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June 22[edit]

Demographics of sport fans in Fiji[edit]

Sport in Fiji addresses this question, but very briefly (the third sentence of the introduction) and without citation.

During a recent conversation with an Indian man from Fiji, I learnt that cricket has a non-trivial following in the country. Is the sport dominated by Indians, or does it have a significant following among Polynesians, too? I was strongly tempted to ask him, but being aware of the country's recent political history, I figured it was safest to say nothing. Nyttend (talk) 11:49, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is cricket connected with politics in Fiji? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:05, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pope/Catholic, Bears/woods memes spring to mind. MinorProphet (talk)

Bugs, I'm guessing that it's not directly related, but wondering if it might be tangentially related. The issue is the political effects of the country's deep racial/ethnic/cultural divide between Indians and Fijians; when talking with people from Fiji, I've always avoided mentioning anything directly related to that. If the United States had a much larger black population and a recent history of race-based military coups, and if I were a visitor from overseas, I wouldn't go around asking Americans about racial matters, even innocuous things like "do blacks and whites tend to follow the same sports". Nyttend (talk) 09:38, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So, you really wanted to ask him about race, more than about cricket? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:48, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About the interaction between race and sport, thus the header for this section. Nyttend (talk) 09:51, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at Fiji national cricket team#Current squad and Fiji national rugby league team#Current squad. What do you think? Beware of stereotyping, but not many Khans and Kumars play rugger at the national level.... Being a bold sort of person, I would have asked your interlocutor whether he thought Frank Bainimarama should be in prison. MinorProphet (talk) 20:31, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June 23[edit]

LittleBigPlanet (2009 video game)[edit]

What was the fate of the online servers for the 2009 version of LittleBigPlanet, and if it is no longer active, when did it shut down? –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 06:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June 25[edit]

Get along little dogies[edit]

In this song, "dogies" means motherless calves. But many people make the mistake of thinking it means puppy dogs. Is this mistake really common?? Georgia guy (talk) 14:29, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dogie is spelled and pronounced differently from doggy, so I don't think the mistake would be any more common than confusion between, say, bogie and boggy etc. Shantavira|^{feed me} 15:08, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I (elderly Brit, familiar with the song) have never encountered this misunderstanding, but then how often would it be revealed – cowboy-song lyrics are not often a topic of conversation around these here parts. What's your basis for saying "many people make the mistake . . ."? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 151.227.226.178 (talk) 15:48, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When have you heard it pronounced "doggy"? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:11, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The 'Mac' (Harry McClintock) "Victor" 78 V-40016-B has has "Get Along, Little Doggies" on the label. His pronunciation is, to my ears, somewhere between what I would write as "dogies" and "doggies". DuncanHill (talk) 18:02, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Dogie" isn't a word most people are familiar with. It would be easy for someone seeing the lyrics (or having the word spelt for them after hearing the song) to wonder why "doggy" was being mispelled and mispronounced in the song and what dogs had to do with cowboys and such. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 12:04, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weird side note. I am an American, but "spelt" seemed better for this particular usage than "spelled" or "spelled out". It's a weird case of using a more often British/Commonwealth spelling in a specific context in an American text. I've noticed that there are specific contexts where I use "amongst" instead of "among" as well. Is this just me? Is this a general Southern US thing (being as I am from NC)? -- User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 12:09, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sign outside a pet store selling dachshunds: "Get a long little doggy!" Not great, perhaps, but it was funny to me when I heard it forty years ago. I think Khajidha has it right: dogie is not a word that people use much any more. I suspect people encountering it for the first time assume it's humorously equating cattle with something much smaller. Matt Deres (talk) 17:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So far we have only had speculations and suspicions. What actual evidence is there that "many people" really do think it means "puppy dogs" rather than some kind of cattle? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 151.227.226.178 (talk) 18:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

With the declining popularity of Westerns, I doubt that many people have even heard it uttered. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:19, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My wife likes to make the "long little dogie" joke anytime she encounters such a canine. Most people give blank looks. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:52, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June 28[edit]

Woodstock performers dying fairly soon[edit]

As is well-known, three musicians performing at Woodstock died one year after the event, and some three years later another, all at a specific age. It would be interesting to compare them to all deaths of Woodstock performers, but it is not easy to get a list - is there one? Did even any other musicians die in timely years after the event (or even faster)? --KnightMove (talk) 13:08, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Woodstock#Artists has a list of linked performers, so it should be pretty easy to check. Clarityfiend (talk) 13:36, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed I have checked for the easy cases, but e.g. for Sweetwater (band) it's hard to find a full list of members, and so it is to find the biographical data for the known members. Hard cases like this sum up significantly. So I hope someone may have read a book or something explicitly adressing this question. --KnightMove (talk) 15:14, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What's a "timely year" to die? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:23, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One of the next few years (not specified, but not many) after the event. Honestly I don't know how to express this in English correctly. --KnightMove (talk) 15:40, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously, we should omit all performers who met an untimely demise. --Lambiam 19:39, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Checking further, I have found this page answering my question mostly, with a few gaps. --KnightMove (talk) 15:40, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kelson[edit]

why people are not talking to be better than any other hand right now Look at the end of the year!!!!! 41.122.85.118 (talk) 18:32, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your question is incomprehensible. If you are not a chatbot, please specify who or what this "Kelson" is and what you want to know. Please note that, as it says at the top of this page, "We don't answer requests for opinions, predictions or debate." {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 151.227.226.178 (talk) 19:10, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe the IP is thinking of Keelson. Though the question still makes no sense. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:25, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June 30[edit]

A Poor Young Working Lady's Song[edit]

I need a song that has a young lady born in a poor family with many younger siblings. As the oldest one among them, she went to work at a very young age to help her parents feed the kids. Gotta be a loving family. -- Toytoy (talk) 12:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you looking for a pre-existing song? If not, then that description could be used as a prompt for an AI music generator. Otherwise, try 53 Songs About Hard working woman (Pop, Rap & More) --136.54.106.120 (talk) 14:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was a discussion about peoples' shared experiences. People around the world may be facing the same problems and then I was asked if there's a country or rock and roll song like this where a young woman has to work to help her parents. I could not come up with a song like this. Most of these femm songs in the U.S. were very individual. I don't know if Loretta Lynn had a song themed this manner. -- Toytoy (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Coal Miner's Daughter" by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" come to mind; they don't directly satisfy your specifications, but do address the subject from a different perspective. "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert is similar. "Family Portrait" by P!nk touches on the theme, but the family seems more dysfunctional than loving. --136.54.106.120 (talk) 21:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Fancy" by Bobbie Gentry (later covered by Reba McEntire) is about a young girl that her mom sends out to "work", but it doesn't really fit your question either. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 11:47, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tracy Chapman and Fast Car could fit. 41.23.55.195 (talk) 06:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Was Mrs. Which's height in the 2018 movie supposed to be a reference to Oprah's life experience?[edit]

When Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey) makes her appearance in A Wrinkle in Time, she is giant. One of the other astral beings tells her that she is "the wrong size", to which Mrs. Which responds "Is there such a thing as the wrong size?"

I recently watched a YouTube video of someone reading Brad Meltzer's I Am Oprah Winfrey. At one point, the book's literary prose (referring to Oprah in the first person, as is usually the case for Ordinary People Change the World books) states that some of the people who used to ridicule Oprah in the past considered her to be the wrong size, and the book's use of the phrase "the wrong size" there reminded me of the aforementioned moment in that movie.

P.S. Come to think of it, this looks like it may belong in the Humanities section. If you think Humanities seems more like the correct place for this than Entertainment, feel free to move it there. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 15:47, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The book was written in 1962, before Oprah was well known, so I doubt it refers to her life experience. RudolfRed (talk) 16:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not referring to the book. The only time that size seems to have been brought up in the source material was when Mrs Whatsit told the human protagonists that there's no difference between the size of the smallest microbe and the largest galaxy. However, I'm pretty sure the book never described any character as being unnaturally gigantic, so the book is out of the question. (figuratively and literally) – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 20:19, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The screenplay for A Wrinkle in Time was written after 2010, so dialogue in the film can easily have been inspired by Oprah's experience before she broke through. She herself wrote about the experience ("They told me I was the wrong color, the wrong size, and that I showed too much emotion."^[1]), so we may assume it stung. --Lambiam 20:52, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

July 1[edit]

Paper flowers that grow when you put them in water[edit]

When I was little, there was a popular novelty item or toy made of colored paper that came as a little lump which unfolded to a pretty flower when you put it in water. Do we have an article about them? ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 14:25, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blooming paper flowers is the most common name. Evidently, there is no article (yet). You are more than welcome to try creating one! --136.54.106.120 (talk) 17:37, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the name. Unfortunately, I don't know much more than what I wrote above. When I search for that name online, I find some how-to instructions, but no encyclopedic information. ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 12:28, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

July 2[edit]

New American Dad Season 21[edit]

When is this new season going to come out on TBS, August or September? 172.13.193.84 (talk) 02:42, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Funniest scene in Despicable Me 2[edit]

After El Macho drank the mutagen, it turns him into a Grimace-like monster, but bigger, fatter, more hairer, and probably meaner, as well as his clothes and medallion getting ripped off during the transformation. 172.13.193.84 (talk) 02:48, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What's your question? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:20, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Funniest" is entirely subjective in this context. Cullen328 (talk) 03:25, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

From the description provided, the gag seems to be based on a trope that includes the Incredible Hulk and Mr. Hyde, if that is the point of the non-question. I haven't seen the movie, however. Xuxl (talk) 13:37, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've not seen any of them, but since even the TV ads seem un-funny, it's possible to some viewers that all the scenes in those movies would be equally funny. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:56, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Old movie, can't remember the name[edit]

Hot springs pop up in a town, become a huge tourist attraction, but a doctor finds poison bacteria and there's plenty of drama over if he should blow the whistle or not. This also may have been a play with a recent/upcoming NYC production. Anyone remember what it's called? Thanks, Abeg92contribs 11:37, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I tried searching for movie poison hot springs, movie dangerous hot springs, and show dangerous hot springs, but the only film to come back was Dante's Peak, which is pretty clearly not your movie. Do you remember anything else about it? Matt Deres (talk) 15:26, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The play is An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. Omidinist (talk) 04:31, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

According to our article, "A new adaptation by Amy Herzog on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre previewed on February 27, 2024, with an opening night March 18." --Lambiam 11:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About the Minions[edit]

I was wondering who or what these Minions actually are: aliens of an unknown origin, toy robots with minds of their own, or failed by-products of a cloning experiment gone horribly wrong? 172.13.193.84 (talk) 15:44, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Minions (film) says: "Minions are small, yellow pill-shaped creatures which have existed since the beginning of time, evolving from single-celled organisms into beings which exist only to serve history's most evil masters, but they accidentally end up killing all their masters: rolling a Tyrannosaurus into a volcano, letting a caveman get mauled by a bear, crushing a Pharaoh and his subjects with a pyramid, and exposing Count Dracula to sunlight. They are driven into isolation after firing a cannon at Napoleon while in Russia and start a new life inside a cave, but after many years, the Minions become sad and unmotivated without a master to serve..." Alansplodge (talk) 15:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That would explain everything and it makes perfect sense, now. 172.13.193.84 (talk) 16:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Police Academy cartoon complete series DVD[edit]

Are there any future plans to bring the complete Police Academy cartoon series on DVD, but this time all 65 episodes instead of 30? 172.13.193.84 (talk) 18:27, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We can't answer requests for predictions. Only the producers would know that, so I suggest you contact them. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:17, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

July 4[edit]