British sitcom - United States. In the United States, British sitcoms are rarely seen on the commercial networks, but are often seen on the Public Broadcasting Service and increasingly on cable television, including BBC America and Comedy Central. In the U.S. and Canada, the genre is sometimes referred to as Britcoms, a portmanteau of the words British and sitcom. Absolutely Fabulous enjoyed a significant following when it aired on Comedy Central in the 1990s, and The Office< ...

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British sitcom, British sitcom - Characteristics, British sitcom - History, British sitcom - British sitcoms overseas, British sitcom - United States, British sitcom - Australia, British sitcom - Canada, British sitcom - Some popular British sitcoms

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There are 11 aboriginal peoples living in the territory of Quebec. Their influence on Quebec culture has been and continues to be significant. They are the ones who taught the first French settlers how to survive and to adapt to the harsh winters. Later, the French engaged in trade with a great number of tribes inside and outside Quebec. There are many words in Quebec French that come from aboriginal languages, such as manitou (wizard) and mocassin (soft leather shoes) as well as many places, rivers and lakes that have a native name. Aboriginal p ...

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Culture of Quebec, Culture of Quebec - Creative Arts, Culture of Quebec - Architecture, Culture of Quebec - Cinema, Culture of Quebec - Circus Arts, Culture of Quebec - Comic strips, Culture of Quebec - Dance, Culture of Quebec - Theatre, Culture of Quebec - Literature, Culture of Quebec - Music, Culture of Quebec - Visual Arts, Culture of Quebec - Lifestyle, Culture of Quebec - Family Life, Culture of Quebec - Work, Culture of Quebec - Religion, Culture of Quebec - Vacation, Culture of Quebec - Humour, Culture of Quebec - Food, Culture of Quebec - Sports and Hobbies, Culture of Quebec - Events, Culture of Quebec - Media, Culture of Quebec - Cultural institutions, Culture of Quebec - Prizes and Awards, Culture of Quebec - Regional Cultures, Culture of Quebec - Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Culture of Quebec - Gaspésie, Culture of Quebec - Montreal, Culture of Quebec - Aboriginal peoples, Culture of Quebec - Foreign Influences, Culture of Quebec - France, Culture of Quebec - British Isles, Culture of Quebec - United States

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Perception has it that a common trait is the frequent use of long-winded similes, such as "slow as a wet week", "built like a brick shit-house", "mad as a cut snake", or "flat out like a lizard drinking". Whether this perception is based in reality or has been produced by popular culture items of fiction such as the (successfully exported) television soap opera Neighbours and the films of Paul Hogan remains in question. Among the younger generations of Australians, it has become common to make a mockery of these similes by saying things like "slow as something that's ...

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The setting is first and foremost a backdrop for humor, and the show is not above committing continuity errors if they serve to further the gags. The capabilities of many things vary according to what is most appropriate for the situation at hand. The visually retro-futuristic world of Futurama is not a utopia but neither is it a dystopia. Unlike past cartoons like The Jetsons, which showed an efficient, clean, happy future, Futurama portrays a less idealistic view, with humans still dealing with many of the same ...

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Futurama, Futurama - Characters and plot, Futurama - Characters, Futurama - Planet Express, Futurama - Setting, Futurama - Linguistics, Futurama - Galactic politics, Futurama - DOOP and intergalactic relations, Futurama - Religion, Futurama - Production, Futurama - Possible revival, Futurama - Post-production presence, Futurama - Syndicated broadcasts, Futurama - Non-broadcast production, Futurama - Season details and references, Futurama - Credits gags, Futurama - Opening credits, Futurama - Closing credits: 30th Century Fox, Futurama - Memes and slang, Futurama - DVD releases, Futurama - Comparisons to Red Dwarf

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In the early 1960s Agnes Nixon, then head writer for The Guiding Light, tried to sell a property called All My Children to NBC, then CBS, then NBC again through the auspices of sponsor Procter & Gamble. Despite her Guiding Light success and sponsor support, it was not until the start of 1970 that her brainchild finally aired. Agnes Nixon strived to create a soap that was topical, and could illustrate social issues to the audience. She wanted all this while also injecting regular humor into the script, somethin ...

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All My Children, All My Children - History, All My Children - Title sequences, All My Children - Cast, All My Children - Current cast members, All My Children - Recurring cast members, All My Children - Coming and going cast members, All My Children - Deceased cast members, All My Children - Celebrity guests, All My Children - Awards, All My Children - Daytime Emmy Awards, All My Children - Soap Opera Digest Awards, All My Children - Soapy Awards, All My Children - GLAAD Media Awards, All My Children - Gracie Allen Awards, All My Children - ALMA Awards, All My Children - Writers Guild of America Awards, All My Children - Young Artist Awards, All My Children - Spoofs

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Bertrand Russell - As a man. "Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man." — A.J. Ayer, Bertrand Russell, NY: Viking Press, 1972. Bertrand Russell - As a philosopher. "It is difficult to overstate the extent to which Russell's thought dominated twentieth century analytic philosophy: virtually every strand in its development either originated with him o ...

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Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell - Biography, Bertrand Russell - Russell's philosophical work, Bertrand Russell - Analytic philosophy, Bertrand Russell - Epistemology, Bertrand Russell - Ethics, Bertrand Russell - Logical atomism, Bertrand Russell - Logic and mathematics, Bertrand Russell - Philosophy of language, Bertrand Russell - Philosophy of science, Bertrand Russell - Religion and theology, Bertrand Russell - Influence on philosophy, Bertrand Russell - Russell's activism, Bertrand Russell - Pacifism war and nuclear weapons, Bertrand Russell - Communism and socialism, Bertrand Russell - Women's suffrage, Bertrand Russell - Sexuality, Bertrand Russell - Eugenics and race, Bertrand Russell - Russell summing up his life, Bertrand Russell - Comments about Russell, Bertrand Russell - As a man, Bertrand Russell - As a philosopher, Bertrand Russell - As a writer and his place in history, Bertrand Russell - As a mathematician and logician, Bertrand Russell - As an activist, Bertrand Russell - As a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bertrand Russell - From a daughter, Bertrand Russell - Quotes, Bertrand Russell - Asides, Bertrand Russell - Succession

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film). After years of setbacks and renewed efforts to start production and a quarter of a century after the first book was published, the big-screen adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was finally shot. Pre-production began in 2003, filming began on 19 April 2004 and post-production began in early September of 2004 [13]. After a London premiere on April 20, 2005, ...

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force - The Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Master Shake (voiced by Dana Snyder) is a rude, mean-spirited, and self-centered pistachio milkshake in the form of a white cup with a pink straw sticking out of his lid. He has two yellow gloves for hands. Put simply, Shake's role is to make wild and illogical decisions, presumptions, and demands. Much of the series' humor is based on the thoughtless abuses of Master Shake and his absurd actions. He seems oblivious to any suffering his behavior c ...

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Overview, Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Characters, Aqua Teen Hunger Force - The Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Other characters, Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Episodes, Aqua Teen Hunger Force - DVD Boxsets, Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Movie

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Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, etc. – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner. Synonyms created to avoid possible racial overtones include dark comedy/humor, morbid comedy/humor and off-color humor (see also color metaphors for race.) A scene in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot demonstrates black comedy well: a man takes of ...

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Traditionally, pranks are to be performed before noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator. This stipulation may have been contrived by annoyed parents and school teachers wanting a respite from a full day of pranks. Anyone who fails to respond with a sense of humor to the tricks played on them is also said to be liable to suffer bad luck. It is said that one fooled by a pretty girl will ...

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Flatulence had a role in literature since the mists of time, as In Rabelais' Gargantua's cycle reads several times the word pet (fart). In Dante's Divine Comedy, the last line of Inferno Chapter XXI reads: ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta ("and he used his buttocks as a trumpet"), in the last example the use of this natural body function underlined a demoniac condition. In Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" (one of the Canterbury Tales), the character Nicholas hangs his buttocks out a window and fa ...

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This design is in use not only in the United Kingdom, but also in Ireland, Cyprus, Botswana, Ghana, Malta, Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia, Oman, Singapore, Kenya, Iraq, and Qatar. In the Republic of Ireland the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) issued the Irish Standard I.S. 401 Safety Requirements for Rewireable 13A Fused Plugs for Normal and Rough Use Having Insulating Sleeves on Line and Neutral Pins which is largely similar to BS 1363. Any relevant plugs originating or sold, in the Republic, must pass the Irish Standard or an equivalent standard of a membe ...

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BS 1363, BS 1363 - Safety measures, BS 1363 - Fusing, BS 1363 - Shuttering, BS 1363 - Pin insulation, BS 1363 - Others, BS 1363 - Euro converter plugs, BS 1363 - Countries of use, BS 1363 - Variants, BS 1363 - Humour, BS 1363 - Other devices covered by BS 1363

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Stupidity is the quality or condition of being stupid, or lacking intelligence. This quality can be attributed to both an individual himself (John Smith is stupid) or his actions, words or beliefs (John Smith's policies are stupid). The term can thus also refer to poor use of judgement, or insensitivity to nuances in a person whose is otherwise intelligent. The determination of who is stupid is relatively difficult, despite attempts to measure intelligence (and thus stupidity) such as IQ tests. The adjective is al ...

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Australian English - The origins of Australian words. Australian English incorporates many uniquely Australian terms. One of the best-known of these is outback which means remote, sparsely-populated areas. The similar bush can mean either native forests, or country areas in general. Many such words, phrases or usages originated with the British convicts transported to Australia. Many words used frequently by country Australians are, or were, also used in all or part of England, with variations in me ...

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Australian English, Australian English - Relationship to other varieties of English, Australian English - Spelling, Australian English - Irish influences, Australian English - Samples of Australian English, Australian English - Vocabulary, Australian English - The origins of Australian words, Australian English - Varieties of Australian English, Australian English - Regional variation, Australian English - Phonology, Australian English - Myths about Australian accents, Australian English - Use of words by Australians, Australian English - Humour, Australian English - Diminutives

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Tears are a liquid produced by the body's process of lacrimation to clean and lubricate the eyes. The word lacrimation may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying. One lacrimal gland is located above and beside each eye, behind the upper eyelid. The lacrimal glands secrete lacrimal fluid which flows through lacrimal ducts into the space between the eyeball and lids. When the eyes blink the lacrimal fluid is spread across the surface of the eye. The lacrimal fluid flows through the lacrimal lake via ...

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How a complex structure like the projecting eye could have evolved is often said to be a difficult question for the theory of evolution. Darwin famously treated the subject of eye evolution in his Origin of Species: To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible ...

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Eye, Eye - Varieties of eyes, Eye - Evolution of eyes, Eye - Anatomy, Eye - Cytology, Eye - Acuity, Eye - Dynamic range, Eye - Adnexa and related parts, Eye - The orbit, Eye - Eyebrows, Eye - Eyelids, Eye - Eyelashes, Eye - Eye movement, Eye - Rapid eye movement, Eye - Saccades, Eye - Microsaccades, Eye - Vestibulo-ocular reflex, Eye - Smooth pursuit movement, Eye - Optokinetic reflex, Eye - Vergence movement, Eye - Accommodation, Eye - Diseases disorders and age-related changes

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Films have been around for more than a century, however this is not long when you consider it in relation to other arts like painting and sculpture. Many believe that film will be a long enduring art form because motion pictures appeal to diverse human emotions. Apart from societal norms and cultural changes, there are still close resemblances between theatrical plays throughout the ages and films of today. Romantic motion pictures about a girl loving a guy but not being able to be together for some reason, movies about a hero who fig ...

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Film industry, Film industry - History of film, Film industry - Origins of motion picture arts and sciences, Film industry - Protean developments, Film industry - The silent era, Film industry - The Sound Era & The Golden Age of Hollywood, Film industry - The 1940s: the war and post-war years, Film industry - The 1950s: Widescreen 70mm Stereo and even 3D, Film industry - The 1960s, Film industry - The 1970s, Film industry - The '80s: sequels blockbusters and videotape, Film industry - The Digital Age, Film industry - The '90s and new Millenium: technical advances, Film industry - Film theory, Film industry - History, Film industry - Specific theories styles and movements in film, Film industry - Film criticism, Film industry - The motion picture industry, Film industry - Stages of filmmaking, Film industry - Development, Film industry - Preproduction, Film industry - Production, Film industry - Post-production, Film industry - Distribution, Film industry - Film crew, Film industry - Production Team, Film industry - Primary Production Artists, Film industry - Camera and lighting, Film industry - Production sound, Film industry - Postproduction picture, Film industry - Postproduction sound, Film industry - Independent filmmaking, Film industry - Animation, Film industry - Film venues, Film industry - Development of film technology, Film industry - Endurance of films, Film industry - Wikibooks, Film industry - Basic types of film, Film industry - Lists, Film industry - Other

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