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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure is a 2003 American animated direct-to-video adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation with distribution by Walt Disney Home Entertainment. It serves as the sequel to Disney's 1961 animated feature film One Hundred and One Dalmatians. It was directed by Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith, with them also writing the screenplay from a story by Kammerud, Dan Root, Garrett K. Schiff, Smith and Temple Mathews and produced by Carolyn Bates and Leslie Hough. It was released on VHS and DVD on January 21, 2003, and features the voices of Bobby Lockwood, Barry Bostwick, Martin Short, Jason Alexander, Susanne Blakeslee, Kath Soucie, Jeff Bennett, and Jim Cummings. Critical reception was positive. Disney re-released the film on September 16, 2008.

The main focus of the sequel is Patch, the loneliest of puppies, feeling "lost in a sea of spots". After he gets left behind during the Radcliffe's moving day, he encounters his TV hero, Thunderbolt, who enlists him on a publicity campaign.

Plot
Sometime after the events of the first film, the Radcliffe family and their 101 Dalmatians are preparing to move to their "Dalmatian Plantation", a home in the countryside with plenty of room for all of them. However, one of the puppies, Patch, feels ignored and wishes to be unique like his television hero, Thunderbolt. While watching The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour, Patch hears about a chance to appear on the show. Patch is accidentally left behind when his family leaves for the plantation, so he decides to head for the audition to meet his hero and win a guest spot on the show. Patch fails to impress the producers. Meanwhile, Thunderbolt's jealous sidekick Lil' Lightning tricks Thunderbolt into believing that he would be replaced and convinces him to go to make "real-life heroic deeds" so he would manipulate the producers into making himself the hero of his own show. Seeing how much Patch knows about his adventures, Thunderbolt decides to ask him for help.

Elsewhere in London, Cruella de Vil, unable to purchase furs due to being on probation and a restraining order for her previous crimes, attempts to soothe her fixation on spots with the help of Lars, a French beatnik artist. In order to inspire him, she restarts her hunt for the Dalmatians, using a newspaper picture of Patch to find their new address. Patch's family finally becomes aware that he is missing and returns to London to search for him. Cruella bails her former henchmen, Horace and Jasper Badun, out of prison. She sends them in a stolen dog food truck to steal the remaining puppies. The Baduns succeed after dealing with Nanny, and they take the puppies to Lars. When Cruella requests she be made a masterpiece from the puppies' fur, Lars refuses, not wanting to harm the puppies. Enraged, Cruella has him bound and gagged and returns to her original plan of making a Dalmatian fur coat.

The imprisoned puppies use the Twilight Bark to send a distress signal, which is picked up by Patch and Thunderbolt, and they set out to save Patch's family. Lightning follows them and convinces Thunderbolt not to use Patch's stealth plan, but to openly attack. Cruella knocks Thunderbolt unconscious and has the Baduns lock Patch and Thunderbolt in a cage. Lightning then tells Patch that Thunderbolt is just an actor. Patch falls into despair, but Lucky reminds him that Thunderbolt escaped a similar predicament in one of the TV episodes. Patch breaks out and releases his siblings, but Thunderbolt remains behind, ashamed of himself for disappointing Patch. The Dalmatians escape through the building's roof to a double-decker bus. Meanwhile, Thunderbolt escapes from his cage and frees Lars.

Cruella and the Baduns discover the escape, and a chase ensues through the streets of London, crashing through the filming of Lil' Lightning's new show in the process. Cruella and the Baduns finally corner the puppies in an alley. Patch tries to hold them off while the others escape, but they are undaunted. Luckily, Thunderbolt arrives, having been driven to the scene by Lars, and fakes a heart attack, distracting Cruella and causing her to knock out Jasper and Horace and incapacitate herself. Patch puts the bus into reverse, sending Cruella, the Baduns, their stolen truck, and Lightning scrambling into the River Thames. The police arrest the Baduns and have two English mastiffs arrest Lightning. Cruella, now driven completely insane, is sent to a mental institution. The Radcliffes and Nanny arrive along with Patch's parents Pongo and Perdita, who thank Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt dismisses himself as just an actor, but says that Patch is "a real, one of a kind wonder-dog".

In a post-credits scene, Patch, along with his 98 siblings, finally fulfills his dream to star in another episode of The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour.

Voice cast

 * Bobby Lockwood as Patch, one of the 101 Dalmatian puppies. He has a large black spot over one of his eyes, hence his name. He feels disillusioned and unappreciated by his family, thinking that he is just one of the famous 101 Dalmatians, and longs for a chance to become independent and escape from the nepotism he is associated with. He is plucky, honest, and head-strong. He quickly befriends Thunderbolt, the famous television wonder-dog whom he adores, and later meets Lil' Lightning, the famous sidekick of Thunderbolt (only to be betrayed by him later on).
 * Barry Bostwick as Thunderbolt, a German Shepherd and the star of The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour. As the film opens, it is shown that Thunderbolt is self-absorbed, and treats his sidekick, Lil' Lightning, very coldly. When Thunderbolt runs away, after being tricked by Lightning in thinking that the director of his famous show plans to kill him off, he runs into Patch, and the two quickly bond, trying to do good deeds to prove that Thunderbolt is a real hero. As the film progresses, Thunderbolt becomes a father figure to Patch, and loses his selfish, pampered attitude to become a heroic, adventurous, and well-meaning dog.
 * Susanne Blakeslee as Cruella de Vil, the villain of the original film. She is now under a restraining order due to her past history of crimes of trying to kidnap and kill the Dalmatian puppies. To help cure her obsession for fur, she meets Lars and has him do a Dalmatian masterpiece for her, but he refuses once she reveals she wants him to use the puppies' coats as canvases. This makes her revolt and go back to her original plan of kidnapping the dogs for a coat. In the end, she is defeated and sent to a psychiatric hospital.
 * Jason Alexander as Lil' Lightning, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and the sidekick of Thunderbolt's famous show. Initially, Thunderbolt considers Lightning his best friend, despite treating him coldly. Eventually, Lightning grows fed up of always standing in Thunderbolt's shadow and putting up with his negligence and mistreatment. To retaliate, Lightning tricks Thunderbolt into running away, then plots to manipulate the director into re-writing the show slanted towards Lightning. When Thunderbolt and Patch return, endangering Lightning's chance at fame, he reveals himself to be the traitor he is and has the two dogs locked away. In the end, however, he is overpowered and then taken away to the dog pound by two police dogs.
 * Martin Short as Lars, a stylish, but eccentric, French artist who enjoys little more than painting spots. It is suggested he had romantic feelings towards Cruella, but when she captures the Dalmatian puppies again and plans to break her rules of goodness and make coats out of them, he realizes her true intentions and rebels, only to be bound and gagged by Cruella herself. In the end, he is freed by Thunderbolt and assists in defending Patch from Cruella, Jasper, and Horace.
 * Samuel West as Pongo, father of the 15 Dalmatian puppies (and adopted father of the other 84). He is caring but distant, causing Patch to feel lonely and just one-hundred and one, instead of his own personality. In the workprint, Kevin Schon reprises his role as Pongo from the series.
 * Kath Soucie as Perdita, mother of the 15 Dalmatian puppies (and adopted mother of the other 84). She is a doting, kind-hearted dog who only wants the best for her children (and adopted children), and is distraught to find her children missing once again. In the workprint, Pam Dawber reprises her role as Perdita from the series.
 * Tim Bentinck as Roger Radcliffe, Pongo's original owner and songwriter. In the workprint, Jeff Bennett reprises his role as Roger from the series. On the radio of Cruella's car, the archived singing voice of Roger performing the Cruella de Vil song from the original film is heard.
 * Jodi Benson as Anita Radcliffe, Roger's wife and Perdita's original owner.
 * Jeff Bennett and Maurice LaMarche as Jasper and Horace Baddun, Cruella's inept henchmen. They are in jail when the film starts, but are bailed out by Cruella, who rehires them to finish the job of killing and skinning the Dalmatian puppies, though they doubt her as they do not want to be made fools of again. She later has them capture the puppies in cages and bring them to Lars so he can use them as canvases for a masterpiece. In the end, Jasper and Horace are arrested again. However, they clean up their act after this second arrest, opening a shop in London instead of continuing their past occupation as criminals.
 * Mary MacLeod as Nanny, the Radcliffe family's maid, who battles the Badduns when they attempt to steal the puppies a second time.
 * Ben Tibber as Lucky, one of Patch's brothers.
 * Eli Russel Linnetz as Rolly, one of Patch's brothers, an overweight food lover.
 * Kasha Kropinski as Penny, one of Patch's sisters.
 * Michael Lerner as Producer
 * Jim Cummings as Dirty Dawson, the villain of The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour.
 * Cummings also voices the Colonel, an Old English Sheepdog and a friend of the Dalmatian family. He is cut from the final cut of the movie, but is seen in the workprint, where he moves into the Dalmatian Plantation and assists in the film's final battle.
 * Michael Gough as Sergeant Tibbs, a farm cat and a friend to the Dalmatian family. He is cut from the final cut of the movie, but is seen in the workprint, where he moves into the Dalmatian Plantation and assists in the film's final battle.
 * Frank Welker as the Captain, a horse and a friend to the Dalmatian family. He is cut from the final cut of the movie, but is seen in the workprint, where he moves into the Dalmatian Plantation and assists in the film's final battle.
 * Welker also provides Additional Animals' Vocal Effects and Additional Voices.
 * Rob Paulsen as Danny.
 * Paulsen also provides Additional Animals' Vocal Effects and Additional Voices.

Release
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure was released direct-to-video on January 21, 2003. Bonus features on the DVD include the behind-the-scenes footage "Making of Dog-umentary", music videos "Try Again" by Will Young and "You're the One" by LMNT, and some games. The film was re-released on DVD on September 16, 2008. It was released on Blu-ray on September 3, 2012 in the United Kingdom, along with the UK Blu-ray release of the original film. Finally, the film was released on Blu-ray on June 9, 2015 in the United States, following the first HD Blu-ray release of its predecessor.

Reception
Unlike most of Disney's direct-to-video sequels, the film received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it currently holds a 67% "Fresh" rating based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10. Almar Haflidason of BBC.com gave the film 3 out of 5, calling it the "best Disney direct-to-video sequel so far."

Video game
A video game based on the film was released exclusively on PlayStation on November 20, 2003.


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Chilwell

Chilwell is a suburban area in the borough of Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies on the west side of the town of Beeston and is 4 miles south-west of the centre of Nottingham.

History
Roman buildings, pottery and coins have been found in Chilwell. Chilwell was originally a hamlet on the road from Nottingham to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, but along with Toton it became part of the parish of Attenborough. Suburban development spread gradually from Beeston along Chilwell High Road.

The area's population grew substantially during World War I, when most of the area of level ground between Chilwell and Toton was occupied by the National Shell Filling Factory No. 6 and the original direct route between Chilwell and Toton became a gated military road, now known as Chetwynd Road.

On 1 July 1918, 134 people were killed in an explosion at the factory, with over 250 people injured in the explosion. This tragedy remains the largest number of deaths caused by a single explosion in Britain. The memorial to the dead can be found in nearby church yard of St Mary's, Attenborough.

The army continued to dominate the area with the factory becoming a major depot site for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and more recently for the Royal Engineers. The Chilwell Bypass Road was constructed in the 1930s to take army traffic out of the village centre.

Chilwell had a number of pubs in its centre on Chilwell High Road. The Original Chequers Inn is on the border with Beeston and is a turn of the century pub that was once a coaching house, The Charlton Arms is named after a local landowning family who formerly lived in the now demolished Chilwell Hall. The Cadland is named after a locally trained racehorse that won The Derby in 1828.

Chilwell has had a long-standing non-conformist population. The Chilwell Methodist Church was founded in 1798 as the Methodist First Connection Chapel at Hallams Lane. Its Sunday School (provided jointly with local Baptists) provided the first free education for the poor of the area. The chapel moved to land provided by Squire Charlton in 1857. Christ Church, Chilwell was built in 1903 to provide an Anglican church to serve the growing population, although it did not become a separate ecclesiastical parish from Attenborough until 1975.

Since 1900
The Inham Nook estate (including the Inham Nook pub) was built by Beeston and Stapleford Urban District Council on land to the west of Bramcote Lane from the 1950s; St Barnabas's Church was constructed in 1957 as a "mission church" to serve the new population. For many years, Inham Nook's council housing was in sharp contrast to the surrounding areas of middle class suburban owner-occupation. Since the 1980s right to buy legislation, tenure has been more mixed, but Inham Nook remains relatively deprived compared to other areas in the southern part of Broxtowe borough. However Broxtowe borough council in partnership with NET have recently spent £100,000 on refurbishment works to the Inham Nook sports pavilion to help improve local facilities for the community. The works included updating the changing facilities for local football teams, and improving the bowls facilities and accessibility to the pavilion. The works were carried out by local contractor GPS Construction (Nottingham)

Chilwell Manor Golf Club was established in 1906 on land formerly belonging to the Manor. The Manor House and nearby Chilwell Green remained intact until 1965 when the bland Clarkes Lane development of large detached houses started construction.

Chilwell War Memorial Hall and Institute was opened on 3 May 1924. It was built to commemorate the memory of the gallant men of the village who scarified their lives during the Great War. The Hall and Institute was established to be a place for assembly and recreation for the community and surrounding neighbourhoods, and still offers many activities to meet this aim.

Chilwell School is located off Queens Road West adjacent to the golf course. It shares a site and facilities with the Chilwell Olympia Sports Centre. Prior to construction of the school in the 1970s, this area was Kirk's Farm. It had remained undeveloped as the land has a high water table and poor drainage. A hectare of the school grounds was not drained for playing fields and is now the Chilwell Meadow nature reserve managed by the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust as a rare example of a "wet meadow" of unimproved grassland.

Parts of the golf course are also sites of importance for nature conservation; there has been some work in recent years to remove non-native species in the golf course planting, to improve native biodiversity.

Demography
Chilwell population is 14,024 with the average household at 2.30 with the population density per hectare at 44.30. In 1931, the Chilwell civil parish had a population of 2,584. At the 2011 Census, the two Chilwell wards (East and West) had a total population of 12,864.

There are 90.2% White British and 9.8% with people from 35 different countries including India, Pakistan, France, Germany, Poland, Jamaica, China, Ecuador, Australia, Ireland and the United States.

Railway
Attenborough railway station is the nearest National Rail station, which hosts the following hourly services during weekdays:
 * Matlock - Nottingham, via Derby
 * Leicester - Lincoln or Grimsby.

Tram
Line 1 of the Nottingham Express Transit tram line runs between Toton Lane and Hucknall, via Nottingham city centre.

There are local stops at the following locations:
 * High Road – Central College
 * Cator Lane
 * Bramcote Lane
 * Eskdale Drive
 * Inham Road

Buses
Chilwell is served by routes operated by three bus companies.

Nottingham City Transport:
 * 36: Nottingham – Derby Road – QMC – Beeston – Chilwell

Trent Barton:
 * Indigo: Nottingham – Beeston – Chilwell – Long Eaton – Derby
 * 18: Nottingham – QMC – Beeston – Chilwell – Stapleford

Nottsbus Connect (Nottinghamshire County Council):
 * 510: Beeston – Chilwell – Attenborough – Toton – Stapleford

Former civil parish
Chilwell is a former civil parish. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished, with most of its area being included in the new parish and urban district of Beeston and Stapleford, and a smaller area going to Clifton with Glapton. Beeston and Stapleford Urban District was abolished in 1974 to become part of the new borough of Broxtowe. No successor parish was created for the former urban district and Chilwell is therefore directly administered by Broxtowe Borough Council.

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Rugby Rovigo Delta

Rugby Rovigo Delta, formerly known until 2010 as Rugby Rovigo, is an Italian rugby union club currently competing in the Serie A Élite. They are based in Rovigo, in Veneto.

Overview
The club was founded in 1935 by medical student Dino Lanzoni, who discovered rugby at university.

They quickly became one of the strongest Italian sides and won 14 titles between 1951 and 2023. They have never been relegated from the top flight of Italian rugby union. They are the current Italian champion.

Current and former Rovigo players include Elio De Anna, Stefano Bettarello, Stefano Bordon, Alessandro Moscardi, Carlo Orlandi, Carlo Checchinato, Mirco Bergamasco, Manuel Contepomi, AJ Venter, Gert Smal, Viliami Ofahengaue and Naas Botha.

Honours

 * Italian championship
 * Champions (14): 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1975–76, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1989–90, 2015–16, 2020–21, 2022-23
 * Runners-up (7): 1988–89, 1991–92, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2021−22
 * Coppa Italia/Excellence Trophy
 * Champions (1): 2019-20
 * Runners-up (3): 1997–98, 2005–06, 2013−14

Current squad
The Rovigo Delta senior squad for 2023–24 is:

Italian players
Former players who have played for Rovigo and have caps for Italy:

 * 🇮🇹 Matías Agüero
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Bacchetti
 * 🇮🇹 Mario Battaglini
 * 🇮🇹 Enzo Bellinazzo
 * 🇮🇹 Arturo Bergamasco
 * 🇮🇹 Mirco Bergamasco
 * 🇮🇹 Ottorino Bettarello
 * 🇮🇹 Romano Bettarello
 * 🇮🇹 Stefano Bettarello
 * 🇮🇹 Flaviano Brizzante
 * 🇮🇹 Massimo Brunello
 * 🇮🇹 Stefano Bordon
 * 🇮🇹 Giancarlo Busson
 * 🇮🇹 Pablo Canavosio
 * 🇮🇹 Carlo Checchinato
 * 🇮🇹 David Dal Maso
 * 🇮🇹 Elio De Anna
 * 🇮🇹 Gianluca Faliva
 * 🇮🇹 Simone Favaro
 * 🇦🇺–🇮🇹 Julian Gardner
 * 🇮🇹 Massimo Giovanelli
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Lo Cicero
 * 🇮🇹 Tito Lupini
 * 🇮🇹 Giancarlo Malosti
 * 🇮🇹 Matteo Mazzantini
 * 🇮🇹 Alessandro Moscardi
 * 🇮🇹 Giancarlo Navarrini
 * 🇮🇹 Giacomo Nicotera
 * 🇮🇹 Carlo Orlandi
 * 🇮🇹 Alberto Osti
 * 🇮🇹 Antonio Pavanello
 * 🇮🇹 Gert Peens
 * 🇮🇹 Isidoro Quaglio
 * 🇮🇹 Nicola Quaglio
 * 🇮🇹 Graziano Ravanelli
 * 🇮🇹 Pietro Reale
 * 🇮🇹 Leonardo Sarto
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Scanavacca
 * 🇮🇹 Fabrizio Sintich
 * 🇮🇹 Pietro Stievano
 * 🇮🇹 Iliesa Ratuva Tavuyara
 * 🇮🇹 Edgardo Venturi
 * 🇮🇹 Angelo Visentin
 * 🇮🇹 Narciso Zanella

Overseas players
Former players who have played for Rovigo and have caps for their respective country:

 * 🇦🇺 Peter FitzSimons
 * 🇦🇺 Willie Ofahengaue
 * 🇦🇷 Alejandro Abadie
 * 🇦🇷 Lautaro Bazan Velez
 * 🇦🇷 Manuel Contepomi
 * 🇦🇷 Juan Cruz Legora
 * 🇦🇷 Leandro Lobrauco
 * 🇦🇷 Serafín Dengra
 * 🇦🇷 Juan Pablo Orlandi
 * 🇨🇦–🇿🇦 Christian Stewart
 * Akvsenti Giorgadze
 * Ilia Zedginidze
 * 🇲🇩 Gheorghe Gajion
 * 🇳🇿 Ron Cribb
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Penciu
 * 🇷🇴 Cristian Săuan
 * 🇿🇦 Nick Mallett
 * 🇿🇦 Stefan Basson
 * 🇿🇦 Schalk van der Merwe
 * 🇿🇦 Schalk Burger Sr.
 * 🇿🇦 Hendro Scholtz
 * 🇿🇦 Naas Botha
 * 🇿🇦 Gert Smal
 * 🇿🇦 AJ Venter
 * 🇼🇸 Silao Leaega
 * 🇼🇸 Elvis Seveali'i
 * 🇺🇸 Luke Gross
 * 🏴 Bernard Thomas

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Talk:Double act

Ultra-Modern
i think a good clear exemplary modern instance is Jon Stewart vis-a-vis the satirist correspondents on The Daily Show. it's very formulaic and usually very funny. jon stewart, as the straight reasonable man, sets up the correspondents to make their arrogant and half-baked opinionations and reports. (usually half-baked and arrogant, rather than "dumb" or the other forms listed in the wiki)

the fact that steve colbert became an expert straight man during at least one of jon stewart's absences from the show emphasized the formal nature of it. in other words, his persona/"character" wasn't static or consistent, but took on whatever role the scripted Double Acts required.

if anybody decides to stick in something about these, obviously feel free to use any of my wording. i'm not doing it myself because some JERK will probably delete the contributions immediately. that's the way it goes. 128.119.236.46 00:52, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I can't add about double ats I don't know. Btw, I've seen entries in the list that I don't think they fit. Specially of the animated ones, Bugs Bunny ad elmer Fud? They are an example of antagonism between two characters but they certailny don't fit into the Abot & Costello formula, I need to obtain consensus about this issue before starting deleting them. So is it me or Bugs Bunny doesn't belong to the list about double acts? Funny thing, Daffy & Porky fill in the stereotype more fittingly. This concept is not getting clearly understanded enough... -- Requiem the 18th (email)

Wasn't Laurel and Hardy a knockoff of the danish double act Fyr & Bi?

I'm not too sure mork and Mindy could be described as a double act.--Crestville 00:45, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * You're better off than me, I have no idea who the heck they are, thu I know who Robin Williams is. If you have seen the movie/series/whatever it is. You should know better. I'd said, talk with the original contributor and discuss it, if sie(I mean the original contributor) doesn't respond delete it. If the it was an IP address delete it and wait for sie to come back and discuss. I'll try to locate the revision number, if you give me time. Requiem the 18th (email) 03:01, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * UPDATE Got it. the user is User:Kchishol1970, post in sier talk page or wikimail siem, I can't talk about a movie I have not seen so I'm counting on you. Requiem the 18th (email) 03:53, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Why not? I'd say M&M were a classic double act, with Mindy as the "comic foil" and Mork as the comic. Darguz Parsilvan 11:49, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Dharma and Greg
Shouldn't they be some kind of Double Act? Emily ( Funtrivia Freak ) 02:12, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

 * They are no more a double act than Frasier and Niles or Joey and Chandler. They are simply two characters in a sitcom, there has been no attempt to recreate the dynamic of a double act, unlike, say, Steptoe and Son.--Crestville 13:00, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree. Dharma is the wacky, free-spirited one, while Greg is the uptight, straight-laced one.  Seems to be almost a classic example of the concept.  Also, the show itself revolves primarily around those two characters (hence the name of the show).  Conversely, Frasier and Niles are very similar in personality and temperament -- and the show isn't called "Frasier and Niles".  Likewise, Joey and Chandler are merely two characters out of a roster of six.  They're not intended to be a comedy duo.

There's no critera that one member be wacky and one be straight laced, nor is there a criteria that they have equal billing, be the main focus or interact soley with each other. They do not fit the general dynamic as the "comedy" (what there is of it in D&G depends on situation, rather than interaction, routines or any other dynamic of a double act. Conversely, Godber and Fletcher in "Porridge" (for example) spent entire episodes without any real sitiuation, just talking to each other, playing off of each others reactions, character trates and jokes. This happend more often in Fraiser or Friends than D&G--Crestville 20:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Why shouldn't they be included? Everybody else anyone could think of is on this list (Tim Allen and Al??). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.199.21.97 (talk) 12:48, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Straight man and comic foil in a comedy troupe
Straight man disambiguates to double act, and comic foil is apparently about to be merged into this article. However, I would say that the terms "straight man" and "comic foil" are not restricted to comedy duos as they would equally well apply to comedy troupes (e.g. Zeppo Marx as a straight man for the other Marx Brothers etc.). What do other wikipedians think? --Tobias Bergemann 08:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 * That as may be, this article is not about comedy troupes. The three weaker articles need to be strengthend rather than leech off of this one.--Crestville 19:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 * My point exactly. --Tobias Bergemann 06:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure about a comedy troupe, but I can have a crack at "straight man". It's distinct from a "comic foil", so should they both go under one broad umbrella article or do you think they are distinct enough to warrent their own articles?--Crestville 22:05, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I am not even sure about the difference between "straight man" and "comic foil" (other than that a comic foil need not be male...). I have been changing my mind five times in about as many minutes about this. Right now, my preferred solution would be to merge straight man, comic foil and double act into a single appropriately named article about the mechanics of comedian performances. However, that would probably make a mess out of "double act". On the third hand, "double act" reads (to me) more like an elaborate list/comparison of comedy duos and could be renamed as such. — Tobias Bergemann 22:24, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Oooh, ahhh, eeeh - I wouldn't like to change that. Maybe do a page for straight man (and maybe one for "funny man" or whatever) and comic foil can re-direct. Do you reckon we can do a history of double acts?--Crestville 22:43, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 * (I am beginning to regret that I even asked.) I like "double act" as it is right now. I think I like your proposal about "straight man". A history of double acts would be really nice, but I am way outside my realm of expertise with this. — Tobias Bergemann 07:26, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

history?
Surely this type of humour (i.e. straight man/comic) did not originate with Laurel and Hardy as this article claims. My memory is vague about this (so I'm unable to pick out specific examples) but is there no example in pre-twentieth century comedic drama? Nothing in Plautus or Shakespeare (with all those bumbling fools) or Restoration comedy that fits this paradigm?--Ibis3 21:18, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Never fear, I have the information for a history section and intend to write it up soon. The dynamic with which this article deals originated in vaudaville (USA) and music halls (UK).--Crestville 21:37, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Definition of a Double Act
I'm afraid a number of the 'acts' mentioned in this article don't meet my definition of a double act by a country mile. Some of them are merely dramatic characters who sometimes interact: Marge & Homer? Kermit and any of the other Muppets? Come off it! Both the (Two) Ronnies always denied they were a double act and Steptoe and Son were characters played by actors. By this criteria, why not include Vladimir and Estragon or even Rhoda and Carlton the doorman? So, some suggested guidelines: (1) Characters in a drama don't count (so not Steptoe & Son nor, for instance, Felix & Oscar (The Odd Couple). After all, they could (and have) been played by different actors. (2) Unless the pairing in some way transcends the characters.  So Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, maybe. (3) The double act should be what the pair is mostly known for - at least while the act is in force (but not necessarily for their entire career). (4) Er, there is no 4.217.154.66.11 13:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

 * (1) Laurel and Hardy and Abbot and Costello were just characters played by actors - they just happened to have the same name as their characters. (2) Just because the Two Ronnies deny they were a double act doesn't make it so - Harlod Shipman deined he was a mass murdering bastard and Jeffrey Archer, to this day, maintains he is not a liar. (3) I feel Steptoe and Son and the Odd Couple (the Lemon/Matthau incarnation at least) are a classic example of a "double act" trancending their characters in the same was the chacters in I Love Lucy or bottom do. (4) The Muppets, I agree, are not a double act, they - like Monty Python, The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges - are more of a troupe who possess the potential to pair off characters woith interplay similar but distinct to that of a double act. (5) Marge and Homer, like Dahma and Greg, and Mork and Mindy, are beyond me. They're just 2 characters in a programme. (6) There is a number 6 but I'm not going to tell you what it is. I like your thinking on this topic and, if you would sign up as a user, I would be very happy to discuss this topic with you. I feel it would very much benefit the article.--Crestville 16:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Should Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert be added?
Would they fit under the list? Generally Jon Stewart does seems to fall into the role of the Straight man/Comic foil when in the company of any one of the Daily Show "Correspondents". In fact, maybe something like this Would work.

 * they're more a troupe that a duo. It's like the muppets or the marx brothers or the three stooges - the interplay is funny, but I think the main elements of a doule act are a) it's an act of some sort (satisfied by the daily show) and b) only two characters are party to the act, that is to say, in on the joke (d'oh).--Crestville 13:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Lee & Herring
"Indeed, after the amicable dissolution of the partnership, it was Lee who went on to greater critical and commercial success with his stand up comedy and comic musical Jerry Springer: The Opera."

Is this really neccessary? It seems a bit superflous and doesn't seem to be relevant to the topic. Plus Lee lost money on Jerry Springer the Opera because of the protests, so I don't even think the term "commerical success" is that accurate anyway. Plus, although it claims in this paragraph that Lee is the straight man, futher down, Lee & Herring are listed as a non straight-man/comic act.

 * Well, they are quite interchangeable, but I'll have a look.--Crestville 16:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

A GA review suggestion...
I suggest that the nominator remove this early unless somebody has a large amount of references lying around they can use on this article, as the only reference appears to be a Television show by the British Broadcasting network. Where's the American perspective on the topic when the only reference given is British? :) But seriously, I don't think any reviewer would consider this well-referenced, and if someone actually reviews it, I think it would be failed very quickly. Homestarmy 04:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Oh no, I don't think it's well referenced, what I'm looking for is some constructive critisim - I think I mentioned that in the nomination. I'd go for Peer review, but no one ever responds to those. The reference I have used looked at both British and American double acts, so it should be ok, but I do need to work on the references. Aside from references what do you think of it? How can I improve it?--Crestville 16:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Since the article is clearly inadequately referenced for GA status, I've failed it. I'm also submitting it for peer review, since the purpose of the GA nomination was to get comments. EALacey 20:50, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * cheers--Crestville 13:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Looks like a very good start, but needs more than one reference before I personally would be comfortale even starting a GA review. I suggest sending it to peer review.  People do respond to those.  Sometimes it takes a little nudging.  For instance, try a relevant WikiProject and see if they have their own peer review.  Or find someone trying to peer review a similar article and offer to trade reviews. Johntex\talk 15:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

definitions are messed up
why is the double act defined as the straight man and the comic pairing, and as a pairing where the the two roles are interchanegable. I think the superordinate definition is the only one that should be considered. On that note I think the interchangeable pairings should be removed. A straight man is a specific archetype. When u have two characters just reacting to each other, it loses the formal categorial aspect of what a double act really is. That or sperate articles for straight man and comedic duos. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.243.28.228 (talk) 06:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC).

 * Disagree--Crestville 13:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Abbott and Costello
This article says that they ended up hating each other, but I don't see that substantiated in this article or the one on the duo. Is it true? 131.91.207.211 14:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I imagine I put it in there, I must have gotten it from their wikipedia articles becasue I don't know much about them personally. I admit now I can't find quite where I got it from - perhaps the article has been changed - but I did find this on Abbot and Costello:

''Relations between the two partners had been strained for years. In their early burlesque days, their salaries were split sixty-forty, favoring Abbott, because the straight man was always viewed as the more valuable member of the team. That was changed to fifty-fifty after they became burlesque stars.''

''The sixty-forty split had long irked Costello. Later, after Buck Privates made them movie stars, Costello insisted that the split reversed in his favor, and it remained sixty-forty for the remainder of their careers. Costello's other demand, that the team be renamed "Costello and Abbott," was rejected by Universal Studios. The result was a "permanent chill" between the two partners, according to Lou's daughter Chris Costello, in her biography Lou's on First.''

I'm sure there is more info on the net--Crestville 15:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Adam and Morgan?
Are Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb from G4TV's X-play considered a double act, Morgan being the "straight man" (or woman in this case) with Adam being the comic? Jedibob5 19:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Not really familiar with them but from their pages, it doesn't seem so.--Crestville 13:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Cheech and Chong?
There's this paragraph, which talks about how sometimes the two guys in a certain comedy act don't always get along: "Dudley Moore ended his partnership with Peter Cook by walking out on the final Derek and Clive recording, and Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, at the height of their success, did not speak to each other off stage - though the respective pairings later repaired their relationships. However, Americans Abbott and Costello ended their career despising each other, as did Rob Newman and David Baddiel and brothers Mike and Bernie Winters."

Should Cheech and Chong be included in that list too? My understanding is that they aren't really on speaking terms with each other anymore. Can anyone verify or deny this?

Office Characters
I feel like the characters from the U.S. version of the Office are mislabeled. Anyone who has seen the show can see the Jim Halpert is the epitome of a straight man, with his sarcastic comments and wry looks at the camera. He and Dwight should be under comic and straight man section, since they interact more on the show, while Dwight and Michael Scott should be under the interchangeable list. Their demeanors are similar, and they play off each other when they're on screen together —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.62.25.74 (talk) 23:57, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Dwight and Jim are a more classic example rather than a classic non-example. Jim is clearly a straight man to Dwight. There are instances where they switch but those are special occasions rather than say demonstration of their interchangeability. - RamdomWolf 198.96.35.166 (talk) 05:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Comic Foil
how did this term came to be? --AnYoNe! 19:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I am not able to really dive into this.
But the 80s and 90s have *no* non-British acts, and the 70s tries to munge the sketch comedy troop of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players into a group of people who did duo acts; it's not really valid, and once removed, the 70s become all british, too.

I think this should all be minimized; discuss the changes of the duos, and the acts, but most of the specific acts, if they stay, should be moved to their region. There's also no need to provide the big list at the end; if it's really needed, it should go somewhere else, as a 'List of Comedy double acts' instead (though truly, it skates perilously close to WP:NOT's 'not a list').

Someone might want to look at the aspects of double acts that have been translated into late night tv pairings, and the occasional daytime show such as Regis and Kelly.

Finally, some attention should be paid to other cultures; Canadian acts such as Smith & Smith, or the Indian Goundamani and Senthil. I understand that this is based at least partly on 'you write what you know', but right now there's barely a nod to any non-British comedy duos existing after the 60s.

I'm sorry I can't work on this - I'm afraid I just like comedy, but I know nothing about it to speak with much authority. --Thespian 08:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

little britain
How come little britain isn't mentioned on this page?Kansaikiwi (talk) 21:22, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion for Discussion
It seems to me that this article is attempting to do two different things, and thus is doing neither very well. When I accessed the article I was expecting it just to cover classic comedy "double acts" (Abbott and Costello, Eric and Ernie, etc.). Instead, there's a lot of extraneous material covering pairings in sitcoms, and attempts to shoehorn members of larger comic troupes (most obviously, the Marx brothers) into the "double act" category. I can see that the current form of the article results from a merger of other articles ("comic foil" etc.) into the "Double Act" article, but it seems to me as a casual reader that this was a mistake. As a reader I think I'd be better served if Wikipedia could offer me a suite of articles with suitable cross linkages. I suggest the following: "List of Double Acts" (a simple list), "Double Act" (a discussion of the nature and dynamics of double acts, with suitable examples), "Comic Foil" (a discussion of the foil in comedy, as distinct from the "straight man" of a double act, again with suitable examples - and for this I suspect you can go all the way back to Plautus!). I'd also completely eliminate pairings in sitcoms where the pairings arise solely from casting decisions at the shows' inceptions (thus excluding Dharma and Greg, etc.), but add a list or article titled something like "Regular Film/TV Pairings", to cover cases like Crosby/Hope, Tracy/Hepburn, Hancock/James. The point with a double act is surely this: you don't hire one without the other, because what you're hiring is the chemistry and history of the duo, and not just their ability to react to lines read from a script by another actor. Many of the cases cited in this article aren't really double acts at all. I'd be interested to hear your comments on this. RomanSpa (talk) 09:56, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Chuck/Morgan should be standard example
rather then ambiguous/interchangable Chuck and Morgan are again a classic example of the double act. While Chuck in the show has been a funny character in terms of his dynamic with Morgan he's clearly always the straight man of the group. I might argue that because Chuck is funny at times he shouldn't even be considered for this article but if you are considering the Chuck/Morgan dynamic by themselves then there's pretty much no way it doesn't match up. - Ramdomwolf 198.96.35.166 (talk) 05:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

The Blues Brothers
Which one is the straight man?--Johnny 42 (talk) 03:41, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Good question, and I don't know - both had their comedic moments. However, I would guess that Akroyd ("Elwood"?) was meant to be the straight man... Engr105th (talk) 11:59, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Andy and Barney
It seems to me that one of the more prominent (and now classic) American "straight man-funny man" examples in television would be Andy Griffith and Barney Fife of the Andy Griffith Show of the 1960s...Any thoughts? Could they be added? Engr105th (talk) 11:53, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Star Trek - move to 1960s?
Why is the mention of Kirk and Spock in the section on the 1970s? The original Star Trek series in which they did the worst of their "comedy" ran from 1966 to 1969. Can we shift it up a decade? → mrs smartygirl ← | Talk 00:45, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Second Banana
Second banana redirects here from, for example, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? - but this page doesn't explicitly explain what the term means. I'd edit it myself but I have never heard that term in my life. Maybe it means more in the USA than here in the UK. It might be better to ditch Second banana altogether and rephrase pages like Roger Rabbit to use a more common, generic, or self-explanatory term but if we're going to redirect people here, we should probably define it somewhere, even if with just a passing reference. Dybeck (talk) 17:29, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 4 August 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. Daniel Case (talk) 06:16, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Double act → Comedy duo – more/most common name, even its category is named Category:Comedy duos, see also Category:Comedy duos by nationality and its 17 subcategories that titled as "comedy duos" -- Editor-1 (talk) 06:40, 4 August 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 19:24, 11 August 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 19:41, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Rreagan007 (talk) 02:01, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:ENGVAR. The common term in the UK is definitely double act. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:58, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

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Deletion of "Refimprove" template
I would like to propose the elimination of the "Refimprove" template, currently there are 29 references. JackkBrown (talk) 18:38, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Interchangeable roles section
This list section begins with the sentence "Double acts who do not use the "Straight Man/Funny Man" dynamic or whose roles are interchangeable – as well as notable examples. But "notable examples" of what? If it means examples of double acts in general (which do not necessarily have non-SM/FM dynamics), then the list is a bizarre amalgam of two completely different things: notable double acts, and non-SM/FM acts (which may or may not be notable). There is no indication of which criterion each entry is supposed to be included for, leaving it up to the reader to guess. And why is the section titled "Interchangeable roles" if the list includes examples that are not interchangeable roles? This seems very confusing to me. It seems better to just make this list be notable doubles acts, and use a separate list or some other mechanism if we want to call out acts which are non-SM/FM. (Although we should have sources for such a classification, which the current list completely lacks.) So I think the heading should be changed to "Notable examples" and the opening sentence should be removed.

A second issue is some of the entries on the list do not have a stand-alone Wikipedia articles for the act itself, but only for each member individually, such as Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, or Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams. It's arguable whether these are truly double acts or just two actors who appeared together. Yet another group does have a stand-alone article for the act itself, but in this list each member is separately linked to their biographical article rather than to the act, like Martin and Lewis (linked to Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis), and Laurel and Hardy (linked to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Since this list is supposed to be examples of acts, I think we should link to the article about the act, not the individual members, and remove the entries that don't have a separate article about the act, or don't have strong supporting evidence that the pair is indeed considered a notable double act and not just two actors who appeared together. CodeTalker (talk) 17:40, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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Publication ban

A publication ban is a court order which prohibits the public or media from disseminating certain details of an otherwise public judicial proceeding. In Canada, publication bans are most commonly issued when the safety or reputation of a victim or witness may be hindered by having their identity openly broadcast in the press. They are also commonly issued when the crime involves minors or is sexual in nature.

In countries where press freedom is the norm, an actual ban on publication is used mostly for ongoing court cases where publicity may affect the case, although in Canada the balance has tilted away from disclosure since the passage in 1985 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Ontario).

In Canada
There are several types of publication ban permitted under the Canadian criminal code:
 * An order restricting the publication of information identifying complainants of sexual offences [ s.486.4 ]
 * An order restricting publication of information identifying victims and witnesses [ s.486.5(1) ]
 * An order restricting publication of information identifying a justice system participant [ s.486.5(2) ]

Under s. 486.6, anyone who violates any of these orders (s. 486.4(1), (2) or (3) or 486.5(1) or (2)) can be liable for a summary conviction offence.

General publication ban (s. 486(1),(2))
Section 486.5(1) provides the court with the authority to make an order "directing that any information that could identify the victim or witness shall not be published in any document or broadcast or transmitted in any way if the judge or justice is satisfied that the order is necessary for the proper administration of justice."

Section 486.5(2) provides the authority to make an order to not reveal "information that could identify the justice system participant".

This can be applied for by a prosecutor, a victim or a witness, a judge or justice. (s. 486.5(1))

Under s.486.5(4), the application must be made in writing and notice must be given to the prosecutor, accused, or any other person affected by the order that the judge specifies. The application itself as well as the contents of a hearing on the application cannot be published.(s. 486.5(6), (9))

The order shall only be made where the applicant establishes that the order is "necessary for the proper administration of justice". (s. 486(1), (2), (5))

The factors that must be considered to decide whether to proceed are set out in s. 486.5(7):
 * (a) the right to a fair and public hearing;
 * (b) whether there is a real and substantial risk that the victim, witness or justice system participant would suffer significant harm if their identity were disclosed;
 * (c) whether the victim, witness or justice system participant needs the order for their security or to protect them from intimidation or retaliation;
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Sexual offence publication ban
Under s. 486.4 (1), the court may make an order "directing that any information that could identify the complainant or a witness" not be published, broadcast or transmitted for any sexual offences (as listed in s. 486.4(1)(a)).

Any complainant or witness under the age of 18 years must be notified of their right to make an application for an order, and if requested by the complainant, prosecutor or witness under 18 years of age, the judge must made the order. (s. 486.4(2))

Similarly, under 486.4(3), for charges under 163.1, the court must make an order in relation to any person who comprises the subject of child pornographic materials.

Jury identification ban
Under 631(6), the court or crown may order a publication ban on any information that may tend to identify jury members where it "is necessary for the proper administration of justice".

Prominent cases
In Canada, the role of publication bans came under intense scrutiny in April, 2005 when Justice Gomery issued a publication ban on the testimony of three key witnesses at the Gomery Inquiry in the sponsorship scandal. The ban was granted at the request of the lawyers for Jean Brault, Paul Coffin and Chuck Guité, who argued that intense media coverage would bias potential jurors for their upcoming criminal trials. Shortly after the ban was imposed, however, an edited summary of Brault's testimony was posted on an American blogger's website, where it was immediately accessible and became well-known to Canadians interested in the story. Also, the inquiry remained public, so the opposition parties were aware of what was being revealed even while their respective leaders were kept intentionally unaware to prevent them from accidentally violating the ban at a press conference. Justice Gomery later lifted the ban on most of the testimony.

In January 2005, author Stephen Williams was sentenced for violating the publication ban by including forbidden details in his two books on Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, making him only the second person sentenced for violating the publication ban—the first being one of the "Electronic ban breakers". Stephen Williams reached a plea agreement with the Canadian authorities in which he agreed that he would no longer use "any materials belonging to the Crown" as part of his writings.

In December 2010, a publication ban was imposed in the case of the murder of Victoria Stafford because the victim was a minor.

The Court also imposed a publication ban in the case of Nicole Wagler, a 17-year-old from Milverton, Ontario, who was brutally murdered December 2012.

In the United Kingdom
Where a judge considers that the reporting of an ongoing case may prejudice a trial, what are termed "reporting restrictions" are likely to be imposed while the case is in progress. For example, an order prohibiting publication under Section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 was issued forbidding any United Kingdom newspaper from publishing certain information regarding a memo alleged to be an official transcript of a conversation between U.S. President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, which, in the context of the planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, regarded an alleged plan to bomb selected offices of the Arabic-language television news station Al Jazeera.

There is a blanket prohibition on reporting the identities of alleged or confirmed victims of sexual offences in England and Wales, under the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992.

In the United States
Brian Cathcart of The Independent has stated that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution "ensures that the media enjoy great latitude in the coverage of criminal investigations and trials."

A notable legal dispute over a government attempt to censor newspapers arose in the context of the Watergate Scandal during the early 1970s. Richard Nixon's administration attempted to block The New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing information contained in the Pentagon Papers. The matter was resolved after a two-week delay by the United States Supreme Court in New York Times Co. v. United States, in which the Court ruled that the publication ban was a violation of the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and of the press.

Publication of name of sexual assault victim
The US Supreme Court ruled the imposition of damages for truthfully publishing public information violates the First Amendment.

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User:TimeriderTech

TimeriderTech is the username for Michael House, an electrical engineer and writer who works in the railroad signal and electric utility industries when he's not volunteering for the local fire department.

Work on obscure railroad signaling topics on Wikipedia is a labor of love that he does "pro bono" for the greater good of the modern world.

Personal opinion: "Nobody should die at a railroad crossing."

Mike lives in Eastern California (Try finding THAT on a map!) and walks his dogs up to the meadow near his house at lunch.

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Talk:Jude Ciccolella

Birth Place?
I know it says Nassau County, but I live in nassau now and it's a huge place... does anyone know anything more specific? 24.47.206.213 16:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

He also appeared in the movie Sin City.
 * Then, feel free to add this to the article. Be Bold! Zzyzx11 | Talk 22:08, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Is it really necessary to include part of the storyline of 24 in this article, about an ACTOR who played a CHARACTER in the show? I'm removing storyline stuff. This article should be about the actor, with brief mentions of the roles of his characters. - James Foster 08:20, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This phrase "Chick is a Brown University graduate who played on their football team." in the Triva section looks badly placed. It also refers to Jude as "Chick" which I'm not sure is even a real nickname for him. Can someone please tell me if this is valid? --AlexForche 03:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Music Carreer
No mention of his successful music carreer--Lucy-marie 19:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Erskine Hamilton Childers

Boxes
It seems to me that this article suffering from boxitis; overuse of template boxes or whatever you call them. "Tánaiste" and "President of Ireland" are clearly redundant and can be removed without great harm, since links are already included in other boxes. Also, the "Cabinet Minister" box seems rather superfluous; can't the succession list for each post simply be listed once on the relevant page, ie, Irish Minister for Lands? -- Viajero 22:03, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * While I'd agree with you about the "Tánaiste" and "President of Ireland" boxes, the Cabinet Minister boxes do seem to serve a purpose as the official name of the job has changed many times over the years and it's easier to track down who was doing which job by the person's name - the "Minister for Lands" job which Childers held is now the Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, but has been:

 * Minister for Fisheries 1921-1930
 * Minister for Lands & Fisheries 1930-1937
 * Minister for Lands 1937-1977
 * Minister for Fisheries 1977-1978
 * Minister for Fisheries & Forestry 1978-1986
 * Minister for Tourism, Fisheries & Forestry 1986-1987
 * Minister for Marine 1987-1997
 * Minister for Marine & Natural Resources 1997-2002
 * Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources 2002-present
 * -- Arwel 22:17, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't see any problem with the boxes. On the contrary I know third level students have been visiting the Irish politicians' page on wikipedia because of the depth of information. Previously students visited Nealon's Guides as a source of information, but now they are being told also to look at wikipedia. I do think Tánaiste and President boxes are important for they link what are constitutionally the first and third most important Irish state offices, head of state and deputy prime minister. I think it would be a mistake to delete any of them. Maybe a new template should be created, but the idea behind them is spot on and these pages are a credit to whomever put on the information. (Someone in college asked me if I was responsible. Regrettably the answer is 'no'. My main boxes have been on papal conclave pages.) Fear ÉIREANN  22:32, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Date of Birth
An anon has just changed the date of birth from 11 November to 11 December. On checking other sources, I find that he is correct. Looks like an honest mistake on the second edit to the article, unspotted until now! --Jumbo 05:04, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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Funeral
What was interesting about Childers's funeral was not particularly the foreign dignitaries but the Irish ones. Douglas Hyde had only had two leading government and opposition members at his in St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1949 (one being Childers) while Childers had virtually the full set.--Rumping (talk) 02:27, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Only President not to be born in Ireland
The page says that he is the only Irish President not to be born in Ireland, but it is uncorrect as Éamon de Valera was born in New York City. Removed wrong information. --Giacomo Antonio Lombardi (talk) 21:02, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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Service

Service may refer to:

Activities

 * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty
 * Civil service, the body of employees of a government
 * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court
 * Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans
 * Feudal service, see Feudal land tenure in England
 * Funeral or memorial service
 * Military service, serving in a country's armed forces
 * Public service, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good
 * Selfless service, a service which is performed without any expectation of result or award

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Service (album), a 1983 album by Yellow Magic Orchestra
 * Service (film), a 2008 film
 * Service (play), a 1932 play by British writer Dodie Smith
 * Service (record label), a Swedish record label
 * "Service" (The Walking Dead), a 2016 television episode of The Walking Dead
 * The Service, an 1840 essay by Henry David Thoreau
 * "Service", a song from the album Silver Sun by Silver Sun

Economics and business

 * Service (business), an aggregation of a service engagement with one or more service acts between two or more service systems creating service outcomes
 * Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within a service–product continuum
 * Service economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy
 * Service sector, the traditional tertiary sector of the economy, including:
 * Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
 * Domestic service, employment in a residence
 * Table service, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers
 * Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including:
 * Service design
 * Service management
 * Services marketing
 * Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
 * Service-level agreement
 * Managed services
 * Outsourcing
 * Service provider, third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations
 * Motorway service area, also called services in the United Kingdom

Religion

 * Church service, Christian communal worship, often held in a church building
 * Divine Service (Lutheran), the public worship of North American Lutheran churches
 * Salah, Islamic prayer routine. Friday Prayer, Congregational prayer service
 * Service (music), musical settings for sections of a service of worship
 * Service (Tenrikyo), the liturgy of the Tenrikyo religion
 * Son of man came to serve, concerning Jesus

Computing and telecommunications

 * Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
 * Service layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture
 * Service-oriented architecture (SOA), a design pattern in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network
 * Service, the function provided by a server (computing)
 * Service, local implementations in software:
 * Service, a program in the services menu under macOS that processes selected data
 * Daemon (computing), a background computer program in Unix
 * Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system
 * Network service
 * Radiocommunication service, according to ITU Radio Regulations (RR) Article 1.19
 * Telecommunications service, including:
 * Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
 * Software as a service (SaaS)
 * Web hosting service
 * Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
 * Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
 * Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
 * GSM services

Other uses in technology

 * Service (motor vehicle), maintenance procedures carried out after a vehicle has traveled a certain distance
 * Building services engineering
 * Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code

Other uses

 * A collection of matching tableware:
 * Tea service
 * Dinner service
 * Cabaret service
 * Servant leadership, leadership reconceptualized as service to those below
 * Service (surname)
 * Service, Missouri, a community in the United States
 * Empire Service (1943–1961), one of the Empire ships in service of the British government
 * Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis
 * Service High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska
 * Service of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
 * Services football team, an Indian club representing the Armed Services
 * Sorbus domestica (Service Tree), a species of tree
 * Universal basic services, a form of social security

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Eastern and Oriental Orthodox section
There is a section that lumps the "Eastern" and "Oriental" Orthodox churches together. I'd like to remind everyone that these are distinct churches. So distinct, in fact, that if we had to lump churches together, it would arguably make more theological sense to lump the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox together, and put the Oriental Orthodox in a separate section (I don't advocate doing this!). Editors should be careful not to jump to sloppy conclusions based on the mutual use of the word "orthodox" by these churches. 184.175.14.142 (talk) 20:43, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
 * An important point. From a western perspective, at least three, sometimes four, distinct communions and churches get lumped together as "Eastern Christians": The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East, and Eastern Catholic (sometimes). Worth be consistently clear on the distinctions. Protoclete (talk) 22:10, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

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Maybe an good photo to illustrate this article? --Flor!an (talk) 17:11, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Non-Christian aspects removed
Someone added statements about ecumenism being a general phenomena, rather than a purely Christian enterprise. This is A) wrong and B) completely unsupported in the text below and I have removed it.108.90.117.6 (talk) 22:22, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

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Either the uncited claims in the Anglican section need to be sourced, or they need to be removed. There have been minority split movements but they are far in the minority. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.9.245 (talk) 21 December 2015
 * I agree that the sentence as it currently stands seems like a significant overstatement at best. Moreover, even if that were not the case, it is barely peripherally relevant to the article. I have removed it. Graham (talk) 05:27, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Adding a ✅ so its easier to gloss over. MaximusEditor (talk) 19:44, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

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I've recently tagged this article for having multiple issues that need resolving. Namely, these are general copyediting, verbosity of language, and condensing - three that roughly fall in the same ballpark. Let's go through them one by one.

Copyediting - Basic things. Tone, repeated wikilinks, style of writing. General and non-specific cleanup that anyone could have a go at.

Verbosity of language - there are a lot of points in this article that read like an essay written in the context of the reader already understanding the subject. Not everyone is going to read and fully understand the topic of every Wikipedia article, but this should be because of the subject at hand - not because of the way the article is written.

For example - the article Galaxy is a Featured Article. I don't understand everything written in that article, but that's because I'm not very good at Science. It's not because it's written terribly - it's a Featured Article, meaning that the opportunity to understand the article subject is there. I just don't have the smarts for it.

I hope this reasoning makes sense - the point I'm trying to get at is that you have to write a Wikipedia article essentially from the ground up, like the reader has absolutely not a clue what Ecumenism is before they hit the page. Currently, this article does not do this. I had to search on google for what ecumenism is, because the very first sentence used to read like this:

"The term 'ecumenism' refers to efforts by Christians of different church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings."

The article's subject can be as nuanced and complicated as you want, but the article still has to be written well.

Condensing - I have a feeling there are too many section headers in this article, but I could be wrong. What I don't feel wrong about is the fact that the information in this article could be heavily condensed and far better organised.

Someone with a greater interest in this subject needs to have a stab at this article, as I couldn't focus for more than one section before my brain started turning into molten cheese. I hope this explanation of the tags makes sense, and I hope that someone takes the opportunity to have a go at improving this article. --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 18:03, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of section?
I think we should delete the "Historic divisions in Christianity" section as it is beyond the scope of this article. Important links could be included in the "See also" section. Editor2020 (talk) 01:18, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Typos in the block quote from The Discipline of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church?
It appears that there may be two typos in section 1 of the block quote from The Discipline of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church. Specifically, I surmise that the passage "The scriptural references, as alleged proofs favoring this doctrine, may be showing to rest upon an assumption in each case that the Word of God will not substance" should read "The scriptural references, as alleged proofs favoring this doctrine, may be shown to rest upon an assumption in each case that the Word of God will not substantiate". However, I cannot find the cited work online. Does anyone have access to it? Ps8v9 (talk) 01:24, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

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Pre-election day events of the 2005 United Kingdom general election

These are the activities that were undertaken by the candidates and their political parties in the lead up to the 2005 general election.

Labour election poster controversy
In the run-up to the election, the Labour Party circulated posters it was considering using in the campaign to the subscribers of its email contact list. One of these, which was intended to support Labour accusations that the Conservatives had not fully costed their economic policies, featured the slogan "the day the Tory sums add up" together with images of flying pigs featuring the faces of the Conservative leader Michael Howard and Treasury spokesman Oliver Letwin. Both Howard and Letwin are Jewish, and the Labour Party was accused of encouraging Antisemitism; the Labour Party denied any such implication, but withdrew the posters.

A separate poster depicted Howard as a hypnotist with a watch on a chain, and the caption "I can spend the same money twice"; this was seen by some Conservatives as a depiction of either Shylock from The Merchant of Venice, or Fagin from Oliver Twist, and in either case therefore similarly anti-Semitic. The Labour Party said the poster was intended to remind voters of the character of incompetent fictional hypnotist "Kenny Craig" from the television comedy Little Britain.

Margaret Dixon NHS case
Another prominent feature of the pre-campaign was what journalists dubbed 'The Battle of Margaret's Shoulder', in which the Conservatives highlighted the case of Margaret Dixon, a Warrington pensioner whose shoulder operation had been cancelled seven times. She had written to the Health Secretary Dr. John Reid about her situation, but he had not replied, and so she looked to Michael Howard and the opposition party for help, who readily seized the opportunity to highlight a failing of the National Health Service. Soon after the matter was brought to national attention Mrs Dixon finally had her operation, but damage had been done.

Howard Flight
On 24 March 2005, The Times printed extracts from a tape recording made at a meeting of the Conservative Way Forward group in which Howard Flight, then Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, said that there was room for a Conservative government to make further savings on public expenditure than it was promising in its election campaign, and that the cuts that had been chosen to commit to were selected based on those that were more "politically acceptable". Flight's comments were used by the Labour Party in an attempt to justify its claims that the Conservatives were planning to substantially cut government services, which had been greeted with scepticism by the media, and Flight immediately resigned his post, eventually to have the Conservative whip withdrawn and his candidacy as Conservative MP for his seat blocked. It later emerged that the tape recording had been made by a Labour Party member who had somehow attended the meeting, giving rise to Conservative allegations that Labour was using illicit tactics.

Security and integrity of the ballot
The period immediately before the 2005 general election has seen increased concern about the integrity of the electoral system in Britain.

Postal voting has been permitted in United Kingdom elections since 1918. In 2001, after a recommendation by the Home Office Working Party on Electoral Procedures, the government with the support of the other parties changed the law so that applicants for a postal vote no longer had to state a reason why they were unable to vote in person, so making postal voting available "on demand".

On 4 April 2005, Richard Mawrey QC (sitting as a judge in an Election court) declared the result of two wards in Birmingham from the 2004 local elections there void by reason of "widespread fraud" in postal voting committed by the successful Labour candidates. Other local cases, most notably in Bradford, have seen accusations of postal voting frauds committed by other parties.

Mawrey stated that he found the system of postal voting to be insecure, and expressed his concerns about whether the government was intending to prevent fraud. Nick Raynsford, a Minister in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, told Parliament that the government would commit £10 million to improving postal ballot security.

The election date
Until the introduction of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act in 2011, the dates for general elections in the United Kingdom were not fixed, being instead set by the government with a minimum notice of 17 working days, the length of a general election campaign. The only legal limitation, under the Parliament Act 1911, was that Parliament could not last longer than five years. As the previous general election was held on 7 June 2001, another election was not required until 7 June 2006. However, governments with safe majorities in the House of Commons sometimes called elections early when seeking a mandate for a change in policy, if they feared that holding the election later would adversely affect their chances of winning or if they wished to benefit from a period of weak support for the opposition. It was thus usual practice for Prime Ministers to "go to the country for a renewed mandate" (call a general election) some time after the fourth anniversary of the previous election. The Prime Minister's announcement on 5 April 2005 that the election would be held on 5 May 2005 meant that the government would be returning to the poll slightly under four years into the parliamentary term, although the previous election had been delayed by a month to take account of the foot and mouth crisis.

The date of 5 May coincided with the date set for local elections for county councils in England and local councils in Northern Ireland. The latter had originally been scheduled to take place on 18 May but were brought forward by Northern Ireland Office ministers, adding to the speculation surrounding the 5 May date. The date was suggested on 24 November 2004 by the British newspaper The Sun. The political editor of The Sun, Trevor Kavanagh, seen by many as "Mr Blair's voice in Fleet Street", had correctly 'predicted' the date of the 2001 general election for 7 June 2001 (which, similarly, was also the same date as local elections in England and Northern Ireland for that year).

The election announcement
The date of the general election had been trailed by the news media for weeks. On 5 April 2005, Blair went to Buckingham Palace to ask Queen Elizabeth II for the dissolution of Parliament. The announcement had been expected on 4 April but following the death of Pope John Paul II on 2 April the announcement was delayed by a day as a mark of respect. Instead of campaigning (as was presumably originally planned), Tony Blair attended Vespers in memory of the Pope at Westminster Cathedral on 4 April.

Normal convention dictates that the Prime Minister visits the Sovereign at Buckingham Palace, then makes a formal announcement that the Sovereign has granted a dissolution, before formally announcing the date of the election at an event later in the day. However, the first person to speak about the election was the Leader of the Opposition, Michael Howard (Conservative), followed soon afterwards by Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), when they both launched their official campaigns.

Following his visit to Buckingham Palace, Blair returned to Downing Street to make the formal announcement of the calling of the election. With the session of Parliament being shortened, the government needed the co-operation of the opposition parties in order to pass its legislation. This meant that many Bills under review were scrapped, including national identity cards, and a ban on the sale of psychedelic mushrooms. Others were drastically scaled back in order to gain the acceptance of the opposition: a major crime bill passed without a clause criminalizing "incitement to religious hatred", and the proposal to allow super-casinos was passed but with a restriction that permits only one to go ahead, instead of the eight that had most recently been proposed.

The last session of Parliament was prorogued by the Lords Commissioners on behalf of the Queen on 7 April, after Royal Assent had been given to all the Acts passed in the last few days of the Parliament. The prorogation stated that a new session would be opened on 14 April but in practice this will not happen as the present Parliament will be dissolved on 11 April (it is a formality that Parliament is not prorogued without setting a time when it will meet again). In practice the new Parliament will be summoned on 11 May for the election of a Speaker and the swearing-in of Members, and will be formally opened on 17 May by the Queen.

Campaign events between date of announcement and election day
The election was announced on 5 April 2005 and the election was held on 5 May 2005.

Ed Matts
Soon after the election was called, Ed Matts, Conservative candidate for the South Dorset constituency, was forced to apologise for the manipulation of a photograph from a rally campaigning against the deportation of Ugandan asylum seekers from Weymouth. The original posters consisted of a picture of the family and the slogan 'Let Them Stay', but these were changed to 'Controlled Immigration' and 'NOT Chaos and Inhumanity' respectively. The second poster in each case was held by Ann Widdecombe, a former Shadow Home Secretary. The photographs made the front page of The Times. Ed Matts has since been forced to apologise for a false claim that the then MP, Jim Knight, who held the smallest Labour majority in the UK, had supported the closure of a local school, and for the use of two Olympic sailors in campaign literature without the permission of the sailors (both of whom support Labour).

Closure of MG Rover plant in Longbridge
On 7 April the car company MG Rover halted production at its plant in Longbridge, Birmingham, due to financial problems and the company was put into administration. The government attempted to broker a deal with Chinese firm Shanghai Automotive to continue the firms' strategic alliance and buy Rover out. However, talks were unsuccessful and on 12 April the administrators, Price Waterhouse Coopers, announced that production would be wound up, the plant and its assets sold and almost all of the plant's staff made redundant. Around 5,000 jobs will be lost at Longbridge, and many more jobs in local companies and dealerships throughout the UK that had supplied the firm are at risk. Many of Birmingham's seats are currently Labour-held, but also quite marginal.

Birth of Charles Kennedy's son
The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy, became a father on 12 April. The Liberal Democrat manifesto launch was delayed when Kennedy's wife, Sarah, went into hospital on 11 April. The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, took over Kennedy's campaign role in the meantime.

Party defections
Paul Marsden, the outgoing MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, announced within hours of the dissolution of Parliament that he was seeking to rejoin the Labour Party and reverse his earlier defection from Labour to the Liberal Democrats in protest at the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Labour's Brian Sedgemore (Hackney South and Shoreditch), another MP stepping down at the election and a long-time critic of Tony Blair, left the party for the Liberal Democrats on 25 April in protest at Labour's policies on Iraq, anti-terrorism laws and top-up fees.

Publication of Attorney General's Advice on Iraq War
After the summary of the document was comprehensively leaked to Channel 4 News and The Guardian, the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith's advice of 7 March 2003, on the legality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was published in full. Opponents of the war had campaigned for the advice to be made public for some time, with many speculating that the government's reluctance to do so indicated that Goldsmith had advised that war would be illegal.

The real situation was complicated. Lord Goldsmith had concluded that "the safest legal course would be to secure the adoption of a further resolution" from the United Nations Security Council. Without such a resolution, in Goldsmith's opinion, invasion would still be legal under past resolutions 678 and 1441, if it could be proven that there were "strong factual grounds for concluding that Iraq has failed to take the final opportunity. In other words, we would need to be able to demonstrate hard evidence of non-compliance and non-cooperation" on the matter of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Blair played down the importance of the advice's publication, remarking "This so-called smoking gun has turned out to be a damp squib", as it affirmed the legality of military action. Opponents of the Iraq war including Charles Kennedy, contrasted the contingent, caveat-laden advice in the document with the Attorney General's statement to the House of Commons ten days later on 17 March 2003, which stated that military action would be lawful, with no similar caveats. They speculated that the Attorney-General had been pressured by the Prime Minister to change his mind. The government denied that the Attorney-General had changed his views, stating that what had happened was that the circumstances outlined on 7 March which would make war legal had in fact occurred.

Party Leaders on BBC Question Time
On 28 April the leaders of the three main political parties appeared on the BBC's Question Time programme. Each faced half an hour of questions from the audience in turn, but did not engage in direct debate with each other; while Conservative leader Michael Howard was keen for such a debate to take place, Tony Blair refused to participate. The programme's format was agreed upon as a compromise.

The programme attracted 4.1 million viewers. One common issue for all three leaders was the war in Iraq, though all three discussed other topics as well. Charles Kennedy was quizzed on his party's plans for replacing Council Tax, Michael Howard was confronted on his party's tough stance on immigration, and Tony Blair was challenged on the use of targets in the National Health Service, such as the 48-hour targets for GPs to see patients. This last issue in particular was dealt with in more detail during campaigning over the following days.

Further regional versions of Question Time aired the following day in Wales and Scotland, with the same format, where the leaders of Plaid Cymru and the SNP were quizzed by audiences.

Death of Jo Harrison
On 1 May it was announced that Jo Harrison, the Liberal Democrat candidate for South Staffordshire, had died after a short illness. Under electoral rules, the election in South Staffordshire was postponed until 23 June.

Hounslow electoral register
On the day of the election, it was reported that up to several hundred voters' details had been accidentally deleted from the electoral register in Hounslow.

Opinion polls
Opinion polls were carried out almost every day during the election campaign and were reported by all the news media. The following lists opinion polls taken.

Notes

Targets
The below were not official targeted seats (no major party has ever published its list of targets – nor are any of them likely to: it would give away information to their opponents) but were based on the results of the 2001 election; the seats listed are the ones in which the respective party came second, ranked by the percentage margin by which they lost. In general, actual target seats are determined by more recent election results such as the 2004 European Parliament election. The incumbent party is included in brackets after the constituency name.

The Liberal Democrats pursued a "decapitation" strategy, targeting front bench Conservative and (to a lesser extent) Labour MPs in potentially vulnerable seats.

Targets for other parties included Bethnal Green and Bow where RESPECT hoped to take a seat, and Brighton Pavilion where the Green Party of England and Wales hoped to move into second place. The Scottish National Party's main targets were Dundee East and Ochil and South Perthshire and Plaid Cymru's top target was Ynys Môn.


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Other song
Please note related move request at Talk:Say_Something_(A_Great_Big_World_song) In ictu oculi (talk) 09:24, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Other works
Don't know how to work it into the article but I feel a mention of the game/software Beaterator that Timbaland lends his likeness to as well as collaborated on deserves a mention; I had no idea that he existed until using the software on a PSP. Norlesh (talk) 02:46, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

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We know he was married for 4-5 years, has three children. Nobody wants to write the section?? Or at least put them in the InfoBox! Dfoofnik (talk) 19:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC) (Dfoofnik )

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Pharrell Williams cousin connection dubious
I just watched that video clip, and in it he says

"We like family...I call him cousin 'cuz his Grandma..." and then she cuts him off--I think it's pretty clear from the clip that they aren't biologically related, just that they grew up together and consider each other family. As far as I'm aware from the Wikipedia guidelines, it shouldn't be listed as such. 31.221.86.254 (talk) 09:53, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

 * From what I can hear, he says that they are half-cousins through Pharell's grandmother. But the exact relationship is still unsure.
 * "We like family. I mean like, we really fam like that's through I am a half-cousin because his grandmother..." 78.48.97.40 (talk) 02:04, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

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