Goodness-- I didn't know anyone else knew Solomon Grundy-- but I loved it too
I only know Solomon Grundy from the Superfriends [link]
I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
Mal ,'Trash'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
Vortex - Dec 12, 2006 11:37:55 am PST #5809 of 10007
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Nutty - Dec 12, 2006 11:40:00 am PST #5810 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Grimm & Grimm, the originals, are pretty effin bloody. For some reason, the German peasant-folk had a thing for pretty little girls getting their hands cut off (and then praying to the Lord and getting them replaced). Cree pee, I say.
THEY EAT THEIR FATHER. You're not right.
Oh, pshaw. They eat a duck. (Or possibly it was a goose?) It's not like they get their hands cut off or anything.
bon bon - Dec 12, 2006 11:41:25 am PST #5811 of 10007
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
There's a collection whose title played on Grimm/grim and had the gorier versions of all those tales--I used to own a copy and have no idea where it is, or what it was called so I can put it on a wishlist somewhere.
I still have a hardcover of original Grimm and HCA tales I received as a kid. ISTR it being one of the first things I read. I keep planning to bring it to NYC from my parents', and this year I will not chicken out on carrying its weight on the plane.
Kathy A - Dec 12, 2006 11:43:52 am PST #5812 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I always loved the original end of Cinderella, which had her stepsisters walking her up the aisle to her prince and getting their eyes pecked out by the birds sitting on Cinderella's shoulders (one eye while going up the aisle, the other while coming back down after the wedding).
Vortex - Dec 12, 2006 11:45:02 am PST #5813 of 10007
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Isn't that the one where they cut their toes off to fit in the shoes?
Trudy Booth - Dec 12, 2006 11:46:33 am PST #5814 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I always loved the original end of Cinderella, which had her stepsisters walking her up the aisle to her prince and getting their eyes pecked out by the birds sitting on Cinderella's shoulders (one eye while going up the aisle, the other while coming back down after the wedding).
I love the notion that not only did the parisioners sit by and idly watch this happen, but that the sisters waited around through the ceremony and didn't run away with the eye they still had.
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2006 11:47:27 am PST #5815 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Isn't that the one where they cut their toes off to fit in the shoes?
Yep, I think so....
Good times, good times....
Jessica - Dec 12, 2006 11:48:29 am PST #5816 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Isn't that the one where they cut their toes off to fit in the shoes?
Yep -- one stepsister cuts off a toe, and the other cuts off a bit of her heel.
§ ita § - Dec 12, 2006 11:49:09 am PST #5817 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They eat a duck. (Or possibly it was a goose?)
Maybe it was a duck. Maybe it was a goose. Definitely it was their father.
I can't find where I stashed all my AA batteries. I'm one damned battery short of a functioning Swiffer WetJet.
sarameg - Dec 12, 2006 11:50:59 am PST #5818 of 10007
Fridge?