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Patrick Stewart’s Soliloquy on B for Sesame Street
A Sisyphean task. Thanks to Zucks, whose day this illustrates.
It is or was common for a crowd of extras in acting to shout the word ‘rhubarb’ repeatedly and in an unsynchronised manner, to cause the effect of general hubbub. As a result, the word ‘rhubarb’ sometimes is used to mean ‘length of superfluous text in speaking or writing,’ or a general term to refer to irrelevant chatter by chorus or extra actors. The American equivalent is walla. Stage actors in the United States also use word ‘rhubarb’ repeated asynchronously in a low or murmured tone to provide background voice ambience in crowd or party scenes. A variation of this is the repetition of the phrase ‘peas and carrots.’
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This has been floating around for a while, but I like it, so here you go.
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Google Maps meets nuclear weapons: “This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press ‘Nuke It!’”
