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You will never work again in this town: a celebrities' all-out slugfest

Wordpress messed with my access to Opinion Renegada, so I asked April Camus and Dr. sipmac to post this here in the meanwhile. Enjoy:

Glamour aside, working in Hollywood is like being stuck in the most uncomfortable cubicle of the meanest soul-sucking corporation. So much for leaving it all to follow your celluloid dreams… today I found this article, and I wanted to share what the fray had to add.

Let the festivities begin!

• “Like sleeping in bed with a girl” – Ava Gardner on ex hubby Frank Sinatra
• “Go shave off your goddamn mustache you c**t” – Judy Garland to Ginger Rogers, inscribed on a stein beer mug
• “She knew how to sleep with the right people” – Liza Minnelli on Grace Kelly’s Oscar win
• “Her singing voice can peel paint off walls” – Judy Garland on Kathryn Grayson
• “She had so much ice water in her veins that she was pissing it” – Ramon Novarro on co-star Jeanette MacDonald
• “I am aware of how Miss Davis felt about my makeup in Baby Jane, but my reasons for appearing somewhat glamorous were just as valid as hers, with all those layers of rice powder she wore and that ghastly lipstick. But Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures. She called it ‘Art.’ Others might call it camouflage- a cover-up for the
• absence of any real beauty. ” – Joan on Bette in ‘Baby Jane’
• “I’d wring her neck if I can find it” – Noel Coward on Claudette Colbert
• “It should have been called ‘All About Me’, dahling!’ – Tallulah Bankhead on Bette Davis in ‘All About Eve’
• “When she married him [Vincente Minnelli], I told Judy Garland directly to her face that I’d never shed another tear for her.” – Butterfly McQueen
• “It was the most shocking display of bad taste I have ever seen. Look, there’s nothing wrong with my tits, but I don’t go around throwing them in people’s faces.” – Joan Crawford on Marilyn Monroe
• “That little Barbra Streisand turned out to be a big ol’ shit” – Vivian Vance
• “I could smell his dentures when we were doing a kissing scene, which reeked of cigar smoke.” – Vivien Leigh on Clark Gable
• “My mother told me to only speak good of the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Thank God!” – Bette Davis
• “”He played my father in my first picture [A Bill of Divorcement]. His attentions were very unfatherly. When we finished shooting I went up to him and said ‘Thank God I don’t have to act with YOU anymore!’ and he simply said ‘I didn’t know you ever HAD, darling!’” – Kate Hepburn on John Barrymore
• “Who does she think she isn’t?” – Yves Montand on Shirley MacLaine
• “Elvis not only dyed his blonde hair black, which he thought was more butch, but in some of his movies he wore more eyeliner than his leading ladies” – former co-star Alejandro Rey
• “I did a movie with Duke Wayne and was shocked to learn he had small feet and wore lifts and a corset. Hollywood is seldom what it seems” – Rock Hudson
• “Brando used to be a huge star, now he’s just huge” – former co-star Brian Keith
• “Bob Hope would attend the opening of a supermarket” – Marlon Brando
• “I saw this empty taxcab pull up and out hopped Sam Goldwyn” – Bob Hope
• “Marilyn was smart for only 10 minutes in her life, and that was the time it took to sign with Darryl Zanuck” – Anne Baxter
• “That broad’s got a great future behind her” – Betty Grable on Marilyn Monroe
• “THAT DYKE!” – Liz Taylor on Marilyn Monroe, in Marilyn’s prescence
• “She is a spoiled, indulgent girl, a blemish on public decency” – Joan Crawford on Liz Taylor
• “God it was awful. He can sing but he can’t do much else” – Natalie Wood on her brief fling with Elvis
• “Duke Wayne had 4 inch lifts in his shoes.. he was probably buried in those goddamn lifts” – Robert Mitchum
• Tony Curtis about kissing Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot. Take it away, Tony! “It was like kissing Hitler”.
• The costume designer, when he was making adjustments to Curtis’ female outfit, told MM that Curtis had a better ass than she did. She opened her blouse and shouted “Yeah, but he doesn’t have t**s like these!”
• “I found out that Carole Lombard wasn’t a natural blonde. We’re in her dressing room talking while shooting Bolero and she starts taking her clothes off. I didn’t know what to do!… then she starts mixing peroxide in a bowl and with a piece cotton began to apply the liquid to dye the hair around her honey pot. She glanced up at me and said ‘Relax Georgie, I’m just making my collars and my cuffs match’” – George Raft
• “Orson Welles always carries a little suitcase around with him because he’s ashamed of his small nose. He always puts a little putty or something on it.” – Jeanne Moreau
• “Think what my brother would’ve acheived if he had been celibate” – Shirley MacLaine
• “Woody Allen… is an evil man.” – Maureen O’Sullivan
• “I worked with Gig Young once in a film. You don’t get to know a man and you never know what he’s going to do. He had a bland personality, good looks, somewhat sad smile, and years later after he remarries for the second or third time he kills his wife! And I always thought the best of people!” – Joan Blondell
• “George C. Scott. Great actor. Big drinker. Wife beater. What else do you want to know?” – ex-wife Colleen Dewhurst
• “The least couth actress I’ve ever worked with? Bette Davis” – Helen Hayes
• “I’m Number 10 at the box office right behind HER! [Barbra Streisand]. Get me a bag I think I’m going to vomit” – Walter Matthau
• “C.B. DeMille invited me to a private screening of ‘Samson and Delilah’ Afterward he asked me how I liked it. I replied: ‘I never like a movie where Vic Mature’s tits are bigger than Hedy Lamarr’s'” – Groucho Marx
• “I always thought that Jane Fonda had a stunning figure. Did you see ‘Barbarella’? Why did she need do get a boob job? Just because her husband had an affair with a younger woman? What kind of role model solves her problems by making her bust bigger?” – Sandy Dennis
• “Chuck Heston has made acting in period pictures an art. A minor art.” – Ava Gardner
• “I said to Marilyn on the set of ‘Prince and the Showgirl’, ‘Why can’t you get here on time for f**k’s sake?’ And she replied ‘Oh, you have that word in England too?’” – Laurence Olivier
• “Goddamit, when is she going to be here, she’s going to give me a heart attack.” – Clark Gable about Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits.
• “She was frightened, insecure. During our scenes in ‘How to Marry a Millionaire’, she’d look at my forehead instead of my eyes. A scene took probably 15 or more takes. I couldn’t dislike Marilyn, she had no meanness in her” – Lauren Bacall
• “She was the biggest bitch in show business, thank God I’ll never have to work with her again!” – Tom Bosley on Lucille Ball
• “Bruce Lee was an egomaniac. He thought it terrible that he had to be just a movie star when he really wanted to be a dictator. I’m not kidding!” – Lee Marvin
• “I wouldn’t say she’s dumb, but one time she squealed out loud on set that she had a terrific idea. The director stared at her and said ‘Treat it gently dear, it’s in a strange place.’” – Tony Randall on Jayne Mansfield, who had an above average IQ.
• “Yes I have acted with Clint Eastwood. Or rather I have acted opposite Clint Eastwood” – Geraldine Page
• “Gerry Page is a superb Method actress. I once asked her what her secret is and she replied ‘Talent’” – Helen Hayes
• “I didn’t know what to make of Patty Duke’s erratic behavior. I thought she was a Method actress but then I was informed she was manic depressive” – Elsa Lanchester
• “I loved Bill Holden, but I couldn’t have knowingly married an alcoholic” – Audrey Hepburn
• “Joan Crawford was on the set, knitting. Lana Turner rushed over to her and yelled ‘The Japanese have destroyed Pearl Harbor!’ Joan looked up at her and said ‘Oh… my dear, who was she?’” – Mary Astor
• “I’ve never been a fan of Woody Allen. Many people say he’s the funniest in the world. I find him neurotic” – George C. Scott.
• “Abbott and Costello were famous for stealing furniture from their sets without the directors calling them out on it. But one did and Lou went home one day and saw that his grand piano was missing. The director made them return EVERYTHING they stole from the set.” – Joe Besser
• “I was in one of Woody Allen’s movies [Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask]. When I met him, I wondered how he was qualified to direct this movie”. – John Carradine.
• “On the set with Chuck Heston, we’d be sitting side by side for 20 minutes and finally I’d turn to him and say ‘You know you can’t sit next to somebody for half an hour and not even say hello. He boomed ‘WELL I CAN!’” – Edward G. Robinson.
• “Never mind Arthur, Pomona isn’t Lucille’s town.” – Judy Garland to Arthur Freed after a disasterous preview of Yolanda and the Thief, starring Freed’s mistress Lucille Bremer
• “Barbara Parkins… was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.”–Lana Wood, her co-star on Peyton Place.
• “John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with.”–Jill Haworth, his co-star in In Harm’s Way.
• “Stella Stevens was a pain in the ass. They [the crew] called her Madame Stella–she thought she was some great stellar star. And she wasn’t really much of anything at the time [1962].”–Laurel Goodwin, her co-star in Girls! Girls! Girls!
• “Raquel Welch was a probelm on this movie and she was a major, major bitch.”–Lori Williams, her co-star in A Swingin’ Summer.
• “Jill St. John is an unbelievably cruel person who I am not fond of in the least!”–Quinn O’Hara, her co-star in Who’s Minding the Store?
• “Joey Bishop knew my husband at the time and he still came on to me. I was so angry at that asshole. I just felt that he was an absolute creep.”–Sharyn Hillyer, his co-star in A Guide for the Married Man.
• Jerry Lewis on Groucho Marx: “He took everything he heard at a cocktail party and turned it into material.”
• Red Skelton at disliked studio head Harry Cohn’s crowded funeral: “Give the people what they want and you’ll always sell out.”
• James Cagney on Horst Bucholz: “I’d like to knock him ass-over-tea kettle”
• After completing A Bill of Divorcement, Katharine Hepburn told John Barrymore, “I will never act with you again,” whereupon Barrymore replied, “you never have.”
• When director Sam Wood said to Groucho Marx, “you can’t make an actor out of clay,” Groucho retorted, “nor a director out of Wood.”
• “Mary Ann Mobley was a phony. She was saccharine, sweet and phony!”–Chris Noel, her co-star in Girl Happy.

Cut!

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Tales from the Wikipedia Trash Can 8: List of Clichés 3

The Third and Final chapter in the trilogy that made you cringe...

Typical episodes

Most cartoons include an episode in which one or more characters:
• Sees what it would be like if they were never born (some of them can be similar to It's a Wonderful Life).
• Fall in love.
• Shrink.
• Travel in time.
• Main characters are regressed into children or babies, or a young immature character at their care is progressed into an adult (usually resulting in a role swapping situation).
• Switch minds with someone/something else along with their voices.
• Transform into an animal or monster, and usually attacked or hunted by their allies.
• Are hypnotized into switching sides, usually by the villain.
• Are handcuffed or otherwise semi-permanently attached to another character, either hero or villain, but almost always someone they have not been getting along with previous to the cuffing
• Fall into a depression where they may question the validity or purpose of their struggle, or even their very existence (More common in Japanese animation).
• Impersonate the opposite gender or another character.
• Travel to an alternate universe where all the heroes are evil and the villains good, or where the bad guys have taken over.
• Get amnesia (often leading the character thinking they are friends with, or working for, one of their enemies).
• Meet a famous singer/actor, fictional or not.
• Go into outer space, often the moon.
• Celebrate and learn about Christmas.
• Get very scared of something.
• One team member leaves the team and returns by the end of the episode.
• Save the planet from an asteroid or some other large extraterrestrial object.
• Go through a very special episode with a moral/social message.
• Remind the others of all the adventures they lived through, bringing out flashbacks of older episodes (this is called a clip show).
• Get trapped inside a comic book, television show, or a video game, and must survive against numerous parodies and/or homages of and to pop or nerd culture with varying levels of accuracy.
• Meet a rival that bears a close resemblance to the Hero(es). (Doppelganger)
• Have a big argument with each other which threatens their friendship/teamwork but will make up at the end.
• Do the same things which already happened from an episode of another show.
• Attend wrestling matches with somebody stronger.
• Get a job in order to pay for something.
• Run away from home.
• Share similarities with or look like characters from other shows.
• Will meet and team up with characters from another show (this is called a crossover).
• Go on a dangerous assignment with one having to remain behind for some reason (injury, sickness, he's really stupid or not liked), but at the end of the episode he is the one who will end up saving everybody.
• Meet a dangerous enemy from their past whom they thought was defeated.
• Character A saves the life of Character B and then Character B becomes a servant to Character A, which usually annoys Character A. In the end Character B usually ends up saving the life of Character A, thereby repaying the debt.
• Mention other characters even though they're not in the episodes.
• Speak to the viewers.
• Come down with a cold.
• Celebrate Opposite Day.
• Fake a sickness. Usually to get out of a responsibility, such as school.
• The episode will be a spoof, remake or pastiche of a classic movie.
• Use phrases from other TV shows, cartoons or movies.
• Cartoon episodes very often have titles that are puns/spoofs on famous movie titles or expressions.

The City

• Action cartoons typically take place in a city that constantly falls victim to bizarre catastrophes that sends the helpless citizenry into panic. No matter how many alien invasions or cataclysms happen, the people will never be desensitized. Nor will they ever move out, revolt, or take steps to make the city safer.
• News of these events also tends to stick within city-borders as these apocalyptic events fail to draw any national attention.
• Large portions of the city are often destroyed and rebuilt rapidly and the good guys are never blamed for the amount of destruction they cause. This was the subject of parody in the film The Incredibles and The Powerpuff Girls Movie, where the superheroes are actually blamed. Underdog played this up. Whenever someone pointed out the damage he had caused, Underdog replied "I am a hero who never fails. I cannot be bothered with these details."
• Metropolitan police forces that are regularly confronted by superhuman or otherwise exceptional criminals never upgrade their equipment in response, and must rely entirely on one or two masked super-powered vigilantes to defend the city.
• Even in shows where the heroes are less mobile than the villains (i.e. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, where the heroes are teenagers and the villains are based on the moon), the villains always target the heroes' home city and not a place halfway across the world.

Characters

• A close friend of the hero is of African descent (Kim Possible, The Batman, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Dexter's Laboratory, The Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom, etc.).
• Any robot built will always have a human-like mind and personality, despite the intentions of the builder (unless it is a robot soldier used by villains).
• Robots always produce much more machinery and gadgets than their body can possibly contain.
• Usually, in Genndy Tartakovsky action cartoons, a character will let out an excessive scream after a large battle or in anguish. (Star Wars: Clone Wars, Samurai Jack)
• Evil twins always have some distinguishing feature, i.e. bushier eyebrows, different voice, paler skin, that lets them be easily distinguishable from their good twin. Most of the time, only the audience notices this. Even characters who may notice this feature fail to do so when inevitably faced with choosing which twin is good. ("Futurama")
• In shows where there is a group of 3 lead characters, it is almost always 2 boys and one girl. The leader of the group is often an inexperienced boy, but has great potential skill and develops a crush on the female of the group. The second boy is usually either a goof-off or a shady type that outshadows the hero in terms of skill (if this type is applied, the female often develops a crush on him). The female is usually the smartest or (often ignored) voice of reason, though is usually the weakest. (Naruto)

Weapons
• A firearm is very seldom used in modern cartoons. With very few exceptions, even the police and military are equipped with laser weapons that are rarely capable of killing anyone, despite the damage they may do to inanimate objects. Conversely, weapons that are capable of killing, particularly lasers and explosives, often do little damage to the surrounding area, especially if the characters are inside a room. This is rarer than the former situation, though.
• The ability of someone to actually hit their target with a weapon is inversely proportional to their lethality. Thus, handguns will never hit anything regardless of which side is wielding them, lasers only rarely hit anyone and usually only during a 'dramatic moment', while harmless weapons (such as cannons that launch rotten fruits) are surprisingly effective at neutralizing an adversary.
• Sharp weapons never cut or kill anyone. Except maybe on the cheek, finger, or hair. If someone is stabbed, the screen fades to black or the action is outscreen. If a girl's hair is cut, she will get excessively angry. This was made fun of in Spaceballs, when Princess Vespa voices her disdain for guns, then when a guard singes her hair with a laser beam only seconds later, she powerfully shoots up the rest of the guards.
• Characters trying to escape being crushed under a long, thin falling object, such as a bookcase, will invariably run parallel to the length of the bookcase instead of laterally. Often, they will appear to have gotten out from under it and stop to display relief, and be crushed anyway. Occasionally, they are crushed just before they escape.
• Needle syringes are not allowed to be shown on screen. They're often replaced with a futuristic syringe that doesn't require a needle. An exception to this is when a character that is afraid of shots is required to go the doctor or hospital, which will result in a nurse holding up a syringe with a needle of excessive length.
• Gases, serums, tranquilizers and all other chemicals immediately take effect when administered.

This is a list of clichés related to sports

• Bring our "A" game
• Take it one game at a time
• I'm just happy to be here
• Backs against the wall (especially before any elimination games)
• Swing and a miss
• He shoots — he scores!
• There's no "I" in "team"
• A commanding six–shot lead (in reporting golf results)
• He must be as sick as a parrot (UK - Football/soccer)
• It's a game of two halves
• Overcoming adversity
• They just wanted it more
• Second best all over the park
• It ain't over til it's over (originated by Yogi Berra)
• We're gonna have to play the kind of football we know we are capable of playing.
• Leave it all on the floor
• Credit to the opposition
• Giving 110%

Advertising clichés and phrases

• For all your ____-ing needs.
• And much, much more!
• Not sold in any store!
• How much would you expect to pay?
• But wait! Order now and you also get ___!
• But wait, there's more! (This phrase has actually been trademarked by Ron Popeil, the owner of Ronco.)
• There has to be a better way!
• Don't waste your time on ___ (the blank being a similar but supposedly less efficient product)
• Actual results may vary. (Used to avoid lawsuits when people don't achieve the results seen on the advertisement)
• How many times has this happened to you? (Frequently in ads related to travel)
• You might/will not believe this, but I was once just like you. (Frequently used in weight loss ads and by motivational speakers)
• Don't be fooled by imitators/competitors.
• For a limited time only
• Our best just got better.
• New and improved! (However this appears to be self-contradictory: if something is improved, it cannot be new)
• Terms and conditions apply (said very rapidly or printed very small).
• Save $__ (when spending is involved- which is always the case!).
• Only $__9.99 (no matter how expensive something is, it is always only that much).
• Just __ easy payments of $__9.99!
• Free* (an asterisk implies that it isn't really free and the accompanying text is very small and hard to find).
• That's right!
• Talk to your doctor about ___ (may also be “Ask your doctor if ____ is right for you”)
• How do we do it? Volume!
• Prices marked TOO LOW to advertise! (Usually seen in ads for automobiles.)
• Void where prohibited. (Usually because of special laws or employee problems.)
• Some Assembly Required
• Fun to play with, not to eat
• Each sold separately.
• Batteries not included. (This phrase and the 3 above it are commonly heard in children's toy commercials.)
• Part of a complete/good/balanced breakfast (almost always heard in ads for children's breakfast cereal)
• As seen on TV! (Alternatively, “Similar to those seen on TV” for imitations.)
• You can't afford not to buy this!
• Makes a great gift!
• More than just [product category]!
• The secret is ___. (Used to describe something that is unique to a particular product.)
• Better than the leading brand.
• Don't delay, call now!
• We're practically giving them away!
• None genuine unless it bears the signature of ___ (common in 19th century quack medicine)
• You've tried the rest, now try the best!
• Many will enter, few will win.
• A great deal will be made that the product is being sold under a certain amount (such as “Under $1000!”) when the stated price said it is just under that amount: “and it's yours for only $999!”
• Four out of five ___ agree product X is the best! (where ___ is somebody who is expected to be an expert in the field: doctors, dentists, mothers, etc.; parodied in the Trident gum commercials, which really had four out of five dentists agree that it helps clean teeth, in which one such expert accidentally falls on the "No" button)
• Act now and get a free _____ with your purchase!
• When you call, ask your operator about ___.
• The sale must end this weekend! (However the advert is repeated for several weeks running.)
• The announcer for a drug commercial would say the side effects and dangers of the drug in a manner so fast it is almost overlooked.

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Tales from the Wikipedia Trash Can 8: List of Clichés 2

*********************LIST OF CLICHES 2***********************
****************THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL!!!*****************

Crime Dramas

• The suspect who is intelligent enough not to indulge any of their criminal acts for the first half of the show, immediately confesses all the details to a crime when presented with any evidence against him, usually acting proud of their criminal actions even though they know they will be arrested.
• At the beginning of the episode before the title credits, the main characters would make a sarcastic or snarky comment about the victim or crime.


Science fiction and fantasy

• Characters that are unwilling to communicate creating a major problem from something that could have been fixed just by telling someone. (Lost)
• A character who is forced to repeat one day over and over again (Groundhog Day, Xena: Warrior Princess, Christmas Every Day)
• A plot in which characters switch bodies (Farscape - Out of Their Minds (S2E09))
• A plot which involves the characters visiting present day earth.
• Evil soldiers will always miss their targets, while the hero never misses (the Stormtrooper effect)
• When a villain fires a gun at a bulletproof hero, he will then throw the empty gun, and the hero will duck; this applies mainly to Superman in various media, but it has happened elsewhere
• A plot in which one or more main characters visit a parallel dimension that is darker than their own (Star Trek's "Mirror, Mirror" (and sequels), Doctor Who's "Inferno" and "Rise of the Cybermen", The Flash)
• In martial arts movies, a group of minor thugs will surround the hero but only attack one at a time. This rule is only violated when the plot dictates that the hero be captured, at which point they finally gang up on him.
• Whenever the protagonist time travels into the past, he will invariably meet a great historical figure.
• Child who behaves in an unusual fashion (mute, autistic, etc.) who has extreme psychic ability or other gifts which get the heroes out of a jam. Many fan writers refer to this as the "mute kid with powers" cliché. A variant of this turns up in straight drama as the mute, retarded, autistic, or comically foreign individual who has unusual abilities or insights benefiting the main characters (e.g., Jodie Foster's Nell).
• Spaceships destroyed by enemy fire will always explode spectacularly.
• Despite advances in technology, spaceships will fight in visual range.
• The main cast will have at least one token minority; in addition, there will be at least one extremely attractive and provocatively dressed woman/female alien.
• The enemy ship/super weapon, no matter how large or powerful, will have a fatal flaw.
• Enemy forces are all ugly monsters/aliens or dress in ominous armor or uniforms.

General

• The ongoing, on-again-off-again relationship. Most often the two characters involved will finally get together towards the end of a series. (Friends, Gilmore Girls)
• In modern historical films, the women are often portrayed as just as capable as men in combat (Maid Marian in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Elena in The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro, Anna in Van Helsing, Arwen in Lord of the Rings and Elizabeth Swann in The Pirates of the Caribbean 2.
• A plot in which the hero (or heroes) faces a villain he cannot defeat. He then finds an ancient master or guardian that gives him a new power (better martial arts techniques, upgraded equipment, etc) with which he trounces the villain in the final scene.
• In stories involving racing competitions, the villain is more focused on attacking the hero than winning the race (obviously leading to his doom). (Note: While this cliché can be annoying, it does provide a good counter-example to the question "Are villains more interesting than the heroes who fight them?)

Animation clichés Good Guys vs. Bad Guys

• There will be an episode where the villain pretends to give up and/or turn good in order to lead the naive and trusting good guys into a trap (examples: Garfield and Friends, The Smurfs, and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Xiaolin Showdown).
• Similarly, there will be an episode in which one of the good characters appears to have gone over to the side of evil. This is usually due to some sort of malign influence by the villains, or is a trick by the good guy to win the bad guys' trust. In either case, they will be restored to good by the end of the episode (or plotline, if several episodes revolve around the same thing.) (Teen Titans)
• For shows featuring robots, the good ones have blue eyes while the bad guys have red eyes (See The Transformers). This or variations of this theme may apply to humans/mutants as well (for example, good guys will don blue sunshades while bad guys will don red, or the bad guy could be a mutant with red eyes and the good guys have blue eyes).
• In shows that focus on a team of superheroes, a new character will often suddenly appear to join the team. They will later turn out to be working for the villain, especially if the team accepts them quickly. However, if the team reacts to them with extreme suspicion and mistrust, the new character may turn out to be a genuine hero, usually with a mysterious and tragic past that gives them a reason to hate the villain.
• There will usually be one episode in which the hero and the villain are forced to work together. Often this will involve them joining together to fight a more powerful foe. In several 80's cartoons (including G.I. Joe), this involved the good guys and the bad guys teaming up to fight the war on drugs. Invariably, the villain will attempt to betray the hero as soon as their common enemy has been defeated, or, as in Invader Zim, will simply get back to fighting.
• Characters, good or bad, never die; they fall into another dimension (e.g. Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, the Outriders in Saber Rider, the Serpentmen in Conan The Adventurer, Bruce in Bucky O' Hare, Esmeraude in Sailor Moon, Bob and Megabyte in ReBoot, both managed to get back.)
• Good guys are never allowed to sneak on bad guys and attack them from behind. They must first get their attention, usually with a one-liner, prior to attacking. On the other hand, bad guys are not always restricted to that rule.
• Should the hero get caught in the enemy's trap, the villain will then explain the entire workings of his nefarious plot (assuming that the hero has not found out already). The villain will then leave the hero to his demise, through a cruel, though time-consuming method, neglecting to observe the hero at all. In that time between the villain's departure and the hero's intended demise, the hero will devise an escape plan and get away.
• A main character (one who is usually brought back from the dead) is discovered to be either a clone or a robot duplicate.
• The hero and villain will have to work together to defeat another foe even worse than the actual foe.

Good guys

• Good guys often dispense moral or social advice to their young audience, especially concerning issues such as drug use. There is typically a small segment set aside for this at the end of the cartoon. (G.I. Joe, Inspector Gadget, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog). This is sometimes known as the “Knowing is half the battle...” scene because of the line the G.I. Joe cartoon uses.
• If the hero of a modern action-adventure cartoon is a teenage girl, she will be highly competent, extremely skilled, and almost never look bad or lose in combat. However, if the main character is a male of the same age, he will be relatively inexperienced and prone to mistakes despite his skill in combat. Compare Kim Possible or The Life and Times of Juniper Lee with Ben 10 or American Dragon: Jake Long.
• If a tomboyish girl is forced to dress nicely and become a girly girl (usually for a beauty pagent, contest, etc.), by the end of the plot she will choose "to be herself" and will usually win anyway. (Nikki Wong, 6teen'', Spenelli, Recess, Danny Phantom)
• If the heroes form a group of three or more, there will be a 'normal' girl and boy, often white, who are usually the most attractive members. They will be surrounded by a supporting cast of oddballs, usually including a very gifted and intelligent inventor, a sports fanatic, an overweight person, a younger character, etc. The normal girl will be the love interest for both the normal boy and the other males of the group as well; however, if she choses one, she chooses the normal boy.

Bad guys

Bad guys can be divided into several categories:

• Supervillains are the main nemeses of the hero. They are cruel and hateful towards everyone around them. Not only do their plans never succeed (except on rare occasions), but more often than not at the end of the episode they are worse off than they were at the start. However, they always diligently come up with a new evil scheme.
• Henchmen act as a Supervillain's lieutenants, and carry out their boss' tasks, usually accompanied by a group of Minions. They vary in levels of skill, bravery, loyalty, and competence, but are generally about as powerful as the Hero(es) (Beast Man in Masters of the Universe, Starscream in Transformers, and Storm Shadow in G.I. Joe).
• Minions are the obedient foot soldiers to the Supervillain, typically following orders, even those that lead to their deaths. They are poor fighters and are easily defeated by heroes and sidekicks alike. They also tend to have terrible aim and rarely actually hit any good guys they shoot at (see Stormtrooper effect). Henchmen rarely die violently, unless they are robots, golems, or other nonliving constructs, in which case they die as violently as possible. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Samurai Jack, My Life as a Teenage Robot)
• The Independent Operative (a.k.a. The Mercenary or the Bounty-Hunter) who either works on his own, or gets hired by the Supervillain to deal with the Hero(es). The Operative is usually a threat to the Hero(es), but may become less of one as the series progresses.
• Despite having armies of stormtroopers and enough military hardware to outfit a small nation, evil organizations bent on world conquest frequently use bizarre and unorthodox methods (involving rare items and lengthy preparation) to achieve their goals rather than direct attack (as it is considered more entertaining for the young viewer and is less likely to involve human deaths). This was once common even in live-action films, but is now increasingly restricted to cartoons. Cartoons today often parody this cliché; for instance, the Kim Possible villain Señor Senior Sr. often explains in an episode that more realistic plans would be contrary to “the Code of Villainy.”
• The few female villains typically dress and act more provocatively than the heroines.
• Supervillains of Asian descent frequently have green skin (possibly to distract from race). Examples include Ming the Merciless in Defenders of the Earth, Dr. Julius No in James Bond Jr., The Mandarin in the Iron Man animated series.
• Villains are never of African descent, unless the hero is also of African descent or has black friends (such as Static Shock).
• The villain will deliver an ultimatum which the hero cannot or will not accept (i.e. surrender the planet to me or I will destroy it).
• The villain typically has a wise-cracking, usually anthropomorphic sidekick (this is usually true of Disney films). In any future sequels/television series, this sidekick may join the good guys.
• The henchmen will typically be mistreated by the supervillain. Often the henchmen are plotting revenge, usually in the form of a betrayal later on which will enable them to seize power from the main villain.


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Tales from the Wikipedia Trash Can 8: List of Clichés 1

The long-running franchise in which the sipmac team rescues from oblivion a nixed Wikipedia contribution is back! Frankly, I don't understand how we are supposed to have a grasp of the posmodern civilisation without a List of Clichés, the raw material of most of our entertainement nowadays. Without further ado:

List of Clichés

TV clichés

Medical Dramas

• Symptoms which are assumed early on to be a result of a common illness, but turn out to be a sign of a rare, very serious condition.("It's not the flu, it's cholera!"
• The main character portrayed as a medical genius who diagnoses and treats patients with unusual or rare illnesses after the rest of the medical staff has proven unable to figure out the problem
• The boss or mentor character who has a harsh, "tough love" approach to the job, a difficult love life, and a controversial way of doing things.
• The religious family or church group who refuse to allow a member (usually a child) treatment on the grounds that it would contravene the articles of their faith.

Reality TV Shows
See reality television.

• An establishing shot using a pan that moves slowly, then speeds up, then moves slowly again
• A shot of the moon that quickly zooms out
• Stereotypical contestants such as the gay one, the bigot, or the flirt
• Celebrity contestants who are most often past their prime or have only just become famous
• A "good cop/bad cop" pair on the judges panel of a talent-based reality show
• A Celebrity version or an All-Star show introduced after several regular seasons (Celebrity Big Brother UK; I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!)
• The shock eviction of a supposedly popular contestant by public vote or otherwise
• Edited-in pauses during the "voting out" sequence

Soap Operas

• Characters who experience tragedy and constantly changing relationships with no long-term effects
• The long-lost sibling (often a twin), who often turns out to be a villain or a fraud
• Affairs which result in a pregnancy of questionable paternity.
• The town villain, whose sole desire is to gain control of all the other citizens.
• Weddings, holiday parties, and other special occasions which end with the revelation of a scandal
• Characters have a tendency to say, out-loud, their dark secret, which is often heard by the person it would affect most.
• Most characters are oblivious to others problems.

Sitcoms

• Nuclear families headed by parents whose relationship dates back to college or even high school.
• The stay-at-home mother whose presence in the house is underappreciated but proves to be crucial to the survival of the family
• A situation where a main character has to choose between a popular clique/fraternity or his own friends.
• The middle-class working father, often absentminded or negligent at home
• The "cute kid," usually the youngest in the family, who rarely figures prominently in the plot but provides comic relief
• The fun aunt or uncle, often single or divorced, who seem like fun but are often irresponsible (Family Matters)
• A house in which the interior layout should be impossible given the architecture of the house as seen from the outside.
• A couch situated in the center of the room, allowing other characters to walk behind them (in real life, most couches in a standard living room would be back against the wall).
• Impossibly large and roomy urban apartments.
• No one ever sits with their back to the camera at the dinner table, even though it cramps everyone. If someone walks in, they will pull up a chair and force diners to move aside, rather than sit at the empty end.
• The hip, fiesty grandmother (Family Matters, Who's the Boss?)
• Any story focusing on underage drinking will involve someone going way overboard and a have a bad accident, often while driving home.
• An antagonistic relationship between the father and his mother-in-law (The Flinstones)
• Off-stage characters who are referred to in dialogue as having exaggerated physical features (Maris Crane in Frasier, Al's Mother in Home Improvement)
• Roommates that are complete opposites, such as a slob and a neat person, or a nerd and a womanizer.
• If a character is close to giving birth, such birth will probably occur in an inconvenient place (such as an elevator or the back seat of a car) and the delivery will have to be performed/assisted by the regular character who would be the most uncomfortable with such a scenario. Such births also happen in dramas, typically with similar comedic effect (like Worf delivering Keiko's child on Star Trek: The Next Generation.)
• Once the youngest child outgrows being "cute," a situation will be contrived to introduce a new young cast member.
• Supporting characters never need to knock; they simply walk into the main family's house. They rarely close the door behind them (although the door may miraculously close itself once out of camera-shot).
• A young supporting character will often look to the heads of the main family for support rather than his or her own parents.
• There will be at least one very special episode in which the show tackles drugs, sex, cheating, etc.
• Elementary school plays with Broadway production values, including elaborate costuming.
• When something shocking happens a character will say "I can't believe it". Then another character, usually a less educated one, will say "I know" and preceed to say something that isn't related towards the shock.


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Tales from the Wikipedia Trash Can 3 - Engineering Flops

Errare humanum est (Lucius Annaeus Seneca).

Wikipedia, Dr. sipmac hereby finds you guilty of datacide. Sip (and the sipmac ensemble) have found that your policy of deleting interesting and humoruous articles, by the sole reason of being interesting and humorous is downright criminal. Since when the pursuing of knowledge and the joy of learning are mutually exclusive? Not in our book, we daresay. From now on you are found in contempt of this court and put in double secret probation until you rectify your wrongdoing. In the meanwhile, sipmacrants! proudly presents...

List of famous failures in science and engineering

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A scientific flop may be something that took years of man-hours and a lot of money to complete (or perhaps never completed) and ended in failure.

Contents

•1 Failed aerospace prototypes
•2 Failed weapons
•3 Failed scientific projects
•4 Failed civil engineering projects
•5 Failed buildings
•6 Failed mechanical engineering projects
•7 Failed ships
•8 Failed standards

Failed aerospace prototypes

•The Europa rocket failed five times, without a single successful launch
•The Messerschmitt Me 163 was so dangerous that it killed more Luftwaffe pilots than Allied airmen.
•The world's first commercial jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet 1, introduced into service in 1952, suffered three crashes in the next two years due to design flaw
•Most reusable space vehicles: Shuttle Buran, HOTOL, the X-33/VentureStar, various NASA space planes, and arguably the Space Shuttle.
•The Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat, aka the "Spruce Goose", Howard Hughes's often-ridiculed massive aircraft. Hughes himself did not consider it a failure, and kept it in flying condition until the end of his life. Though the project was consistently portrayed as a failure by the media, even prior to its debut, the H-4 Hercules in some senses presaged the massive transport aircraft of the late 20th century, such as the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy and the Antonov An-124 and An-225, demonstrating that the physical and aerodynamic principles which make flight possible are not limited by the size of the aircraft.
•The Soviet N1 rocket, equivalent to the US moon rocket Saturn V, repeatedly exploded during takeoff. There by earning it a 100% failure rate.
•Project Vanguard (1958), the first attempt by the United States to put a satellite into orbit. The project managers insisted on using a new, civilian-designed, purpose-built rocket. There were repeated embarrassing crashes. After Sputnik, it was quickly decided to use proven military missile designs as the base for future space attempts.
•The Boeing 7J7, intended as a replacement for the Boeing 727, was cancelled in 1987 because airlines were concerned about the economics and noise of its unproven unducted fan engines. The cancellation of the 7J7 led Boeing to concentrate on 727 replacements in the 737 and 757 families.
•The Boeing Sonic Cruiser, intended as a replacement for the Boeing 767 and meant to fly at near the speed of sound (transonic). Airlines rejected the idea of an aircraft that, while as efficient as a 767 and carrying the same number of passengers, would only fly marginally faster. The cancellation of the Sonic Cruiser led Boeing to concentrate on 767 replacements in the Boeing 787.

Failed weapons

•The Chauchat light machine gun - this French weapon of World War I was notorious for its unreliability, frequent jamming and lack of precision manufacturing.
•The German Maus tank was so heavy (188 tons) that it was unusable.
•The British SA80 rifle was notoriously unreliable.
•The Ross rifle was used by Canadian troops in World War I; it was a great gun until it was brought into the trenches, where it constantly jammed. Canadian soldiers were forced to salvage rifles from dead British soldiers.
•The original M16 was so widely known as a failure that initially, Vietnamese troops refused to take them from slain soldiers during the Vietnam War (though they were happy to use corrected models).

Failed scientific projects

•Cold fusion - after much hype, claims of success proved false. (Research into cold fusion continues.)

Failed civil engineering projects

•The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter in a gale force wind.
•Between 1920 and 1925, at a cost of US $6,000,000 (2004 equivalent about $61,000,000), a 7 mile (11 km) tunnel was built in Ohio for the Cincinnati Subway. Only after the initial investment was spent was it learned that there was no interest in funding completion of the project, which remains unfinished and unused today.
•An extensive levee and flood wall system was built up to protect the low lying areas of New Orleans from flooding from the Mississippi River and from Lake Ponchartrain. Due to a design or construction error several flood walls were breached by the storm surge in Lake Ponchartrain caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Most of the city was flooded resulting in a large fraction of the 1000+ deaths reported in Louisiana following the hurricane.

Failed buildings

•The Gothic Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais in Beauvais, France, begun in the year 1247, was an ambitious attempt at the tallest cathedral in Europe. The vaulting of the choir collapsed in 1284 due to poor engineering, and a central tower failed in 1573, permanently halting work on the project. A part of the cathedral still stands and is known for its fine stained glass.
•The John Hancock Tower in Boston is said to have been "known more for its early engineering flaws than for its architectural achievement." Wind-induced swaying was so large, it induced motion sickness in upper-floor residents, requiring the addition of a pair of 300-ton dampers on the 58th floor. Another unrelated but serious problem was that 65 of its 10,344 floor-to-ceiling plate-glass windowpanes fell out of the building to the ground during construction (with, amazingly, no injuries to passerbies or workers), and all required replacement. During engineering analysis of these problems, it was also discovered that under certain wind conditions the building could actually collapse, requiring 1500 tons of structural reinforcements in the building's core.
•The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Minoru Yamasaki. After its completion in 1956, this major urban renewal project almost immediately fell into disrepair, disuse and vandalism. It was entirely demolished on March 16, 1972, and this event is seen as a milestone in architectural history: an end to Modernism, the beginning of postmodernism, the signal of a profound disconnect between designers and users, and a turning point in public housing and urban planning.
•Portsmouth's Tricorn Centre, a mixed use Brutalist-style building, designed by Owen Luder and opened in 1966; it was voted as one of Britain's ugliest buildings, and was considered a social hazard. The structure originally consisted of apartments, stores, a laserquest arena, a nightclub, and a parking garage, with each facility closed down and condemned. The complex was demolished in 2004.
•The elevated walkways of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed during a tea dance in 1981, killing more than 100 people. (See Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.)
•The Sampoong Department Store collapse killed over 500 in 1995.
•The May 24, 2001, collapse of the Versailles wedding hall in Jerusalem, Israel, killed 23 and injured more than 200. The collapse was blamed on poor construction practices. The disaster, which is considered Israel's worst civil disaster, was caught on videotape. The wedding hall was built using the cheaper Pal-Kal method, which uses thinner sections of concrete than usual during construction. The building method was banned in 1996 because of safety concerns. Ten people were arrested by the Israeli authorities, including the wedding hall's owners, the engineer who invented the Pal-Kal method, and contractors and builders involved with recent renovations. In October 2004, two of the owners of the hall were convicted of causing death through negligence; two other employees were acquitted.

Failed mechanical engineering projects

•Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Atmospheric railway in South Devon, England in the 1840's failed because of problems in maintaining a vacuum seal.

Failed ships

•RMS Titanic: Although billed as an unsinkable ship, the Titanic crashed into an iceberg on its first voyage and did not have enough lifeboats for everyone aboard, so many of the passengers drowned. Not to mention drafting and design flaws hence the splitting apart.
•Vasa (ship): A 17th-century Swedish warship, it sank on its maiden voyage because of design flaws; when fully loaded with crew, supplies and weaponry, the lower-deck gun ports were low enough to allow water to flow in
•K-Boats: a pre-sonar steam-driven submarine rushed into production by Britain during World War One. Models were famous for sinking, exploding and generally going out of control. On 31 January 1917, an exercise took place off May Island, Scotland, in which 100 British seamen were killed by their K-boats without any enemy participation. The K-boat never saw active service.

Failed standards

•Brunel's broad-gauge railway track for the Great Western Railway, at just over 7 feet, was incompatible with the "standard" gauge of 4ft 8½" used elsewhere. Despite its demonstrable benefits for comfort, speed and safety, the wide gauge was replaced by the standard gauge, which eventually became a worldwide standard.
•The United States Mint's Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollar coins both failed to gain popular acceptance.
•The Common management interface protocol (CMIP) largely flopped as a replacement for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The complexity of CMIP is often cited as the reason it was not more widely adopted.
•The 1975 Metric Conversion Act was an attempt to institute the use of the Metric system in the United States within ten years. The United States never converted to the metric system, let alone during those ten years.
•The decline of the ALGOL computing language, once the dominant language in academic computer science, was in part due to disputes and consequent delays in the standardization process.

This series will be continued...

Climategate 4: Phil Jones Confesses to Climate Fraud

To the global warming family: please man up, fess it up and take it up. Stop hurting science the way you are doing it now.

That's what Dr. sipmac said a few days after Climategate exploded over the thick hubris cloud of anthropogenic global warming supporters (AGW). Little by little, it is happening. Don't need to be too judgemental. You'd have to grow a pair to admit that kind of wrongdoing. Nobody's gonna give you a medal for that, people are gonna spit after they hear your name for years to come, your only reward is going to be the possible last line of your bio/epitaph: and in the end, he did the right thing. Virtue is its own reward.

Now, just read it and breath with relief.

Dr.sipmac has ranted.

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Woody Allen, you're finally caught!

Happy New Year again! Dr. sipmac is still watching everything under (and above) the sun! Ever wondered about a mystery you didn't know it even existed? Well, Greywizard hit the jackpot! If you want to keep Hollywood alive, repeat, alive, please DO NOT watch a single Woody Allen movie again! Why? The webmaster of The Unknown Movies can explain it better:

He's been deceiving the public and his fellow filmmakers for years. All of his work is just a ruse for what his real aim is, and I am going to expose it right here and right now. And that is... WOODY ALLEN IS TRYING TO KILL HOLLYWOOD! You think I'm joking? Let's take a look at Allen's career as a writer/director. The first movie he wrote and directed was Take The Money And Run, released by Cinerama. Several years later, Cinerama closed its tents and went out of business forever. Then he moved to United Artists and made several movies there. What happened to United Artists? They declared bankruptcy several years later, and were absorbed by another studio. Allen then moved to Orion Pictures and made several movies there. I'll tell you what happened several years after he arrived: Orion declared bankruptcy. Allen then moved to Tri-Star and made a couple of movies. Not long afterwards, Tri-Star was finished as a studio and was turned into a brand that Sony uses to release movies they don't have confidence in. And look at the studios writer/director Allen has worked with (and given his curse) since. There's Miramax (the founders left the company and Disney has severely scaled back its releases), Touchstone (Disney has scaled it back severely as well), Fine Line (is now as dead as its parent company New Line), and Dreamworks (almost declared bankruptcy twice, and its remains and debts have been sold off). It's just a matter of time before we hear bad news about Fox Searchlight and the Weinstein Company, the distributors he has worked with recently. It's time to DECLARE WAR AND STOP HIS EVIL PLANS!

What about the Wenstein Company? The one with the Inglorious Basterds fame? Are you kidding me? Oh, you mean the one with the Nine fame? Uh-oh...

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An open letter to a Philosopher

This is the third installment in a series about Climategate. Dr. sipmac is afraid it is not the last of it, because he is following closely the evolution of this scandal. He feels this is too important to be nonchalantly ignored, so he will risk the being labeled as obsessed and/or repetitive. Always referring to himself in the third person (true to his Internet persona), without further ado presents:

Dear Mr. X:

It is not imperative to use your name in this open letter; Dr. sipmac only mentioned your credentials to state that your opinion on the matters that I will develop in this letter is qualified (To be frank, way more qualified than Dr. sipmac’s). Dr. sipmac read this morning your e-mail answering to the report sent to you by him yesterday. It was penned by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley on behalf of the Science & Public Policy Institute and its called “Caught Green Handed”. It is easily available online. Even not knowing if you could read the entire report, it was a jaw-dropping surprise for me that your only response was “I would be good to know who ordered or produced this version”.

The surprise originates from the recognizable points of your body of work and your areas of expertise that appear in the report and you didn’t at least acknowledge, probably in fear that doing so, you will have to admit that the anthropogenic/manmade global warming theory (MGW) that is being spread worldwide is bogus.

Dr. sipmac knows that feeling. MGW is so entrenched in the collective mind of the public opinion that dissenters from that theory are easily dismissed with a wave of the hand in the best-case scenario, or treated as outright kooks in the worst. These dissenters and skeptics are called “deniers”, as in “holocaust deniers”, which gives a pretty good idea about how the debate is framed. But wait! There is no debate! The science is settled, said Al Gore. But sticking rigorously to the well – known facts, you can still draw solid, undisputable conclusions. These facts are:

• Somebody hacked a batch of e-mails and files belonging to the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK. The CRU is reputedly one of the leading institutions in the climate change research field. Its papers feed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN-based agency that publishes special reports relevant to the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty that acknowledges the possibility of harmful climate change; implementation of the UNFCCC led eventually to the Kyoto Protocol.
• These e-mails and files were leaked (presumably by the same whistleblower) to the BBC a month ago, and the BBC did absolutely nothing to investigate the matters involved in them.
• These e-mail and files then were posted on the internet, where they spread like a wildfire.
• Phil Jones, the director of the CRU, and a few of the involved, reluctantly accepted the authenticity of the leaked/hacked information.
• The contents of the leaked/hacked information are so damaging, that the only defense of the involved is that the crucial statements found in them are taken out of context, that the language the scientists use is incomprehensible to the laymen; i.e. the messages don’t mean what they mean. These messages unequivocally are about:

- The systematic suppression/doctoring of information that contradicted the theory of MGW. What about falseability?

- The direct manipulation of the resources used to evaluate the variations in global climate.

- The use of spurious means of research.

- The bullying and ousting of qualified skeptics and dissenters of MGW, resisting all the way to debate with the critics.

- The successful attempt to make of the peer-review process a travesty.

• Don’t forget that the result of this process is fed to the IPCC, and it is used for decision-making that affects the entire global economy and population. This is what the Copenhagen meeting is about: setting an agency with enough power to force countries to “go green” in order to save the planet and mankind. Not that it is bad per se, but please, not this way.

It is not an easy job to become a MGW-skeptic these days, risking to lose the respect of the others, but with these facts, you can infer without hesitation that there is no real scientific process in the MGW warming research at least (witness Karl Popper), ergo, there’s no real science to the MGW theory, ergo, it can’t not be affirmed there is MGW, even GW properly. As Dr. sipmac said in a previous post, “Dr. sipmac is willing to accept there could be a global warming caused by CO2 emissions, even a manmade global warming… but stop offering the people to drink of the same old kool-aid. Gimme some truth”. Gimme some real science, he would add.

Very truly yours,

Dr. sipmac

P.S.: The Science & Public Policy Institute is behind the report. Respectfully Dr. sipmac invites you to google the rest.

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