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April 10

Cleaning-ears-with-handkerchief-gag

Like that.... When was this gag performed for the first times in the movies? GEEZER^{nil nisi bene} 07:56, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

I don't have an answer for you, just a guess...very early short silent films often featured vaudeville performers doing popular stage tricks, so it wouldn't surprise me if it would've first appeared in that format. If you go to http://www.open-video.org/index.php and do a search for "vaudeville" you can see similar gags and tricks on film. OttawaAC (talk) 23:57, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

TV Tropes has a whole entry on "In One Ear, Out The Other", but the only handkerchief example they mention is the one you already gave (Lloyd Bridges in Hot Shots!). For earlier non-handkerchief examples it has "Happens a few times in The Three Stooges. For example, in one episode Moe throws a feather duster through Shemp's ears and has to help him pull it out". I found another example in They Stooge to Conga involving a screwdriver in one ear and a light bulb in the other, but I found no Stooges scene using a hanky. TV Tropes also gives the example of Delusions of Grandeur (film) (1971), but that scene uses a towel, not a hanky. ---Sluzzelin talk 10:04, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the leads. Yes, I was thinking about silent movies. GEEZER^{nil nisi bene} 05:26, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

title of the song

Hello, I've heard a song that is like that in the chorus, unfortunately, I don't know the lyrics of this song. What is the title of this song please ? Fort123 (talk) 21:40, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

That's a tough one. Can you narrow it down at all? New song, old song, in between? Woman or man singing? Genre? InedibleHulk (talk) 00:19, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

This song is in F♯ major. Fort123 (talk) 00:33, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Cher - Believe (Cher song) (queued up on youtube) --— Rhododendrites ^talk |  02:08, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot ! Fort123 (talk) 11:25, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Wow, great use of audio. Was instantly recognizable to me too :) SemanticMantis (talk) 14:57, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Now, it's extremely obvious to me, too, and I can't see how I didn't hear it before. One of those things. Thanks, Rhodo. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:14, 13 April 2014 (UTC)