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How come there are no actors listed at the San Diego comic con website? Venustar84 (talk) 03:06, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

you have promised before not to ask questions that require psychic abilities to answer
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How come there are no actors listed at the San Diego comic con website? Venustar84 (talk) 03:06, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Billie Holliday, Patsy Cline, Mama Cass, Janis Joplin, Karen Carpenter, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse

Billie Holliday, Patsy Cline, Mama Cass, Janis Joplin, Karen Carpenter, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse. Is there some notable reasoned argument for the common premature passing of such artists? Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 04:17, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

troll bridge
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they did a lot of drug.--There goes the internet (talk) 04:18, 25 March 2013 (UTC) and you hat other people's questions that clearly don't have a specific referenced answer. wtf... --Onorem♠Dil 04:19, 25 March 2013 (UTC) it's called being passive aggressive. if others aren't going to be punished for what he views as trolling, he wants to ask silly questions too.--There goes the internet (talk) 04:21, 25 March 2013 (UTC) Go away TGTI. You're not helping either. --Onorem♠Dil 04:22, 25 March 2013 (UTC) I am asking for notable commentary, not bullshit. Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 04:29, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

People die. These people died within 15-20 years of total age. What reason do you think there is a connection? --Onorem♠Dil 04:32, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Drugs/alcohol may have been a factor in several of those (Holiday, Joplin, Houston, Winehouse) with eating disorders behind another couple (Cass, Carpenter). Then we have the small plane getting Patsy Kline. For the drugs and eating disorders, the pressures of performing and sudden success may have played a roll. Small planes are just plain dangerous, if you fly them constantly from concert to concert, in all sorts of weather. So, if those women all chose to become librarians, they might all still be alive (maybe not Billie Holiday, who was born in 1915).

Also note that this is by no means limited to females. On the male side, we have the premature deaths of Glenn Miller, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Jim Croce, Elvis, Andy Gibb, and Kurt Cobain, just to name a few. Planes seem to have killed proportionally more of them, though. StuRat (talk) 04:34, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

• The answer, Medeis, is the Texas sharpshooter fallacy. I can find a) seven names of female singers who did not die young and b) the names of seven other people who did. The fact that those seven female singers died young doesn't mean anything. --Jayron32 04:38, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

trolling by indef'd user
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U mean like Miley Cyrus, Ethel Merman, Michelle Shocked, Reba McIntyre, Courtney Love, Nina Simone and Susanna Hoffs — Preceding unsigned comment added by There goes the internet (talk • contribs) 04:42, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Related article: 27 Club. Matt Deres (talk) 02:34, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

What struck me that made me ask this question was that all the women seemed to have big appetites or risk seeking behavior (if those are the right terms) that make them seem more like high-testosterone male stars than "nesters". If there's a better concept than risk-seeker I'd like to know. μηδείς (talk) 02:56, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

house location in Oakland

I was watching this video [1]. At the end of it, I saw a nice house. Is there really one like it in Oakland, California?142.255.103.121 (talk) 05:35, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Oakland is a large city. It is very likely there is a similar house of this type there. Remember the answer you got when you asked a similar question about a different house? Follow those instructions again. --Jayron32 12:22, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

KISSING song and copyright

Hi, I'm doing research on the web, trying to find out who wrote the KISSING song ... first comes love, then comes marriage, ... I found your info on the playground song. Nicholas Knudde wrote the song. I need to know, and can't find info anywhere, when Mr. Nicholas Knudde wrote this playground song. This is a matter of public domain. I'm creating a card, and I want to play off the words. I want to make sure that this song was published before 1923, which makes it public domain. Can you please help me find the answer ASAP?! Thanks, Nancy 98.144.76.129 (talk) 16:38, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Added header -- 71.35.100.68 (talk) 17:12, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Note: I've removed the mention of Nicholas Knudde from the Playground song article, as it was unsourced and probably vandalism. With regard to the OP's question, apparently this children's rhyme didn't receive much notice until the 1960s (though I certainly recall its use during my playground days in the late '50s, often as a jump-rope chant), but I suspect that, like many such things, it's of indeterminate authorship and therefore not subject to copyright. Deor (talk) 18:20, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Fireside girls

What film, comic, or series is this image (warning: not work safe) from? It says "the Fireside girls", but the disambiguation page Fireside provided no help, and googling for "Fireside" wasn't of much help either. JIP | Talk 19:10, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Phineas and Ferb - see List of Phineas and Ferb characters#Fireside Girls. Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:19, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! JIP | Talk 19:26, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Can you please explain how that image is not work safe? RNealK (talk) 22:19, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

If your workplace is just fine with pre-teen girls being tied up, then it's work safe. Otherwise, probably NOT. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:30, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Depends on the workplace. And I think JIP was doing everyone a favor by erring on the side of caution. Dismas|^(talk) 00:28, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh FFS, where are you PC people heading? Enid Blyton wrote stories where kids were tied up. She must have been a paedophile, I guess. HiLo48 (talk) 01:10, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Try this from Beatrix Potter! Tevildo (talk) 01:23, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

What is that illustration supposed to be? It looks like a blob of fur. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 10:04, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Bondage Kitty, obviously. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 15:06, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I was about to answer: "Four fully clothed pre-teenaged girls tied up, of course. Can't you see?" but then I noticed what image you were talking about. JIP | Talk 18:36, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Looking for a game that I played on Windows XP.

It was a card game that followed the "Cheat" rules, also known as "bullshit". I don't know the name of the Shortcut of the game once it was installed, nor the path the executable's shortcut took. Also, the theme of the game was quite amusing as the AI would be named after some famous scientist or politician and the way in which they would claim that you were cheating would often be in a humorous manner. Actually, I think the name of the game was "BS 2005" but I do so you may use this to search for it and aid me in finding where I can actually download the game. Nicholasprado (talk) 21:00, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

See Cheat (game) and here for the download. You're right, you _could_ have looked it up yourself. Tevildo (talk) 21:17, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the article points to the card game the software plays, but I could not find the link and thank you for finding it. Nicholasprado (talk) 22:20, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

killision

i've already submitted verified content and keep being rejected — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.118.103.115 (talk) 22:56, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

This sort of question should be on the Help Desk. See WP:BAND for our criteria for band notability, and WP:CITE for instructions on citing sources. Tevildo (talk) 23:05, 25 March 2013 (UTC)