# Roy Orbison. Clingfilm. Terrapins. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168 "2004-08-03T18:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/1 "2004-08-03T18:04:45Z")
[http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/karl.htm](http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/karl.htm) Really, really worth clicking. Work safe (no pictures, no sex, etc.), unless you want funny looks from coworkers. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/2 "2004-08-03T18:23:11Z")
I’m speechless. that was…beautiful: > [@](#): > > As I set to work I seem to hear the strains of Strauss’s Blue Danube Waltz in my head. As I orbit him weightless it as if we are performing some graceful ballet together. The clingfilm unfurls in languid arcs in the zero gravity and then girdles him gently as I spiral around him. Soon, Captain Roy Orbison of the Space Pioneers is completely wrapped in clingfilm. In all the infinite galaxies there is not a man as happy as I. Tears of wordless joy leak from my ducts and float off like little jewels, crystallised moments of ecstasy, tiny universes of rapture, perfect unto themselves. **wanders away in a daze** ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/3 "2004-08-03T20:36:09Z")
> [@](#): > > By Shayne Muelling > > wearing dark glasses > he approached me without clothes > the cling wrap shone brightly > > through the flashing lights > reflected off smooth surface > a glimpse of johnson :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/4 "2004-08-03T22:10:25Z")
Ooooooooo-kay. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/5 "2004-08-04T19:30:36Z")
“In space, no-one can hear you squeak with pleasure” ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/6 "2004-09-01T00:26:04Z")
I’ll give this one bump before the month is out. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/7 "2004-09-01T00:32:20Z")
I saw that a while back. It’s kind of an odd place. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/8 "2004-09-01T05:43:24Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > I saw that a while back. It’s kind of an odd place. What, you find something strange about a webpage devoted to short stories involving wrapping Roy Orbison in clingfilm? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/9 "2004-09-01T06:09:30Z")
Didn’t someone once mention this in a rant about fan fiction? Cuz I thought it was a joke. :eek: If this hasn’t been a Weird Earl’s before, it should be now. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/10 "2004-09-01T19:03:06Z")
How very odd. I could see a fantasy about wrapping some women in clingwrap, but Roy? In the biography “Dark Star”, it’s discussed with some humor how people would react upon seeing Orbison in a bathing suit. Not a pretty sight, as he was extremely white; to the point of pasty, sickly white. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/11 "2004-09-01T22:14:00Z")
It’s great! HHHuUUHU! Anybody else have an audio track of Ulrich Haarbuerste running in your head? Mike Meyer’s character, Dieter from Sprockets must be the model. Clearly the author is American, though. ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/12 "2004-09-01T22:44:41Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Clearly the author is American, though. Or an Englishman. The address ends in “.uk”. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roy-orbison-clingfilm-terrapins/258168/13 "2004-09-01T23:25:45Z")
I went to that website when I first heard about it, must be a year ago. That is some truly bizarre stuff! But I have to say, that one bit of poetry that ends in “a glimpse of johnson” just cracks me up. What an absolutely strange, absurd, great thing to say in a poem. Now, the question is, are these guys serious? Or is it all a big put-on? They don’t seem to be laughing about it, but maybe that’s the joke… I guess people have stranger fetishes than wishing they could wrap Roy Orbison naked in Saran Wrap, but come on, really! Roy Orbison in Saran Wrap???