overmind2000 posted:

The Noid is referred to in the 19th episode of season 2 of The Goldbergs (set in the 1980s), when Barry lands a job delivering pizzas and is told how important it is to "avoid the Noid". He is so bad at his job, the boss eventually accuses Barry of being the Noid.

Slippery posted:

I remember playing the avoid the noid video game lol

quote:

According to Camp, a producer lied to design artists, claiming that Jordan had signed on in order to keep development going. Warner Bros. eventually canceled plans for Space Jam 2.

The film then re-entered development as Spy Jam and was to star Jackie Chan. Warner Bros. was also planning a film titled Race Jam which would have starred Jeff Gordon. Both projects were ultimately cancelled.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

Russell Crowe's jockstrap is a leather jockstrap. It was part of a costume worn by actor Russell Crowe in the 2005 film Cinderella Man. In 2018, the jockstrap was auctioned off and was bought by comedian John Oliver who in turn donated it to the last operating Blockbuster Video store in Alaska.

Original use and subsequent ownership

In Cinderella Man, Australian actor Russell Crowe played American boxer James J. Braddock, who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937. In the film, Crowe wears the jockstrap in the scene in which Braddock wins the championship.[1]

After the film was produced, Crowe took possession of various props from the film, including the jockstrap, and incorporated them into his collection of memorabilia.[1]

Sale and Blockbuster Video donation

In April 2018, Crowe auctioned off over 200 props he owned that were used by him in his various films in a "divorce auction" to celebrate his split from Danielle Spencer.[1][2] He included the jockstrap as part of the auction as "a piece of whimsy and a bit of a gag".[1] After the announcement of the auction, Bloomberg listed the jockstrap as one of the most bizarre items for sale.[3] The jockstrap sold for $7,000 ($8,450 with Buyer's Premium), more than ten times the estimated price of $500 to $600,[2] which also led to a flurry of coverage on this high sales price.[4][5][6] Crowe later admitted that he was surprised that it turned out to be one of the most popular items of the sale.[1]

The jockstrap and other items were bought by the HBO television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which Oliver revealed on his April 15, 2018 show.[4] As a thank-you, Crowe donated the money Last Week Tonight paid to the Australia Zoo which used it to fund the "John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward".[7] Oliver jokingly declared he had achieved everything imaginable and could now end his show.[8][9]

Subsequently, the memorabilia, including the jockstrap, were donated to the last operating Alaskan Blockbuster Video store in Anchorage.[4][10] The jockstrap remained there in a glass case along with other items from the Crowe auction and became a local attraction.[10] However, the items failed to prevent the store from closing in July 2018.[11] Afterwards, the owners of the Alaska store sent all their memorabilia to the last remaining Blockbuster Video store in the United States, located in Bend, Oregon.[12] However, Crowe's jockstrap was missing from the items sent to this store, with Oliver claiming in September 2018 that he did not know its location.[12]

Reappearance

In November during the final episode of the 2018 season of Last Week Tonight, Oliver revealed that the show had reacquired the jockstrap and used it in a comedy skit.[13] The skit is a spoof of The Fast and the Furious starring Armie Hammer and five wax US presidents which Oliver's show had previously acquired from a wax museum sale.[14] In the end of the skit, Crowe appears as a mob boss holding the jockstrap he had ordered stolen.[15] As of the airing of the final Oliver episode, it remained unclear who owned or possessed the jockstrap.[13]

haveblue posted:

Heneage and Denny, as servants "whom he used secretly about him", were privy to Henry VIII's most intimate confidences about Anne of Cleves. He told them he doubted her virginity, on account of "her brests so slacke".[18]

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

starting to think henry viii might have some issues with women

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Schadenboner posted:

3D pool?

Sham bam bamina! posted:

it's regulation beer pong

aardvaard posted:

The given device operates until the smoke is released from it, at which point the device ceases to operate. Ergo, the smoke is an essential part of the device's operation, through undetermined ('magical') means.[2] The joke's humor operates via the logical consistency of what is observed, versus knowledge of what is actually occurring. This is an example of the fallacy post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Usage
This has led to phrases (and variants of) "You let the smoke out!", "There's too many angry pixies running through the circuit!", "The magic smoke is escaping." or "I think you set your power supply too high; there is magic smoke coming from that resistor!" as euphemisms for the destruction of a component by overheating.

Schadenboner posted:

Wrongthread.

Soricidus posted:

The event, known as the Harrowing of Hell, would have occurred in A.D. 33 or 34.

syscall girl posted:

Say what you will about John Romero and his contributions to iD but he had his finger on the pulse of the damned.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

uh what

Sham bam bamina! posted:

please take your meds

prefect posted:

He was the brand's last human spokesman before the emergence of the Energizer Bunny.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

According to the Danish tabloid B.T., Norway was gripped by smør-panik ("butter panic") as a result of the butter shortage.[2]

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

According to the Danish tabloid B.T., Norway was gripped by smør-panik ("butter panic") as a result of the butter shortage.[2]