July 11

Better Than News

<gallery> File:Night Stalker - Wendigo Girls.jpg|link=Wendigo Girls|"Wendigo Girls" is a lost episode of the American television series "The Night Stalker" starring Darren McGavin. The episode features guest stars Richard Kiel, Amy Ray, and Emily Saliers.

File:Of Mice and Penguins.jpg|link=Of Mice and Penguins|Of Mice and Penguins is a 1939 American superhero film about two men, George (Burgess Meredith) and his mentally-challenged partner Lennie (Lon Chaney Jr.), trying to survive during the dustbowl of the 1930s and pursuing a dream of running their own crime gang instead of always working for the Joker.

File:Running Skerritt.jpg|link=Running Skerritt|Running Skerritt is a 1986 American biographical action comedy film loosely based on the life of Tom Skerritt, starring Billy Crystal, Gregory Hines, and Tom Skerritt.

File:Pulp Raisins.jpg|link=Pulp Raisins|Pulp Raisins is a 1994 animated musical crime drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring the California Raisins.

File:Number '39 Dream - Queen and John Lennon.jpg|link=Number '39 Dream|"Number '39 Dream" is a song by John Lennon and Queen.

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Beyond Plausible

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  Software License Violation: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series about a starship (USS Entrerprise) which must fight a series of courtroom battles after conducting a five-year mission using unlicensed proprietary software.

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  "Worth What It's Born to Run For" is a song by Buffalo Springfield and Bruce Springsteen.

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  Networktown is an American neo-noir thriller drama film about a ruthless entrepreneur (Faye Dunaway) who uses her computer network company to track down "the man with the broken nose".

In Other Words

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  "Floor Vectors" is an episode of the American animated mathematical television series The Simpsons.

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  Armageddon Hard is a 1998 American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.

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  "Rooster Cogburn/Admiral Halsey", often simply "Rooster Cogburn", is a song written by Paul and Linda McCartney from their lost album Arm.

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  Roommates is a 2022 comedy documentary film about root vegetables and their living arrangements.

Are You Sure

... that Blue Peacock was a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s which designed and built ten-kiloton nuclear mines for deployment in Germany; that cold weather presented technical challenges; and that live chickens were proposed as a heating system: the chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water, remaining alive for a week or so, with the chickens' body heat keeping the mine's components at a working temperature?

... that "A Devil Sold Fruit" is an anagram of "David Otis Fuller"?

Topic of the Day

Condoms

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  Talking Condoms is a brand of novelty condoms. When the foil packet is opened, it plays a pre-recorded message.

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  Kondom Kingdom is an American retail condom franchise.

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  The Condom Olympics are the leading international condom sporting events.

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  Always wear a condom while chiseling a mortice and tenon.

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  Cracker Jacks with condom prize inside.

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  Prophylacticon 2000.