To anyone that still can’t see the ear, I made a quick mock-up that should help you.
http://s23.postimg.org/5gos4zku3/ear.jpg
I’m not at all sure what Irishman is seeing, but it’s an ordinary ear.
They ran John Carter the other day on a cable channel. I love this film, which was beautifully made, but shafted by the Disney studio heads and have watched it multiple times, but just noticed something this time.
During the part where Carter is captured and invisibly restrained by the shape-shifting Thern, who boasts about having been to Earth (and can tell a Virginia accent from a Carolina one) and is telling Carter what their plans are, he taunyts him for getting involved in Martian politics. “You don’t have a dog in this fight,” argues the Thern.
I thought it an odd turn of phrase to bring up. Maybe the Thern was still showing off his mastery of English idiom. But, as he gets ready to board the individual flyer with Carter , he is attacked by Woola the Calot (who Carter had earlier called a “monster dog”, and is clearly the Martian version of a dog), amnd the restraining device smashed, allowing Carter to get away.
He escaped because he had a literal Dog in the Fight.
Now I sort of see it.
Caught in one of those optical illusions where you can see two faces or you can see a vase. I’m looking at the dark, the ear is the light part.
Today in How the Heck Did I Miss That?:
I only noticed the incredibly obvious wings on the back of Daryl’s motorcycle vest when checking out the Walking Dead costumes at the Halloween store. I haven’t seen every episode of The Walking Dead, but it’s one of my husband’s favorites shows, so I’ve probably seen at least 2/3rds of the show. I know I’ve seen Daryl ride away on his motorcycle plenty of times. But I had to have the wings pointed out to me by a cheap costume hanging next to the baffling Sassy Rick Grimescostume.
Kind of going in the other direction vs. many of these posts, I’d always assumed that "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, on the Beatles’ White Album, was an allegory to the Vietnam War, mocking a dumb and brutal American soldier (Bungalow Bill) going out at the behest of his domineering mother (Uncle Sam) to senselessly shoot and kill a tiger in the jungle (the Vietnamese).
But no, as it turns out, the song is mocking a literal incident where John Lennon witnessed some young American dude, living with his domineering mother in a bungalow at the Beatles’ ashram in India, go out and literally shoot a tiger. That’s it.
And don’t get me started on “Helter Skelter” . . .
There’s a nipple in the middle of the big blue ear.
In Blazing Saddles, the sheriff’s name is Bart. I have seen this movie 10 or more times. Not until today did I suddenly look at the fact that the sheriff is also black and that means he is “Black Bart”. The real Black Bart was quite the gentleman robber of the Old West.
It only took me 30+ years to put the two together. :smack:
Couldn’t it be both?
Given that was what Lennon himself said about the song, and given the contempt he expressed for fans reading symbolic mumbo jumbo into his material, I’m inclined not to think so. Being perfectly bloody obvious at all moments seemed to be more his style.
Someone should have told him the fans know more what he meant than he did. Like Charles Manson!
So, watching It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown with my husband tonight, and he realized that Snoopy (as the WW 1 Flying Ace) was in a literal DOGfight. :smack:
When the remastered Beatles CDs came out in Ought-Nine, I was surprised by the nuances I was hearing in the White Album. So when I posted that on the Amazon review I did so with the name “Chuckles Manson” and said:
digs, that’s unless Ringo is Satan, of course. 
I watched Ghostbusters today, and it’s one of those layered movies where you get more of the jokes as an adult.
I’ve known this for years, but it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I fully understood the Unfortunate Implications when Louis asked the horse if he was the Gatekeeper. (The horse, thankfully, had no comment).
The IMDb trivia points out that Louis the Keymaster gets locked out of his apartment three times. 
:smack: Can’t believe I never picked up on that.
Listen to the song “Snoopy and the Red Baron” by the Royal Guardsmen (here it is on YouTube). It includes the lyrics “He challenged the German to a real dogfight; while the Baron was laughing, he got him in his sights.”
Nothing Earth-shattering here, just something I noticed for the first time today while watching The Emperor’s New Groove with the kids (gotta admit I love this movie!) When Yzma and Kronk dope the drinks, Yzma pours her doctored drink into the cactus beside her. The next time you see the cactus (just after Kuzco starts transforming), it’s in the shape of a llama.
Ever notice the green “dot” over the “i” in the Wicked logo???
Please tell me there’s a “Sassy Merle” costume to go along with that.