A thread for asking useless questions

Right, Here is real question that has been bugging me, and I can't find the answer on the net.

Back in the 1980's or 90's there was a series of TV adverts for Zanussi (I think) that featured a video technique of looping and overlaying images of people coming into a room, putting things into and getting things out of the washing machine etc.

There were done by an innovative video artist, who made short looping films like this.

Who was it?

DS

OTD - Mathew Jonson - Marionette
(second time in a row)
[One of the best records I have bought recently, a long hypnotic building almost prog-trance track, but tougher than that, with a studio version and a live mixed version]

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Originally posted by cunningplan:

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Because Canadian teams get to play in it too. Which makes it a World Series obviously.

Of course it makes perfect sense now!

Here's another one... Why do the winners of the "Superbowl" call themselves "world champions"? when there's not a Canadian team in sight.

Regards
Clive

Of course there's always Berlin Thunder who've won the World Bowl 3 times, innit Pansy Football

David S,
Don't know if this is the person you were thinking about, but Zeigniew Rybezinski made a short film 'Tango' which was very similar in style to that you describe (Although I can't for the life of me remember the Zanussi ads.)

/dl

David L.

Thanks,

After googling it I found :

"Zbigniew Rybczynski's visual puzzle Tango"

Top man!

DS

ITMC - Neu! - Neu! 4

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Originally posted by Steve2701:
What actually did come first.. The chicken or the egg?

They both originated from this stuff, or so some geezer told me the other day in the chip shop, innit ?
Heavy on the ketchup

Post Post correction.

After further research, It was an Ariston fridge and washing machine advert, not Zanussi.

DS

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Can anyone see the Virgin Mary when they look at David's post with blurry eyes?

No, it is a fire breathing dragon (but aren't they all???).

Shouldn't somebody ask how he did it?

Coming to a News Stand and The History Channel near you, 'The Ariston Code'....

Andy

When will Guardian readers begin balking at the infusion of their political views in the mainstream media?

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Originally posted by Deane F:
Can anyone see the Virgin Mary when they look at David's post with blurry eyes?

I see a sporty running white rabbit (not Harvey) with Duracell written on its chest, that like Fritz's posts go on and on and on, innit.

Fritz Von No referendum then

OK Here's one for you.

Where did I put my keys?

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Where did I put my keys?

On the table in the kitchen under the burnt toast you didn't eat this morning.

Regards
Clive

Cheers Clive. You're a lifesaver.

Assuming one accepts that 9/11 didn't happen, and one ignores the inevitable; "But Fritz, it did happen", and accepting the well publicised fact (from all sides) that the Taliban virtually irradicated the production of opium in Afghanistan, I wonder if Sadam would still be in powert today, and would the millions of young junkies dying in the Western world still be dying ?

Fritz Von Nothing new there then, in the answer or the question, innit

Nightmare is a translation and corruption of a German term for an old hag/witch/demon that would enter your room at night and sit on your chest resulting in a suffocating feeling. I remember seeing a documentary on this a few years ago. It is the result of your body "waking up" marginally slower than your mind, with a result that your limbs remain int he paralysis of sleep. Over time the term has lost its original meaning and grown to be applied to bad dreams.

As for Jimmy Hoffa, as a cultural signifier he is essentiallly the US equivalent of Lord Lucan. If you believe the lore, he is supposedly burried under the goal posts in the Meadowlands Coliseum.

Jimmy Hoffa was a teamster, but not everyone was on his side.

What is the name of the dangly thing at the back of your throat ? And, maybe more importantly, what is it for ? Do they ever have to be removed, what are the consequences of such an ...ectomy ?

/dl

I think that this question was also uesed in a 'Farside' cartoon (?) where it was presented as a 'bonus' question for student medics.
" And for an extra 10 points ..."

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Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
Assuming one accepts that 9/11 didn't happen, and one ignores the inevitable; "But Fritz, it did happen", and accepting the well publicised fact (from all sides) that the Taliban virtually irradicated the production of opium in Afghanistan, I wonder if Sadam would still be in power today, and would the millions of young junkies dying in the Western world still be dying ?

Swings and roundabouts old son. Though there is an element of voluntary versus involuntary behaviour here which we don't want to delve into too deeply here. Annual amerikin road, crime, tobacco and gun-related deaths are a mere zit on the backside of the casualties caused by 9/11 after all.

I'm still waiting for GWB to declare unofficial war on MacDonalds and the tobacco industry for the attempted genocide of the american people. But you know how it is.... I suppose even GWB realises that having amerikin howitzers sniping at MacDonalds outlets with uranium enriched shells on CBS News is likely to alienate starving amerikins everywhere. The sight of all that wasted tomato sauce and french fries might just cause a democratic backlash.

Has anyone else noticed how the MacDonalds sign looks like a huge pair of siliconised breasts pointing skywards? They'll use sex to sell anything these days. (allegedly).

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Originally posted by Malky:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nime:
Not sure anyone answered the "TC>Top Cat" question.

As I said

"Top cat, the most effectual Top cat
Whose intellectual close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing its with dignity"

Why was the title of the show changed to "Boss Cat" when aired on British TV?

Because there was a cat food called "Top Cat" out at the time, and The BBC's (then) strict advertising codes meant that they had to insert this two-second throw-up after the title sequence so people wouldn't think that it was an advert for said cat food. As you would.

I mean, remember all those blacked-out brand names when Lesley Judd was making sex toys out of Fairy liquid bottles on Blue Peter?

Tim,
Lesley Judd I remember. But I can't remember her ever making sex toys out of Fairy Liquid bottles. Are you sure you are talking about Blue Peter on the Beeb, and not on some video that you may have 'borrowed' from a friend ?

/dl

Hi David,

The dangly thing at the back of your throat is called your uvula (Yoo-ver-luh).

I think it's only purpose is to jiggle about crazily in cartoons to enhance the effect of someone screaming... or something.

Cheers!

Richard

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Originally posted by Tam:
Okay, here are a couple:

Who was the only US president never to have been elected?

Actually Tam there were three more:

Chester A. Arthur -- Vice President to the assinated James Garfield. Unelected.

Andrew Johnson -- Same to Abraham Lincoln. Unelected.

Lyndon B. Johnson -- Same to JFK. Unelected.

Just pointing it out for you in the interest of transatlantic unity -- .
dn'l

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Originally posted by dsteady:

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Originally posted by Tam:
Okay, here are a couple:

Who was the only US president never to have been elected?

Actually Tam there were three more:

Chester A. Arthur -- Vice President to the assinated James Garfield. Unelected.

Andrew Johnson -- Same to Abraham Lincoln. Unelected.

Lyndon B. Johnson -- Same to JFK. Unelected.

Just pointing it out for you in the interest of transatlantic unity -- .
dn'l

Technically not. You see, all those people were elected: they were elected as part of ticket (as the vice president), so the people had technically picked them to succeed if something happened. Ford was different because Nixon's original vice president, Spiro T Agnew, had to leave (after a scandal, I think involving his taxes). Ford was appointed to the position and never elected.

Also, worth noting, that Johnson was subsequently re-elected (though the other two weren't).


regards,

Tam