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Space-Thing

The movie is described by Something Weird Video as "Visit the 'Planet of the Rapes' with Captain Mother and her sultry crew of sadistic lesbians in this campy 'peek into the year 2069.'

The Body Snatchers

The Father-thing (December 1954), a short story by Philip K. Dick, appearing in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, uses the ideas of pods duplicating humans and fire being the means of destroying the pods


An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

These operations are compounding (or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn); transposing (or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur); augmenting (as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented); and diminishing (as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished).

Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing

Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing is a travel journal written by Charles Dudley Warner, the American author who co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today with Mark Twain.

Berni Inn

In the Red Dwarf episode "Better Than Life", Holly notes that even though loneliness weighs heavily on us all, "Personally, the only thing that keeps me going is the thought that we are over 60 billion miles away from the nearest Berni Inn."

Bop till You Drop

The album consisted almost entirely of covers of earlier R&B and rock'n'roll classics, including Elvis Presley's "Little Sister" and the 1965 Fontella Bass-Bobby McClure hit "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing", on which Cooder duetted with soul star Chaka Khan, who also performed on the only original track on the album, "Down in Hollywood".

Caria

Lemprière notes that "As Caria probably abounded in figs, a particular sort has been called Carica, and the words In Care periculum facere, have been proverbially used to signify the encountering of danger in the pursuit of a thing of trifling value." The region of Caria continues to be an important fig-producing area to this day, accounting for most fig production in Turkey, which is the world's largest producer of figs.

Chicken Trek

Chicken Trek: The Third Strange Thing That Happened to Oscar Noodleman is a novel by Stephen Manes.

Child pornography laws in the United States

CBLDF leader Neil Gaiman remarked on how this could apply to his work The Doll's House, saying, "if you bought that comic, you could be arrested for it? That’s just deeply wrong. Nobody was hurt. The only thing that was hurt were ideas."

Contrarian investing

Some well-known value investors such as John Neff have questioned whether there is a such thing as a "contrarian", seeing it as essentially synonymous with value investing.

Dan Maynes-Aminzade

It gained large popularity after being described as "the best fucking thing I've ever heard" by LiveJournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick.

Demi's Birthday Suit

Departing Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown felt "The only thing to do for the anniversary cover was to reprise it."

Dick Stuart

An excerpt: "Every play hit his way was an adventure, the most routine play a challenge to his artlessness. It is hard to describe this to anyone who has not seen it, just as it is hard to describe Xavier Cugat or Allen Ludden. Stu once picked up a hot dog wrapper that was blowing toward his first base position. He received a standing ovation from the crowd. It was the first thing he had managed to pick up all day, and the fans realized it could very well be the last."

Die in Your Arms

The song included a sample of the recording "We Got a Good Thing Going" performed by Michael Jackson and samples of the recording "Synthetic Substitution" performed by Melvin Bliss.

George Robert Ainslie

He made a specialty of Anglo-Norman coins, and travelled all over England, and, what was then a more uncommon thing, all over the rural districts of Normandy and Brittany, in search of coins.

Greatest Hurts

In addition to Arden's best-known hits, the album also includes two new songs ("Thing For You" and "Never Mind"), two songs that Arden recorded for compilation albums ("You Don't Know Me", from the soundtrack to My Best Friend's Wedding, and "If It Be Your Will", from the Leonard Cohen tribute Tower of Song), an alternate version of "Sleepless" and a live version of Arden's most famous song, "Insensitive".

Javad Khan

And the other thing that when we get under the rule of the Russian king, the Iranian king were to Khorasan and we could not reach him, and due to that fact the king of Russia is also great, we accepted his obedience, but now, thanks to god, the Iranian king is near and his servant general has come to us and also his army, and more of them will come to help us.

Jazz hands

The best example of this is the opening musical number of Pippin (musical), Magic to Do, in which still illuminated jazz hands are the first thing the audience sees.

Jean-Louis Duport

In 1812, Jean-Louis returned to Paris, where he encountered Napoleon, who insisted on trying out Duport's Stradivarius cello, exclaiming, "How the devil do you hold this thing, Monsieur Duport?"

JK and Joel

They were replaced by Greg James in the overnight slot,who the pair said on the record that "Greg is the next big thing in radio" and taking over the chart show were good friends Fearne & Reggie.

Karl Shapiro

His other works include Person, Place and Thing (1942), (with Ernst Lert) the libretto to Hugo Weisgall's opera The Tenor (1950), To Abolish Children (1968), and The Old Horsefly (1993).

Mittelndorf railway station

A similar thing in Europe could be found, for example, in the stations of Kloster Marienthal (Engers-Au line, Germany); Pertosa, in southern Italy; or Corrour, in Scotland.

More Than Us

# "Funny Thing" (Alternative Version) (Featuring Tim Simenon) - 3:44

Nebula Maker

Stapledon first announced his intention to write a history of the universe in his 1935 work Odd John, in which the main character, John Wainwright, has already produced such a thing (Stapledon would often mention his next literary project in the book he was currently working on - the story of "Odd John" is itself mentioned in passing in 1932's Last Men in London).

Nicholas John Benson

The most notable thing about the book are the introductions - one by Prince Andrew and the other by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

Nisennenmondai

Prefuse 73 said in an interview with Dazed & Confused "John Stanier from Battles had told me that they were sick. They start to play. Next thing you know, these three tiny diminutive women were making us look like idiots because they were so incredible".

Paige Lewis

Rice produced and co-wrote See You Again and The Best Thing, which were used in the 2003 film Matchstick Men.

PC-LISP

Note that the Franz LISP dialect was the immediate, portable successor to the ITS version of Maclisp and is perhaps the closest thing to the LISP in the Steven Levy book Hackers as is practical to operate.

Please Bring Your Love Back

"Please Bring Your Love Back" is the final single released from Angela Winbush's second album, The Real Thing.

Return to Halloweentown

This is given as a hint when Splendora tells Marnie, "...even King Arthur said that the whole royalty thing was harder than it looked."

Rock Ignition

The band released their 2nd EP "Innocent Thing" on May 17, 2013 through the record company Sound Guerilla/DA Music, produced by bassist Jürgen Steinmetz and mixed by Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69, Unisonic).

Roll the Bones

"Dreamline" and "Roll the Bones" were popular radio staples of the early 90s, with the former reaching #1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart, while "Where's My Thing?" became the band's third instrumental and was their second song to be nominated for a Grammy, in 1991, losing to Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover".

Ruby Button

Diane, now fully aware of Sinead's involvement of the bullying, tries to blame the whole thing on Ruby, but Ruby reveals the whole truth by showing Dylan Shaw's (Mikey Riddington-Smith) video of Esther's message, in front of everyone, including new college headmaster Patrick Blake.

Sascha Burchert

Two minutes later the same thing happened, with Zé Roberto scoring from the edge of the centre circle with Burchert off his line following another headed clearance.

Sharon Ventura

During the Secret Invasion, a Skrull impersonating Sharon's "She-Thing" persona is killed by the Skrull Kill Krew.

Shatterstar

His strength is superhuman enough that he is capable of wielding a heavy barbell as easy as a bo-staff and slam the Thing of the Fantastic Four through a window of the Baxter Building.

Shawn Stockman

He has written the songs "Forever", "Hot Thing", and "Let It Go"; the latter of which was played during the Disney movie Seventeen Again.

Sunnyland Slim

In turn, members of Canned Heat - lead guitarist Henry Vestine, slide guitarist Alan Wilson and bassist Larry Taylor - guested on Sunnyland Slim's Liberty Records album Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On (1968), which also featured Mick Taylor.

Takashi Nagai

One of his professors spoke about the philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal, quoting a sentence from the Pensées: "Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed."

The Original Sins

JT as he is known wanted to do his own thing and after numerous unsuccessful auditions of musicians who could not keep up with his erratic guitar and vocal style he was introduced to bassist Ken Bussiere by WMUH college radio DJ Neil Hever.

The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck is a short story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it was first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US.

The Ultimate Experience

It features 20 of his greatest hits, most of them recorded with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and live renditions of "The Star Spangled Banner" and "Wild Thing".

Thog

Gerber himself, along with Man-Thing, were integral in defeating Thog on Therea in his first attempt to take over the universe.

Training Wheels for Citizenship

The Daily Shows producers invited Sen. Vasconcellos and Sacramento County Registrar Jill LaVine to be interviewed by Rob Corddry, who asked, "Do you ever think of counting blacks as more than one vote to make up for that whole slavery thing? P. Diddy's got to be worth two votes, and Justin Timberlake, he's worth two votes, even though he's not black or anything."

Truman O. Angell

When the afternoon meeting assembled, Joseph, feeling very much elated, arose the first thing and said the personage who had appeared in the morning was the Angel Peter come to accept the dedication.

Twilight of the Idols

In the chapter The Four Great Errors, he suggests that people, especially Christians, confuse the effect for the cause, and that they project the human ego and subjectivity on to other things, thereby creating the illusionary concept of being, and therefore also of the thing-in-itself and God.

Una cosa rara

Una cosa rara, ossia Bellezza ed onestà (A Rare Thing, or Beauty and Honesty) is an opera by the composer Vicente Martín y Soler.

Vitamin S

Whenever the opportunity arises Vitamin S also hosts workshops with international improvisers such as Susie Ibarra (New York), Eric Boeren (Holland), Manon-Liu Winter, Heinz-Peter Lindshalm/Petra Stump (Vienna), DJ Olive (NY), Mathieu Werchowski (France), The Necks (Australia/Europe), Mark Trayle (USA), The Thing and Experimenta (Argentina).

Werewolf by Night

Werewolf by Night appears in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "This Man-Thing, This Monster", voiced by Rob Paulsen.

Willie Gallacher

Whilst revolution was the furthest thing from the minds of the trade union leaders of the day, Gallacher later claimed that they should have marched to the barracks in the Maryhill district of the city and encouraged the Scottish troops there to leave them and join the workers against the government.

Young Steff

After the controversial Roc-A-Fella split, Steff was led to super producer Rich Harrison (who produced hits such as Amerie "1 Thing ", Jennifer Lopez "Get Right", and Beyoncé "Crazy In Love") who offered to sign the young performer to his growing Richcraft label through Atlantic Records after an impromptu audition, with dancers in tow.


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