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Roly Poly (TV Episode)
Roly poly or Roly Poly may refer to: * An isopod crustacean of the family Armadillidiidae, also known as a pill bug * A pill millipede (unrelated to the pill bug) *''Syzygium alliiligneum'', a plant from Queensland, Australia * Roly-poly toy, a toy that rights itself when pushed over * Jam roly-poly, a traditional British pudding * Roly Poly (sandwich store chain), a chain of sandwich shops in the United States * "Roly Poly" (Bob Wills song) * "Roly-Poly" (T-ara song) * Roly-Poly (game), an ancestor of Roulette * Roly Poly (horse), thoroughbred racehorse * The Roly Poly Man, a close associate of the Hurdy Gurdy Man in the 1968 song by Donovan * A forward roll, a gymnastic maneuver * ''Roly Poly'', a translation of the title of ''Przekładaniec'', a 1968 Polish film by Andrzej Wajda * ''Roly Poly'', a 1969 TV episode of ''Thirty-Minute Theatre'' by BBC Television * Roly Polys, a dancing group of fat ladies promoted by British comedian Les Dawson *Wayne Shaw (footballer), Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armadillidiidae
Armadillidiidae is a family (biology), family of woodlice, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs or roly polies. Other common names include slaters, potato bugs, curly bugs, butchy boys, and doodle bugs. Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a few species have wider European distributions. The best-known species, ''Armadillidium vulgare'', was introduced to New England in the early 19th century and has become widespread throughout North America. Common names Ecology and behavior Pill bugs in the family Armadillidiidae are able to form their bodies into a ball shape, in a process known as ''Volvation, conglobation''. Conglobation has evolved independently in se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurdy Gurdy Man
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was recorded in April 1968 and released the following month as a single. The song gave its name to the album '' The Hurdy Gurdy Man'', which was released in October of that year in the United States. The single reached number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the U.S. and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. Donovan wrote " Hurdy Gurdy Man" while in Rishikesh in India, where he was studying Transcendental Meditation with the Beatles. The recording features a harder rock sound than Donovan's usual material, supplying a range of distorted guitars and aggressive drums. It also features an Indian influence with the use of a tambura, a gift to Donovan from George Harrison, who also helped write the lyrics. The song may have been influenced by " Green Circles", a psychedelic 1967 song by Small Faces. The similarity is in the melody of the descending verse, the strange vocal delivery, and the topic of being visited by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolie Polie Olie
''Rolie Polie Olie'' is an animated television series created by William Joyce, and is produced by Nelvana in co-production with French broadcaster La Cinquième/France 5. It was produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Disney Channel/Playhouse Disney in the United States. The show focuses on a robot boy and his family who are composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI. The series was broadcast from October 4, 1998, to April 28, 2004, and was followed with two straight-to-video films titled ''The Great Defender of Fun'' and ''The Baby Bot Chase'', in 2002 and 2003 respectively. ''Rolie Polie Olie'' won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 2000 and 2005. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of Samuel Whiskers Or The Roly-Poly Pudding
''The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding'' is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1908 as ''The Roly-Poly Pudding''. In 1926, it was re-published as ''The Tale of Samuel Whiskers''. The book is dedicated to the author's fancy rat "Sammy" and tells of Tom Kitten's escape from two rats who plan to make him into a pudding. The tale was adapted to animation in 1993. Plot summary Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, and sisters, Moppet and Mittens, in a house overrun with rats. Her children being an unruly bunch, Mrs. Tabitha puts Moppet and Mittens in a cupboard in order to keep them under control, but Tom Kitten escapes up the chimney. As he makes his way to the top of the house, he comes across a crack in the wall and, squeezing through it, finds himself under the attic's floorboards. There he meets the rats, Mr. Samuel Whiskers and his wife Anna Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Shaw (footballer)
Wayne Shaw (born 13 January 1972) is an English former semi-professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Shaw was nicknamed "Roly Poly Goalie", owing to being . Career Shaw started in football at Southampton's academy as a centre half, where he was teammates with future England internationals Alan Shearer and Matt Le Tissier. He was then sent on loan for two years to Reading. He was later released by Southampton for being overweight. He then moved to Basingstoke Town and was loaned to Bashley where he transitioned into a goalkeeper. From there he went to AFC Lymington and in 1999 moved to AFC Totton because of family commitments. By 2005, he had moved to Eastleigh where he saved a penalty during their Isthmian Premier League play-off final which helped Eastleigh get promoted into the Conference South for the first time. In 2010, he moved to Sutton United alongside Eastleigh's manager Paul Doswell but returned to Eastleigh as a player-coach two years later. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Dawson
Leslie Dawson (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and pianist. He was known for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona, musical routines, and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife. Early life Les Dawson was born in Collyhurst, Manchester, on 2 February 1931, the only child of bricklayer Leslie Dawson (2 August 1905 – 10 April 1970) and Julia Nolan (14 January 1908 – 29 September 1957), who was of Irish descent. His first job was in the parcels department of the Manchester Co-op. He worked briefly as a journalist on the '' Bury Times''. Career Early in life, Dawson wrote poetry and kept it secret. It was not expected that someone of his working class background would have literary ambitions. In a BBC Television documentary, he spoke of his love for canonical figures in English literature, in particular the 19th-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose florid style influenced Dawson's. As a young man he appeared with The Nels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roly Poly (TV Episode)
Roly poly or Roly Poly may refer to: * An isopod crustacean of the family Armadillidiidae, also known as a pill bug * A pill millipede (unrelated to the pill bug) *''Syzygium alliiligneum'', a plant from Queensland, Australia * Roly-poly toy, a toy that rights itself when pushed over * Jam roly-poly, a traditional British pudding * Roly Poly (sandwich store chain), a chain of sandwich shops in the United States * "Roly Poly" (Bob Wills song) * "Roly-Poly" (T-ara song) * Roly-Poly (game), an ancestor of Roulette * Roly Poly (horse), thoroughbred racehorse * The Roly Poly Man, a close associate of the Hurdy Gurdy Man in the 1968 song by Donovan * A forward roll, a gymnastic maneuver * ''Roly Poly'', a translation of the title of ''Przekładaniec'', a 1968 Polish film by Andrzej Wajda * ''Roly Poly'', a 1969 TV episode of ''Thirty-Minute Theatre'' by BBC Television * Roly Polys, a dancing group of fat ladies promoted by British comedian Les Dawson *Wayne Shaw (footballer), Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Przekładaniec
''Przekładaniec'' is a 1968 Short film, short science fiction comedy film directed by Andrzej Wajda based on the screenplay by Stanisław Lem, which was a loose adaptation of Lem's 1955 short story turned into a radio play ''Czy pan istnieje, Mr. Johns?'' (translated into English as ''Are you there, Mr. Jones?''). The title of the film was variously translated into English as ''Layer Cake'' (literal meaning),Peter Swirski, ''The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem''p. 160/ref> ''Hodge Podge'', or ''Roly Poly''. The first print of Lem's short story was in ''Przekrój'' in 1955. Translated as ''Are you there, Mr. Jones?'', it appeared in a British-Australian science fiction magazine ''Vision of Tomorrow'' in 1969.Stanisław Lem, "Are you there, Mr. Jones?", trans. by Peter Roberts, ''Vision of Tomorrow'', August 1969, vol. 1, no 1, pp. 55-57Internet Archive According to the introduction to the story in the magazine, it was the first work of Lem translated into English. The central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roll (gymnastics)
A roll is the most basic and fundamental skill in gymnastics Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring Balance (ability), balance, Strength training, strength, Flexibility (anatomy), flexibility, agility, Motor coordination, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movem ... class. There are many variations in the skill. Rolls are similar to flips in the fact that they are a complete rotation of the body, but the rotation of the roll is usually made on the ground while a flip is made in the air with the hips passing over the head and without any hands touching the ground. Rolls also help recover from a fall safely. Forward roll The forward roll (colloquially called a roly poly) is one of the most basic elements in gymnastics and one of the first learnt. The forward roll is started from a standing position and then the gymnast crouches down, places their hands shoulder wide apart and hands facing forward. They tuck their chin to their chest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roly Poly (horse)
Roly Poly (foaled 2 February 2014) is an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old in 2016 she won three of her eight races including the Grangecon Stud Stakes and the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes as well as finishing second in the Cheveley Park Stakes and the Lowther Stakes. In the following year she proved herself to be a top-class performer over one mile, recording Group 1 victories in the Falmouth Stakes, Prix Rothschild and Sun Chariot Stakes and running second in both the Irish 1,000 Guineas and the Coronation Stakes. Background Roly Poly is a bay mare with a white blaze bred in Kentucky by the Misty For Me Syndicate. As a yearling in September 2015 she was offered for sale at Keeneland but failed to reach her reserve price of $575,000. She was then sent to Europe and entered training with Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle. She is owned by John Magnier's Coolmore Stud partnership (officially Michael Tabor, Susan Magnier and Derrick Smith). She was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pill Millipede
Pill millipedes are any members of two living (and one extinct) orders of millipedes, often grouped together into a single superorder, Oniscomorpha. The name Oniscomorpha refers to the millipedes' resemblance to certain woodlice (Oniscidea), also called pillbugs or "roly-polies". However, millipedes and woodlice are not closely related (belonging to the subphyla Myriapoda and Crustacea, respectively); rather, this is a case of convergent evolution. Description Pill millipedes are relatively short-bodied compared to most other millipedes, with only eleven to thirteen body segments, and are capable of rolling into a ball ( volvation) when disturbed, as a defense against predators. This ability evolved separately in each of the two orders, making it a case of convergent evolution, rather than homology. They can also exude a noxious liquid, which may be both caustic and toxic among other millipede taxa, but is not in pill millipedes—— Glomerida secretes a clear, odorless li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roulette
Roulette (named after the French language, French word meaning "little wheel") is a casino game which was likely developed from the Italy, Italian game Biribi. In the game, a player may choose to place a bet on a single number, various groupings of numbers, the color red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the number is high or low. To determine the winning number, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel. The ball eventually loses momentum, passes through an area of deflectors, and falls onto the wheel and into one of the colored and numbered pockets on the wheel. The winnings are then paid to anyone who has placed a successful bet. History The first form of roulette was devised in 18th-century France. Many historians believe Blaise Pascal introduced a primitive form of roulette in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
