Because the Kaiser ordered his men to “fight like Huns”
And a last name similar to Lechters, the kitchen supply store chain?
I seem to be the only person who caught that connection straightaway.
It’s more likely to suggest his academic proficiency though, isn’t it?
It’s not really ironic at all. In both cases, it’s the skin tone of the leisure class that defines the aesthetic for people with a naturally low melanin level. (The poor work all day in the fields? Pale skin is in! The poor work all day in the factory? Tanned skin is in!) Same thing applies to weight, too.
Comes from an admonition from the Kaiser to his troops during the Boxer Rebellion, to be as savage and warlike as the Huns of old days. That Kaiser, what a card. :rolleyes:
You put an extra “r” in there. 
I had read the Cordwainer Smith stories for years before I realized that Meeya Meefla, the city on Manhome (Earth) where Spaceport was located, was Miami, Fla.
I’d been hearing the song since I was a young teenager, but I was 40 when I finally made the connection. Indeed, the entire song is describing an extended, cocaine-fueled bender.
“Call the doctor, I think I’m gonna crash!”
“Doctor says he’s coming, but you gotta pay him cash”
He’s coming down hard off his high and needs more coke to prevent a big downer. The “doctor” is his cocaine dealer.
This is duplicated (or perhaps originated) in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, wherein the “smart” knight (whose name I can’t recall) who is always wearing his helmet constantly lifts his visor when he speaks, despite the fact that the visor is nothing more than a series of widely-spaced vertical bars (like a … birdcage) that would present no obstacle to his speaking audibly and intelligibly if he left the visor down.
Did you notice that the constellation in the logo is reversed 
I’ve heard of a guy out there somewhere who for years has written articles that attempt to analyze Rush lyrics to prove that Neil Peart is a closeted homosexual. For example, the song “Secret Touch” from the band’s Vapor Trails album. “Secret Touch”? <nod nod wink wink> “The way out is the way in”? <blatant reference to anal sex> “Out of touch with the weather and the wind direction”? <clearly he’s uncomfortable living in a predominantly heterosexual society> “There is never love without pain”? <another blatant anal sex reference!> “Out of touch with the rhythm of my own reactions”? <a reference to Neil’s denial of his own orientation> … and so on.
The truly hilarious part is that Rush wrote the song in response to critics who complained about the long, “epic” songs they’d been recording up to that point, and all the other music industry pundits who kept telling them they needed to write shorter, more “accessible”, radio-friendly songs. These same critics then praised this song as being a celebration of listening to music on the radio. Completely failing to notice that Rush was actually mocking them and the idea that artists should do everything with commercial success in mind.
I am constantly surprised by the number of people my age who have no recollection of that show. It was a daily TV staple for me as a kid in the '70s.
Off-topic, but I just wanted to mention that as I was reading this particular post, Rush’s song “Roll the Bones” came up on my iTunes random mix 
Oh, also, from Hank Williams, Jr’s song, “Family Tradition”:
When that doctor asked me
“Son how’d you get in this condition?”
I said, “Hey Sawbones, I’m just carryin’ on
an old family tradition”
So I strongly suspect that “Sawbones” was a indeed a common nickname for doctors, at least in the Southern US, where McCoy came from, and that fact was probably well-known in the 1960s. By the time this most recent movie came out, the “Sawbones” thing was out-of-date, archaic even, and so they came up with a new explanation.
I never thought about that before, but what you said seems to make a lot of sense. Thanks.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
“Rock Me Gently” - ‘rock me gently, rock me slowly, take it easy, don’t you know, that I have never been loved like this before’
'I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) ‘I’ll do anything that you want me to, but I can’t go for that (no can do), I can’t go for that…’
My memory was that “Bones” as a nickname for a doctor was so common throughout the U.S. that McCoy being called that wasn’t even an obscure reference at the time.
Before he managed the Beatles, Brian Epstein worked in his father’s appliance store, which also sold records, which is how he first became aware of the Beatles. The movie That Thing You Do! has a few Beatles parallels, like the “Careful girls, he’s engaged” caption, but there was one I didn’t catch until literally two days ago. Guy Patterson, the main character, works in his dad’s appliance store, which also sells records.
Yes, both in the real-world and in the movie-verse - it’s obscure in the early 21st century…by the mid-23rd, what are the chances that anyone would know it, aside from historians and literature scholars? Especially with medical technology shown in the Trekverses, making amputations - or even surgery invasive enough to require cutting through bones - even rarer.
Look more closely. The bars of Bedevere’s visor are right in front of his eyes - meaning he can’t see much at all when the visor’s down, despite it offering little protection.
So after my friends and I hashed over the Puff the Magic Dragon (ouch)…
One of them mused over the significance of Paul McCartney’s first album:
Life isn’t a bowl of cherries…
I don’t get it.
Click the link and look at the album cover.
In the book (IIRC) and in the first movie, Manhunter, Hannibal doesn’t eat people, and isn’t called “The Cannibal”. It looks like a thought Thomas Harris had while writing Silence of the Lambs. So, in the Real World, there was at first no coincidence.
But after the second book, you had to retcon it in.
I’ve often thought that the character of James T. Kirk would make more sense if it was given that he came from a sect of people who had decided to freeze their culture at the mid-twentieth century level.
There has been speculation that the song was about smoking pot or doing other drugs but this has been denied repeatedly and consistently by the composer. If you were going to write a song that was intended to be obviously about drugs, why would you deny it forever?
Is that what you meant?