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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published before The Catcher in the Rye

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't drink in bars like that.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

a pity

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes.

I did lose a bet trying to burn a hole with a cigarette through a ten pound note on the back of my hand.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell did *not* play Evie on late 80s / early 90s sci-fi sitcom Out of this World. An easy $5, really.

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

John Wayne died in at least 4 films.

(Turns out it was 8 with 2 others up for debate - bloke in pub* said he only died in The Shootist)

*not The Lex :-P

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

your name on dik

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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Did he think he played a Mexican in The Alamo?

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

UWF creator and Japanese shoot fighting legend Akira Maeda once tag-teamed with Big Daddy on World of Sport.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"He was in The Alamo you dick!" was one of my counterpoints :)

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Alan Green is a Liverpool fan.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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Sands of Iwo Jima
The Cowboys
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup
(from http://experts.about.com/q/Wayne-John-1509/John-Wayne-movies.htm )

John Wayne died in 8 films for definite, and a further two, depending on how you want to look at it.

"Central Airport"
"Reap the Wild Wind"
"The Fighting Seabees"
"Wake of the Red Witch"
"The Sands of Iwo Jima"
"The Alamo"
"The Cowboys"
"The Shootist"

He was already dead at the start of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", and most of the film is a flashback to when he was alive. It is just stated that he died, but there is no actual death scene.

In "The Sea Chase" it is left to the audience to decide whether or not he died. The romantic among us like to think that he and Lana Turner were able to escape from the sinking ship at the end of the film, but it is not made clear.

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, i await my next pub quiz

― Ste (fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I won €5 betting that Mister Monkey would know the name of the bloke who commissioned the Taj Mahal. That is my favourite sort of bet. I don't even have to know anything.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bed of Roses" is a song by Bon Joví, not Guns'n'Roses. The girl who lost the bet had to do five minutes of aerobics to the tune of a Finnish schlager.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 December 2006 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Jo Whiley is 41.

― JTS (JTS), Thursday, 14 December 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link

41? Seriously? I would have thought she was older than that.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 14 December 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Nigella Lawson is 46.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Moaning Myrtle off Harry Potter is 41. I can't get my head around that.

― that is just a Gerry named Onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

john wayne only died after 'the shootist'

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I should have explained that I meant "characters played by John Wayne in films" to avoid this mix up.

― that is just a Gerry named Onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, John Wayne the person died after all his films.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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