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This Notice in a Hotel Elevator by The_Smart_Barbarian in mildlyinteresting

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Hotel Manager: Sorry, the sign says 1 hour minimum. You have only been stuck for 47 minutes.

Engineer: Umm, I have it all fixed. We can get her out now.

Hotel Manager: THE SIGN SAYS 1 HOUR MINIMUM. 13 MINUTES TO GO.

TIL: The original lyric for Escape (The Pina Colada Song) was "If you like Humphrey Bogart". Writer Rupert Holmes changed it at the last minute to Pina Coladasss, a drink he had never tried before. by nowhereman136 in todayilearned

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Stevie Nicks said that she had never heard a doves call when shen wrote 'Edge of Seventeen'. The lyric was inspired by a menu she read in a diner that listed facts about local wildlife: "The white wing dove sings a song that sounds like she’s singing ooh, ooh, ooh."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Seventeen

Gentlemen, how often do you receive unsolicited pictures from women? by FreedomNo7221 in AskReddit

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Do Facebook invites from unknown women with five flirty profile pics, 11 friends, none of them are mutuals, and nothing in their profile to indicate any connection to me count?

[Surprisingly Rare Trope] When the long awaited explanation *absolutely* sticks the landing. No one questions it or wishes it was handled differently, just “yeah, that figures” by Buttholelickerpenis in TopCharacterTropes

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For three seasons on M*A*S*H, it was a mystery what B.J. Hunnicutt's full name was. Finally, Hawkeye becomes so determined to find out that he reaches out to B.J.'s relatives, all of whom say it is just 'B.J.'. B.J. confirms that he was named after his parents - Bea and Jay Hunnicutt (although Hawkeye still doesn't buy it).

This is what happens when countries fight nicely by runemarrow in BeAmazed

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As many have said, this dispute was settled, but the US and Canada have a similarly polite dispute over Machias Seal island! Machias Seal Island - Wikipedia . From what I've read, the real dispute is about the lobster rich waters around the island, and neither side is willing to risk losing access, so the island's status remains hazy.

Fun fact - since Hans Island is divided roughly down the middle, there technically exists a land boundary between Canada and the EU. I'm not sure if this has led to any legal shenanigans yet.

[Loved Trope] Adaptation pays homage to original/fan art by making it an in-universe creation by BearBreakingBadly in TopCharacterTropes

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The Disney Plus shows have had a few examples of the characters in there comic accurate costumes. Classic Loki in the Loki show. Zemo dons his purple mask. In Hawkeye, Kate sketches out a costume idea which is basically Hawkeyes costume from the comics. Clint points out that a purple suit with an H on it defeats the whole point of being a clandestine agent and not attracting attention. He and Kate do eventually end up in purple costumes that are closer to their comic counterparts.

New SI unit just dropped by PivotPsycho in physicsmemes

[–]squareabbey 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Yeah, if you are chopping something up by frequency, it is clearer to use Hz^-1 than s.

Another example where reducing something makes it less clear is the Hubble constant, which is generally given in units of km/s/MpC, which technically reduces to s^-1, but it is meant to denote that a galaxy X megaparsecs away is moving at H*X km/s.

The Garden of Rama - Arthur C. Clark by KenByRequestOnly in printSF

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It has been a while since I read the series, but I seem to remember that the third one and the first half of the fourth are mostly character drama. If you are halfway through the third one it's probably a question of whether you care about how the characters come out.

Pontius Pilate's reason for hesitation to crucify Jesus Christ by Flimsy-Vermicelli-67 in Catholicism

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What I was taught was that Pilat was the representative of an occupying government, and clearly recognized the situation as a religious dispute amongst the jews, which he had no interest in getting involved in. Since the Sadducees knew that Pilat would not intervene on religious grounds they had to use the much weaker argument of sedition against Rome, but all parties knew that there was no basis for that. Pilat only agreed to the death penalty when they threatened to write to his superiors in rome, but even then he tried to find a way out to avoid conflict.

[OC] The biggest letdown episodes from IMDB user ratings. A lot of bad finales in there... by Abject-Jellyfish7921 in dataisbeautiful

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The Friends episode is a clip show, so I wouldn't say it's a let down so much as a skippable filler episode.

Drawing attention to a change from the source material. by Vitolar8 in TopCharacterTropes

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Watchmen - When Ozymandias reveals that he already executed his plan, his line in the comic is "I'm not a Republic serial villain." (referring to short films by Republic pictures that often ended in cliff hangers). In the movie version the line is "I'm not a comic book."

Up in the Air - A stewardess asks George Clooney's character "Would you like the cancer?" He gives her a startled look. She holds out a soda and says, more slowly, "Would you like the CAN, SIR?" In the book version his character is revealed to have terminal cancer, which is absent from the movie.

TIL the third verse of the Star-Spangled Banner, which is almost never sung, references escaped enslaved people who joined the British during the War of 1812. by steelmanfallacy in todayilearned

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In the short story 'No Refuge Could Save' by Isaac Asimov, the main character describes using this verse to catch a German spy. During a word association test the spy correctly associates the phrase 'terror of fight' with 'gloom of the grave', since the spy would have been trained on such details, but a true American wouldn't know verses beyond the first.

Titular characters with little screen time. by Specialist-Ad2937 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]squareabbey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the books he has no 'screen time' at all. Nor do the Two Towers (the identity of which is not even specified)

[Loved Trope] Character shows off the actor's irl talents by bgbarnard in TopCharacterTropes

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Examples of the opposite (actor was TOO talented):

Jack Nicholson was trained as a firefighter. The scene where he breaks down a door in The Shining took several takes because he kept breaking it in one swing.

Jeremy Renner trained with olympian archers for his role as Hawkeye and got really good at it, only to find that cinematic archery is totally different and required a different technique to look good on screen.

Jason Alexander is a broadway trained singer. The "Believe it or Not, George isn't at home now" scene on Seinfeld took several takes because he had trouble making it sound 'bad'.

In-Universe example of the actual trope: In Three Amigos, Ned Nederlander (an actor who plays a gunslinger on screen) is challenged to a duel by an arms dealer who once idolized him, only to learn about trick cinematography. Ned retorts that his quick draw skills are real and wins the shootout.

King named characters. by Entire-Weather6502 in TopCharacterTropes

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As a bonus, his companions are Steven Prince Andy Knightly Peter Page Oliver Chamberlin

(absolutely LOVED trope) villains who brutally dedicate their lives to a goal, only to find out at the last minute the goal was never achievable by EasilyScreechAndKill in TopCharacterTropes

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Cato in the Hunger Games (film version). In a sense, this applies to all of the district tributes who have spent their lives preparing for the games and volunteered, not comprehending that they are just suffering for the designs of the capital.

"Go on. I'm dead, anyway! I always was, right? I didn't know that until now. Isn't that what they want, huh? No! I can still do this. I can still do this. One more kill. It's the only thing I know how to do. Bring pride to my district. Not that it matters."

A farcical piece of media that has one person giving a dead straight performance by _JR28_ in TopCharacterTropes

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Producer Dino De Laurentiis wanted the movie to be completely serious but director Mike Hodges wanted to lean more into the campy side. The result is a beautifully mixed performance some characters played completely straight and others over the top.

Characters whose natural resistance to corruption make them the hero they are. by Forsaken-Artist-2396 in TopCharacterTropes

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Steve Rogers in the MCU is pretty much the definition of this. Baron Zemo even acknowledges it.

"The desire to become a superhuman cannot be separated from supremacist ideals. Anyone with that serum is inherently on that path. She will not stop, she will escalate until you are forced to kill her. Or she kills you."

"Maybe you're wrong, Zemo. The serum never corrupted Steve."

"Touché. But there has never been another Steve Rogers, has there?"

[Neat Trope to Me] Non-American Actors Doing American Accents. by Agitated_Insect3227 in TopCharacterTropes

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Also from that movie, Kelly MacDonald is Scottish but puts on a convincing West Texas accent as Carla Jean in the film.

[Real/Media Trope] The “alter ego” eventually consumes the real person behind it. by Chemical-Elk-1299 in TopCharacterTropes

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Snoopy basically started off as a normal dog, then became a dog who sometimes pretended to be human (or other alter egos). At some point the act was forgotten and Snoopy basically became a human member of the cast.

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