Moira Kelly's character uses it to taunt D.B. Sweeney's character in The Cutting Edge when he (hockey player) is getting used to figure skates. Hockey skates don't have toe picks, so he keeps snagging his toes and falling. She, who has been on figure skates since she could walk, glides by him sitting on the ice and carols, "Toe pick!" repeatedly. He's a bootstrap character, she's a brat.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Beverly - Oct 18, 2003 5:34:42 am PDT #7106 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Theodosia - Oct 18, 2003 7:39:57 am PDT #7107 of 10001
'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"
My single childhood ice-skating expedition was an emotional and physical meltdown, so I haven't tried since. (Although I learned to roller-skate as an adult.)
sfmarty - Oct 18, 2003 7:53:27 am PDT #7108 of 10001
Who? moi??
a meltdown on ice could be very traumatic. Especially if you don't swim.
deborah grabien - Oct 18, 2003 8:32:22 am PDT #7109 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I miss ice skating, damnit. I was, er, more power than grace, but I was very small at the time.
Susan W. - Oct 18, 2003 9:03:09 am PDT #7110 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I didn't like The Cutting Edge. I kept nitpicking it.
Beverly - Oct 18, 2003 9:48:50 am PDT #7111 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I didn't like The Cutting Edge. I kept nitpicking it.
Well, that the level of skating was Olympic worthy was laughable. But once you got past that, it was a cute movie. Plus, quotable. Also? I really like Kelly, and Sweeney, too, at the time.
P.M. Marc - Oct 18, 2003 3:00:33 pm PDT #7112 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, that the level of skating was Olympic worthy was laughable. But once you got past that, it was a cute movie. Plus, quotable. Also? I really like Kelly, and Sweeney, too, at the time.
All sports movies require that your disbelief be suspended high above the earth, else they crumble and tumble and fail to entertain. I think I've had this discussion in Movies about Men With Brooms, too.
"Toe pick!"
However, the side effect of watching The Cutting Edge (other than a ficlet) is that now I really want to learn to play hockey. This is probably a bad thing.
§ ita § - Oct 18, 2003 5:30:55 pm PDT #7113 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Outside of He Got Game, I can't think of a sports movie where the lead actor had the right amount of talent. It's a thing.
esse - Oct 18, 2003 6:20:02 pm PDT #7114 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Okay, I need some help.
Plei and I have written this AU in pop, and need a beta. Is anyone willing to give a go at RPS? I don't need a canon beta, more of a grammar and does-this-make-sense beta. I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks.
Susan W. - Oct 18, 2003 8:06:23 pm PDT #7115 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh, I could suspend disbelief about the quality of the skating. It was the physical impossibility of that fancy throw move (Pamchenko?) that took me out of it.