query: An animated television series was called The Ren & Stimpy Show.

pos: The Ren & Stimpy Show The Ren & Stimpy Show , often simply called Ren & Stimpy , is an American children 's / adult animated television series created by John Kricfalusi for Nickelodeon . The series follows the adventures of title characters Ren , an emotionally unstable chihuahua , and Stimpy , a good-natured , dimwitted cat . It premiered on August 11 , 1991 as one of the original three Nicktoons , along with Rugrats and Doug . Throughout its run , the show was controversial for its off-color humor , sexual innuendo , dark humor , adult jokes , and violence , similar to Rocko 's Modern Life . This controversy contributed to the production staff 's altercations with Nickelodeon 's Standards and Practices department . The show ended on December 16 , 1995 , with a total of five seasons and 52 episodes .   Ren & Stimpy received mixed to very positive reviews during its original run then later widespread critical acclaim after its run , and has developed a cult following . The series is often cited as paving the way for animated shows like Beavis and Butt-Head and South Park . A spin-off for adult audiences , Ren & Stimpy `` Adult Party Cartoon '' , aired in 2003 on Spike , but was cancelled soon after its debut .

neg: It Hits the Fan `` It Hits the Fan '' is the first episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series South Park , and the 66th episode of the series overall . It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on June 20 , 2001 . In the episode , the word `` shit '' is said uncensored on television on the crime show Cop Drama . After this , everyone starts saying `` shit '' over and over , which eventually brings over a mysterious plague that unleashes the ancient Knights of Standards and Practices , and only Chef and the boys can save the world .   The episode was written by series co-creator Trey Parker and is rated TV-MA-LV in the United States . Throughout the episode , the profanity `` shit '' or `` shitty '' are exclaimed uncensored a total of 162 separate times ; in syndicated or re-aired versions of this episode , a counter in the bottom left corner of the screen counts the number of times the word has been uttered . The written occurrences are not counted , but `` shit '' is written 38 times , which puts the `` shit `` s up to an even 200 . `` Shit '' is uttered roughly once every eight seconds ; one such count includes the episode 's theme song in the calculation .

neg: The Looney Tunes Show The Looney Tunes Show is an American animated sitcom that ran from May 3 , 2011 , through August 31 , 2014 , on Cartoon Network . The show consist of two series , each containing 26 episodes , and features characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons updated for the 21st century . It is produced by Warner Bros. . Animation . On July 29 , 2014 , producer Tony Cervone confirmed that the series would not be renewed for a third season in light of Wabbit . Looney Tunes : Rabbits Run is an animated direct-to-video spin-off film released on August 4 , 2015 .

neg: The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series , a.k.a. . The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series or The Wally Gator Show , was a syndicated television package of animated cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , starting in 1962 . The series included three unrelated short cartoon segments featuring funny animal characters :   Wally Gator  Touché Turtle and Dum Dum  Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har   The package consisted of Fifty-two episodes , each with three individual segments and no bridge animation . Each individual cartoon segment , had its own opening theme and closing title .   The title The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon series was an off-screen promotional title to distinguish this package from other Hanna-Barbera cartoons ( such as Ruff and Reddy , Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear all of which had bridge animation between the cartoons . ) available at the time . For example , WGN-Channel 9 in Chicago ran the three segments in a half-hour timeslot under the name Wally Gator . In New York , WPIX-TV originally used the segments for a local series , Cartoon Zoo , featuring Milt Moss as host and `` Zookeeper '' , with life-sized cutouts of the characters in `` cages '' as a backdrop .   The package was originally syndicated by Screen Gems , the TV division of Columbia Pictures . The Hanna-Barbera studio was later purchased by Taft Broadcasting Company , which distributed the studio 's product first through Taft-HB Program Sales , and later through Worldvision Enterprises . Over time , the studio regained control of many of its earlier productions and distributed them through Worldvision . The elements of The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series were split up , with Wally Gator airing as a segment on Magilla Gorilla and Friends on USA Network 's Cartoon Express from 1987 through 1991 . Meanwhile , Touche Turtle and Lippy the Lion were part of another package of cartoons aired on The Family Channel . Following the purchase of the Hanna-Barbera library by Turner Entertainment , these shorts eventually appeared on Cartoon Network and later Boomerang .   The cartoons were put on DVD with Saturday Morning Cartoons : Vol . 2 . Strangely , the Lippy the Lion cartoon was of noticeably better quality than the other two on the DVD . Very likely due to the cartoon coming from a better quality film print then the others .

neg: The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show is an American animated television program produced by Filmation for MGM Television in 1980 , on CBS for Saturday mornings . The show lasted two seasons ( with season two consisting of reruns ) and the individual episodes were eventually added to syndicated Tom and Jerry packages , and also occasionally appeared on Cartoon Network and Boomerang , as well as , in 2013 , airing on UK satellite channel Pop . Most voices were done by Frank Welker ( mainly Tom and Jerry ) and Filmation head Lou Scheimer provided the voice of Nibbles ( erroneously giving him an adult voice ) .

neg: Philip Morris Playhouse Philip Morris Playhouse is a 30-minute old-time radio dramatic anthology series .   The program '' -LSB- g -RSB- enerally ... featured straight and crime drama , '' radio historian John Dunning wrote . He noted that one of the directors was William Spier , who `` had directed Suspense in its salad days and brought to The Philip Morris Playhouse the same slick production '' that was used in Suspense .   Philip Morris Playhouse was broadcast on CBS June 30 , 1939 -- February 18 , 1944 , then returned to the air ( again on CBS ) November 5 , 1948 -- July 29 , 1949 . The 1948 edition replaced a giveaway show , Everybody Wins . Its third and final incarnation on radio was a bit more complicated , as explained on The Digital Deli Too website : The emerging popularity of between three and five other popular playhouse formats of the early 1950s persuaded Philip Morris to resurrect its Philip Morris Playhouse a third time as Phillip Morris Playhouse On Broadway , beginning with its initial CBS run on March 15 , 1951 . Emphasizing Broadway productions , the subsequent series ran over CBS for twenty-six installments , only to jump to NBC on September 11 , 1951 . The series ran on NBC for the remainder of 1951 , jumping back to CBS on January 13 , 1952 . CBS aired the remainder of the canon through September 2 , 1953 .   In 1951 , a trade publication reported that the program 's annual budget was $ 1 million .

neg: 30-Second Bunnies Theatre 30-Second Bunnies Theatre is a Flash cartoon series featuring films re-enacted by anthropomorphic animated bunnies in 30 seconds . The series is produced by Angry Alien Productions , the one-woman company of creator Jennifer Shiman .   The series debuted in 2004 , when Shiman sought to create a humorous web series . She unveiled a version of The Exorcist , re-enacted by animated bunnies in 30 seconds . It received an overwhelmingly positive response online from a global audience , prompting Shiman to create more re-enactments . In 2005 , the `` bunny troupe '' was commissioned by Starz ! to make new shorts . Each Starz-commissioned re-enactment premiered on Starz on Demand before moving online . The series take on Star Wars was featured on CNN on April 16 , 2006 .   Angry Alien Productions released a selection of the shorts on DVD on October 20 , 2009 . Previously , the Titanic short was included on that film 's 4-Disc Special Collector 's Edition DVD , released in 2005 .   In 2007 , Crackle became a distributing partner .   In 2008 , the site won two Webby Awards for Online Film and Video/Animation , as well as the People 's Voice award in that category .   On June 13 , 2010 , Shiman announced on the 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Website that , after six years and 68 shorts , she was placing the series on hiatus to move on to other pursuits . The final short at the time was a re-enactment of the film Evil Dead II .   As of October 2011 , Shiman completed three more re-enactments : Alfred Hitchcock 's The Birds , Freaks ( 1932 ) and Michael Dougherty 's Trick ' r Treat .   Shiman teamed up with FEARnet in 2012 to make more horror movie shorts . The first season of shorts is complete , and the second season is in production as of September 16 , 2013 .   In mid-March 2014 , Angry Alien Productions ventured into new bunny territory by re-enacting the life of Kevin Spacey ( with bunny voices by Kevin Spacey himself ) to celebrate the launch of his new website . In Spring 2015 the staff of Angry Alien Productions informed that they would indefinitely stop making re-enactments after Blade Runner .

neg: PB&J Otter PB&J Otter is an American animated children 's television series which premiered on Playhouse Disney on March 15 , 1998 . A total of 65 episodes were produced during the course of its three season run , with the `` farewell '' episode airing on September 24 , 2000 ( although a Halloween episode was the last aired episode , on October 15 , 2000 ) . The series centered on the Otter family who lived in the rural fishing community of Lake Hoohaw . Most stories revolved around the Otter kids : older brother Peanut , younger sister Jelly and diapered baby Butter ( named after the peanut butter and jelly sandwich ) , as well as their friends and neighbors . Supporting characters included gossipy Cranes , overly hygienic raccoons , a junk-collecting mayor and some very wealthy poodles .   The show was created by Jim Jinkins and executive-produced by David Campbell in close conjunction with Harvard University 's Cognitive Skills Group , `` Project Zero '' . The Group 's job was to monitor each and make sure the material had a positive educational message . This show features songs by Dan Sawyer and Fred Newman .   PB&J Otter was nominated for an Annie Award for outstanding music in an animated show in 2000 .   The show aired in reruns on Playhouse Disney from 2001-2005 and on Disney Junior from 2012-2013 .

neg: Sesame Street research In 1969 , the children 's television show Sesame Street premiered on the National Educational Television network ( later succeeded by PBS ) in the United States . Unlike earlier children 's programming , the show 's producers used research and over 1,000 studies and experiments to create the show and test its impact on its young viewers ' learning . By the end of the program 's first season , the organization founded to oversee Sesame Street production , Children 's Television Workshop ( CTW ) , had developed what came to be called `` the CTW model '' : a system of planning , production , and evaluation that combined the expertise of researchers and early childhood educators with that of the program 's writers , producers , and directors .   CTW conducted research in two ways : in-house formative research that informed and improved production , and independent summative evaluations conducted by the Educational Testing Service ( ETS ) during the show 's first two seasons to measure the program 's educational effectiveness . CTW researchers invented tools to measure young viewers ' attention to the program . Based on these findings , the researchers compiled a body of data and the producers changed the show accordingly . The formative research on Sesame Street was the first time children 's television viewing was studied scientifically .   Summative research conducted over the years , including two landmark evaluations in 1970 and 1971 , demonstrated that viewing the program had positive effects on young viewers ' learning , school readiness , and social skills . Subsequent studies have replicated these findings , such as the effect of the show in countries outside of the US , several longitudinal studies , the effects of war and natural disasters on young children , and studies about how the show affected viewers ' cognition . As CTW researcher Gerald S. Lesser stated in 1974 , early tests conducted on the show ( both formative and summative ) `` suggested that Sesame Street was making strides towards teaching what it had set out to teach '' .

neg: Toon-Us-In Toon-Us-In is a Korean animation studio that has animated episodes of The Ren and Stimpy Show , Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys , Watership Down : Home on the Down , some Peanuts specials , and Love Story of Juliet . In addition , they animated the main titles for Hey Arnold ! .

neg: Super Milk Chan is an anime comedy directed by Hideyuki Tanaka and produced by Genco , Suplex , framegraphics and Geneon Entertainment for the 24-hour channel Animax . The show pre-began as 14 eight-minute segment episodes which aired on Fuji Television 's Flyer TV block from June 18 , 1998 to September 24 , 1998 from 24:45 to 24:55 , with the animation being produced by Tokyo Kids . The full-length show , entitled , ran for 12 twenty-four-minute episodes which aired on WOWOW 's Space Shower TV block from January 27 , 2000 to April 13 , 2000 at 19:00 and then 18:00 .   In Canada , 14 episodes of Super Milk Chan aired on Teletoon in 1998 .   The North American DVD release by A.D. Vision features two different English-dubbed versions : a straight translation of the Japanese version ( which aired on Cartoon Network 's Adult Swim block on October 31 , 2004 with the original vintage episodes before making its official series premiere a week later ) and an Americanized version with western pop culture references and short live-action skits featuring ADV voice cast members .

neg: The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show is an American animated web television series that is produced by DreamWorks Animation and Jay Ward Productions . The series is based on the 1960s segments , called `` Peabody 's Improbable History '' , that aired as part of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show , and the 2014 film , Mr. Peabody & Sherman , which was also produced by DreamWorks Animation . The series premiered on October 9 , 2015 , on Netflix . The second season was released on March 18 , 2016 . The third season was released on October 21 , 2016 . The fourth season was released on April 21 , 2017 .   The series is digitally hand-drawn , with the Vancouver-based DHX Media providing the animation . Mr. Peabody is voiced by Chris Parnell , while Max Charles reprises his role as Sherman from the film . According to The Animation Guild , I.A.T.S.E. Local 839 , 78 episodes of the television series have been ordered .

neg: The Beatles (TV series) The Beatles is an American animated television series featuring representations of the popular English rock band of the same name . It ran from 1965 to 1969 on ABC in the U.S. ( only 1965 to 1967 was first run ; later transmissions were reruns ) . The series debuted on September 25 , 1965 and ended on September 7 , 1969 . A total of 39 episodes were produced . The series was shown on Saturday mornings at 10:30 AM EST until the 1967 third season when it was moved to 12:00 PM EST. . For the fourth season , which consisted of reruns , the series was shown at 9:30 AM EST on Sunday mornings . Each episode has a name of a Beatles song , so the story is based on its lyrics and it is also played at some time in the episode . The original series was rebroadcast in syndication by MTV in 1986 and 1987 and on the Disney Channel beginning in 1989 on Fridays at 5 PM . The series was a historical milestone as the first weekly television series to feature animated versions of real , living people .

neg: It's About Time! (Phineas and Ferb) `` It 's About Time ! '' is the twenty-first broadcast episode of the animated television series Phineas and Ferbs first season . It originally aired on Disney Channel on March 1 , 2008 . The episode concerns stepbrothers Phineas and Ferb fixing a time machine on display in a museum and using it to travel back to prehistoric times . Meanwhile , Perry the Platypus deals with being replaced with a panda bear as the nemesis of the mad scientist Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz .   `` It 's About Time ! '' was written and directed by series co-creators Dan Povenmire , and storyboards were constructed by multiple artists in the show 's production staff . The writers purposely left the time machine available to the boys at the end of the episode in order to reuse it later in the series , which they did in the season 2 episode `` Phineas and Ferb 's Quantum Boogaloo . '' Critical reception was generally positive , and multiple reviewers applauded Perry and Doofenshmirtz 's relationship in the episode , which they noted was portrayed with possible homosexual subtext .

neg: The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company . The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family , which consists of Homer , Marge , Bart , Lisa , and Maggie . The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture , society , television , and the human condition .   The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks . Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family , substituting Bart for his own name . The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19 , 1987 . After a three-season run , the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and became an early hit for Fox , becoming the network 's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season ( 1989 -- 90 ) .   Since its debut on December 17 , 1989 , episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast . Its 28th season began on September 25 , 2016 . It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program , and , in 2009 , it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted primetime television series . The Simpsons Movie , a feature-length film , was released in theaters worldwide on July 27 , 2007 , and grossed over $ 527 million . On November 4 , 2016 , the series was renewed for a twenty-ninth and thirtieth season of 22 episodes each , extending the show to 2019 .   The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine seasons , which are generally considered its `` Golden Age '' . Time named it the 20th century 's best television series , and Erik Adams of The A.V. Club named it `` television 's crowning achievement regardless of format '' . On January 14 , 2000 , the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series , including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards , 30 Annie Awards , and a Peabody Award . Homer 's exclamatory catchphrase `` D'oh ! '' has been adopted into the English language , while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms . Despite this , the show has also been criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years .

neg: You're Getting Old `` You 're Getting Old '' is the seventh episode and the mid-season finale of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series South Park , and the 216th episode of the series overall . It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on June 8 , 2011 . In the episode , Stan begins to develop a profound sense of cynicism after celebrating his tenth birthday , where he is literally seeing everything as `` crap '' . Meanwhile , Randy latches onto a new music genre , `` tween wave , '' in an attempt to fit in , which causes problems in his marriage with Sharon .   The episode was written by series co-creator Trey Parker and was produced at the end of the show 's `` spring '' run . He and co-creator Matt Stone had created the idea of Stan 's existential crisis as a parallel with their own real-life aging . `` You 're Getting Old '' ends abruptly ; Stan 's parents separate and his problem remains unresolved . The conclusion was inspired by modern television dramas , which are often serialized and are less likely to have the standard `` happy ending . '' The episode created significant media attention , and was interpreted by some critics as a metaphor for the frustration experienced by creators Parker and Stone stemming from the show 's continued production ; other critics , and several viewers , speculated on whether the episode was meant as a series finale .   The episode received very positive reviews from contemporary television critics , who praised the episode 's ending and overarching theme on growing older . According to Nielsen Media Research , the episode was seen by 2.29 million viewers the week it was broadcast . The episode 's ending is continued in the mid-season premiere , `` Ass Burgers '' , which aired in October 2011 . `` You 're Getting Old '' was released on DVD and Blu-ray along with the rest of the fifteenth season on March 27 , 2012 .

neg: DJ & the Fro DJ & the Fro is an animated series that aired on MTV . The show focuses on two co-workers , DJ and The Fro , who work at the fictitious company Oppercon Industries . They rarely do work , and instead look for funny videos on the Internet , which they comment on ( similar to Beavis and Butthead with music videos ) .   Within weeks of its debut , DJ & the Fro was moved from its 5:00 pm ( est ) time slot to 12:30 am ( est ) time slot due to the Parents Television Council deeming it `` too racy for daytime t.v. ''

neg: The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show is an animated television series produced by Ruby-Spears Productions from 1979 to 1981 ; it was shown right after Super Friends on the ABC Network . It featured various adventures of the DC Comics superhero Plastic Man . The show features many adventures in different segments : Plastic Man , Baby Plas , Plastic Family , Mighty Man and Yukk , Fangface and Fangpuss , and Rickety Rocket . The show was repackaged by Arlington Television into 130 half-hour episodes , and released into national , first-run-off-network daily syndication in 1984 . The Plastic Man Comedy Show was produced and directed by Steve Whiting and featured a live-action `` Plastic Man '' , played by Taylor Marks .

neg: Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears Disney 's Adventures of the Gummi Bears is a Disney animated television series that first aired in the United States from 1985 to 1991 . The series was the first animated production by Walt Disney Animation Television , and loosely inspired by the gummy bear candies ; Disney CEO Michael Eisner was struck with inspiration for the show when his son requested the candies one day . The series premiered on NBC on September 14 , 1985 , and aired there for four seasons . The series moved to ABC for one season from 1989 to 1990 ( airing alongside The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as the Gummi Bears-Winnie the Pooh Hour ) , and concluded on September 6 , 1991 as part of the Disney Afternoon television syndication package . Of the series ' 65 shows , 30 were double-features , consisting of two 11-minute cartoons , thereby bringing the series total to 94 distinct episodes overall . The show is well-remembered for its theme music , written by Michael and Patty Silversher and creation of `` gummiberry juice '' which was a type of magic potion , granting abilities , which allowed them to bounce away from their hunters . The theme was memorably performed by Joseph Williams , son of composer John Williams and one-time lead singer of Toto .   The series was later rebroadcast on the syndicated Disney Afternoon block , and rerun on the Disney Afternoon through the summer of 1991 . In later years , it was shown on The Disney Channel ( from October 7 , 1991 to at least January 1997 ) , and later on Toon Disney , with its most recent televised airing occurring on December 28 , 2001 . Seasons 1 to 3 of the series were released on DVD on November 14 , 2006 featuring commentary from producers Eric Wong and Daniel Weinstein .

neg: The Tomfoolery Show The Tomfoolery Show is an American cartoon comedy television series made and first broadcast in 1970 , based on the works of Edward Lear . The animation was done at the Halas and Batchelor Studios in London and Stroud . Though the works of other writers were also used , notably Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash , Lear 's works were the main source , and characters like the Yongy-Bonghy-Bo and the Umbrageous Umbrella Maker were all Lear creations . Other regular characters included the Enthusiastic Elephant , the Fizzgiggious Fish , and the Scroobious Snake . Some original material was also written based on characters created by Lear , although much of the material was a straight recital of poems and limericks or songs using Lear 's poems set to music . A recurring joke had a delivery boy running around trying to deliver a large plant and shouting ` Plant for Mrs Discobolus ! ' .  Some of the gags were based on Abbott and Costello skits which involved one of the regular characters in troubling situations . A cooking lesson for a silly recipe was presented in each episode .   The series was produced by Rankin/Bass , and Videocraft International , who also made the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman television specials .   The series was made in England , featuring the voices of Peter Hawkins , Bernard Spear , and the Maury Laws Singers .   The series received mostly mixed and negative reviews for not using original material . The series was not renewed after one year on the air .  Original air : September 12 , 1970 - September 4 , 1971

neg: Sesame Street Sesame Street is a long-running American children 's television series , produced by Sesame Workshop ( formerly known as the Children 's Television Workshop ) and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett . The program is known for its educational content , and images communicated through the use of Jim Henson 's Muppets , animation , short films , humor , and cultural references . The series premiered on November 10 , 1969 , to positive reviews , some controversy , and high viewership ; it has aired on the U.S. 's national public television provider ( PBS ) since its debut , with its first run moving to premium channel HBO on January 16 , 2016 .   The show has undergone significant changes throughout its history . The format of Sesame Street consists of a combination of commercial television production elements and techniques which have evolved to reflect the changes in American culture and the audience 's viewing habits . With the creation of Sesame Street , producers and writers of a children 's television show used , for the first time , educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content . It was also the first time a show 's educational effects were studied .   Shortly after creating Sesame Street , its producers developed what came to be called the `` CTW model '' ( after the production company 's previous name ) , a system of television show planning , production , and evaluation based on collaborations between producers , writers , educators , and researchers . The show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements , international sales , and other media . By 2006 , there were independently produced versions , or `` co-productions '' , of Sesame Street broadcast in twenty countries . In 2001 there were over 120 million viewers of various international versions of Sesame Street , and by the show 's 40th anniversary in 2009 , it was broadcast in more than 140 countries .   By its 40th anniversary in 2009 , Sesame Street was the fifteenth-highest-rated children 's television show in the United States . A 1996 survey found that 95 % of all American preschoolers had watched the show by the time they were three years old . In 2008 , it was estimated that 77 million Americans had watched the series as children . As of 2014 , Sesame Street has won 167 Emmy Awards and 8 Grammy Awards -- more than any other children 's show .


query: Stagira is an American city.

pos: Stagira (ancient city) Stagira ( -LSB- stəˈdʒaɪrə -RSB- ) , Stagirus ( -LSB- stəˈdʒaɪrəs -RSB- ) , or Stageira ( Στάγειρα or Στάγειρος ) was an ancient Greek city , located in central Macedonia , near the eastern coast of the peninsula of Chalkidice , and is chiefly known for being the birthplace of Aristotle , who was a Greek philosopher and polymath , a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great . The city lies approximately 8 km north northeast of the present-day village of Stagira , close to the town of Olympiada .   Stagira was founded in 655 BC by Ionian settlers from Andros . Xerxes I of Persia occupied it in 480 BC . The city later joined the Delian League , led by Athens , but left in 424 BC : as a result , the Athenian demagogue Cleon laid siege to it in 422 BC . However , Cleon was a poor strategist and his conduct of the siege was very inefficient : so much so that the ancient Greek comedy writer Aristophanes satirised him in the play The Knights . Cleon died in the same year , in the battle of Amphipolis . Later , during the Peloponnesian War , Stagira sided with Sparta against the Athenians .   In 348 BC , Philip II of Macedon occupied and destroyed the city . In return for Aristotle 's tutoring of his son Alexander , Philip later rebuilt the city and resettled the old city 's inhabitants , who had been enslaved . Many new structures were built at this time , including an aqueduct , two shrines to Demeter , and many houses .

neg: Urban area An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment . Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities , towns , conurbations or suburbs . In urbanism , the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets and in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment . The creation of early predecessors of urban areas during the urban revolution led to the creation of human civilization with modern urban planning , which along with other human activities such as exploitation of natural resources leads to human impact on the environment .   The world 's urban population in 1950 of just 746 million has increased to 3.9 billion in the decades since . In 2009 , the number of people living in urban areas ( 3.42 billion ) surpassed the number living in rural areas ( 3.41 billion ) and since then the world has become more urban than rural . This was the first time that the majority of the world 's population lived in a city . In 2014 there were 7.25 billion people living on the planet , of which the global urban population comprised 3.9 billion . The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs at that time predicted the urban population would grow to 6.4 billion by 2050 , with 37 % of that growth to come from three countries : China , India and Nigeria .   Urban areas are created and further developed by the process of urbanization . Urban areas are measured for various purposes , including analyzing population density and urban sprawl .   Unlike an urban area , a metropolitan area includes not only the urban area , but also satellite cities plus intervening rural land that is socio-economically connected to the urban core city , typically by employment ties through commuting , with the urban core city being the primary labor market .

neg: Neighborhoods of Accra The city of Accra is officially divided into four geographical regions - North , West , East , Central - and eleven sub-metropolitan areas : Osu Klottey , Ablekuma North , Ablekuma South , Ayawaso Central , Ayawaso East , Ayawaso North , Ayawaso West , La , Okaikoi North , Okaikoi South , Abossey Okai , and Ashiedu Keteke . The word `` neighborhood '' can take on various official and unofficial meanings . There are , however , 50 official neighborhoods ( i.e. planned and unplanned anchor neighborhoods ) within the city limits of Accra .   `` Neighborhoods '' exist on both large and small scales . Osu , Jamestown and Usshertown , established during the colonial era have well-defined boundaries by virtue of their siting around the respective forts of Christiansborg , James Fort , and Ussher Fort . The unplanned nature of the city has resulted in the development of slums and much smaller communities within officially recognized neighborhoods with a well-defined center but poorly identified extremities .

neg: St. Louis, Michigan St. Louis is a city in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan . As of the 2010 census the population was 7,482 .

neg: Midwest High Speed Rail Association The Midwest High Speed Rail Association was founded in 1993 and is based in Chicago , Illinois . The association is a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit , member-supported organization that primarily advocates for world-class 220-mph high-speed trains linking major Midwestern cities , and supports fast , frequent and dependable trains on other routes that connect with 220-mph corridors to form a true modern regional and national rail network .   The Midwest High Speed Rail Association 's executive director , Richard Harnish , believes it is time for America to `` catch up '' with European and Asian countries in terms of using high-speed rail systems .   The Association is an active member of fourbillion.com , a coalition of advocacy organizations working to secure a $ 4 billion appropriation in 2010 for high-speed rail in the U.S. . The effort began after the US House of Representatives passed a bill that included $ 4 billion for high-speed rail . The Senate cut the allocation down to $ 1.2 billion in their version . The two bills will now move to a conference committee .  In June 2009 , The Midwest High Speed Rail Association released the first-ever transportation engineering study of a 220-mph rail corridor in the Midwest . The 220-mph high-speed link would cut the trip from Chicago to St. Louis to 1 hour and 52 minutes , and also serve O'Hare International Airport as well as key Illinois business , university and government centers in Kankakee , Champaign , Decatur , Springfield and Edwardsville . The line would cost between 12 and 13 billion dollars .   The MHSRA views the Chicago-St . Louis link as the first of a regional 220-mph high-speed rail network that would link Chicago , St. Louis , the Twin Cities , Milwaukee , Detroit , Indianapolis , Cincinnati , Cleveland , Columbus and Pittsburgh , putting more than 35 million people within a three-hour train ride of Chicago .   In a proposal to the U.S. Department of Transportation , SNCF , operator of the TGV high-speed rail network in France , estimated that a Midwestern 220-mph high-speed rail network would create 677,000 permanent jobs and 316,000 construction jobs . Automobile trips would be reduced by 4.3 billion vehicle miles each year , saving 3 million barrels of oil each year , and additionally reduce CO2 and other pollutant emissions by 1.4 million tons in 2030 . The total estimated cost for the network is $ 68.5 billion . Advocates for high-speed rail put that cost in perspective by pointing out that the Interstate Highway System cost 450 billion in 2008 dollars .   The Midwest High Speed Rail Association has been a vocal critic of libertarian and conservative activists who view MHSRA as distorting the record and facts on high-speed rail . In July 2009 , it released a document responding to statements by the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation about high-speed rail .

neg: Architecture of Philadelphia The architecture of Philadelphia is a mix of historic and modern styles that reflect the city 's history . The first European settlements appeared within the present day borders of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in the 17th century with most structures being built from logs . By the 18th century brick structures had become common . Georgian and later Federal style buildings dominated much of the cityscape . In the first half of the 19th century , Greek revival appeared and flourished with architects such as William Strickland , John Haviland , and Thomas U. Walter . In the second half of the 19th century , Victorian architecture became popular with the city 's most notable Victorian architect being Frank Furness .   Steel and concrete skyscrapers appeared in the first decades of the 20th century and glass and granite skyscrapers towards the end of the century . Construction continued into the 21st century with the city tallest building , the Comcast Center . Philadelphia made significant contributions in the architecture of the United States . The row house was introduced to the United States via Philadelphia in the 17th century , the United States ' first International style skyscraper was built in Philadelphia , and one of the most important examples of Postmodern architecture , Robert Venturi 's Guild House , is located in the city .

neg: Strawberry Hill (Kansas City, Kansas) Strawberry Hill is a Kansas City , Kansas neighborhood on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers . It is now a mainly South Slavic community .   Strawberry Hill was previously known as Splitlog Hill , after Mathias Splitlog , a wealthy Indian mill owner who purchased the area and built a mansion on it in 1870 .  He later sold parcels to the Catholic church and to railroad interests .   After the area was subdivided , the new Strawberry Hill neighborhood was established in the late 19th century Immigrants from Croatia , Slovenia , Serbia and Russia found a home along the river 's hillside . They built a community where people could worship , celebrate and prosper while maintaining their distinct Slavic heritage .   Strawberry Hill is still home to the churches the Slavic immigrants built . Croatian Catholics founded St. John Church in 1900 and Slovenian Catholics founded Holy Family Church in 1908 .   To the south , Serbian Orthodox founded St. George Church in 1906 and Russian Orthodox founded Holy Trinity Church in 1917 . Both have moved to Johnson County , KS . St George Church is now in Lenexa , KS and Holy Trinity Church is in Overland Park , KS .   The neighborhood is bordered by I-70 , 7th St , Central and Minnesota .   In 2013 , Kansas City author James Marinovich published On Strawberry Hill And Other Croatian-American Tales , a collection of magic-realist stories that take place on Strawberry Hill .

neg: Specialized Technology Resources Specialized Technology Resources ( STR ) is an American corporation headquartered in Enfield , Connecticut . STR has two divisions -- Solar Cell Encapsulant Manufacturing and Quality Assurance Services for Consumer Products .

neg: Itagüí Itagüí ( -LSB- itaˈɣwi -RSB- ) is a city of Colombia , located in the south of the Aburrá Valley in the Antioquia Department . It is part of The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley .

neg: SoNo, Atlanta SoNo ( South of North Avenue ) is a sub-district of downtown Atlanta , Georgia , just south of Midtown . The area was defined and named by Central Atlanta Progress in 2005 in order to better establish an identity for the area and give it a hipper image , although Atlanta natives have never given credence to the name of the neighborhood . SoNo refers to the area of Downtown bounded by North Avenue on the north , Central Park Place on the east and the Downtown Connector ( Interstate-75 / 85 ) on the west and south .   Ongoing urban renewal efforts in the new neighborhood seek to establish a chic cultural identity for the underdeveloped area , as well as reunite the Midtown and Downtown commercial districts ( which have remained mostly divided since the construction of the Downtown Connector through the heart of the city ) , including a proposed `` interstate cap '' over the highway that would extend Mayor 's Park south along Peachtree Street to Baker Street .   SoNo is home to several attractions , including Emory University Hospital Midtown , the Atlanta Civic Center , Shakespeare Tavern and the Bank of America Plaza , the city 's tallest building . It also is home to the historic Baltimore Block and Rufus M. Rose House . SoNo 's centerpiece Renaissance and Central Parks were also the site of Atlanta 's annual Music Midtown festival , before moving to Piedmont Park . The controversial Peachtree-Pine Shelter is located in SoNo .   Public transportation is provided by MARTA with buses and with the north-south rail line serving the Civic Center station .

neg: Amerikamura Amerikamura ( also America mura ; アメリカ村 , American Village ) is a sizable retail and entertainment area near Shinsaibashi in the Chūō-ku district of Osaka , Japan . It is usually referred to by locals as `` Ame-mura . ''   Amerikamura is identifiable by a small-scale reproduction of the Statue of Liberty that peers down on the streets . It is a well-known haunt of expatriates , and centres on Triangle Park , a concrete rest area surrounded by retail outlets of Western fashions , bars and nightclubs , some of which are run by Westerners .   Its reputation as a hangout for foreigners is a matter of degree . Osaka 's registered foreign population is a small fraction of the total population ; the makeup of the crowds and retail space in Ame-mura is predominantly Japanese . Locally , Ame-mura is known for being a place for observing some of the more `` fashion intense '' manifestations of Japanese pop culture .

neg: Tonawanda (city), New York Tonawanda ( formally City of Tonawanda , from Tahnawá • teh meaning `` confluent stream '' in Tuscarora ) is a city in Erie County , New York , United States . The population was 15,130 at the 2010 census . It is located at the northern edge of Erie County , south across the Erie Canal ( Tonawanda Creek ) from North Tonawanda , and north of Buffalo , New York . It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area .

neg: City-state A city-state is a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories . Historically , this included cities such as Rome , Athens , Carthage , and the Italian city-states during the Renaissance -- but today only a handful of sovereign city-states exist , with some disagreement as to which are city-states . A great deal of consensus exists that the term properly applies to Singapore , Monaco , and Vatican City .   A number of other small states share similar characteristics , and therefore are sometimes also cited as modern city-states . Namely , Qatar , Brunei , Kuwait , Bahrain , and Malta , which each have an urban center comprising a significant proportion of the population , though , all have several distinct settlements and a designated or de facto capital city . Occasionally , other small states with high population densities , such as San Marino , are also cited , despite lacking a large urban centre characteristic of traditional city-states .   Several non-sovereign cities enjoy a high degree of autonomy , and are sometimes considered city-states . Hong Kong and Macau , along with independent members of the United Arab Emirates , most notably Dubai and Abu Dhabi , are often cited as such .

neg: Lodi, New York Lodi ( -LSB- ˈloʊ.daɪ -RSB- ) is a town in Seneca County , New York , United States . The population was 1,550 at the 2010 census .   The Town of Lodi is in the southwest part of the county and is northwest of Ithaca , New York . The town contains a village also named Lodi . Both owe their names to the Italian city of Lodi .

neg: Tango Lorca Tango Lorca is an American tango ensemble from Kansas City , Missouri , United States .

neg: List of metropolitan areas in the Americas This is a list of the fifty most populous metropolitan areas in the Americas as of 2015 , the most recent year for which official census results , estimates or projections are available for every major metropolitan area in the Americas . Where available , it uses official definitions of metropolitan areas based on the concept of a single urban core and its immediate surroundings , as opposed to polycentric conurbations . Figures refer to mid-2015 populations except in the case of Mexican metropolitan areas , whose figures derive from the 2015 Intercensal Survey conducted by INEGI with a reference date of 15 March 2015 .

neg: Angelo Parra Angelo Parra is an American playwright . He was born in Manhattan and grew up in the Bronx , New York City . After graduating from Fordham University , his career included work as a reporter/photographer , public relations professional , politician , free-lance writer , and PR and journalism teacher at New York University before turning to theatre in 1986 . His first produced play , Casino , was presented at T. Schreiber Studio , and won a 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts ( NYFA ) Fellowship in Playwriting and an Arts International grant ( sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts , U.S. Information Agency , Rockefeller Foundation , and The Pew Charitable Trusts ) .   His work , The Devil 's Music : The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith , with music on the life of Bessie Smith , was named `` one of the top-10 Off-Broadway experiences of 2001 '' by the New York Daily News , `` Best Solo Show '' by Florida 's Broward/Palm Beach New Times , and won a second NYFA Playwriting Fellowship ( 2000 ) . The show , conceived by and originally directed by Joe Brancato and originally staged by Penguin Rep Theatre , Stony Point , NY , was invited to give six performances during the 2012 Montreal International Jazz Festival , making The Devil 's Music the first play ever presented in the music festival 's 30-year history !   Parra has production credits in New York , Los Angeles , Chicago , Washington , D.C. ; at Florida Stage ( Palm Beach ) , The Hartford Stage ( Hartford , Connecticut ) , Theatre Memphis , at the Cape Playhouse ( Cape Cod ) ; George Street Playhouse , Florida Rep , and , at the Edinburgh International Festival . Parra also is the author of Playwriting for Dummies , part of the popular international series of how-to books .   Among Parra 's other prize-winning plays is the hospital drama , `` Journey of the Heart '' , winner of the Jewel Box Theatre , Mixed Blood Theatre , and David James Ellis national play awards in 1998-99 . Also in 1998 , `` Song of the Coquí '' , his Hispanic family drama with humor and dance , won the Chicano/Latino Literary Award ( University of California , Irvine ) and an `` American Dream '' prize by Repertorio Español in New York City .   Parra is a member of the Dramatists Guild , member emeritus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop , and member of the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit . He was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2000 Sewanee Writers Conference , teaches playwriting , performing arts , and English at SUNY Rockland Community College . In addition to his BA in Communication Arts at Fordham , he earned an MA in Political Science at the New School in New York , and MFA in Playwriting at Brooklyn College . He is currently president of the Penguin Rep Theatre Board of Trustees and director of the Hudson Valley Professional Playwright 's Lab .   Along with the children 's musical Percy T. Penguin Comes to America , Parra 's other plays include :  The Mnemonist  Canvases  The Price of Honor  Prickasaurus  The Slope  Warmflesch  A Waltz Without Turns  Midnight Kiss  What is it With Me ?

neg: Laurentide Ice Sheet The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square kilometers , including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States , multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs -- from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present . < ref  name = `` ICS2013 '' > </ref> The last advance covered most of northern North America between c. 95,000 and c. 20,000 years before the present day , and among other geomorphological effects , gouged out the five Great Lakes and the hosts of smaller lakes of the Canadian shield . These lakes extend from the eastern Northwest Territories , through most of northern Canada , and the upper Midwestern United States ( Minnesota , Wisconsin , and Michigan ) to the Finger Lakes , through Lake Champlain and Lake George areas of New York , across the northern Appalachians into and through all of New England and Nova Scotia . At times , the ice sheet 's southern margin included the present-day sites of northeastern coastal towns and cities such as Portsmouth , New Hampshire , Boston , New York City , and Great Lakes coastal cities and towns as far south as Chicago and St. Louis , Missouri -- and then followed quite precisely the present course of the Missouri River up to the northern slopes of the Cypress Hills , beyond which it merged with the Cordilleran Ice Sheet . The ice coverage extended approximately as far south as 38 degrees latitude in the mid-continent .

neg: List of place names of French origin in the United States Several thousand place names in the United States have names of French origin , some a legacy of past French exploration and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolution and the founding of the country ( see also : New France and French in the United States ) . Others were named after early Americans of French , especially Huguenot , ancestry ( Marion , Revere , Fremont , Lanier , Sevier , Macon , Decatur , etc. ) . Some places received their names as a consequence of French colonial settlement ( e.g. Baton Rouge , Detroit , New Orleans , Saint Louis ) . Nine state capitals are French words or of French origin ( Baton Rouge , Boise , Des Moines , Juneau , Montgomery , Montpelier , Pierre , Richmond , Saint Paul ) - not even counting Little Rock ( originally `` La Petite Roche '' ) or Cheyenne ( a French rendering of a Lakota word ) , compared to only two that are Spanish ( Sacramento and Santa Fe ) . Fifteen state names are either French words / origin ( Delaware , New Jersey , Louisiana , Maine , Oregon , Vermont ) or Native American words rendered by French speakers ( Arkansas , Illinois , Iowa , Kansas , Michigan , Mississippi , Mississippi , Ohio , Wisconsin ) , versus nine state names that are Spanish or Spanish rendered ( Montana , California , Colorado , Florida , Montana , Nevada , New Mexico , Texas , Utah ) .   The suffix '' - ville , '' from the French word for `` city '' is common for town and city names throughout the United States . Many originally French place names , possibly hundreds , in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant ( e.g. `` La Petite Roche '' became Little Rock ; `` Baie Verte '' became Green Bay ; `` Grandes Fourches '' became Grand Forks ) . In contrast , Spanish place names in the Southwest were generally not replaced by English names .

neg: New York City ethnic enclaves Since its founding in 1625 by Dutch traders as New Amsterdam , New York City has been a major destination for immigrants of many nationalities who have formed ethnic enclaves , neighborhoods dominated by one ethnicity . Freed African American slaves also moved to New York City in the Great Migration and the later Second Great Migration and formed ethnic enclaves . These neighborhoods are set apart from the main city by differences such as food , goods for sale , or even language . Ethnic enclaves provide inhabitants security in work and social opportunities , but limit economic opportunities , do not encourage the development of English speaking , and keep immigrants in their own culture .   , 36 % of the population of New York City are immigrants .  African Americans , Haitian Americans , Jamaican Americans , Indo-Caribbean Americans , and Trinidadian Americans have all formed Caribbean ethnic enclaves in New York . Asian ethnic groups with enclaves in New York include Chinese Americans , Japanese Americans , Filipino Americans , Indian Americans , Indo-Caribbean Americans , Afghan Americans , Burmese Americans , Bangladeshi Americans , Nepalese Americans , Sri Lankan Americans , Bhutanese Americans , Thai Americans , Pakistani Americans , Indonesian Americans , Malaysian Americans , Taiwanese Americans , and Korean Americans . European ethnic groups with ethnic enclaves include Greek Americans , Irish Americans , Italian Americans , Albanian Americans , Jewish Americans , Polish Americans , and Russian Americans . Latin American groups with ethnic enclaves include Dominican Americans , Guyanese , Salvadoran American , Ecuadorian American , Mexican Americans , and Puerto Ricans . Middle Eastern ethnic groups that have formed ethnic enclaves include Palestinian Americans , Jordanian Americans , Egyptian Americans , Syrian Americans and Lebanese Americans . As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York , making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world .

neg: List of cities and towns in Croatia An urbanized area in Croatia can gain the status of grad ( which can be translated as town or city as there is no distinction between the two terms in Croatian ) if it meets one of the following requirements :  is the center of a county ( županija ) , or  has more than 10,000 residents , or  is defined by an exception ( where the necessary historical , economic or geographic reasons exist )   A city ( town ) represents an urban , historical , natural , economic and social whole . The suburbs comprising an economic and social whole with the city , connected with it by daily migration movements and daily needs of the population of local significance , may also be included into the composition of a city as unit of local self-government .   Grad ( city/town ) is the local administrative equivalent of općina ( translated as `` municipality '' ) , with the only distinction being that the former usually comprise urban areas whereas the latter commonly consist of a group of villages . Note that both municipalities and city/towns often comprise more than one settlement , as the administrative territory of a grad may include suburban villages or hamlets near the city/town in question . Individual settlement ( or naselje in Croatian ) are the smallest statistical unit counted by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics but are not administrative entities , i.e. they are governed by the municipal or city/town council of the local administrative unit they belong to .   Croatian cities are administratively subdivided into `` city districts '' ( gradski kotari ) and/or `` local committee areas '' ( mjesni odbori ) with elected councils . The City of Zagreb , as the capital , not being part of any county , is subdivided into `` city districts '' / `` boroughs '' ( gradske četvrti ) and `` local committee areas '' ( mjesni odbori ) .   In 1991 there were 70 cities and towns and 419 municipalities in Croatia organized into 20 counties ( plus the city of Zagreb which is both a city and a county ) .  In 2001 there were 122 cities and towns ( excluding Zagreb ) and 423 municipalities . This was the territorial division used for the 2001 census .  In 2006 the latest revision was made , which listed a total of 127 cities and towns and 429 municipalities in Croatia . This division was used for the latest 2011 census .  In 2013 the municipality of Popovača was upgraded to town , bringing the total to 128 cities and towns and 428 municipalities .   According to the Constitution , the city of Zagreb , as the capital of Croatia , has a special status . As such , Zagreb performs self-governing public affairs of both city and county .


query: Denis Leary has only been a plumber his whole life.

pos: Denis Leary Denis Colin Leary ( born August 18 , 1957 ) is an American actor , writer , producer , singer and comedian .   Leary was the star and co-creator of Rescue Me , which ended its seventh and final season on September 7 , 2011 . He has starred in many films including playing Captain George Stacy in Marc Webb 's film , The Amazing Spider-Man , Cleveland Browns Head Coach Vince Penn in Ivan Reitman 's film , Draft Day , and as the voice of Francis in A Bug 's Life and Diego in the Ice Age franchise .   From 2015 to 2016 , Leary wrote and starred in the comedy series , Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll on FX .

neg: Graeme Dunstan Graeme Clement Dunstan ( born 4 August 1942 ) is a prominent Australian cultural and political activist . He is an engineering graduate of the University of New South Wales ( UNSW ) , where he was President of the Students ' Union ( 1967 ) and twice co-editor of its newspaper , Tharunka , ( 1967 and 1971 ) .   In 1966 , while President of the UNSW Labor Club , he was active in organizing anti-Vietnam War protests . As organizer of the LBJ Welcome Committee he stopped US President Lyndon B. Johnson 's motorcade in Liverpool Street , Sydney by lying under the president 's car , upon which NSW Premier , Robert Askin , was reported to have said `` run over the bastards '' .   In 1973 with Johnny Allen as director of the Aquarius Foundation of the Australian Union of Students and Dunstan , as director of the Foundation 's biennial Aquarius Festival , together they produced the Aquarius Festival which took place in Nimbin , New South Wales .   Dunstan was the first community arts officer ( 1981 -- 5 ) employed by the City of Campbelltown and in that role set up the Friends of the Campbelltown Art Gallery which lobbied successfully to found the Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery .   In 1985 -- 89 he was a Festivals Consultant to the Victorian Tourism Commission and in that role he was one of the initiators the Melbourne International Comedy Festival , Ltd serving as its founding Secretary in 1987 .   As a freelance event organizer , Dunstan has helped produce celebrations including the Byron Bay NYE ( 1995 ) , Bondi Beach Christmas and NYE celebration 1996 , Nimbin ` Let It Grow ' Mardi Grass ( 1998 -- ' 99 ) , the Sunshine Coast Schoolies Week ( 1997 ) , the annual Eureka Dawn Walk ( 1998 -- ) and the annual Independence from America Day Parade in Byron Bay ( 1998 -- ) .   In July 2011 , Dunstan assisted a fellow activist , Bryan Law , who smashed a hole in an Australian military helicopter using a garden mattock . The helicopter was grounded for four months . Dunstan represented himself at trial . On August 22 , 2013 , a jury found him guilty . He was sentenced to three years of ` good behavior ' and ordered to pay more than $ 160,000 , but he avoided imprisonment for his role in the politically motivated property destruction .   He is captain of Peacebus.com , which is a website and a campaign vehicle from which he organizes Cyanide Watch and other actions of witness for peace , justice and a sustaining Earth .

neg: Not Only... But Also Not Only ... But Also was a popular 1960s BBC British sketch comedy show starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore .

neg: John Louis Mansi John Louis Mansi ( born John Patrick Adams , 8 November 1926 -- 6 August 2010 ) was a British television and film actor whose career spanned the years from the early 1950s to the early 1990s .   Born in London to an Italian father and an Irish mother , he served in the merchant navy and the RAF during World War II . Upon becoming an actor , he chose his father 's surname as his stage name , later adopting the name Louis after Louie Dumbrowski , the character played by Bernard Gorcey in The Bowery Boys film series , whom his friends claimed he resembled .   He was best known for his role as Engelbert von Smallhausen ( although in the BBC books he is named as Bobby Cedric von Smallhausen ) in the popular BBC sitcom ` Allo ` Allo ! in seasons 2 to 9 . He also appeared in Department S ( as `` Maxime '' in the episode `` The Treasure of the Costa del Sol '' , 1969 ) , the Ripping Yarns story `` Across the Andes By Frog '' , and the The Hammer House of Horror story `` The Thirteenth Reunion '' . His film appearances have included The Small World of Sammy Lee ( 1963 ) , the Beatles ' film Help ! ( 1965 ) , the original version of The Italian Job ( 1969 ) , Tales from the Crypt ( 1972 ) , and the Dick Emery film Ooh ... You Are Awful ( 1972 ) .   After ` Allo ` Allo ! ended in 1992 , he retired from acting . He was often credited as Louis Mansi in his roles . For six years he suffered from Parkinson 's disease and in May 2010 was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer . His interests included reading , letter writing , animal welfare and watching DVDs/videos of past favourite series/films .

neg: The Plumbline The Plumbline is a humor publication of the McMaster Engineering Society ( MES ) of McMaster University . Popular among the students of McMaster Engineering , The Plumbline is famous for publishing everything from obscene sexual innuendos to informative articles . The Plumbline was started by a group of Engineering students in 1967 , developed from a single sheet MES news letter . In 1971 , the editors decided to turn the newsletter into an 8 page tabloid format newspaper .   By the early 1990s , it was clear that student and administration acceptance of sexist and xenophobic content was reduced . In this climate , The Plumbline reformatted , dropping the drooping penis from its masthead , developing the satirical and parody genres of humor and abandoning misogyny as fodder for comedy .   In October 2012 , The Plumbline converted to a digital format , due to declining readerships and large print costs .   Some in the McMaster Engineering community feel that the Plumbline is unfairly targeted by the remainder of the campus for its controversial content and potentially offensive subject matter , and that it is subjected to a harsher , more restrictive standard than other on-campus events ( such as the misogynistic lyrics of Choclair who performed on campus ) and publications organized by other groups ( like the campus wide newspaper The Silhouette ) .   Although The Plumbline is a publication of the MES , the material contained within it is not in any way affiliated with McMaster University , and does not express views or opinions shared by all , if any , students at the University .

neg: Whole World Theatre The Whole World Theatre is an improvisational theatre located in Atlanta , Georgia .   Whole World Theatre ( WWT ) is a non-profit theatre company that began in Atlanta , Georgia in late 1993 , when David Webster began teaching a group of student actors whom he would train to become the hottest improv company in town . Jennifer Horne and David Webster were co-founding members .   The original students of Whole World Theatre performed their first show in front of 25 people in September 1994 . Specializing in experiential improv and unconventional scripted works , and using a unique approach to improv , which put more emphasis on acting , character and atmosphere than on cheap laughs , Webster wrote and directed original ground breaking pieces such as , Blood Bath Bingo and Pimps , Queens , and Dope Fiends . Webster also produced scripted works included , Balm in Gillead , Bitches , Women Behind Bars , Four Dogs and a Bone and The House of Yes , among many others .   In June 1995 , Jennifer Horne and David Webster spent their honeymoon money to open Whole World Theatre at their current location at 1214 Spring Street in mid-town Atlanta . As their popularity grew , the cast of Whole World Theatre were given the opportunity to produce their live improv comedy show for television when Webster sold the show to television . `` Whole World Comedy '' - Whole World 's premier TV show - helped to launch the southern based Turner South Network .   David Webster taught every actor at Whole World Theater until 2001 . He wrote , directed and emceed every show for over 1000 shows . He won several awards including an Emmy award for writing .   In 2003 Managing Director , Emily Reily Russell , created a youth summer camp program and an improvisational acting program for teens and young adults at Whole World Theatre that still exists to this day . Many of the graduates of this program have entered the `` Performance Ready Group '' that hosts a more family oriented show the first Saturday of every month November through May . The Performance Ready Group is directed and mentored by Assistant Artistic Director , Eric Goins . Russell , in conjunction with Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and The Starlight Starbright Foundation has also created `` Improv in Dialysis . '' Providing monthly improvisational acting workshops to patients and their families at Egleston Children 's Hospital in Atlanta .   Lance Krall , one of Webster 's original students , eventually moved to Hollywood and went on to produce his own television show , The Lance Krall Show , which aired Spike TV , and Free Radio , which aired on Vh1 . Lance has hired several alumni from Whole World Theatre to guest star in his projects .   In 2004 , Webster moved on to write and direct independent movies and Jennifer Horne moved on to begin her own improv troupe in Charlottesville , Va. . That same year , a complete change in management occurred at Whole World Theatre .   In 2004 , Chip Powell became Artistic Director of Whole World Theatre . The Company continues to perform improv shows and remains one of Atlanta 's most successful theater companies . Under Powell 's leadership the company has produced Improv in the Park : an annual free improv show in Atlanta 's Piedmont Park and Central Park at Atlantic Station . Improv in the Park was voted `` Best Outdoor Event '' by Creative Loafing . Powell also went on to launch Whole World 's 3rd Space Theatre by Producing and Directing scripted works such as Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies by Del Shores .   In 2005 , the theatre started a television show for a network called MAV TV and is currently broadcast in over 200,000 homes across the U.S. . The show features Whole World 's Improv Comedy and is geared towards a more mature audience .  Official Website   Category : Theatres in Atlanta

neg: How Sweet to Be an Idiot How Sweet To Be An Idiot is the first solo album by Neil Innes , formerly of The Bonzo Dog Band and later of The Rutles , and was released in 1973 . Innes later said of this time   Stewart Mason , reviewing the album for Allmusic , described it as `` split between tongue-in-cheek parody and straight pop songs '' and containing `` solidly melodic Beatlesque pop '' , but was critical of the `` unfortunate sterility to Innes ' self-production '' .   The title track was released as a single but failed to chart . It was a more instrumented version than on the album , arranged by Richard Hewson , and `` The Age of Desperation '' was the B-side . Its melody was borrowed by Oasis for their single `` Whatever '' , released in 1994 ; Innes claimed plagiarism and as a result now receives royalties and a co-writing credit .   The album was re-released by United Artists in 1980 under the title `` Neil Innes A-Go-Go '' and by EMI in 1994 with additional tracks -- most of which had been released on singles -- under the title Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues . This edition of the album was dedicated to Ollie Halsall , who had died in 1992 , and former Bonzo Dog bassist Dennis Cowan , who had died in 1972 ; it featured a guest appearance by Michael Palin on the title track .   A review of the release by Mark Deming of Allmusic was more appreciative than that of his predecessor , saying that `` most -LSB- of the tracks -RSB- walk a graceful tightrope between sly humor and solid pop-friendly rock & roll '' and recommending that `` anyone who digs a great hook played with heart should get to know the music of Neil Innes '' .   Innes performed the title song on Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and on Monty Python Live at Drury Lane .

neg: Fraser Clark Fraser Clark ( d. 21 January 2009 ) , was one of the leaders of the global technogaian movement . As founder and editor of Encyclopaedia Psychedelica , he outlined his views on entheogens and nature , and was a key advocate of the outdoor rave movement , hosting regular , small , indoor festivals such as those held at his central London club , Megatripolis .   Clark believed the 1990s were the 1960s upside-down ( 9 being an upside-down 6 ) . He advocated a new form of hippie -- the `` Zippie '' -- who would balance the `` techno right brain '' with the `` hippy left brain '' , embracing nature , peace and love , as well as technology . In 1989 , he and Marcus Pennell organised the first Zippie Picnic on Hampstead Heath in London . Zippie Picnics continue to this day .   Clark staged many pranks , particularly against the government of Margaret Thatcher and then John Major . He opposed the Poll Tax and later Criminal Justice Bill .   Clark also engaged American youth culture on topics related to the Pronoia tour .   In 2008 , he announced he had inoperable liver cancer .

neg: Dapper Laughs David Daniel O'Reilly , better known by his stage name Dapper Laughs , is a British stand up comedian , pick-up artist and social media participant from Clapham Common , London .   Dapper Laughs became known on the social networking sites Facebook and Vine , where he has around 2,407,000 and 575,000 followers respectively . In addition to this , he is active on social media sites such as Snapchat , Twitter and YouTube .

neg: Opiate Films Opiate Films ( or ` Opiate of the People Films ' ) was created in 2000 in reaction to the British film industry 's output of very little other than period and gangster films .   Running as more of a collective of filmmakers , rather than a formal company , it took 3 years for the company to raise the capital to buy its own equipment , members are now free to create films , music promos and TV shows of their own devising , whether live-action , animated , CGI-heavy or musical . With 15 members who work on films regularly , and around 25 members who pitch in occasionally , it is one of the fastest growing film companies in the UK , and the only one to work in its unique way .   Members are not picked because of impressive CVs or previous experience , but of excitement and enthusiasm for film . Some come burdened with ideas , looking for an outlet , whilst others have a particular field they want to work in . Either way , nobody is turned down if they are willing to pitch in , whether helping on other people 's films , or providing their own ideas .   The first film to find success was the 2005 short film `` Early Retirement '' which screened at the Cannes Film Festival . It was written and produced by Paul Cannon , a gifted filmmaker who died in May 2007   Since that success , another short has screened in Cannes , not to mention over 30 films seen at festivals since 2003 .   Opiate of the People films have also completed three feature films , the latest of which is Simon & Emily

neg: Bull Island (TV series) Bull Island was an Irish television and radio satirical comedy show broadcast on RTÉ One and later on RTÉ Radio 1 from 1999 until 2001 .   Featuring a cast of seven Irish comedians and impressionists , the show , which aired for half an hour weekly , satirised many aspects of Irish life .   Bull Island was created by RTÉ Producer/Director John Keogh who brought Michael Sheridan , Alan Shortt & Gary Flood together to devise & co-create the format .   Some of the notable women in power at the time , such as the then Cabinet Minister , Mary O'Rourke , and the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern 's partner Celia Larkin were played by a man , and there were regular depictions of deception and skulduggery in the Dáil bar . The opposition were usually portrayed as bumbling incompetents .   Other sketches included a regular pastiche of Paddy O'Gorman and his shows which consist of interviewing people at random - Bull Island '' 's Paddy O'Gormless would do similar , but with ever more inane interviews .   A favourite sketch , which became known as the show 's signature , was an impersonation of a long-running ad for Irish discount electrical retailer PowerCity , where actors looking surprisingly like those in the adverts , wearing the same bright red jumpers , would wax enthusiastic about prices ending in 99 pence in `` Bull Island City '' . This evolved into a stream of products costing `` 99.99.99 '' as the series progressed . As a result , PowerCity removed the pence from all their prices , and regularly charge round tens or hundreds for products instead of 99s .   Although the show was met with good reviews and ratings in its first season , the reception to later seasons was mixed and the show ended in 2001 , shortly before the 2002 general election . The same team appeared providing a 30-minute radio version of the programme on RTÉ radio within weeks .   Some of the actors behind some impressions include :   Alan Shortt - Bertie Ahern , Michael D. Higgins , Gerry Adams , Michael Noonan , Micheál Martin  Frank Twomey - Mary O'Rourke , Celia Larkin , Willie O'Dea , David Trimble  Michael Sheridan - Marian Finucane , Duncan Stewart , George Lee , Ruairi Quinn , Gerry Fleming , Gerry Daly , Ian Paisley , Jackie Healy-Rae , John de Chastelain , Christy Moore  Pakie O'Callaghan - Charlie McCreevy , Desmond O'Malley , Eamon Dunphy , Charlie Bird , Brian Farrell  Elva Crowley - Mary Harney , Power City Girl , Helen Dillon  Michelle Costello - Mildred Fox , Miriam O'Callaghan  Gary Flood - Paddy O'Gorman , Daniel O'Donnell , Dickie RockBull Island '' was written by :  Catherine Maher , Pearse Lehane , Richard Carroll , Elva Crowley , Anne Geraghty , Pakie O'Callaghan , Alan Shortt , Michael Sheridan & Gary Flood .   Produced by : John Keogh , Alan Robinson .

neg: Brewery Square, Dorchester Brewery Square is a major redevelopment project on the site of the former Eldridge Pope brewery , in Dorchester , Dorset . The development is of an area 71,000 m ² , on a 4.6 ha site . Once completed , the development will comprise 660 apartments and houses of mixed tenure , a 3-screen Odeon cinema , 6 restaurants , 40 shops , a Premier Inn and four star hotel and arts centre on the square and an NHS Health Centre on the main road . Phase one of the scheme , which was completed in 2012 , involved the construction of a new health centre , shops and apartments . The Odeon was opened with the premiere of the James Bond film Skyfall . The completion of the main square of the site has been delayed until March 2013 . There have been concerns raised that the development would increase the pressure on already-limited parking spaces in Dorchester .

neg: Denis O'Leary Denis O'Leary was a Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York

neg: Disappearance of Damien Nettles Damien Nettles disappeared from the Isle of Wight on November 2 , 1996 when he was 16 . The investigation into his disappearance has been ongoing ever since , with five men arrested in 2011 , although no charges have been brought .   The case has , over the years , attracted significant media coverage , in part due to its mysterious nature -- Damien was last seen in a fish and chip shop near his home on Cowes , and then never again , indicating his murder . Surviving CCTV footage shows Nettles trying to order at a local chip shop , in a confused state . Multiple witnesses from the evening claim he appeared heavily intoxicated , or looked `` spaced out '' , and his friends recall him possibly trying to acquire drugs . However , other footage of the night in question was lost by Hampshire Police , preventing the full corroboration of witness accounts which had begun to piece together a narrative regarding Nettles ' last movements . As reported in the documentary Unsolved : The Boy Who Disappeared the police originally claimed that the man responsible for collecting video footage had lost the tapes after police had returned them , but records relating to evidence proved that was not the case . In episode five of Unsolved : The Boy Who Disappeared Nettles ' mother expresses frustration at the police 's handling of her sons disappearance , which had led to an official complaint on her part . Frustration is also expressed at the police 's refusal to be interviewed about the disappearance for TV in 2016 , and although the police maintain that Nettles ' case remains open she states dissatisfaction about what this actually entails . Nettles ' mother comments ` if they 'd done it right the first time I would n't be here now ' . Crucial records , including the log of calls made to police that night are gone , police notebooks were not retained , and even details of which officers were on duty that night have now been lost . There have been several public campaigns to bring attention to his case .   In the time , various theories have emerged to explain Damien 's disappearance , including that he owed money to drug dealers . Rumours have persistently alleged that a local drug dealer , Nicky McNamara , who was in the area on the night Nettles vanished , was involved . Witness accounts include recollections of McNamara holding up a boy against a wall whose physique matched Nettles ' . Associates of McNamara 's were arrested , and released . The documentary Unsolved : The Boy Who Disappeared also mentions rumours of McNamara shortly after Nettles ' disappearance referring to himself as a ` damned man ' , and of him incinerating suspicious objects outside his house . The documentary also mentions McNamara possibly making a ` deathbed confession ' about Nettles before dying of a heroin overdose .  In 2013 , the police put up a reward for new information leading to solving the case .   On 25 July 2016 , a BBC Three series , Unsolved : The Boy Who Disappeared , was broadcast about the case .

neg: Plum, New Caledonia Plum is a coastal village in the commune of Le Mont-Dore on the southwest coast of New Caledonia , just north of Pirogues Bay . The Plum River empties into the sea near the western part of the village and lucky Creek flows into the sea to the southeast.Important chrome discoveries were made in the area in the late 19th century .

neg: TVGoHome TVGoHome was a website which parodied the television listings style of the British magazine Radio Times . It was produced fortnightly from 1999 to 2001 , and sporadically until 2003 , by Charlie Brooker . The site now exists only in archive form . TVGoHome columns also appeared for a short time in Loaded magazine , sometimes edited from their original web version .   The website gained a cult following , partly due to its tie-up with the technology newsletter Need To Know , and its use of strong language , surreal imagery and savage satire reminiscent of the work of Chris Morris . Indeed , Morris himself contributed on occasion , under the pseudonym ` Sid Peach ' . Regular targets for ridicule were the Daily Mail , Mick Hucknall of Simply Red , and the TV presenters Rowland Rivron and Nicky Campbell . TVGoHome '' 's most consistent target , however , was fictional . Nathan Barley , an ex-public-school media wannabe living off his parents ' wealth , had his life chronicled in a fly-on-the-wall documentary series ( in the TVGoHome universe ) entitled simply ` Cunt ' . Detailing Barley 's life in comfortably wealthy Westbourne Grove in west London , the programme essentially mocked the `` new media '' scene and its population of middle-class web designers , DJs and magazine producers , their obsessions with absurd fashions and gadgetry , their inevitably feeble attempts at creativity and their tireless and ludicrous efforts to embody the cutting edge of urban cool . A spinoff book of the same title was later released featuring old and new material .   Brooker has cited the increasing absurdity of reality television as one of the main reasons he stopped writing TVGoHome . The ideas for real life shows such as Touch the Truck , in which contestants must continually touch a truck for 24 hours in order to win the truck as a prize , were the kind of idea that at one point would only have existed as a satirical creation of Brooker 's website . Now that they were becoming a reality , Brooker felt it was time to stop .   In 2006 , Brooker began a regular column in The Guardian '' , featuring new TVGoHome listings .

neg: Eric Denis Eric Denis better known as Eric `` Roach '' Denis is a Canadian documentary film maker and activist whose films deal with social justice , and particularly homelessness .

neg: Fart lighting Fart lighting , also known as pyroflatulence or flatus ignition , is the practice of igniting the gases produced by human flatulence , often producing a flame of a blue hue , hence the act being known colloquially as a `` blue angel '' , `` blue dart '' , or in Australia , a `` blue flame '' . The fact that flatus is flammable , and the actual combustion of it through this practice , gives rise to much humorous derivation . Other colors of flame such as orange and yellow are possible with the color dependent on the mixture of gases formed in the colon . In order to `` fire fart '' , one must have a fart prepared in the anal cavity , and a lighter at the ready . Then they fart onto the lighter .   In 1999 author Jim Dawson observed that fart lighting has been a novelty practice primarily among young men or college students for decades , but is discouraged for its potential for causing injury . Such experiments typically occur on camping trips and in single-sex group residences , such as tree-houses , dormitories , or fraternity houses . With the advent of video sharing features online , hundreds of self-produced videos , both documentary as well as spoof , have been posted to sites such as YouTube . The people appearing in the videos are predominantly young males . In his book The Curse of the Self : Self-Awareness , Egotism , and the Quality of Human Life author Mark Richard Leary explains how a great deal of unhappiness is due to people 's inability to exert control over their thoughts and behavior and that `` stupid stunts '' , including lighting flatulence , were a way to make an impression and be included in group bonding or hazing .   Although there is little scientific discourse on the combustive properties of flatus , there are many anecdotal accounts of flatus ignition and the activity has increasingly found its way into popular culture with references in comic routines , movies , and television ; including cartoons . In Electric Don Quixote : The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa author Neil Slaven quotes Frank Zappa for calling fart lighting `` The manly art of fart-burning '' , and another book quotes the musician Kenny Williams for saying that it demonstrates `` compression , ignition , combustion and exhaust . ''   There have been documented cases of flatulence during surgery being inadvertently ignited causing patient injury and the risk of death .

neg: David DePoe David DePoe ( born 1944 ) is a community activist and retired teacher . He is most well-known for his activities in the late 1960s as an unofficial leader of the Yorkville hippies , founder of the Diggers movement in Yorkville and for staging protests and a sit-in at the Toronto city council chambers in 1967 in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to make Yorkville a pedestrian-only street .   David DePoe was born in Ottawa in 1944 and is the son of well-known CBC journalist Norman DePoe and Madeline DePoe . He joined the Trudeau government initiative the Company of Young Canadians ( CYC ) project in 1966 . In 1967 , under guidance from the CYC , he founded the Diggers in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto . At this time Yorkville was the hippie capital of Canada and local politicians , the police force and residents were concerned over the developing youth subculture . The initiative was inspired by the Diggers ( theater ) group that was active in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco . The Digger group in Yorkville was concerned with community action and provided support to youth in need of food and shelter .   DePoe 's activities came to national attention in 1967 prompting the Star Weekly to publish a picture of him on the cover of an issue in September 1967 with the headline `` SUPER HIPPIE , '' a title he himself disdained . He was known as the unofficial spokesperson for Yorkville through a number of disputes with Toronto city council over traffic in Yorkville , most famously with former mayor and councillor Allan A. Lamport . DePoe led a series of sit-ins throughout the city during the period of August 17 to August 24 , 1967 to try to persuade the city to close Yorkville Avenue to vehicle traffic and create a pedestrian mall as Yorkville was the site of numerous coffee houses , cafes , and shops . Traffic had become a problem as people came to the cruise the strip and gawk at the hippies . The city had grown frustrated with the traffic and a perceived problem with drugs and vagrancy . On August 17 David DePoe and the Diggers were invited to a `` Talk-in '' with Allan Lamport . The talks did not go well and on August 20 a sit-in was held in the middle of Yorkville Avenue . After a number of arrests the large group moved to Queen 's Park ( Toronto ) and finally , on August 23 a `` sleep-in '' took place in front of Toronto 's City Hall . Ultimately these efforts were not successful . The protests were documented by the National Film Board of Canada in their film `` The Summer of ' 67 '' .

neg: Terence McKenna Terence Kemp McKenna ( November 16 , 1946 -- April 3 , 2000 ) was an American ethnobotanist , mystic , psychonaut , lecturer , author , and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants . He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects , including psychedelic drugs , plant-based entheogens , shamanism , metaphysics , alchemy , language , philosophy , culture , technology , environmentalism , and the theoretical origins of human consciousness . He was called the `` Timothy Leary of the '90s '' , `` one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism '' , and the `` intellectual voice of rave culture '' .   McKenna formulated a concept about the nature of time based on fractal patterns he claimed to have discovered in the I Ching , which he called novelty theory , proposing this predicted the end of time in the year 2012 . His promotion of novelty theory and its connection to the Maya calendar is credited as one of the factors leading to the widespread beliefs about 2012 eschatology . Novelty theory is considered pseudoscience .

neg: Tim Minchin Timothy David `` Tim '' Minchin ( born 7 October 1975 ) is an Australian comedian , actor , writer , musician and director . He was born in Northampton , England , to Australian parents , but raised in Perth , Western Australia .   Minchin is best known for his musical comedy , including six CDs , five DVDs , and live comedy shows that he has performed internationally . He has appeared on television in Australia , Britain , and the United States . After growing up in Perth , he attended the University of Western Australia ( UWA ) and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts ( WAAPA ) , before moving to Melbourne in 2002 . His show Darkside launched him into the public eye , achieving critical success at the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe . In 2013 , Minchin played the role of rock star Atticus Fetch on Showtime 's Californication .   Minchin has a background in theatre and has appeared in various stage productions , in addition to some small acting roles on Australian television . A documentary film about Minchin , Rock N Roll Nerd ( directed by Rhian Skirving ) , was released theatrically in 2008 and broadcast by ABC1 in 2009 . He is the composer and lyricist of the Olivier Award-winning , Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated show Matilda the Musical , based on the Roald Dahl book Matilda . His new musical Groundhog Day , based on the 1993 film , opened in London in 2016 , winning his second Olivier Award , and opened on Broadway in spring 2017 .   In 2013 , UWA awarded Minchin the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters for his contribution to the arts , recognising his outstanding achievements and worldwide acclaim as a composer , lyricist , actor , writer , and comedian . In 2015 , he was awarded a second Honorary Doctor of Letters from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts .