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June 30

A Poor Young Working Lady's Song

I need a song that has a young lady born in a poor family with many younger siblings. As the oldest one among them, she went to work at a very young age to help her parents feed the kids. Gotta be a loving family. -- Toytoy (talk) 12:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Are you looking for a pre-existing song?   If not, then that description could be used as a prompt for an AI music generator. Otherwise, try 53 Songs About Hard working woman (Pop, Rap & More) --136.54.106.120 (talk) 14:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

It was a discussion about peoples' shared experiences. People around the world may be facing the same problems and then I was asked if there's a country or rock and roll song like this where a young woman has to work to help her parents. I could not come up with a song like this. Most of these femm songs in the U.S. were very individual. I don't know if Loretta Lynn had a song themed this manner. -- Toytoy (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

"Coal Miner's Daughter" by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" come to mind; they don't directly satisfy your specifications, but do address the subject from a different perspective. "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert is similar. "Family Portrait" by P!nk touches on the theme, but the family seems more dysfunctional than loving. --136.54.106.120 (talk) 21:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

"Fancy" by Bobbie Gentry (later covered by Reba McEntire) is about a young girl that her mom sends out to "work", but it doesn't really fit your question either. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 11:47, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

In particular, does the song mention any siblings? —Tamfang (talk) 00:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Tracy Chapman and Fast Car could fit. 41.23.55.195 (talk) 06:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

There's no mention in "Fast Car" of whether the narrator had or didn't have any siblings. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:04, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Was Mrs. Which's height in the 2018 movie supposed to be a reference to Oprah's life experience?

When Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey) makes her appearance in A Wrinkle in Time, she is giant. One of the other astral beings tells her that she is "the wrong size", to which Mrs. Which responds "Is there such a thing as the wrong size?"

I recently watched a YouTube video of someone reading Brad Meltzer's I Am Oprah Winfrey. At one point, the book's literary prose (referring to Oprah in the first person, as is usually the case for Ordinary People Change the World books) states that some of the people who used to ridicule Oprah in the past considered her to be the wrong size, and the book's use of the phrase "the wrong size" there reminded me of the aforementioned moment in that movie.

P.S. Come to think of it, this looks like it may belong in the Humanities section. If you think Humanities seems more like the correct place for this than Entertainment, feel free to move it there. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 15:47, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

The book was written in 1962, before Oprah was well known, so I doubt it refers to her life experience. RudolfRed (talk) 16:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not referring to the book. The only time that size seems to have been brought up in the source material was when Mrs Whatsit told the human protagonists that there's no difference between the size of the smallest microbe and the largest galaxy. However, I'm pretty sure the book never described any character as being unnaturally gigantic, so the book is out of the question. (figuratively and literally) – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 20:19, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

The screenplay for A Wrinkle in Time was written after 2010, so dialogue in the film can easily have been inspired by Oprah's experience before she broke through. She herself wrote about the experience ("They told me I was the wrong color, the wrong size, and that I showed too much emotion."^[1]), so we may assume it stung.  --Lambiam 20:52, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

July 1

Paper flowers that grow when you put them in water

When I was little, there was a popular novelty item or toy made of colored paper that came as a little lump which unfolded to a pretty flower when you put it in water. Do we have an article about them? ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 14:25, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Blooming paper flowers is the most common name. Evidently, there is no article (yet). You are more than welcome to try creating one! --136.54.106.120 (talk) 17:37, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the name. Unfortunately, I don't know much more than what I wrote above. When I search for that name online, I find some how-to instructions, but no encyclopedic information. ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 12:28, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

In the 1996 book The Japanese Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary I find:^[2]

paper flower, n. (1935) Paper [Loose transl. of suichūka < suichū underwater + -ka flower, all < MChin)] JAPANESE FLOWER, an imitation paper flower that unfolds in water. O (at paper, sb. 12a) [2]

(Indeed a loose translation.) In Kanji, suichūka is 水中花, which appears to also be the Chinese orthography – it is the title of an album of Hong Kong singer Alan Tam.^[3] The Japanese Wikipedia has an article 水中花, which states (courtesy Google Translate):

They are thought to have been introduced to Japan from China during the Edo period. During the Enpo era, it became popular to float them in sake cups as a pastime at drinking parties, and so they were also called "sakechūka" (flowers in sake) or "haichūka" (flowers in a cup). During the Meiwa era, they became popular as souvenirs at toothpick shops in Asakusa, and were often sold at festivals.

In the past, they were made by compressing the stems of the Japanese laurel tree, the cores of the elm tree, and wood chips, but modern ones are made from synthetic fibers (silki). Corn stalks have also been used. It is also considered a summer seasonal word.

The article also reveals that they are mentioned in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, written in 1913:^[4]

And just as the Japanese amuse themselves by filling a porcelain bowl with water and steeping in it little crumbs of paper which until then are without character or form, but, the moment they become wet, stretch themselves and bend, take on colour and distinctive shape, become flowers or houses or people, permanent and recognisable, so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann's park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the parish church and the whole of Combray and of its surroundings, taking their proper shapes and growing solid, sprang into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea.

 --Lambiam 10:30, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2

New American Dad Season 21

When is this new season going to come out on TBS, August or September? 172.13.193.84 (talk) 02:42, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Funniest scene in Despicable Me 2

After El Macho drank the mutagen, it turns him into a Grimace-like monster, but bigger, fatter, more hairer, and probably meaner, as well as his clothes and medallion getting ripped off during the transformation. 172.13.193.84 (talk) 02:48, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

What's your question? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:20, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

"Funniest" is entirely subjective in this context. Cullen328 (talk) 03:25, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

From the description provided, the gag seems to be based on a trope that includes the Incredible Hulk and Mr. Hyde, if that is the point of the non-question. I haven't seen the movie, however. Xuxl (talk) 13:37, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

I've not seen any of them, but since even the TV ads seem un-funny, it's possible to some viewers that all the scenes in those movies would be equally funny. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:56, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Old movie, can't remember the name

Hot springs pop up in a town, become a huge tourist attraction, but a doctor finds poison bacteria and there's plenty of drama over if he should blow the whistle or not. This also may have been a play with a recent/upcoming NYC production. Anyone remember what it's called? Thanks, Abeg92contribs 11:37, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

I tried searching for movie poison hot springs, movie dangerous hot springs, and show dangerous hot springs, but the only film to come back was Dante's Peak, which is pretty clearly not your movie. Do you remember anything else about it? Matt Deres (talk) 15:26, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

The play is An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. Omidinist (talk) 04:31, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

According to our article, "A new adaptation by Amy Herzog on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre previewed on February 27, 2024, with an opening night March 18."  --Lambiam 11:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

About the Minions

I was wondering who or what these Minions actually are: aliens of an unknown origin, toy robots with minds of their own, or failed by-products of a cloning experiment gone horribly wrong? 172.13.193.84 (talk) 15:44, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Minions (film) says: "Minions are small, yellow pill-shaped creatures which have existed since the beginning of time, evolving from single-celled organisms into beings which exist only to serve history's most evil masters, but they accidentally end up killing all their masters: rolling a Tyrannosaurus into a volcano, letting a caveman get mauled by a bear, crushing a Pharaoh and his subjects with a pyramid, and exposing Count Dracula to sunlight. They are driven into isolation after firing a cannon at Napoleon while in Russia and start a new life inside a cave, but after many years, the Minions become sad and unmotivated without a master to serve..." Alansplodge (talk) 15:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

That would explain everything and it makes perfect sense, now. 172.13.193.84 (talk) 16:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Police Academy cartoon complete series DVD

Are there any future plans to bring the complete Police Academy cartoon series on DVD, but this time all 65 episodes instead of 30? 172.13.193.84 (talk) 18:27, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

We can't answer requests for predictions. Only the producers would know that, so I suggest you contact them. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:17, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Not really. The producers could have announced such plans. That would make it a legitimate question for the ref desk. --Viennese Waltz 22:02, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

July 6

Where's the deepest soccer pyramid on Earth?

The place or places where a team would need the most net promotions to go from rock bottom to where it can't be promoted anymore (if they never fail any promotion requirements and the pyramid stays how it is now in the future) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:57, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

I have never seen anything to suggest that a country has a pyramid with as many levels as the English football league system with it's 11 official levels and 9 additional notional levels giving 20 in all. Nanonic (talk) 20:13, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Would 11 random old mates in the part of London that has a 20 have to start at 20 or 11? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 20:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Why do you always ask follow up questions instead of just doing your own research? Are you just here because you're lonely or do you actually want answers for something you are doing? Nanonic (talk) 22:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Always remember to never say "always" or "never". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:15, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

English football league system#the system lists (and links to) 25 leagues in Tier 11, many (all?) of which have divisions below their top/Premier division, which takes the Tiers down to at least 13: you might be able to drill further down than this using the 'Relegation to' links in the Infoboxes, or other links in the articles about these leagues/divisions, or articles about their indivisual teams.

The same initial article lists many, and links to a few, leagues in the notional Tiers 12–20, including the Tier 20 Lancashire and Cheshire Amateur Football League. Have a look at that and at some of the higher-tier entries with articles, and decide where your "11 random old mates" might slot in. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 151.227.226.178 (talk) 15:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

July 7

Tie-break methods in soccer

I just wondered because this method isn't mentioned anywhere on our vast Wikipedia... a common criticism of penalty shootouts is that teams will play defensively, hoping for a win at penalties.

Has this method even found a serious treatment? (Yes, I'm looking for references to extend some articles.)

Let there be two teams, Acorn and Beetroot.

Acorn scores 1:0 in the 21st minute. Beetroot equalizes to 1:1 in the 40th minute, and scores another goal in the 47th minute. Acorn equalizes to 2:2 in the 50th minute.

After the regular playing time of 90 minutes, Acorn led the score for 19 minutes, and Beetroot for 3.

Acorn would be given the victory because it led for a longer time.

This method would have a very obvious advantage: It rewards scoring goals, and it rewards scoring goals early. Paragem (talk) 10:57, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

No, sorry but that's a terrible idea. The last-minute equaliser or winner to save or win the match is one of the most exciting moments in football. Just ask Jude Bellingham. --Viennese Waltz 11:22, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

One obvious way to exploit this would be for one team to score early and then play simply to keep possession of the ball rather than score any more goals; it can be very difficult for the opposition to win the ball if no risks are being taken with it – see Running out the clock#Association football. This would be very boring for all concerned, and is very unpopular with spectators when employed as a tactic. In the past, the Laws of the Game have been amended several times to try to minimise time-wasting during play.

Hoping for a win in a penalty shootout (rather than by playing better over 90 or 120 minutes) is a very unreliable tactic, as even the best players can miss penalties. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 151.227.226.178 (talk) 15:15, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, Cristiano Ronaldo, "the top goalscorer of all time", failed to score in a penalty shootout the other night, resulting in Portugal's elimintation from the Euro 2024. Alansplodge (talk) 18:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Not quite, he failed to score on a penalty in regular time in the previous round against Slovenia, but Portugal still won on penalties. They then lost to France on penalties in the quarter finals, but Ronaldo was successful on his shot in that shootout - two of his teammates missed to give France the win. Xuxl (talk) 19:14, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Ah yes, thanks. Alansplodge (talk)

Seton Academy: Join the Pack! & The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses English dub

Will there be any future plans to have both animes release in english dub? 172.13.193.84 (talk) 15:54, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

See the responses to your previous query above. If currently there are plans for such future releases, it might be possible to find published references to them (and maybe a reader of this might want to go and look for them), but nobody can know now if someone in the future is going to make plans, which is what you've asked. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a crystal ball.

Since both of these are Japanese properties, you might have more success asking at the Japanese-language Wikipedia, where everyone will be able to read Japanese sources – not many people who respond here at the English-language Wikipedia can do so. {The poster formerly known as 87/81.230.195} 151.227.226.178 (talk) 06:44, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

July 8

Reaction of Janis Joplin on Jimi Hendrix' death?

Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were friends, and they died within 16 days. But is there any known reaction of Joplin on Hendrix' death? I don't find anything on the web, but I still hope that something may have been recorded. --KnightMove (talk) 07:37, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Presumably she was saddened by his death. What else might you expect as an answer? Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:40, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

I imagine he's expecting some referenced quotes from her on the matter, which seems like a reasonable question to me. --Viennese Waltz 08:51, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Indeed... or, as number-two choice, also third-person accounts reporting on her reaction. --KnightMove (talk) 09:12, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

A fairly thorough Google search found nothing useful. As she died shortly after Hendrix, it seems likely that nobody knows. Alansplodge (talk) 13:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

July 10

About the scene in Good Burger 2

In one scene of Good Burger 2, where Ed and Dexter found out that their old enemy, Kurt has a sister who wants revenge on them for ruining her family's legacy, Dexter should have said "Well your brother deserved it, because he's been adding dangerous, but illegal chemicals in the meat supply without knowing about the adverse side-effects it'll have on people." 172.13.193.84 (talk) 16:31, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

What's your question? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:37, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

And how would that have been funny? It is a comedy film (I gather). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.82.201 (talk) 15:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

There are more movies that could do with a script rewrite. In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, when Austin Powers finds out that Dr. Evil plans to to drill a nuclear warhead into the Earth's core and trigger volcanic eruptions worldwide, he should have told him, "Your plan is dangerous and unethical; people may get hurt."  --Lambiam 21:02, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

There is one practice of the analysis of artwork in which you would emphasize that the movie poster seems to be deliberately if technically blurring the word "Austin" into a possible "Austim", whatever the purpose of the trickery if there's one there must exist a theory explaining that unethical processes could not warned against in the course of the intrigue. --Askedonty (talk) 22:27, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

July 11

Don't Ever Talk to Clocks

I'm looking for information about the 1964 TV Movie titled Don't Ever Talk to Clocks because I'm wanting to creat a Wikipedia page for it but I can't find any sources that show this movie or any articles that show if the movie has survived. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 18:22, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

No sources -> no article. The great majority of TV movies aren't notable. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:02, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

so there's no information about this TV Play Matthew John Drummond (talk) 14:08, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't look like it. It's listed in the filmography of its main actor Peter Sallis, but no other information seems to be available. It may well be lost. --Viennese Waltz 14:42, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

The IMDb has some info, but very little: [5]. Since we don't recognize this as a reliable source, this is not immediately helpful. But perhaps it gives a handle on finding sources such as newspaper reviews.  --Lambiam 20:05, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Here is one reliable source, found by using IMDb info as search terms. No in-depth coverage, but it is a start. Using "Don't Ever Talk to Clocks" as a search term on the RTÉ Photographic Archive you get more hits, such as one revealing that Peter Collinson wrote an article about this TV movie for the RTV Guide of 14 February 1964.^[6] It will not be easy to dig up a copy, but perhaps the RTÉ keeps archived copies of their guide.  --Lambiam 20:18, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

When you say dig up a copy are you referring to an article about the tv play Matthew John Drummond (talk) 13:40, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

I found just one reference in Newspapers.com (pay site), just a TV listing with no description. On Feb 18, 1964, on a channel called Eire Television, at 8:50 (presumably P.M.) Liverpool Daily Post (Merseyside ed.), p.3. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:48, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

July 12

Rock concert

Behind the band, in the film of Roger Waters' In the Flesh – Live concert, is the usual back-projection screen. During the bitterly sardonic song "The Bravery of Being Out of Range", the view through a periscope, with azimuth graticule clearly visible, is thrown on the screen. I expected the General Belgrano to hove into view, Waters having been an outspoken critic of Thatcher and the Falklands War, but instead it's a (presumably manned) oil rig, which promptly (and spectacularly) explodes. Did this represent a real event? Doug butler (talk) 00:04, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

The actual clip from the concert film is here, but I don't see any back projections, just a still of some men sitting at a bar. --Viennese Waltz 07:19, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Could be a reference to the Piper Alpha explosion near Scotland, 1988. PiusImpavidus (talk) 07:54, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Isn't the submarine attack during Perfect Sense? DuncanHill (talk) 10:23, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

You're right, of course. Doug butler, you got the song wrong. That said, the clip from "Perfect Sense" is here (at about the 6'30" mark). An oil rig is shown, but it doesn't explode. --Viennese Waltz 10:44, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Mea culpa — jumping to conclusions based on faulty memory. Thanks for that. It was a mighty film though; have to drag it out again. Doug butler (talk) 11:13, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Aaarrggghhhh. Heave, blast ye. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:41, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Crying Down the Lane

I trying to find information about the 1962 TV Mini Series titled Crying Down the Lane. I'm also trying to find out weather if the tv show has survived or is now lost. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 14:59, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

There is an entry for it on IMDb, here.

Note that for the purposes of creating a Wikipedia Article, Wikipedia does not consider IMDb to be a Reliable source because (like Wikipedia) its contents are user-generated. Obviously this does not apply if you're merely pursuing an interest. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.82.201 (talk) 07:15, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm also trying to find if the series is lost or has survived Matthew John Drummond (talk) 13:42, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

July 13

The Heir of Skipton

I'm locking for information to do with the 1954 TV Mini Series titled The Heir of Skipton. I'm also trying to find where if the show is now lost or has managed to of survived. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 14:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Do you think you could maybe make one post with a list of all the TV series and films you are looking for, rather than make individual posts for each one? Thank you. --Viennese Waltz 16:36, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

It would also be useful to include links to the Drafts you have created, so that we don't waste time tracking down sources that you have already included in them. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.82.201 (talk) 17:41, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Lars von Trier's "Lookeys"

An article in the 'Guardian' notes that Lars von Trier included a contest for viewers of his film The Boss of It All. The first person to spot all seven of what he called "lookeys" in the film would win a cash prize. Surprisingly, there is no mention of this contest in our article. My question, though, is: was the prize ever claimed? --Viennese Waltz 17:17, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Rattigan's Cause Célèbre

According to our article Cause Célèbre "is a 1975 radio play, and the final play by the English author Terence Rattigan. It was inspired by the trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover in 1935 for the murder of her third husband Francis Rattenbury and first broadcast by the BBC on 27 October 1975. Alma was played by Diana Dors." Do we know on which BBC radio station it was broadcast (Radio 4 seems to me to be most likely, but Radio 3 is of course possible), does a recording of the radio play survive, and if so where could one listen to it? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 21:28, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

It was re-broadcast in 1981 on Radio 4, according to this. Mikenorton (talk) 22:24, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Available as part of a 13 play collection on Audible here. Mikenorton (talk) 22:26, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

It was apparently on Radio 4 to quote from the BBC Year Book for 1977 (page 29), "The many other playwrights whose work was broadcast on Radio 4 include Ibsen, Chekhov, Noel Coward, Mustapha Matura, Bill Naughton and William Douglas - Home. One of the most interesting productions was Cause Célèbre, Sir Terence Rattigan's first play for radio, based on a Bournemouth murder case of the 1930s and with a cast headed by Diana Dors." Mikenorton (talk) 22:35, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

@Mikenorton: Excellent, thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 22:56, 13 July 2024 (UTC)