Kelps are large seaweeds (algae) belonging to the brown algae (Phaeophyceae) in the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genera.[citation needed]
Kelps grow in underwater "forests" (kelp forests) in shallow oceans. The organisms require nutrient-rich water with temperatures between 6 and 14 °C (43 and 57 °F). They are known for their high growth rate — the genera Macrocystis and Nereocystis can grow as fast as half a metre a day, ultimately reaching 30 to 80 metres (100 to 260 ft).
Through the 19th century, the word "kelp" was closely associated with seaweeds that could be burned to obtain soda ash (primarily sodium carbonate). The seaweeds used included species from both the orders Laminariales and Fucales. The word "kelp" was also used directly to refer to these processed ashes.
In most kelp, the thallus (or body) consists of flat or leaf-like structures known as blades. Blades originate from elongated stem-like structures, the stipes. The holdfast, a root-like structure, anchors the kelp to the substrate of the ocean. Gas-filled bladders (pneumatocysts) form at the base of blades of American species, such as Nereocystis lueteana (Mert. & Post & Rupr.) and keep the kelp blades close to the surface, holding up the blades by the gas they contain.
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After his successful night club is blown to flaming bits, Pluto and his band travel across the moon looking for clues as to who is behind the arson. Along with Bruno and Dina, Pluto visits a seedy motel, his secret hide out and the casino of the most powerful man on the moon searching for the evil doer, only to find out that the destruction of his club may have been his own fault
Keywords: 2080s, african-american, black-hero, bodyguard, box-office-flop, casino, character-name-in-title, clone, cloning, crude-humor
The Man On The Moon
Action's future has arrived...
Pluto Nash: You married twins?::Tony Francis: No, I met the perfect woman, so I had her cloned.::Dina Lake: Which one is which?::Tony Francis: Who cares?
Pluto Nash: What happened?::James: Obviously, you did something stupid.
Pluto Nash: That's a cryogenic Chihuahua!::Dina Lake: It's a real dog?::Pluto Nash: Oh, yeah, it's very delicate. You know it's illegal to bring pets up here. But I got a friend back in Juarez who knows how to freeze-dry these things. Look at that. It's a girl. Pop that little bitch in the particle wave for two minutes on defrost... she'll be running around the room.
Pluto Nash: So where'd you do your singing back Earth?::Dina Lake: Oh, weddings, bar mitzvahs, reincarnation rituals. The usual gigs.
Pluto Nash: You blew up my wood bar stools. You know how hard it is to get wood on the moon?
Dina Lake: What makes you so sure he'll help us out?::Pluto Nash: Oh, he'll help us. He couldn't sing a note if it weren't for me.::Dina Lake: You taught Tony Francis how to sing?::Pluto Nash: No, I convinced a bookie not to pour some acid down his throat.
Pluto Nash: So how's it going with you and Babbet?::Bruno: Me and Babbet? I don't think that's going to happen. I found out that I'm 110 volts and she's a 220.::Pluto Nash: Just go to the hardware store and get an adaptor.::Bruno: Nah. That just ruins it for me.
Mogan: Hey Bruno. What are you? A 65?::Bruno: Model 63. Deluxe.::Kelp: 63? Talk about ancient.::Bruno: Your sister didn't seem to mind.
Rowland: There's a clone doctor named Runa Pedanken. Made a big name for herself creating an entire basketball team from one old guy.::Pluto Nash: The Air Jordans. Yeah.
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A group of retired spies once former enemies, are forced to work together in an attempt to retrieve a neutron bomb stolen by a group of new-wave, high-tech operatives who have supplanted them in the post-Cold War intelligence game.
Keywords: action-hero, beretta, blood, blood-spatter, brawl, die-hard-scenario, fistfight, gunfight, hand-to-hand-combat, hero
Wer dieses Kind entführt, ist selber schuld.
Never kidnap a genius child!
Would you believe . . . the comedy crime caper of the year?
Jimmy: I like elephants. Except when they die and you have to bury them.
Jimmy: [to Bernice] You look like a potato with hair.
Jimmy: When I go down the tubes, I go down the tubes.
Herb: [singing] Keep your paws off of my dawg! 'Cos if you mess with Rover, I'll have to run you over...
Jimmy: [escaping under the floorboards] It's a good thing I read Escape from Devil's Island.
Harry Walker: [Jimmy has retrieved the ransom money] How did you do it?::Jimmy: [holds up a copy of "Child Heist"] You see this book?::Harry Walker: Yes?::Jimmy: I wrote it!::Harry Walker: [rolls off bench. Voice over] Of course!
Jimmy: [Jimmy and Maurice read a sign that says "Deture" and Maruice follows the instructions] Did you see that sign? Detour was spelled wrong.::Maurice: It means the same thing.
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Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing the gem. Despite their care and experience, circumstances and plain bad luck keep the gem just out of their reach.
Keywords: ambulance, bank, bank-heist, bank-robbery, bank-vault, bar, bartender, based-on-novel, brooklyn-bridge, caper
How many times does it take to steal the same diamond?
They're out to steal the hottest diamond in town with the funniest schemes in history !
Abe Greenberg: I am sometime so astute, it's remarkable. There are some things people will not do.::Dortmunder: But there's things that get done that you can't do yourself. There's things that happen that you can make happen! Am I right, Chicken?
Dortmunder: It's good, and it's bad. There's a guaranteed return, and that's good. But the guarantor is Amusa, and Amusa's a rookie, and that's bad. But it's an easily transportable object, and that's good. Only it's in a rotten position in the museum, 30 steps to the quickest exit, and that's bad. And the glass over the stone, that's bad too, because that's glass with metal mixed in it, bulletproof, shatterproof. But the locks don't look impossible, 3, maybe 5 tumblers. But there's no alarm system, and that's the worst, because that means no one's going to get lazy watching, knowing the alarm will pick up their mistakes. Which means the whole thing has got to be a diversion job, and that's good and that's bad, because if the diversion's too big, it'll draw pedestrians, and if the diversion's not big enough, it won't draw that watchman.::Kelp: Dortmunder, I don't know where the hell you are, or what the hell you're saying. Just tell me, will you plan the job?::Dortmunder: [pauses, then smiles] It's what I do.
Abe Greenberg: While you're practicing up on your penmanship, you might leave a little time for a refresher course in plastic surgery. I've been tipping people at that bank for years. Everybody knows Abe Greenberg. That key won't get you anything. Even if you forge my name, you'll never forge this amiable countenance.
Dortmunder: Not me. I've got no choice. I'm not superstitious. And I don't believe in jinxes, but that stone's jinxed me and it won't let go. I've been damned near bitten, shot at, peed on and robbed. And worse is gonna happen before it's done. So I'm takin' my stand. I'm going all the way. Either I get it, or it gets me.
Warden: [as he is being released from prison] No matter what institution I'm in, sooner or later I got you inside it. You couldn't, um, really go straight?::Dortmunder: [after a thoughtful pause and an exhale] My heart wouldn't be in it, Frank.
Kelp: [Inquiring about his prison term] So how was it this time?::Dortmunder: Not bad. I learned plumbing.
Dr. Amusa: [On being presented with yet another request for assistance] I've heard of the habitual criminal, of course. But I never dreamed I'd become involved with the habitual CRIME.
[while going to meet Dr. Amusa]::Kelp: Now, listen, I didn't tell the doctor about you being in prison. I figure, why undermine his confidence? He wants the best for his money. Not that you're not the best. But a layman might wonder why you're all the time in jail.
Dr. Amusa: Someday the schoolbooks of my country will sing your praises.::Kelp: I don't think we want this nosed around, do we, Doctor?::Dr. Amusa: I was taking poetic license.
Dr. Amusa: I won't pay a penny more than 25,000 a man.::Dortmunder: I didn't ask for any more.::Dr. Amusa: It comes to a total of exactly $100,000. Four men. If you need five, you'll each take less.::Kelp: What if we can do it with three?::Dr. Amusa: That will still be 25,000. I wouldn't want to encourage greed.::Kelp: There's no greed around here, Doctor. We're all men of goodwill.::Dr. Amusa: If I weren't a man of goodwill, I might think that some of us lied about the prison records of others of us. As it is, I know it was only an oversight.
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Surfing college students hang out at a club watching comedian Uncle Woody and drinking Pepsis. Rich playboy "Ding" Pruitt falls for Sandy Palmer. His grandfather tries to have the club closed but is exposed as an ex-bootlegger.
Keywords: address-book, back-seamed-stockings, bar, baskin-robbins, bass-violin, beach, beatnik, broken-leg, buried-in-sand, california
You have to think young to feel real sprung!
Surfin' high & twistin' wild & feelin' wonderful!
SURF'S UP! The swingin'est young people's picture of the year!