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Origin/reason/backstory of tennis score call names[edit]

I found the page Tennis scoring after being confused while watching a game. I quickly figured out that "love" means zero, but then wondered why the next amount was "15" (fine, I thought, if football can have TDs worth 7, tennis can go by 15?) and next came "30" ("consistent" I felt to myself) but then next came "40". I didn't see how these came to be the call names (or is that information lost to history) at Tennis scoring or at the Rules of Tennis (source 1 on that Wikipedia page) on page 8. 67.163.109.173 (talk) 02:06, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tennis_scoring#History explains some conjecture as to where the specific tennis scoring comes. Don't worry so much about the specific numbers: You need 4 points to win a game in tennis, and you have to win by 2 points more than your opponent. Those points are named 15-30-40-game, and the history section I cited explains some ideas about where those names come from. This page has some different stories about where the scoring system may have come from. --Jayron32 02:15, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sonic Generations questions[edit]

Sonic Generations xbox awards and achievements[edit]

Is there a website that shows xbox awards and achievements for Sonic Generations? Thanks.--Donmust90 (talk) 03:25, 24 January 2013 (UTC)Donmust90[reply]

Sonic Generations music from challenge acts[edit]

Is there a website that shows the list of music themes from different Sonic games shown in Sonic Generations after completing a challenge act for both classic and modern Sonic? Thanks.--Donmust90 (talk) 03:27, 24 January 2013 (UTC)Donmust90[reply]

To answer both questions, have you tried Google? I typed the title of your first question, verbatim, into Google and got plenty of websites. --Jayron32 04:06, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can you name the members of these folk bands?[edit]

The Weavers: http://www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/Cultural_History.htm I know Pete Seeger is one. Picture is halfway down.

And The Kingston Trio: http://i.imgur.com/AF92xMJ.jpg Presumably Dave Guard, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds, but not sure the order, according to String Along. Two guys have banjo's, one has a guitar, so this may help: Dave Guard – vocals, banjo, guitar/ Bob Shane – vocals, guitar/ Nick Reynolds – vocals, tenor guitar, bongos

Thanks! Veggietaco (talk) 04:07, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Try http://www.allmusic.com For bands that popular and well known, they have rather extensive band biographies, and you're likely to be able to work out who was in those bands on the dates those pictures were taken. --Jayron32 04:10, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In the String Along picture, that's Bob Shane on the left, Nick Reynolds in front, and Dave Guard on the right. This is the only album to feature the original KT with two banjos on the cover, but I own the album and I can tell you that you will never hear more than one banjo in any song. I've never seen Bob play the ~~guitar~~ banjo in a performance either, but that doesn't mean he never did. The KT also had a bassist who was, I think, both the recording and touring bassist. John Stewart replaced Dave Shane and, in my opinion, kicked KT up tenfold in terms of music prolificness and humor (John and Bob are hilarious in concert). – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 09:04, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In the Weavers picture, left to right: Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman. Deor (talk) 13:26, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.153.144.23 (talk) 18:56, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks for bringing this here -- that "Follow the Drinking Gourd" website is really fascinating. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 06:13, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

unproduced soundtrack[edit]

Recently, I wrote to the CEO of Paramount Pictures. The letter was about coming up with a soundtrack to Morning Glory (2010 film). So far I haven't heard back from him. I figured he might be too busy with other projects. So should I wait?142.255.103.121 (talk) 04:58, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No. The CEO of Paramount Pictures is not going to write back to you, nor I fear is one of his flunkies. Also, if a soundtrack album has not been released by now, it is never going to be released, so I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you. --Viennese Waltz 05:30, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're irrelevant to the CEO of Paramount. However, you can try asking David Arnold, the composer, himself on his Twitter, which I found on our David Arnold article. That is, if you're wanting the score. If you just want the soundtrack of songs, you can find a list of these songs on a simple Google search and collect them yourself. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 08:59, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

80's endless loop cassette singles?[edit]

Does anyone remember these two-song endless loop cassettes they were selling in the mid- to late-80s, possibly early 90, 91? They were transparent, neon colored plastic, the cassettes were about the size of a mini-cassette, and each side had one song (I'm guessing... maybe it was only one song total). I think the players (walkman-type things) were also special and color in zany 80s patterns. The tv ads showed people listening to the same song over and over and over and over on an endless loop, no need to rewind!, and different singles were available, including Walk Like an Egyptian. I'm hoping someone may remember these. Thanks! – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 08:55, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pocket Rockers --Viennese Waltz 09:33, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Boom. I can't thank you enough! – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 09:37, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

BBC on Young Dracula[edit]

Is anyone familiar with the BBC's pages on Young Dracula? Someone's expressed a concern that List of Young Dracula episodes has excessive close paraphrasing of a copyrighted source, and because no more details are given, I've checked all the external links on that page. None of them are problems, except for http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/young-dracula — and it's a "problem" simply because I can't find anything of plot summaries on that page. If you can figure out how to find plot summaries there (or at the second citation, which for me finds nothing at all), please tell me how to find them. Nyttend (talk) 22:50, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

potential sources of short summaries might be the bbc iplayer (but would only have been available for a week or two after broadcast) and the radio times website maybe - just a thought ---- _nonsense ferret 05:10, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I thought too, but when it says "No results found for young dracula", there can't be anything there that's a problem. Nyttend (talk) 05:53, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Erm, not quite - there would have been content on iplayer within 2 weeks of the program's transmission - it would then be removed by the bbc - this however does not revoke the copyright on such text. The issue that you now have is that how can we check what the copyrighted text was now that it has been removed and archived by the BBC. I'm aware that BBC staff have access to all the iplayer content which has been deleted, but difficult for us to find now, unless someone downloaded it from iplayer and kept it. ---- _nonsense ferret 16:43, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

One other point is that it is clearly possible to see that some of the text has appeared also on Facebook - although doesn't seem to be available now - [1] - the question is then, who copied who? ---- _nonsense ferret 16:47, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]