Aww, shucks. ::shyly looks down, twists toe into dirt::
I suppose it depends on whether the construction “to pull an X”, meaning “to imitate X”, dates from the 50s. But given that Heller had a few significant names in the novel, you have to think that Orr has that name for a reason.
I did spot the Scheisskopf/Shithead joke, but I never really understood why Scheisskopf gets that moniker. Sure, he was an asshole with the parades, but he wasn’t a murderous gloryhound, like Cathcart or Peckem. They wanted the men to fly more and more missions; he just wanted 'em to march.
“…Playboy: There is a minor character in Catch-22 named Scheisskopf. At one point, someone refers to him as a Shithead, with a capital S. Since Scheisskopf is German for shithead, it works like a pun, though the capital letter looks as if it were a typographical error. Was that intentional? Heller: Yes, and you’re the first one to comment on it. I’ve waited 14 years for someone to pick that up. I’ve blabbed it to a couple of people myself, but nobody’s asked about it. Playboy: Are there any other so-far-undetected jokes in Catch-22? Heller: There is one more. Playboy: Any chance you’ll tell us what it is? Heller: No chance at all.”
My wife is the world’s biggest Friends nut. She has every season on DVD, watches reruns whenever the TV is on, and knows every line of every episode.
Which is why I was shocked when we recently saw the episode where Rachel and Monica take their apartment back after they’d lost it to Chandler and Joey in a bet. Monica says, “If you let us stay, Rachel and I will kiss for one minute.” Cut to the guys walking back into their old apartment saying, “Totally worth it!”
It’s always been clear to me that Monica and Rachel kissed each other for one minute. But in chatting with Mrs. Wheelz afterward, I found that, after seeing it a bazillion times, she thought that they kissed the guys for one minute.
The look on her face when she realized the truth was priceless. “That makes *so much *more sense!!”
I love “A Christmas Story.” Probably seen it 50+ times. The other day, I’m in the car with my wife and the classical station starts playing a piece that I immediately recognize as music from that movie. Further in the piece, another bit of music from somewhere else in the movie. Almost the entire piece was used in the movie in various places–stings, background, what have you. I asked burpette what the name of the piece was and she looks at me like I belong on the short bus. Now it makes perfect sense that music should be played in a movie about a kid and his cowboy fantasies (at Xmas). The piece was the “Grand Canyon Suite” by Ferde Grofé.
Huh. And all this time I thought the wizard was Jewish, as they were clearly singing, "We’re Off to Seder Wizard… " I guess this now clears up my confusion as to why a tornado was occurring in mid-March.
Here’s one that hit me today, because Gwyneth Paltrow was on The Tonight Show recently and I just watched the episode. Gwyneth has a brand called “Goop”, and she was promoting her new skin care product line.
Anyway, I had previously heard her blog was called “goop”, and wondered about that. Jimmy had to spell it out - her initials are GP. G–P. GooP. :smack:
Right now I’m watching The Godfather Epic on HBO. It re-cuts the first two Godfather films in chronological order, with some scenes not seen in the theatrical versions.
I haven’t seen all of Godfather III, but I’ve seen the ending scene on YouTube.
While watching the opening scenes of the Epic, with Vito’s brother murdered by Don Ciccio, it occurs to me that
the Godfather saga begins and ends with a parent weeping over a murdered child.
It was a labor of several days, in between NCAA Basketball tournament games, but I finally read through this entire thread. I’ve been waiting that long to spring the Cedar Wizard joke. I forgot most of the comments I would have made about some of these timeless mysteries in the thread. I think I can find a couple inside my dusty old skull. I’ll save them for another post.
The Detroit Pistons might seem appropriate for the Motor City, but it fit better in their previous city, Fort Wayne, Indiana. At the time, a whole lot of people there worked to make pistons and piston rings at the Perfect Circle plant.
In the summer of 1967, I worked at the local Burger Chef in Anderson, Indiana. Some customers were predicable in their menu choices. Every Friday, when any group of black people were approaching the front door, the counter girls would sing out “Fish and orange!” More often than not, that’s what the order was. That was the first I had heard of the stereotype. Once I left that job, I never heard about it again until now.
By the way, the girls never said it when customers were around to hear it.
Interesting. There’s a hand cleaner mechanics use that’s called Goop. Perhaps there’s no trademark infringement because they’re unlikely to be sold in the same place and they’re targeting different clientele.
“A Passage to Bangkok” by Rush. I was tempted to mention it in the “Tiny Errors That Drive You Insane” thread, since Bogota, Jamaica and Morocco aren’t even on the same continent as Bangkok and therefore can’t be connected by train. However, a closer inspection of the lyrics revealed that, oh yeah, the song’s definitely about drugs.
