I'm not a pirate - Tute 4

10 Things to find for today's tute.

1. World's largest pumpkin.
1878 pound pumpkin, starting growing from a seed 5 months ago.
Source. (Click source to see)

2. Best way to contact Lilly Allen.
Twitter. http://twitter.com/lilyroseallen
That would defiantly be the fastest way to contact her. Or call her mobile, but hey... you would need her number....

3. Average giraffes tongue?
Longest: 53cm
Average: is about 46cm-50cm

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4. Glycomics and Seagull Manager
Glycomics, is part of glycobiology and is a biological study of glycomes. Source.
A seagull manager is a manager who:
"flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves"
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5. David Cronenber first feature film? And which one with Blondie?
David Cronenber's first film was transfer, BUT that was only 7 minutes long, and thus, not a feature film.
His film 'Stereo', in which he directed and wrote (among other things) was 65 minutes long, and thus can be considered a short feature film. Therefore, Stereo was his first feature film, released in 23rd June 1969.
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Blondie, aka Debbie Harry was in Cronenber's 1983 Videodrome.

6. Original 'Hacker's Manefesto' written when?
January 8, 1986
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7.
Simple reason:
555 on the telephone keyboard has JKL, you can't make any words/part words with any combination of those letters (area code was used as first 3 numbers, spelt out).

Because no letters could be formed, it was used in hollywood so if viewers rang up a number seen in a film, it wouldn't ring to a real persons house, and thus innocent people would avoid constant harrasment.
However.... they used a real number for God in Bruce Almighty.......... chaos ensued.

See HERE for a more in depth reason (source).

8. Cheapest form of transport from Gold Coast to Sydney?
Logical answer: Walking. Walking costs no money, it thus is the cheapest form of transport - along with running, jogging, etc.
However.... I assume you want like cheapest using some sort of vehicle. You can hire a car out for a day for like $50, but this site offers cars from as low at $31/day. Pity this is such a vague question, hence, I just like the walking option.

9. Top Australian Charts this week 1965
Another slightly vague question.
I ended up with
Help! / I'm Down
by The Beatles
From wikipedia.
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Is that a good enough answer? Or can I just say 'Help!' ?

10. Last one! Stephen Stockwell... what band?
Is it wierd that when I Yahoo searched to find the answer, it came up with some blogs from people in my course? Awesome. Means I also don't have to do any more rummaging.
Band: The Black Assasins.
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All done! Thank you!