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February 14

Who dat?

http://imgur.com/zZvSh.jpg A friend of a friend did this painting of a woman who looks very familiar to me. Is she a celebrity of some kind? Thanks. --Sean —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.94.78 (talk) 01:13, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

It looks a tiny bit like Marcia Cross. Dismas|^(talk) 03:44, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

And a little Christina Ricci. --220.101.28.25 (talk) 05:11, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

I think Dismas is closer, but surely asking your friend would be the simplest answer...? Matt Deres (talk) 16:48, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Maybe a bit of Thora Birch mixed in as well. Though, you can't really tell from the photo in our article. Dismas|^(talk) 03:16, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

All the Olympics athletes seem to have their country's name on their uniforms in English

Why is that? If you have proof of a counterexample in the form of a picture, that would put this question to rest too. 71.161.49.106 (talk) 02:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

I have no source for this but... It's likely because A) English is used as the standard language for a number of things such as with international airline pilots and B) by having them all be English, it's easier for the officials and fans to tell where everyone is from. Having a lot of uniforms using cyrillic or greek characters, for example, would confuse quite a few people. There are more people who understand the English versions of names rather than the native names. Dismas|^(talk) 03:42, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

As noted at The_Olympics#International_Olympic_Committee, the two official languages of the Olympics are French and English; the predominant or official language(s) of the host nation are also used in official announcements. I remember that during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, announcements were made in 4 languages: French, English, Catalan and Castilian Spanish. Pragmatically, since English is generally more widespread in usage, the uniform names are generally in English rather than French. It should also be noted that this may also be done for the TV viewing audience as well, the largest single private source of funds are United States television interests; NBC paid some $800,000,000 for the right to broadcast just this years Winter games, for example. --Jayron32 00:37, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Can't find a picture, but I saw both "Nederland" and "Italia" on speed-skating uniforms. Santa Claus of the Future (talk) 02:21, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

According to this article, uniforms must use Latin characters on the front (English isn't required). This allows Nederland, Deutchland, Suomi, or Polska, but require translation or transliteration of China, Japan, Greece, and Russia. -- Flyguy649 ^talk 05:57, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

The Norwegian curlers have "Norge" on their shirts. (I don't know about the rest of the Norwegians.) Adam Bishop (talk) 18:23, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

They also have a most... unique pattern on their pants! -- Flyguy649 ^talk 18:41, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

The Swiss curlers have "Suisse" (French). --Anonymous, 06:45 UTC, February 18, 2010.

2010 Olympic Opening Ceremonies performers

As part of the openening ceremonies, there were many well known Canadian performers, past and present professional atheletes, actors and the like. My question is: How much did the likes of Donald Sutherland, Bryan Adams, Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretsky and others get paid for their participation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.250.117.26 (talk) 05:10, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Up until the actual event details of what would be happening at the opening ceremony were kept secret by I presume the Canadian Olympic Committee and I would assume that this kind of infomation about the perfomers will be kept secret too, although I would guess they were all paid loads! Chevymontecarlo (talk) 08:30, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm not so sure. They could very easily have done it for the honour and taken the same rate as all the other performers. Not that this is what happened, but it could be reasonably considered. Aaronite (talk) 18:41, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Pooh movies

Can I have a list of Pooh movies?--Mikespedia (talk) 14:09, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Try here, Pooh#Television section of the Winnie-the-Pooh article. 220.101.28.25 (talk) 15:10, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Radio Bob and 9Live

Why can't Radio Bob continue the ADR signal after the shutdown of the analog satellite signal of the German TV channel 9Live? --88.76.18.70 (talk) 15:06, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Song question...

I just watched the trailer for The Kid Stays in the Picture and I'm really annoyed that I can't remember the name of the song that is playing in the background. It starts at about 15 seconds and ends at about the 1 minute mark. It's so familiar, but I can't place it. Can anyone tell me what it is? Belisarius (talk) 16:03, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

It's "Machine Gun", by the Commodores. ---Sluzzelin talk 16:59, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Ahh, yes, of course it is! Thank you, that would've bugged me all damn week. Belisarius (talk) 02:17, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Yours Truly, 2095

Is the point of view of this song supposed to be a message or letter from the protagonist? It just sounds like a letter as well as the lyrics 'I love you, sincerely, yours truly, yours truly'...--Editor510 ^{drop us a line, mate} 18:57, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

The answer depends on which School of literary theory you prefer -- some would say that not even Jeff Lynne knows! But the first verse explicitly states "I sent a message" and "I sent a note," so the simplest interpretation is that it's a first-person narrator who (among other things) quotes a second-person message/note he or she sent, that read in part "I love you, sincerely" and was signed "yours truly." The message/note was sent to someone or something in the future (presumably, A.D. 2095) who is, or is similar to, a computer or a machine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.17.55.100 (talk) 03:26, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

What was that song?

I need to know that group that sang the song "So over." The lyrics went something like this:

over, so over you will never know what'll it take to make you believe ... you deserve a broken heart cry me a river, you're so cruel

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The music video showed a girl band and at the end of the video, the 'girls' took off the their wigs and walked away as boys.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.118.197 (talk) 19:24, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

That's "It's Over" by a Canadian band called Tuuli, which according to Google was also done by S Club 7, although I don't know about that. Adam Bishop (talk) 08:08, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.54.89 (talk) 04:31, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Prince

I know this would ordinarily go on the article talk page, but those who check the talk page would have seen this problem (and have apparently ignored it). The initial photo in the article has been invalidated or otherwise meddles with and the link is shown instead of the photo. In case anyone can help. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 21:01, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

File:Musicology tour prince jamming on blue guitar.jpg would solve the problem, and I have added it to the article. The solution to these problems is just to search commons and find an allowable image. There were multiple images of Prince freely availible on Commons, so I just picked a good one. In the future, if this happens again, you are fully allowed to replace the deleted pic with a proper pic. --Jayron32 21:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Looking for aircraft carrier sprites

I am looking for top-view sprites of World War II era American and Japanese aircraft carriers, and possibly also other Japanese warships, because I am making a game in Game Maker similar to the game "1943: The Battle of Midway" by Capcom. I have aircraft sprites, but I'm slightly stuck for warship sprites for the "surface attack" sequences.

97.125.25.128 (talk) 21:26, 14 February 2010 (UTC)