Git. He was a stupid git.
No. Scousers usually say get for git.
For a Liverpudlian get would be just as appropriate.
Yeah, I’m familiar with “git”, but to my ears John clearly says “get”, which also happens to rhyme with “upset” and “cigarette”. And it’s what that Beatles Compleat songbook said.
This was due to the adaptation from book to screen. In the book, Dorothy met two good witches: Locasta, the good witch of the north, showed up when Dorothy arrived in Oz. She’s the one who gave Dorothy the shoes and sent her on to Oz. It’s at the end of the book, after Dorothy has had all her adventures, that she meets Glinda, the good witch of the south. (In the book, Dorothy goes to see Glinda. Glinda doesn’t show up in the Emerald City.) Glinda’s the one who tells Dorothy the shoes have the power to send her back to Kansas - Locasta, presumably, didn’t know the shoes could do this.
Another supposed plothole that people talk about is what happens to Toto after the movie ends. Miss Gulch had planned on killing him. Dorothy got Toto back but the basic situation apparently hadn’t changed - Miss Gulch would just come back and take Toto again.
But the movie shows this is no longer a problem. Remember that the people and events in Oz are parallels of people and events in Kansas - in the movie, the stuff that happens in Oz is just Dorothy’s dream interpretation of the things happening around her in Kansas.
And we saw that the wicked witch is the parallel of Almira Gulch. The wicked witch died in Oz - and that’s telling us that in the real world, Miss Gulch is also dead. She was presumably killed in the tornado. So she’s no longer around to threaten Toto.
I stand corrected.
Me as well. :smack:
Perhaps she drowned then: killed by water.
Watching Mad Men last night reminded me of something. I watched out of order originally so I always knew about Betty and the kids. Because of that, it didn’t occur to me that Don Draper is presented as a bachelor until the “reveal” of his family at the end of the pilot episode. Had to be pointed out to me later.
I thought that the lyrics inside the White Album said ‘get’. Of course, I may have imagined that there were any lyrics printed, I’m not sure.
But, me dear old Mum, who lived in England for X number of years, used the word ‘get’.
In the Fifth Element, a brand is mentioned: “Gemini croquettes”.
After having seen this movie about eighty gazillion times, I realized it might be a pun on Jiminy Cricket.
Aha! I just remembered that I have the iTunes LP version of the White Album, which comes complete with all the album artwork and liner notes, including lyrics. Indeed, it says, “get”.
I had two recently, one subtle, and one… not subtle.
The subtle one: Miles Vorkosigan, from Lois Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga, is basically Richard III with a conscience and a plasma rifle. He’s a hunchback who’s a few heartbeats away from the throne of a rigidly militaristic society, who must achieve his goals through charismatic manipulation and Byzantine plotting. Only, instead of plotting to steal the throne, he plots how he can keep the current occupant alive.
Not subtle: Mr. Miracle is a DC superhero whose power is that he can escape from any death trap, no matter how cunning. His real name, whose significance I only just realized? Scott Free. :smack:
I guess I can see that. There are a lot of Shakespearean references in the Vorkosigan Saga, and Miles even quotes from Richard’s, “Was ever woman in this humor wooed?” speech when wooing Ekaterin.
In the Simpsons episode “Bart’s dog gets an F”, Marge phones Dr. Hibbert at home, and his family is the Huxtables! Their kitchen / dining table set up is exactly the same as the Huxtables’, and Dr. Hibbert is even wearing a thick, garish sweater. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen that episode, and it only just clicked.
I was on my third read-through of Stephen Pressfield’s The War of Art before I realized why the title sounded awfully familiar to another book I’ve read a few times.
Git - or get?
This from Git
In the Velvet Underground song Heroin there is a line “the blood shoots up the droppers neck”. I assumed “dropper” was some kind of slang term for a heroin users, and the blood shooting up it’s neck was carrying heroin to the brain or something.
Then I saw something recently on how in the 50s and 60s junkies used homemade syringes that used medicine droppers, and verbatim said “when the blood shoots up the droppers neck”.:smack:
Duh.
Lest anyone doubt the need for a mod to use the smackie-smiley on himself, the rest of us just rolled our eyes at Jack Kirby’s way-too-obvious moniker for his escape artist hero… back in the early 70s.
I don’t know if this counts but today I realized that Hula Hoops are so named because they make you do the Hawaiian Hula dance.