Beam.
A support in a building. A ray of sunlight. To be obviously happy.
Or to transfer matter over a distance by breaking down the molecules into energy patterns and replicating the matter.
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Yep. 1982. The movie was obviously named after the song. It was my senior year of high school but I lived on the West Side of Los Angeles and we had been bagging the Valley kids for years and making fun of how they talked. It was the Zappa song that brought it from an L.A. area joke into popular culture. I remember going away to college and telling my schoolmates that “yes, they really do talk that way.”
And what was your point in quibbling over the Thackeray quote unless to argue that the phrase “perfect storm” was born of the novel/movie? Just argument for argument’s sake? :dubious:
meow it’s getting nerdy
Jesus, calm down.
The point was that your cite of Thackeray was bogus. Your cite of Webster came in a later post which I hadn’t read when I was responding, and in any case, it did not make Thackeray un-bogus. On the contrary, it confirmed that it was bogus, by saying that the first known use of the modern sense was nearly 70 years later.
If you can’t handle a very civil disagreement any better than this, maybe this forum isn’t for you.
I can’t wait until the SDMB movie.
When I hear “bird of prey” in the context of Star Trek, I think Romulans.
For me, raptor = bird of prey (non-Star Trek version). And Velociraptors are this big, not this big.
Hijack: Jeez, haven’t seen that username in ages! I hope you’re doing well.
There’s more than onekind of Raptor.
Warp - twisted! or faster than light?
More than one kind of dromaeosaur, perhaps, but still only two species of Velociraptor (unless you’re Gregory S. Paul). And the ones in the JP series weren’t either of them.
I wonder if they were named after the birds or the dinosaurs, or both.
How about “Time Warp”?
Neither. The correct answer is “Zone”.
Though that one’s from video games.
Here’s an old one. Gaslighting, a term meaning to trick someone so they doubt their own sanity, came from the movie “Gas Light”.
After 1998 there was a significant uptick in men named Donnie being told to “shut the fuck up.”
10 introduced the concept of rating people’s attractiveness, and eventually rating a lot of things, on a ten-point scale.
(And the funny thing is, the title is not quite accurate. Moore’s therapist asks, “How would you rate this woman on a scale of one to ten?” and he says “Eleven.”)
For Raptor I still think bird of prey - it would never occur to me to think anything else (till I read this thread)
I don’t have anything else - except to say that I found out last week that The Bard was the first one to coin the term “Fencing” (the sport) - at least according to wiki.
Bill and Ted did it first.
“Stepford” as an adjective, popularized by both Levin’s book and the subsequent movie.