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= December 12 =

Simpsons Dec. 11 Episode
What was with the Ralph Wiggum clones? The phone rang and I had to go get it right when I saw Bart pulling over with police lights in the rear-view mirror and when I came back there were a bunch of Ralphs running around. I didn't hear anything that was said. 20.137.18.53 (talk) 14:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Bart is driving. He gets pulled over. He complains that it is Chief Wiggum. Ralph walks up and says Hi. Bart notes that Ralph was killed. Ralph says that got cloned. As he says this, he scratches his head with his pistol and shoots himself. A clone walks up and says that clone was dumb, and is then hit by a truck and killed. It is being driven by a Ralph clone that crashes into a building, killing the driver. A bunch of Ralph clones jump out of the back and start running around. -- k a i n a w &trade; 15:44, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

UK Soccer (testimonial 1962) (done)
Greetings! Soccer players Jimmy Mullen and Billy Wright shared a testimonial on April 30th 1962.
 * 1) Which stadium did they play in?
 * 2) Which team was the guest team? (home team Wolverhampton Wanderers) International selection ??
 * 3) What was the final score?
 * Thanks for help (intended for article) Grey Geezer 14:47, 12 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grey Geezer (talk • contribs)

Have a look at this! Britmax (talk) 17:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I saw that offer on eBay. So No. 2 ist "International Selection." Suggestions for the 1. and 3. ? Contacts to Fan Groups? Grey Geezer 09:57, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The scan of the programme shows that the game was played at Molineux. As for the result, that's going to be harder to track down.  Your best bet would be the Rothmans Football Yearbook for 1962-3, which would almost certainly have the score.  Contemporary newspapers would also have it.  I don't think detailed results going that far back are available anywhere online.  --Viennese Waltz 10:03, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I think, I'll try it from there. Grey Geezer 18:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Forever young by The Beatles
Did The Beatles cover Forever Young by Alphaville? Is this it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Fnkv-ZvQk --115.167.109.151 (talk) 16:10, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * There is a song called Forever Young (not to be confused with the Bob Dylan song of the same title) by Alphaville, however I do not know if that is the song featured in this clip. This version of the song is not by the Beatles, though.  Alphaville were a 1980s band and the Beatles split up in 1970. --Viennese Waltz 16:15, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * According to our article on the song it was written by Bob Dylan and first appeared on a 1974 album by him, so unless it was written a while before that and had been floating around (as can happen) then, no. Britmax (talk) 16:35, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Did you read my comment above? This is a different song with the same title, not the Bob Dylan song. --Viennese Waltz 16:46, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ha! Of course I didn't. Sometimes my enthusiasm overtakes my intelligence. Sorry. Britmax (talk) 17:11, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * There are dozens of comments below the video which state exactly who did that version of the song. If you are too lazy to read the comments there, why would you read them here? -- k a i n a w &trade; 16:40, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Tut-tut, tsk-tsk. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:59, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Alphaville formed in 1982 and wrote and demo'd Forever Young the same year, though it wasn't released as an album track or single until 1984. The Beatles split up in 1970 and John Lennon was killed in 1980, so barring the use of a time machine The Beatles could not possibly have covered the song. The effort to find any of this out that was not already known is probably less than it took to enter the query here, and would have carried the benefit of exposure to many other fascinating facts, but, hey, we're happy to do your thinking for you. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.197.66.13 (talk) 17:45, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The video you link to has "The Beatles" in the title, but the background music isn't by them – it's a cover version by Youth Group from their 2006 album Casino Twilight Dogs. If you're curious, out of the shed load (~3000) of Beatles tracks in my iTunes library, I only have one song I've got with "Forever" in the title – which is quite obviously "Strawberry Fields Forever". The only song with "Young" in the title is the Leiber and Stoller song "Young Blood".  I've got two versions – one from Pop Go The Beatles and the other from Live at the BBC.  They're both the same performance but the latter is understandably restored and remastered.  matt (talk) 18:24, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanos' powers in Marvel: The End
I read the comics, looked at some online message boards, and checked a couple of wikis (Wikipedia included), but I am still confused as to the exact nature of the Heart of the Universe and the One-Above-All's (not the celestial) role in the Marvel Universe/Omniverse (read as all canonical fiction ever published by Marvel Comics). Here are my questions: --Melab±1 &#9742; 20:00, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Did Thanos really achieve omnipotence?
 * 2) Was the Heart of the Universe really the power of the One-Above-All?
 * 3) Did the One-Above-All abandon his powers?
 * 4) Or was it that Thanos was still below the power of the One-Above-All?
 * 5) Or did the One-Above-All decide to use his powers in whatever way Thanos desired, without letting Thanos know that he wasn't really in control?
 * 6) Was the flaw in the cosmos that Thanos had to correct really impossible for the One-Above-All to correct, even without restarting the Marvel Universe/Omniverse?

The game begins and the ball goes 'round
I seem to recall there being a children's song containing the lyrics "the game begins and the ball goes 'round / [something something] show me how the ball goes 'round". Google searching the lyrics has only turned up what appears to be a Hunchback of Notre Dame fanfic, rather than any information on the song. Is any such information available?--142.166.223.135 (talk) 22:22, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I played a game as a child (US, early 1960s) called "Wonder Ball." It was a simple elimination game in which a circle of players passed around a ball while chanting a song that began "The wonder ball goes round and round/To pass it quickly you are bound ..." Thisis one of several sites describing the game.  Might this be what you are thinking of? Catrionak (talk) 21:51, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I remember this song. My elementary school music teacher, Mrs. Ferguson, played it for us in first grade.  The [something something] was "Mogananny" (not sure on the spelling).  Unfortunately, I have no idea what the record is.  The point was to pass the ball in rhythm, and one kid (I even remember who), held the ball for an extra beat so that he could be the center of attention on the "Mogannany" line, in which the student would raise and lower the ball to the rhythm of the song.  The song featured a baritone vocalist and a group of children.  The next line of the song made us giggle, too: "Play, boy; play, boy; play, boy, play," which was again followed by the Mogannany line.  I can only assume that was supposed to be a proper name. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 17:02, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * The missing words are "Jigga-nanny". Sometimes children's rhymes like this fade away from a reason! When I do this game with my preschoolers, I substitute "Come on, friends, and show me how the ball goes 'round". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:900:4300:ca6c:d5c:d12c:9cc6:4285 (talk) 01:36, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * That is supported by this post at Mudcat Café, which calls it a Jamaican folk song and gives a couple of references.-- ToE 08:35, 28 January 2017 (UTC)