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it goes do do do do do do do do and then comes the thing that goes duududud do do do while the do do do do do do do is in the baxkgorund and idk how to spell that. And then comes the thign that goes dididiiidididi dididididiiididid im sorry about putting this in the rong place 2600:387:F:7519:0:0:0:7 (talk) 02:26, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

:Where have you heard or seen this? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:42, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

:It does kind of remind me of "Uptown Funk". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:35, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

:The place to ask this is Musipedia. Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:09, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

:It may be the borther of a snog that goes like la la la la and gthen la laa la laa. I'm syre yo've heard iy but the name escapes me  ​‑‑Lambiam 09:30, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

:Placing my assumption of good faith on overdrive, the proffered rendition might fit the opening of Mars, the Bringer of War from Gustav Holst's The Planet Suite – which however is not a 'song' by most definitions. {The poster formerly knowna s 87.81.230.195} 94.1.137.14 (talk) 12:47, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

::No, that goes tiddly dee, pom, ba-ba-bom, tiddly dee, pom, ba-ba-bom. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:24, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

:::Not ba-da boom?  ​‑‑Lambiam 02:43, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

:You'd really want to make a voice recording of that. Try Vocaroo or share a voice memo file somewhere. Aaron Liu (talk) 14:19, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

:Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega? Matt Deres (talk) 14:27, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

::You might have more luck identifying that composition by searching for its melody contour expressed as Parsons code – try https://www.musipedia.org/melodic_contour.html . -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:49, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

::► "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"? -- Yes, its an actual song (by the Police) --136.56.165.118 (talk) 14:39, 18 June 2025 (UTC)'

:::So not just "Da Da"?? Damn! Martinevans123 (talk) 14:44, 18 June 2025 (UTC) {{small|(Not forgetting... Ding-a-dong, Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley, and countless others, of course...)}}

::::Non-lexical vocables in music. I don't think De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da and Shama Lama Ding Dong belong in :category:Onomatopoeia - what are they supposed to be imitating the sound of? Perhaps there should be a "songs with nonsense lyrics" category, to include for a start the twenty songs titled La La La.  Card Zero  (talk) 15:37, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

:Darude - Sandstorm? Avessa (talk) 23:21, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

:I thought it might be the Crazy Frog's version of Axel F. But probably not. DuncanHill (talk) 23:35, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

:I want you to remember this for the rest of your life: on the Internet, there are forums, clubs, non-profits, and even individual people that specialise in everything under the sun. Try the most specific first. If you can't find anyone who knows, they will know someone who knows someone who knows the answer.

:I'm going to make an educated guess and say that you don't speak English as a first language because you spelled "I'm" as "im" and "wrong" as "rong". If it's something regional, that's a clue. Is it a song from your generation, or from your parents', or your children's? Did you hear it in a video game or a movie? Shushimnotrealstooge (talk) 02:17, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

= June 18 =

[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/MyHeroAcademiaVillains TV Tropes says she's playable in My Hero One's Justice 2 but i cannot find any other evidence to support this]

Did i missed anything or have i just been victim of an hoax? Trade (talk) 00:21, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

:She is listed as DLC on [https://mhaoj2.bn-ent.net/dlc/character.php the official site], as a package with a villain called Danjuro Tobita or "Gentle". Unsure whether playable.  Card Zero  (talk) 02:32, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

In that song, there's one verse sung by a woman in a fancy outfit with a top hat. She sings it in kind of a cartoonish voice, what I might call "Betty Boop style" or "flapper style". I was just wondering if there's a more formal name for that style of singing? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:20, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

:I don't think it's a recognised singing style as such (though I could be wrong). It's somewhat nasalized, and in keeping with the speech of the character throughout as performed by Nell Campbell, who is Australian, in both the original play and subsequent film, and which to me (a Brit) sounds like a (bad?) Brooklyn accent perhaps parodying Barbra Streisand in the same way that Madeline Kahn (around the same time) parodied Marlene Dietrich in Blazing Saddles. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.41.216 (talk) 01:23, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

= June 21 =

Should it be Skillsville with a lowercase V or SkillsVille with a capital V? – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 17:46, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

:Seems official websites prefer Skillsville ([https://www.pbs.org/parents/shows/skillsville PBS], [https://sphere-media.com/en/animations/skillsville/ Sphere Media], [https://www.tpt.org/skillsville/ TPT]); SkillsVille is a stylization for the logo, like "W{{sc|ikipedi}}A" in ours. -insert valid name here- (talk) 18:28, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

:Everybody seems to use lowercase, including creator and executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente who complains here [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carol-lynnparente_its-deeply-disappointing-that-our-entire-activity-7325859749403529216-xwor on LinkedIn "our entire Skillsville team was let go mid-project"]. The logo is evidently in CamelCase but when I search I don't find anyone other than us writing it that way. (Speaking of LinkedIn, their logo does not use camel case, but they style the name that way in writing. So the opposite way round from Skillsville.)  Card Zero  (talk) 18:29, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

:: For a long time I'd read their capital I as a lower case ell, and try to pronounce it accordingly. When I tired of this uneuphonious utterance I allowed myself to consider the alternative. The people who came up with this visually confusing thing are probably the ones who are forcing us to enter mobile phone numbers as strings of 10 numbers rather than 4 space 3 space 3, or signwriters and web designers who still haven't got the message. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:46, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

:::[https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md Falsehoods programmers believe about phone numbers] doesn't even mention spaces specifically, though the glyphs -, *, alphabetic characters and Arabic numerals all get a mention in the list of 27 possible hazards.  Card Zero  (talk) 21:22, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

:::The bad actors are the typeface designers who assign identical shapes to distinct characters, even distinct letters. King Charles III was preceded by King Charles II. How about Kim Jung III?  ​‑‑Lambiam 05:41, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

::::@Lambiam I'm reminded of someone who saw the photo caption "King Charles III" shortly after his coronation and cried out "Oh, no! He's ill!" Shantavira|^{feed me} 17:26, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

::::: Which indeed he is (the big C). -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:59, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

:::::Reminds me of satirist Richard Armour's note that WWII Italy was led by "an unwell man named Ill Duce." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:30, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

:Maybe someone could write to the show's producers and ask why they have a capital "V" in the middle of it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:02, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

::They're probably too depressed right now, what with the furlough thing ...  Card Zero  (talk) 21:24, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

= June 23 =

Is there any fiction about a single mind controlling multiple bodies? I don't mean some sort of collective brainwashing, I mean that it's natural for a single entity to host multiple bodies. Exactly as life on Earth, except instead of a one-to-one relationship, it's a one-to-many relationship. JIP | Talk 23:05, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

:The idea has been fairly common in Science Fiction since its early 20th-century burgeoning: see Group mind (science fiction). A prominent recent(ish) example are the aliens called Tines in Vernor Vinge's Novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

:See also the entry for [https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hive_minds Hive minds] in the online Science Fiction Encyclopedia. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.41.216 (talk) 23:15, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

::The article says "multiple minds are linked into a single collective consciousness". This is not actually what I am asking about. My question was about a situation where there are not multiple minds, only multiple bodies. The same individual mind somehow controls all of these bodies. JIP | Talk 06:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

:::The articles linked are not as comprehensive and detailed as they might be: the concept is treated differently by different writers, and various science fictional examples correspond more closely to your specification, as Vinge's does. See also the character Miss Level in Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel A Hat Full of Sky. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.41.216 (talk) 14:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

::::[Edited to add, {{u|JIP}}] More spectacular examples, though not biologically natural ones, are the artificial intelligences of the starships in the Imperial Radsch series by Ann Leckie, beginning with Ancillary Justice, which can each control simultaneously up to thousands of 'ancilliaries' – human bodies whose minds have been erased. The series (SPOILER ALERT!) is narrated by one of these artificial intelligences who has had her ship and other ancillaries destroyed, and is initially confined to a single surviving human body. As the novel and series progress, we learn much about the ramifications of such multiple body control. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.41.216 (talk) 15:57, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

:::The Tines example fits your requirement: one human-level intelligence (or better) mind in usually 4-8 bodies. There is a twist, however. If some of the bodies are separated by a great enough distance or killed, they degenerate into individual minds in 1-3 bodies that are much less intelligent.

:::The hive queens in the Ender's Game (novel series) can control thousands of bodies. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:35, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

:One example is is Daniel O'Malley's The Rook, where the character Gestalt is one individual with four separate bodies. 80.63.58.28 (talk) 08:03, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

:The Paratwa in Christopher Hinz's Paratwa Saga are twin assassins sharing one consciousness. We have an article on one of the books, Liege-Killer. According to an interview with Hinz, therapy sessions sparked the idea [https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2021/09/interview-with-christopher-hinz-the-paratwa-trilogy/]. ---Sluzzelin talk 10:56, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

:We have an article on Trumpism, a science fiction dystopia where a single mind controls multiple undead sycophantic zombies. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 15:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

:PS: Oops, you were talking about fiction... --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 15:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

:Ancillary Justice has AI entities that control multiple bodies at the same time, including the POV character. Ivey (talk - contribs) 14:45, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

What about the Agent from Matrix? Cambalachero (talk) 18:31, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

:Miss Level from A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett. 213.143.143.69 (talk) 12:08, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

= June 24 =

What type of sport is this? https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Iuhkg4LYD2Q 109.54.44.162 (talk) 19:45, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

:Teqball is what they call it. --Wrongfilter (talk) 19:52, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

::That article doesn't explain where the name came from. Was it an arbitrary coinage so they could trademark it, does it mean something in Hungarian, is it an acronym, someone's name...? Anyone know? --142.112.140.72 (talk) 18:48, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

:::According to Gergely Murányi of FITEQ (International Teqball Federation), "We called it teqball because you need technique to play the game and you play it with a regular soccer ball" (see [https://www.wipo.int/web/wipo-magazine/articles/with-teqball-the-world-is-curved-40919 "With Teqball the world is curved"]). ---Sluzzelin talk 19:59, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

::::Cool, I stuck that in the history section.  Card Zero  (talk) 23:10, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

:::::Thanks. --142.112.140.72 (talk) 17:48, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

= June 26 =

The entry for the word "open" has definitions for notes played on unstopped strings and notes played by not depressing keyholes and valves. For obvious reasons, I could provide an example sentence for string instruments, but not for wind instruments. Shushimnotrealstooge (talk) 02:21, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

:"In principle, the sound travels to the first open finger hole before it is reflected, and the distance between the tip of the mouthpiece and the first open finger- or keyhole determines the fundamental frequency of the instrument (...)" (Hyper-specializing in Saxophone Using Acoustical Insight and Deep Listening Skills, Jonas Braasch, Springer International Publishing, 2019, {{ISBN|9783030150464}}) ---Sluzzelin talk 05:06, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

:By the way, you might find more examples, by searching with the word "tone hole". ---Sluzzelin talk 05:19, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

= June 27 =