November 24

Better Than News

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  Turkey Clear is a brand of translucent turkey meat.

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  The Joy of Enigma is a 1972 illustrated manual of erotic enigma machine encryption and decryption activities. "A Gourmet Guide to loving your polyalphabetic machine encryption."

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  Dude, Where's Mega-City One? is a 2000 American stoner comedy film about two best friends (Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott) who find themselves hunting Nexus-6 replicants after a night of recklessness.

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  As I Lay Dying is a Southern Gothic slapstick comedy film written by William Faulkner and starring the Three Stooges.

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  Midnight Heart is an American neo-noir horror-comedy buddy film about the mysterious financier Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), who hires a criminal accountant known only as The Duke (Charles Grodin) to investigate the disappearance of a man known as Eddie Moscone. In a cross-country chase, Cyphre must deceive the authorities, exterminate the mob, and provoke The Duke into committing a series of horrific murders.

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  The Aladdin King is an American animated musical drama film about Simba (Swahili for lion), a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as King. However, Simba's paternal uncle Scar uses a magical lamp which grants wishes to murder Mufasa and send Simba into exile.

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  The Prismer is a 1967 British television series about an unnamed intelligence agent (Patrick McGoohan) who is abducted and imprisoned in a gigantic prism, where his captors designate him as Number Six and try to find out why he abruptly ceased to split white light into its component colors.

Beyond Plausible

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  Pulpy Maguire is an American crime comedy-romance film directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, and Peter Greene.

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  Tweeter is a 2012 American science fiction action-thriller film about contract social media influencers called "tweeters" hired by criminal syndicates from the future to influence followers in the past.

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  The Fleeing Nun is an American animated religion-comedy television series about Sister Bertrille (Sally Field), a Catholic nun who is relentless wooed by an atheist coyote.

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  Unicycle Dundee is a 1986 action unicycling film starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.

In Other Words

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  Palmer Eldritch Overdrive is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and William Gibson.

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  Maltese-Dick is a 1941 whaling crime drama film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. It is loosely based on the 1851 novel of the same name by Herman Melville.

Are You Sure

... that philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza was a pioneer of Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, notably his modern conceptions of the self and the universe?

... that astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observed the transit of Venus in 1639?

... that That Was the Week That Was was first broadcast on 24 November 1962?

... that Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was urdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters, as Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail?

Topic of the Day

Star Wars

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  Star Wars: Home Alone is a 1977 science fiction drama film about moisture farmer Owen Lars (Macaulay Culkin) and his wife Beru (Catherine O'Hara) who are murdered by Imperial stormtroopers.

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  "Dear Diary, So glad I stole the Death Star and repurposed it as a self-sustaining eldercare retirement facility near a temperate planet with about ninety-percent Earth gravity. Life is good."

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  Luke Warmsouper is a character from the Soup Wars franchise.