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unusual facts about Rip, Sew and Stitch


Jerks of All Trades

Photo of the Stooges is actually from their 1953 film Rip, Sew and Stitch|


A Pig-Boy and His Dog

After seeing a rip-off of Pinocchio, Jay finds a puppy in the streets whom he takes home and names "Tiny".

Amateur film

Over the last few years the industry has been doing extremely well with several blockbusters - the first one being Karthik-Tasneem Sheikh starer RIP (2008), the film was a super hit and broke records in over 45 colleges across the state .

Angmering railway station

Tributes have been paid on her personal Facebook profile and her "RIP Megan" group, which has nearly 9,000 members.

Basque Radical Rock

The bands receiving most votes in each Basque Spanish province were performing, namely RIP (from Gipuzkoa), Hertzainak (from Álava), Barricada (from Navarre) and Zarama (from Biscay).

Billy Crain

He co-wrote the song "Call It Love" (by Poco) with Ron Guilbeau and Rick Lonow; "It's My Time" by Martina McBride (co-writers Kim Tribble and Tammy Hyler); "Another Nine Minutes" (co-writers Tim Buppert and Tom Douglas (songwriter)); and "Let 'er Rip" by the Dixie Chicks (co-written with Sandy Ramos).

California Roadster Association

Stars include Bob Hogle, Billy Wilkerson, Jimmy Oskie, Bobby Olivero, Rick Goudy, Buster Venard, Dean Thompson, Bubby Jones, Brad Noffsinger, Eddie Wirth, Rip Williams, John Redican, Ron Shuman, Lealand McSpadden, Richard Griffin, Billy Boat, Mike Kirby, Mike Sweeney, Stan McElrath and many more.

CDEX

CDex, an open source application to rip CDs and convert music files

Central Coast Centurions

The Centurions coach Rip Taylor was selected to coach alongside Jason Taylor as the assistrant coach of the NSW Residents on the 7th of July 2010 against the Queensland residents before game III of the 2010 State of Origin series at ANZ Stadium.

Church of St James, Cameley

These remained hidden behind whitewash until the 1960s leading John Betjeman to describe it as "Rip Van Winkle's Church".

Club 57

Reynolds, Simon: Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Penguin Books, February 2006, pgs.

Emma Sansom High School

The outstanding band, under the direction of Billy "Rip" Reagan, his son Steve Reagan, Boyd McKeown, Pat Morrow, Russ Waits and others (all former ESHS band members themselves) played for many events such as the Mardi Gras, New Orleans Saints football games as well as performing at the Viking football games, and events at the Talladega Superspeedway race track and many other national events.

Everything I Long For

The song "Assignment in Space with Rip Foster" is an alternative title to the children's novel Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin.

Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage

"Borrows a heap of corniness from the B movie Westerns and mixes a few pieces of horror in this hilarious, rip snortin' and effusively bloody play." - Playbill.com.

Forgotten Heroes

In Crisis on Infinite Earths #10, Animal Man, Dolphin and Rip Hunter again team up, along with Adam Strange, Captain Comet and the Atomic Knight.

Fred Hemmings

In 2010, he was invited by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company to attend the Rip Curl Pro Search 2010, where he was honored for his 1968 championship.

Games World

One forfeit involved a boy having to rip a poster of Pamela Anderson off his bedroom wall, after losing on Super Street Fighter II.

Harold Goodwin

Harold L. Goodwin (1914–1990), American author of popular science, adventure and science fiction books mostly for young people (Rip Foster series, under pen name Blake Savage, and Rick Brant series, between 1947 and 1968, as John Blaine)

Heaven Up Here

In his 2005 book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978–1984, British music journalist Simon Reynolds described the sound of Heaven Up Here as having been filled out with "guitar overdubs, keyboard glints, vocal multitracking and atmospheric vapours".

Kalu Ikeagwu

He has gone on to act in some of Nigeria's memorable classics, such as Major Lejoka Brown in Ola Rotimi's, "Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again" and as RIP in Esiaba Irobi's "Hangmen Also Die".

Linotronic

Manufactured by Mergenthaler Linotype Company and popularized by the Adobe RIP, enabling PostScript language files to be imaged by the Linotronic imagesetter.

Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof

Thiam, Iba Der, Maba Diakhou Ba Almamy du Rip (Sénégal), Paris, ABC, Dakar-Abidjan, NEA, 1977

Mbacké

It was destroyed by Maba Diakhou, the Tijani jihadist from the Rip, in 1865 and the Mbacké family, including the young Ahmadou Bamba, was forced to join Maba's court in Nioro.

My Sister's Machine

Still, Lonn Friend (editor of the heavy metal/rock music magazine RIP) who did a weekly segment called "Friend At Large" on Headbangers Ball on MTV, talked about how much he loved Diva.

Nicknames of Portland, Oregon

The nickname Rip City is usually used in the context of the city's NBA team, the Portland Trail Blazers.

Nioro

Nioro du Rip: a town in the southern Kaolack Region, Nioro du Rip Department, of Senegal

Radio Maldwyn

Mike Baker (ex Beacon Radio 303, WABC Wolverhampton, Chiltern Radio, Supergold, 100.7 Heart FM, Saga 105.7 FM, Smooth Radio 105.7, Oak FM, Radio Veronica Holland, Radio Kaleidoscope, UBN, Swansea Sound, Lantern FM, Sunshine 855, Radio 210) - Mike has also been involved with Rado Caroline, was an launch engineer at Capital Radio London and was on morethan40.co.uk - sadly Mike passed away aged 65 on Monday, 23rd December 2013 RIP

Remote imaging protocol

These were sent from the BBS instead of the more common ANSI color-coded text-mode screens, and were interpreted on the user's end by a RIP-enabled terminal program such as TeleGrafix's own RIPTerm which could draw them at a 640x350 EGA resolution.

Remux

A rip of Blu-ray or HD DVD disk to another container format or just stripping the disc of menus and bonus material while keeping the contents of its audio and video streams intact, guaranteeing the exact 1:1 movie quality as on original disk.

Rip-off Britain

Suomi-lisä, the "Finland surcharge", occurs when a seller exploits the poor competition and high barriers to entry (due to regulation and taxation) in Finland to price a good higher (e.g. 51 € on PlayStation 3 vs. price in equally taxing Sweden); today applies especially to electronics, but used to refer to the high mortgage interest rates charged before late 1980s-early 1990s banking deregulation

Rip-Off Republic

In addition, various Fianna Fáil backbenchers were also known to be unhappy with the programme; TD for Westmeath, Donnie Cassidy, threatened to call Hobbs and RTÉ management before a committee to explain their behaviour.

Simon Wilde

Three of his books have been short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award: Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange (1990), Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar (1994) and Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007).

Solarbabies

Joe Kane, the "Phantom of the Movies", was even less kind: "A pathetic Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome rip-off, working from a script which must have been scrawled in Crayola, with every futuristic cliche you could possibly imagine. Lacking in originality, but rich in brain-dead dialogue; when Jami Gertz snarls, 'Get out, you creature of filth!', consider that a subliminal message."

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

The New York Times described it as "such a brazen rip-off of George Lucas's Star Wars that you might think lawyers would have been called in".

Street Lethal

The instrumental track "Y.R.O." stands for "Yngwie Rip-Off", as it bears similarities to "Black Star" by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen (from his 1984 album Rising Force), with an almost identical bassline.

Synchronet

It was also the first BBS package with RIP support, in version 1b revision 1, released January 23, 1993.

The Bing Boys Are Here

The music for them was written by Nat D. Ayer with lyrics by Clifford Grey, who also contributed to Yes, Uncle!, and the text was by George Grossmith, Jr. and Fred Thompson based on Rip and Bousquet's Le Fils Touffe.

The Devil's Child

New York Daily News called the film "utterly predictable" and a "shameless rip-off of Rosemary's Baby".

The Final Rip Off

The Final Rip Off is a compilation album by the Monty Python troupe.

The Marked Men

They have released four albums through Rip Off Records, Dirtnap Records, and Swami Records.

The Rip Tide

Influenced by the recording of For Emma, Forever Ago, Condon wrote The Rip Tide while he spent six months in isolation living in a Bethel, New York winter cabin.

The Stockard Channing Show

Flamboyant Gus Clyde (Max Showalter), a former Broadway entertainer, was the station owner; Alf (Bruce Baum) was a burnout hippie who landed a job as a security guard at the station after the health food store he owned was targeted by The Big Rip-Off; and Mr. Kramer (Jack Somack) was Susan's landlord.

The Ultimate Monty Python Rip Off

The Ultimate Monty Python Rip Off is a compilation album produced by the Monty Python troupe in 1994.

Thea Realm Fighters

This fighting game by High Voltage Software was one of the Mortal Kombat rip offs developed in response to Mortal Kombat popularity.

Tim Skelly

One of his early games, Rip-Off, was the first arcade game with two-player cooperative play.

Vibrania

Due to being exposed to radioactive Vibranium she developed the ability to release Vibranium-powered blasts from her hands, these vibrations were strong enough to rip apart concrete.


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