A shofar is a horn made from the horn of a ram that is blown at certain times of day and for religious rituals in the jewish faith.
Short clip explaining shofars
Midwesterner checking in here. (although I don’t speak nasally or use Chicago slang).
Diagonally: same as you RPers: dye/AG/en/al/lee (don’t know how to do a schwa e)
Diagon Alley: DYE/a/gon . AL/lee.
I think I see where our mix up is. No matter, I get the pun now.
In George R. R. Martin’s Songs of Ice and Fire series, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that Renly and Loras Tyrell were gay lovers.
Seconding Nobody, but I’ve never heard this either. And if it is backwards and they’re on the horses in the ending, who is having the conversation at the beginning? And if it is the Joker and the Thief, what does it mean?
Yeah, his arm changes visibly throughout the scenes as well as the eye patch. IIRC there’s even a scene where Gene Wilder is looking at the Inspector’s arm and seems to be on the verge of asking him about it when he lets it go. There are several Mel Brooke’s movies like this (generally all of them) where if you watch them long enough you’ll catch some small little thing that you missed before.
It would be the Joker and the Thief speaking at the beginning, and the topic would be the same - how to get out of wherever they are. (I guess they would be talking about escaping the area, since they are outside and the wind is howling, rather than perhaps escaping the watchtower.) I hadn’t heard this before, but it’s interesting. Wikipedia cites a 1968 interview where Dylan says the events of the song take place in “a rather reverse order,” which might not be an acknowledgement that he put the first verse last, but indicates the song can be read that way.
Another thread reminded me of one I only figured out recently.
Battlefield Earth: a really bad movie based on a book by L. Ron Hubbard.
John Travolta: an early celebrity Scientologist. “Star” of Battlefield Earth.
Light bulb goes off- there’s a connection!
I am not so sure that Grimauld Place is named for “Grim Old Place”. A grimalkin is a cantankerous old woman–fits Sirius’ mum to a T.
One more Wizard of Oz that I realized at the age of 44 years, 4 months, 22 days…
When the eponymous Wizard leaves Oz, he names the scarecrow as his successor. The scarecrow is a* straw man***.
You and I obviously pronounce Grimauld Place very, very differently. 
Heh. I didn’t mean that Grimalkin would be pronounced the same as Grimauld–I was thinking that grimalkin acted as the inspiration for Grimauld Place.
It probably would have helped if I had included that in my post. :rolleyes: And I wonder why sometimes I’m misunderstood. :smack:
MY G_D! I Just Got SOMETHING!
Jacob is grabbing Esau’s heel/foot/leg as they’re being born.
When Jacob is renamed (reborn as) Israel in the rasslin’ match with The Angel, his leg/thigh is knocked out of place by The Wrestler!
I have read that LOTS OF TIMES and either forgot it or never got it at all!
Now to Rosemary’s Baby- Yes, the Rose is a Medieval symbol for Christ- the olde Christmas song “Lo, how a Rose ere Bloometh…” is a case in point. Also, Mary is called “Lady of the Rose/Roses” as was noted before. I don’t know why people still aren’t getting it.
And as for mine, Strawberry Alarm Clock’s song “Incense and Peppermints”- I loved that song for almost 20 years. Around 1992, I was visiting a pot-head friend who burned a lot of incense and mentioned having to eat a peppermint when her Mom visited. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!:smack:
Also, on SNL soon after Charles and Diana’s wedding, Andy Warhol told a joke:
Where did Prince Charles spend his honeymoon? Indiana.
I thought it was just a stupid non sequiter… for years.
One day when Charles & Diana were in the news- Ohhhhhhhh!:smack:
How? By birthing Liza Minelli?
I googled the lyrics and re-read them (has anyone else noticed how often lyrics Web sites are wrong?). I don’t get it. It doesn’t make sense with the riders being the Joker and the Thief. What makes you think they are? What does the song mean if they are? The lyrics make little enough sense as it is…
Just for the record, referring to “pages” on this site is completely meaningless. Post #175 might be on page 4 for you, but it’s on page 1 for me, and it may be on page 2 for someone else.
There are settings in the User Control Panel that let you determine how many posts you see per page.
I thought “Friends of Dorothy” came from Dorothy Parker of Algonquin Round Table fame…yep, that’s what Wikipedia says too, although I seems to remember a more authoritative source. The phrase goes way back…
So Piglet is a real piglet?
:smack: I’ve seen the movie hundreds of times and never got that till just now. Guess I have you beat at 44 years, 9 months and 21 days.
Isn’t a grimalkin a grey cat?
It’s both!
I see.
Would you believe there are no cats named Grimalkin on Petfinder? I mean, a whole database full of animal shelters, and not one think to name a kitteh Grimalkin. Or Schrodinger, for that matter.
I’ve listened to Helplessly Hoping by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for years, but it wasn’t until earlier this year that I heard this.
As each line is sung, another voice is added.