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Post by RaceFanX on Sept 13, 2017 11:30:53 GMT -5
Random Fact #4,078
The phrase "loaded for bear" means that someone is prepared for any possible thing that may come up, typically in reference to a confrontation. The phrase is North American in origin and comes from hunting, brown bears are one of the hardest animals to confront and if a hunter thinks they may need to deal with one they'll bring a more powerful rifle to take it down.
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Post by RaceFanX on Sept 22, 2017 21:57:02 GMT -5
Random Fact #4,079
When comic books introduced Scrooge McDuck's arch enemy Flintheart Glomgold the character was portrayed as a South African. When the comics were adapted into the DuckTales animated series in the 1980s Flintheart was deliberately rewritten to be another Scottish duck who tried to outdo Scrooge. The change of nationality was necessitated by the reality of the times; Flintheart for all his flaws is not a politically incorrect villain and making him South African in the 1980s would almost automatically have made him one because of the nation's infamy around the globe at the time from its government-endorsed racist Apartheid policies (the policies finally died off in the early 1990s).
The 2017 DuckTales version of the character splits the difference. Glomgold is again a South African BUT he dresses and acts like a very over-the-top Scottish stereotype because he is just that obsessed with besting Scrooge in every possible way.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Sept 25, 2017 8:58:52 GMT -5
Random Fact #4080:
The United States had already placed travel restrictions on anyone from Iran, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Somalia.
President Donald Trump just added three more to the list: Venezuela, Chad and North Korea.
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Post by babclayman on Sept 25, 2017 12:13:27 GMT -5
Random Fact # 4, 081
The frst My Little Pony Film, which cme to Cinema in 1986, took about Ten Weeks to do the Animation for.
Random Fact # 4, 082
In some Early Concepts, for Disney's; Tangled, Rapunzel's Chameleon Friend, Pascal, was plannd to be a Squirrel!
Did You Know that, Pups?
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Post by Belchic on Sept 29, 2017 23:28:53 GMT -5
Random Fact #4083
In Australia, toilets flush in the opposite direction than they do in the United States.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Oct 10, 2017 14:35:10 GMT -5
Random Fact #4084:
In the year 1985, we got a movie called Rocky IV. This movie is recognizable for being the Rocky film where Rocky fights a massive Soviet boxer with a 2,000 psi punch and also the movie where Apollo Creed dies. The movie would introduce us to Dolph Lundgren, who would play the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago.
Even though it was the role that made him famous, Dolph Lundgren is not Russian--he's Swedish.
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Post by RaceFanX on Oct 10, 2017 20:54:21 GMT -5
Random Fact #4,085
Dolph Lundgren hit it big playing "Drago" but his first-ever movie was actually the James Bond film "A View to a Kill" which was released a few months earlier in the summer of 1985. The then-unknown Lundgren ironically played a Russian here as well, he has a bit part as a KGB agent named "Venz" Walter Gotell's character General Gogol brings along in one scene when he confront's Christopher Walken's villainous character "Max Zorin." Lundgren got his cameo because he was dating singer/actress Grace Jones at the time and she had a major supporting role in the film; he was visiting her on the set and offered the role when the scene was missing an extra.
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Post by RaceFanX on Oct 10, 2017 20:54:44 GMT -5
Random Fact #4,086
"A View to a Kill" was originally going to be titled "From a View to a Kill," after the Ian Flemming short story of the same name, but the name was shortened during the production. The film has nothing to do with the short story.
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Post by Flowgli on Oct 18, 2017 9:28:39 GMT -5
Random Fact #4,087
Today, October 18, 2017, is the 50th anniversary of Disney's nineteenth animated feature film The Jungle Book.
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Post by babclayman on Oct 19, 2017 6:04:59 GMT -5
Random Fact # 4, 088
Ron Clements & John Musker, the Directors to; Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, Princess & The Frog, and; Moana, are knwn to make a number of Visul Cameos, in their “Animated” Disney Films; one of these being as two Agrabah Citizens, tlking about Prince Achmd. This appearance, however, ws nt intendd to be them. The two citizens wer frst plannd to be; Siskel & Ebert; however, it was flt that it would be difficult to do an Ebert Character, withot his Glasses, considering when the Film is set. It ws then Disney Animation, Mike Cedeno, who suggestd making the two to be Ron Clements & John Musker.
Did You Know that, Pups!?
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Post by Trey_Vore on Oct 19, 2017 11:02:10 GMT -5
Random Fact #4089:
Even though My Little Pony: the Movie (2017) has only made $20 million worldwide as of this writing (and that might seem outright pitiful after The Emoji Movie made $85 million in just the US), the execs at Hasbro will judge any reasonable profit as positive, as it is a movie based on a toy.
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Post by babclayman on Oct 20, 2017 11:22:44 GMT -5
Random Fact # 4, 090
Peter Capaldi, knwn as the Twelfth Doctor, in Doctor Who, did an audition fr; Captain Benjamn Sisko, in; Star Trek; Deep Space Nine, before Avery Brooks ws cast as Sisko.
Did You Know that, Pups?
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Post by Belchic on Oct 21, 2017 12:42:15 GMT -5
Random Fact #4089: Even though My Little Pony: the Movie (2017) has only made $20 million worldwide as of this writing (and that might seem outright pitiful after The Emoji Movie made $85 million in just the US), the execs at Hasbro will judge any reasonable profit as positive, as it is a movie based on a toy. Isn’t that more of an opinion than a fact?
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Post by Trey_Vore on Oct 29, 2017 19:20:29 GMT -5
Random Fact #4089: Even though My Little Pony: the Movie (2017) has only made $20 million worldwide as of this writing (and that might seem outright pitiful after The Emoji Movie made $85 million in just the US), the execs at Hasbro will judge any reasonable profit as positive, as it is a movie based on a toy. Isn’t that more of an opinion than a fact? It said so on Wikipedia. I'd like to know exactly how that is supposed to be an opinion.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Nov 9, 2017 12:55:49 GMT -5
Random Fact #4090:
Anyone who's seen The Lion King knows Timon and Pumbaa are respectively a meerkat and a warthog. Despite the oddity of them being so different, it was proven that real-life meerkats and warthogs would in fact interact together. For one, it is easy for a warthog to get infected by bugs such as ticks and to take care of that problem they would rely on a meerkat to eat them. The warthog gets relief from the offending bugs and the meerkat gets a meal.
They are connected in the great Circle of Life!
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