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= August 2 =

Song: Ram Das?
In 2006 October I heard a song on an mp3 player and I think the lyrics included the words "Ram Das" or "Ram Dass". I think the singer is Krishna Das, but it may also be Jai Uttal. Anyone know of a song by Krishna Das or other singer with a deep voice that contains, or is called, Ram Das? Thanks. -- Jeandré, 2012-08-01t22:15z

The top of Superman's height?
Found the following pic at one of the Superdickery sites: What I want to know is: Is this panel "real", and where does it come from? I'm asking this because I don't think Superman ever has been as strong as here (except maybe in Superman #322, where he temporarily moved the Earth from its course). Grey ghost (talk) 10:20, 2 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I think it's real. This is widely discussed in fan forums but it's hard to find authoritative information online. This page says it's from Action #273, after a villain (Mister Mxyzptlk) got him with sneezing powder. The DC wikia briefly mentions it. --Colapeninsula (talk) 11:42, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Brigitte Lacombe Hey ya complete
Is there a website that shows the whole collection of Brigitte Lacombe's Hey Ya featuring Arab women in sports just in time for Summer Olympics? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.155.126 (talk) 19:01, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Basketball free-throws
I'm currently watching the Great Britain v Spain Olympic basketball match, and have pretty much no knowledge about basketball. I'm amazed at how often free throws are missed. Free throws look like the sort of thing that a professional basketball player ought to be able to do nearly every single time. Throwing the ball into the basket seems like a pretty fundamental skill for a basketball player to possess. Yet a caption just came up that said that at the end of the third quarter Spain's free throw % was 55% and Britain's 60%. Are these abnormally low values? Britain might be excused, having only one NBA level player, but according to FIBA World Rankings Spain are #2 in the world. Oldelpaso (talk) 20:41, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Those are actually very low. From the most recently completed NBA season, see here, the league average free throw percentage seems to be roughly 75% (just eyeballing the numbers, the seem to be in the mid-70s).  Even looking at a typical NCAA (amateur college basketball) league, like the Atlantic Coast Conference, I pulled a few teams from this page and checked, and most seem to run around 70-75% or so.  Spain at 55% is atrocious for such a highly ranked team.  It is likely an abberation; it was just one game.  I would expect other games to have better percentages for Spain.  -- Jayron  32  20:50, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I think I jinxed GB there. Spain made pretty much every one in the final quarter, and won by one point. Oldelpaso (talk) 21:04, 2 August 2012 (UTC)