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  2. List of Jimmy Fallon games and sketches - Wikipedia

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    One version featured quotes from the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Another featured quotes from recent Celebrity Apprentice bootee Gary Busey. (This installment had only two audience members, with Busey himself also competing; Busey was named the winner, but Jimmy revealed that "friends, family, and the actual Gary Busey" were not eligible ...

  3. Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo

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    It reached No. 7 in the UK, and remains the band's only major hit single in the US, where it reached No. 12. It also reached No. 8 in Canada. A second single, Rossi's "Black Veils of Melancholy" (with organist Roy Lynes' non-album track "To Be Free" as the B-side), flopped and has even been called "a carbon copy of "Pictures of Matchstick Men"".

  4. Pictures of Matchstick Men - Wikipedia

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    "Pictures of Matchstick Men" is one of a number of songs from the late 1960s which feature the flanging audio effect. The band's next single release, "Black Veils of Melancholy", was similar but flopped, which caused a change of musical direction. [10] Rossi (living in a prefab in Camberwell at the time) [11] later said of the song:

  5. Ankh-Morpork City Watch - Wikipedia

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    The Watch primarily functions out of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, but some stories do include members of the watch elsewhere in the world. The watch and its members are the primary topic of 8 novels and one short story, listed below in order of publication. Guards! Guards! (1989); "Theatre of Cruelty" (1993) (short story); Men at Arms ...

  6. Pull quote - Wikipedia

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    In this example, a pull quote is centered between two columns. The text has been "pulled" from the bottom of the first column. In graphic design, a pull quote (also known as a lift-out pull quote) is a key phrase, quotation, or excerpt that has been "pulled" from an article and used as a page layout graphic element, serving to entice readers into the article or to highlight a key topic.

  7. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Wikipedia

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    Aram Bakshian argued that Beck's work on the 15th edition was the start of the work's downfall, writing that, "Donning the intellectual bell-bottoms and platform shoes of its era, Bartlett's began spouting third-rate Third World, youth-culture, and feminist quotes", part of "a middle-aged obsession with staying trendy."

  8. Segal's law - Wikipedia

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    A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. [1] At surface level, the adage emphasizes the consistency that arises when information comes from a single source and points out the potential pitfalls of having too much conflicting information.

  9. Peter Henlein - Wikipedia

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    A watch exhibition was held in Nuremberg during the celebrations, at which outstanding works were awarded Henlein medals. [27] [28] [29] The Peter Henlein Fountain was unveiled on the occasion of the opening of the watch exhibition in. The fountain was donated by the City of Nuremberg and the watchmakers’ association.