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Name of Actress in The Three Stooges (film)?

What is the name of the actress who plays an assistant to Moe's executive manager (from Jersey Shore)? The executive manager shows up near the end in the scene where the Stooges are back in the orphanage near the new orphanage pool. The executive manager tells the Stooges that Jersey Shore paid off the orphanage's debts and that their next show will be "Nuns vs. Niwits", to which Curly replies that he always wanted to be a nun. The executive manager himself is black, has a beard, and wears a blue shirt, while his assistant is young, has brown hair, (I think) a colorful scarf, and a black short skirt. His assistant is also holding something, perhaps a "pad" to write on. Thank you very much. Futurist110 (talk) 00:10, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Have you tried http://www.imdb.com ? They're usually a pretty good place to start when researching stuff like this. --Jayron32 00:15, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

I did, but I don't think that she is listed on the cast page of The Three Stooges film. Futurist110 (talk) 07:13, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

The IMDb full cast list identifies Isaiah Mustafa as "Moe's Hip Executive", and Michael D'Allessio and Donna D'Allessio as "Moe's Audition Staff".    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 03:31, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

She wasn't a part of Moe's audition staff (where Moe got discovered for Jersey Shore). I think that she only appears near the end of the movie, in the pool scene. Futurist110 (talk) 02:12, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

BBC Weather - Fahrenheit

Hi, does anyone know when the BBC stopped including temperatures in Fahrenheit in its weather programmes?

I'm sure I can remember this (not as the main scale used, but mentioned in addition to °C), which would place it in the last 25-ish years, but not sure.

Many thanks, davidprior ^t/_c 08:05, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

They haven't stopped. In the summer, on a "hot" day, the weather presenter will say something like "It was 28 today, that's 83 in Fahrenheit". They don't do this in the winter however. Presumably a negative Celsius temperature (typically -2) sounds much worse than the equivalent positive Fahrenheit temperature, and it seems as though it is the presenters job to make it sound as if it's too hot or too cold. 0F is very, very cold and I'm not sure it can get that cold in Blighty. --TrogWoolley (talk) 15:50, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Dunno. What's 0F in Centigrade? --TammyMoet (talk) 16:59, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

-17.8°C Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:10, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

This BBC blog from 2009 says in the comments that they were still using Fahrenheit then. --Colapeninsula (talk) 23:01, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

The BBC used Fahrenheit exclusively until some time in the 1960s when firstly, every temperature in every forecast was expressed first in °F followed by the conversion into °C. Then after a period (perhaps a couple of years or so) the positions were reversed as people were assumed to have a feel for the C scale. In due course it was decided it was time to use Celsius/Centigrade only, but that was too far for some BBC complaining types, so various compromises were brought in to keep occasional use of °F figures. For example the forecaster might say "Maximum temperature in Scotland tomorrow will be 17 degrees, that's 63 in Fahrenheit. It'll be 19 in Belfast and Cardiff, 18 in Newcastle and Norwich, but only 14 in London and most of southern England". Or they would have one slot per day where °F was used more than most. Now it is an occasional thing. Sussexonian (talk) 07:10, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

I can see how the BBC would prefer Centigrade, given it is half as precise, and hence cheaper to use and report. μηδείς (talk) 22:39, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Huh ??? -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ ^{[your turn]} 02:05, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Okay, well, 0.5555... times as precise. μηδείς (talk) 02:34, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm still not with you. -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ ^{[your turn]} 09:40, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

A Celsius/Centigrade degree is larger than a Fahrenheit degree, so it is easier to get the temperature forecast exactly right in Celsius. This wouldn't apply if a range is specified, though. StuRat (talk) 10:32, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

I can see some logic in that perspective, but "cheaper to use"? (See post from μηδείς above.) HiLo48 (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

μηδείς's just kidding (and committing the capital Wiki-crime of not using a small font). Clarityfiend (talk) 11:07, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Capital crime, eh. Which way to the gallows? -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ ^{[your turn]} 12:42, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

It's nothing to do with that. Celsius is of of the SI Units and its adoption is part of the snails-pace move towards Metrication in the United Kingdom. Our article says that "the target of completion (of the move to SI Units) by 1975 'in concert with the Commonwealth' was not achieved". Surely a masterpiece of understatement. Alansplodge (talk) 19:52, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Even for a nation of masters of understatement. -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ ^{[your turn]} 03:13, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

One wouldn't want to boast about it though ;-) Alansplodge (talk) 18:02, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

I don't know. British breasts should take every chance they can get to swell with pride. I'm always telling people about my world-famous modesty. -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ ^{[your turn]} 22:17, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

And you snap your fingers at a foeman's taunts... And your energetic fist is ready to resist a dictatorial word. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:58, 23 August 2012 (UTC)