And, “sarnies” are “sandwiches,” and the “candy floss salesman” is selling cotton candy (“Up the 'Pool”).
And, a “cherebang” is an old, open-top car (“Wond’ring Again”).
And, “LEM” was the first name for what soon became known as just “LM” – lunar module (“For Michael Collins…”).
You surely know all this – just thought I’d mention it.
Yes; the “E” was for “Excursion.”
Well, maybe not all that obvious, but it kind of fits together…
I just watched a movie I’ve wanted to for a long time – the Swedish silent film Haxan (“Witches”) by Bejamin Christensen. Here’s an image of The Devil from that film.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Haxan+The+Devil&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8rPmc1PXYAhWEzFMKHYOXDKgQ_AUICygC&biw=1440&bih=729#imgrc=XRtQr61PryMO2M:&spf=1516970700579
https://www.google.com/search?q=Haxan+The+Devil&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8rPmc1PXYAhWEzFMKHYOXDKgQ_AUICygC&biw=1440&bih=729#imgrc=VTvMHXYKx3QpWM:&spf=1516970700582
That looked familiar. Then I remembered that I had seen something very similar in two places. One was a poster for the play Dracula:
I’ve always wondered where that image came from. It shows a character with a narrow, green face with eyes and lips outlined in red, and with big fangs, flanked by a huge pair of ears that resemble bat wings. It resembles nothing in the play at all. If I were a theater-goer back then (especially a very young one), I’d be disappointed by the play for lacking this distinctive monster. But it kind of makes sense if it’s meant to invoke the devil from the film. The dating’s right – the poster came out after the 1922 film.
The other image is Etrigan the demon from Jack Kirby’s 1970s DC comic The Demon:
Other artists tended to enlarge those fin-like (as well as bat-wing-like) ears:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Etrigan+the+Demon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje5NDf1PXYAhXD2VMKHZInARYQ_AUICigB&biw=1440&bih=729#imgrc=hxOmVxshJ6EcxM:&spf=1516970936719
Vito Corleone: “I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today.”
He didn’t lie.
In Peanuts, Charlie Brown was bald with one strand of hair. He loved his father, and never mentioned his mother. His father was a barber.
Both Charlie Brown’s and Charles M. Schulz’s fathers were barbers. Charlie Brown was like Schulz in other ways too. There was a red-haired girl that Schulz was in love with as a young man, for instance.
They both also knew someone named Shermy. The real Shermy (Sherman) was one of my professors in college.
I must have gone past Schulz Sr’s barber shop a thousand times on my way to class without realizing it. Finally, I saw it in a TV documentary about Peanuts.
Just watched Ghostbusters (1984) for about the tenth time. It’s finally dawned on me that the bungaling guy next door (Rick Moranis) who keeps locking himself out of his apartment finally becomes the eponymous keymaster. Should have kept hold of his keys I guess. [I mean the very guy who can’t keep his keys becomes the keymaster].
Unlikely, since it would have been dubbed and they didn’t speak German.
Kind of obscure but the Superman villain “The Parasite” once made himself up as human and used the alias “Larcon P. Leech”. Leech, Parasite.
When Kendrick Lamar’s father asks about his dominoes throughout good kid, m.A.A.d city, he’s not talking about pizza.
Don’t you mean æþer and diaereſis?
I’ve seen is used as a business name many times but I just this week noticed that Gentle Dental rhymes.
I was listening to “Hail Columbia” (the USA’s first national air) on WNED FM the other day, and realized it’s basically the same tune as “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.”
Germans don’t use subtitles? :dubious: 
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but in “The Red-Headed League” Holmes says something about “there being no woman in the house” he’s “dismissed the idea of a mere vulgar intrigue.” I didn’t have the faintest idea what he was talking about.
No, a charabanc is an archaic term for an early type of bus, usually open-topped and commonly used for day trips.
In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston boasts of his toughness by saying, “Every last inch of me’s covered with hair.” He pulls open his shirt to reveal that his chest is hairy, but of course, he doesn’t compare to the Beast.
The Big Bang rerun last night was the one where Howard and Bernadette get married. It’s told in flashbacks, their quick wedding before Howard goes into space, and held on a rooftop where the google earth satellite is going overhead. The last scene is a panning of the wedding, going up until the Earth is in view.
The Earth that Howard is now viewing from the space capsule as he is telling the story.
Having been around in ‘77 when Star Wars came out, and being an instant fan, I’ve seen it an infinite number of times. Last October, I noticed that one of C-3PO’s legs is silver!
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