'Sleeper'
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.
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.
Huh. It never even occured to me that it was a movie reference. I thought it was a RL ref.
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.
Wasn't the movie based on a real story? It may have been in the lexicon in Australia before Meryl Streep made it famous.
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!
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.
Emily -- have you thought to run over to Goodwill and check to see if you can buy the book back?
Wasn't the movie based on a real story? It may have been in the lexicon in Australia before Meryl Streep made it famous.
It's a real story, but the "dingoes ate my baby" riff I'd say is more due to the movie (and later Seinfeld) than the actual. It was a real scenery chewing moment.
Well, see, it wasn't the local Goodwill (or a store at all) -- vw was running a bunch of errands, so she took it to the drop-off in Newton, which doesn't even have a phone. Also, looking at the Website, they don't sell donated books -- they're given to "dozens of community-based organizations, such as the Pine Street Inn, to help them achieve their missions."
I'd feel better about this if I thought a like-new copy of a linguistics textbook -- with answer booklet! -- were actually likely to help them achieve their missions, but I'm having a hard time envisioning it. Or a book on neural models. Or the Linux kernel.
Well, maybe they'll sell them. I hope they get decent prices for them, as they were pretty much brand new and unused. I just sort of hate to think of them sitting on a shelf somewhere, unwanted.