Confetti rains at the climax of a show.

') and we are led to believe Henderson effectively rammed the post of SHADO Commander down Straker's throat in " Confetti Check A-OK ".

That game became known as the " Confetti Game ", due to an arena employee firing a confetti cannon prematurely, when the game was extended due to a defensive penalty on the final play.

Confetti also has a listing in the book of Guinness World Records, the current holder of the largest collection, based on some 1, 700 unique shapes being Casey Larrain of California.

One showy cultivar is " Confetti ," which has both yellow and pink flowers on the same plant.

* Uncut Confetti ( Methuen 2006 )

Heap also played a minor role in the 2006 film Confetti as the marriage registrar.

He and Olivia Colman also featured as a naturist couple in Confetti, a 2006 film about a competition for the most original wedding.

The seeds of life which continued floating in the air were carried down with the rains and produced vegetation.

Such repair work, a reduction in height, and unusually high snowmelt and heavy spring rains combined to cause the dam to give way on May 31, 1889 resulting in twenty million tons of water to sweep down the valley causing the Johnstown Flood.

When the iceberg melts, it rains down sediments upon the land.

After heavy rains, powerful rivers of rainwater pour down the numerous ravines ( known as Ghauts ).

* August 7 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor ; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Imperial City ( Beijing ) ( which are doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising ), Cao Qin finds himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, loses three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he flees to his home in the city and commits suicide by jumping down a well located within his walled compound.

Matter near the star's core rains down towards the center and swirls into a high-density accretion disk.

The futuristic dystopian world of Battle Angel Alita revolves around the city of Scrapyard, grown up around a massive scrap heap that rains down from Tiphares ( Salem in the anime ).

Heavy rains through the winter and spring of 2010 filled most reservoirs to capacity and only wasteful water use ( e. g. hosing down footpaths ) is currently banned.

Along with the other blasphemers, or those " violent against God ", Capaneus is condemned to lie supine on a plain of burning sand while fire rains down on him.

The production had planned to film in the real park, where they had filmed scenes for The Wrath of Khan, but heavy rains before the day of shooting prevented it — the garbage truck would have become bogged down in the mud.

So the latter brought down heavy rains to thwart Agni ’ s plans to burn the woods.

In the summer, the monsoon can reach the area, bringing heavy rains, and thunderstorms ( like July 3, 2011, when flooding occured, shutting down traffic lights ).

The additional rains from the storm caused the Deering Reservoir dam to breach, releasing a wall of water that rushed down to the Weare Reservoir dam.

Pern periodically experiences Threadfalls, in which this deadly organism rains down from the sky.

One of the main threats to Pernese civilization in the series is Thread, which is described as a mycorrhizoid spore that periodically rains down on the planet due to the orbit of the Red Star.

In January 1863, Burnside launched a second offensive against Lee, but it bogged down in winter rains before it accomplished anything and has been derisively called the Mud March.

When the big cloud brush rains down upon the paper, it delivers a graded swath of ink encompassing myriad shades of gray to black.

It rains on an average of 170 days per year but half the rainfall pours down on only 15 of these days.

Timing was crucial to ensure that after leaving Missouri to cross the vast wilderness to Oregon or California, wagon trains would not be bogged down by mud created by spring rains, or by massive snowdrifts in the mountains from September onwards, and that their horses and oxen would have enough spring grass to eat.

A waterproof top sheet or rainfly could be added to protect the occupant from drenching by heavy nighttime rains, along with drip strings-short pieces of string tied to suspension lines — to prevent rainwater running from the tree trunk down the hammock cords to the hammock itself.

In 2006, heavy rains on Ruiz sent a mudslide down the Chinchiná River, killing nine youths aged 12 – 19 on a scouting expedition near the volcano.

An afternoon rainstorm further aided Oda's soldiers who arrived at the Imagawa camp just as the rains came down ( this was the afternoon of 12 June ).

President Bartlet recounts the worst case scenario, saying " If the asteroid hits forests of Russia, a shower of burning rock rains down on those woods and starts a fire that burns, that shrouds the hemisphere in a blanket of soot and ash that blocks out the sun for weeks.

The storm that brought it in was accompanied by lightning, and torrential rains as it first touched down on southeastern edge of the Devonshire Mall, which was undergoing a large addition.

The plants typically germinate in the autumn after the first rains and exist as rosettes throughout the first year, forming a stout, fleshy taproot that may extend down 30 cm or more for a food reserve.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

But, in late-summer, when torrential rains fall on the Ethiopian plateau, the Atbarah provides 22 % of the Nile's flow.

Agriculture production is constrained by an almost total dependence on erratic winter snows and spring rains for water.

The system, along with new sod, was installed to prevent the field from becoming too wet to play on during light to medium rains, and to reduce the time needed to dry the field adequately.

10, 600 km ( 6, 586 mi ) ( there is major deterioration on all highways due to heavy rains and lack of maintenance )

The Karoo apparently does not experience drought on a regular basis, so even though the area is technically desert, regular winter rains provide enough moisture to support the region ’ s interesting plant community.

The latter held the consistory immured under his guards in the ramshackle palace of the Septizodium, where rains leaked through the roof of their chamber, mingled with the urine of Orsini's guards on the rooftiles.

When these winds encounter the slopes of the Central Highlands, they unload heavy rains on the mountain slopes and the southwestern sector of the island.

If, on the way to the shrine, these children cried their tears were viewed as signs of imminent and abundant rains.

* November 1 – Mortar fire from North Vietnamese forces rains on the Bien Hoa Air Base, killing four U. S. servicemen, wounding 72, and destroying five B-57 jet bombers and other planes.

* Vargas mudslides, due to heavy rains in Vargas State, Venezuela, on December, 1999, causing tens of thousands of deaths.

Fragments of mosaics from the first church are visible on the floor, which is usually covered by water after heavy rains ( together with the crypt ).

; " The Long Rain ": A group of astronauts are stranded on Venus, where it rains continually and heavily.

Reinforcements for both sides marched out on the 15th ; travel was quite difficult due to the heavy rains.

Israel's agriculture depends heavily on rains that come only seasonally, so Jewish prayers for rain are prominent during Israel's rainy ( winter ) half of the year.

Heavy rains are common on both rims during the summer months.

It rains on less than 60 days per year ( an average of 59. 7 days ) and the amount of precipitation is very unequal in the different seasons.

Thus one of the gateways weighing a hundred kilos is off its hinges and nearly fell on a lawyer who entered, cracks between concrete blocks, the joints of windows letting in wind and water, it rains in the concourse ...

However, due to extremely heavy rains, the Susquehanna River crested high enough that most of the city had to be evacuated on June 28, 2006, forcing the cancellation of the events.

The winter rains and the melting of the snow that accumulates on the Andes produce rivers whose flow varies with the seasons, but which carry water year round.

But in Bangladesh, which occupies the Ganges Delta, the advantages provided by the richness of the alluvial soil of floodplains are severely offset by frequent floods brought on by cyclones and annual monsoon rains, which cause severe economic disruption and loss of human life in this densely populated region.