Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2015 July 17

= July 17 =

Wondering
Has it ever happened that a cop hires someone to kill his mother-in-law and then claims that it was a sting operation? 2A02:582:C55:2A00:A422:A242:75D2:F99E (talk) 01:04, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Smells like some kind of movie plot... -- Jayron 32 03:08, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Will the cartoon, King of the Hill, ever come back?
I miss that show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.239.8.205 (talk) 03:35, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Great show! But we're really not equipped to predict the future for you.  If someone pops up and says that Mike Judge has given an interview to Variety promising a continuation or reboot, then I'll stand corrected, but for now I doubt that any satisfactory answer can be given.  Speaking personally, I don't necessarily think it would be a good idea.  Shows have their time and their run, and then you have to let them go.  It's especially sad when a show is cut off before it's had a chance to say everything it could have said, like Firefly or Caprica, but that's not really the case for King of the Hill.  It quit before it wore out its welcome, which is the right time to quit. --Trovatore (talk) 05:39, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Other people have written praising the show, and asked that Netflix revive it, but I can find no plans by anyone, including creator Mike Judge, to actually do so. -- Jayron 32 05:44, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Note that there is precedent for a recent American prime time cartoon, aimed at an adult audience, being cancelled and later revived. StuRat (talk) 06:09, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * In King_of_the_Hill, Judge is quoted as saying in 2011 that that there were no current plans to revive it, although he did not rule out the possibility of it returning. Rojomoke (talk) 12:02, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Black People and Monkey
When and how did this deeply offensive association begin appearing? Presumably, during the rise of the european slave trade. Or are there earlier mentions? I would like to investigate the origins of this crude insult.

It's not clear how it came to be, unlike the N word that has a clearly documented background. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.27.84.192 (talk) 10:30, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Here are two refs:
 * http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/05/comparing_black_people_to_monkeys_it_s_worse_than_you_thought.html
 * http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/african/3-coon/6-monkey/


 * DMacks (talk) 10:39, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Just to note, I find it hard to assume good faith here. Questions have a responsibility not to be offensive too. This question pushes the limits. Bus stop (talk) 11:25, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * People usually compare things to something they are familiar with. Monkeys don't live in Europe, and the most human-like apes live south of the Sahara desert. Therefore in the early colonial era comparisons to monkeys/apes wouldn't have meant much to most Europeans. While I don't know when it started, the popularity of these comparisons was greatly influenced by 19th century evolutionary theories, see e.g. Darwin's Descent of Man, also Scientific racism. - Lindert (talk) 11:36, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * There are monkeys in Europe, in Gibraltar. velvetsundown 17:55, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Chimps have hairy bodies, flat buttocks, thin lips, pale juvenile faces, and small penises. Nor can they dance or jump. μηδείς (talk) 02:57, 18 July 2015 (UTC)


 * How dare you call my boyfriend a chimp! :)  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  20:40, 18 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Oh great, just stake me on an anthill and pour honey over me. 0_o μηδείς (talk) 22:58, 18 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Well ... if that's what you're into. :-) StuRat (talk) 19:38, 19 July 2015 (UTC)


 * No, it's that Jack has kindly provided me with an opening I don't dare take advantage of, to the point of rendering me prostrate with an unscratchable itch. μηδείς (talk) 20:28, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Finding which article a quote is in
In one of our articles there is a sentence something like: "It's been quipped that the only reason we need sleep is to cure sleepiness." (Probably not a direct quote.) It's tagged [citation needed]. I happened to find a source. I've now searched for the word "sleepiness" in the articles where I feel the quote should maybe be, and can't find it. (Searched: Sleep, Somnolence, Somnology, Insomnia, Robert Stickgold, J. Allan Hobson, etc.)

Is there any way to find where that quote might be found?

Thanks, --Hordaland (talk) 16:47, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * You can always find your own contributions here: Special:Contributions/Hordaland.  It seems to be in the second paragraph of Neuroscience of sleep. --Thomprod (talk) 16:57, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Wow! That took you all of ten minutes!  I think I should be using the Reference desk more often.  Thank you very much!  Wikipedia thanks you, too; that'll be one less [citation needed] in Wikipedia. --Hordaland (talk) 17:16, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Glad to help out. You're welcome. --Thomprod (talk) 14:23, 18 July 2015 (UTC)


 * BTW, if you hadn't made that contribution yourself, but still wanted to find it, I suggest a Google search, just using the keywords from the quote, and specifying that you only want matches from English Wikipedia:

"quipped" "sleepiness" site:en.Wikipedia.org


 * My results: . Give it a try ! StuRat (talk) 15:31, 18 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Shorter link, equally effective: —Tamfang (talk) 19:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)