Talk:How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All

Nick Danger

I have added several pop-culture uses of the Nick Danger name. Searching 'Nick Danger' currently redirects to this page. Should a disambiguation page be added, and entries made for the character, the clothing line, the DJ, etc.? Bubbas Brain 16:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

What music?

A question: what is the actual piece played when Ralph demonstrates the FM radio and we hear the "Magic Bull" movement from Symphony in C-Minus by Johann Amadeus Metesky? It sounds like something being played backwards, and I heard an excerpt of a Schubert piece recently that sounds like a likely candidate. This has been bugging me for literally decades.--NapoliRoma (talk) 02:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

It is, in fact a movement from one of Beethoven's symphonies (lesser known than Eroica, fifth, Pastoral or ninth (Choral), obviously); I identified it years ago, but unfortunately I can't recall exactly which one right now; when I get home, I'll try to find it in my record collection (since I can't seem to find good descriptions on the Wikipedia.) It's not played backwards, but is played ridiculously faster than any usual performance tempo, obviously to increase its annoying effect. At the proper tempo, it actually sounds quite nice. I'm not sure how they did that; if they got an orchestra to play it so fast, or invented a means of speeding it up without increasing the pitch, or maybe they actually found an old recording of it played that fast. JustinTime55 (talk) 16:21, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Removed "Marx and Lennon were comsymps" and apocryphal Duck Soup quote

I removed the following two bits that I tagged a couple of months ago. First:

Both Marx and Lennon were known for their liberal viewpoints and sympathy toward Communism.

...I don't know how true this is, but it's really irrelevant to the article in any event. Their most notable attribute in this context is that their names sound like somebody else's.

And:

The actual title resembles a joke in the movie Duck Soup, where the character played by Groucho Marx says, "I can be in two places at once", to which Margaret Dumont's character replies "How is that possible when you're not anywhere?" Groucho retorts, "Boston and Philadelphia manage to be in two places at the same time!"

By coincidence, when I first saw this article I'd just watched Duck Soup within the last couple of days. I'm pretty sure I would have noticed this go by; there are also two scripts to the movie posted online and neither contains this exchange. To really beat this into the ground: it doesn't sound like something either character would actually say (why would she say Firefly was "not anywhere"?) -- but it does sound like something one of the guys might have spun as a pseudo-explanation for the title. In fact, it tickles some random brain cells as if I've perhaps read it somewhere long ago, maybe in Ossman's liner notes? Anyone know?--NapoliRoma (talk) 20:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Antelope Freeway??

Any one know of any connection of FT's use of Antelope Freeway with the Howard Roberts album of the same title with similar "distance" announcements on one of the cuts of that album? Memory suggests that some of the FT guys were involved with that cut.THX1136 (talk) 16:18, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Dead links

References 1, 2, and 4 are no longer working. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.86.185.191 (talk) 23:51, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

• "Ref 1" (Ossman's liner notes) already had an archived link. "Ref 2" (supposedly to a clothing website, nickdanger.com) had no usable version on the Wayback Machine, so I deleted it. I found what was the most likely target of "Ref 4" (a Reno Gazette-Journal article) and provided info for its print version. RG-J bans archiving (using Robot's Rules of Order, kind of ironically), so I don't have an online link for it.--NapoliRoma (talk) 19:24, 12 November 2018 (UTC)