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Gift Baskets
Everyone likes receiving gift baskets! Our shoppe has gift baskets for any occasion.
Whole Latke Hanukkah Basket
You've heard of the Whole Megilla? Here's our Hanukkah version - the Whole Latke! We've gathered every delectable thing we could think of to bring the Chanukah spirit to your friends and family. Sending a gift to a large family or office? This is a perfect way to share your best wishes for a happy and healthy Chanukah! Assembled in a large wicker picnic-style basket with handles, this gift includes: - A tin of our award-winning rugelach! Just over a pound of assorted flavored rugelach, voted Best Mail Order Dessert by noted food critic David Rosengarten. - 1 full-sized chocolate babka AND 1 full-sized cinnamon babka - 1 lb. of Bazzini's Colossal Pistachio Nuts - Savory hard-smoked salmon, creamy hummus, and Elsa's Story Sea Salt Crackers from Israel. - Koppers Chocolate Lentils-dark chocolate covered in a candy shell - 2 Ashores Chocolate covered Pretzel Rods - 8 delicious, hand-iced mini blue & white cookies - Lake Champlain of Vermont's milk chocolate menorah and milk chocolate foil-wrapped coins in a lovely gift box - From Asher's, mini milk chocolate covered pretzels and a huge, decadent s'more - Our adorable Yiddish Proverbs mug, sharing the wisdom of our ancestors - Spirit-warming hot cocoa for two - A lovely wooden crate of colorful beeswax Chanukah candles, enough for all 8 nights! - Finally, Shmuel the Chanukah Bear, waiting to share his Hanukkah hugs! All items certified kosher.
A Bountiful Harvest - X-large Thanksgiving Gift Basket
A Bountiful Harvest...is simply what our name means..."an abundance of gifts" and this wonderful gift offering is just that! A definite crowd pleaser no matter what the occasion...among some of the decadent gourmet items your recipient will discover are Crackers, Cheeses, Sausage, a decorative keepsake spreader, Smoked Salmon, Salmon Pate, A Bountiful Harvest Everyday Gourmet Tapenade & Mustard, Tuscan Triangles, Quick & Easy Gourmet Soup Mix, Gourmet Stuffed Olives, Dip Mix, Tropical Fruit & Nut Snack Mix, Cheese Straws, Crunchy Salty Snack Mix, Gourmet Coffee, Hand-dipped Belgian Chocolate Fall themed Spoons, Imported English Tea & Chai Mix, Demitasse Sugar Sticks, an assortment of scrumptious Cookies & hard Candies, a box of Pates de Fruits, a box of Bountiful Harvest handmade Belgian Chocolates and Truffles, A Bountiful Harvest handmade Belgian Chocolate dipped items; such as, Barks, Pretzels, Popcorn, Cookies and or Potato Chips, and a bottle of English Pear Juice.
Fathers Day Gift Basket
Here is a gift for him from WFGB that is unique and unusual. Every true sports fan possesses tremendous patriotic pride for their country as well as their favorite team. What better way to say Go Team than with our red, white and blue presentation packed with the very best in American sports watching goodies. Perfect for your favorite All-American hero. Each fabulous decorative box includes fresh gourmet Americana Fortune cookies, snappy crisp peanut brittle, yummy gourmet cheese sticks, fresh cashews, cocoa mix and tons more delectable surprises. Our spectacular gift for him is beautifully packaged and ready for delivery--only by World Famous Gift Baskets! Approx. number of basket contents: 54-58. Approx. overall product dimension: 20L x 14W x 30H inches. Note: The gift basket design shown is typical. Due to supply and demand, however, gift basket design and any contents may vary with each purchase
Happiest Passover Basket
What is the most lovely Passover basket of them all? This is the one! Share a truly Zissen Pesach, Happy Passover, with friends and family. This magnificant array of goodies will keep the crowd noshing all week long. All items Kosher for Passover. This lovely basket includes: -Gift box of Matzel Toff matzoh - a fabulous confection of matzoh covered with delicious toffee and enrobed in delicious chocolate. -Barton's nostalgic chocolate Almond Kiss candies in a keepsake tin. -Seder Maven assorted macaroons. -Raspberry Roll cake -Traditional sponge cake -Box of assorted cookies including mini black and whites, pink and whites, french swirl, macaroons and more. -Almond Supreme, a nutty combination of almonds, cashews, raisins and pepitos (pumpkin seeds) -Joyva chocolate covered cherry twists. -Koppers festive Jordan Almonds. -Barton's yummy fruit slices. -Barton's chocolate lollycones for the kids (or the young at heart!) -Old-time favorite sesame crunch candy. -Large bottle of merlot-flavored sparkling grape juice. All items certified kosher and artfully arranged in an attractive wicker picnic basket with handles, wrapped in clear cello wrap and tied with our signature raffia.
Kosher Cornucopia Gift Hamper
For the important recipients on your list with special dietary needs, we've designed a gorgeous gift basket that's Kosher and delicious! Even recipients who don't keep Kosher will be impressed with this delicious array of gourmet treats suitable for sharing. They'll indulge in Rothschild Farms Gourmet Dipping Pretzels and Raspberry Honey Mustard Pretzel Dip, Brent & Sam's Key Lime White Chocolate Cookies and Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies, Salted Peanuts, a Lake Champlain Signature Milk Chocolate Bar, Old Dominion Peanut Company Buttered Peanut Crunch, Dark Chocolate Bavarian Mints, Lemon Butter Cookies by Elsa's Story, Organic Vanilla Bean with Green Tea Sandwich Cookies by Late July, Mixed Dried Fruit, Marich Chocolate Nut Medley, Alaska Smokehouse Wild Alaskan Smoked Salmon, Supreme Chocolatier Gourmet Milk Chocolate Dipped Cookies, Organic Blueberry Jam, Almonduo Biscuits, Baked Granny Smith Apples by Bare Fruit, Late July Organic Dark Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, Supreme Chocolatier Gourmet Milk Chocolate Dipped Pretzels, a Lake Champlain Signature Dark Chocolate Bar with Hazelnuts, and much more - all guaranteed to be Kosher! Perfect for family, friends, and business associates at Hannukah, or just for anyone on your list who observes Kosher laws anytime you want to help them celebrate, order the Kosher Cornucopia Gift Hamper.
Fall Harvest Gift Basket for Fall & Thanksgiving
This gift basket elicits the "Wow!" or the "Oh my goodness!" type of response. It makes quite the presentation! More importantly, however, it is filled with so many delicious goodies that they will be either set for the season or ready for a grand gathering! This impressive gift includes: A Set Of Three Attractive, Nesting Fall Baskets, A Highly Detailed Scarecrow Holding an "It's Fall, Y'all!" Sign, Two Ceramic and Stainless Steel Scarecrow Cheese Spreaders, A Wooden Cutting Board, A Jar of Green Olive & Pimento Cheese Dip, Cranberry Cheddar Cheese, Smoked Gouda Cheese, Smoked Tomato & Basil Cheese, Wisconsin Swiss Cheese, Wisconsin Cheddar With Onion and Chives Cheese, Pepper Cheese, Zesty Cheddar Cheese, Tomato & Basil Cheese, Wisconsin Cheddar Cheese, Crunchy Cheddar Pesto Cheese Rounds, Roasted Garlic Beef Summer Sausage, All Beef Summer Sausage With Cranberries, Italian Beef Summer Sausage, Spicy Beef Summer Sausage, Tomato & Basil Beef Summer Sausage, gourmet Cranberry Mustard, Toasted Sesame Crackers, Three Pepper Blend Crackers, Olive Oil and Salt Crackers, Wheat Crackers, Maple Walnut Fudge, Cranberry Chocolate Bark, Beautiful Fall Enhancements, and Designer Ribbon (not pictured) and Picks.
A Taste of Autumn, Gift Basket
Tucked inside this extra large "Autumn" themed, hand painted, bushel basket with leather side handles, they will discover an "Apple Spice" jar candle, a festive "Make Your Own Caramel Apples" baking kit, complete with sticks, jimmies and caramel mix, a jar of delicious Chocolaty Cherry Amaretto Cheesecake Fondue, Cinnamon Vanilla Cookie Dunks, Red Apple Caramels, Apricot Amaretto Cookies, fresh baked and crispy vanilla cream filled Wafer Rolls, Peanut Caramel Chocolate Clusters, Butter Toasted Peanuts, gourmet Snack Mix, Cranberry Harvest Almond Medley, Smoked Cranberry Cheddar Cheese, and "Harvest Blessings" spiced Apple Cider Drink Mix! Perhaps we should have called this large gift basket "Autumn Feast"! It is truly a gorgeous gift!
The Monster Mash, Halloween Gift Basket
It's time to do the Mash, the Monster Mash, and what better way than with a Halloween gift basket piled high a host of hauntingly delicious Halloween treats and with a very special Bear "The Count"! Our 12" "The Count" bear is all dressed up in is "scary" vampire costume and arrives with his own boo-tiful basket full of treats, including, a large assortment of delicious Halloween candy, gourmet monster lollipops, ghost Peeps, delicious Caramel Apple Snack Mix, Candy Corn flavored Taffy, Pure Butter Shortbread Cookies, Red Apple Caramels, a creamy medley of Popcorn, Almonds and Luscious White Fudge, Old-fashioned Vanilla Caramels, Dark Chocolate Caramel Confections, Tropical Fruit Mix, Cream Puff Cookies, Apple Spice Cookies, Almond Cranberry Nut Mix, "Boo Buddies" gourmet Snack Mix, and Chocolate Covered Pecans! This large painted two-tone basket is filled with enough yummy treats that they could even share, if they dare!
Festival Of Lights (Large): Hanukkah Gift Basket
Celebrate the Festival of Lights with this fabulous deluxe Hanukkah Gift arrangement! From festively wrapped chocolate creations, to our 100% kosher Wild Alaska Smoked Salmon, they are going to absolutely love this oversized holiday gift basket!!
Kosher Delights Deluxe Gift Basket
The Kosher Delights Deluxe Gift Basket is filled to the top with their favorite goodies, and theyâ?TMre all 100% Kosher. Great to share, this gift has something for everyone making it a perfect addition to a family dinner or a corporate party. The versatile selection includes everything from gourmet dipping pretzels to buttered peanut crunch as well as organic vanilla bean green tea cookies, smoked salmon, and key lime white chocolate cookies. Sweet or savory, light or nutritious - it's all in there. This gift is made to impress. Order today to deliver your warmest wishes for any important occasion.
Fall Harvest Hamper - Thanksgiving Gift Basket
Weve taken this natural unpeeled hamper with an unbleached linen liner and packed it well beyond its brim with an array of fall inspired gourmet delights; such as, Crackers, Cheese, Sausage, Fall Harvest Blend Coffee, Demitasse Sugar Sticks, A bottle of Maple Flavored Balsamic Dressing & a box of Maple Leaf Shaped Pasta to make a wonderful pasta salad or main dish, a keepsake Scarecrow Spreader, Cappuccino Hard Candies, Maple Flavored Hot Cocoa Mix, Savory Snack Mix, Hand-dipped Belgian Chocolate Pretzels, Vanilla Spice Chai Mix, Vanilla Caramels and Cookies. This wonderful gift arrives wrapped in clear cello, tied with a beautiful handmade fall bow finished with a gift card bearing your special message.
Kosher Delights Gift Tray
A gift full of delights. Surprise your colleagues, friends or family members with an abundance of their all time favorites, let them enjoy themselves with a selection that includes chocolate filled cookies, water crackers, Shortbread cookies, caramel chocolate bar, 8 grain crackers, Macadamia white chocolate cookies (or alternative flavor), 2 Chai Teas, flavored coffee brick, Smoked Salmon pack, chocolate twist cracker and Cashew Roca candy. The elegant dark rattan tray is decorated with berries and floral adornments - a splendid presentation for the finest selection. Send this gift today to say Thank You, Happy Birthday or as a romantic gift.
Congrats Grad (Large): Graduation Gift Basket
After countless hours of classes, homework, exams and pop quizzes, don't they deserve a graduation gift that feeds the body and not the mind? They will truly enjoy this gift packed full of yummy Gift Basket Village Favorites as well as a few very nice keepsakes.
Hole In One: Golf Gift Basket
Send him this grand golf gift gift basket packed with practical golf gift items including a Golf Gift Set with a divot tool, ball marker, golf towel, golf balls & tees. Also includes a wide assortment of snacks, cookies, crackers, and cheeses. A true "hole in one" gift for him as he'll enjoy the gourmet gifts for weeks and the golf gifts for years!
Hanukkah Bakery Basket
Beautiful blue sparkly market tray loaded with chocolate treats featuring our signature chocolate babka. Complete contents are: - 1 chocolate babka - 1 cinnamon babka - 1 bag of 8 mini BLUE and white cookies (Happy Chanukah!) - 1 bag of assorted-flavor rugelach (8 large pieces) - 1 pouch of Cashews - 1 Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffle bar - 1 Dark Chocolate bar with Almonds - 1 pouch of delicious coffee - 1 oz. pouch of Roboostas, dark chocolate covered coffee beans Fun and festive "Happy Holidays!" red, white, and green market tray loaded with chocolate treats featuring our signature chocolate babka. Complete contents are: - 1 chocolate babka - 1 cinnamon babka - 1 bag of 8 mini RED and white cookies (Happy Holidays!) - 1 bag of assorted-flavor rugelach (8 large pieces) - 1 pouch of Cashews - 1 Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffle bar - 1 Dark Chocolate bar with Almonds - 1 pouch of delicious coffee - 1 oz. pouch of Roboostas, dark chocolate covered coffee beans - Koppers Petite Fruits chewy, fruity candies All items certified kosher AND delicious!
The Elegant Gourmet: Fall Gift Basket
Elegance abounds in this incredible collection of gourmet treats all set in three of the most gorgeous copper pails that feature beautiful embossed fall leaves. Towering at almost two feet tall, this arrangement will leave them speechless!!!
Zissen Passover Basket
Share a Sweet Passover with friends, family and business associates! All items Kosher for Passover. Basket includes: -Gift box of Matzel Toff matzoh - a fabulous confection of matzoh covered with delicious toffee and enrobed in delicious chocolate. -Barton's nostalgic chocolate Almond Kiss candies in a keepsake tin. -Seder Maven assorted macaroons. -Box of assorted cookies including mini black and whites, pink and whites, french swirl, macaroons and more -Dried apricots. -1 dark chocolate seder plate -Barton's yummy fruit slices. -Kosher honey and 5 herbal teabags (assorted flavors). All items certified kosher and artfully arranged in an attractive dark willow basket with handles, wrapped in clear cello wrap and tied with our signature raffia.
Baby's First Christmas Gift Basket - Includes Stocking, Toys, Blanket & More
A beautiful Christmas gift basket for babies featuring a personalized 100% cotton, 2-ply blanket and much more. Sorry... personalization is not available through our Amazon storefront.


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INXS - 13 - Bitter Tears - Wembley 1991 MP3
INXS - Bitter Tears - Arsenio Hall Show - 1991 MP3
Inxs - Bitter Tears - Live 1991 MP3
It was July 13th, 1991 that Michael Hutchence with INXS performed a milestone concert in their career, becoming the only Australian band to sell out London's ...
INXS - Bitter Tears (Arsenio Hall Show 1991) MP3
"Bitter Tears", performed live by INXS at "Arsenio Hall Show" on January, 30th, 1991.
INXS - Bitter Tears MP3
"Bitter Tears" is the third Australian and fourth UK single from INXS album "X".
"Bitter Tears" by INXS, live on the Arsenio Hall Show, 1-30-91 MP3
13 - INXS - Bitter Tears (Wembley Stadium 1991) [original audio-track by BBC] MP3
With the original audio track, broadcasted directly on BBC radio Filmed at Summer XS, Wembley Stadium on 13th July 1991. We see INXS perform to an ...
Graham Coxon ~ Bitter Tears / Xfm MP3
Live performance of Bitter Tears for Xfm London.
Bitter Tears Largo MD Live-Inxs MP3
INXS - Mystify | Bitter Tears (Live) MP3
INXS - Mystify | Bitter Tears - Live Wembley Stadium (1991)
INXS Bitter Tears Live Baby Live Wembley Stadium on 13th July 1991 MP3
Jamey Ryan ~ Sweet Wine and Bitter Tears (1969) [LIVE] MP3
From an episode of the "Del Reeves Country Carnival," as originally broadcast on The Outlaw Music Channel. This song is the "B" side of Jamey's ShowBiz ...
Rufus Wainwright - Bitter Tears (LIVE) - Colours of Ostrava 2012 MP3
Rufus Wainwright performing Bitter Tears (or at least a bit of it, before I cut it :P) + cute talk. BEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Unfortunately I cut it just before he started to ...
Rufus Wainwright - Bitter Tears (Live At Ronit Farm, Israel, June 3rd, 2012) MP3
Rufus Wainwright performing Bitter Tears live at Ronit Farm, Israel, on June 3rd, 2012.
INXS - Bitter Tears - Rock In Rio 2 - 19th January 1991 MP3
INXS- Bitter Tears Live MP3
INXS performs Bitter Tears live at Rock n Rio.
Faith In Each Other/Bitter Tears (Live) MP3
1991. Produced by Mark Opitz & INXS. Mixed by Mark Opitz, Niven Garland & INXS. Written by Faith In Each Other (J.Farriss/M.Hutchence), Bitter Tears ...
Bitter Tears | Bob Geldof Interview | Classic Video MP3
You'll know Bob Geldof as the rockstar behind LIVE AID and, perhaps, as one third of that tragic and very public love triangle involving him, his wife Paula Yates, ...
Postmortem - Bitter Tears (Live) MP3
Postmortem - Bitter Tears (Live at Bikers Pub 30.04.09)
Rufus Wainwright - Bitter Tears (Live @ Lyceum Theatre, London, 30.04.12) MP3
Rufus Wainwright performing "Bitter Tears" live at the Lyceum Theatre, London on April 30th, 2012. All rights reserved to the artist. No copyright infringement ...
Billy Bragg Cold and Bitter Tears MP3
From the Billy Bragg compilation album "Must I Paint You A Picture" released 2003. The limited edition 3rd CD included a few rarities including this, Bill and the ...
INXS - Bitter Tears, Live in Santiago Chile 2011 MP3
Concierto Arena Santiago Chile 18 Feb 2011.
INEXIT Bitter Tears live INXS cover by the Hungarian INXS Tribute Band MP3
Az INEXIT a magyar INXS tribute zenekar. Ez a felvétel Budapesten készült 2011. január 8.-án. INEXIT is the Hungarian tribute to INXS. This video is from our ...
Rufus Wainwright - Bitter Tears - live Orpheum, May 12, 2012 MP3
Rufus Wainwright performs "Bitter Tears" live at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, on May 2012.
INXS - Bitter Tears, Live London Underground '91 MP3
This is INXS playing Bitter Tears in 1991 in London (NOT WEMBLEY ARENA)
Jimi Hocking - Bitter Tears 1998 MP3
Jimi Hocking and his first incarnation of what would become the 'Blues Machine' band ...where it all started, at 'The Barrel Bar' in Croydon Australia. This gig was ...
INXS live - Bitter Tears MP3
Gracias por compartir este video con Chile amigos argentinos..:)
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT | Bitter Tears - Live @ The Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, July 18 2012 MP3
What do cool people do? Cool people dance!
Rufus Wainwright - Bitter Tears LIVE @ Lyceum, London MP3
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Sean Nelson - Bitter Tears (Live 6/30/2015) MP3
Sean Nelson plays Bitter Tears by INXS live at the Tractor Tavern on June 30th, 2015.

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Turnip Rock, Port Austin, Michigan
Turnip Rock and Kai standing on the "thumbnail" in Michigan's thumb area. Unfortunately, this area is privately owned so Kai and I skied to it from the harbor at Port Austin (about 2.25 miles away) on Lake Huron. We then skied out to the Port Austin Lighthouse which sits out in the middle of the bay on a shallow shoal (about 2.5 miles from the shores of Port Austin). We saw all sorts of interesting ice formations along the way and had a great time on a cold and blustery day. More photos here:
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get busy
Definition of get busy
: to start doing work We need to finish by 5 o'clock, so we'd better get busy.
Word by Word Definitions
: to gain possession of
: to receive as a return : earn
: to obtain by concession or entreaty
: something begotten:
: offspring
: the entire progeny of a male animal
: a document of release from obligation in Jewish law
: a bill of divorce
: a religious divorce by Jewish law
: engaged in action : occupied
: being in use
: full of activity : bustling
: to make engaged in action : to make busy (see 1busy 1a) : occupy
: bustle
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Urbanizing Maoism: Thoughts on a peasant revolt
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On Thursday 11 May 2017, 17.00 Dan V. Hirslund from the University of Copenhagen held a talk entitled: "Urbanizing Maoism: Thoughts on a peasant revolt in the age of neoliberalism" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund). The event was open to everyone and as usual we served fika! This talk engaged with the problematic … Continue reading →


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Top 20 temporary immigrants to the Edinburgh Fringe
Well, you can't keep them all out all of the time. Here are 20 of the better "international" acts coming over 'ere, taking our audiences … Graham Clark (7pm, Assembly Roxy) Here's a comic that really revs Edinburgh is Funny's engines. Clark is a striking figure and a smart, thoughtful stand-up. Comes with a heavy Pajama Men endorsement. Canadian, for what it's worth. Dayne Rathbone (7.45pm, Gilded Balloon Teviot) There's no getting away from the fact that Rathbone's a very strange comic. Unique and a decidedly creepy, the sort of comic who'll definitely have walk-outs. Good walk-outs. Bo Burnham (11.15pm, Pleasance Courtyard)(above) Probably the biggest name at the Fringe this year. Walks the walk, too, or at least he did last time he was here in 2010. Ronnie Chieng (7.50pm, Underbelly Cowgate) A combative Aussie comedian who's making his Fringe debut with some hype surrounding him after his joint Melbourne festival Best Newcomer win in 2012. Terry Clement (8.05pm, Underbelly Cowgate) A flighty Canadian comic that should appeal to fans of fellow dream-chasers such as Paul Foot and Tony Law. Al Lubel (10.30pm, Just the Tonic Caves) Want some Jewish New York stand-up? You got it. David Quirk (9.45pm, Pleasance Courtyard) One of Australia's stand-out stand-ups, Quirk is a class act, and this show won Comics' Choice at this year's Melbourne Comedy Festival 2013. Fanfiction Comedy (4.40pm Assembly George Square) Over on the more indie end of the spectrum, this is an award-winning show over from New Zealand that has regulars and guests reading comedy stories about their chosen subjects. Which makes it sound really dry. It actually looks really fun. David O'Doherty and Josie Long have appeared on it over in NZ, if that's anything to go by. Bjorn Gustafsson (midnight, Gilded Balloon Teviot) Swedish stand-up is represented by Gustafsson, who's known back home for doing the funnies during Eurovision. Nice gig! Tumi Morake (9pm Assembly Hall) Nicknamed "the first lady of South African comedy". The sort of brazen stand-up who doesn't give a f__k what people think of her. Read an interview with Tumi here. Tanyalee Davis (7.45pm Assembly Rooms) A charismatic, candid comic who stands at 3ft 6in tall, Davis is back in Edinburgh following a life-threatening 2012 that was the inspiration for her new show. Tig Notaro (6.45pm, Gilded Balloon) (above) Another of this year's biggest Fringe imports, Notaro is a smart, classy comic of the highest order. Katie Goodman (4.30pm Gilded Balloon) Musical comedy with a satirical edge. Had a bowlful of Minchin for breakfast. Matt Okine (6pm, Underbelly Bristo Square) Another from Australia's strong crop this year, Okine has a vivid imagination and bags of charm. Michael Che (10pm Assembly Rooms) Here's someone who has raced up the ladder in the States and is widely, confidently being tipped for the top. Red Bastard (4.40pm Assembly George Square) From New York's cabaret scene comes Red Bastard, aka Eric Davis, an outrageous, slightly nightmarish comedy act. Sort of a Tim Burton character wearing a big red condom. Alan Committie (9.20pm Assembly Roxy) An act you can imagine going down well in the weekend clubs over here, Committie is a slick and energetic South African stand-up performing at the Assembly Roxy. Canadians of Comedy (11.15pm Gilded Balloon) Add the names Tim Rabnet, Allyson Smith and Paul Myrehaug to your list of Canadian comics to see, they add up to what should be a quality hour of stand-up. Caroline Rhea (8.15pm Gilded Balloon) Another Canadian for you, one who's been a familiar face on US TV for a while now, most notably her own HBO show. Pretty straight-down-the-line, style-wise. Rhys Nicholson (10.45pm Gilded Balloon) Looks like Bowie in Thin White Duke era. Right-on opinions, wonderfully rendered.


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Im Chloe-Paige, 20 years old from a sea side town called brighton.
I've wanted to blog fashion for so long and since starting it up, its the best thing I've ever done! Im in love with styling outfits, seeing what goes with what and the small details of accessories that just make the outfit; so here is my blog to show you how chloe paige does it and i hope you all like it.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French manufacturing activity shrank only slightly in August as the sector comes close to shaking off an 18-month slump, a survey showed on Monday.
Data compiler Markit said its final purchasing managers' index was unchanged in August from a preliminary reading of 49.7, which also marked no change from July's figure.
The reading was just below the 50-point line dividing expansions in activity from contractions. It has not been at that level since February 2012.
New orders fell at their slowest pace since mid-June 2011, while managers' purchasing activity also fell at a slower rate, in a sign firms in the euro zone's second-biggest economy are seeing improved demand.
"Overall, the latest data suggest that the manufacturing sector is starting to hold its ground a little better having been under the cosh in recent times," Markit senior economist Jack Kennedy said.
France's 2 trillion euro (1.67 trillion pounds) economy posted faster-than-expected growth of 0.5 percent in the second quarter, ending a short, shallow recession.
Though recent data have painted an improving outlook, questions remain about whether economic momentum can produce any more than a gradual recovery.
The official INSEE statistics agency said on Thursday that industrial morale reached its strongest level in August since late 2011, although executives signalled in a survey that investment was likely to fall this year by 6 percent from 2012.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Financial Profiles Rolls Out Planning Software As A Service
Carlsbad-based Financial Profiles has rolled out a web-based, hosted version of its financial planning software. The firm said that it is now offering Profiles OnDemand, an online version of its Profiles+ Forecaster and Profiles+ Professional software, used by financial planners to allow financial planners to develop plans for their clients. Financial Profiles said that the new online version provides secure, backed-up access, and automatic software updates and is targeted at financial services representatives who do not want to purchase hardware or hire IT personnel.


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"He's so beautiful, and he's a wise manThe art of playing mutually exclusive tropes at the same time, by making the situation itself ambiguous so the viewers/readers can't know for sure what's going on. While this trope can come into play unintentionally, for example as a side effect of Faux Symbolism, it's normally intentionally played by the authors. This can be done to make the story more interesting in general, as a way of Getting Crap Past the Radar, or simply to appeal to several audiences at the same time—each of them likely to interpret the situation in whatever way they are most familiar with. A trope is being played. But what trope, that depends on a premise that we cannot know for sure: Either some vital piece of information is missing, or we are left with contradicting information and no definite verification about what is correct and what is not. Take for example the page quote above, quoted from a song about an unidentified character. This song could be one of several different tropes, depending on who he is. When played straight, the characters probably (but not necessarily) know what they are talking about, but they're not giving the audience all the information needed to know the situation for sure. (Again with the song, the singer's character surely know who he's talking about, but he sticks to calling him "he" plus various honorifics, never telling the audience what kind of character he's really talking about.) When invoked or debated, the characters themselves ponder the nature of the situation they are in. This only applies to cases where they don't know that the trope is—say for example that they are having a strong emotional reaction and are pondering whether it's The Power of Love or The Power of Friendship. In a detective story, the detectives might be unsure or disagreeing - not merely about whether or not a certain suspect is guilty or not as a simple "who did this" level, but about the the basic nature of the situation they are investigating. Note that examples only count if the uncertainty is left unresolved: Brief uncertainties stop being this trope when they get a definite answer. When adding examples, list the alternatives—both what the unknown factor is, and what tropes the different alternatives result in. Only add examples where the alternatives are reasonable. If needed, make an argument for why it's a viable interpretation. Also, don't add situations that are only temporarily ambiguous: If the situation is clarified after a little while then it is not an example. Please note that pretty much ANY situation in fiction can theoretically be Sarcasm Mode or Unreliable Narrator. So only add such examples if you have a good argument for why the option is relevant. Supertrope to Ambiguously Gay, Ambiguously Evil, Ambiguously Human, and Ambiguously Jewish. If the ambiguity concerns whether a character lived or died, you're probably looking at Uncertain Doom or one of its subtropes. Compare Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane and Alternate Character Interpretation for other kinds of uncertainty. Contrast Epileptic Trees, which are conclusions that viewers draw when they don't limit themselves to information objectively present within the work. Also see Cryptic Conversation, Implied Trope, Through the Eyes of Madness. Warning: Here be spoilers. Unmarked spoilers, since they are often vital parts of the analysis.
He brings the change—angel in human shape
He's the solitary angel
And he's not from heaven sent
He tries to bring the peace to the world
He brings salvation and he brings love."
He brings the change—angel in human shape
He's the solitary angel
And he's not from heaven sent
He tries to bring the peace to the world
He brings salvation and he brings love."
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Anime & Manga
- Neon Genesis Evangelion has quite a bit of this, partly resulting from that Rule of Symbolism mentioned in the trope description. The most notable example would be the final scene of End of Evangelion, where the true meaning of Asuka's words remains up to viewer interpretation.
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- At the end of the first season (which in chronological order would be the sixth episode), it is left very vague as to whether Haruhi recreated the world or not. Kyon and Koizumi don't know either. There is really no way to know for sure, only that the events surrounding the moment when it would have occurred, if it did, really did happen.
- Multiple explanations for various happenings are also presented. For example, Koizumi claims that Haruhi created the espers and either attracted time travelers and aliens or created them, while Mikuru says that Koizumi is lying and that the residents of the future have their own goals. Nagato refuses to say what the IDTE thinks because neither she nor the previous two have the slightest bit of proof that they can show to Kyon and any of the three could easily lie to him. And, of course, any of the three could just be wrong.
- Another big ambiguity that is touched on occasionally but never truly addressed is whether Haruhi is a god or not. It's one of the early theories that Koizumi presented, and a large number of fans assume it to be the case, but even Koizumi himself doesn't know if it's true or not. He says it's just the worst case scenario that his Organization is acting on. Or at least that he claims it is acting on.
- In the "I Am an Alien" arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Josuke and Okuyasu come across a strange young man named Mikitaka Hazekura claiming to be an alien, but could possibly just be a Stand-using prankster who doesn't know how to end a joke. It is never made clear which is the truth, and Araki has never offered an answer.
- In favor of him being an alien: He has pointy, almost elf-like ears and in the manga he has long abnormally-silver hair. The Stand-granting Arrow grazed his neck, causing him to pass out, and when Josuke and Okuyasu found him he was asleep in the middle of a crop circle. Despite his shape-shifting powers he is unable to see Stands, and whenever he hears sirens he breaks out into hives and starts sweating and screaming in agony. In addition, he talks about and uses his powers as if he's had them his entire life as opposed to just receiving them the previous day. He also claims that he can't use his powers to mimic human appearances because they all look the same to him.
- In favor of him being a human: The Arrow only grazed him as opposed to passing through him like it did with the others, which led to some believing that was the reason for his inability to see the Stands of others. In addition, characters with stranger appearances than his have been established to be human (such as Shigechi, who lacks hair and instead has small spikes covering his scalp). Josuke met his mother who asked him if Mikitaka was tricking people into thinking he was an alien again, but Mikitaka then claimed that he had brainwashed her into thinking he was her son.
- Himouto! Umaru-chan Chapter 89 ends with what seems like Ebina about to confess her love to Taihei. Chapter 90 begins next morning with Taihei and Umaru and no real hint of what happened as a result other than Taihei preparing New Year's money for Ebina when in previous years he only did so for Umaru. Chapter 92 mentions that he listened to it seriously, but doesn't elaborate any further. It isn't until chapter 98 where readers learn what actually happened: She didn't confess.
- The situation between just what Shizuru did with Natsuki while the latter was recovering under her care is never fully resolved in Mai-HiME. Besides Shizuru herself (who never brings it up) we only see Natsuki's imagining a scene of them silhouetted through a rice-paper screen door where Shizuru disrobes and then lies down, and the scene is flipped from what it was in reality, adding to the ambiguity about whether Natsuki is remembering it or imagining it based on what she hears Haruka and Yukino saying. All we know for certain is that Shizuru did kiss the sleeping Natsuki, but beyond that there are several possibilities. Whether or not Shizuru was wearing any underwear beneath her kimono, whether or not she lay down on the same futon or one adjacent, and whether it even really happened are left ambiguous, so it's impossible to see what happens next and means that Yukino and Haruka's assumptions might not be accurate.
- One of the continuing points of crisis between Ian and Jeremy in A Cruel God Reigns is whether or not the car crash that killed their father and mother (step parents respectively) was caused by an error in Greg's driving, a faulty car attribute, or Jeremy's tampering. Because it is never solved and could have been any of the three reasons, heavy strain is placed on Ian's willingness to try to forgive his stepbrother and later on his budding romantic feelings for him. Even more strain is placed on Jeremy because he can't be sure whether or not he accidentally killed his mother, and therefore he can't put the guilt behind him or forget about what Greg did to him to make him sabotage the car in the first place.
- In the ending of InuYasha, it's left uncertain whether or not the gateway between the present day and the Feudal Era in the Bone Eater's Well is sealed up for good after Kagome returns there permanently, or if Kagome really is Trapped in the Past for good this time. Either way, she's chosen to stay in the past.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions ends with Seto successfully breaching through to the afterlife. He has Aigami's Quantum Cube, but the movie leaves it up in the air as to whether going to the afterlife made him dead as well, and whether or not he'll win against Atem when he finally duels him. Complicating matters further is that he leaves KaibaCorp in Mokuba's hands, suggesting he may not return right away, if at all.
- Cowboy Bebop ends with Spike, grievously wounded, collapsing in front of what remains of Vicious's gang. The creator said that whether he lives or dies is entirely up to the viewer.
- Sonic X: While Dr. Eggman hails from Sonic's dimension in this continuity, his grandfather, Professor Gerald, and his cousin Maria still hail from Earth. This leads Eggman to theorize that he was initially born on Earth and somehow ended up on Sonic's world, but it's unclear whether or not this is the case.
- The Stinger of the second Arpeggio of Blue Steel movie. After laying flowers at his parents' grave, Gunzou turns around to face the camera and welcomes someone back. Who exactly he is talking to is never shown, though a Not Quite Dead Iona seems likely.
- In 5 Centimeters per Second, Takaki sees a woman in his dreams that looks like Akari, and he later sees her while awake in the final part. She never speaks, however, which makes it unclear whether she's actually Akari, a lookalike he's projecting her likeness onto out of his longing for her or, given that they cross paths at a place that was significant to their childhoods that he just coincidentally happened to be at, an outright hallucination. The film ends without declaring any way.
- Watchmen has an open-ended ending where Rorschach's journal is seen lying in a pile of papers and reports in the New Frontiersman, and a hand is seen reaching for the pile. The significance of the journal is that Rorschach uses it to expose Ozymandias for the murders of The Comedian and Moloch, which could potentially lead to an investigation that would expose him. However, the journal only exposes the murders of The Comedian and Moloch, and does not actually expose the squid monster ending, as Rorschach was not aware of the squid monster when he submitted the journal. And an underground newspaper may find it hard to expose a man as rich and powerful as Ozymandias.
- Death of the Family: Does Joker really know the Batfamily's identities or is he just bluffing? So far, convincing arguments can be made for both possibilities.
- By the end, it's heavily implied that he does know who they are, but doesn't even care. He is simply incapable of seeing them underneath their masks, especially Batman.
Fan Works
- In The Witch of the Everfree, while Sunset is sick and possibly still experiencing the after-effects of the Vision Quest she'd just had, she has what she thinks is a hallucination of Celestia comforting her. However, as she herself observes afterwards, Celestia taught her all the magical scans she knew, and had proven capable of getting around them before, such that it could easily have been the real Celestia and Sunset wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
- Inception ends with an Esoteric Happy Ending where Cobb is so happy to see his children again that he forgets to check if his wife's top stops spinning or not—which is his way of seeing the difference between reality and dreamworlds! Will it stop spinning shortly after the scene? If so, the ending is Earn Your Happy Ending, with an implied Happily Ever After. Or will it not? If so, it's kinda a Lotus-Eater Machine.
- Also invoked (earlier in the film) by Mal and Cobb, who keep taking opposing standpoints on This Is Reality versus All Just a Dream.
- Also invoked by one of the sedative makers who treats a group of people who are so dependent on the sedatives that it's the only way they can dream anymore. Cobb notes that they come to him to dream; he counters "No, they come to wake up".
- Possibly not so ambiguous if one considers his totem was his wedding ring, not the top. It's never stated his totem is the top, only that it will spin forever in a dream. However, he wears his wedding ring in dreams but doesn't in reality. He isn't wearing it at the end, which would make the ending real.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with the fate of Philip. Syrena pulls him into the water, but we never find out what happened to him, though it was hinted earlier in the film that the kiss of a mermaid grants you immunity to drowning.
- Source Code ends with Colter going back into the titular program and completely averts the destruction of the train using everything he had learned from his previous attempts. Then we see Goodwyn receiving a text message he had sent from within the program, and acting surprised when she hears that the bombing had been prevented, so did Colter actually change the past, or is he now in an alternate timeline within the program?
- Angels with Dirty Faces ends with a confident gangster whimpering and begging to live as he dies in the electric chair, even though he had arrogantly ignored the prospect of his death up until that moment. A friend of his had told him to stop the proud and confident act so that the kids who knew him would stop viewing him as a role model. Did he take the advice and fake the whole thing to discourage the kids who looked up to the gangster lifestyle, or did he really just lose it?
- In The Matrix, Neo has superpowers because he is in a computer simulation. In the sequel The Matrix Reloaded, he is revealed to have superpowers in the real world as well. Does this make him a Super Hero kind of Messianic Archetype? Or does it simply mean that the "reality" is actually a computer-generated Dream Within a Dream? Or he has wi-fi?
- The 2008 movie Doubt invokes this. You're left never really knowing if the priest is actually guilty of the allegations.
- In fact, the writer/director has only ever revealed the answer to this to the actors who played the priest, showing that a) there was a very definite answer intended and b) we're not supposed to know for sure... but Father Flynn sure does.
- In La Moustache Marc shaves off his moustache and possibly enters a world where he never had one and slowly other things start changing as well (e.g. Angès having not been married a first time). It's completely ambiguous as to what the real situation is: is Marc going insane? Does Angès have some form of mental disorder and is planning this around Marc? Are the events in the film symbolic or literal? For the ending scenes: Is Marc imagining/dreaming of them? Are they idealised versions of other events? If they really happened, is he back in the "original" world or is Angès (once again) planning this around him?
- Changeling: By the end, Walter is not returned to Christine... but in the epilogue, one of Northcott's escaped victims has been found. He says that both he and Walter escaped from their prison, but were separated in the dark. Maybe Walter was recaptured by Northcott, maybe he got away.
- In Attenberg, the relationship between Marina and Bella... is it Friendly War, With Friends Like These... or even Belligerent Sexual Tension? Maybe all three at once!
- The movie Cloverfield is an interesting example of this. The film acts as a deconstruction of giant monster movies, showing what it would be like to be a civilian in a giant monster attack. As such the monster's origin is left almost completely ambiguous because the characters themselves have no idea where it came from. The only thing that comes close to giving an idea about where the monster comes from is the ending which shows a large object falling from the sky into the ocean far off in the background. The fans and theorists are torn as to whether the object is the monster falling from space (meaning the creature would be an alien) or a piece of space junk, like a satellite, falling into the ocean and waking up the monster (which means the creature is an at least partially natural creature). Both explanations just raise more questions.
- John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) is almost literally one situation after another full of plot threads that are never fully resolved and left to the viewer's interpretation. Who got to the blood? What happened to Fuchs and Nauls, when were Palmer, Norris, and Blair infected? Are Mac and Childs infected or are they still human? To this day fans still debate on these questions and more.
- K-PAX is all about this: prot may either be an actual alien visitor, or a man suffering from delusions as a result of his wife's murder.
- In C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a mockumentary about an America in which the south won the The American Civil War, one of the subplots concerns a politician who is rumored to have a slave as an ancestor, an accusation that could ruin him. Eventually the man commits suicide, and after his death the DNA tests are revealed to have "come back negative", without elaboration.
- The whole point of Eve's Bayou. Did Cisely kiss her dad or did he abuse her? Conflicting accounts of the incident are given by the perpetrators and the question is never really answered in the film itself. In the director's cut, there is one person other than Cisely and Louis who knows what happened but he is unable to speak.
- The ending of American Psycho. Was Patrick Bateman a serial killer whose able to get away with the murders, because of how perfectly he's able to blend into white collar corporate society. Or just a mentally disturbed person who fantasies about being a serial killer because of how boring he thinks his life is. The made for DVD Sequel, starring Mila Kunis, mentions Patrick Bateman several times as a genuine serial killer. Though many don't consider the film canon.
- A Place in the Sun: It's definitely true that George took Alice out on the lake in order to murder herhe admits it. And it's definitely true that he did not hit her on the head or throw her in the waterAlice fell out of the boat accidentally. But the film cuts away, and doesn't show how hard George tried to save Alice, or if he did at all.
- No Good Deed (2014): The reveal puts Colin's actions in a new light. Was he there to seduce Terri or was he there to kill Jeffrey and Terri just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time?
- LaBeouf's fate in True Grit. He's hit on the head with a rock and slurs his words before Rooster leaves with Mattie on the only horse to treat her snake bite. Mattie later recollects she was never able to locate him. The John Wayne film removes the ambiguity by having him be explicitly killed by falling off a horse.
- Everything that happens to Baby Doll after she enters the asylum in Sucker Punch. The asylum is portrayed as a bordello, with the girls pimped out and made to dance, and they learn to retreat into a more fantastical reality where them gunning down mechanical soldiers and going on military missions represents them stealing items needed to escape. The beginning and end show that neither of those situations is reality, though. The ending shows several of the events as having definitely happened for example, the knife was definitely stolen, Blue was definitely stabbed, and Baby Doll definitely helped Sweet Pea escape, but just how they happened is left unclear. Muddying things further is Blue, who is presented as a tyrannical authority figure in two of the realities but in reality, he comes across as delusional and unbalanced, with one of the doctors easily having him arrested and taken away.
- In Dragon Bones, Garranon is the king's "favourite", if you know what I mean, and it is left ambiguous whether he is actually gay/bi or just does it for the political power. It is clear that he despises the king, but he does enjoy the sex to some extent, though he does it only to protect his family. If he is bisexual (he seems to love his wife), that would make him the heroic counterpart of the Depraved Homosexual king, if not, there would be Unfortunate Implications
- Is the main relationship in the novel The Story of O simply Casual Kink and Property of Love, or is it Destructive Romance/Romanticized Abuse? The novel exists in two versions. These versions have very different endings, casting the rest of the story in very different light. In the most popular version (which most adaptations are built on), the first option might be the most likely. In the alternative version, the second option is far more likely. That version of the novel ends with the protagonist and her boyfriend agreeing that she should commit suicide... and she does.
- The Lady or the Tiger, by Frank R. Stockton is an example of Morton's Fork where the final decision and its result is never revealed. The tendency of people to bug the author to tell them which was the real ending prompted its sequel The Discourager of Hesitancy in which a group of characters who ask are told that they shall find out the answer once they can answer an equally ambiguously ended story.
- From a Buick 8 has multiple examples because the story is based around the idea that you'll never have all the answers. Is the Buick alive? Intelligent? Did it kill Curtis and more.
- In A Passage to India what really happens to Adela is never explained, the reader is left to draw their own conclusion. We'll never know what the author intended becuase Forster refused to say during his life.
- Leviathan has one of these concerning the Goliath. Is it a fake, a delusion, or does it call down Nickel-Iron asteroids through magnetic force? Since it's totally destroyed, there is no clear answer.
- Safehold has more than one such a case:
- The discrepancy between Book!Schueler and his Key version goes unexplained, despite the two having very different personalities and approaches to one problem.
- It's unknown what happened to Ark's last ship, Hamilcar.
- Is Clyntahn a raving lunatic Believing His Own Lies, or is he cynically playing the part? Most fans seem convinced of the former, although characters in-story wonder about it.
- The War Against The Fallen. Who fought in it? What were their agendas? Which mindset actually won? Who were the "demons"? Was it a civil war between the Langhornites, or a war between them and the "fallen"?
- In the short story Mariam, an elderly woman named Mariam happens to meet a Creepy Child who is also named Mariam. What, exactly, the younger Mariam is is never explained. She is able to coerce the older Mariam into giving over a prized brooch and adopting her, but never actually does anything threatening or forceful to get those things. When the older Mariam goes to get her neighbors to help her get the kid out of her apartment, they can't find her. And the last line ("Hello," said Mariam) doesn't specify if it's the elderly Mariam speaking, or if the younger Mariam has returned.
- Horatio Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower is the only book of the Hornblower series written from the POV of a character other than Hornblower (in this case, newly-assigned Lieutenant Bush). The Captain falls down a hatchway and is put in a coma. Through the course of the book, it's unclear if he fell on accident or if he was pushed by either a much-abused midshipman or Hornblower himself. Things are not made more clear by Hornblower appointing himself head of the investigation in the confusion caused by the power vacuum, nor by his insistence that they press on a planned attack on a Spanish fort, keeping everyone too occupied to look into things too closely. By the end of the book, the Captain is killed in a Spanish attack on the ship, the authorities refuse to probe into the matter for the sake of Sawyer's reputation, and the Midshipman is mentioned in the denouement as being lost in a storm a few months later during the Peace of Amiens, meaning only Hornblower may know the truth, and is keeping it to himself.
- Pavlovs Dogs has a major character killed on screen, but is seemingly resurrected. The characters are caught between the belief it's an imposter, the actual person, and even mental instability setting in.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Are the brats meeting their comeuppances merely cases of Contrived Coincidence (each winds up in a room with something that appeals to them but turns out to be dangerous), or are they planned in advance by Mr. Willy Wonka? And if so, for what purpose? Although the tour does turns out to be a Secret Test of the kids' virtue or lack thereof, there is no hint given in the novel that Mr. Wonka is intentionally leading these kids into potential/inevitable trouble, and no one remarks upon how odd it is that the Oompa-Loompas' Crowd Songs about them are so specific and elaborate. Given that Mr. Wonka is also marked by his Callousness Towards Emergency and having No Sympathy for the brats, and for being a complete eccentric, he has since become an Interpretative Character with tons of Alternative Character Interpretations and some adaptations of the novel have since played around with this ambiguity but never pinned it down. (In the 2013 musical, Mr. Wonka is Ambiguously Evil and an Anti-Hero at best, with director Sam Mendes admitting that the character could be a Cool Uncle, he could be Satan...)
- Radiance has The Summation scene, in which Anchises calls together characters who were still alive and well (Percy and Erasmo), characters who were dead (Horace, Anchises's parents, etc.), Severin herself (with her fate completely unknown at the time), and several animated cartoon characters and an in-universe fictional one. The deceased characters were able to explain the unclear circumstances behind their demise and one of the cartoon characters is able to give a lot of answers related to callowwhales (largely mysterious beings which, unbeknownst to the film crew, was what they'd been standing on before dying and disappearing). The entire scene is presented as the resolution to Percy's movie, intended to give a fictional explanation for Severin's disappearance and thus provide Percy with some closure. The transcript of the film reel in the last chapter, however, implies that everything was correct after all... despite Percy having no way of knowing that.
- In-universe example in Shaman Blues, as Witkacy spends some time in the first half of the novel wondering whether Katia is his girlfriend, his more-than-girlfriend, his friend or his ex, as she's sending him mixed signals and has recently left the country. Finally resolved halfway through, when it turns out they're Amicable Exes.
- Fatherland ends with March trapped in a standoff at the former site of Auschwitz, surrounded by Gestapo agents. As he draws his weapon, he imagines Charlie successfully managing to deliver the evidence to the US, though even he admits it's an unlikely possibility.
- In The Witchlands, it's made very unclear just what the deal with prince Leopold and his co-conspirators are. Do they actually have Safi's best intrests in mind? What is their plan, actually? Is it still going, or did the ending of Truthwitch send it completely off the rails?
- In the Culture novel Surface Detail, the story of a resurrected woman out for revenge against her murderer and a proxy war over the existence of virtual-reality hells converge with the revelation that one of the murderer's business interests is providing processing power to run the hells. The question is, was the woman's Roaring Rampage of Revenge a Contrived Coincidence or was she being used as a catspaw in a Batman Gambit by the officially-neutral Culture?
- In The Machineries of Empire, just what is going on with Jedao, as well as Kel Command's plans regarding him and Kel Cheris, are left unclear until the first book's end.
- A Simple Survey has a number of short stories that end before giving a clear resolution. For example, one story is about how humans have developed technology that allows them to see into hell, which appears as a pleasant beach resort. A demon tells the narrator that, although they were instructed by God to torment sinners, the inherent nature of demons is to rebel against divine authority, so hell is in fact a nice place. However, an angel then interrupts and claims that this is a lie, to trick humans into wanting to enter hell voluntarily.
Live Action TV
- The sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has an episode called "Normal Again", which follows the Cuckoo Nest trope: Buffy is injected with a poison that makes her hallucinate... Or is it the other way around? According to a psychiatrist, who may or may not be a real person, she is in fact getting better: She has been sick all along, and now she's finally waking up from years of catatonic schizophrenia. So, the whole series is either This Is Reality or a mad All Just a Dream with a dash of The Schizophrenia Conspiracy. In the end, Buffy chooses her life in Sunnydale over her life in the mental institution, but the ending leaves it ambiguous whether or not the world she settled for is the real one.
- Game of Thrones:
- Sandor Clegane is left crippled and grievously wounded many miles from help, but his death is not confirmed. The ambiguity is increased by the actor's absence from a round-table interview featuring those whose characters had been killed in Season 4. Then in Season 6, it turns out that the Hound survived from his wounds after being healed by a septon.
- Ser Alliser Thorne takes a serious wound and is dragged away in "The Watchers on the Wall", leaving it unclear whether he survives until the Season 5 premiere, "The Wars to Come".
- The abductor at the end of "High Sparrow" doesn't specify which queen he's taking his captive to, which is a matter of life and death.
- "Sons of the Harpy" ends with two characters collapsing from their wounds, but not necessarily dead. Unfortunately, Trailers Always Spoil.
- Sansa's "marriage" to Ramsay creates a giant one. The use of surnames and the ability of noblewomen to retain their maiden name after marriage was established within the show in Seasons 1-3 and by discussions with writers, but there's no agreement in-universe on what Sansa's surname currently is. Jaime considers her as Sansa Lannister in Season 4 while, in Season 6, a Bolton soldier trying to capture her calls her Lady Bolton. Later, Lyanna Mormont hangs a Lampshade by noting whether she is a Lannister or Bolton, while Sansa calls herself Sansa Stark, despite being legally married. In keeping with the series' themes, each person largely uses whatever name most suits their own position. The legitimacy of her second marriage is a second issue, since Sansa was married to Tyrion Lannister before a large crowd and officiated by the High Septon, while the second marriage is conducted before an Old Gods ceremony. In the books, Sansa's marriage to Tyrion is voidable but not void and requires a formal annulment; Littlefinger claims in the show that no annulment is necessary. Some fans believe otherwise since this is Littlefinger, but nothing else has been said on the subject. The second marriage becomes something of a moot point after Ramsay Bolton becomes dog food.
- Law & Order: SVU loves to leave stuff unresolved for the audience to ponder. Usually, it's on the simple level whether the guy is guilty or not (such as in the episode "Doubt"), but sometimes they take it to a much deeper level. The detectives just keep spawning new theories, and none of them either gets verified. For example, the episode "Slaves" features a husband, his wife, and their nanny/girlfriend/Sex Slave Elena. They keep the relationship hidden...
- Either because Elena is in the country illegally, and also because her conservative aunt and other relatives would not approve of her living in a polyamorous relationship,
- Or because they have kidnapped Elena and held her against her will until Stockholm Syndrome set in.
- So, it's pretty much Safe, Sane, and Consensual, polyamory and Casual Kink versus monster and A Match Made in Stockholm. The husband claims the first option, but that might just be From a Certain Point of View or even Blatant Lies. As for Elena, she never gets a voice in the matter. The kidnapping theory is implied to be the correct one, but if it's actually verified then that happens after the episode is over.
- The only outright verification given for the monster viewpoint comes from the wife, and only AFTER she has been...
- A. proven guilty of murdering Elena's aunt without her husband's knowledge or consent.
- B. force-fed "oh, go ahead and blame it on your husband anyway" by the detectives as a "Get out of Jail Free" Card.
- Much of Life On Mars, British version, was highly unclear as to what was reality.
- Person of Interest episode 4, "Cura Te Ipsum": We never find out if Reese kills the serial rapist or lets him go. Later heavily hinted (if not outright stated) that he just has him locked up in a Mexican Prison for the rest of his life with a few other individuals he has gotten rid of.
- Lost: True to its gnostic roots, it eschews answers about the nature of the universe in favor of personal revelation according to the perspectives of the characters (and the viewers). A close-up of eyes is a recurring visual motif, characters making a decision based on incomplete or outright fraudulent information pops up repeatedly, and questions like "Is the Light spiritual or scientific in nature?" "Is Jacob a god, a superpowerful conman, or a scientist who sets an experiment in motion and watches the results?" or "Do the Numbers really mean anything, or is Hurley mistaking coincidence for fate?" are never clarified, to the dismay of some fans.
- In the second installment of Horatio Hornblower miniseries (parts "Mutiny" and "Retribution"), it's never fully resolved what happened when the Captain Sawyer fell in the hatchway. It's possible Lieutenant Hornblower, Lieutenant Kennedy, or Midshipman Wellard pushed him, or that the disoriented and paranoid Captain simply tripped and fell on his own. The scene is shot so as to be intentionally vague, and by the end of the miniseries, Kennedy, Wellard, and Sawyer are all dead. For his part, Hornblower doesn't talk about it. The book that these films were based on, Lieutenant Hornblower, was written from Lieutenant Bush's point of view and was similarly unclear.
- JAG: In "Boot", someone attacks Austin in the gas chamber, but it's impossible to see who. It's possible that Private Whitley was trying to kill her because she was on her trail, or that Private Johnson was trying to rough her up out of spite.
- In Arrow first season episode "Dodger," flashbacks to the island show the younger Oliver finding someone tied up and beaten in a cave. He claimed to have been stranded on the island as the result of a school trip and near-killed by Fyers and his men, and begged Ollie to help him. After much hesitation, Ollie decides the situation could be a trap by Fyers and abandons the young man to his fate, leaving it completely ambiguous as to whether he was lying or whether Oliver had condemned an innocent person to a horrible death. a quick shot in the season finale reveals that he was working for Fyers after all.
- On The Musketeers, Athos' ex-wife Milady de Winter (also an assassin and con-artist) is sentenced to death by hanging for murdering Athos' brother Thomas, but manages to escape. According to her, Thomas was attempting to rape her, so she killed him in self defense. Due to her untrustworthy nature, however, Athos and the other characters don't believe her, and Athos thinks she was simply trying to scam him. However, when Athos asks her if this is true, she seems to telling the truth about what happened.
- The Handmaid's Tale: While it's not probable that Ofglen/Ofsteven/Emily would survive the ensuing punishment for her joyride, the director intentionally left it ambiguous before Offred's eyes to leave it open-ended while still giving Emily a final triumph over Gilead.
- Blutengel's song Solitary Angel (see page quote) is about a saviour who is "not from heaven sent" - which means it could be a secular force or a spiritual force other than the God of Christianity. This character could be a powerful human, since "angel" is a common metaphor for generic benevolence. The character could also be a powerful vampire, since most of the songs from the same band are about vampires and they routinely use "angel" as a euphemism for "vampire" or "lover". And of course, it could also be referring to an angel in the literal religious sense - either one that simply works on it's own accord, or a fallen one. So, what trope or tropes is this?
- If he's a human, then it's Big Good with a dash of For Happiness and Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions.
- If he's a vampire, then it's a Dark Is Not Evil kind of Crystal Dragon Jesus.
- If he's the devil or the Anti Christ, then it's plain and simply Satan Is Good.
- Invoked in Miley Cyrus' song Who Owns My Heart: the protagonist is having a strong emotional reaction. But she doesn't know if it's caused by The Power of Love or by Crowning Music of Awesome.
- Is Lola glad the protagonist of the song is a man, or, well...
- Vampire Weekend's song "Diplomat's Son" describes a one-night stand with the titular man. In the final verse, seemingly months or years after the affair, the singer sees a car, "all black with diplomatic plates." The song ends there, without describing what happens next — or even if the car was real or just the singer's imagination.
- In Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest, after a training exercise, in which Koujirou is seriously injured, Anna is told to fix her eyes. It is unclear whether this means her eyes were visibly damaged or if she was crying for Koujirou. Or both. In any case, she does indeed repair her eyes.
- Dino Attack RPG: When Trigger was killed, Atton Rand took the opportunity to write a parody of a Deus ex Machina from the RPG's Spiritual Predecessor, when it turned out the mysterious voice that called to people upon death was a somewhat perverted man with blue hair and no pants who runs a hotel occupied by dead people. However, due to PeabodySam's reluctance to explore themes of the afterlife, the nature of this character was left open to interpretation. Is he some sort of deity? King of All Cosmos? Some form of strange equivalent to the Grim Reaper or other personification of death? A looney who just happens to run a hotel in a separate dimension? A figment of Trigger's imagination?
- PeabodySam has already gone on the record to say that he will not confirm the scene as canon. Since the character never appears anywhere else his status in canon (if any) is really very much dependent on the player.
Tabletop Games
- Exploited by Games Workshop to keep all fans of Warhammer 40,000 happy. There is a fair amount of material suggesting that the Tau are oppressive, frequently using concentration camps and mind control to keep their citizens in line, and resorting to orbital bombardment if the very first round of negotiations fail. Thing is, this all comes from the Imperium - thus, fans who think the Tau aren't grimdark enough can take this as truth, while those who like the fact that they're an optimistic and friendly faction can dismiss it as Imperial propaganda.
- Changeling: The Lost makes a point of never revealing what the True Fae are, as their very nature is antithetical to reality. They are incredibly powerful Reality Warpers who kidnap mortal beings... and that's about it. Changelings eventually turn into Fae, but it's never explained who (or what) created the first changeling.
- Johnny Byron, the main character of Jerusalem, is a former daredevil and fantastic Munchausen who claims to have met the ninety-foot giant who built stonehenge. In the second act, Byron shows the local teens a drum that he claims was the giant's earring, saying that the giant told him to bang on it if ever he needed the help of the giants. In the final moments of the play, when Byron stands alone, bloodied and beaten, his land in the woods about to be invaded by a bulldozer and a dozen local constables, he beats the drum and calls upon the mythological figures of England. At this point, the text of the play says "Blackout", but the original production from the Royal Court Theatre that has since moved to Broadway ends with the rumble of enormous footsteps in the distance.
Video Games
- Dark Souls has plenty of this. According to the director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, he based it and Demon's Souls on his experiences reading badly translated Western fantasy and piecing together ideas about what it could mean. Specific examples include the parenthood of Priscilla (who is a dragon crossbreed), the nature of the undead, and the ultimate effect of the final choice made by the player.
- In Shadow of the Colossus, the only clear part of the plot is that Wander is trying to revive Mono by unsealing Dormin, and Lord Emon wants to stop this. This leaves us with a whole boatload of varying interpretations - for a small sample, is Wander a Villain Protagonist or a Woobie? Is Dormin displaying Dark Is Evil or Dark Is Not Evil? Is Emon a Hero Antagonist or a Knight Templar? Indeed, director Fumito Ueda is on the record as wanting each player to form their own story, and boy has the fandom taken him up on that.
- Used to skirt around the issues of violence, death and sexuality in Rule of Rose, where most characters are young children. Especially whether Mr. Hoffman sexually abused Clara and Diana. An infamous scenario features Hoffman summoning sad, reluctant Clara to his room, and you can witness through a keyhole how he...makes her scrub the floor, though in a very innuendo-laden position.
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories actually builds the entire crux of the plot around this, with the nature, outcome and even symbolism of the plot dependent on both the player's actions and interpretations.
- Brian Johnson's death in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Even though is one of the many driving forces of the plot, you're not really told if his death was caused by CJ's negligence or Brian's recklessness.
- Dead or Alive: The two most recent games in the series, Dimensions and DOA5, leave it up to the air as to whether or not Kasumi will ever be able to return to the Mugen Tenshin village.
- Modern Warfare: Both the villains, Khalid al-Asad and Imran Zakhaev, blame the west for their two countries' problems. While their actions are morally reprehensible, whether they're power-mad dictators America is trying to save the world from or Knight Templars doing what they genuinely think they have to do to stop American imperialism is open to interpretation. Very much Truth in Television. The ambiguity even extends to the nuclear detonation — it's never confirmed in the first game who set it off: Zakhaev, al-Asad, a suicidal Mook, the NEST team trying to diffuse it....
- Much to the fandom's chagrin, Mass Effect 3 ended with this trope. Beyond the presence of a Gainax Ending, there is the apparent explosion of the mass relays in every ending except Control, which would doom the entire galaxy, given that an exploding mass relay has shown to release energy on the scale of supernova, in addition to the enormous amount of Fridge Horror in the endings (see Inferred Holocaust). In fact, even in the control ending, the Catalyst's dialogue seems to imply that controlling the reapers will eventually lead to And Then John Was a Zombie, causing the reapers to return to destroy the galaxy and renew the cycle. Apparently, this was the desired effect of the endings, as the lead writer Mac Walters (allegedly) wrote, in ALL CAPS on a piece of note paper regarding the endings "LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE." Clarified a bit in the DLC endings, which are far less ambiguous (and the exploding relays were removed entirely).
- Dragon Age: Inquisition: The ending scene between Flemeth and Fen'Harel. Did Flemeth steal his body, or did Fen'Harel absorb her soul? Which one of them is in control of the combined being?
- Fans of The Slender Man Mythos can easily figure out what vaguely happened in the game it inspired, Slender, but the details are unknown, and if you aren't familiar with the mythos, you really have no idea.
- In Super Dangan Ronpa 2, it's never confirmed whether Gundam Tanaka killed Nekomaru Nidai using his hamsters to hit his "Good Night" button or if he simply fought him on even terms. The killer insists that it was the latter method, but the former is simpler and slightly more believable. Both are plausible, however.
- Additionally, it's never made explicitly clear in-game who killed Satou/E-ko during their time at Hope's Peak Academy prior to their arriving on the island - it could've been Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu or Peko Pekoyama (acting under orders from Kuzuryuu). Official supplementary materials, however, confirm that it was Kuzuryuu.
- The ending of Tales of the Abyss, namely, whether the revived Fon Fabre is Luke, Asch, or a personality mix of the two.
- Similarly, Judas's eventual fate in Tales of Destiny 2. He was supposed to be erased from time, but his mask still exists, and Kyle seems to have memories of him in the end.
- The ending to Dead Island: is Jin really that dumb or had she snapped and was attempting Suicide by Cop? Cut content including her diary where she thinks the outbreak is god's punishment and everyone can burn suggests the latter.
- In Skyrim, you meet a couple of Alik'r warriors who are hunting a Redguard woman in Whiterun. The woman, Saadia, insists that her real name is Iman and that they're hunting her for speaking out against the Thalmor. The head of the Redguard warriors, Kematu, says that her real name is Iman... and that she's really wanted for selling out a city to the Aldmeri Dominion. It's up to the player to decide who's telling the truth, but neither side is completely straightforward.
- In Saadia's favor: The Alik'r hang out in a cave with bandits, and did something to piss off the Whiterun guards (and land one of their numbers in jail). They, and Kematu in particular, only tell you the truth once you've killed a bunch of bandits (i.e., proven you could be a danger)—if you ask them why they're hunting Saadia before this, they brush you off with 'You don't need to know that'.
- In Kematu's favor: Saadia's first action when you confront her is to pull you aside into a quiet corner and then draw a dagger on you. Her story doesn't mesh with the lore given about Hammerfell, who opposed the Aldmeri Dominion and eventually threw them out. And, notably, when you hand Saadia over to Kematu he paralyzes her instead of killing her outright—for all her insistence that she was going to be assassinated. He even gets upset if you kill her, complaining about "all that hard work".
- In The Elder Scrolls, between the events of Oblivion and Skyrim, Nirn's twin moons, Masser and Secunda, disappear from the sky for unknown reasons (known as the "Void Nights"). Khajiit culture has great reverence for the moons, and the phases of the moons dictate which of 17 different sub-species a Khajiit cub will grow up to be depending on which phase it was born under. Understandably, the Void Nights were said to have caused significant unrest and panic among the Khajiit. However, nothing has been said in regards to exactly how the Void Nights affected Khajiiti reproduction, leading to much Wild Mass Guessing and causing a few Epileptic Trees to take root. (The moons would return after two years with no explanation given as to where they went, but the Aldmeri Dominion claimed credit for restoring them, bringing them the Khajiit as a client race.)
- In Fallout 4, there's the true fate of the Commonwealth Provisional Government. An important part of the game's backstory, the CPG was an alliance of the representatives of the Commonwealth's largest settlements, with the goal of creating the foundation for a new regional government. The Institute sent their own representative in the form of a Synth. The Synth then apparently killed the other members of the CPG, causing the organization to fall apart and the Commonwealth to stay divided & weak. Most Watelanders use "the CPG Massacre" as a justification for their hatred of the Institute and resultant racism towards Synths. However, records from within the Institute itself tell a different tale: Apparently, the Institute actually orchestrated the CPG's formation, as they wanted to share their advanced tech with the surface, but as a new society that wouldn't repeat the faults of the Old World. The records then go on to claim that the surface representatives never came to a consensus and killed each other, leaving the Institute's Synth representative the Sole Survivor. The Institute was then promptly blamed by the rest of the Commonwealth for the fall of the CPG, and this served as the Institute's Start of Darkness. Complicating matters is the fact that the Institute's records on the matter are likely doctored to some extent, and the Commonwealth's opinions of events are corrupted by the over-reliance on word of mouth. Due to too many Unreliable Narrators, no one knows which side is right anymore.
- In Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, the titular "Rapture" itself is an example, particularly how hostile or benevolent it actually is.
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has this for the entire land of Termina. Theories abound about what its story is. Is it some sort of afterlife? A hallucination? An alternate universe? A representation of Link's mental state/the five stages of grief/depression? Just a regular land? All the player knows is that Link goes though an incredibly trippy sequence to get there. The people all look the same as the ones from Hyrule, but that was done to make sure the game was finished sooner and it's never acknowledged in-universe. The implied backstory throws a lot more into the mix, with interesting carvings at Stone Tower that have lead to speculation that Termina may have been cursed by the goddesses for blasphemy.
- Persona 5 leaves it ambiguous what happens with the traitor, after they were last seen. After fighting and losing to the protagonist, the traitor is confronted by a Shadow doppelgänger of themselves and tells the party to go on. Nothing is mentioned beyond a minor note of one of your party member's not feeling their presence any longer.
- Red Dead Redemption features a sub-quest involving a Mysterious Stranger, who gives John two minor quests to test his morality, before meeting him a finale time at the spot John's future grave will be, remarking that it is a good spot to die, at which point he refuses to answer John's questions, leading to the latter firing three of what may or may not be warning shots, none of which faze the stranger. The only hint of who he may be, is John commenting that he looks familiar and he himself has a good memory, to which the stranger mentions a woman that was killed during John's criminal days, that John doesn't remember and says "If you don't remember her, why would you remember me." and that every man must face his past said at another point. And though he gives a couple missions to test John's morality, he doesn't seem to react strongly to either decision. Fan theories have come up with, everything from him being anything from The Grim Reaper, God, The Devil, John's long lost father, a Guardian Angel, to the spirit of a innocent bystander who was killed in the crossfire of one of John's criminal escapades. Further complicating things is the fact, after John's Heroic Sacrifice and the player is left to roam around as his son, the stranger disappears from the game, making his quest line the only side quest that can only be completed by John.
- Five Nights at Freddy's:
- The event that happens in Five Nights at Freddy's 4's ending is filled with ambiguity: what appears to be the Bite of 87 alluded to in the original game has a good chunk of evidence suggesting it isn't, thanks to the exact year the game happens in being unclear.
- The Golden Freddy V. Hard Custom Night cutscene in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location has Michael Afton talking to his father about how he "found it", "they" thought he was him, and that he should be dead, but isn't, ending with Springtrap emerging from Fazbear's Fright. The dialogue can be interpreted as either referencing the events of Sister Location and Michael getting scooped by Ennard, or the events of Five Nights at Freddy's 3's minigames and the Purple Man getting killed via the Springtrap suit (implying Michael is Springtrap, and not his father as it appeared to be). Likewise, that it plays before Springtrap's appearance makes it ambiguous if it's an undead Michael talking to his father (now Springtrap), or if Michael is talking as Springtrap.
Web Comics
- Gunnerkrigg Court:
- In an early chapter, Reynardine apparently attempts to possess Antimony, which would have killed her. Much later, Coyote insists that trying to kill Annie would have been out of character for Rey, leading many readers to reinterpret the earlier scene as an elaborate attempt on Rey's part to fake his own death and go into hiding, rather than a genuine possession attempt. Tom Siddell has confirmed that he deliberately set up the scene so the fanbase would be divided on the issue. Later, in a What You Are in the Dark moment, he reveals he really was going to kill her due to being pushed to the Despair Event Horizon, and it is his greatest regret in life.
- There is also the matter of Ysengrin. At one point, Annie sees him out of his magical wooden "Powered Armor", without which he is skeletally thin and visibly weak. Shortly afterwards, she sees his etheric self, which she describes as "beautiful". Coyote tells her she has now seen how Ysengrin sees himself, how others see him, and how he really is. But he intentionally leaves it vague as to which is which.
- Homestuck. The short version: A character who has the explicit ability to return from any death, except one that is either heroic (Heroic Sacrifice) or just (die for their crimes), dies and does not return. Hardly any readers think this is a heroic death, but there's ambiguous evidence suggesting that it's not a just death either, and that the real reason the character doesn't return is because of a cosmic accident cheating them out of their revival. note Word of Hussie has outright stated that he intended for this to be ambiguous and divisive.
- In Stand Still, Stay Silent, it's unclear whether the Rash is caused by magic or if it's a purely biological illness, and the matter of The Old Gods existence/nonexistance remains unclear so far.
Web Original
- Invoked in this episode of Zinnia Jones, about how different Christians interpret The Bible differently.
- The denouement of "Hard Times in the Big Easy", set in the Global Guardians universe, involved the death of the Big Bad, a Criminal Mastermind called Baron Samedi. The story began with the villain being thrown off the roof of his own building... and ended with at least three of the heroes being implicated in the crime. But who actually threw Samedi off the roof, and under what circumstances, was never revealed.
- It's never addressed whether Donnie from Demo Reel is lying about having a big "not allowed to see family" pre-nup to cover up his mom being dead, or whether his life just blows that much.
- RWBY's White trailer is this; even a year after it was released, fans are still debating what it meant. Was Weiss's concert a fantasy, flashback, or psychological metaphor? Was the battle a fantasy, flashback, or psychological metaphor? Why were the two scenes spliced into one another? Was the Knight real, or was it a representation of someone/something in Weiss's life? Why did it shatter into ice once she defeated it? Was the girl in the trailer even Weiss at all? Even canon hasn't given us any straight answers, other than to confirm that Knights like the one Weiss fought exist physically in the world, and that Weiss has a good singing voice.
- In the Abridged Series Ultra Fast Pony, Twilight Sparkle runs into a pony that is exactly like her, claiming to be her in the future, comes to tell her something really important. But, after present(?) Twilight assumes it has to do with her hoof tremor problem, future(?) Twilight reveals she didn't even know that was a thing, let alone that it was condition she herself would of had. When present(?) Twilight calls he on this, she simply brushes it off by saying she's from "The Future", not psychic. On top of that, she seemed unsure what her past self's middle name was, before saying it was secret, which may have been a lucky guess. But just as present(?) Twilight is starting to become suspicious, future(?) Twilight tries to tell her the secret to solving her problem of being cut off as she is about to say something important, before disappearing as she was about to reveal this information. After she disappears, nothing else is revealed about her and episodes plot line about defining the meaning of time continues, before going unanswered as well, ending with no real resolution for anything, beyond confirming Rainbow Dash's suspension that the doughnut corporations are some how involved in and possibly even in control of the very concept of time.
- To a lesser extent, in "Peger Please" the ponies go to confront a dragon that Twilight wants to reason with, but Applejack just wants kill. By the end of the episode, Fluttershy manages to get the dragon to back down, but we just cut to Twilight telling Spike what happened, before we could see how the resolve things with the dragon with Twilight never making clear if they killed him or resolved the situation peacefully, just that he's Dra-gone.
- The SCP Foundation has several of these.
- Does Samothrace actually exist, or is it only a delusion?
- Which of the SCP-001 documents are telling the truth and which are false?
- Is Doctor Clef really Satan? How true are the other claims he has made about his past?
- Is SCP-343 really God?
- Does SCP-089 cause disasters to force people to make human sacrifices to it, or does it predict disasters and stop them in exchange for human sacrifices?
- Does SCP-1719 reveal the true forms of monsters in human form, or this only a bizarre optical illusion?
- In the first episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, it's unclear whether the puppets' teacher intentionally attempted to cause them to have such a violent breakdown or honestly just wanted to inform them of creativity.
Western Animation
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- Ever since the season 2 finale aired, it has been a major point of argument among fans as to whether or not Chrysalis and/or her army survived being catapulted out of Canterlot, as it wasn't made clear in the episode itself. In the comic, we find out that yes, she did survive. And then one changeling makes an appearance during season 6, and the whole hive comes back at the season finale.
- The episode "Flight to the Finish" confirms that Scootaloo is behind most pegasi kids when it comes to flying. The question of whether or not Scootaloo ever will fly is raised, but left unanswered as Scootaloo is given a Be Yourself aesop to put her mind at ease. Word of God was that she is disabled, but the person that said this (Lauren Faust) is no longer executive producer and at the time of writing has limited influence on the show, so this idea may or may not have been dropped.
- "Pinkie Apple Pie" leaves it unclear whether Pinkie Pie is related to Applejack. All the records they find are smudged in the exact relevant spot, but after their adventures, Applejack decided it doesn't matter whether they have common genes since they get along so well Pinkie would fit just fine as a member of the family even if they're not related.
- In Avatar: The Last Airbender, events surrounding Azulon's death are extremely murky. The main question is whether he was really going to have Ozai kill Zuko as a punishment for Ozai's attempt to usurp Iroh's position as heir. The only two people who know for sure are both known liars and only discuss the incident while trying to manipulate others. One popular fan theory is that Azulon intended to make Zuko Iroh's heir to remove Ozai from the succession, which does fit the very little we see of the scene in question, but is mainly rooted in a literal interpretation of Azula's version of the story which, as noted above, could be all lies in the first place. We find out in the comics that Ozai had Ursa create an untraceable poison to kill Azulon in exchange for Zuko's life but we never find out if she personally administered it.
- In the third act of the Futurama episode "God Fellows", Bender who was mistaken for god by a species of tiny aliens, who's meteorite hit Bender's chest, while he was stuck floating aimlessly in space, before his poor judgment got them killed, meets a galaxy like entity, who may of may not be God, because apparently the entity himself does not know. Even admitting Bender's alternate interpretation that he is a satellite that collided with god, could be right. After at first speaking through his stars blinking to form a binary message, Bender asks if he speaks English to which he replies "I do now.", implying he may not be all knowing, but can understand things just by coming in contact with them. As Bender floats in orbit around him and recounts his story, and asks him what is the right way to help people, to which the entity after a moment of pondering, simply states, "If you help too much, people will become dependent. But if you help too little, they lose faith. The secret is to help in such a way, that they will not know if you did anything at all." And after, Fry's attempts to finding Bender in the cosmos get his attention, the Entity simply sends Bender back without much details. After a happy reunion, they realize Fry and Lela forgot to free some monks, they locked in the laundry room while using their radio disc, we get this moment:
Fry: Ah, their god can get them out. Or at least bring them more shoes to eat.Bender: Fat chance, You can't count on god for jack! He more of less told me so himself. Now if we don't help those monks, no one will!They go back to save the monks, as the camera pans across the cosmos to "maybe God"."God": (chuckle) If you help just enough, people won't know you did anything at all.
- The Kaeloo episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap" has a confusing ending, where Quack Quack is seen eating a pile of yogurt after the events of the episode. It's never made clear to the viewers whether he was hallucinating them or really eating.
- In season 3 of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Glossaryck seems to have died in "Book Be Gone}", but reappears to Star 4 episodes later in "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS3E7Toffee Toffee". However Star herself might have been dead at the time, since she seemed to drown in the previous scene and appeared in an unknown location that could be some sort of afterlife. On the other hand Glossaryck claims it's insulting to suggest he's dead, and that they're in a place no one has ever been before. So whether Glossaryck is actually dead remains up in the air.


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Phoenix PD's Killing of Rumain Brisbon Sparking More Protests
A protester holding a sign during a demonstration against police brutality on Friday.
Dennis Gilman
Protests are continuing to take place over the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon by a Phoenix police officer last week.
Brisbon was fatally shot Tuesday night at an apartment complex after a scuffle with a Phoenix police officer who was investigating a drug-dealing complaint. Police say the officer thought Brisbon was reaching for a gun in his pocket, although he turned out to be unarmed.
The third protest of the shooting is being organized for tonight, as activists and Brisbon's family attempt to call on the police department for information about the yet-unnamed officer.
"We're really going to demand justice for Rumain Brisbon," Reverend Jarrett Maupin tells New Times. "I spoke two days ago to his 9 year-old daughter, and she said, 'Reverend Maupin, I want to know who killed my daddy.'"
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According to police, the confrontation between the officer and Brisbon came about after the officer was told by a witness that people in a black Cadillac SUV were selling drugs at nearby 7-Eleven store. The officer ran the license plate number, and the address came back to an apartment complex where, separately, someone had made a noise complaint to police.
Police the officer planned to deal with the noise complaint first, then check out the complaint about the Cadillac.
The radio call for the noise complaint was canceled by the time the officer got there, but the officer spotted the black SUV and called for backup, police say.
At that point, Brisbon got out of the SUV and opened a back door, apparently taking something out of the vehicle. The officer told Brisbon to put up his hands, but Brisbon ran instead, police say.
The officer told investigators that when he was in the physical struggle with Brisbon, he thought he felt the butt of a gun in Brisbon's pocket, which led to the officer shooting Brisbon, according to police.
The officer had lost his grip on Brisbon's hand shortly after the two literally stumbled into an apartment when an occupant opened the door. The occupant was later discovered to be Brisbon's girlfriend, who had her 2- and 9-year-old kids in a back bedroom. The object in Brisbon's pocket was a vial of pills.
"Let's be very clear: The officer was doing what we expect him to do, and that is, investigating crimes that neighbors are telling him are occurring in that apartment complex," Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump said at a press conference last week. "This one went bad, from the standpoint of how it ended, but the officer was doing exactly what we want him to do."
Maupin says police are acting like they've "done the community a favor -- that couldn't be further from the truth."
Maupin pointed out that witness statements have varied a lot from the officer's account, which is something police have acknowledged.
"We're out marching for answers -- the officer's name and his background -- but were also out marching to protest racial profiling and police brutality," Maupin says.
The protest will be a march from the Elks Lodge at 1007 South Seventh Avenue in South Phoenix to Phoenix police headquarters.
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Three Chords for Beauty's Sake
Three Chords for Beauty's Sake
The Life of Artie Shaw
By Tom Nolan
W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393062014, 430pp.
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Tom Nolan, who interviewed Shaw between 1990 and his death in 2004 and spoke with one hundred of his colleagues and contemporaries, captures Shaw and his era with candor and sympathy, bringing the master to vivid life and restoring him to his rightful place in jazz history.