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November 11

Question about a weird 80's song with an electrically generated voice

I heard an 80's song with an electronic voice on the radio here in Knoxville, TN USA on the way to work this morning. I am trying to find the name and lyrics of the song. When I turned it to the station, the song was already playing, but I think that it was close to the beginning. There was a narrator and a voice in the song. The voice (an eerie electronic voice) called the narrator's house (I think) and purported to be the narrator's mom and asked something along the lines of if she was home or not. The narrator and the voice interacted and the narrator ended up asking "who the voice was, really?". I can't remember much of what was said between them but I remember something about flames (or fire) was coming, but the flames (or fire) was american made, they are made in america. I think it's a pretty obscure song, but I hope someone can help me out. --174.50.224.31 (talk) 00:42, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

I think you heard O Superman by Laurie Anderson. In which case, they're planes, not flames. American planes, made in America. Smoking, or non-smoking? ReverendWayne (talk) 03:38, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

same star, different characters

I know Sabine Singh played Greenlee on All My Children and Wendy on One Life to Live. Which other stars played one character on the first show and another character on the second show?142.255.103.121 (talk) 06:15, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Good golly, that would be a looooong list. Television likes to recycle its popular stars. You'd probably have to live more than one life or get all your children to help enumerate them all. People that spring to mind immediately are Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Kelsey Grammer ... Clarityfiend (talk) 01:06, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Here's a more complete list. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:12, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

A more complete list of what? 91 actors that the compiler could name without trying? —Tamfang (talk) 09:55, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

A more complete list of what I thought the OP was asking for, as plainly stated in the title of the list. Clarityfiend (talk) 13:05, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

[1] lists 393 actors who have appeared in both series. It doesn't show their roles, though. (I got there from [2].) —Tamfang (talk) 19:55, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

D'oh. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

1.000.000 comments

Some forum themes and blog posts have tens of thousand comments, sometimes hundreds of thousand. Do we have a million_comments_theme or blog post somewhere?

If many, how about a million_comments_theme without a celebrity topic-starter? --Ewigekrieg (talk) 12:09, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Song clue

Could someone help to ID this song at the beginning (until 0:38)? Can't find by lyrics. Thanks. --93.174.25.12 (talk) 21:11, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

I believe it's "Scream" by Thousand Foot Krutch. --Michig (talk) 21:14, 11 November 2012 (UTC)