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== Better Than News == | |||
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== Beyond Plausible == | |||
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== In Other Words == | |||
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== Are You Sure == | |||
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== Topic of the Day == | |||
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Latest revision as of 09:25, 1 August 2023
Better Than News
The Hustler Proxy is an American sports romantic screwball comedy film starring Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jackie Gleason.
Slaughterhouse-Five in the Rye is a 1972 American comedy-drama military science fiction film set during the Second World War, often viewed by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation, and as a critique of superficiality in society.
Junc is a 2022 American science fiction film based on the television series Sanford and Son.
Eraserhead Nevsky is a 1938 Soviet surrealist allegory film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and David Lynch. It depicts the attempted invasion of desolate industrial landscape in the 13th century by a man in space moving levers, and his defeat by Prince Eraserhead, known popularly as Eraserhead Nevsky.
Dial F for Frogs is a 1954 American ecological crime thriller horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and George McCowan.
The Pawns of Navarone Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, and Mikhail Botvinnik.
"Someone Sank My Battleship" is a song by Elton John and Milton Bradley.
Beyond Plausible
The Emerald Mansion is an adventure-drama comedy romance film about an Amazonian jungle girl (Audrey Hepburn) who is adopted by a Beverly Hills couple (Powers Boothe and Meg Foster).
Pink Blob is a 1988 rock opera horror film about an acidic, amoeba-like alien organism that crashes down to Earth in a military satellite and devours a British progressive rock band (Pink Floyd) as it grows.
Winnie-the-Pope is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear pope created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard.
The Dark Tweet is a 2008 documentary film directed, produced, and co-written by The Joker. The film follows Bruce Wayne / Tweetman (Bale), Police Lieutenant James Gordon (Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Eckhart) as they form an alliance to dismantle twitter bots released by anarchistic mastermind the Ledger (Joker) to undermine Tweetman's influence and throw the city into Facebook.
In Other Words
Abseiling the Giant Multi-Pen is a short autobiography by an anonymous climbing enthusiast.
Tire Fires of the Rich and Famous is an American television series featuring the extravagant tire fires of wealthy entertainers, athletes, socialites, and magnates.
Stochastic Paladin is an American Western magical reality television series about an investigator-gunfighter calling himself "Paladin" (Richard Boone) who travels around the Internet causing unsuspecting strangers to experience serendipity.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya showed talent at a young age; that physicist Nikolai Nikanorovich Tyrtov noted her unusual aptitude when she managed to understand his textbook by discovering for herself an approximate construction of trigonometric functions which she had not yet encountered in her studies; and that Tyrtov called her a "new Pascal" and suggested she be given a chance to pursue further studies?
• ... that The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L. is an international smuggling ring?
• ... that surgeon Joseph Lister promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, successfully introducing carbolic acid (now known as phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds, and that Lister's work led to a reduction in post-operative infections and made surgery safer for patients, distinguishing him as the "father of modern surgery"?
Topic of the Day
Boris Johnson
Metropolitan Triffid is a British police procedural science fiction television show about the Triffids, an aggressive alien plant which has taken hold in the Metropolitan Police Service.
Dial E for Eco is a 2021 ecology disaster film starring Boris Johnson as the fictional Prime Minister of the United Kingdom James Bond.
Invasion of the Boris-Snatchers.
