Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2008 July 16

= July 16 =

About chess boxing
you rock dark girl angel.

Wasn't chess boxing influenced by a Monty Python sketch? -- Toytoy (talk) 00:19, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * If you read the article, it makes it clear that the sport came from descriptions by Enki Bilal, specifically in his book Froid Équateur. He has claimed that the story for the trilogy was finished around 1970 and it took 10 years to get the first book to print.  So, if Monty Python influenced it, they had to do it by getting their show quickly translated to French so Enki could have watched it while he was working on his story.  It is possible, but it is much more likely that Enki simply used a common thread in his books - mixing two opposites, such as the physical strength of boxing with the mental strength of chess. --  k a i n a w &trade; 03:36, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * But there is no Monty Python sketch like that to begin with. Perhaps Toytoy is thinking of the philosophers playing soccer? Adam Bishop (talk) 03:50, 16 July 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.210.170.49 (talk)

I remember there have been several boxing sketches that mixed boxing and one academic activity, possibly philosophy. I thought one sketch may contain chess or whatever kind of brainy activity. -- Toytoy (talk) 15:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I believe that you are thinking of the sketch in which the existence of God or not is decided by the proponents of each side wrestling. "God exists, by two falls to a submission". DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:08, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Evelyn West's husband
Where and when did Evelyn West (aka Amy Coomer) get married to Al Charles?Hollywoodgenes (talk) 03:21, 16 July 2008 (UTC)Hollywoodgenes

Scottish captains
How many captains of the English Cricket team have been Scottish, of Scottish decent or born in Scotland? I know about Mike Denness and Douglas Jardine but wondered if there were any others. Thanks - X201 (talk) 08:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Searching every article in Category:English cricket captains for 'scot' turns up Tony Greig (South African with a Scottish father) and no-one else. Algebraist 10:00, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * "Och, but Angus, ye ken full well that Scots folk dinna know how to play the tennis cricket to save their lives." Deor (talk) 12:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I would think it unlikely if Archibald Campbell MacLaren had no Scottish blood (though he was born in Manchester). Grutness...wha?  01:58, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

What TV show am I thinking of?
This is all I can remember about it: it was broadcast on ABC1, and it starred Laura San Giacomo and Enrico Colantoni, who played a chef. No, it's not Just Shoot Me!. Please help! 149.254.201.134 (talk) 09:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know if it was on ABC1 or not but according to the Internet Movie Database, they were both in Veronica Mars. Dismas |(talk) 10:09, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * And Enrico Colantoni played a role as "Enrico the Chef" in the movie My Mom's New Boyfriend, alternately titled My Spy in Australia, but that probably wasn't broadcast on ABC1. Aside from the two series already mentioned, the only other series that Colantoni has been a regular cast member of was Hope and Gloria.  None of these featured Laura San Giacomo, though.  -- LarryMac  | Talk  13:06, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Getting rid of an earworm
I have a rather annoying earworm stuck in my head; since I've often found that listening to the song (or even just knowing its name and that of the band) is the best way to get rid of these, I hope someone can help me identify the song...I don't remember much, here's what I do remember: I hope I dind't step too hardly on anyone's toes with that description...as you can probably tell, it's not really my kind of music, so all the more reason to get rid of the earworm :P -- Ferkelparade &pi; 19:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Was on MTV a lot in the mid to late nineties
 * Was played by some emocore/post-grunge/numetal/whatever-you-call-it band (the average "angsty white boys from the suburbs trying to play metal without even knowing who Lemmy Kilminster is" type of band)
 * The band had two singers, or rather, a singer (henceforth "whiny guy") and a rapper (henceforth "angry guy")
 * The refrain went something like: Whiny Guy (sings) "everything you say to me..." Angry Guy (raps) "dada-DAMM-damm-dadadada-DAMM-dadadada-DAMM" (I don't remember the rapper's lyrics, so no chance on Google)
 * The video showed the band performing, framed by a couple of 4-meters-high, nunchuck-wielding, inferiority complex-masking ninjas.


 * Two bands I can think of that vaguely match the singer and rapper description would be 311 and Sugar Ray. I can't say the song sounds familiar though. Also, I've always heard that the sure fire earworm cure is to think of the theme to The Flintstones, however that usually just dislodges the one worm and replaces it with another.  -- LarryMac  | Talk  19:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, you actually helped me find the song even though it's neither by 311 nor by Sugar Ray...the song is "One step closer" by Linkin Park. I found it, strangely enough, by googling for "311 everything you say to me" because it's listed as track number 311 on someone's playlist/blog site -- Ferkelparade &pi; 20:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Your question made me smile and brings back memories. It was 2001, not the nineties.  The "whiny guy" is Chester Bennington and your "angry guy" is Mike Shinoda.  See One Step Closer (Linkin Park song).--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 01:09, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Watery feeling
When I was a child, I saw this Little Rascals episode in which Buckwheat is sitting Indian style and floating around in circles on water's surface. He must've been in some type of machine or something. Which episode is that found in?72.229.139.13 (talk) 22:34, 16 July 2008 (UTC)