According to Scully, Selman had a very clear vision of how he wanted the segment to be, and Selman said that he wanted to make a " dog's breakfast " of movie clichés at the time.

According to Selman, the writers took inspiration from real gross out contests, which were " sweeping the nation " at the time.

" According to Selman, Hawking was very humble regarding the episode's jokes about him, and stated that he " took a lot of shots " at himself.

According to Selman, Wilmore gave an " Oscar-worthy performance.

" " I was terrified ," he stated in the DVD commentary for the episode, " had a twenty-minute discussion in which said that children were teased at school of Selman's comments, and that the Fox affiliate were gonna be thrown off the air ..." According to Wilmore, Selman immediately blamed the other writers.

According to fellow writer Matt Selman, the writing staff liked the idea since reality shows were " really big " at the time.

According to the theory underlying odd-lot indices, the trader who trades odd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't afford to trade round lots.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

According to Hippolytus of Rome ( Philosophumena, VII, xxiii ) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious ; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the " Christ " came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to one witness, " the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.

According to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, " Problems associated with drug trafficking are potentially the most serious threat to stability in the BVI ".

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

According to Grayson Lee, who created the snow penis sculpture in 2007, most of its residents were " heartbroken " to leave.

According to the Corporate Library's study, the average size of publicly traded company's board is 9. 2 members, and most boards range from 3 to 31 members.

According to the United States Census Bureau the city's area includes of land and ( 40. 83 %) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

According to a 2004 French study conducted by INSERM, cognitive behavioral therapy was the most effective therapy when compared with psychoanalysis and family or couples therapy.

According to Charles Aaron, power ballads came into existence in the early 1970s, when rock stars attempted to convey profound messages to audiences.

According to Chomsky, the media and public relations industry actively shape public opinion, working to present messages in line with their economic agenda for the purposes of controlling of the ' public mind '.

According to Herodotus, Themistocles left messages at every place where the Persian fleet might stop for drinking water, asking the Ionians in the Persian fleet to defect, or at least fight badly.

According to Still, messages were often encoded so that messages could be understood only by those active in the railroad.

According to Microsoft, the Pocket PC is " a handheld device that enables users to store and retrieve e-mail, contacts, appointments, tasks, play multimedia files, games, exchange text messages with Windows Live Messenger ( formerly known as MSN Messenger ), browse the Web, and more.

According to this theory, the messages are encrypted with a one-time pad, to avoid any risk of decryption by the enemy.

According to MTV, he has semi-retired to study the Bible more in an effort to give messages behind the pulpit.

According to the story, at some point in or around June 1947 ( Gaddis and others list the approximate date as early February 1948 ), two American vessels navigating the Strait of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others, picked up distress messages from Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan.

According to Mayan mythology, this god often carried messages between humans and the other gods.

According to Jimmie Briggs, author of Innocence Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War, “ A music group is not an army, but it can get powerful social messages out before trouble starts .”

According to Business Week, one of Chopra's main messages is that by ridding oneself of negative emotions and developing intuition by listening to signals from the body, health can be improved.

According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identified himself as Seth.

According to both the Qur ' an and the Hebrew Bible, Lot's messages were ignored by the inhabitants and Sodom and Gomorrah were subsequently destroyed.

According to TheyWorkForYou, in his last year in Parliament Reed had spoken in an " above average " number of debates, voted an " above average " number of times in the 2005-2010 parliament and replied " within 2 or 3 weeks to a " high number of messages " during 2008.

According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group, the amount of spam email was between 88 – 92 % of email messages sent in the first half of 2010.

According to a Commtouch report in the first quarter of 2010, there are "... 183 billion spam messages " sent every day.

According to Democratic Underground, as of October, 2010, over 163, 000 user accounts have been registered and over 52. 9 million messages have been posted.

According to this view, Adventists are " chosen " by God to proclaim the three angels ' messages of Revelation 14 to the world.

According to the Senate Rules Committee, all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects are referred to the Armed Services Committee:

According to Xinhua, Bo's text messages are usually quotes from Mao's Little Red Book, and include phrases such as " I like how Chairman Mao puts it: The world is ours, we will all have to work together ," and " responsibility and seriousness can conquer the world, and the Chinese Communist Party members represent these qualities.

According to Givens ( 1999 ), the process of nonverbal communication or negotiation is to send and receive messages in an attempt to gain someone ’ s approval or love.

According to an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, the group's name " the Black Keys " came from a schizophrenic artist named Alfred McMoore that the pair knew ; he would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as " black keys " such as " D flat " when he was upset with them.

According to the report, legitimate email servers averaged a delivery rate of 56 %; twenty percent of the messages were rejected, and eight percent were filtered.

According to SJT, messages falling within the latitude of rejection are unlikely to successfully persuade.