Guess who is going to post next.

whyfi

You raaannng?

Name the character that made the above query famous?! (Talk about a big ol' grapefruit pitch...)

Idlewild?

pitu

errrr, James Cagney?
Hope y'all spent at least PART of yesterday outside. Sunny! Spring! Yeah!

No 7Sisters here, sorry Ms Tea
You next!

sweet tea

i'm surprised at you, pitu -- and you had "Ms" in your answer and everything.

wilma mankiller married gloria steinem to david bale (christian's father) in 2000.

whyfi next.

shishkab

WhyFi: Lurch from the Addams Family?

pitu next...

homeowner

WhyFi-

That would be Lurch, of the Adams Family one of the bookends of my WPIX fix as a kid. Still no trivia, but I'm guessing that Carny is next up in line...

whyfi

Yes and yes!

Wow - gonna be a nice one out there today. I'm still a little under the weather, but the fresh air's gotta be good for me, right Carny?

quijibo

non! je ne suis pas Carnivore
what ails you WhyFi?

michaelkeys

What '80s/'90s British pop duo got their name from a garage sale and had their biggest hit used in a recurring SNL skit?

Ah yes, in the spirit of ole WPIX: homeowner, what's your trivia question? We'd like to know.

whyfi

Garden variety cold, I guess. Woke up Saturday feeling like I had a squeak toy lodged in my throat. Yesterday, I tried to excercise it out, 'blading around the park with Lucy - felt great, but I was wiped out the rest of the day.

Maybe I can burn it out with some spicy Jamacian food?

Q, know of any good ways of compressing DVDs on to the ol' PC? I can get'em on there, but I'll be damned if I want'em to take up 4-8 gigs each...

quijibo

for high end video compression, try sorenson squeeze. it's expen$ive at $500 a pop: http://www.sorensonmedia.com/pages/?pageID=2

do you know of any other software Drano?

drano

Nothing that I would be able to issue a particularly informed opinion on. Pitu might help.

whyfi

Well, I just tried WinAVI with decent results - 2 hour movie, reasonable playback results, 1.2 gig file size and it was encoded in under 30 minutes... but that's still only using 50% CPU cycles - why can't these programs be properly multithreaded, BigGuy?!

homeowner

MK- I hate trivia as it exposes what a yooge (Trumpâ„¢) geek I really am.

Is the answer to your question Haddaway?

Okay, here's a music one...Name the 80's dance/R&B group that was best known for its codpiece wearing front man?

shishkab

i was thinking Haddaway, too, but he said it was a duo, and he's just a dude.

oh, and the codpiece is Cameo all the way, man. Word up!!!

so who is it, MK?

quijibo

WhyFi wrote: Well, I just tried WinAVI with decent results - 2 hour movie, reasonable playback results, 1.2 gig file size and it was encoded in under 30 minutes... but that's still only using 50% CPU cycles - why can't these programs be properly multithreaded, BigGuy?!

everything's multithreaded on the Mac side /
didn't Cameo rock Pitu?

michaelkeys

Sorry, no pitu here but Cameo did indeed rock. Word Up!
Answer: Everything But The Girl ("Missing" was used in Chris Kattan's recurring "Mango" skits.) Did you know this one, Mama?

pitu

man, I know nothing!
Last week, trivia FOUNTAIN. This week, nice weather dried it up.
What does Mamacita know? What's The Word? Word Up!
[disclaimer: in the actual 80's I would have been a little . . . harsh towards those Cameolians.
I was a Fake Catholic back then. Fake Buddhist is so much better!]

EDIT: TRIVIA DRY SPELL OVER, due to the confluence of the 80s and Cameo.
What regional style of Funk shares a name with an American 80s pop New Wave sensation?

MOD

Here's one in honor of Carnitos and ze 13th page!

The name for the phobia of the number 13???

Oh and MK next!

carnivore

triskaidekaphobia.

Right, doctorj?

bigguy

Correct. And wrong.

bigguy

MichaelKeys?

carnivore

Nein.

Emily next?

michaelkeys

Non. But the answer to pitu's question is go-go. Right, Quijibo?

pitu

Like the BigGuy so swimmingly put
Correct. And wrong.
Correct! And wrong!
It's Go-Go, y'all!

Keys next!

michaelkeys

Um, ok...the first successful human-to-human heart transplant was performed by...

(Carny knows this one.)

shishkab

i couldn't remember the doctor's name, so i cheated and looked it up (for shame, me!)

here's another question (with hints built in. i feel guilty for googling MK's question):
who the first actor to personally accept his Golden Raspberry ("Razzie") Awards? the year was 1988, and he won three: Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Screenplay.

pitu

MK, "It's Go-Go, y'all!" is a popular refrain in said funkalicious style.

Wasn't that heart xplant actually performed by the doctor's Black assistant?
Somebody help me with the narrative (and the facts) here...

homeowner?

idlewild

Raspberry=Bill Cosby for Leonard Part 6.

What are the two basic ingredients for Brass?

I say Q is next.

michaelkeys

Nope.

pitu, the Dr you speak of was (is?) American. The answer to my question is/was not. A hint: he was African.

C'mon Carny, you know this one.

shishkab

you got it, Idlewild -- Mr Jello Puddin' Pops, it was!

And like you say, Q is next