Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2009 November 16

= November 16 =

DUMMMM, DUMMMM, dee-DA-dee, dee-DA-dee, dee-DUMMMM, DEEEEE, DUMMMM...
I taped the silent movie The Navigator when it was shown on TCM a little while ago. When I watched it, I immediately recognized the music played during the diving-suit sequence: it's an arrangement of the same melody played when Professor Fate is operating one of his ungainly machines in the 1965 movie The Great Race. It begins with a phrase something like what you see in the question title, played slowly with several unusually low notes.

Now the IMDB credits someone with writing a "1995 score" for The Navigator, so I assume that's the music I heard on TCM. It's therefore possible that the movie as I saw it incorporated music written originally for the later movie The Great Race. But my guess is that this is actually an older piece of music that the 1965 movie used and the 1995 scorer decided to also use.

Anyone know whether the theme really comes from one or these movies or from somewhere else?

--Anonymous, 06:51 UTC, November 16, 2009.


 * Can you find a youtube for any of those examples? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:21, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't do Internet video. --Anon, 04:23, November 17, 2009.


 * If you did, you might increase your chances of getting an answer. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:25, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Further, it would make it possible for someone to identify the music. The words you typed have no pitch.  It is impossible to decipher if it is C C BDB BDB DC C# C or some other sequence of notes.  YOU might read it and think the notes are obvious, but doesn't mean anyone else will read it and understand the tune in any way. --  k a i n a w &trade; 04:31, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I know that. I was hoping I'd get lucky and someone familiar with one or the other movie would know the piece from the description.  --Anon, 22:05 UTC, November 17, 2009.


 * What exactly do you mean by "I don't do Internet video"? Is your PC too slow to support it and/or are you on dialup? I'm just wondering. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I mean I don't do it. --Anon, 03:20 UTC, Nov. 17.


 * Why not? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:22, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * This is not a forum for personal conversations. --Anon, 10:12 UTC, Nov. 18.


 * What's that supposed to mean? We're trying to help, and you're being belligerent. What's the issue? Do you have concerns about youtube possibly planting viruses on your PC, for example? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:38, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * No belligerence was intended, Bugs; I just meant that questions why about why I, personally, do not do something are off-topic, and I choose not to answer. I was asking if someone could identify a piece of music based on the information I did provide; apparently not; so be it.  --Anon, 18:06 UTC, Nov. 18.


 * It's not off-topic. Maybe you know of some danger lurking in youtube that we should know about. Like a virus of some kind. And if you could find a youtube that has an example of the musical piece you're referring to you, someone might be able to identify it. I have to conclude that you're really not that interested in getting an answer. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:23, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * And by the way, you opened the door to this with, "I don't do Internet video". If you had said, "I am unable to use Internet video" or some such, it could have stayed there. Instead, you raised curiosity by saying "I don't do Internet video", and then refusing to elaborate. In short, jerking us around. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:32, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * To put it succinctly: If you didn't want to talk about it, you shouldn't have brought it up in the first place. In fact, I conclude that you're engaged in... ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:44, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay, I apologize for arousing your curiosity. --Anon, 03:36 UTC, Nov. 19.


 * Since it's obvious you don't really want any help, how about you just blank this section and be done with it? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:53, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't want help with Internet video. I was hoping for an answer to the question I originally asked.  Bugs, I get the impression you're somehow taking this personally; I repeat that I did not intend any hostility.  I'm not blanking anything, but I will wrap this subthread in "small" tags.  --Anon, 00:45 UTC, Nov. 20.


 * You didn't really want an answer to the question. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:18, 20 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Anon, putting aside your prohibition on internet video for a moment to confirm this, is the theme that kicks in around 00:53 of this clip, after a short oom-pah sort of intro, what you're talking about? Alexius  Horatius  02:25, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Name the song?
I looked on google for this song with some of the lyrics, but couldnt find it. I heard it on a local radio station a while ago but never heard of it again. The lyrics to the song start something like this:

"Yo, it's 2020 and they changed the constitution for your red white and blue friends..."

Im not sure but i think the song was in the style of freestyle rap.

Has anyone heard these lyrics before or know who sang it or what the name of the song was? Thanks!

137.81.112.176 (talk) 17:47, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * "Turbulence" by Deltron APL (talk) 21:44, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

southpark question
there is a south park episode where some of the characters start using cats to get "high". they have to male cats face each other and the cats supposedly excrete something like pee in the face of the person (kinny).

after seeing this i started wandering if people realy did that or if it was just something the imagination of the creaters came up with.

PS: it allmost killed kinny after he got addicted to it, so if it realy does work, dont try it lol. --Talk Shugoːː 18:30, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The episode is Major Boobage, which Cheesing (urine-huffing) redirects to - so presumably, it's a South Park-only phenomenon. Can't find any non-South Park references on the internet. Vimescarrot (talk) 22:14, 16 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I speculate that this episode may be a satirical reference to, or be inspired by, the supposed 1960's hippie habit of toad licking, described in the article Psychoactive toad. Although that article states that the practice "is not biologically practical", I recently read an anecdote about someone's dog developing the habit of catching and chewing on toads, resulting in apparent tripping. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 07:59, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

ok so there realy is a reference to the... cat urine thing. was there a actual reason for airing it at the time or did they just want to make a tripping episode? using cats... --Talk Shugoːː 18:28, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Here you go,this might be the origin-http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kitten_Huffing..hotclaws 00:08, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Note that, being an uncyclopedia article, that's a joke. South Park uses parody, meaning they find something silly people do, like toad licking, and exaggerate it to make it even more ridiculous.  For another example, they made fun of fad diets by inventing a diet where, instead of eating food, you jam it up your ass, resulting in "that full feeling" without any calories, since you can't digest it that way. StuRat (talk) 14:38, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

rofl yeah i remember that, good point --Talk Shugoːː 19:14, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Calvin and Hobbes strip
Could you help me to find a specific Calvin and Hobbes strip (or the date it was published or the book in wich it is) The strip goes like this (more or less): Calvin tells Hobbes that he has lots of tasks to do, so he is going to subdivide them for better accomplish them. Hobbes ask him is he is going to start readin chapter one. He replies that he is going to ask himself "Do I even care"? and throws away the books. Thank you. 85.55.143.19 (talk) 18:54, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * That's the strip for January 8, 1993. http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/08 at Uclick's GoComics. Pepso2 (talk) 20:12, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * How did you find that? There is no searchable text on that site.  Do you just have an incredibly good memory, or have you been looking for an hour and a half since he posted it?  I recognized the description, but there would be no way for me to find it in my C&H books without reading through them all again. (and since you gave me the date, it is on page 43 of Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat.) &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 20:20, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow! You are like the genie of the lamp. Thank you very much.85.55.143.19 (talk) 20:34, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * How did I find it? Simple. I Google searched for the phrase "do i even care" with qualifier "hobbes". That brought me to a page in this index where I used "find" on Safari. Then I used the tiny calendar device on the strip at GoComics to locate and confirm. Btw, I see the phrase "don't care" is almost like a signature utterance in C&H. Pepso2 (talk) 08:21, 17 November 2009 (UTC)