Thing

Thing or The Thing may refer to:

Philosophy

  • An object, being, or entity
  • Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant
  • History

  • Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing assembly
  • Thing (listening device), a Soviet bug used during the Cold War for eavesdropping on the ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • The Thing (art project)
  • Film and television

  • The Thing from Another World, often referred to as The Thing, 1951 science fiction film based on the novella Who Goes There?
  • The Thing (1982 film), a remake of the 1951 film, directed by John Carpenter, more closely following the original novella Who Goes There
  • The Thing (2011 film), a prequel to the 1982 film
  • Thing (The Addams Family), television series character
  • Comics

  • Thing (comics), a superhero in the Marvel Universe and member of the Fantastic Four
  • The Thing!, a 1950s comic book series from Charlton Comics
  • Video games

  • The Thing (video game), a 2002 video game sequel based after the events of the 1982 film
  • Thing (comics)

    The Thing (Benjamin "Ben" Grimm) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is a founding member of the Fantastic Four. The character is known for his trademark rocky orange appearance, sense of humor, blue eyes, and famous battle cry, "It's clobberin' time!". The Thing's speech patterns are loosely based on those of Jimmy Durante.

    Actor Michael Bailey Smith played Ben Grimm in The Fantastic Four film from 1994, Michael Chiklis portrayed the Thing in the 2005 film Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, while Jamie Bell acted the part in 2015's Fantastic Four.

    In 2011, IGN ranked the Thing 18th in the "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes", and 23rd in their list of "The Top 50 Avengers" in 2012. The Thing was named Empire magazine's tenth of "The 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters" in 2008.

    Publication history

    Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961).

    Thing (The Addams Family)

    Thing T. Thing, often referred to as just Thing, is a fictional character in the The Addams Family series. Thing was originally conceived as a whole creature (always seen in the background watching the family) that was too horrible to see in person. The only part of him that was tolerable was his human hand (this can be seen in the 1964 television series. The Addams called him "Thing" because he was something that could not be identified. Thing was changed to a disembodied hand for the 1991 and 1993 Addams Family movies.

    In Spain it was called Cosa ("Thing") while in other Spanish-speaking countries it was named Dedos ("Fingers"); in German-speaking countries das eiskalte Händchen ("the little ice-cold hand"); in Portuguese-speaking countries Mãozinha ("Little Hand") or Coisa ("Thing"); and in Italian was called Mano ("Hand"). It was also named "Ting" (An easy word for calling a dog in the Thai language).

    Appearances

    Thing was the creation of Charles Addams, who drew the Addams Family cartoons in The New Yorker magazine, beginning in the 1930s. He first appeared in Addams's 1954 book Homebodies. One of Addams's cartoons shows the Addams mansion with a sign at the front saying "Beware of the Thing." Additionally, Thing has been in the original television series (1964-66), the revived series The New Addams Family (1998), in the related movies The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values (1993) and Addams Family Reunion (1998), and the 1992 animated series.

    Som

    Som, SOM or Søm may refer to:

    Geography and transportation

  • Somalia, the country whose ISO 3166 three-letter code and IOC Olympic country code is "SOM"
  • State of Michigan, the 26th State of the United States
  • Som, Uttar Pradesh, a town in India
  • Søm, a borough in Kristiansand, Norway
  • SOM Center Road, one designation of Ohio State Route 91
  • Somerset Railroad (New York), a rail carrier whose reporting mark is "SOM"
  • Education

  • School of Management, a business school
  • School of Medicine, a medical school
  • School of Music, a music school
  • Medicine

  • Serous otitis media, a type of infection of middle ear
  • Superior oblique muscle, one of the extraocular muscles controlling eye movements
  • Military

  • SOM (missile), a cruise missile of the Turkish Air Force
  • The Russian submarine Som, lead ship of the Som-class submarines.
  • Music

  • The Sisters of Mercy (SoM), an English gothic rock band
  • Som Wardner, Sri Lankan/British musician, frontman of My Vitriol
  • State of Mind (band) (SoM), a drum and bass duo from New Zealand
  • Science & Technology

    Uzbekistani som

    The som (Uzbek: soʻm in Latin script, сўм in Cyrillic script) is the currency of Uzbekistan in Central Asia. The ISO 4217 currency code is UZS.

    Etymology

    In the Soviet Union, speakers of Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek called the ruble the som, and this name appeared written on the back of banknotes, among the texts for the value of the bill in all 15 official languages of the Union. The word som (sometimes transliterated "sum" or "soum") means "pure" in Kyrgyz, Uyghur and Uzbek, as well as in many other Turkic languages. The word implies "pure gold".

    First som

    Like other republics of the former Soviet Union, Uzbekistan continued using Soviet/Russian ruble after independence. On July 26, 1993, a new series of Russian ruble was issued and old Soviet/Russian ruble ceased to be legal tender in Russia. Some successor states had their national currencies before the change, some chose to continue using the pre-1993 Soviet/Russian ruble, and some chose to use both the pre-1993 and the new Russian ruble. Tables of modern monetary history: Asia implies that both old and new rubles were used in Uzbekistan.

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    A big legged woman down?
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    What makes you feel so good
    When your baby gets down her evening gown?
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    When your baby gets down her evening gown?
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    That makes a preacher man lay his Bible down
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    Well, it's the same old thing
    Better tell me who is to blame




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