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MononcQc
May 29, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_hanger#In_culture

In Culture posted:

A wire clothes hanger was also a featured prop in a central scene in the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest, in which Joan Crawford, played by Faye Dunaway, enters the room of her daughter, Christina, at night while the girl sleeps, to admire the beautiful clothes hanging nicely in her closet. She then becomes enraged upon discovering that Christina has used a wire hanger, instead of the expensive padded hangers Joan provided and instructed the girl to use. Joan wakes her daughter and gives her a thrashing. Joan's fierce cry of "No wire hangers ever!" quickly worked its way into pop culture.

Commonly used as an implement for roasting marshmallows or hot dogs at camp-outs.

Unfolded wire clothes hangers, because of their use in performing illegal (mainly self-induced) abortions[citation needed] (by inserting one in the uterus), are often used in pro-choice rallies.

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MononcQc
May 29, 2007

Alright this is pretty useless. Someone is passionate about carpets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knots_per_sq_cm

quote:

Knot density is a traditional measure for quality of handmade carpets. It refers, quite simply, to the number of knots per unit of surface area - typically either per square inch or per square centimeter.

For two carpets of the same age and similar design, the one with the higher number of knots will be the more valuable. With more than 30 knots per square centimeter (1 sq cm = approx. 0.155 square inch), the carpet pattern will have less pixelation. The carpet's surface will also feel more solid and will give better protection against aging.

A Persian carpet with fewer than 30 knots per sq cm is generally considered an average to low-quality carpet, while over 50 indicates a fine piece of work.

Hand-tying of knots is a very labour-intensive task. An average weaver can tie almost 10,000 knots per day. More difficult patterns with an above-average knot density can only be woven by a skilful weaver, thus increasing the production costs even more.

The rugs and carpet template is something, too.

MononcQc
May 29, 2007


This beats the pogs. Pro-click.

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

Phil Collins destroyed Genesis

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

LinuxGirl87 posted:



MononcQc
May 29, 2007

LinuxGirl87 posted:



MononcQc
May 29, 2007

JawnV6 posted:

ahahahaha

the donation banner's changed to say "please keep wikipedia free"

"ads!?!??!? omg no!!! that would hurt the integrity of the site" *paywall*

This actually makes sense. Newspapers and news broadcasts around here (and pretty much everywhere) usually live on advertisement and that gives the advertisers too much leverage.

What happened in my city was that the mayor and his organization ended up paying for the majority of the local newspapers' advertisements, being in charge of a huge part of their profit. Then, when the newspapers would run a story against the mayor, he'd threaten to remove all advertisement. It took maybe 8-9 years before the journalists got annoyed enough by it to disregard it entirely. In larger groups, these policies never really go away because you can just fire people and hire new ones.

Advertisement is a bigger risk to the integrity of a publication than a paywall, IMO. Paywalls might just kill it, but it'd go down with some integrity I guess?

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

It's not an Eruv, but I recall seeing an Orthodox Jewish woman in some video stating that they can't show their hair after marrying, so instead she bought a wig looking a lot like her hair and wear that, and that's okay. Like that's magnificent rule-lawyering.

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MononcQc
May 29, 2007

quote:

Personal life
Pesce is of Italian descent.[7]

that's it, that's the whole section.

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