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.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
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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.
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.
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.
Theodosia - Aug 26, 2005 7:41:29 am PDT #1398 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Emily -- have you thought to run over to Goodwill and check to see if you can buy the book back?
brenda m - Aug 26, 2005 7:45:28 am PDT #1399 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
Emily - Aug 26, 2005 7:48:05 am PDT #1400 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
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.
bon bon - Aug 26, 2005 7:49:24 am PDT #1401 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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.
Are you familiar with David Icke?
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2005 7:50:03 am PDT #1402 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the "dingoes ate my baby" riff I'd say is more due to the movie
But the shirt said "dingo snack" -- I'm sure the movie helped keep it in the mind's eye, but I can see the link between BtVS and the movie -- less so with the shirt.