Well, with “Ook ook eek ook eek”, a baleful eye, and two rather large fists…
IIRC he also at one point was in the process of writing a simian-to-English dictionary. He was up to the word “ook”.
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“Oook.”
“You? We can’t take you,” said the Dean, glaring at the Librarian. “You don’t know a thing about guerilla warfare.”
“Oook!” said the Librarian, and made a surprisingly comprehensive gesture to indicate that, on the other hand, what he didn’t know about orangutan warfare could be written on the very small pounded-up remains of, for example, the Dean.
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Do usernames count? I just got that “Rand Rover” is a pun on “Land Rover”, despite the eponymous man having been here for quite some time.
Speaking of Pratchett, I finally got that he never has to write a death scene for Granny Weatherwax since she was bitten by vampires and turned (partly) into one. Of course, she may choose to stop living.
Your friend Mark needs to post in here that his friend jali just explained to him that the Librarian is making simian sounds, not saying “oh, okay.”
This just fell into place for me today.
Fozzie Bear is a Frank Oz character.
Frank Oz -> F. Oz -> Fozzie.
I physically did one of these. :smack:
I started a thread that has lasted over two years and has over 1200 replies?
That really deserves a :smack:
No, that deserves a Kermit “Yayyyyyyyyyyy!” with arms flailing. Good job!
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have long been among my favorite bands. “Murder Ballads” has long been one of my favorite albums. “The Curse of Milhaven” has long been one of my favorite tracks on it.
I was listening the other day, and, for the first time, I realized the song sounded like an exagerrated ballad version of The Bad Seed – a blonde little female psychopath murderin’ folks in a quaint small town.
“Gee,” I wondered,“is that intentional? I wonder if Nick Cave knows The Bad Seed.”
…“ohhhhhhh.”
In Poncho and Lefty both outlaws die cold and alone. Poncho gets gunned down by federales and dies young in the desert while Lefty hightails it back to the States and dies of old age. I’d assumed the chorus was suggesting the federales let Lefty escape out of respect or pity.
I was watching the video on youtube and suddenly realized that Lefty set up Poncho. The cash he got to travel to Ohio was reward money.
…but does it actually come from that? I always assumed it was a take on “Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear”..Fuzzy to Fozzie.
That’s one I had missed but you’re right, it’s obvious once you point it out.
It just occurred to me earlier, for some reason, that the sheep in Babe say “baa ram ewe”. I just thought it was a nonsense word they made up but is so obviously, in retrospect the words baa, ram, and ewe. Wow only took me 17 years to figure that one out.
I just watched the *Twilight Zone *episode “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” for the umpteenth time. For the first time, I noticed that in the final scene, when they are shown to be dolls, the ballerina’s arm moves, then you can see tears coming out of her eyes.
In “The Usual Suspects”, Kobyashi gives each member a reason why he owes Keyser Soze. The one he gives to Hockney is “6 weeks ago you hijacked a truck containg gun parts headed to Belfast”. I just watched it yesterday and for the first time put 2+2 together that Hockney stole the truck that started the whole thing off.
Yes, because right after kobayashi says that, everyone glares at hockney, who give a rueful shrug.
I haven’t studied this thoroughly, but it seems to me that Townes Van Zandt (the writer) clearly intends that interpretation, but that the famous Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard cover version downplays that angle until it almost vanishes. Willie makes it sound like, yes, it was pity that stayed their hand.
So in other words, they’re not the droids we’re looking for?
This is possibly disputed but…
Deckard’s old photo collection in Blade Runner, that he drunkenly looks at. This is right after he explains that replicants love taking and keeping photos, we then see Deckard has a old family photo collection himself.
I think this is the point Deckard starts to realize that all he has been taught is bullshit, the so called replicant traits are traits ALL human beings have. Its as if he said replicants are known to fall in love, no shit. It shows the cognitive dissonance the entire society lives under with dehumanizing replicants, they have started attributing human traits as replicant traits.
Some see the scene as a confirmation Deckard himself is a replicant.
We have young kids, which has resulted in me seeing more of In the Night Garden than is probably good for my sanity. I was vaguely aware that the Tombliboos were called Un, Ooo, and Eee. I only just realised that this corresponds to them being One, Two and Three.
Talk about slow…