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What's the other 1%?






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Joke

This article is about the form of humour. For other uses, see Joke (disambiguation).
A joke is a question, short story, or depiction of a situation made with the intent of being humorous. To achieve this end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous.

A practical joke or prank differs from a spoken one in that the major component of the humour is physical rather than verbal (for example placing salt in the sugar bowl).


Kiss Them for Me (song)
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"Kiss Them for Me"

Single by Siouxsie and the Banshees
from the album Superstition
B-side   "Staring Back", "Return"
Released   13 May 1991
Format   7" single, 12" single
Recorded   1991
Genre   Alternative rock, Pop
Label   Geffen, Polydor
Writer(s)   Siouxsie and the Banshees
Producer   Stephen Hague
Siouxsie and the Banshees singles chronology
"The Last Beat of My Heart"
(1988)   "Kiss Them for Me"
(1991)   "Shadowtime"
(1991)
"Kiss Them for Me" is a song written and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees and produced by Stephen Hague. It was released in 1991 as the first single from the band's tenth studio album Superstition.
Melody Maker praised it as "gorgeous, wicked, glamorous and utterly self-aware. Pretty in pink".[1]
The song presented a change in musical direction for Siouxsie and the Banshees — adopting a much more straightforward pop-oriented feel than previous efforts, due in large part to Hague's production work. It is a mid-tempo track with an uplifting melody and South Asian instrumentation which had become popular in the UK club scene due to the growth of bhangra. Tabla player Talvin Singh took part in the sessions and also sang during the bridge.
The song uses a sample of Schooly D's "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" as a background. Even with its positive sound, Siouxsie Sioux's cryptic lyrics are an ode to actress and love icon Jayne Mansfield — using the actress' catchword "divoon", referring to her heart-shaped swimming pool and her love of champagne and parties, and to the grisly automobile accident which claimed her life in 1967. Kiss Them for Me was also the name of a 20th Century Fox motion picture made in 1957 starring Mansfield and Cary Grant.
"Kiss Them for Me" is Siouxsie and the Banshees' biggest hit in the United States. It became their second (and to date, last) entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and their first single to hit the top 40, peaking at number 23. It also became the band's second chart-topper on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart, spending five weeks at number 1 during the summer of 1991. "Kiss Them for Me" was the first Banshees song to hit the top 10 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at number 8. It also spent several months in heavy rotation on MTV. In the UK, "Kiss Them for Me" peaked at number 32, the band's 16th top-40 single.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitanakagusuku,_Okinawa

Kitanakagusuku (北中城村, Kitanakagusuku-son?) is a village located in Nakagami District, Okinawa, Japan.

As of 2003[update], the village has an estimated population of 16,269 and the density of 1,411.01 persons per km2. The total area is 11.53 km2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transforming_robots

A transforming robot is a robot that can change to take the appearance or form of another object. This type of robot was a very popular toy concept in the 1980s; such toy robots could morph to resemble everyday objects, machines, or animals, and vice versa.

Toylines that used this concept include:

    * Transformers (by Hasbro and Takara), a very popular franchise with two robot factions that fought against each other. The robots could transform into a wide range of things, from insects to airplanes.
    * Gobots and Machine Robo (Tonka, Bandai), mostly die-cast toy robots that could transform into machines like cars, boats and airplanes.
    * Rock Lords (Tonka, Bandai), robots that could transform into rocks.
    * Changeables, or McRobots, an attempt by McDonald's to capitalize on the transforming robot boom. These robots could transform into company products such as french fries or hamburgers.
    * Escaflowne Figures were incredibly popular in Japan in 2005 because they changed from a humanoid into a dragon.



The Solar Keymark Association is an official quality mark of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), developed with ESTIF to overcome the varying testing and certification requirements in different EU countries. It guarantees the quality of solar thermal products (see solar hot water), in particular panels or complete compact systems.
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Thomas J. O'Malley (1868–1936) was a Wisconsin politician. He was born in Menasha, Wisconsin in 1868. He initially worked in the railway industry, eventually becoming a passenger conductor for the North Western Railroad. He was active in the railway union, and in 1932 he became the first Democrat elected Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin in nearly forty years. He served two terms, from 1933 until 1936, despite falling out of favor with his party during his first term. He planned to run for governor, but died of a heart attack in May 1936.