I have instead been trying to beat Chinook (draughts player) (or something similar). Astronaut (talk) 23:58, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, everyone who beats you is a cheater. There is no way they just play better! --46.5.249.219 (talk) 01:57, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't you detect the slightly tongue-in-cheek tone? Of course I'm not a good player, but the mandatory capturing is a rule change (to me at least), which makes every game an unpleasent playing experience for me. Sorry, I've dragged this a little off-topic. Astronaut (talk) 16:27, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mandatory capture was a rule when I learned draughts in England c.1955. Kittybrewster ☎ 18:52, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]