Virtual reality devices are so much more than funny-looking goggles.
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It was the funny-looking one he had seen the day before.
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The funny-looking bend at the end of many airplane wing tips?
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Maybe this funny-looking music box covered in Chinese characters can help?
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"I was so sad [for Blake], but it's funny looking back," said Solis.
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Plus, they are getting their mating season plumage and are too funny looking!
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With some practice, anyway — initially, you'll probably cut some pretty funny looking lines.
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It's funny looking back at older puzzles and seeing what you'd do different.
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They're kind of funny-looking, but they also make it easier to order wine.
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"It's just funny looking at it now, like, Aw, man, this is real," Stewart said.
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"Here was this funny-looking man with this short haircut," she remembered thinking of Brosnan.
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You are not wearing any armor, and instead have a funny-looking shirt that draws attention.
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He wore a quaint, funny-looking wide-brimmed hat, one that I had never seen before.
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In the winter we would have these funny looking things that heat and steam would come out off.
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And as it is a funny-looking thing displayed in public, people have lots of jokes about it.
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"Throughout my teens I was told, in no uncertain terms, that I was f—— funny looking," she wrote.
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According to Lewis, dicks are "funny-looking things," though viewers also laugh at them for more complicated reasons.
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The thing is actually a funny looking 10-inch desktop designed to help it blend in with the furniture.
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Yesterday, a user named Pidiotpong shared a picture of a very funny-looking eggplant that had two little arms.
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It's funny looking back and seeing the transition of the kits over time and how they've changed and improved.
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It was these wonderful, funny looking, colorful dinosaurs and the kids were going to watch it no matter what.
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"Throughout my teens I was told, in no uncertain terms, that I was f—— funny looking," she wrote on Instagram.
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"If you saw the 'Mud Dragon' alive, you probably would have said, 'That's a big, funny-looking bird,'" Brusatte said.
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And these aren't like those funny-looking compact fluorescent lights that turn on slowly and often give off unflattering light.
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The offending picture, which features Brady wearing green swim trunks while holding the hand of his wife, is mildly funny-looking.
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The decision shows how courts can identify a gerrymander using methods that are much more precise than eyeballing funny-looking districts.
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Sculpted into slight ramps, plinths, and thin columns, the piece culminates in a small niche where a funny-looking bust resides.
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You'd have to purify it, and if you didn't get the purity too good you'd have a very funny looking diamond.
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"Throughout my teens I was told, in no uncertain terms, that I was f—— funny looking," she posted on Instagram on Tuesday.
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Unfortunately, some people who ordered the romantically shaped pies were sorely disappointed when they received funny looking crust and wonky looking toppings.
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It's a lot like Apple's Swift Playgrounds, with simple programming tasks commanding a funny-looking blob to walk around on platform blocks.
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So sometime in the next decade or two, expect to start seeing small, funny-looking airplanes buzzing around in the sky overhead.
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Back in 2008, a group of researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) noticed a funny-looking shape in their modeling.
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The funny-looking two-seater had a range of about 50 miles and was offered for lease to consumers in California and Arizona.
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I waited for her to return and when she came in I said, 'Your Majesty, there's a funny-looking grey bird on your balcony.
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President Trump was looking through Reddit and found this suspicious comment on a thread about a funny looking seal in the r/pics subreddit.
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It can also be quite funny looking back at how much I idolized him—whereas he was then, now and always will be quite pathetic.
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Apple's funny-looking ear-computers have been available for about a year, provided you were willing to order them online and wait six weeks for delivery.
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But three questions linger in the wake of Cooper: Will the decision ease or exacerbate the Supreme Court's burden of policing funny-looking state electoral maps?
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Press a button on either controller, and you can deliver a funny-looking kick that extends out from the rest of your invisible, in-game body.
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But let's go back even further — to a time when those gridiron stars of yore were just awkward teens with funny-looking high school yearbook photos. Classmates.
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Vermont Capitol Police got quite the surprise recently after a visitor reported a funny-looking plant sprouting in the front lawn outside of the state's capitol building.
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I can absolutely attest to the fact that there's funny-looking marks on the side of the building coming from above, but I don't know more than that.
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This results in the funny looking repeated jumps or 'bumps' at the boundary in an attempt to force a few extra inches of retreat out of his opponent.
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But honestly, you're not making this for company, so if it comes out a little funny-looking, I say you've done great as long as it tastes good.
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For the past two months, a pair of funny-looking, toaster-like creatures have been busily toting groceries from the Fry's Food supermarket to people's homes in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Estrada said the company is now facing the real test of whether it can build a viable business around a fleet of funny-looking, low-speed self-driving vehicles.
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That February, he produced his first women's collection, which was shown on a parade of wan models—some of them slightly funny-looking, many of them in nerdy glasses.
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And it's still a little bit funny looking but eventually as the rigging gets better on the characters and as the speech recognition gets better it could be do-able.
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It's a surprisingly funny-looking film, which feels like it's just what DC needs to get away from the dark and grim image that its franchise has been saddled with.
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Sitting down with his pint, Mooney laughs out loud, and when someone asks why, he says it's because of a picture of a funny-looking black chap in the newspaper.
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FOR a couple of hours each night a modest stage with little more than a desk, some water bottles and a funny-looking microphone is transformed into a humid Amazonian forest.
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According to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical," there's something even more unheard-of than letting a funny-looking buck play in any reindeer games: allowing a doe to join in.
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Rudolph, who's funny looking and gets teased, can be a special-needs reindeer who finds his place; Santa can be a model of generosity; gift-giving, perhaps to the needy, can foster empathy.
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This funny looking face belongs to a sexy celebrity spawn ... Take a second to test your celeb spotting skills to see if you can guess the reality star with the freaky facial features.
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Emma Stone and Steve Carrell star in this very funny looking and depressingly relevant re-imagination of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, known as The Battle of the Sexes.
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A psycho-in-the-woods tale whose villain is more funny-looking than alarming, this debut effort from the director Sam Patton is notable mainly for the beautifully organic performances of its two female leads.
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That twist, that Giancarlo Esposito's villainous character Moff Gideon somehow wields the funny looking lightsaber that any Clone Wars or Star Wars: Rebels fans would recognize as the legendary Darksaber, completely recalibrates what we know about his character.
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You see, all the Olympic excitement about cupping, which has me rubbing my chin, comes directly after a wave of news headlines calling into question another funny-looking health routine Westerners have dutifully performed since the early 1800s: flossing.
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So even if you were a bourbon brand, and it was National Sock Day, you would stick your bottle of bourbon in a funny-looking sock and take a picture of it, and that would be your content for the day.
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Ailes' role was chronicled in the best-selling book "The Selling of the President 1968," but after he described Nixon as "a funny-looking" guy who was seen as "a bore, a pain in the ass" he lost his White House job.
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But although Joey from "Friends" is charming, he's hardly some funny looking lanky buffoon, nor is he a fusty long-haired professorial type, and he certainly isn't a peppy little guy who become sullen when he wrecks a fabulous car on a racetrack.
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A few phone calls later and a few tens of thousands of dollars later, we were ensconced at the Four Seasons hotel and playing pool with Ben Affleck and sitting in the upper deck when the funny looking guy from Chicago gave his purple states speech.
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The engineering solution was two-fold: Air is funneled through slots near the camera in the car's rooftop "tiara" — the funny-looking structure that houses an AV's cameras and lidar systems — deflecting bugs "like changing the course of an asteroid on a crash-course with Earth," says Krishnan.
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It would be many years before I would see a character who, like me, was Latina and not a stereotype, or a character who had some of my awkward quirks and interests—such as my love of planning everything to the last detail or wearing bright-colored dresses with funny-looking prints.
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It still looks like it's straight out of the '20133s — it's got a black background, lots of neon text, early days computing-style block letters, and a funny-looking keyboard — and it isn't the easiest system to navigate, but it's established a grip on Wall Street that competitors haven't really been able to shake.
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Here's the full list: Airbnb Brave New Look Spotify Condé Nast Traveler Best Tabletop Games Crowdfunding Projects Marriott Rewards Ars Technica Jaanuu Best Crowdfunding Videos Design Crowdfunding Projects Airbnb （エアビーアンドビー） Pitchfork Tech Crowdfunding Projects Best Crowdfunding Projects Best Design Crowdfunding Videos Tabletop Games Crowdfunding Videos Viking River Cruises Tabletop Games Crowdfunding Projects Best Tech Crowdfunding Videos Tech Crowdfunding Videos Amazing Tech Crowdfunding Projects You Need To See Amazing Design Crowdfunding Projects You Need To See Best Design Crowdfunding Projects Best Tech Crowdfunding Projects Uber Eats Viking Ocean Cruises Best Tabletop Games Crowdfunding Videos It's pretty funny looking back at when I became friends with my college buddies, then work friends, and later grad school friends.
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The famous poets came for us they came on us or some of us at least on some of us they did not come their poems were beautiful or not but either way we learned to call them beautiful they came like honeybees to hyacinths to some of us they came in some of us the ones they called unreadable but fuckable or readable and fuckable others were unfuckable the flip the fat the fierce the frayed the flawed the frail the flunky the funny-looking radical unshaved the frumps the flabs the poets came for us their genius sprayed on us they preyed on us they said they'd pray for us like honeybees they dumped their load of gold on us like god they shot their wad on us they called us sweeter than their wives with softer skin they called their wives by telephone their hands over our mouths to muffle us they shuffled us like decks of playing cards and settled into hotel beds their socks and underwear and undershirts cast upon the shore and then we'd stumble out the door ●
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Funny Looking Angels is a collaborative Christmas album recorded by English musicians Tom Smith (Editors) and Andy Burrows (I Am Arrows, We Are Scientists, ex-Razorlight). It was released on 25 November 2011 through Kitchenware Records. The album contains four covers: "Only You" by Yazoo, Black's "Wonderful Life", "Funny Looking Angels" by Delta, and "On and On" by Longpigs.
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Trippy began his music career in 2001 as a bassist for the Bradenton-based post-hardcore band, Funny Looking Kid. He took part in 2002 and 2003 Warped Tour with the band. Funny Looking Kid broke up in 2005. In 2011, Trippy joined We the Kings as the bass player replacing Drew Thomsen who left the group earlier that year.
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In its stead, a somewhat funny-looking cupola was built. This was, however, replaced with a new tower, which can still be seen today. The church is equipped with a Stumm organ.
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His sidekick, Plue, was also designed much earlier when he was in high school. Plue was given his own sidestory much to Mashima's surprise because of the funny looking characters designed for a shonen magazine.
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Funny Looking Angels received generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 63, based on 9 reviews.
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"Funny Looking Angels" was released as the lead single to promote the album. The second single, "When the Thames Froze", was released on 12 December 2011. It has peaked at number 32 on the UK Indie Chart, and entered national charts in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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I knew I was funny [looking].” The Campbell executives were delighted with her “round and jolly toddlers,” and thus the Campbell Kids were born. These plump toddlers represented the era’s perception of health and wholesomeness. The public was introduced to them through streetcar advertisements beginning in 1905.
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That was the great thing about the Indian Premier League. It brought together players from all countries to share ideas, swap experiences and take the game forward worldwide. We had a laugh and a joke about the things we had said in the past. They sounded quite funny looking back.
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Eventually Marcie's anger again gets the better of her and, while pulling Peppermint Patty down, destroys the doghouse. In so doing, Marcie also makes Peppermint Patty face the reality that Snoopy is a beagle, and not the "funny-looking kid with the big nose" as Peppermint Patty often refers to him.
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Burrows resides in Hackney with his wife and his two daughters Chloe and Joni. He has maintained a good friendship with the lead vocalist of Editors, Tom Smith, who has collaborated with Burrows on Funny Looking Angels and within Burrows' solo discography. The two met at Glastonbury Festival in 2005 through Burrows' friendship with Smith's girlfriend Edith Bowman.
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The squirrel then runs down with a mattress, but intentionally places it next to where Porky ends up crashing. Porky is disoriented, and the squirrel squeezes two bananas he's holding in his face, giving him a funny- looking mustache. The squirrel is convinced Porky is defeated, but is met by the shotgun held by the pig. A chase down the tree ensues, with Porky firing.
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They have sex, then he tells her that he wants the funny looking car back and he wants her to help. She doesn't say no, but doesn't say yes either. Later, Windom and his team go to the towers to look for evidence to give to the police. Ryland's goons kill one of the team members, so they go back to Quint and offer their assistance.
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A poorly executed or premature straight blast attack can usually be effectively countered by one or more kicks to the attacker's shin, knee, or groin. In some of his books, Bruce Lee mentions how boxers would scoff at this 'funny' looking technique, but when they were not expecting it in sparring matches, they would take the brunt of the attack, be thrown off guard and defeated.
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It was also released as the second single from the album. In 2009, German techno group Scooter sampled the song on their single "The Sound Above My Hair". In 2011, Kim Wilde covered the song in the album Snapshots. The same year, the song featured on the Christmas album Funny Looking Angels by Smith & Burrows, a collaboration between Tom Smith (Editors) and Andy Burrows (We Are Scientists and ex-Razorlight).. Smithandburrows.co.uk.
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As Marge waits in his office she sees Jerry driving away instead. The next morning, Marge drives to Moose Lake on a tip from a local bartender who had reported a "funny-looking guy" bragging about killing someone. Outside a cabin, she finds the car; nearby, Gaear is feeding Carl's dismembered body into a wood chipper. Gaear attempts to flee on foot, only for Marge to shoot him in the leg and arrest him.
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In October 2011, Smith announced that he was collaborating with his good friend Andy Burrows (from I Am Arrows, We Are Scientists and Razorlight) under the moniker Smith & Burrows. Their album Funny Looking Angels was released on 25 November 2011. In December 2011, Smith & Burrows played a number of shows throughout Europe. Smith also provided backing vocals to the lead single from the second Andy Burrows' solo album Company, "Keep On Moving On".
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Smith co-starred with Joe Sebok on a show called "Prop Bets" on the Internet-TV site RawVegas.tv, mainly due to the above-mentioned prop bet at the 2006 World Series of Poker. Smith won a bet with Sebok on who would win the most Card Player magazine points at the 2006 World Series of Poker. As a consequence, Sebok had to wear a bear outfit on Day 1B, among other funny-looking outfits, including Wonder Woman.
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Kotaku called Mudkip a recognized Pokémon. GameFAQs's sixth and seventh annual character battles featured Mudkip, with him losing in round one against Luigi in 2007, and against Mega Man X in 2008. An IGN article opined that "Mudkip isn't anything very special" when considering its later forms and that "[t]he ecology of the Mudkip is similarly bland". GameZone editor "jkdmedia" commented on Mudkip's design, stating that he cannot even describe what it is beyond a "funny- looking water creature".
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Pierre only returned Marcie's affections, however, a fact to which Peppermint Patty remained oblivious even when they were holding hands right in front of her. Peppermint Patty also has a strong friendship with Snoopy. For years, owing to Snoopy's often human-like behavior, Patty often refers to Snoopy as a "funny-looking kid with a big nose". The rest of the cast is often confused by Patty's obliviousness, but she was finally corrected in the strip from March 21, 1974, by Marcie.
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A narrator recalls the character Paul Bunyan and his exploits, and states that many people still question the giant's existence. The narrator then advises the viewer to ask "a certain rabbit" whether the giant is real. Just then Bugs Bunny comes walking by, toting a bindle and singing "Jimmy Crack Corn". Bugs comments on the "funny- looking trees" he passes, oblivious to the fact that they are abnormally large asparagus, and to the fact that he has entered a rather large vegetable garden.
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The Electron initially had a payload capacity of to a x Sun-synchronous orbit. In pursuit of reusability, Rocket Lab has made changes to Electron. Flight 6 and 7 ("That's a Funny Looking Cactus" and "Make it Rain") had instruments on the first stage needed to gather data to help with the reflight program. Flight 8 ("Look Ma No Hands") had Brutus, an instrument that collected data from the first stage to study reentry and was designed to be able to survive splashdown in the ocean.
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He lives in London with his wife, former BBC Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman whom he married on 22 December 2013. They have been in a relationship since 2005 and have two sons, Rudy Brae Bowman Smith (born 10 June 2008) and Spike Bowman Smith (born February 2013). Smith is an avid Arsenal F.C. supporter. He also has friendships with fellow musicians such as Guy Garvey of Elbow and Andy Burrows, the latter of whom he collaborated with on the album Funny Looking Angels in 2011.
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Herr Schultz says that he was serious and proposes to Fräulein Schneider ("Married"). At Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz's engagement party, Cliff arrives and delivers the suitcase to Ernst. A tipsy Herr Schultz sings "Meeskite" ("meeskite", he explains, is Yiddish for ugly or funny-looking), a song with a moral ("Anyone responsible for loveliness, large or small/Is not a at all"). Afterward, looking for revenge on Fräulein Schneider, Fräulein Kost tells Ernst, who now sports a Nazi armband, that Schultz is a Jew.
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A question with many possible answers would be posed to everyone (for example: "What makes a camel funny looking?") and an answer that was selected by the show's staff was shown to the challenging player in control of the question and the home audience (with the previous example, "his knobby knees" would be the answer shown). The player decided if the answer would be said by any of the five panelists (yes or no). The player then decided to "play it safe" or go for the "longshot".
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In a 2010 Japanese fan survey conducted by The Pokémon Company before the release of Pokémon Black and White, Arceus placed first as "most favorite Pokémon", ahead of franchise mascot Pikachu which was fourth. Arceus placed second in a 2016 The Pokémon Company poll. In a separate poll conducted by IGN, Arceus placed as the sixty-first top, with IGN's staff commenting that Arceus was "kind of funny looking". Several writers noted the in-lore strangeness of obtaining Arceus, noting that it would be equivalent to "a kid catching a deity".
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Mr. Mouse gets Lion to come to Ev and inform his friends of Dorothy's imprisonment. It is then suggested that while Ozma and Jack would return to Oz, Dorothy and Tik-Tok with the accompany of Dorothy’s friends would go to Nomeland to rescue Princess Langwidere's brother, the Prince of Ev from the Nome King. The group crosses a dangerous Desert, which consists of a sandstorm, funny looking plants, a giant beetle and only one oasis in the entire sandy waste. They come across giant bones and a ship.
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Baker described himself as a "skinny, silly shlump." He played offbeat characters, which he described as being "long, skinny funny-looking goofy types." Coming out of college, Baker claimed to have offers to do theatre in New York, which he turned down out of fear of being reduced to "a spear carrier." Instead, he accepted an offer from Richard Block, the director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL) in Kentucky, to be a journeyman, rounding out its 10 principal cast members: In September 1966, he made his acting debut, playing Tom Stark in All the King's Men, at ATL.
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Chernoff added that Ackbar performer Timothy Rose was one of the most- requested subjects by readers for his magazine column interviewing Star Wars actors. The Independent writer Christopher Hooton called Ackbar "easily the best character from the original Star Wars films". Jonathan Wilkins, editor at large for Star Wars Insider, called Ackbar "an iconic figure in the Star Wars universe, despite the fact that he had just a handful of lines in Return of the Jedi. Steve Tilley of The Edmonton Sun wrote, "He was so funny-looking yet somehow authoritative and almost regal, though, that he was impossible not to love.
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Wallace, p.28. The first of the "funny-looking cars" were a trio of 1964 Dodge 330 Max Wedges which were named the "Dodge Chargers". They debuted in March 1964 at San Diego Raceway.Wallace, p.22 caption. Funny Cars started as stockers, and were, at first, pure exhibition cars, in the Super/Factory Experimental (S/FX) class; NHRA treated them like a passing fad,Wallace, p.22. and tried to "legislate them out of existence" by placing them in first gas and then fuel dragster classes, with cars of half the weight and twice the horsepower.
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Eleven days after he left Razorlight, it was revealed that Burrows had signed to Universal Records, the same record label as his ex-band. Six months later Burrows' new band I Am Arrows played their first show. Burrows revealed that he was working with Noah and the Whale producer Eliot James and the album Sun Comes Up Again was released in August 2010 and reached number 38 in the UK Album charts. Editors frontman Tom Smith teamed up with Andy to form Smith & Burrows - they released their debut album Funny Looking Angels in November 2011, an album of winter songs featuring the single "When the Thames Froze".
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This was toned down in later episodes as the makeup was too time-consuming. Whedon claims that people thought the white faces to be "funny looking" but personally found it creepier, comparing it to the monsters in zombie movies such as Day of the Dead and The Evil Dead. The character of the Master was designed to be in vamp face permanently to highlight his age and make him appear more animalistic; make-up artist John Vulich based the Master's appearance on a bat, reasoning that the character has devolved to a more primal, demonic state over the years. It was decided that vampires and their clothes would turn to dust after they died.
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Written by Daniel Powell and Greg White and directed by Aaron Augenblick and Lucy Snyder, "Treegasm" was inspired by funny-looking trees, such as trees that appear to have genitalia or are having sex. The episode also marked a milestone with the staff, as it was the first episode to feature creatures they came up with themselves, as opposed to common creatures such as werewolves or zombies. Stand-up comic and actor Kumail Nanjiani guest stars in the episode as the tree Neel. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was watched by 2.05 million viewers in its original airing, an increase in viewership compared to the previous episode, "Blob Gets Job".
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At school, she receives an "F" on a test; she picks up a pencil and transforms the big F into a funny-looking Medusa with a big mouth and a lot of pimples. She is shown vandalizing toilet cubicles with the words "Skinny bitches" and snorting drugs while looking on enviously at girls in the bathroom. Next, her adult self (Tina Majorino) spies on two young women trying on dresses in a clothing store, wishing that she was as skinny as them. She is shown stealing a blue dress in the store only to get caught immediately, and is thrown out of the store while the women in the store make fun of her, one of the women takes a picture of her on her phone.
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Members of London's "Egotists' Club" are telling stories of odd things that happened to them, when one of the member's guests, a cinema actor named Varden, relates that he was invited to model for a wealthy sculptor, Eric Loder, and spent several months at Loder's New York mansion. A few years later, after the war, Loder invited Varden back to New York, and Varden noticed that Loder's mistress, Maria Moranno, had disappeared, though a life-size gilded sculpture of her now occupied the living room. One night, Varden was wakened by a "funny-looking man" wearing a monocle, who told him his life was in danger. For explanation, the man smashed the arm of the "statue" with a fireplace poker, and Varden saw a human arm bone beneath the gold plating.
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"The physical aspect of European intellectuals was so totally different from what an American kid wants to be," he told the International Herald Tribune in 1992. "I knew Bert Brecht was close to being a genius, but he was a funny-looking man to me." Viertel graduated from Dartmouth College in 1941. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a private, but after being assigned office work in California (in his memoirs he joked he was a "Remington Raider" in reference to the typewriters they used), he applied for officer training and eventually was accepted by the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA, where his recruiters were impressed that he had already published at 19 the highly acclaimed novel The Canyon (1940), and had written a screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock, Saboteur (1942), as well as the script for The Hard Way (1943).
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Varden fled the house immediately, though to this day he is not certain whether he really did narrowly escape death or whether someone played an elaborate practical joke on him. Then the "funny-looking man" - Wimsey, also a member of the club - appears and explains the mystery: while Wimsey himself was a guest in Loder's mansion, a small night-time accident led to him occupying a sofa in the living room, where he observed Loder entering a secret chamber. Entering the chamber himself, Wimsey found an apparatus for electroplating and diagrams drawn by Loder, revealing his plans to kill Varden and encase him in a gilded statue. After further investigation, Wimsey concluded that Loder killed Maria in jealousy, believing that she and Varden were lovers during his first stay in New York, and planned to kill Varden in the same fashion after he returned from his war service.
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Garner sent his debut novel to the publishing company Collins, where it was picked up by the company's head, Sir William Collins, who was on the look out for new fantasy novels following on from the recent commercial and critical success of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). Garner, who went on to become a personal friend of Collins, would later relate that "Billy Collins saw a title with funny-looking words in it on the stockpile, and he decided to publish it." On its release in 1960, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a critical and commercial success, later being described as "a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children." Garner himself however would later denounce this novel as "a fairly bad book" in 1968.
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In September 2016, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was stalled in Congress of the United States of America because the Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of California, indicated that he would not let the annual NDAA proceed to a vote in the House of Representatives unless it contained language to bar the sage grouse from the federal endangered species list until at least 2025. President Barack Obama threatened a veto over the issue, that Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, John McCain, believed would be sustained. Current US Air Force spending on sage grouse conservation is around US$200,000, with eight known military installations having confirmed grouse populations: Dugway Proving Ground and Tooele Army Depot in Utah; Sheridan Training Area and Camp Guernsey in Wyoming; Hawthorne Army Depot and Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada; Yakima Training Center in Washington, and Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.Grouse About This: A Funny-Looking Bird Is Holding Up Key National Defense Legislation, Joe Gould, DefenseNews.
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