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3 unusual facts about Fun


Fun-Da-Mental

He first came to public attention playing drums with Ian Astbury's (at the time going by the name Ian Lindsay) band Southern Death Cult (who, after Qureshi's departure, eventually evolved into The Cult).

FUN! Online Games Magazine

This bi-monthly publication focuses on the online gaming world, with feature articles on games such as Webkinz World, Free Realms, Build-A-Bear Online, Neopets, Club Penguin, Toontown Online, Shining Stars, TY Beanie Babies, Pokémon, Wizard 101, Pixie Hollow, and more.

Latma

In July 2011, while the second flotilla to Gaza was planned, Latma released another parody about the flotilla: a parody of Beach Boys's song and video Fun, Fun, Fun called Guns, Guns, Guns, where the flotilla sailors sing about their purpose: to bring weapons to Gaza.


1936 in comics

New Fun Comics renamed More Fun the Big Comic Magazine as of the January cover date, then renamed More Fun Comics as of the March cover date.

Acratas

Acratas, influenced by new protest movement amongst students abroad, was anarchist rather than Marxist in character, against all authority, & protested by asserting their right to have fun by ridiculing the ideas, individuals and groups they despised.

Adobe Premiere Express

Later, MTV acquired Express on their website as a way of remixing music videos for contests, games, or for fun.

Bombaat

The Chocó boy chatter box, fun loving guy on Kannada screen from Chellata to Aramane has now opened up for action with a tinge of intelligence.

Catch That Kid

Despite the negative reviews, Roger Ebert of Ebert & Roeper and the Chicago Sun Times gave Catch That Kid "thumbs up", stating that it is as much fun as Spy Kids, Kim Possible and more fun than Agent Cody Banks.

Daifugō

In Fruits Basket, a popular manga and anime series, the characters in the story often play the card game with each other, emphasizing the fun social aspects of the game.

Die Hippie, Die

Cartman then pulls out a knife and tells Kyle that he has plans for him; Kyle is then forced to watch Cartman having fun with his Tonka bulldozer in the school parking lot.

DJ Oneman

Pitchfork Media rated the album a 8.0 and stated that, "Applauding FabricLive.64 for its potential didacticism, though, would be unjustly ignoring just how much fun it is to listen to, how easily and pleasantly it moves, how Steve Bishop is playing to the rafters and pulling out all the stops when his name alone represents a seal of approval for many.

El Bernameg

Its satirical style, willing to poke fun at powerful personages across the political spectrum, has led the press to compared it with The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for this show.

Escenas de Matrimonio

Escenas de Matrimonio TV is a series issued by the Spanish television network, Telecinco, produced by Alba Adriatica (Branch producer Miramon Mendi), premiered on August 1, 2007 showing the reactions of fun couples who live in the same building situations Similar deals in their daily lives.

Evan Winiker

Evan Winiker is an American music manager and former bass player for the bands Steel Train and fun.

Fatwa

In 2003, on his television show John Safran Vs God, Australian comedian John Safran tricked Sheikh Omar Bakri into placing a fatwā on Safran's colleague Rove McManus by showing him falsified evidence seeming to indicate that McManus had been making fun of Islam.

Flirting

According to social anthropologist Kate Fox, there are two main types of flirting: flirting for fun and flirting with intent.

Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Award winning performers and full runs of shows from the likes of Pappy’s Fun Club, John Gordillo, Lewis Schaffer, Nick Wilty, Sol Bernstein, Steve Day, Bob Slayer, Nik Coppin and Ivor Dembina have appeared in previous years, plus guest appearances in compilation shows from well known performers such as Alan Carr, Scott Capurro, Richard Herring, Brendan Burns, Marcus Brigstocke, Reg D. Hunter, Dan Antopolski and Paul Foot.

Fun Inc

Fun Inc is a book first published in January 2010 by Tom Chatfield, examining videogames in terms of their cultural status, potentials as a medium and as a business.

FunTrivia

FunTrivia began at the University of Waterloo as the "Archive for Useless Facts and Trivia" in 1995, a simple website that allowed visitors to submit fun facts and information into a database.

Hell-O

The original vinyl album contained a comic book about the band, featuring artwork parodying Picasso's Guernica (renamed "Gwarnica" here) and poking fun at the "this is your brain on drugs" commercials ("This is your brain on Gwar...").

Isavella Dara

During the 2004 Summer Olympics, the model visited the Water Plaza fun park, an Olympic venue, which housed the sculpture "The Olive: The Tree of Athens", on which she and many other celebrities signed their names.

Jalsa

Jalsa (English translation: Fun) is a 2008 Telugu film directed by Trivikram Srinivas, who returns after directing a Blockbuster Athadu, and produced by Allu Aravind, under the Geetha Arts banner.

Jeff Krulik

He is best known for his 1986 documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot, co-produced by John Heyn, a gently disturbing (but, for the most part, fun-loving) look into hard-rock fandom recorded at the Capital Centre parking lot in Landover, Maryland, before a Judas Priest concert.

Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition

Team leader Felicity Aston, of the United Kingdom, explained: "Half of the team don’t usually celebrate Christmas so the others are having great fun teaching them Christmas songs and explaining why they have to hang their smelly socks outside the tent on Christmas Eve".

Kennst du die Stars

Bushido and Oliver Pocher poking fun at German celebrities, including Sarah Connor, Mario Barth, Sido and Detlef "D" Soost.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore

Homer, Smithers, and Mr. Burns get a positive (if inaccurate) impression from this, and Homer is put in total charge of the power plant while Mr. Burns takes time off to have fun floating down the Ganges with corpses he has befriended.

Kung Phooey

He travels to British Columbia (actually filmed in San Francisco, poking fun at movies like Rumble in the Bronx that disguise BC locations to look like US cities), and, with a new band of friends, tries to retrieve the stolen artifact.

Lady Behave!

The fun loving Clarice goes out for a night on the town for their Mardi Gras as sensible conservative Paula and Godfather Burton Williams remain home and prepare for their journey.

Laser Ghost

The game received mixed reviews; Allgame said that the game was fun, but probably not worth the quarters players had to spend to play it.

Machines That Make Civilization Fun

Machines That Make Civilization Fun is a studio album from American underground hip hop artist Bigg Jus, a former member of Company Flow.

Mitzie Collins

For ten years, Collins hosted Sounds Like Fun, a children's radio show on WXXI-FM in Rochester, New York.

Patch Boomhauer

He even gets clearance from the fire department to go above the designated noise level (70dB) for one night of fun.

Peter Parsons

Some melanges of hybrid buildings of various epochs like the KAFKAESQUE MEDIAEVAL CASTLE ($150), are clever bits of fun mixed with scariness.

Radio Radio

The 10th season of SNL poked fun at the Costello incident with Martin Short (who was a cast member at the time) as Costello; a part of this sketch was briefly shown in the 15th anniversary show in 1990.

Rameau's Nephew

Society does not allow the talented to support themselves because it does not value them, leaving them to beg while the rich, the powerful and stupid poke fun at men like Buffon, Duclos, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Diderot.

Sophie Bennett

In 2001–2004, Bennett recorded five Saddle Club albums (Fun For Everyone, On Top Of The World, Friends Forever, Hello World: The Best Of The Saddle Club, Saddle Club Greatest Hits and Secrets & Dreams).

Southgate, Michigan

The city of Southgate features the Splash Park/Downriver YMCA (also called Southgate Fun & Fitness Centre), as well as the Michigan headquarters for the Sonic Drive-In fast food restaurant chain.

Sunkist Fun Fruits

Advertising for the dinosaur shapes featured the "Fruitasaurus," a friendly Brontosaurus who stockpiled dinosaur shaped Fun Fruits.

Advertising on television and comic books for Fun Fruits usually featured characters named "Tickle Trees" who would cause those who approached them to laugh uncontrollably.

Tear Gas Squad

Tommy McCabe (Dennis Morgan) is a cocky nightclub entertainer who gets his jollies out of making fun of the local police force.

Teddy Yip

Yip started racing cars for fun in the 1950s at the wheel of a Jaguar XK120.

The Lassie Foundation

Supported live and in the studio by Happy Tsugawa-Banta (vibes & keyboards) and Joel Patterson (drums), The Lassie Foundation reinvented itself on Face Your Fun, citing influences such as Echo & the Bunnymen, The Jam, New Order, U2, A Flock of Seagulls, Guided by Voices, and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

The Warp of Pure Fun

Haig launched his fightback later in the year with a powerful single, "Heaven Help You Now", the lead single from The Warp Of Pure Fun.

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

It poked fun at the British trade union movement which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the Winter of Discontent.

Tommy Sparks

A clip of "She's Got Me Dancing" was used by Apple in the iPod touch "Next Level Fun" television commercial as well as being featured in the soundtrack for the video game FIFA 10.

WHJY

They frequently feature skits and fake recordings, having made fun of many of the local politicians (including, notably, imitations of Rhode Island Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy which compare him to Beaver Cleaver).

WKNL

The last song of the "Kool" format was "Last Dance" by Donna Summer with the first song of the "Roxy" station being "Some Nights" by Fun.

Worlds of Fun

Snoopy's Hot Summer Lights was a one million dollar investment that uses special effects and sound design, custom designed for Worlds of Fun by Emmy Award-Winning RWS and Associates.

Xue Zong

On one occasion, when the Shu Han envoy Zhang Feng (張奉) made fun of the name of his colleague Kan Ze during a feast, he gained somewhat of a measure of revenge by making fun of Shu Han's name.

Yonggary

An edited version of the film is featured in an episode of This Movie Sucks! where it is made fun of by Ed the Sock and Liana K, with regular contributor Ron Sparks only in the show occasionally as a voice with Ed telling him "you're not in this episode".


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