Lion, obviously.
Viceroy, possibly.
Given his reputed origins, he chose, well… human.
But not, it must be stressed, a tame lion.
I have read To Kill a Mockingbird countless times over the last thirty years. Last night I suddenly had a revelation. At the end of the book, when Heck Tate is demonstrating how Bob Ewell fell on his knife, he pulls out a switchblade to show how it might have been done. Atticus asks him where he got the knife. Heck says he took it off a drunk.
And that’s when I finally figured out that he took the switchblade off Bob Ewell’s body. For some reason, I always believed the story he told about Ewell finding a kitchen knife in the dump. No, he had the switchblade. The other knife came from the Radley’s kitchen.
Canonically, a lamb
But a really kick-ass lamb who absolutely hates money-changers
Lambs can grow up to be rams, and one thing I learned on my Grandfather’s farm is the you do not fuck with the rams.
A bee.
As in “what the bee-Jesus?”
But on the other hand, ewe absolutely do fuck with the rams.
Not after we’re done with the rams.
Well, they DID run The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on the Disney Channel a lot, back in the day…and then they made their own version…
So, if we work from that angle, in at least 66.6% of his distinct incarnations across the universe, Jesus was a talking lion.
Ergo, Jesus is likely a furry.
“That is LOGIC, is it NOT!?”
…
('Pretty sure that’s poor logic, math, AND theology, actually)
Skunk.
A few years ago I finally realized that the music played when Rob Petrie gets involved with the law on The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 3, Episode 12 - The Sound of Trumpets... - Full Episode - YouTube
is almost the same as when law enforcement gets serious on the Andy Griffith Show. Andy's earned authority - YouTube
This is because Earle Hagen did the music for both shows.
Never noticed watching the movie but saw a youtube documentary last night and realized that the MC of the Playboy show in Apocalypse Now was Bill Graham.
The Martian poll in the “Polls only” thread reminded me, I only recently realized the Loony Toons character Marvin the Martian’s appearance is reminiscent of a Roman centurion… because Mars is the Roman god of war. I mean it’s not really something you’d expect me to figure out as a child, but it’s one of those things that you realize when you missed when you rewatch stuff as an adult.
A I mentioned on this Board (in this thread, in fact, I think), as a kid I hadn’t noticed that the Sheriff of Nottingham in the cartoon Rabbit Hood is wearing a classic US Western-style hat (with a star) , vest (also with star) and boots, along with Elizabethan ruff around his neck and pantaloons. Also an Olde English long hairstyle, but with a Western -style moustache. His costume combines elements of an Old WEst sheriff with things from English historical costume (although not period-accurate. For any period.)
Christopher Lloyd’s amplifier in Back to the Future has the same model number as the “CRM-114 Discriminator” in Dr. Strangelove (and the 1958 novel).
She Talks to Angels
Song by The Black Crowes
“She paints her eyes as black as night now
She pulls her shades down tight
Girl, give a smile when the pain come
Pain, the only thing don’t make it alright”
Not that I ever gave it a lot of thought, but I always assumed it was window shades. It’s sunglasses.
Just dawned on me today…
::smack head::
I ponder that every time I hear the song.
Also, I thought the lyric went:
She gives a smile when the pain comes
The pain’s gonna make everything all right
As in, she’s shooting up drugs with a needle.
You are probably correct. I C&P the lyrics from the internet, so good chance they are wrong
I didn’t double-check as I was only looking for the “shades” part.
I listened to the rest of it more closely as well. Seems like she might have lost a child. Maybe the kid died and she turned to heroin? She wears a cross because she wants to meet her child in heaven again?
Or maybe she started using and her husband divorced her and she lost custody over her addiction.
Anyway, its a much better song (lyrically) than I’ve always assumed it was.