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A small community in Randolph County, Alabama - despite its "orthogonal frying"-sounding name, it was a thriving ceramics manufacturing area in the 19th century. Baconton: A place in Georgia, USA. Bad Axe: A city in Michigan. Bad Kissingen: No romance allowed in this German "spa town" unfortunately. Bad Laer: This city must love Imagine Dragons ...
A. Adjikistan: Featured Eurasian country in SOCOM: US Navy Seals. Alanbrooke: A fictionalized Ireland in Barbie in Rock 'N Royals. Al-Alemand: Islamic state consisting of the former Germany and the Low Countries. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
UHF. (film) UHF (released internationally as The Vidiot from UHF) is a 1989 American comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, David Bowe, Fran Drescher, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Stanley Brock, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Emo Philips and Trinidad Silva. The film is dedicated to Silva, who died shortly ...
A long-lived academic debate about the concept of time in the Hopi language. How now brown cow: A way to greet those well-versed in rhetoric. Hyphen War: A dash between communism and independence. Ingressive sound: In many languages and dialects around the world, a loud inhalation means "yes". Inherently funny word
In the Appendix, after a list of nine "useful spelling guidelines", there is a note: The i before e except after c rule is not worth teaching. It applies only to words in which the ie or ei stands for a clear / ee / sound and unless this is known, words such as sufficient, veil and their look like exceptions.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a 2022 American biographical musical parody film directed by Eric Appel, in his feature directorial debut, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Al Yankovic. [2] The film is a satire on musical biopics and is loosely based on Yankovic's life and career as an accordionist and parody songwriter .
28. Little Fockers. 2010’s “Little Fockers” is the third movie in the “Meet the Parents” franchise. A comedy starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, the title it was given in Thailand ...
Pre-Code Hollywood is the era in the American film industry after the introduction of sound in the early 1920s [1] and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become effectively enforced until July 1, 1934.