You remember TMRB, right? Once a candidate for the website's title, The Mind's Rubbish Bin has been condensed into a single page on Spiny McSpleen's Nifty Website...
...at least, until now!
TMRB has spent the last several months (nigh on a year, actually) being expanded to include many different fields of study. Thus far, I've found trivial stuff regarding Star Trek, Super Mario, and of course, general miscellanea. It's not ready for publishing just yet, but here's an idea of what will be found therein...
Miscellaneous
Every possible move in the game of Chess has a name.
A traditional doorbell sound is comprised of the first two notes of the Westminster Quarters (in music theory, a major third).
The Chinese translation of the former KFC slogan, "Finger-Lickin' Good" approximates to "eat your fingers off".
Snow has been falling on planet Earth for millions of years. During that time, no two snowflakes have ever been identical to one another.
Super Mario
The arcade version of Mario Bros. is the only build in which Koopas leave their shells. In all other versions, they simply wobble on their backs for a bit before repositioning and becoming hazardous again. In the Game Boy Advance version (built into the Super Mario Advance series), Koopas were replaced with Spinies.
Luigi did not appear in any games during the year 1994. He also did not appear in any original platformers for the Game Boy (his only side-scroller appearance being Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for Game Boy Colour). Mario, on the other hand has appeared in no fewer than two games per year since his introduction in 1981.
The 1993 Japan-only release, Mario & Wario, contains no Japanese text. All game text is in English.
Luigi did not appear in any original first-party platformers during the fifth generation. (Nintendo 64, Game Boy Colour).
There have been more Mario games released with Charles Martinet as the voice of Mario than there have been without.
Star Trek
The USS Enterprise-D has made more onscreen appearances than any other Starfleet ship. It appears in every episode of The Next Generation, one episode of Deep Space Nine, one episode of Enterprise, and the film Star Trek: Generations: 181 appearances in total.
The franchise's tag-line, "...To boldly go where no one has gone before," contains a split-infinitive. The proper way to phrase it would be, "...To go boldly where no one has gone before".
Two characters from as many Trek programmes have been named after Gene Roddenberry in some way. In The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher derives his first name from Roddenberry's middle name. In Voyager, Thomas Eugene Paris derives his middle name from Roddenberry's first name.
Vasquez Rocks, a park near Agua Dulce, California, has been used to portray alien planets on every Trek series but Deep Space Nine. Its first appearance was in the original Star Trek's episode, "Arena", where it served as the stage for Kirk's fight with the Gorn. It most recently appeared in Star Trek 2009 to portray Vulcan (creating continuity with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where it was used for the same purpose).
The End... for now.
I was quite surprised to find just how much minutiae exists in the Star Trek franchise. I suppose with all those Trek anoraks out there, who could argue the meaning of "petaQ" with Gowron, himself, it's to be expected. Of course, TMRB isn't a dumping-ground for uninteresting bits of OCD crap -- anachronisms, continuity and character errors, inconsistencies. Y'know, stuff that only an ub3r633k who shows up to film premiers in costume could find redeeming.
There's quite a lot of Mario trivia as well. Needless to say, what's listed up there isn't even the half of what I've found on any of those subjects. It's more like half of a fraction of a decimal. Invalid! Does not compute! Boom! There goes R2D2.
Oh yes, almost forgot -- I'm currently working on the Star Wars TMRB and Zelda TMRB, also.
Give it, perhaps, five more months -- then, I'll be finished. Or not. Who knows, really?
