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More info about the Pokemon Pocket monsters article

Hi, I was wondering if you can tell me the # of pocket monsters in the Pokemon game franchise.

Wassup

What was the original and can you provide a link? Thanks, --hydnjo talk 02:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Are you referring to the Budweiser ads? If so, this is probably what you're looking for. Cyraan 02:55, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Exactly Cyraan! Thanks. I was asking a question that I thought would have little chance of having an accurate response as quickly (35 minutes) as you have provided. A little test of obscure questions at each desk to see how well (in my estimation) we're doing and we're doing just fine thanks to folks like yourself.  ;-) --hydnjo talk 03:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem dude, I try to help where I can. Good thing I didn't know it was a test, probably would've bombed otherwise. ;) Cyraan 03:55, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

See Cyraan, context is everything! Hope you've gotten some insight into bombing! Thanks again, --hydnjo talk 04:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

i need to search on topic student role and reponsibility in environmental protection

i need to search on topic student role and reponsibility in environmental protection —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 122.164.3.47 (talk) 04:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC).

Is Eurovision broadcast in Canada?

If so, what network carries it? The official website here suggests that Canada might have it but there are no details. -- Pyro19 06:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

The biggest concert.

I've searched the internet for a while now without finding much information about the biggest concert ever to be held? By "biggest" I mean most people being at the concert. I even tried to search guiness world record book without finding any information about the subject. The little I know is that the monsters of rock concert held in Moscow in 1991 had about 700 000 people. I've heard from some friends that there was a concert in Maxico in 2000 or something that had close to 1 million people.

Could you help me finding out?

cheers, Sondre —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.241.30.66 (talk) 16:32, 3 March 2007 (UTC).

I believe that the Rolling Stones had a free concert in Rio de Janiero and something like a million people came. Hold on, let me look it up. GhostPirate 16:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Here we go. [1]. Dispute on the exact numbers but it was the largest single concert. (Guiness lists the Live8 concerts as the largest, but I say those don't count because they were in different countries. GhostPirate 16:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC). Update: The article says "Rod Stewart's 1994 concert, also at Copacabana beach, ... drew a crowd of 3.5 million." So I guess that one was the largest. GhostPirate 16:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Picture of Dorian Grey Poem-Meaning?

Picture of Dorian Grey Poem?

I recently saw the movie "Picture of Dorian Grey" (1945 version), and I questioned one thing: what did the poem mean in the beginning and end of the movie? I know it is from "The Rubiayat", by Omar Khayyam.

Here is the poem:

"I sent my soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that afterlife to spell - And by and by my soul returned to me, And answered 'I myself am Heaven and Hell'".

Thanks!

Kc2lyq 19:04, 3 March 2007 (UTC)Kc2lyq

Can't help with the meaning, I'm afraid, but fyi that is not from Omar Khayyam's poem but from Edward Fitzgerald's English translation, which is sometimes a very free rendering of the original. Thus this rubai (that's not the title, btw, it just means four-line-verse) may have no resemblance to the original. Or not. Algebraist 20:03, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, Algebraist. I asked about the poem on Yahoo! Answers and someone told me that the direct source of the poem was Omar Khayyam. Hopefully, I'll be able to find the meaning using the help you gave me.

69.123.236.26 00:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)Kc2lyq

• I would go with the fact that Dorian was split between the portrait and himself and was therefor his life was both Heaven and Hell.Also that he had the capability for good within him but went with evil.hotclaws**== 09:34, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks hotclaws, that makes sense. I should've thought of that myself!

MAP91 19:32, 4 March 2007 (UTC)formerly Kc2lyq

Interestingly, the novel on which the movie was based does not include this quote, either at the beginning, or the end, or as far as I can tell, anywhere in the text. There is one reference to "Omar" in Chapter 3, but not to Omar Khayyam specifically. I can't find any reference to Oscar Wilde having any opinion of Omar Khayyam's works, although I'm sure he would have known them (or at least known of them - but so what). Nor can I find any citation that Wilde and Fitzgerald ever met. The inclusion of this quote in the film seems to have been an artistic conceit of the filmmaker. JackofOz 00:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes Jack, I guess the poem fit in with the theme of the movie, and so they put it in, to add an artistic element to the movie, as you stated. It is a very interesting movie to begin with, and the poem adds to that level of interest.

MAP91 02:03, 6 March 2007 (UTC) Mike

Thank you for posting that quote, I searched with great anticipation for it and your's was the post that revealed it. Beautiful poem.

As to the meaning, that the great secret of the unknown ('afterlife') can somehow be revealed by the inner knowing self ('soul'), and that the meaning of it all is: the self is both heaven and hell, or heaven and hell lie within each of us, yes?

Sci-Fi movie; what is name of

Trying to find name of Sci-Fi movie where a astronaut and a reptilian creature crash land on a planet form a friendship. The reptilian creature has a baby but dies after giving birth leaving the astronaut to care for and raise the baby. Do you know what the name of the this movie is??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nancy817Carl (talk • contribs) 21:15, 3 March 2007 (UTC).

Enemy Mine? -- Arwel (talk) 21:20, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Named it Yoda must have. Clarityfiend 22:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Aka Hell in the Pacific meltBanana 23:06, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Good movie, but I missed the part where Toshiro Mifune gave birth. Now that's acting! Clarityfiend 01:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I thought Lee Marvin was the reptilian one... ---Sluzzelin talk 01:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Orange advert

I want to find the title of the latest "Orange TV advert theme" starting little white monkey and where I can download it Gerrygoacher 21:36, 3 March 2007 (UTC)Gerrygoacher

Little Yellow Spider by Devendra Banhart. It's on YouTube and you can probably get it on iTunes. — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 15:07, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Apple iPhone "Hello" commercial

Anybody have a definitive list of characters/movies used in the Apple iPhone "Hello" commercial? Anybody know what the music is? —Steve Summit (talk) 23:01, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Answering my own question: a Google search (now why didn't I think of that before? :-) ) turns up a couple of different macrumors posts with the answers. (The music is evidently "Inside Your Head", by Eberg.) —Steve Summit (talk) 02:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

An old children's book I barely remember

I'm trying to find a book I read when I was in school. I believe it is a Canadian book, and that it was available in both French and English.

The book was about a cat (siamese I think), and her name was Josefine (or a variant spelling). She would often wander off, leaving her young owner with the task of following her.

I'm guessing that the book was published in the late 80's or very early 90's. Does anyone else remember this book? CG janitor 23:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Catch That Cat!, Can You Catch Josephine?, Could you stop Josephine?, Have You Seen Josephine, (As-tu vu Joséphine?) by Stéphane Poulin? ---Sluzzelin talk 23:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

*Jumps up and down excitedly (well, not really because my leg hurts)* Yay! That's it!! That's it!! That's it!! That's it!! That's it!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! CG janitor 00:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

:-)) I fully empathize; as a kid I loved looking for and spotting Lowly the Worm (a one-shoed worm wearing a Tyrolean hat) in Richard Scarry's illustrated books, which leads me to the following follow-up: Is there an English word for this type of illustrated children's book, where you're supposed to look for a certain recurring character in the (usually quite busy) illustrations? ---Sluzzelin talk 00:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Let's create one, how about a "Where's Waldo-type" book ? StuRat 14:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

An old children's TV show I barely remember

Following on from the last... I'd like to know the name of an old UK children's TV show that I can only vaguely recall. It was obviously inspired in part by Magical Mystery Tour, and involved a group of people following clues on an old map in a trip round the UK in a bus. I think the title might have been something like "Crazy Bus", and it probably dates from about 1971-2. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Grutness...wha? 23:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

That's Hope and Keen's Crazy Bus from 1973. --Q4 13:32, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Brilliant! Thanks again, Grutness...wha? 23:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC)