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In the movie "Dirty Harry", during the scenes where Callahan breaks up the bank robbery (Leading to the 'do you feel lucky?' scene) you can see a movie house down the street in the background.

The movie house is showing the movie "Play Misty for me" in its marquee.
 
Larry Barnsworth said:
In the movie "Dirty Harry", during the scenes where Callahan breaks up the bank robbery (Leading to the 'do you feel lucky?' scene) you can see a movie house down the street in the background.

The movie house is showing the movie "Play Misty for me" in its marquee.
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Is there a Delorian parked outside ?
 
Larry Barnsworth said:
In the movie "Dirty Harry", during the scenes where Callahan breaks up the bank robbery (Leading to the 'do you feel lucky?' scene) you can see a movie house down the street in the background.

The movie house is showing the movie "Play Misty for me" in its marquee.
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if dirty harry had a shower he would just be called harry
 
Drongo was a race horse that never won and thats where the term started and slowly got more derogative

Soon after the horse’s retirement it seems that racegoers started to apply the term to horses that were having similarly unlucky careers.
Soon after the term became more negative, and was applied also to people who were not so much ‘unlucky’ as ‘hopeless cases’, ‘no-hopers’, and thereafter ‘fools’.



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birds of australia: the drongo

Resident ornithologists Michael and Hayley have been unable to articulate words about the drongo that aren’t Alf Stewart quotes.
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The British National Rugby League team is known as the Lions, but while the Lion emblem is popular for teams in many different sports it is very rare at top level Rugby League, especially in Australia.

There has never been a team called the Lions contest in the top Rugby League competition in Australia (NRL, ARL, Super League, NSWRL) not even among the long defunct teams like Cumberland, Annandale, Glebe or University or the short lived Super League era franchises. In NSW Cup, Ron Massey Cup and Sydney Shield despite a high turnover of clubs there has only been one team called the Lions, and this was from New Zealand; the Auckland Lions which competed for one NSW Cup season in 2007 before rebranding as the Auckland Vulcans for the rest of their tenure from 2008-2014.

The Queensland Cup has had quite a few different teams contest over the years, but none have ever been called the Lions. In the high level rugby league competitions in the ACT, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, the only Lions to be found are the South Perth Lions in WA.
 
emuboy said:
The British National Rugby League team is known as the Lions, but while the Lion emblem is popular for teams in many different sports it is very rare at top level Rugby League, especially in Australia.

There has never been a team called the Lions contest in the top Rugby League competition in Australia (NRL, ARL, Super League, NSWRL) not even among the long defunct teams like Cumberland, Annandale, Glebe or University or the short lived Super League era franchises. In NSW Cup, Ron Massey Cup and Sydney Shield despite a high turnover of clubs there has only been one team called the Lions, and this was from New Zealand; the Auckland Lions which competed for one NSW Cup season in 2007 before rebranding as the Auckland Vulcans for the rest of their tenure from 2008-2014.

The Queensland Cup has had quite a few different teams contest over the years, but none have ever been called the Lions. In the high level rugby league competitions in the ACT, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, the only Lions to be found are the South Perth Lions in WA.
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This is great well researched trivia.

In contrast, is the 'Eagles' nickname one of the most prevalent in top level global sport?

The German soccer team, Crystal Palace (English soccer), Manly (NRL), Philadelphia (NFL), and of course yours truly. According to https://www.sportscasting.com/the-7-most-popular-team-names-in-american-sports/ Eagles is the most popular nickname in American sport, it may also mean in the world.
 
Perth's Western Reds commenced in the then ARL in 1995 and in their first season they were a mid-ladder team 11-11, generally playing well in home games at the WACA ground but with a tendency to struggle in away games.

The Western Reds' first game in Sydney was a Saturday afternoon match at the Cronulla ground in Round 3, a feared venue where the Cronulla Sharks were very hard to beat in this era. Somehow, the Reds came away with an 18-14 win in a massive upset, and with 20 teams playing 22 matches, one might think that the Sharks might have been waiting a fair while to take their revenge.

As it turned out, the Sharks had to only wait 6 days. In some truly bizarre fixtures, Cronulla flew to Perth that week for a Friday night match against the Western Reds and thrashed the newcomers 28-2.

Just why these teams played in successive weeks was never explained, and it would repeat again in Rounds 3 & 4 in 1996. This was because the 1996 draw was an inverse of the 1995 draw; for example the Western Reds played North Queensland Cowboys in Townsville in 1995 and South Queensland Crushers in Perth in 1995, while in 1996 the Reds played the Cowboys in Perth and the Crushers in Brisbane. As for the Reds and Sharks, this time the Reds beat the Sharks 28-21 at the WACA in an Easter Sunday match in Round 3, while in Round 4 Cronulla beat the Western Reds 26-12 at Shark Park.
 

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If the US had Medicare there would be no Breaking Bad
Walter would have just gone and got treatment for free
 
Some musical recording artists record under their real names, for example siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter were both named Richard Carpenter and Karen Carpenter. Others use different stage names to perform and record, for example Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight, while the late Dusty Springfield's real name was Mary O'Brien.

Of musical performers who use different names, some are quite interesting:

Lesley Gore - American singer Lesley Gore, who died in 2015 was originally named Lesley Goldstein. One of Lesley's biggest hits in the mid 1960s was a song called 'Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows' which does seem a little at odds being sung by a girl with the surname Gore.

Diane Renay - This talented singer from Philadelphia was a 'two hit wonder' in the early 1960s with 'Navy Blue' and 'Kiss Me Sailor'. Her proper name was Renee Diane Kushner, and for her stage name she adapted her middle name to be her first name and her first name to be her surname, albeit with different spelling.

Paul & Paula - This catchy pop duo from Texas were very popular with teenagers in the early 1960s, but in real life neither was named Paul or Paula. Paul is Ray Hildebrand, and Paula is Jill Jackson.

Daphne & Celeste - 'UGLY, you ain't got no alibi, you're ugly!'. Now that this song is stuck in your head, the late 1990s/early 2000s pop duo who recorded it were named Daphne and Celeste. Celeste's stage name did not change, her real name being Celeste Cruz. Daphne's real name is actually Karen DiConcetto, and while 'Karen & Celeste' is reasonably catchy, the decision was made to change her stage name to Daphne due to her being similar in looks to the character Daphne from Scooby Doo.
 
Kram said:
There is 1,252 McDonald's locations in California, the most in the USA.
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Billy ray said:
The population density for the gold coast is around 1,428 persons living per square kilometre. Just behind Melbourne which is around 1,500 persons per square km.
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Combining these for no reason. If South Australia had 1,252 McDonald's locations there would be a McDonald's for every 1405 people in South Australia. If the Gold Coast had a McDonald's for every 1405 people then there would be 1 McDonald's per square km.
 
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The above is a replica of the plaque left on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew.

One can't help but notice the 1960's style language...
 
Larry Barnsworth said:
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The above is a replica of the plaque left on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew.

One can't help but notice the 1960's style language...
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I had an American Boomer tutor at uni who without fail referred to Nixon as "that bastard Nixon".*


*In before accursed uni left wing bias.
 

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Larry Barnsworth said:
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The above is a replica of the plaque left on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew.

One can't help but notice the 1960's style language...
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Apollo 13 had its Command Module Pilot replaced 2 days before launch. Since these plaques were attached to the Lunar Modules decent stage legs during construction a replacement plaque was carried onboard to be attached to the LEM upon a successful landing. Since the landing never took place Jim Lovell kept the plaque as a keep sake from the mission.
 
emuboy said:
The assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo in July 1914 ignited tensions in the Balkans and in greater Europe, setting off World War I which would last for over four years.

The royal couple from the Habsburg family of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire were shot dead in a car that bore the registration plate AIII 11 18, and the armistice to end the First World War took place on 11 November 1918 (11/11/18).
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That's not history was taught when I was at school

 
Gough said:
I had an American Boomer tutor at uni who without fail referred to Nixon as "that bastard Nixon".*


*In before accursed uni left wing bias.
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nixon was a jerk

guys kids stole my milk money when i was in school and nixons secret service goons used to help them do it
 

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