My husband after I did something playfully risky: You went right up to the edge of the deep, didn’t you? Who are you, Nemo?"
Me: What does Nemo have to do with…? Oh, you mean the fish? At first, I thought you meant the…underwater adventurer… Ohhhh.
The fish. Named Nemo. After Nemo.
That’s Nemo-ist.
The Beatles’ Revolver - I have literally just realised it is not named after a gun. A record revolves. I am very dense sometimes.
Don’t feel bad. I didn’t get the BEATles referred to a drum beat until I read it here.
or both (from wiki)
The album’s title, like that of Rubber Soul, is a pun,[75] referring to both a kind of handgun and the “revolving” motion of a record as it plays on a turntable.[304] Gould views the title as a “McLuhanesque pun”, since, more so than on their previous albums, the focus of Revolver appears to rotate from one Beatle to another with each song.[282][nb 24]
The name of the Beatles are claimed to come from several sources, like the group The Crickets, the word “beat”, the word “beatnik”, a motorcycle group named “the Beetles” in the 1953 movie The Wild One, etc.
The story I know is Paul had a dream and woke up and said, “The name is Beatles, with an A” and everyone was like, “cool.” I didn’t know much more thought had gone into it.
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That’s the one.
It’s possible for a name to be inspired from several sources.
Indeed. My son’s name was inspired from several sources. One of which I wouldn’t share with any but my closest friends. So who knows?
One of my favorite videos is Cold-hearted Snake by Paula Abdul
Tonight I was watching “All That Jazz”, and one of the numbers obviously inspired Abdul’s video
Take Off With Us
Videos blurred because they are somewhat NSFW
ETA: this is kind of cheating because I only saw All That Jazz when it first came out
As an aside, the lead dancer in that sequence (the one in black, and then nothing) is Sandahl Bergman, who is most famous for playing Valeria in Conan the Barbarian.
I thought it was a reference to the beatnik movement (even though they weren’t really part of that movement).
As I wrote above, it’s probably inspired by several things, like the group The Crickets, the word “beat”, the word “beatnik”, a motorcycle group named “the Beetles” in the 1953 movie The Wild One , etc.
One of the executives looks a bit like Michelle Forbes, and the timing would be about right. I wonder if it’s her.
On The Big Bang Theory, when Howard and Bernadette are video chatting while he’s away at astronaut training camp, he tells her about a night of survival training where he had to dig a hole to sleep in with his bare hands and that some time in the night an armadillo climbed in and spooned him. I only just noticed that the scratch on his face looks like an armadillo print
The rock music coming out of Liverpool in the early '60s was called Mersey beat or just Beat music.
Of course they were thinking of the Crickets and Beat poets and, who knows, maybe Lee Marvin’s gang as well.
Good spot. The voice fits too; it’s definitely her.
I’ve been watching Jeopardy! for years. At the beginning of each episode, Johnny Gilbert announces the players with one of several different introductions: “Please welcome today’s contestants,” “Let’s meet today’s contestants,” and so forth.
It took me until about a month ago to realize that it’s not random. There are five different introductions, each one corresponding to a day of the week.