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6 unusual facts about FLIP


Alex Chalmers

Chalmers is known for his love of Coca-Cola, claiming to drinking anywhere from 6-12 cans a day in Flip's skateboard video Sorry.

Flip-screen

These limitations were not exclusive to the Spectrum; many early MSX, NEC PC-8801 and PC VGA games also used the flip-screen technique.

The flip-screen technique was particularly common in PC games originally made for the ZX Spectrum, such as Atic Atac, Jet Set Willy, and Starquake, due in part to the Spectrum's display limitations which meant that full colour scrolling was difficult to implement convincingly - Light Force being a notable exception.

Flip, Flop and Fly

Several artists have recorded their versions of "Flip, Flop and Fly," including Johnnie Ray (1955), Bill Haley and His Comets from the album Rock Around the Clock (1956), Downchild Blues Band (1973), The Blues Brothers from Briefcase Full of Blues (1978), Jerry Lee Lewis and Ellis Hall (1999), this version being used in the soundtrack of the animation movie Chicken Run.

Plugger

Flip-flops, a type of footwear similar to sandals but without securing the ankles

Thongophone

The thongophone produces sound by striking a rubber clapper, usually a thong, hence its namesake, against the opening of one of many PVC pipes of varying length.


Aaron Downey

On the flip side, Downey became a YouTube sensation after his 16 April 2006 non-fight with Ottawa Senator Brad Norton.

Asphalt Mother

In 2006, it was included along with its flip side on the Mind Garage Early Years "Reach Out" CD which was a collection of seven demos recorded by the band in 1968.

Charlie Feathers

He eventually played on a small label started by Sam Phillips called Flip records which got him enough attention to record a couple singles for Sun Records and Holiday Inn Records.

CHNO-FM

After the flip, the first song of the new variety hits format was "Start Me Up", by the Rolling Stones.

Cradle of Rome

The gameplay is similar to that of Bejeweled; the player must flip jewels/resources on a playing field to create matches of at least three items of the same type.

Dizz Knee Land

You could see a guy's head being chopped off and, you know, a leg flying away and someone embracing someone in a lovely kiss and then flip the channel and then a chainsaw goes buzzing through, you know, some butter and it accidentally cuts your mom's head off and then you flip again and they're making love and then you flip again and it's Montana going 'I'm going to Disneyland'.

Dutch door

The term is also applied to the modified rear doors on selected GMC Safaris and Chevrolet Astros that have a flip up rear window and two small half-size doors underneath, although the term barn doors is sometimes used for these doors as well.

Eric Bedser

A flip of the coin saw Alec win the toss, and Eric consequently took up off-spin bowling, for which he became very adept in a Surrey county team that was dominated by famous spinners such as Jim Laker and Tony Lock, and concentrated on his batting.

Feature phone

During the mid-2000s, best-selling feature phones such as the fashionable flip-phone Motorola Razr, multimedia Sony Ericsson W580i, and the LG Black Label Series not only occupied the mid-range pricing in a wireless provider's lineup, they made up the bulk of retail sales as smartphones from BlackBerry and Palm were still considered a niche category for business use.

Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty

FLIP originated a pocket edition in the United Kingdom, named Flipside, held at Snape Maltings.

Festivals of Thessaloniki

THHF has hosted world famous artists as RA The Rugged Man (USA), DJ Vadim & Yarah Bravo (UK), Afu-Ra (USA), Foreign Beggars (UK), Snowgoons Soundsystem (DE), Freestyle (The Arsonists), Lerroy of the Saian Supa Crew (France), Wax Tailor (France), DJ Flip (ITF world), Zion I (USA), Zontanoi Nekroi, FF.C, Razastarr, Eisvoleas, Voreia Asteria, Ladose, Apexeis, Phase 3, Orthologistes, Psychodrama07, RNS, Sifu VERSUS, Sugahspank!

Firestone High School

Phil "Flip" Boggs, gold-medal winner in springboard diving in the 1976 Olympic Games

Flip book

In 1894, Herman Casler invented a mechanized form of flip book called the Mutoscope, which mounted the pages on a central rotating cylinder rather than binding them in a book.

Flip teaching

Its most important popularizers are not government officials or academic experts, but Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann, a pair of high school chemistry teachers in Woodland Park, Colo., who wrote a book called “Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day,” drawing almost completely on their own experience.

Flip This House

Flip This House is an American television series that airs on the A&E (Arts and Entertainment) television network as well as the Bio network.

Flip Video

A free Mino was made available to all audience members at YouTube Live due to Flip Video's sponsorship of the event.

Harold Howard

Howard is also well known for once executing a scissor-flip kick during his battle with Steve Jennum in the UFC 3 finals.

Into the Mirror

Into the Mirror was released on the flip side of the unrated version of the Mirrors 2 DVD.

IRF8

IRF8 mediates the expression of Fas, Bax, FLIP, Jak1 and STAT1 to mediate apoptosis in non-hemotopoietic cancer cells.

Jack Joyce

About that time, on the flip of a coin, he decided to go to Europe rather than start a career in Hollywood movies.

Karen Parry

In 2008 she toured the UK with Flip & Fill on the Clubland Arena Tour which featured other artists such as Scooter, Ultrabeat and Cascada.

Kwalee

Pussy Flip - based on the game of Reversi, Pussy Flip is a turn-based game where players sandwich their opponents' cats and flip them over to take control of the game board.

Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age

"Fatso Forgotso" and "Fatso Forgotso Phase II (Flip the Phase)" were later re-released on Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss.

Mark Philippi

In 1998, Philippi was severely injured at the 1998 World's Strongest Man during the car flip event where he ruptured his patella tendon and also partially tore his biceps tendon when the car rolled back on him.

Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop

Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop, a children's television series featuring Olympic champion gymnast Mary Lou Retton, was created to motivate young children to believe in themselves and get moving.

Molly McGrann

Her first novel, 360 Flip, looked at the tensions lying below the surface of the "American Dream" in a 60s Levittown-style suburb, through the eyes of a disillusioned young poet growing up there in the 1950s.

Murray Roman

ABC Stage 67, On The Flip Side (Dec/07/1966) As Hairy Eddie Popkin

NASCAR Racing 4

Namely was the introduction of full 24k color, as the previous games had only allowed 256, vastly improved car models and environments and, for the first time, the ability of the car to rotate in three dimensions (i.e. the ability of the car to get airborne and flip).

Ned Miller

Very notable is also his uptempo song "Cave In", which in 1960 was the flip side of Warren Smiths, No.

Orion abort modes

Unlike the Apollo Launch Escape System, which used a pair of "canards" and the weight of the spacecraft to flip the vehicle over for landing, the Orion LAS has a set of steering rockets that will steer the spacecraft away from the malfunctioning SLS, as well as prepare the spacecraft for both separation and splashdown.

Paul T. Adwell

Jockey John Lively rode their colt to a third-place finish in the Derby behind winner Bold Forbes who had been the yearling Adwell and Cashman did not buy at the auction as a result of the coin flip.

Permanent Waves

The background scene comes from a photo, taken by Flip Schulke, of the Galveston Seawall in Texas during Hurricane Carla on September 11, 1961.

Podded engine

This can cause the wings to shear off or flip the aircraft and destroy the fuselage as happened to Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961.

Shake Ray Turbine

Members have also played in the bands Amen Booze Rooster, Blood Feathers, Flip'n Sync, Soophie Nun Squad, William Martyr 17, Revolver Red, The Cannonballs, Hiram Ragan Experience, The Insides, Lazy Fair, The Earthworms, Hundred Years War, Heads Are Heavy, Fuse of Ire, Basil, Stoney Jacksons, Full Service Quartet, Sean Na Na, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Lapse, and Aspera.

SilkRoad, Inc.

SilkRoad, Inc. was founded in North Carolina in 2003 by Andrew "Flip" Filipowski with Eprise, and launched at HR Tech show in Chicago in 2005.

Sinister Street

George Orwell enjoyed the book illicitly as a prep school boy at St Cyprian's School in Eastbourne where the headmistress, Mrs 'Flip' Wilkes, gave a prize for the best list of books read.

South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1998

In addition, the Palmetto League was being financed by video poker to attack Beasley's flip-flopping on the Confederate flag issue.

Such, Such Were the Joys

St Cyprian's was, according to him, a "world of force and fraud and secrecy," in which the young Orwell, a shy, sickly and unattractive boy surrounded by pupils from families much richer than his own, was "like a goldfish" thrown "into a tank full of pike." The piece fiercely attacks the cruelty and snobbery of both his fellow pupils and of his teachers (particularly the headmaster, Mr. Vaughan Wilkes, nicknamed "Sambo," and his wife Cicely, nicknamed "Flip").

Sylvia Striplin

Her song "You Can't Turn Me Away," the flip side of her single and a track on her solo album, was featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, playing on quiet storm station VCFL.

Tamara Mello

In January/February 2009, she appeared in T-Mobile Blackberry Pearl Flip television commercials campaigning against "butt-dialing".

Techno-Cracked

Flip makes his robot out of household parts but gives it a Jack-o'-lantern for a head.

The Last Continent

It also parodies Australian people and aspects of Australian culture, such as the Crocodile Dundee, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max movies, the Australian beer XXXX, Vegemite, thongs, cork hats, the Peach Nellie, and the popular Australian songs "Waltzing Matilda" and "Down Under".

Tiger beetle

They are large-headed, hump-backed grubs that flip backwards to capture prey insects that wander over the ground.

Vetoba

He is noted for his footwear, which consists of large Kolhapuri chappals (a type of leather flip-flop).


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