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November 27

Me No Popeye

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Who sang the early 1980s song Me No Popeye? Was it Kid Creole and the Coconuts or their offshoot Coati Mundi? I had the single, but cannot recall who sang it.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 09:48, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Umm... in a way, both. But it's "Me No Pop I", and usually credited to Coati Mundi. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:51, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah Andy Hernandez...it's all coming back to me now. Thanks a million.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 12:54, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

God Bless Anguilla

Hi, I'm looking for either an electronic (preferably free...) copy of the sheet music of this piece, or a MIDI other than the one on this page – thanks! ╟─TreasuryTag►presiding officer─╢ 16:05, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Live vs Recorded Broadcasts

Just wondering...

1. At what point is a "live broadcast" no longer considered as a live broadcast and therefore called a Recorded Broadcast? Is it >5 secs, >10 secs or >5 mins or something else ?

1. What's the main difference's between:
   1. Live Broadcast
   2. Live Feed
   3. Recorded Broadcast

Wanting to know this for a project I'm am doing on Broadcasting. Paul2387chat 17:55, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Our article defines "live broadcast" as one "without a significant delay." I take "significant" to mean anything substantially more than the five- or ten-second obscenity delay. Be careful, because the labeling of the broadcast may not be accurate, though. GolTV has on several occasions claimed that a Bundesliga game they broadcast was live, when it was in fact delayed by 30 to 45 minutes and should have been labeled "Premiere". Now, for the difference between "broadcast" and "feed": a "broadcast" goes to a "broad" audience, while a "feed" is normally behind-the-scenes, for example the "wild feeds" of sporting events that pop up free-to-air on C-band satellite. They are intended to be received by a broadcaster in a different location from the event. Xenon54 (talk) 19:03, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

I have been making a table about live broadcasts compared to Recorded broadcasts which you can see here and need some opinions on any mistakes or anything which could be added to make it more useful for inclusion in the Live Television Article. Paul2387chat 19:55, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Perfect season

When was the last time that a MLB team had a perfect season? When was the last time that a NBA team had a perfect season and when was the last time a NHL team had a perfect season? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.154.41 (talk) 20:07, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

There is an article perfect season which lists a number of examples. -- 174.24.198.158 (talk) 20:17, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

And according to that article, it's never happened. Given the long seasons in those leagues, that should not be surprising. (In the early days of the NHL, at least, the season was much shorter, but nobody had a perfect season). --Anonymous, 01:21 UTC, November 28, 2010.

The more games there are, the greater chance of losing at least one of them. The NFL through the years has had just a few perfect seasons. The number is obviously greater at the college level, and some college basketball teams have had perfect seasons, but that's with 20-something games rather than 80-something. In terms of won-lost percentage, the closest any MLB team has come to a "perfect" season is the Chicago White Stockings of 1880, when they went 67-17 for a .798 percentage. The record for wins in either a 154 or 162 game season is 116, which is in the .750 neighborhood. Going back to the National Association (predecessor to the National League), the Boston club went 71-8 for an .899 percentage in 1875, which would translate to 145-17 in a modern schedule. The NA was not a stable organization, and the results tended to be skewed: Brooklyn went 2-42, for example, and that lopsidedness helped to destroy the NA. But even with all that, no one went undefeated. The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869, a barnstorming team, went undefeated, and I would say that's the first and last time a major professional ball club has accomplished that. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

diference between androyd and cyborg

What is the difference between an androyd and a cyborg? Can you please use characters from Kim Possible for examples? Thanks. N.I.M. (talk) 22:34, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Have you read the android and cyborg articles? I've never seen anything related to Kim Possible, so I can't use any examples from that with any helpful degree of accuracy. Dismas|^(talk) 00:42, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, and the cyborg has a good deal of complicated language, but can someone give me examples of cyborgs and androyds from kim possible? I haven't watched terminator and all that stuff,, and i know there are some of each in kim possible, but the voice effects are the same for both. N.I.M. (talk) 01:45, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

The distinction that has been broadly traditional, though not universally observed, in written Science Fiction is that an android (note spelling) is a human-like entity created (mostly) by artificial biological processes, while a cyborg is an originally human entity that has been significantly modified (perhaps to the extent of no longer having humanoid form) by the addition of or fusion with mechanical components - technically, anyone with an artificial limb, organ or implant (such as a pacemaker) is a cyborg. By contrast a robot is an entity that may or may not be humanlike in form and is made predominantly or entirely from mechanical components (in Science Fiction, at least human-level intelligence is genErally also assumed). These distinctions may have been less rigidly observed in moving-media science fiction (which traditional SF fans have historically called "Sci-Fi"). Ironically, in the work from which the term "robot" derives, the 1921 play R.U.R. (for "Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek, the "robots" are what came to be defined as androids.

Like the previous respondent, I'm unable to supply examples from Kim Possible as I've had no exposure to it. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 09:43, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Someone watch kim possible episodes Queen Bebe and A sich in time future. both are found on youtube. There is the Bebes, the Security Drones, and Robo Duff, which is which? N.I.M. (talk) 11:33, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

The Bebes are robots of humanoid appearance; that would make them androids according to some definitions, but not that offered by 87.81.230.195 above. The security drones in A Sitch in Time are flying robotic devices that aren't humanoid; they look something like flying saucers and are neither androids nor cyborgs. RoboDuff calls himself "the world’s deadliest golfing cyborg", so I think that one's pretty clear; he's basically Duff's head in control of a mechanical body (something like RoboCop, on whom the name was no doubt based), so he's indeed a cyborg. I think a clear example of an android in the program is Eric in the So the Drama movie. Deor (talk) 17:40, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Holey Creeps! Eric sure is an androyd, he fools kim into thinking he's a human, and they don't even fing out until the end, pluss, they don't do that voice effect on him like they did Bebes, and Robo Duff. Eric must be that much like a human, it would be cool if we met a real androyd like that, well, as long as they are not evil. N.I.M. (talk) 23:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)