Emma Peel = M appeal (i.e., man appeal)
I don’t know if I’d call that obvious… With it pointed out, I can see the influence, but without the glasses and the suit, the resemblance is barely passing.
I’m not convinced it’s about SPF. I was always confused what having a pistol had to do with anything before I settled on the old time record player explanation.
One of the best Ringo albums is Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr.
On it,Act Naturally. Now Ringo can do a pretty good American accent, but I thought his accent here was amazing- until I learned it was a duet with Buck Owens.:smack::eek:
This happened in the past 15 minutes.
A friend on FB posted an article about how dangerous arsenic has been found in large batches of wine as a little is sometimes used in the fermenting process.
Of course, comments start referring to “Aresenic and Old Lace”.
I think about the flavor of wine the old ladies used.
Elderberry.
Elder Bury.
MIND BLOWN!
As a hormonal, nerdy teen girl I read James Kirkwood Jr.'s “Good Times, Bad Times” and had a mad fantasy crush on Jordan, the sensitive young man with heart trouble. Narrator Peter, his friend, wasn’t so bad either. I daydreamed many a scenario where I had a passionate affair with one or the other of them.
I read the book again years later and realized I had completely overlooked the homoerotic overtones. Not only were Jordan and Peter out of my reach because they were fictional characters, had they somehow come to life exactly as written, I wouldn’t have met their criteria for romantic involvement. Dammit!
(I have mixed feelings about the book now. It was in some ways a wonderful novel; I wasn’t the only one who identified strongly with it. But the plot was ultimately self-loathingly anti-gay; had the author (gay himself) written the same book at a time more accepting of homosexuality surely he wouldn’t have tied the headmaster’s evil to his sexual orientation.)
Listening to Queen, I suddenly realized they did more great songs with fewer musical instruments than any band in history. They are practically an a capella band.
Of course, when you’re working with Freddy Mercury’s 3+ octave voice, who needs instruments?
Yes, several of their albums boasted “No synths!”
You know, the idea of the hero being left to deal with bad circumstances alone, while the father / wizard figure does nothing to intervene, is seen elsewhere too. Such as the relationship between Wotan & Siegmund in Wagner’s Die Walkure.
Surely, then, the citizens of Diamond City would approve.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Don’t all roads lead to Rome?
That song has a somewhat unusual recording history. Buck Owens recorded his version of it in 1963. Ringo Starr recorded his version of it in 1965. And then Owens and Starr recorded a new version as a duet in 1989.
No. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork but some people are walking along them the wrong way. 
Huh, interesting.
It just now hit me why Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat uses an Elvis impersonator as Pharaoh, who sings The song of the King?
Get it? Elvis the King?
Caddyshack is one of my all-time favorite movies. However, my brain didn’t click on the double-entendre of the name of the country club (Bushwood) until I ordered a “Property of Bushwood Country Club 1980” shirt - and wore it for the first time. :smack:
From Memphis!
The new Harley Quinn movie got me thinking about the character. I’ve been a fan of her since Batman the Animated Series and even own an original animation cel (the only one I own, actually), so we’re talking nearly 30 years. She was originally voiced by actress Arleen Sorkin and even inspired by her appearance in Days of our Lives. more Harley Quinn origin Arleen Sorkin Days of Our Lives video - YouTube It never occurred to me that her name was, too. Harley Quinn, obviously, is a take off on Harlequin. in keeping with the week puns of comic book villain names, it was supposedly based upon her “real” name Harleen Quinzel. They even reference it in the new animated series on DC where the Joker says he gave her her name and she replies, “You got Harley Quinn from Harleen Quinzel? I mean, come on!” I have NO idea why it never occurred to me until this week that the real inspiration’s name Arleen Sorkin just needs an “H” and it’s Harleen. I had so completely dismissed the obvious reference to her real name due to the pun within a pun of her name being a “clown” and the weak “kayfabe” justification for that name.
I was about to protest that surely they came up with the character’s name and it was purely coincidence that the actress who voiced her had a similar first name.
But it’s not that simple.
They might have named the character Harley Quinn even if Arleen had not been a factor, but this suggests that her name may have inspired that choice.