Me and you and a dog named Boo, traveling and living off the land…
Sounds great, right?
The only way to live off the land over time is farming. Farming and traveling don’t exactly go together.
I don’t think you’d randomly encounter enough sustenance just growing in the wild to live a robust, plant-heavy life AND continue to move from location to location. Especially if you’ve had no formal survival training to speak of.
Thievery is also “living off the land.” Stealing fruit, veggies and such.
Horatius
September 16, 2021, 6:57pm
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Also hunting. Humans have “lived off the land” for most of the time our species has existed, and some groups still do even today.
I tried to find Annie’s original post to get some context but this thread is just too frickin’ long. Anyway, I never took those lyrics to mean literally “living off the land” as in foraging for fruit and berries. I always thought it was meant as shorthand for moving along and taking odd jobs / doing whatever to maintain daily sustenance. In other words, eschewing the conventional life and going wherever the singer’s dreams took him.
JohnT
September 16, 2021, 7:26pm
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Yeah. They’re drifters, of the Easy Rider variety, but with thumbs instead of motorcycles.
If we can count naming products as a “creative work”, I only just realized last night that Pop Secret brand popcorn is a play on the phrase “top secret”.
Sure. But the guy in the song doesn’t sound like someone who’s setting out to stalk deer with a bow & arrow, field dress it, salt and smoke it…
“They had a huge nest egg. They sold cocaine.”
They actually experimented to get it right, for all the good it ended up doing them. It wasn’t buoyant enough to hold them both.
Gyrate
October 14, 2021, 9:53am
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That’s more a back-formation. There are many theories as to the origin of the name, but that’s not one of them. Quote the Wiki:
There have been many theories regarding the origins of Lancelot as an Arthurian romance character. In these postulated by Ferdinand Lot and Roger Sherman Loomis , he is related to Llenlleog (Llenlleawc), an Irishman in Culhwch and Olwen euhemerised Irish deity Lugh Lonbemnech, with " Llwch " meaning “Lake” in Welsh ), possibly via a now-forgotten epithet such as Lamhcalad ,[1] suggesting that they are the same figure. Their similarities beyond the name include wielding a sword and fighting for a cauldron (in Preiddeu Annwn Culhwch ). T. Gwynn Jones claimed links between Lancelot and Eliwlod , a nephew of Arthur in the Welsh legend. Proponents of the Scythian origins of the Arthurian legend have speculated that an early form might have been Alanus-à-Lot , that is “Alan of the Lot River ”,[2] while those looking for clues in antiquity see elements of Lancelot in the Ancient Greek mythical figures of Askalos and Mopsus (Moxus).[3]
Alfred Anscombe proposed in 1913 that the name “Lancelot” came from Germanic * Wlancloth , with roots in the Old English wlenceo (pride) and loða (cloak),[4] in connection with Vinoviloth , the name of a Gothic chief or tribe mentioned in the Getica [5] According to more recent scholars, such as Norma Lorre Goodrich , the name, if not just an invention of the 12th-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes , may have been derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth ’s character Anguselaus, probably a Latinised name of Unguist, the name of a son of the 6th-century Pictish king Forgus; when translated from Geoffrey’s Latin into Old French , it would become Anselaus .[6] Other 6th-century figures proposed in modern times as candidates for the prototype of Lancelot include the early French saint Fraimbault de Lassay;[7] Maelgwn , king of Gwynedd ;[8] and Llaennog (Llaenauc), father of Gwallog , king of Elmet .[9]
Lancelot may have been the hero of a folk tale that was originally independent but was ultimately absorbed into the Arthurian tradition. The theft of an infant by a water fairy , the appearance of the hero at a tournament on three consecutive days in three different disguises, and the rescue of a queen or princess from an Otherworld prison are all features of a well-known and widespread tale, variants of which are found in numerous examples collected by Theodore Hersart de la Villemarqué in his Barzaz Breiz Emmanuel Cosquin in his Contes Lorrains , and by John Francis Campbell in his Tales of the West Highlands . As for his name, “Lancelot” may be a variant of the common name “Lancelin” (as proposed by Gaston Paris in 1881, later supported by Rachel Bromwich ).[10] It is also possibly derived from the Old French word L’Ancelot , meaning “Servant” (the hypothesis first put forward by de la Villemarqué in 1842); Lancelot’s name is actually written this way in several manuscripts.[6]
JohnT:
Sir Lancelot.
Lancelot.
Lance a lot.
He was a jouster.
:man_facepalmining
I didn’t just realize it, but I thought that was the significance of the name too.
It took a while before I realized that the 3 crime-detecting oracles in the movie Minority Report are named after pioneering authors of detective fiction - Agatha (Christie), Arthur (Conan Doyle) and Dashiell (Hammett).
Gyrate
October 14, 2021, 3:01pm
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A stupid one: it took me aaaaaaages to get the “Banana Guard” joke in Adventure Time .
Gyrate
October 14, 2021, 3:36pm
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Princess Bubblegum’s guards are banana guards. They look like this (not counting Finn and Jake there):
The joke is that “banana guards” are a real thing - they’re containers used to transport individual bananas without brusing:
carrps
October 14, 2021, 7:47pm
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Heh, when I was a kid I thought the difference between “hero” and “heroine” was not a gender one, but that a hero was someone who did the saving, and the heroine was the one who got saved.
digs
October 14, 2021, 11:03pm
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I got confused by “heroine” and “heroin”…
I have trouble with clause/Claus.
You can’t fool me. There ain’t no sanity clause.
