And Pleiades is Greek for “groups of seven”, which explains why there are six stars in the logo.
The Pleiades is a cluster of stars. Early skywatchers called this group “the Seven Sisters”, based on a Greek myth involving seven sisters. “Only the most acute eyes can see all Seven Sisters. How many can you see?” was the challenge.
There are actually many more than seven stars in the cluster, but only six are bright enough to be seen by most viewers. There is no single “seventh” star bright enough to be the seventh sister, without also invoking eight, nine, ten,…
I was watching “Sunset Boulevard” out of the corner of my eye while working, and it occurred to me … that movie is a gender reversal of the story of the young ingenue who goes to Hollywood and doesn’t succeed in her dream to be a star and winds up someone’s mistress. Old as the hills, but … nicely refurbished!
I’m watching Raiders of the Lost Ark for the umpteenth time in thirty-five years…and I noticed something new.
The Staff of Ra is supposed to be 5 kadams* in height - six, less one to “honour the Hebrew god whose Ark this is”. Six kadam is about 72" according to Sallah, thus the Staff should be 60" high.
When Indy is down in the Well, holding the Staff of Ra, the Staff looks to be about a foot taller than he is - certainly no less than half a foot. Harrison Ford is 6’1". He does not appear to be standing in a hole, and the medallion is no more than 4" in diameter.
He’s digging in the wrong place! I am the monarch of the sea….
In Rosemary’s Baby, the titular Rosemary is the human mother of a son fathered by the Devil. It’s a flip version of Jesus being born of Mary and God. So Rose-Mary’s Baby is a parallel of Mary’s Baby.
While I was in hospital (FLU SUCKS), I binged (among other things) the first couple seasons of Archer.
Part way into season 3…I notice the running gag of Lana drinking a lot of orange soda. And nobody else ever comments on it, despite the level of casual racism that gets tossed around at the ISIS offices. Surprisingly subtle gag.
How long has that been a thing? I don’t remember coming across that stereotype until the 1990s. Before then, I thought grape, orange, and other fruit-flavored pop was more likely to consumed to by kids. That was certainly the case for me since grape soda was my favorite when I was between the ages of 6 and 10.
I have actually heard about the grape flavored pop being favored by the Black population, but I also did not hear of it until I was about 30 years old(7 years ago). No idea where that came from. I had not heard about the orange flavor being popular until just now.
I’ve forgotten where I heard about the grape flavor popularity thing, though. Must have been on TV somewhere.
The same stereotype applies to Asians - although I’m not sure the stereotype would be commonly known to people who have never worked in a field where they sold beverages.
Are you talking about Asians in Asia or Asian-Americans? Asian pop is more likely to be fruit-flavored but I think Asian-American’s taste in soda doesn’t vary that much from the rest of the populace.
For our nightly bedtime comedy show, we are currently semi-binge watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus. We just watched S3E07 “The Atilla The Hun Show” and in one bit there’s a green Chesterfield sofa playing cricket at Lord’s cricket ground.
In Douglas Adams’ Life, the Universe and Everything, Arthur and Ford travel to Lord’s cricket ground on a Chesterfield sofa (via a time eddy).
In both cases, their are radio announcers calling the game who remark on the sofa, etc., in similar ways.
Adams did meet Graham Chapman and then got to write and appear on MPFC, but that was in Season 4.
Not as obvious as the biscuit story, but I should have seen it earlier.
