I just realized, today that “Will and Grace” are both common nouns as well as proper nouns, and that this is probably ironically intentional.
I just rewatched the Alastair Sim A Christmas Carol (Scrooge). In the scene where Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning, he says, “I’ll stand on my head” and proceeds to do so.
His housekeeper runs screaming from the room.
I alway thought it was because he was acting so bizarrely. This time, I realized he was wearing a nightshirt – with fell down, revealing his underwear – or more if he didn’t wear any. No wonder she left screaming.
I think I posted something about this in this very thread about four years ago (?). But more than just that, their names are particularly ironic choices.
Will is typically a pushover to Grace, Jack, his parents, etc. He is (sometimes) the voice of reason, but has difficulty asserting himself or putting his foot down and often ends up going along with whatever crazy shenanigans Jack or Grace concoct…because he has no Will power.
Grace is scattered, neurotic, always at loose ends, and has a habit of flailing around awkwardly in the worst possible situations. She lacks social Grace.
For a long time, our local ABC affiliate’s tagline was “The One and Only Channel 10.”
One and only.
1 & 0.
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It’s been a long time. Is this an experimental drive that was installed on an existing sub? Even if not, I could see funding considerations determining that the drive gets proved in the first, pilot sub and then an optimal design using the proven technology gets made later, with data from the pilot test.
Hunt for Red October: The sub was built around the drive. It was (kind of) a prototype, I suppose, at least the first of its class. It had both a stealth drive and regular propellers. I guess they weren’t quite confident in the new drive, or maybe it’s better for cruising than for driving around the parking lot, so to speak.
My college roommate went into mechanical engineering, specialized in vibration, and did some work on quieting subs.
He pointed out to me an error in the scenes where they showed the sub moving on the new caterpillar magneto-hydraulic drive would show the propellers (screws?) motionless (to emphasize that it was the new stealth drive pushing the sub and NOT the screws. He pointed out to me that if the screws were “locked” like that, the water rushing past the screws would make horrible cavitation and noise. It would run quieter if they let the screws “freewheel” like a windmill.
However—the killer rabbit incident took place in 1979 and the bunny wunnies’ visit to Plains appeared in 1977–so no connection unless Schulz was psychic.
I did not know that. It’s one helluva coincidence.
It’s also based on the flag of Bavaria, which is where the company is headquartered.
Huh. I always thought of it as similar to a draughtman’s symbol for center of mass/ gravity…
So Jem is his father?
Yes. Makes sense, doesn’t?
One that had to be pointed out to me by Word of Author a few days ago: I read a webcomic called Erfworld, about a gamer named Parson Gotti who gets magically transported to a gamelike fantasy world. In an author’s note recently, the author said something like “This comic has a protagonist. You can tell because his name is an anagram of ‘protagonist’.”
…Yes. Of course it is.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, but has anyone noted the use of “ROBINson” as well? Is there any other character who corresponds to this birding theme? 
Similar to my previous belated realization on Margot Robbie’s nationality.
I’ve seen Benedict Wong in a few movies. And I never realized he was English until I saw him doing an interview today.
This is what she said two years ago, yes. I still wonder, though: could the song be about a woman? Perhaps someone she met at Sarah Lawrence? The lyrics certainly fit in places. Would a man or a woman be more likely to wear a hat obscuring one eye? Would a man or a woman be more likely to wear an apricot scarf? Does the phrase “pretty pair” evoke a man and a woman or two women? The subject of the song “had [her] several years ago,” but the song was written only a few months after her tryst with Beatty - but seven years after her time at Sarah Lawrence.
The third verse doesn’t fit so well with a woman. If it’s meant to be taken literally, it’s about someone wealthy, powerful, and libertine. The interview above says that Beatty is definitely not the man in verse three, and the whole international intrigue angle wouldn’t fit his persona. Willie Donaldson is probably the best fit. He was wealthy, a conspicuous spender, ran with crowds that dealt in political power, and slept with many women–perhaps not in Beatty’s league, but up there.
Sorry–digression.
Once again, for '70s-era Mick Jagger, that was Tuesday, right?
Well, if we take as a starting point that she’s said the “pretty pair” verse was about Warren Beatty, then I guess the question becomes: what would Warren Beatty have said to a woman he wanted to bed? And I figure the answer is: whatever he thought would have the right effect. And I figure the follow-up question is did it work, and the answer to that is he probably thought this song was about him.
Reading Dumbing of Age, I’ve occasionally wondered why IU’s logo is a psi.
Then, it suddenly occurred to me today - it’s an I overlaid with a U.
In Demolition Man, the futuristic cop computer is L7.
It’d s future where everyone is pretty square.
L7 used to be slang for square.
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