I feel like I'm in a They Might Be Giants song.
Did you know it was Istanbul, not Constantinople?
(And yes, I know that they covered that song, not wrote it, but since their version was the first one I've heard, it's their song to me. So there.)
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Aug 26, 2005 6:51:08 am PDT #1388 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Jessica - Aug 26, 2005 6:53:05 am PDT #1389 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My iPod played me the original "Why Does The Sun Shine?" this morning. It was happy-making.
t /songs covered by TMBG
DXMachina - Aug 26, 2005 6:55:00 am PDT #1390 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas...
Strega - Aug 26, 2005 7:09:07 am PDT #1391 of 10002
I mean, I know Streep's line inspired Oz's band, but I'm thinking the shirt's a BtVS shout-out, not A Cry in the Dark.
Sorry, but... I'm pretty sure it's not. I don't think Glark was that into the show, really.
Plus, it's not nearly as funny if it's a Buffy riff.
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2005 7:10:02 am PDT #1392 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. It never even occured to me that it was a movie reference. I thought it was a RL ref.
bon bon - Aug 26, 2005 7:20:41 am PDT #1393 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Yeah, the Dingo At My Baby thing was pretty big way before BtVS (it was in Seinfeld, too), and I don't think it necessarily comes from the movie. But maybe billytea knows if it was a pop culture phrase before the movie came out.
Vortex - Aug 26, 2005 7:22:10 am PDT #1394 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Wasn't the movie based on a real story? It may have been in the lexicon in Australia before Meryl Streep made it famous.
Emily - Aug 26, 2005 7:24:23 am PDT #1395 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
So I'm checking my email this morning, and what do I see but that one of the things I've listed on half.com has sold! Indeed, the most expensive thing by far! Yippee! Now where did I put it... Oh that's right, it was in the bin with all the books vw and I listed on half.com, which vw (with my full consent) took to Goodwill last weekend. There followed much head smacking. It never occurred to me to remember that the textbooks I'd listed were in the same bin. And you know, I'd feel dumb but not quite so bad if I'd realized this because someone tried to buy a book listed at $8. But no, it was an order for $45 that I had to most-apologetically cancel. Doofus. Doofus, doofus, doofus!
Fred Pete - Aug 26, 2005 7:40:38 am PDT #1396 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Allyson - Aug 26, 2005 7:41:28 am PDT #1397 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My people run Hollywood, own the banks, didn't go to work on 9/11, and now, all your paper cups are belong to me.
Next, we shall control the world's sporks.