Holy crap. 
It wasnt that long for me, but at least a decade!
AIUI John Lennon said it was because groups like theirs were referred to as beat groups, and he wanted another insect name like The Crickets.
And Paul McCartney said that the origin was “clouded in mystery”:
That article doesn’t invalidate the other possibilities. It doesn’t even get the group’s preceding name right: The Quarrymen, not the Quarry Men.
“Yeah, well my online reference can beat up your online reference!”
And speaking of Beetles, I recall reading that Mort Walker used a day-of-the-week theme in the Beetle Bailey comic strip. The example given was the Miss Buxley character, and I remember noticing a few times that it panned out.
From that article.
While Paul thinks the actual origin of The Beatles’ name is “clouded in mystery,” he does have a theory about it. According to his memory, they were “striving to find something with a dual meaning because of The Crickets.”
There was cricket the game and crickets the little grasshoppers. Paul wrote, “What if we could find an insect that also had some double meaning?
Perhaps in Great Britain that would be a double meaning, but would a Texan like Buddy Holly refer to “Cricket” the game? So, it’s kind of interesting that the most iconic name in Rock and Roll was likely founded on an assumed but mistaken impression.
I put on Raiders of the Lost Ark last night to take up the time until the news, and I noticed something that I hadn’t before.
When Marion and Indiana are alone in the stateroom aboard the ship, after kissing him on his “not sore” spots, he lies back and she grabs his fedora by the brim and casually flips it over her shoulder…
…and that’s the last time he wears it for the rest of the film.
Oh, he does appear in a fedora when he’s in Washington, and speaking on the steps with Marion. But it looks like a new and clean fedora. Even if it somehow is the one he’d been wearing through the film, we only get that glimpse of it. But when he’s hiding from the Nazis on the ship, or swimming out to the sub, or skulking around the Nazi base, threatening to blow up the Ark, and then stands tied to a stake with Marion, he’s hatless for a twenty minute or so stretch.
It’s jarring to realize, because it was something of a running joke throughout the Indiana Jones films that Indy was rarely without his hat, particularly during action scenes (You could understand his not wearing it during the dining scenes in Temple of Doom, or at Donovan’s party in Last CRusade.) He’s shown grasping it from underneath a sliding rock trap, or it stubbornly staying on his head during a horse chase. And when it comes off his head just before the tank goes over the edge in Last Crusade, it conveniently blows back up so he can put it on.
These were supposedly due to the difficulty of maintaining continuity in the movie serials that inspired the Indiana Jones series. So they simply avoided any lack of continuity by having the characters always wearing their headgear.
But that lack of the characteristic Jones fedora during that last action scenes in the very first Indiana Jones movie is surprising. I suppose they did it because it would’ve been hard to believe that Jones swam out to the German Submarine, still wearing his hat.
Although I note that he kept the damned thing on when swimming through the river to escape the Jovitos at the very beginning of the same film.
I was watching it yesterday, too. When Indy is fighting with the Nazis on the truck taking he Ark to Cairo, he get thrown through the windshield and winds up sliding along the road under the truck. He wedges the handle of his whip into the bottom of the truck, the slides out the back and climbs up the tailgate. He doesn’t bring the whip with him, although it stays attached under the truck.
I didn’t notice if he’s shown with the whip in the rest of the film.
that sorta bothered me, too. But he could’ve retrieved the whip from under the truck after he drove it into that garage in the square (where the locals quickly disguised the garage as a fruit stand, flummoxing the Nazis).
Notice that throughout his ordeal on the truck, he kept his hat.
Is that a quote from Girl Genius or did they steal it from someplace else?
Well, I got it from Girl Genius. And I’ve never seen it in earlier works, but you’d have to ask the Foglios to be sure.
I’d guess that it was original to them, based on the role of hats in Jäger culture, but then again, that was from fairly early in the strip, so maybe that exchange was the genesis of the importance of Jägerhats.
Oh, and a new entry for the thread: The youngest Simpson child is named after her mother. Margaret Simpson I and Margaret Simpson II.
Marge is short (in this case) for Marjorie, not Margaret.
Maggie, however, is short of Margaret.
I re-watched The Sting recently, but this time with captioning on. I’m amazed how many lines and words I missed, simply because they were unfamiliar slang said quickly. In particular, I missed that Redford’s Johnny Hooker called Lonegan’s two henchmen “Mutt” and “Jeff”.
If you’re not familiar, “Mutt and Jeff” was a long-running (1906-1983) comic strip about a tall guy (“Mutt”) and a short one (“Jeff”) . Apparently the names slipped into police slang for a tall guy and a short guy pair.
Hooker, though, calls the shorter guy “Mutt” and the taller one “Jeff”, probably because he encounters them in that order.
I was about to reply that ‘Mutton Jeff’ is cockney rhyming slang for ‘deaf’ (e.g. ‘he’s a bit mutton’) but it actually seems to be a corruption of exactly this, ‘Mutt and Jeff’. So that’s something I didn’t know until now.
Adding to something I posted here a few months ago about the film Se7en:
The reason for not lingering is probably that a very similar shot appears toward the end of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, when the Mexican bandits surprise Bogart’s character at a waterhole. I assume director David Fincher or cinematographer Darius Khondji or somebody thought it would be better to keep the shot brief so that it would be interpreted as a homage or nod to John Huston’s film (rather than being interpreted as shamelessly stealing the idea). In any event, I still think the shot in Se7en could have been just a second or two longer.
In the same vein - A clip from Avengers: Age of Ultron just popped up on my Youtube feed. It’s the scene where the Avengers arrive at Hawkeye’s safe house and meet his family. Thor has a vision and walks outside to leave. Steve follows him. After Thor rockets off, Steve turns to enter the house, then stops. He stands there for a minute, framed by the door, then turns and walks away. The exact same setup and framing as the end of John Ford’s The Searchers.
Oh, yeah, that one’s been used in many films. I can’t name any, but I remember seeing the scenes on some TV program about cinema. There must be something about that on YouTube.
I just realized that “Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll” is just the modern equivalent of “Wine, Women and Song”.