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Hi, I noticed recently that the "Genre" tag was removed from each release in a band's discography.
Previously, you could go to a bands discography and see the specific genre associated with each individual release.
This was very helpful in tagging my enormous music collection. Any plans to bring these tags back? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.41.193 (talk) 11:50, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Probably not. The problem with music genre at Wikipedia was that such tags were mostly unverifiable and led to endless edit wars between die-hard fans who insisted that their favorite band was NOT alternative-funk-rock, but were instead Nu-metal-funk-crossover, and then someone else would come along to say they were infact post-punk-rock-alternative, and this would go every few hours for years at a time. If you are looking for sources for this information, may I suggest [allmusic.com], which does this categorization, and is a fairly comprehensive source. --Jayron32.talk.contribs17:32, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Or worse, I found many articles containing genres like: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Skate Rock, Punk, Funk Rock, Fuck Core, Hardcore... and the list goes on and on and on. What is the use? The only way to make genre worth anything is to force a very limited set of genres - which will cause a huge debate and, if we are lucky, will resolve in a proper set of genres sometime in the next 30 years. Then, when someone uses an improper genre, the debate to include the genre will start the whole process over again. -- kainaw™23:08, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that people that know almost nothing (or know nothing) about the genres or the sub-genres edit the page, well we are on wikipedia and not everyone is a expert and edits by non experts occur in every article, but the problem is when people write someting wrong in a science article you can correct then and explain to the editor and show some facts. Explain to them music based things like "why new metal is not a genre of metal" or others things like that is much more difficult. Many places (mtv, radio stations, editors friends, some magazines) label things wrongly with make things more difficult. Removing the sub-genres articles would be a bad idea, because some styles and genres have veery different sub-genres (electronic music is one of them). One thing to do is remove genres that really dont exist (or make a article explaing that they where coined by the media and etc..), genres like electronica, alternative rock (this is not a genre almost any type of rock can be "alternative", is just a matter of how the artist do their music), pop (many genres can be labeled as pop)..... Exdeathbr (talk) 23:43, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Baby in a well
Hi. I once saw a movie in which a baby fell into an abandoned well in the family's back garden. There was a big rescue effort, including cutting through rock with a high pressure hose. I believe that it was based on a true story, but can't remember the title. Can anybody help please? Mark Model (talk) 12:36, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone know how to get an ORIGINAL version of Hello Hooray by Rolf Kempf?
I remember back in the early '70's before Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies came out there was another version of the song Hello Hooray on the radio. Alice's version is a cover. The song is written by Rolf Kempf and I've visited his website and there are 2 versions, but not the 70's original. I know there's another version but I've yet to find it nor who originally recorded it. Please help me find it...I'll thank you forever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Runttr1 (talk • contribs) 15:39, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Two years ago I've seen a Superman movie whose ending shows Superman restoring the American flag atop the White House and assuring the President that he will never again abandon his duty. Can someone identify this Superman movie? David Pro (talk) 15:44, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone but me find this question odd, considering that the words "restoring the American flag atop the White House and assuring the President that he will never again abandon his duty" occur verbatim in the Superman II article? Deor (talk) 18:53, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, "good" is toos subjective for the reference desk, but given the talent on the Bengals of Cincinnati, just the last time an Ivy League QB won a game in the National Football League would be a good question. Also, what about the last to be the starting quarterback for most of a season. I'm sure there were some back in the very early days of the NFL (we're talking Leatherheads era) and maybe even some Hall of Famers, but the Ivy league schools are not known as football factories, to say the least :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.30.221 (talk) 19:06, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Surprsingly, Jay Fiedler was pretty recent, and from Dartmouth. However, just skimming www.pro-football-reference.com (their NCAA" section listsall colleges) I didn't see any QBs that started consistently from Harvard.
As the OP suspected, there is a smattering of Hall of Fame players, mostly from the very earlier years, from Ivy League schools, even one QB, Sid Luckman, who was from the days of leather helmets, I think. (Not sure when they stopped wearing them.)Somebody or his brother (talk) 22:29, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Looking through PFR (as noted above) and going through all 8 Ivy League schools, I come up with the following starting QBs in the NFL:
Columbia Marty Domres, started 6 games for the Chargers, 24 for the Colts, and 2 for the Jets, mostly in the 1970s... Sid Luckman, already mentioned....
Cornell Gary Wood, started 10 games for the New York Giants in the 1960's
Dartmouth besides the aforementioned Jay Fiedler, there was Jeff Kemp who started 29 games for the Rams, Seahawks, 49ers and Eagles during the 1980's
Harvard's Ryan Fitzpatrick started 3 games for the Rams in 2005, and as mentioned is currently playing for the Bungles
So, as far as Ivy League QB's goes, that's about it. You have Columbia's Luckman, Dartmouth's Fiedler, and Princeton's Garrett as probably the best 3 Ivy league NFL QBs. --Jayron32.talk.contribs23:28, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
CBS
In the article on CBS, it says the name Tiffany network refers to the preceived quality under it's founder. Does that mean their quality was good or bad?? 99.226.24.150 (talk) 22:50, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Tiffany & Co. was once considered the finest jewllers in America, and their name became associated with quality. Much as, in the American idiom, it became popular to call something "The Cadillac of..." some industry, being associated with Tiffany meant you were excellent quality. --Jayron32.talk.contribs22:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. --Anon, 23:42 UTC, October 18, 2008.
October 19
House movie deal with Tooth and Nail Records???
I saw online that there was a possibility that Tooth and Nail records was doing a promotional soundtrack with the upcoming movie, House, released November 7th. I was wondering how much truth is in that statement and if so, what bands will be on the soundtrack? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.137.175.59 (talk) 21:08, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What's this Anime?
I saw the opening (I think it's the opening, it might be the ending) of this random anime on Youtube. In the opening (?) sequence, there is a group of people frantically running down the street, knocking over things like airplanes and trucks. At one point, they turn into hamsters. At the end, they run into someone's house and all crowd around a television. Then, some old man pops up and gets a nosebleed. I can't remember the name of the video because it was completely in kanji (Or some sort of language I can't read). Can someone please give me the name of this anime, if they know? Please and thank you. Kikiluvscheese (talk) 18:28, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There's an earlier thread on this up above. Basically, you could do no harm to the equipment itself, but its unlikely that effects pedals designed for a guitar would work well for a bass. Most guitar effects pedals are designed to work at optimum frequencies well above what a standard bass guitar, so they often don't have the intended effect. Which is not to say that they have no effect; some rather fun and interesting stuff can come from experimentation like this; but lots of really uninteresting stuff happens too. I can't imagine anything you could do with a bass would actually damage the equipment, however. Your bass probably does not drive a significantly larger electric current than a guitar does, so I see no reason that the electronics could be affected in any ways. --Jayron32.talk.contribs11:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Rock Band 1,2 & DLC Full Setlist
Does anybody know a link for the full setlist of every song in rock band 1 and 2 with every downloadable song on the 'band difficulty'? Neon6419 (talk) 03:41, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What is the name of the movie that was being mocked in Being Ian where Ian imagines himself as a radio jockey on the roof of the high school with a monkey playing with the sound effects? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.117.187 (talk) 00:15, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
2. If Hudson was bought by either Sony or Microsoft, would the Mario Party series continue? If so, would Nintendo make it by themselves, or would they make it with the help of some other developer?
3. Out of Nintendo and Hudson, who owns the rights to the half-dozen or so characters who appear only in the Mario Party games?
Answer to #1: There's no guarantee. But I wouldn't be surprised if Mario Party stopped, since Mario Party 8 sucked.
Answer to #2: Probably not. Nintendo letting one of its major competitors earn money off of some of its biggest characters (Mario and freinds, namely), who also happen to be the biggest names in video games, would be suicide. The only way I see Mario Party continuing after being bought out by Sony or Microsoft is if something like the case with Mario Hotel and Link: The Faces of Evil on the Cdi occured. You know, Nintendo lets Sony or Microsoft use a limited number of Nintendo characters in a limited number of games as a result of a business deal that fell through.
Answer to #3: I'd say that Hudson owned the characters who only appear in the Mario Party games, but that's out of my own opinion, not fact. I just think that if these characters were owned by Nintendo, they would have appeared in at least one game outside of the Mario Party series. Kikiluvscheese (talk) 01:29, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
1. Most likely.
2. Nintendo would probably continue it themselves.
All lyrics sites are likely copyright violations, and thus illegal (they do not have permission to reprint lyrics created by someone else). We cannot recommend that you do anything illegal, though I do hear that Google will still find these sites, even though they are posting illegal material ;) --Jayron32.talk.contribs13:45, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I am literally in the middle of a scavenger hunt and I have this seemingly simple question to answer but I can't figure it out! I need to know: What is the name of the Philadelphia street/park from “The Sixth Sense”? I guess there are a variety of answers possible but I know it isn't Washington Square or Rittenhouse, and I guess it would be a park named after a street or the answer is both the name of a street AND a park. You are my heroes if you can answer this quickly and correctly! CouplandForever (talk) 23:41, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm looking for a good third party source that defines the fued between these two DJ's. I feel it is worth mentioning in both articles, but it doesn't stand to the litnus test without a good third party source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.13.21 (talk) 04:06, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I know very little about Asperger syndrome, however from what I have read, I imagine that non-team (solitary) non-simultaneous competitive sports would be prefered. Perhaps field athletics such as jumping or throwing where you are competing against a standard - eg height or length. Maybe Diving which is judged on each individual attempt. However it is likely that those with AS would have well defined ideas on what they could and couldn't do and many of the above may be rejected out of hand. -- SGBailey (talk) 21:41, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is a semi-acoustic, this means that while it is plugged in like an electric it will amplify the acoustic sound. therefore it does not need sound hole. It can still be played without being amplified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.115.175.247 (talk) 16:24, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I would hate to spoil all your fun, but I played one of those, and it does indeed have sound holes. 5 of them to the top and bottom of the equalizer. Without a sound hole, i.e. if you blocked them, then the top face does not have as much to contribute to the sound, and cannot feedback as much. Some musicians actually cover the sound hole or mute it. Go find one and play it. It is a really good guitar. The Purpose of the sound hole is that air pressure from from the vibration of the face can come out, albet out of phase with the face. ( i.e. the string vibrates, it translates into vibrating the bridge, which vibrates the face, so when the face goes out, the air pressure on the face increases, and on the back of the face it decreases. How these two diffrent sound waves interact determines the charastic quality of the sound. If you plug the sound hole, or dont have one made on the guitar, then the back of the face, out of phase sound waves dont come out, and because the pressure inside the guitar remains constant, it mutes the sound, and causes less feedback. ). --99.185.0.29 (talk) 12:16, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Soundtrack of Spooks S7 trailer?
Does anyone know the name of the song of the new trailer for Spooks, season 7?
Link: [3]
"Ten years old it's something to see/
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep/
Taken and bound and found later under a tree/
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me"
and this:
"Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming/
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping"
I'm not a native English speaker so I really had a hard time understanding what they were trying to say. There was some vaguely speculated explanations that the first verse is about how a ten-year-old saw an abduction happened on another kid, but it lacks its context. Also I don't really understand how can you be "drugged under a jeep".
I appreciate it if someone can figure it out.
Interpreting the the lyrics of songs is equally as frustrating for native speakers. The lyricist may be recalling a true event that actually happened to them, may be recounting a story that was true, but happened to someone else, or, as is often the case, is just making stuff up. The first lyric you quote sounds like a Lynching of some sort; without more background that the best I can come up with. The second lyric is basically rhyming gibberish. Its basicly says "I am writing this song right now. Hey, look, I can make this rhyme too!" Its not more deep than that. --Jayron32.talk.contribs16:40, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and the word "drugged" is being used in this case as the past tense of the word "to drag" which means to be pulled along the ground. He's basically describing someone being tied to a truck and pulled along the ground... --Jayron32.talk.contribs16:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, it makes more sense to me now. There is only one thing i still wasn't really convinced: If you look at wiktionary, "drugged" is the past tense of "drug" and "dragged" is the right one. --Mm.3nn (talk) 21:44, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Can anyone give me a list of films that feature extra scenes after the end credits, and can tell me what happens in these extra scenes? David Pro (talk) 22:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Easiest way to do this is to go to IMDB. Look for any moive you know has some odd credits (many do, but try Ferris Bueller's Day Off if you really don't know any) then click on "crazy credits". The movie you have chosen may not have extra scenes, but from there you can browse all the crazy credits until you find some that have extra scenes. DJ Clayworth (talk) 21:31, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, your question is unclear. Are you asking for the name of Barack Obama's stylist? His publicity manager? Could you rephrase your question to make your meaning clearer? Thanks. Karenjc11:40, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. But since we're supposed to assume good faith toward questioners wherever possible, it's sometimes simplest to take them literally and request clarification. It may prevent others from attempting to answer the unanswerable or getting embroiled in a debate (although not always). Karenjc17:58, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
BBC America is available only through cable companies (or satellite), which means the cable or satellite subscribers pay the cable companies who pay the BBC. DJ Clayworth (talk) 21:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've just started watching Hana Yori Dango(Live Drama),and I want to know the name of a song in the show.It starts playing when Makino and Domyoji are stuck in an elevator,and Domyoji got sick.Makino helped him take some medicine,and she wrapped him up in her jacket,and scarf.He fell asleep,and she layed down next to him,and that's when the song started playing.It was a slow song,and a girl was singing it.I can't seem to find the name of it anywhere,but if you know it,it would help if you told me!Thank you!
Why is it that, up until at least the 1970s, the end credits on films were very short, maybe one or two cards if that. Yet, in the last 10 or 20 years, end credits seem to go on for 5 minutes at a time (or maybe more). Is there a reason for the switch? Approximately when did end credits start being so long? Thanks everyone!!121.44.51.63 (talk) 11:16, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hollywood films especially have grown to be the product of hundreds of people working together and they all want to be credited for their work. In the 70s there were simply less people to on the job. I have no idea when things started, but I think it might be the early 90s since I can still remember films with short end credits. - Mgm|(talk)12:13, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think there were always tons of people working on a film, but now they are simply contractually obligated to be given credit for it (and in a specific order - "best dolly grip" or "assistant to Mr. Spielberg" or whatever always appear in the same places). Adam Bishop (talk) 13:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's a fair call to acknowledge the contribution of anyone who was associated with the end product. That principle applies not just to films, but generally. The acknowledgement sections of books often list pages of people, sometimes even down to their pets. You can skip over that page in a half-second if you want, but it's there for those who wish to read it. Film credits take somewhat longer, and most people don't have either the patience or the interest to sit through them. For those who do, they're perfectly entitled to remain seated till the very end, when the theatre is otherwise spookily deserted and the cleaners are starting to move through the theatre cleaning up drink and popcorn containers and crinkly lolly bags. (I'm speaking from experience here.)
There was a time when people in cinemas would generally stay seated till the end of the credits, which is why the music was always designed to end not just at "The End" but to continue till the actual end, when the last credit had appeared. (For those who've never waited, this still happens, btw.) Credits these days have become an artform in themselves, but almost a self-defeating artform because most people choose not to expose themseves to it. Which has made it a virtually pointless exercise to get down to such fine detail as who provided the food for the director, for example. But it's still a great principle. Our society nowadays (at least in theory) does many things that were formerly not done: ensuring workplaces are safe; providing equal access to employment regardless of ethnic origin, marital status and other irrelevant factors; and generally being more considerate and tolerant and inclusive and non-discriminatory.
So, it's an interesting thing that society generally supports and encourages the human desire to be acknowledged for some positive contribution, which has seen its most notable manifestation in film credits, while very few individual people not associated with the making of the movie care to know the details, and exercise their right to walk out. -- JackofOz (talk) 21:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, please. Adam has it right -- this is about contractual obligation, not social. Specifically, what changed is the breakdown of the studio system. It used to be that that people would have a full-time job as an grip or a sound recordist or a cameraman or an actor, and would work on whatever project the studios assigned them to. (People at the top of their profession might be able to negotiate other arrangements, but I'm talking about the typical film worker.) So if they wanted to apply for another job, they could put on their resume "Warner Brothers, grip, 1950-55" and the new employer could call Warners and get that verified. Today they get taken on for individual projects and the way a new employer can verify their previous work is by looking at the screen credits on each film. Since the 1970s the unions for the different crafts have all been insisting on screen credit for everyone, whether they made a creative contribution or not. --Anonymous, 22:25 UTC, October 24, 2008.
Why Evanescence's My Immortal video differs from that on the album? Every mp3 which I downloaded was a piano/violin version with some differences in vocal and IMO sounds worse than the video. --217.14.103.45 (talk) 11:22, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's not unusual for different media to have different versions of songs. Jennifer Lopez's videos often have a musical interlude for a dance scene, while these don't appear on the radio edits or the album edits. The album version is generally what the artist would want as a song only, but they're often cut down or changed for the radio or video due to length concerns or to match the video images. --WORM | MЯOW12:33, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A very poor question requesting the name of a piece of music
I recently heard someone playing a relatively new piece of music (I assume) from his iPod, exhibiting the following characteristics:
Completely instrumental, with no vocals of any sort
Electronic in style and instrumentation
Main melody played on a synthesised electric organ sound, with repeated arpeggio patterns, with a middle section playing on variations on this theme
Overall a rather 'simple' track, with simple harmony, no countermelodies or anything 'complex'
A strong rhythmic feel
Most likely to be relatively mainstream (based on the person playing the music)
The person in question was of UK origin, suggesting the music may well be from the same area
I'm afraid I can't give you any more information that that off the top of my head. Any ideas you may have about the name of the track/artist would be greatly appreciated. --80.229.152.246 (talk) 18:58, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Since nobody else has come to the party, I'll mention that Pachelbel's Canon satisfies most of these criteria (but not necessarily others) - instrumental, repeated patterns, variations, simple, rhythmic, mainstream. But it's not relatively new; not electronic in style (although it could be and has been played on electronic instruments and every conceivable arrangement for other instruments); there are some arpeggios but most of the patterns are not arpeggios but they sort of sound like they are; it does have countermelodies, but it's not what I'd call complex; and it's certainly not of UK origin. --JackofOz (talk) 19:39, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the idea, but it wasn't Pachelbel's Canon. However, it has raised a few other points:
The rhythm is quite fast (definitely faster than Pachelbel's Canon)
It wasn't techno
The music must have been done by a rather 'mainstream' artist that doesn't necessarily do electronic music
The arpeggios were about a bar long and repeated in sections, with a change in pitch every couple of bars or so, followed by a change in pattern a bit later.
I am trying to figure out whether it is easier to play Bioshock with Vita-Chambers turned on, or with them turned off but saving fairly regularly. With them turned off you have to kill a given enemy in one go and if you die and reload, any you killed are back (but so is your health and all of your resources), whereas with the Vita-Chamber anyone you kill stays dead, and any you injure stay injured, but you also come back with less health and less resources. Any ideas how to figure out which is more difficult? Thanks WAYB (talk) 21:16, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
well, it basically ends with the graduation, then they sing this big song that the whole school participates in. Nothing else is explained after that, we just assume that they live happily ever after. --Dlo2012 (talk) 20:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Japanese historical novel
A couple of years ago I read a novel that was very interesting and fun to read. As far as I remember the plot it was something like this: set in the 1600s in Japan, a young Japanese swordsman's first mission is to protect the safety of a young princess as she travels between two cities. The two of them fall in love but obviously a love affair is out of the question. Her father wants to have her married to a cruel old man and the young samurai travels to China where he takes part in various wars for many years. I think she later is sent to some kind of convent where she is saved by him.
I can't remember the author (not James Clavell) and I can't find anything relevant at Amazon. I think the title was a Japanese word but I'm not sure. Does the plot ring a bell with anybody? Thuresson (talk) 12:10, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In the TV show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, where does Sarah, John and the rest get their money. From what I can tell, they are not employed but always seem to have money for rent, food, a shiney new pick up, weapons and tech. How do the writers account for the cash supply? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.161.221.39 (talk) 19:46, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is probably a case of artistic license. It may not make for compelling viewing to show how the individuals earning money. Much like in my (admittedly limited) viewing of the series 24 nobody ever seems to be getting a solid 8 hours sleep. Tv shows rarely stick to perfect realism. Even shows like CSI which are supposed to be gritty and real etc. will just ignore important things so as to prevent for making dull tv. Admittedly some of these lack-of-explanations in shows are more frustrating than others. ny156uk (talk) 23:25, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
They have a big bag of diamonds. I forget the exact details now but they found it somewhere in the first series. Well, it's either that, or Sarah is pimping Cameron out at night. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 23:35, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think the "Im watching you" gesture should be added to the page. The one in which the pointer and middle finger are pointed at your eyes and then the pointer finger is pointed at someone. Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I didnt know exactly where to put a request like this.
Marcel Marceau
I am in search of a beautiful piece of work that Marcel Marceau did (I
> believe it was for The United Nations). The story line was about
> building and dismantling walls between nations and people. I saw this
> video, or film many years ago and I would like to know what it was
> called and if it is available today. If it is available today where can I rent it or buy it? If you can help me I would be most appreciative.
>
>THANK YOU !Skipsan (talk)
>
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> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skipsan (talk • contribs) 01:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Where could I find a recording of this Antonín Dvořák piece? I would prefer it to be either free online or a CD or video (VCR, unless I'm mixing it up with something else, is also fine). Vltava 68 (talkcontribs) 07:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What was the thinking of creating to very similar songs? was one scrapped or was it intentional? do you know where i can purchase any Page/Beck era Yardbirds material? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lukestar1991 (talk • contribs) 14:28, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Who owns the Publishing Rights to the music of Freddie Mercury?
Hello. I am a playwright in the United States and would like to use the music of Freddie Mercury in a story that chronicles his life. Who can I contact to ask/acquire permission to use his music? I know there will be a royalty fee negotiation but I'm not sure if I should contact the record labels in the United States or in the UK. Any light that can be shed on this situation is GREATLY appreciated. Thank you in advance. Mercuryrisingnyc (talk) 15:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Can anyone remember the name of this sci-fi short story?
When I was a kid in elementary school, I read a story about a boy and his robot. I don't remember too much of the details but I do remember that the robot used a tape recorder to talk. The tape recorder contained spoken words and the robot would rewind and fast forward back and forth to form speech. I think the boy and the robot were very close, as if they were friends. As time went on and he got older, he gradually got rid of his toys and eventually locked the robot in the basement to be forgotten. I don't recall if the robot had emotions but the fact that the robot was alone and abandoned was played up at least in the narrative. In any case, the story ends with the phrase "Some day..." or "One day..." with the implication that some day/one day the robot (or perhaps robots in general) would rise up and perform some sort of drastic action (revolution?). It could be an Isaac Asimov story, I don't know. That's all I can pretty much remember. Does anyone know the name of this story? 67.184.14.87 (talk) 18:14, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This actually came out of a joke I made with a kid dressed as Spiderman who was trick-or-treating, about what would happen if Spiderman's mom had this fear of spiders. (I've since learned his parents had died.)
Has any bad guy ever tried to spray Peter Parker with something that affected his nervous system such that it gave him a fear of spiders - would this render Spiderman ineffective? Or, since he would have the knowledge of when he was about to use his spider-like powers, would it be useless, since as far as I understand, a phobia is usually based on unrealistic anticipation of what could happen, and Parker would at all times be in control of his spider-like abilities.
I suppose it would leave him still able to - though he might struggle the first time or two - but it also seems that, with the averge comic book reader not as informed, this might make a clever idea for the writers of such. Same with Batman and fear of bats. (I remember one Superfriends cartoon where some villain is stopped after spraying a mist that made everyone afraid of everything, but they don't seem to have ever tackled the Batman/fear of bats thing specifically.)209.244.187.155 (talk) 18:23, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
