Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
uh huh. sure he did… and Lucy O’Donnell had kaleidoscope eyes and liked marmalade skies, right?
John was also inspired by Through the Looking Glass, primarily chapter 5.
I am sometimes suspicious as well, the best example I can think of was that Panic! at the Disco claimed to not have been named after the Smiths song Panic in which the singer exhorts one to “Hang the DJ”.
CalMeacham @#8:. Don’t forget the twin Bubbles Mountains in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
Supposedly named after some NYC/Bar Harbor 19th century plutocrat’s mistress’s bazongas.
I live near Popple Dungeon Road. It’s been there for over a hundred years, so I guess somebody ripped off the name for the 1980’s kids cartoon “The Popples”. Such a weird word, it can’t just be a coincidence.
Elon Musk should be beaten with a rolled up newspaper.
Bad Dog! BAD DOG!
Oh, there are LOTS of paired voluptuously round hills and mountains around the world named after boobs.
My complaint about Grand Tetons is that they’re not --they’re craggy, angular things. There’s a lot more than two of them, and if they were actual boobs they look as if you could cut yourself on them.
People were not always literal back then, and there was no fetish for absolute accuracy.
Given the fact that “tétons” is a French word for “nipples,” that’s clearly what was being referred to. Unless you can come up with another definition for the word.
The makers of Soylent nutritional smoothies are adamant that their product is named after the one from Harry Harrison’s novel Make Room! Make Room!
It’s definitely not named after the identically-named product from the much more well-known movie adaptation of that novel. No sir. No sirree Bob.
Easily.
“Tits” , from “teats”, arguably refers only to the nipples, but the term is used for the entire breast. Plenty of internet sites translate “Teton” as breast, including the Cambridge Dictionary online – TÉTON | translate French to English - Cambridge Dictionary
Gene Roddenberry always claimed when he came up with a one syllable name for his character he had never heard of the famous doctor with the same name.
“Highly illogical” says Mr. Spock.
Billy beer was pretty god awful.
Well, “soylent” in the book is made from a combination of soy beans and lentils. But in the movie, as everyone knows…
Soylent Green is People!!
Just when you think people might start to forget this, Cloud Atlas came along and revived the meme.
Plus that Wikipedia article also mentions Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow.
A 30-year-old computer game features Soylent Gray as a tradable commodity.
Yeah, the Tetons are about the most un-breast-like mountains on the planet.
And I don’t think that the Beatles have ever denied that the surreal lyrics of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” were drug-inspired: It’s just the name that they deny. Which, to me, lends credence, since if they were going to lie about it, I’d expect them to lie about everything. Plus, of course, the picture still exists.
The video game Perfect Dark revolves around a futuristic young female secret agent named Joanna Dark who winds up singlehandedly saving the Earth through her adventure. The British makers of the game claim the fact her name highly resembles “Joan of Arc” or “Jeanne d’Arc” is just a coincidence, but the name is way too close for me to believe that. As to why they would lie about it, they might just being cheeky.
Jackie Cooper was nominated but he didn’t win. Lionel Barrymore won.
I’ve argued several times that George Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead looks as if it owes a lot to the 1959 movie Invisible Invaders – resurrected “living dead” walking around stiff-armed and stiff-legged, often dressed in business suits and with stares and dark circles under the eyes, attacking the Living. You even had it being caused by an extraterrestrial satellite, as Romero’s film alludes to near the end of NotLD.
But Romero claims that he was inspired by Matheson’s novel I am Legend, but even Matheson wasn’t impressed by that explanation. In Matheson’s novel the monsters are described as vampires, not zombies (zombies, at the time, didn’t generally seek to attack people), even going so far as to “scientifically” explain aspects of vampirism as the results of a plague. Nowadays, zombification is sometimes portrayed as the result of a disease, but it was a new thing when Matheson wrote his novel, and was clearly intended as a vampire explanation, not a zombie one.
In short, NotLD has much more in common with Invisible Invaders. I wonder if Romero ignored that more likely explanation in order to avoid any sort of legal action.
I remember as a kid in the early '60s watching a commercial for Yoohoo soda, maybe? which starred an animated Yogi Berra climbing to the top of the outfield wall. Confused the hell out of me, as the ad clearly had nothing to do with Yogi Bear. (My family just wasn’t in to sports!)
Yeah, I remember those. They featured sort of cutout animation of a baseball player (which had Yogi Berra’s face pasted in place as his head) climbing the wall. It was, indeed, for Yoo-hoo (which isn’t a soda, nor is it chocolate milk. It’s sui generis chocolate drink).
I can’t find it in YouTube, and the sites I bring up are clogged with ads.