Stan Kelly is an American radio news anchor and served as the public address announcer for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association from 1990 through 2008. During his time with the Spurs, they won 4 NBA Championships, and became a model NBA franchise.
On October 10, 2008, Kelly was replaced as the Spurs public address announcer by Kevin "Big Kev" Brock. He currently works co host of "San Antonio's First News" on the news/talk radio station WOAI (AM) in San Antonio. He is the public address announcer for both The University of Texas basketball games and San Antonio Missions Minor League Baseball games.
The suffix -stan (Persian: ـستان -stān) is Persian for "place of" or "country". It appears in the names of many regions, especially in Central and South Asia, but also in the Caucasus and Russia; areas where significant amounts of Persian culture were spread or adopted. The suffix is also used more generally, as in Persian and Urdu rigestân (ریگستان) "place of sand, desert", Pakistan "land of the pure", Hindustan "land of the Hindus", golestan (گلستان) "place of flowers, garden", etc.
The suffix, originally an independent noun, but evolving into a suffix by virtue of appearing frequently as the last part in nominal compounds, is of Indo-Iranian and ultimately Indo-European origin: It is cognate with Sanskrit sthā́na (Devanagari: स्थान [st̪ʰaːna]), meaning "the act of standing", from which many further meanings derive, including "place, location", and ultimately descends from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sthāna-.
The Proto-Indo-European root from which this noun is derived is *steh₂- (older reconstruction *stā-) "to stand" (or "to stand up, to step (somewhere), to position (oneself)"), which is also the source of English to stand, Latin stāre, and Ancient Greek histamai (ἵσταμαι), all meaning "to stand" and Russian стан (stan, meaning "settlement" or "semi-permanent camp"). In Polish and Ukrainian, stan means "state" or "condition", while in Serbo-Croatian it translates as "apartment" (a Slovenian word "stanovanje" means apartment or other closed space of living is an obvious derivative of stan) in its modern usage, while its original meaning was "habitat". In Czech and Slovak, it means "tent" or, in military terms, "headquarters". Also in Germanic languages, the root can be found in Stand ("place, location"), and in Stadt (German), stad/sted (Dutch/Scandinavian), stêd (West Frisian) and stead (English), all meaning either "place" or "city". The suffix -stan is analogous to the suffix -land, present in many country and location names.
Stan! (born Steven Brown on 16 October 1964 in Brooklyn, New York City, United States) is an American author, cartoonist, and game designer. He is sometimes credited as Stan Brown.
Brown was born and grew up on Long Island and attended Binghamton University. Brown began publishing fiction, cartoons, and games professionally in 1982, usually under the pen name "Stan!." He is the author of numerous short stories, novels, roleplaying products, comics and cartoons. He has served as a graphic designer and line editor for West End Games; an editor and game designer for TSR, Inc.; and an author, senior game designer, and creative director for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. He has also been the creative content manager at Upper Deck Entertainment.
In 2007, R. Hyrum Savage formed a subsidiary of his OtherWorld Creations with Brown called Super Genius Games. He has also worked as the creative content manager for Upper Deck Entertainment, and the creative vice president for The Game Mechanics, Inc. Brown is the Creative Director for Super Genius Games. He co-founded The Game Mechanics with JD Wiker, Marc Schmalz, and Rich Redman.
A stan is an avid fan and supporter of a celebrity, franchise, or group, often a rock/pop musician. The object of the stan's affection is often called their fave. Based on the song "Stan" by American rapper Eminem, the term has frequently been used to describe artist devotees whose fanaticism matches the severity of the obsessive character named Stan in the 2000 Eminem song. The word has been described as a portmanteau of "stalker" and "fan".
A website known as "Stan Wars" or "stanipedia" sprouted up to host discussions and flame wars between rival fanbases. In a response to stan culture, David Monger, an amateur cartoonist developed a web series on YouTube titled The Nekci Menij Show. The show strives to satirize public perceptions of female pop stars, simultaneously parodying it. The series features numerous pop stars including Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Katy Perry, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Kesha, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Lana Del Rey, Rihanna, and Adele. The series employs an artistic style reminiscent of the Dolan Duck Internet meme.
Actors: Armand Assante (actor), Paul Fanning (actor), Charles Harrelson (actor), Marshal Hilton (actor), Bill Oberst Jr. (actor), Tommy Parnell (actor), Gustavo Perez (actor), Derek Roberts (actor), Lance Tafelski (actor), Tamara Austin (actress), Sonia Curtis (actress), Carole Gordon (actress), Mary Krantz (actress), Lynn Single (actress), Chase Hudson (producer),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Bobby Astyr (actor), Tom Bloom (actor), Charles Cabot (actor), Roger Caine (actor), S.C. Dacy (actor), Robert Forbes (actor), Jamie Gillis (actor), Jeffrey Hurst (actor), Sonny Landham (actor), John Lawrence (actor), Richard LeGault (actor), Kurt Mann (actor), Tim McDonough (actor), Rocky Millstone (actor), Lem Amero (actor),
Plot: Toni is a smart drug smuggler, living in a luxuriously home by the beach. The pot (ganja) producers pack it in crates, take it from Jamaica to a precise point of New England waters, and dump it in the sea. With no apparent connection with them, a couple of scuba-divers later retrieve the crates to their own boat, then take it in an old low-flying biplane to the continent. And then a third party will distribute to the consumers. The Narcotics Bureau has its informers, of course, but it seems the monthly Ganja Express can't be stopped. Eventually it will come ashore, in a mix of sex and violence, during an orgy at Toni's place.
Keywords: biplane, boat, drug-smuggling, marijuana, murder, sex-partyIt's so hot if we were corn we would be poppin'.
Feel like a sponge somebody used to do the moppin'.
We'll be the Blister Sisters if we don't start chillin'.
If we could bathe in frozen yogurt, that'd be killin',
I'd be willin".
This heat has turned us crispy,
Splat some butter on, we're toast.
Or fill us full of breadcrumbs,
and call us stuffed twin roast.
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Stayin' cool...give us goosebumps, turn us blue.
Stayin' cool...a frosty blizzard that'll do.
Stayin' cool...big icy shiver down our spine.
Stayin' cool...an ice cube sandwich would be fine.
Brrrrrrrrrr... Let's be the candles on a cake somebody blows on.
Or give an elephant a drink and turn his nose on.
The answer might be an adjustment in our attitude,
But I rather go way north and change our latitude!
Cool!
Let's gulp down tons of water,
Til we're big as a full moon.
Then get someone to pop us,
Like a giant water balloon.
Pop Pop Pop.
Chorus 2:
Stayin' cool...maybe a hockey puck on ice.
Stayin' cool...a frozen dinner would be nice.
Stayin' cool...just slide a glacier down my back.
Stayin' cool...stick me inside a huge icepack.
I ye-ye-ye-ye!
It's so hot, hot, hot.
Arriba!
Chorus 1
Chorus 2
Stan Kelly is an American radio news anchor and served as the public address announcer for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association from 1990 through 2008. During his time with the Spurs, they won 4 NBA Championships, and became a model NBA franchise.
On October 10, 2008, Kelly was replaced as the Spurs public address announcer by Kevin "Big Kev" Brock. He currently works co host of "San Antonio's First News" on the news/talk radio station WOAI (AM) in San Antonio. He is the public address announcer for both The University of Texas basketball games and San Antonio Missions Minor League Baseball games.
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