Like, what do the lyrics, "Blobby, oh Mr Blobby, if humanity's a question of degree / Blobby, Mr Blobby, stay loyal to your Blobby pedigree," actually mean?
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Then there's silence... Then there's "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby.
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"Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby, from his 4-track EP Mr Blobby, is one such Christmas song, and it means so much more than basic festive cheer.
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For that reason, the best festive anthem of all time is "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby.
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We sing "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby till our voices are hoarse and the blood drips down our chins.
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Zeisel's blobby forms transformed the mundane into something deeply emotional.
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Pour one out for Mr. Blobby, gone but never forgotten.
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Who or indeed what is inside the Mr Blobby costume?
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"Mr Blobby", however, sounds like seven different songs at once.
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At the end of the day, is "Mr Blobby" original?
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"Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby is the greatest Christmas song because it's barely a song, just a squawk of noise and panic, and in many ways captures the feeling of Christmas more than anything else.
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The 1993 Christmas single "Mr Blobby" is a classic example of how Blobby just showed up and kicked a bunch of people in the shins while taking credit for the work of everyone around him.
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But these more realistic emoji still lived alongside the blobby expressions.
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You can see what the company's blobby AI looks like below.
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And then, in the centre, we have the one song that defies Christmas categorization, one large pink leg sat astride L.G.C.S., another blancmange-colored foot planted firmly in A.C.S.T.A.A.M. That song is "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby.
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Then she's something a little less, well, flattering: a blobby CGI alien.
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You are that pink, blobby, soon-to-die bit by the bottom.
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Others are similar-looking but larger blobby characters called macrophages (literally, "big eaters").
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More than this, however, it's because at Christmas, Mr. Blobby is us all.
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Some of the innate immune cells are small, blobby smart patrollers called dendritic cells.
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Maybe you read the Blobby Boys comic before or after reading the main story.
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Sadly, the very dead Mr. Blobby now resides in Australian Museum's Ichthyology Collection, in Sydney.
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The blobby protein that Dr. Henderson originally imaged in 1975 can now be studied precisely.
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When you saw someone with the same puffy sleeves and blobby silhouette, you instantly acknowledged each other.
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In microgravity, flames don't taper like they do on your dinner table: They stay blobby and spherical.
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The inside front and back covers reprint the Blobby Boys comic that originally appeared on this site.
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Why am I being asked to write 100-150 words about Mr Blobby for a Christmas piece?
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And what's the meaning of his ace of spades with a blobby buglike figure in the middle?
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A cutesy aesthetic of blobby paint and pleasing colors prevailed, whether in down-tempo abstraction or goofball figuration.
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The Sunshine Coast in Australia, specifically, is being blighted with a huge number of beached, blobby jellyfish invaders.
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I take two long and clumsy drags that probably look more like Mr. Blobby delivering a tennis serve.
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I have listened to "Mr Blobby" fifteen times today and I still couldn't tell you how it goes.
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It looks rough, but those blobby edges and shaggy cars can easily be interpreted and refit with more precision.
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The stickers might satisfy the holdouts who for some reason prefer the flat blobby look of Google's old emoji.
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This blobby rover could exploit a few different methods for locomotion, outlined in the patent, and on the project homepage.
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Sputtering tom rolls, blobby techno synths, and crystalline cymbal taps blossom and spill out of the theater's massive surround-sound system.
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A consultant had located a woman in Tarzana who had agreed to knit thirteen oversized, blobby sweaters, according to Ruby's specifications.
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So does the blobby, rapacious, all-consuming monster that shows up in the third act, much like No Face in Spirited Away.
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It's only been a matter of weeks since Ditto arrived in Pokémon Go and captured our hearts with his sweet little blobby face.
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But while their blobby shapes and bright colors are easily recognizable, their backstory might not be so familiar — or as straightforward as you'd think.
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The gif is so, well, blobby, because it takes up such a tiny part of Kepler's 95 megapixel camera: just 11 by 11 pixels.
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She makes these really large, blobby-looking sculptures that usually have some sort of thrift-store found object on it or leaning against it.
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Laser scanners don't cope well with very small, fiddly details like leaves or hair, for example, and it tends to come up with these strange, blobby shapes.
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In the meantime, read up on Mashable's guide to taking a supermoon pic that isn't a blobby mess, and enjoy Twitter's failed attempts at capturing a perfect pic.
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Elisa Lendvay, 43, who lives and works in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., combines the material with steel, bamboo, rubber and wire mesh to create objects that range from spindly to blobby.
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Then you dial through the available special effects, which include blobby impressionism, Picassoesque abstraction, mangalike cartoons and even classic Japanese pen and ink paintings, and select one with a tap.
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Blobby is a classic hedonist: nihilistic, vain, destroying everything in his path, and bellowing his own name like the product of a botched attempt to breed DJ Khaled with a Flump.
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If I could choose any Christmas song it would have been "2 Become 1" by the Spice Girls, but you've already said it has to be Blobby which just seems bizarre.
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The thick dust off the turntable was wiped away, that salmon-coloured vinyl started rotating and—shining through the crackles and dust—the music hit me like a bullet train… Blobby.
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"Some people on the spectrum can see something that looks like a face but can't really see the shapes properly so it looks a bit grey and blobby," says Dr. Jansari.
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Midcentury modern design ushered in some particularly blobby home goods, with pieces like Charles and Ray Eames's La Chaise chair, which was created in 1948 but didn't go into production until 1996.
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"Painting," painted by Joan Miró in 19257, in Barcelona, is a composition of black, red, and white blobby shapes and linear glyphs on a ground of bleeding and blending greens and browns.
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"It's breaking my heart," she said, pulling up on her computer screen an image of a blobby Danish armchair that looked as if it were made from half-melted chocolate ice cream.
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Among the pieces here are a slick vinyl "White Foot Sofa" (1969), with slightly blobby toes, and an ironing table from 2004, cut from wood in the outline of a female body.
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The upscale collection, which includes shampoos, hair masks and conditioners, comes packaged in trim boxes of marine blue and goldenrod in a blobby pattern that could call to mind a Marni print.
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The spring cleaning is carried out by hungry, blobby Pac-Man cells in our blood—part of a 500 million-year-old personal defense force that Allison's textbooks called the innate immune system.
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He has designed a blobby pink plastic mask to thwart facial recognition scanning, a technology with the potential, possibly already realized, of using racial and sexual stereotyping to isolate groups of social undesirables.
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For the uninitiated Crinkley Bottom—the mythical home of Noel Edmonds and his pustulated and phallic pal Mr Blobby—was a failed theme park in the civil parish of Cricket St. Thomas, Somerset.
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Probing deeper, I hit a blobby pocket—cheese, I presumed—followed by the vacuous crunch of iceberg lettuce (the only kind of crunch iceberg knows how to offer), and a soft bite of butifarra sausage.
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A blobby little fairy can be lead around with the player's mouse, a few basic interactions completed, but the joy is in what there is to find and less in what there is to do with it.
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From his reading in the library, Allison knew that researchers had found these blobby amoeba-like cells to be more than just garbagemen; they were also frontline reporters bringing back updates from the constant battle against disease.
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Incongruous blobby shapes also appear in this painting and most others, sanded down with the rest of the surface and providing a crucial counterpoint, humanizing what looks like mechanical precision by drawing attention to the paintings' manual origin.
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It was painted in a naïve style—the boat was like a child's toy boat and the waves were the curlicue kind of waves a child would paint, and the storm was an enormous white blobby shape overhead.
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I think that's what the start of the video is trying to say; that Mr Blobby is some kind of pink, perforated alien descended to Earth with the expressed intention of pushing Noel Edmonds onto plates of jelly.
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The movie begins in medias res, with Quill and the gang facing down a blobby adversary with fat, snapping tentacles and rows of nasty teeth — the better to eat them with or just tear them limb from limb.
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The only thing that rescues it from reaching Mr Blobby levels of insanity is the fact that the lyrics make some sort of cohesive sense, which also makes it inherently better than anything Robert Plant has ever written. Wild.
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In order to give them a proper send-off, we took a page out of the Academy Awards' playbook; Sara Bareilles couldn't make it to sing along, but it's probably just because she didn't recognize our new blobby gray avatar.
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The chorus which, by the way, is "Oh Mr Blobby, your influence will spread throughout the land"—a weirdly Maoist take on the bit in the Christmas single traditionally reserved for espousing joy or generosity or something stressful like that.
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"And it's a bit of a dangerous time to be seen indulging in frivolity," Mr. Flaccavento added, though the wonderfully blobby, garish sculptures that the contemporary artist Glenn Brown had inserted amid the museum's faded antiquities appeared to do exactly that.
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The first real picture of a black hole, which looks satisfyingly black and blobby, consists of radiation emitted by hot gases on the far side of the black hole and then bent by its gravity into a tube of light with darkness in its central cavity.
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By contrast, with their blobby charm and sprays of errant circles shooting off from their sides, "Untitled" (ink on washi, 2010) and "Untitled (HD 2210)" (ink on paper, 2010) possess both the sturdiness of otherworldly bowling balls and the gossamer lightness of big, overblown puffs of cotton candy.
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And even after nearly three decades, Mr. Lynch's visual imagination remains inimitable: an ace of spades with a misshapen symbol in the center; Laura removing her face, beneath which is cold white light; the "arm" — one of the mystic denizens of the Lodge — represented now not by a dancing dwarf but by a tree with a head of blobby flesh.
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And then it's also mad because it's got Yung Clarkson in the video, it is a gigantic pink monster whose very existence makes me almost sick—the way he doesn't truly talk, the way he just collapses everywhere instead of walking, my visceral reaction to Blobby is similar to emerging, sweating and frantic and aching, from a three-day fever dream—and who was invented by Noel Edmonds.
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Blobby Volley on gamehippo.com (2001, archived) A jeuxvideo.com retrospective described Blobby Volley as fun multiplayer game in 2009.Oldies Blobby Volley by staff on jeuxvideo.
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Around Christmas 1993, retailers came out with many types of Mr Blobby merchandise. In addition to the CD or cassette tape single, Blobby merchandise included dolls and plush toys, slippers, egg cups, condiment shakers, pink lemonade, and towels. Three programs were released on VHS, "Mr Blobby" (1993), "Blobbyvision" (1994) and "The All New Adventures of Mr Blobby" (1996).
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Blobby Volley on chip.de (May 2017)Blobby Volley 2 on chip.de (May 2017) Blobby Volley was also included on several video game magazines' cover disks with freeware game compilations, for instance CD-Action 1/2007,CD-Action 1/2007 on gry-online.pl GameStar 01/2012, or the Open Source Software CD.blobbyvolley on opensource-dvd.
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Mr Blobby is a character originally featured on Noel Edmonds' Saturday night variety BBC One television show Noel's House Party, portrayed by Barry Killerby from Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and was the brainchild of British comedy writer Charlie Adams, a writer for the show. A bulbous pink figure covered with yellow spots, he has a permanent toothy grin and green jiggling eyes. Mr Blobby communicates only by saying the word "blobby" in an electronically altered voice, expressing his moods through tone of voice and repetition. He topped the UK Singles Chart with the 1993 Christmas release "Mr Blobby".
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In 1992, during series two of House Party, the character Mr Blobby was introduced as a way for Noel Edmonds to play practical jokes on celebrities. The success of the character resulted in a large amount of merchandise, public appearances and even theme parks based around the character. Mr Blobby was portrayed by Barry Killerby, except for a performance in November 1994, when, due to illness, Mr Blobby was portrayed by Kevin Hall, a performer from the Crinkley Bottom theme park in Morecambe. Mr Blobby was dropped from the show after series 7, but made a surprise reappearance in the final ever episode.
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Briggs went to Rose Bruford College with Barry Killerby who's better known as Mr Blobby.
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Blobby Anleitung on blobby-liga.de (in German) It is offered from many freeware download outlets, for instance it was downloaded between 2007 and May 2017 alone from Sourceforge.net over 700,000 times,stats 2000-05-12+to+2017-05-18 on sourceforge.net Chip.de counted over 1 million downloads (at May 2017).
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Network games are possible in Blobby Volley where you can play against another human opponent. Locally, you can also play with another human opponent on the same system or against the AI. Blobby Volley allows you to configure keyboard and mouse controls, the colors of the blobs and the background image. Blobby Volley is available in three languages (German, English and French) and also gives an insight into a history of game statistics (wins, losses). There are community made mods available for the game.
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Finally, as usual, December saw the Christmas number one single. Meat Loaf's successor at number 1 was Mr. Blobby, a popular character on the BBC One show Noel's House Party, with "Mr. Blobby" (the first ever eponymously titled number 1 single). In the final week before Christmas, he was knocked off by Take That's "Babe", making Mr. Blobby the first one-week #1 since U2's "The Fly" in November 1991, and making Take That the first act to have three singles in a row all enter at #1.
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For instance Quick Game which is a modification for Blobby Volley which speeds up the game and reduces the winning number of points to 10.
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In 1994 Millenium Interactive released Mr Blobby, a platformer game based on the character for Amiga and PC. The game received negative reviews from critics.
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During the cruise, Blobby gets seasick and spews out slime that forms into a child. In addition, he also creates a blob version of Tinkles.
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Mr. Blob is the father of Wendy Blob who appeared in Hotel Transylvania: The Series. Whether he is the same character as Blobby is unconfirmed.
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Examples of isosurfaces are 'Metaballs' or 'blobby objects' used in 3D visualisation. A more general way to construct an isosurface is to use the function representation.
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Mr Blobby appeared at three Crinkley Bottom-themed attractions in pre- existing British theme parks during the 1990s. The first was based at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, opening in July 1994. Attractions included a walk- through Blobby House named Dunblobbin, a dark ride based around classic children's television characters, and an animated Noddy exhibit. While the park attracted over 500,000 visitors in its first year, attendance figures dwindled and the park closed in 1998.
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Blobby Volley is a free and open-source sports computer game series in which two blobbed shaped entities play volleyball against each other. There are multiplayer and single-player modes.
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The single reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart on 11 December 1993, replacing Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", which had been in the No. 1 spot for seven weeks. A week later, "Babe" by Take That demoted Mr Blobby from the top spot for one week. Mr Blobby made a surprise return to the No. 1 spot on Christmas Day, and repeated that position the following week.
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The Shmoo, a blobby Al Capp cartoon creature that complaisantly cooked itself up into any dish you wanted, is juxtaposed in the exhibition with similarly shaped Eva Zeisel salt and pepper shakers.
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Blobby Volley 2 logo Started in 2007 on Sourceforge under the GPLv2 license, Blobby Volley 2 is the official continuation written by new programmers and based on the original assets. The continuation is programmed in C++ (gcc) instead of Delphi. This new version uses OpenGL/SDL for rendering which allows cross-platform ports for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The game is offered as freely downloadable and shareable Freeware, while also asking for donations for further development and server funding, which makes the game also donationware.
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Boyzone, Oasis, R. Kelly, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Toni Braxton were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1994. The 1993 Christmas number-one, "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby remained at number-one for the first week of 1994. The first new number-one single of the year was "Twist and Shout" by Chaka Demus & Pliers featuring Jack Radics and Taxi Gang. Overall, fifteen different singles peaked at number-one in 1994, with Take That (2) having the most singles hit that position.
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There is improved network support with Dedicated servers, to reduce lag. In November 2013 a commercial Android version was released,Blobby-Volley-2 Android version on play.google.com in 2014 a version for iOS.Blobby-Volley-2 iOS version on itunes.apple.
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"Mr Blobby" is a novelty song performed by character Mr Blobby, famous for appearing in the TV programme Noel's House Party. The song originally peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart on 11 December 1993 for one week but reclaimed the top spot to become the Christmas number one single, and spent a total of three weeks at No. 1. It was written by Philip Raxster, produced by Paul Shaw and David Rogers and was released on 22 November 1993. Despite its chart success, it has often been named as one of the worst songs ever recorded.
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Blobby Volley was originally written in Delphi by Daniel Skoraszewsky with graphics by Silvio Mummert. Version 1.0 was released in November 2000 on the authors' homepage as Freeware for PCs with Windows.blobby on mummertathome (archived, 2001) Development ended around 2005 with version 1.8.
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It has repeatedly placed high in polls of awful songs, such as that run by VH1 in which it placed third to "The Millennium Prayer" and "Mr Blobby". As of November 2012, the song was the 83rd biggest selling single in UK chart history.
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Dunno! Is she going to be able to get it through the Commons? Don't know about that, either. I think you might as well get Mr Blobby back on to offer his analysis, because, frankly, I suspect his is now as good as mine.
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The player is assisted by a fellow debugger named Leon who provides information and weapons and is also said player's buddy. The game featured a minimal ability to look up and down. Selecting a higher difficulty generated a blobby monster that moved on the ceiling.
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Each episode would also have a celebrity guest, someone who was famous for being on TV at the time, such as Richard McCourt (better known as "Dick" of Dick and Dom), former popstar Gary Glitter, Mark Speight, Dave Benson-Phillips, Paul Zerdin, Michaela Strachan and Mr. Blobby.
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92 - 93. Clearface is a warm, curving design, showing the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, for instance in the tilted 'e' and blobby, organic design, but not particularly based on any past period of type design and with a mixture of cursive and structured features.
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Through Noel's House Party, Mr Blobby was seen in short comedy sketches, 'guest-appearing' on other TV programmes. Examples include Lovejoy, where he unintentionally broke antique furniture, and Keeping Up Appearances, where he was seen paying an impromptu visit to Hyacinth and Richard Bucket, disrupting their kitchen.
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Abandoned remains of Crinkley Bottom, Cricket St Thomas, pictured in 2010 The first park located in Cricket St Thomas was based around an existing wildlife park and the Cricket House country estate. The Crinkley Bottom park was based around Mr Blobby with a Blobby-themed house called "Dunblobbin'" being the main attraction along with several other themed areas based on British children's television including Noddy and The Animals of Farthing Wood. The park opened in 1994 and was popular. A year later, a water river ride based on children's television was opened with plans being made to open a replica of "The Great House" set from the television programme in Cricket House.
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Blobby's 1993 Christmas release "Mr Blobby", which topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks, is regarded by many as the worst single, and indeed, song, of all time. It beat Meat Loaf's I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That), and Take That's Babe, among other songs to Christmas number 1. His 1995 track "Christmas in Blobbyland" (a number 36 UK entry) was voted the worst festive song ever by British Christmas shoppers in 2011 and 2015 polls, and was named in the Metro as the second- worst Christmas song of all time in 2013. Mr Blobby: The Album (1994) was voted the worst LP ever made in a 2016 listener survey.
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Blobby (voiced by Jonny Solomon in the second movie, Genndy Tartakovsky in the third film) is a green blob monster who speaks blob language and hasn't seen the outside world until the sequel. He was used to break Johnny's fall in the original movie and was seen in the sauna. In the sequel, he "hugged" Johnny's mom and was seen on the side of the car, listening to a popular song while Dracula forced everyone else to listen to Bigfoot's life story, which he reads himself on an audiobook, which no one really liked, except for Drac, who was smiling. In Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Blobby accompanies Drac on a cruise.
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An MTV critic said that Blobby "tried to kill music... with what might be the worst song of all time"; the track is often named as such. Rupert Hawksley of The Telegraph ranked it as the worst Christmas number one in history, arguing that Blobby "set the bar so low with this bizarre single, it's hard to imagine that it could ever be usurped". Daily Record writer Euan McColm named it the third-worst Top 10 single of all time, while Gemma Wheatley of the Daily Star called it the third most-annoying track ever written. It placed first in an HMV public poll of the worst-ever festive songs, and second in a VH1 viewer survey of the worst number one singles of all time.
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In 2009, a large blobby mass made of colonies of Tubifex was found to be living in the sewers of Raleigh, North Carolina. Revealed by a snake camera inspection of sewer piping under the Cameron Village shopping center, videos of the "creature" went viral on YouTube in 2009 under the name "Carolina poop monster".
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CBeebies idents have used a moving blobby, slimy like background or rounded shapes in any colour. Each block has its own ident, and the bedtime hour has a few different idents. In 2016, new idents were made for each block, replacing the old ones and the slimy moving background idents were rarely shown. New idents featuring CBeebies house have been used too.
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Wilson has won the title of "Best Television Weather Presenter - Worldwide" at the International Television Weather Forecasters Festival in 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2003. Viewers come flooding in to watch Francis Wilson make a splash He also won a Gotcha Award after being pranked by Mr Blobby. He is also the author of seven books, including The Great British Obsession (1990).
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When then-Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis was "Gotcha'd" live on Radio 1, he infamously yelled "Edmonds, you are a dead man!" He later participated when Edmonds himself was "Gotcha'd". Mr Blobby, a pink and yellow spotted character, initially appeared in the "Gotcha" section, and became a regular feature of the programme. The character even achieved the 1993 Christmas No. 1.
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She is an expert at using Tarot cards and tries to convince Rune about the problems of the real world, even though it seems Rune isn't interested in them. She is revealed to bear the Crest of the Sun on her ankle in volume two. ;Chat-Kun: This is the pink, blobby little creature in the story. He has the Sun Crest on his belly.
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These rides are generally teeter totters for one person. An inanimate figure typically sits at the opposite end of the ride. The rides moves on a gentle up-and-down motion mimicking that of a standard teeter-totter. Jolly Roger Rides has made three of these: one featuring Mr. Bump from The Mr. Men Show, one featuring the Pink Panther and one featuring Mr. Blobby.
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The Blobby Volley series became quite popular freeware game, either as single player casual game and also as competitive tournament game on LAN parties, for instance the GameCon.Fernsehbeitrag: Die WLAN-Party am Werner-Heisenberg-Ring, n-tv, June 11, 2003 (German).Gamescenes: Campzone on gamer.nl by Wesley B. (28 July 2011, in Dutch) There is an online Sports league, running since several years organized by the community.
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"I'm a fraud," he tells Angel. "The Council was right to sack me." Angel, initially annoyed, now listens with more patience, even as he continues to comb the place for evidence. When Angel finds the crumpled drawing Cordelia made from her vision, he rotates the paper ninety degrees and recognizes it as the gray, blobby sculpture, "Maiden with Urn," by an artist with whom he's familiar.
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They must select the one person to whom BOTH statements apply. (e.g., if the people were Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage and Mr. Blobby, and the statements were "I have had a UK Christmas No. 1 in the 90s" and "I have married Elvis's daughter Lisa Marie Presley", then the person who fits both would be Michael Jackson, as Mr. Blobby only fits the first one, and Nicolas Cage only fits the second one. You Spell Terrible (first played on Series 3, Episode 2): The pairs are given a question which one player must buzz in to say the correct answer, and the other player must spell it out correctly to get a point. Totes Emoji (first played on Series 3, Episode 3): Each player is asked to identify an answer based on a category chosen which one of their opponents has described in emoji before the show.
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The park also featured appearances by Mr Blobby and Edmonds himself. The park continued in this vein until 1996–1997, when it was bought by Leisure Great Britain, a caravan park operator. It owned the park until 2000, when Peter and Peggy Hadden, who had been connected with the park for many years, bought it. The name changed to New Pleasurewood Hills. In 2000 the park bought Magic Mouse.
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Crinkley Bottom, also popularly referred to as Blobbyland, was the operating title for a series of British theme parks operating in the 1990s. They were created by Noel Edmonds based on the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom where the Noel's House Party television programme was based. The parks operated based on the popularity of Mr Blobby. Three parks were operated under the Crinkley Bottom name in England by Edmonds' company, Unique.
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In 1994 the grounds also became home to Crinkley Bottom, a theme park created by the broadcaster Noel Edmonds themed on the "Mr Blobby" character from his hit BBC television series Noel's House Party. The project was short- lived and closed within four years, shortly after Noel's House Party went off air. when the grounds reverted to their previous use. Mr Blobby's house, named 'Dunblobbin' was situated at the rear of the park.
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Noel's House Party was the successor to The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow, carrying over some of its regular features such as the 'Gunge Tank', the 'Gotcha Oscar' and 'Wait Till I Get You Home'. The show had many celebrity guests posing as residents of Crinkley Bottom, including Frank Thornton and Vicki Michelle. It gave birth to Mr. Blobby in the Gotcha segment. There was also a contrived rivalry between Edmonds and Tony Blackburn.
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" John Anson of the Lancashire Evening Post opined: "If you're going to have a gimmick in your game show at least make it entertaining. Surely this is a programme which would have been ideal for CBeebies. Make the questions simple, involve bunches of kids and hey, presto it works... But primetime Saturday night viewing it ain't." Digital Spy's Alex Fletcher noted: "Not since the days of Mr Blobby and Ice Warriors have weekends been filled with such peculiar antics.
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With the House Party set in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom, Edmonds opened three Crinkley Bottom attractions at pre-existing theme parks in the UK. The first, based at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, featured many Mr Blobby attractions and was due to include a replica of the Great House from the series. The park closed in 1998 following dwindling attendance figures. In 1994, a Crinkley Bottom theme park opened in Morecambe. It closed 13 weeks after opening.
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Noel's House Party was a popular family entertainment programme on the BBC during the 1990s. The programme was hosted by Edmonds in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom and also included Mr Blobby as a comic relief character that gained fame during the decade. Hoping to capitalise on the popularity of both, Edmonds and his production company Unique looked into ways to open a theme park based around Noel's House Party. The first theme park opened in Cricket St Thomas, Somerset in 1994.
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However a year later Edmonds pulled out of backing the park, though due to contractual rights the majority of the attractions remained but were removed a year later. References to Mr Blobby were removed with Noddy being used as the main character for the rebranded Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park. Dunblobbin' was closed during this time and sealed off. In the 2000s, urban explorers rediscovered the abandoned Dunblobbin' house which led to more people returning to Cricket St Thomas to see it.
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The term "blob" was used by the Czech-British architect Jan Kaplický for the first time for the "Blob Office Building" in London in 1986. The building was characterized by organic, aerodynamic shape and advanced technological and energy-saving solutions. The term 'blob architecture' was coined by architect Greg Lynn in 1995 in his experiments in digital design with metaball graphical software. Soon a range of architects and furniture designers began to experiment with this "blobby" software to create new and unusual forms.
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Edmonds-licensed theme park attractions based on Crinkley Bottom and Mr Blobby were set up in existing parks at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset and Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park in Lowestoft, Suffolk. A park was also built in Morecambe, Lancashire, on the site of the former Happy Mount Park. Following disappointing visitor numbers, and in the case of Morecambe, legal disputes with the local council, the deal was scrapped and the park closed. The two existing parks reverted to their previous state.
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Meanwhile, at Angel's apartment, Cordelia tries to sketch the "ugly, gray, blobby thing" she saw in her vision. At loose ends, Barney attempts to engage Cordelia in conversation by offering sympathy for her grief, and immediately finds himself the target of her anger and suspicion. When Barney assures her he didn't mean to intrude, it is Cordelia who apologizes for her rudeness and, to make amends, opens up a little about Doyle. Just then, Angel comes downstairs, bringing the black-clad motorcycle rider with him.
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Jay Williams (born September 1973, in London) is a British songwriter and performer. He is most recognised for his work on the Eurovision song "Love City Groove". Jay signed to his first label Warner Music at the age of sixteen and was responsible for various one-hit wonders with a variety of bands/artists as diverse as RPM and The Runaways on Mo Wax, DarkMan, Ant and Dec and the "Mr Blobby" charity single, as well as serial hitmakers All Saints. Jay retired from music in 1997.
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While this is happening, Stan, Kyle and Kenny accompany their robotic companion to Cartman's house to convince his mother to help them, but she goes off with Bill Cosby to have sex. Meanwhile, Cartman's Trapper Keeper integrates itself into Cartman's computer and most of his belongings, and then absorbs Cartman himself. Cartman is transformed into a giant, cybernetic blobby monster that retains most of Cartman's features, similar in style and execution to the movie Akira. It kills Kenny and destroys the house, and sets off to Cheyenne Mountain to absorb the secret military base's computer.
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Errors in the projector can lead for the second dot to be slightly out-of-place with the first one. These two issues together, along with other issues that can occur within the projector's focus system, give the stars a blobby look. Some planetarians, used to the pinpoint opto-mechanical projector stars ubiquitous in the day, rejected the Digistar and Digistar 2 because of this, ignoring the other advantages of the system. The CRT in the Digistar and Digistar 2 begins to burn out and lose brightness after roughly 1000 hours of use.
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He produced a series of widely seen "fly-by" simulations, including the Voyager, Pioneer and Galileo spacecraft fly-bys of Jupiter, Saturn and their moons. He also worked with Carl Sagan, creating animations for his Cosmos: A Personal Voyage TV series. Blinn developed many influential new modelling techniques, and wrote papers on them for the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), in their journal Computer Graphics and Applications. Some of these included environment mapping, improved highlight modelling, "blobby" modelling, simulation of wrinkled surfaces, and simulation of butts and dusty surfaces.
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Wharton was curious, and one morning when a light snow was falling, collected some from a field near his house, melted and evaporated it, studying the remaining particles under a microscope which he had on hand for metallurgy. The particles looked like "irregular, flattish, blobby" glass particles. He visited a ship that had come to port in Philadelphia, having sailed from Manila, a course that had taken it a few hundred miles from Krakatoa. It had been slowed by a huge amount of pumice floating in the ocean, evidently spewed out by Krakatoa.
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The show was set in Beverly Hills, California. The four central characters of the show were teens selected by a blobby alien named Nimbar to fight off the monsters sent by the evil Emperor Gorganus. Gorganus is intent on conquering Earth because it is the focal point for a network of "Power Portals" that would facilitate conquest of the galaxy. In the first episode, Nimbar recruits the four high school students and with a touch by his slimy "finger" gives them each a special tattoo based on a constellation in the celestial sphere.
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A major turning point for Edmonds was the 2005 collapse of his entertainment company Unique Group – an umbrella for various production companies that owned the rights to, among other things, Mr Blobby and Telly Addicts. Edmonds remains in his pursuit of Lloyds Bank, whom he holds responsible, seeking £60m in losses and damages. The bank disputes his claims. Edmonds complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about the "By Your Side" Lloyds marketing campaign, claiming it was hypocritical; the complaint was not upheld, but the large amount of press coverage was damaging for the bank.
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However, the following week (Christmas week) saw Mr. Blobby climb back up to the top, the first time this had happened since January 1969, and officially become this year's Christmas number 1. Take That's "Babe" became the only chart topper of the year to spend only a week at the summit. In the classical world, the British composer Michael Nyman enjoyed great success with his soundtrack for the film The Piano, which brought him an Ivor Novello Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and American Film Institute award; the album sold over three million copies. Veteran Welsh composer Daniel Jones died.
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The next Saturday, five girls arrive on the doorstep but they are either terrified of Bertie's filth or Bertie is terrified of them — the fifth girl never knocks the front door because she sees the fourth vomiting in a hedge. The sixth customer is a Bertie clone, who then turns into an alligator- kangaroo-blobby hybrid. This is PygAlien, who has escaped from the planet Tharg because he has accidentally kissed a 900-year-old hag in a discotheque, and crashes his spaceship. Due to Bertie's body odour, Pyg wants to borrow his rocket to get back home, because Bertie smells like an astronaut.
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The MOS targets are generally faint objects at the limits of detection such as primeval galaxies. As telescopes get bigger it is apparent that these actually have a blobby and confused structure that requires the observer to carefully select which parts of the field will be passed through to the spectrographs since it is not feasible to carpet the whole field with a single huge IFU. DFS is an instrument paradigm that allows the observer to select arbitrary combinations of contiguous and isolated regions of the sky to maximise observing efficiency and scientific return. Various technologies are under development including robotic switch-yards and photonic optical switches.
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The story begins with Marc moving in next door as Betty's new partner in the office space next to Daniel's. When she sees her blog is nominated for a "BLOBBY" by the BLOB (The Black & Latino Organization of Bloggers), she goes hysterical and gets overexcited about it. She then asks Daniel to present the award to her. Later during the meeting Daniel announces that he has landed two popular Spanish movie stars, director Diego Martinez and actress Victoria, and assigns Marc to the photo shoot, then decides to co- write the interview portion with Betty, this after Wilhelmina suggests that Daniel might need someone with more expertise, namely Betty.
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Reasons for this would not be given, so why a song was neglected could only be assumed. In the case of Mr Blobby’s "Mr Blobby" and Manchester United Football Squad’s "Come On You Reds", both of which were number ones, one reason for showing just an excerpt of the video might have been that both records were intended for the UK market only. For some time, the show also included songs that missed the top 40 mainstream list but which were successful in other UK charts, such as the dance, rock, indie, "breakers" (i. e. singles just outside the top 40), or album chart.
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Her work with Annie Lennox won her a Grammy for the Diva video album. She also picked up an MTV Video Music Award for Lennox's 1992 hit "Why", and was also Grammy nominated for the Eurythmics' 1987 Savage video album. In total, Muller has directed over twenty videos for Lennox and Eurythmics and has a long time collaboration with producer Rob Small. The video for "Stay" by Shakespears Sister in which she directed was spoofed by many British comedians at the time including French & Saunders and Mr. Blobby as well as winning the BRIT Award for Best Video and also The Music Week Award for Best Video at both of the ceremonies' 1993 Awards.
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Much of the programme revolved around a loose game show format involving six studio contestants (or Bungalow Heads). These were all children in Series 1–4, whilst in Series 5, five children and one celebrity were the contestants on the Saturday show, and five children and a special guest ranging from family members / friends, or the cast of the show in various outfits (such as Darth Vader, or Mr. Blobby) were contestants on the Sunday show. Points were earned through success in various games throughout the show, although points could be awarded or taken away at any time by the hosts. Although they threatened to do this, for example, when a particular child was being troublesome, this was mostly never carried out.
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Coyotes pose a risk to small children, who should not be left unsupervised in areas that coyotes are known to inhabit; they are large enough to easily kill and eat a child, and they lack the fear of humans that most wild canids exhibit. While there are media accounts of alligators being found in sewer pipes and storm drains, most experts think that such 'sewer alligators' are unlikely to sustain a breeding population in such environments, due to a lack of place to bury their eggs. Urban wildlife is often considered a nuisance, with local governments being tasked to manage the issue. In 2009, a large blobby mass made of colonies of tubifex worms was found to be living in the sewers of Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Meanwhile, Cordelia wakes, bound and gagged, in a strange room where the only familiar object is the ugly, gray blobby thing from her vision--which she is looking at sideways because she's lying on her side on a settee. As she tries to get her bearings, Cordelia notices a long cloth-draped table covered with various grisly body parts and organs, dominated by a still-beating heart in a pedestaled bell jar. Hearing Barney talking with someone and approaching from the other room, she hastily closes her eyes and lays her head back down. To her consternation, they seem to be discussing whether to remove her eyes before or after the auction, as Barney's wild-eyed associate, Hank, obsessively clicks the extractor device over and over.
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Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin and John Craven reunited in 1999 for a parody of Swap Shop transmitted at the end of the last ever episode of Noel's House Party. In the skit, Edmonds - playing his "younger self" - wakes up in the Swap Shop studio after supposedly dozing off, and explains to the others that he has just had a horrible dream of him being "trapped in a big house for 8 years", and recounting the events of a typical Noel's House Party episode, and then the three discover that Mr Blobby is also in the studio. On 20 December 2007, the BBC announced that Swap Shop was returning to BBC Two for a 13-week run. Barney Harwood presented the new show with Basil Brush.
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The goal was to avoid putting the viewers' "brains into a 60-cycle hum", without sacrificing rigor; the creators intended that students could learn the overall gist of each derivation from the animation, and then study the details using the accompanying textbook. Computer animation was also used to portray idealizations of physical systems, like simulated billiard balls illustrating Newton's laws of motion. (Blinn had used some of the same software earlier to visualize the interaction of DNA and DNA polymerase for Cosmos.) One commenter deemed these animations "particularly useful in providing students with subjective insights into dynamic three-dimensional phenomena such as magnetic fields". Creating the computer graphics necessary to visualize physics concepts led Blinn to invent new techniques for simulating clouds, as well as the virtual "blobby objects" known as metaballs.
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Helmet covers help break up the helmet's distinctive silhouette and eliminate glare (especially if wet), plus muffles the sound of foliage striking or brushing the helmet. Helmet covers are used by most armies and are in the camouflage pattern of the country/military's camouflage pattern, but some armies do have different covers to the uniform, for example Austrian Bundesheer wear several different helmet covers and have not got one standardized cover for every soldier. The Israeli Defense Forces use a large, floppy helmet cover to break up the outline of the soldier. The US Army from 1953 to the mid-late 1980s used a dual-sided camouflage cover (one side a leafy green, the other a blobby orange) with its steel helmets while the rest of the uniform was green.
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Drac tells Johnny (who does not want to leave the hotel either) to bring Mavis to California to visit his parents, Mike and Linda, but to make sure to keep her distracted so that she will not move, leaving Drac to "babysit" Dennis. Drac enlists his friends Frank (Kevin James), Wayne (Steve Buscemi), Griffin (David Spade), Murray (Keegan-Michael Key) and Blobby (Jonny Solomon) to help train Dennis to become a monster, to no avail. Drac takes Dennis to his childhood summer camp, Camp Winnepacaca, where he learned to hone his vampire abilities and discovers that the camp is safer than it was when he went there. Drac stubbornly believes Dennis is a "late fanger", so he hurls Dennis from a tall, unstable tower to pressure the boy's transformation into a bat.
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" Nick Schager of The Village Voice said "Its tolerant messages remain buried beneath lame pop-culture references, hectic slapstick, fart jokes, and endless Smurf-puns that (Azaria's funny, over-the-top cartoon villainy aside) make one pine for the Smurfpocalypse." Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times gave the film two out of five stars, saying "The movie doesn't have the wit of the first installment and seems as if it might be hard for young children to follow, though who knows with young children?" Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C, saying "The trouble with this stunted sequel is that the doughy, blobby-hatted Smurfs are mostly window dressing for an abrasive slapstick bash built around a tiresome kidnap plot." Bruce Ingram of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two out of five stars, saying "The Smurfs 2 probably isn’t any worse than you might expect. On the other hand, it’s almost certainly not any better. It’s just a matter of figuring out how much punishment you’re willing to endure for the sake of the small child you’re taking to the movies.
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In the accompanying video, Peter Kay mimed the song accompanied by various celebrities including Brian May, Roger Taylor, Shakin' Stevens, Shaun Ryder, Bez, Paddy McGuinness, Michael Parkinson, Heather Mills, Danny Baker, Ronnie Corbett, Mr Blobby, Jimmy Savile, Jim Bowen, look-alikes of Mahatma Gandhi and Cliff Richard (the same lookalike appears in the Phoenix Nights spin-off Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere), William Roache, Anne Kirkbride, Sally Lindsay, Bernie Clifton, Keith Harris and Orville the Duck, Sooty, Sweep, Geoffrey Hayes and Bungle, Emu, as well as Tony Christie himself. In the first few cameos, Max and Paddy from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and its spin-off appear together, arguing and eventually fighting in the Granada studios' corridor. This is one of many appearances of characters from Kay's TV series, including Paddy's tennis playing cell mate Cliff from Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, and both a football team for people with dwarfism and Brian Potter from Phoenix Nights. The video consists almost entirely of Kay walking towards the camera flanked by different pairings of the celebrities, in front of increasingly bizarre and unlikely backgrounds.
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