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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cast Opening Credits Question?

OK so i'm the hugest Buffy fan I know... its my life everyday lol i'm obsessed but theres something i wish i could ask Joss Whedon but i can't so ill ask my fellow Wikipedia peeps. Where online can I watch a full intro of the Buffy cast all seven season? Please help! Neptunekh2 (talk)

That's not a thinly disguised request for access to pirate copies of Buffy, is it? Because that would be wrong. Britmax (talk) 08:20, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

They're asking for a clip of the intro credits, not every episode of the whole show. At least, that's how I read it. Here are the credits on youtube 82.43.89.63 (talk) 10:41, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

That's a fan version of the Season 7 opening credits, not the real thing. The real thing doesn't appear to be on YouTube, but you can find it elsewhere online via a Google Video search. —Kevin Myers 13:20, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Name of a Movie

In the 1980's I believe, I saw a movie that I thought had Kyra Sedgwick or Bruno Kirby or Jon Lovitz or Dennis Quaid in it. Two families were vacationing in the mountains. One of the wives was giving her husband a hard time (I thought the actress was Kyra), complaining to him endlessly. The 2 men left the wives and children at a campgrounds and went hiking in the mountains and met two young ladies and one of the men ended up killing one of the young ladies, but it was deemed an accident because of an earthquake or some other natural disaster. Does anyone remember a movie like this? I have searched for hours the 4 movie stars and synopsis and have had no luck. Thanks for any help you can give me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.9.136 (talk) 08:43, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Aargh, I remember seeing this film but I can't remember its title either. I think it was more recent than the 80s though. One of the girls was flirting with one of the guys and he thought they were going to be getting it on, but when she said no he freaked out and started chasing her. He killed her by battering her head in with a rock. This is going to bug me all day... --Viennese Waltz 09:44, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

This sounds like one of the final scenes from Short Cuts by Robert Altman. The actors in question were Chris Penn being given a hard time by Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Robert Downey, Jr. who was married to Lili Taylor. Could that be it? Anonymous Bob (talk) 13:08, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Brilliant, you got it, the clip is here. --Viennese Waltz 13:24, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

missing

In Song Kang ho page i cant find any Award section so itll be better to be writen. his best Actor of Asia right now!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emadwolf (talk • contribs) 10:04, 9 May 2011 (UTC) Emadwolf (talk) 11:10, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

If you've got sources for the awards he's won - go for it. I wouldn't know where to start, as that's not my area - but I can help you with it if you like. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 13:14, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

I'll be glad, here is the link http://www.soompi.com/forums/topic/180833-song-kang-ho/

Snake (talk) 17:38, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

magic the gathering

hi, i was wondering... in magic the gathering, can planeswalker cards have negative amounts of life? can they be healed? pls don't link if possible, my parents !@#$% block most things... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.68.72.21 (talk) 14:49, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Planeswalker cards don't have "life", they have loyalty counters. You can only spend loyalty counters that are actually on them, so they can't go negative. And you can only "heal" them by using abilities they have that add loyalty counters. The full rules link is at http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Article.aspx?x=magic/rules/planeswalkers if you can get it to work. 75.155.136.49 (talk) 21:49, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Songs about intelligence

A friend of mine is looking for songs dealing with intelligence, savvy and stuff like that - can you help her? --KnightMove (talk) 16:29, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Well, sort of an antithesis of this would be "What a Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke. --TammyMoet (talk) 19:10, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

In the same vein is the song "Knowledge" by Operation Ivy, the chorus of which is "All I know is that I don't know nothing". Similarly, there is "Another Brick in the Wall" (Part II) by Pink Floyd which contains the famous "We don't need no education" line. And "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon, which opens with the very quotable "When I think back to all the crap I learned in High School, its a wonder I can think at all". Being anti-establishment by nature, the music of the young frequently rebels against the norms of their parents generation, which usually includes education and the acquisition of knowledge thereof. --Jayron32 19:35, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Ian Dury's "Clever Trevor" and "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards", Little John's "Be Intelligent".--Michig (talk) 19:45, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Jayron; there's going to be more of an emphasis on not learning stuff (meaning book learnin') than the contrary. The American penchant for celebrating ignorance as an ideal isn't going to help the balance, either. A couple of learning-related songs I can think of are Runnin' Back to Saskatoon by The Guess Who and Read About It by Midnight Oil. Now, if your friend wanted songs related to pretty girls, that would be another thing altogether... Matt Deres (talk) 02:41, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

You didn't specify that they must be recent songs, so let me pull out the old standard Major-General's Song, from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. Fortunately, it's old enough that our article is able to include the entire lyrics without us being sued.

For something more current, there's the theme song from The Big Bang Theory, by the Barenaked Ladies. It doesn't talk about intelligence directly, but does talk about scientific topics.

In the anti-intellectual camp we have Billy Joel's It's Still Rock & Roll to Me, with the lyrics: "Should I try to be a straight A student ?" "If you are, then you think too much." But, since this appears to be satire, perhaps it is really pro-intellectual. StuRat (talk) 09:17, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Lots of satire here, although that's consistent with the OP, which asked for songs "dealing with" intelligence and savvy. "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" is about a guy who's actually pretty dumb, even though he knows a lot. Billy Joel is satirizing criticism of successful students (although that's just two lines in the song, so "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" may not qualify).

Perhaps "I Know Things Now," from Into the Woods, would qualify, although it's really a song about the loss of innocence. John M Baker (talk) 14:26, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

The first one that I thought of is from the LDS hymnal, entitled If You Could Hie to Kolob. It's normally sung to the folk tune "Kingsfold" (hey... imagine that!) which was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Kingsfold (Quack quack!) 14:59, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

• They Might Be Giants have a ton of songs that celebrate intelligence. --M@rēino 14:55, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

The Faces song "Ooh La La" contains the chorus "I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger". Dismas|^(talk) 03:12, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Don't forget the songs of Tom Lehrer! Pepso2 (talk) 00:07, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

We should mention the song about mathematics—Nothing from Nothing (Billy Preston song). Bus stop (talk) 18:16, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

The Logical Song. Mitch Ames (talk) 21:57, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Zoey 101 Episode

Hi, Does anyone know this episode of Zoey 101, which Chase and Zoey are talking and huging in the rain (see picture)? I saw this in the last episode of Zoey 101, which contains several clips of the whole serie. Regards --Simon.hess (talk) 21:38, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Judging by the description, it looks like Chase's Grandma. —BETTIA— ^talk 14:39, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, it is this episode. --Simon.hess (talk) 22:26, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

First sportsman/woman to refuse to go to South Africa because of apartheid?

In one of the recent obituaries for Lionel Rose, a World Boxing Council official claims that Rose was the first sportsman (in 1970) to turn down an offer to compete in apartheid South Africa. Is anyone aware of an earlier example or is this another string we can add to Lionel's bow?

As a matter of interest, many of the obits I have read have taken info from Rose's wikipedia entry including "In retirement, Rose became a successful businessman. He was able to manage his money and make good financial decisions, and he enjoyed the monetary benefits his career brought him." However, as a journalist who has interviewed Rose's family and friends, I know that wasn't the case as he gave most of his money to charities or individuals hard up. --Roisterer (talk) 23:48, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Maybe that was his idea of success, and enjoying it. HiLo48 (talk) 08:33, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

• This 1993 article from Jet magazine claims, "For 30 years, Ali repeatedly turned down invitations to visit South Africa because of the brutal treatment of Blacks by the White racist government." If Jet did their homework, that means Muhammad Ali first turned down a trip to South Africa in 1963. I can't find any newspaper articles from the 1960s that settle the matter, though. --M@rēino 15:04, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought that if anyone would have turned down earlier offers, it would have been Ali or a West indian cricketer. --Roisterer (talk) 04:27, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't think Muhammad Ali's refusals go back that far. He was planning to fight in South Africa in 1972, although that fight ultimately did not take place; I don't know if he changed his mind, or what. He did refuse an invitation to visit South Africa in 1979 because of apartheid. John M Baker (talk) 14:44, 12 May 2011 (UTC)