Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.

In 1990, he played the character of — appropriately enough — Simple Simon on the Disney channel TV movie, Mother Goose Rock ' n ' Rhyme.

* Simple Simon ( 1930 )

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

Simon Says ( or Simple Simon Says ) is a game for 3 or more players where 1 player takes the role of " Simon " and issues instructions ( usually physical actions such as " jump in the air " or " stick out your tongue ") to the other players, which should only be followed if prefaced with the phrase " Simon says ", for example, " Simon says, jump in the air ".

*( 1930 ) Simple Simon

* Simple Simon ( 1930 )-musical-co-book-writer and actor

Corporate logo of the Howard Johnson's company, circa World War II, showing a depiction of an orange-roofed restaurant, characteristic typeface, and " Simple Simon and the Pieman " logo.

The restaurant's trademark Simple Simon and the Pieman logo was created by artist John Alcott in the 1930s.

Simple Simon may refer to:

* Simple Simon ( nursery rhyme ), a nursery rhyme

* Simple Simon ( musical ), a Broadway musical

* Simple Simon ( solitaire ), a solitaire / patience card game

* Simple Simon ( film ), a 2010 Swedish film

* Simple Simon, an animated short film in 1935.

* Simple Simon, a book written by Ryne Douglas Pearson on which the 1998 action thriller Mercury Rising is based

Some of the best known nursery rhymes from Britain include ; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Roses are red, Jack and Jill, Cock a doodle doo, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, The Grand Old Duke of York, London Bridge Is Falling Down, Hey Diddle Diddle, Three Blind Mice, Little Miss Muffet, Pat-a-cake, Pop Goes the Weasel, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Peter Piper, Hickory Dickory Dock, Rock-a-bye Baby, One for Sorrow, This Old Man, Simple Simon, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Bo Peep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Old King Cole and Humpty Dumpty.

* Simple Simon ( 1971 )

* Not So Simple Simon ( 1971 )

* Charley Rogers as Simple Simon

Simple words in the various dialects are very similar, but pronunciation is distinct for each and, after listening to a few spoken words it may be possible for an Austrian to realise which dialect is being spoken.

Simple accounting is mentioned in the Christian Bible ( New Testament ) in the Book of Matthew, in the Parable of the Talents.

The work of Beachcomber is in some ways parallel to that of Myles na gCopaleen, and the influence of both writers is evident in the Peter Simple columns in the Daily Telegraph.

Basic English, also known as Simple English, is an English-based controlled language created ( in essence as a simplified subset of English ) by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a Second Language.

Basic English 2000 word list and VOA Special English 1500 word list is a dictionary for Simple English Wikipedia.

# Simple and concise definition: Chromatin is DNA plus the proteins ( and RNA ) that package DNA within the cell nucleus.

Image: Thales ' Theorem Simple. svg | Thales ' theorem: if AC is a diameter, then the angle at B is a right angle.

Simple switched Ethernet networks, while a great improvement over repeater-based Ethernet, suffer from single points of failure, attacks that trick switches or hosts into sending data to a machine even if it is not intended for it, scalability and security issues with regard to broadcast radiation and multicast traffic, and bandwidth choke points where a lot of traffic is forced down a single link.

Simple additive mixers use Kirchhoff's circuit laws to add the currents of two or more signals together, and this terminology (" mixer ") is only used in the realm of audio electronics where audio mixers are used to add together audio signals such as voice signals, music signals, and sound effects.

Simple electronic musical instruments are sometimes called sound effects ; the border between sound effects and actual musical instruments is often hazy.

Simple chemical reaction and removal of a substrate by an acid, a solvent or a reactive gas is often very close to isotropic.

* 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.

Simple majority is required in all cases, which means that the lay-judges are always in control.

* The Philby affair is mentioned in the Simple Minds song " Up On The Catwalk " from their sixth studio album Sparkle in the Rain.

Scorsese changed the title from Season of the Witch to Mean Streets, a reference to Raymond Chandler's essay " The Simple Art of Murder ", where he writes, " But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Simple TCP / IP messaging ( telnet compatible ) is used to communicate with client sockets, each of which is identified with a ' player ' in the Virtual reality representation system.

Simple houses surrounded by barns and stalls and the fields all enclosed with hedges give the region a youthful appearance the like of which is rarely found in Europe.

Simple oregano sold in garden stores as Origanum vulgare may have a bland taste and larger, less dense leaves, and is not considered the best for culinary uses, with a taste less remarkable and pungent.

Simple embedded devices use buttons, LEDs, graphic or character LCDs ( for example popular HD44780 LCD ) with a simple menu system.

In the 1960s, the figure of the Hampstead Liberal was notoriously satirised by Peter Simple of the Daily Telegraph in the character of Lady Dutt-Pauker, an immensely wealthy aristocratic socialist whose Hampstead mansion, Marxmount House, contained an original pair of Bukharin's false teeth on display alongside precious Ming vases, neo-constructivist art, and the complete writings of Stalin.

These included his roles as Bret Maverick, in the popular 1950s western-comedy series, Maverick ; Jim Rockford, in the popular 1970s detective drama, The Rockford Files ; and the father of Katey Sagal's character on 8 Simple Rules following the death of John Ritter.

In 2004, Ritter was posthumously given an Emmy nomination for playing Paul Hennessey in 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, but lost to Kelsey Grammer for playing the title character of Frasier.

* C. J. Barnes, a fictional character on the television show 8 Simple Rules portrayed by David Spade

In Suzanne Selfors ' 2011 Children's novel " Smells Like Treasure ", her spelling champion character Hercules Simple, uses the word to describe the main character in the book.

Richie has guest starred in television series including Eve, Six Feet Under and American Dreams, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, and playing the recurring character Heather Chandler on Chuck .< ref >

The character of Simple Simon may have been in circulation much longer, possibly appearing in an Elizabethan chapbook and in a ballad, Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty, from about 1685.

Famed hardboiled-detective author Raymond Chandler referred to Vance in his essay " The Simple Art of Murder " as " the most asinine character in detective fiction.

She had a recurring role in Good Morning, Miami, as Mark Feuerstein's grandmother Claire Arnold in season one and played the mother of Katey Sagal's character in the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter following John Ritter's death, and appeared as the estranged mother of Megan Mullally's character Karen Walker in three episodes of Will & Grace.

He also created and wrote the character of Squire Haggard for a newspaper column written by Peter Simple ; subsequently a novel and the Haggard TV series 1990-92 on ITV.

The song " Love is a Simple thing " omitted the final verse, being the Charles Addams character verse, because it was too outdated.

It's the most lugubrious and soppy love story in many a moon, a step backward for director Sam Raimi after ' A Simple Plan ,' and yet another movie in which Kevin Costner plays a character who has all the right window dressing but is neither juicy nor interesting.

Simple screenshot should fall under Fair Use, as it is used only to designate the specific fictional character as appearing in Transformers, the animated series.

Simple and reasonably-obvious catchphrases are chosen and the anecdotal clue often involves the fictional character Mr Fish, a reference to Mr Chips from the original game show.

Margaret Atwood's " Gertrude Talks Back ", in her 1994 collection of short stories Good Bones and Simple Murders, sees the title character setting her son straight about Old Hamlet's murder: " It wasn't Claudius, darling, it was me!

Simple and straightforward character who plays Lalita's moral support with warmth and compassion.